Boycott US

We need a !linuxphones@lemmy.ca movement!

It would require a highly selective memory to regard the abduction of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3 as Washington’s return to an imperialist policy that it supposedly abandoned in 1945, or even 1918.

As of Jan. 22, Canadian bookings to American resorts for winter arrival were down about 41%, compared to just a 5% drop among US customers, according to industry tracker Inntopia.

Air Transat is cancelling its last two flights into Florida as of this spring, suspending all of its business into the United States.

Feb 9 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is set this week to overturn an Obama-era scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday.

I hope the US stays bellow the top 3 and further if possible!

President Donald Trump has threatened to block the opening of a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River.

Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation

A global boycott may be the only nonviolent way to curb US aggression and repression.

Kelly Lamrock highlighted concerns about safety on the platform

It’s not enough to have its agents in streets and schools; ICE now wants to see what data online ads already collect about you. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week issued a Request for Information (RFI) asking data and ad tech brokers how they could help in its mission.

The Trump administration is targeting free speech with a little-known legal tool: administrative subpoenas.

Time for a global embargo against the evil empire. Consumers can do it if cowardly governments continue to refuse to.

If you have not listened to Phil Ochs, you need to. His message is as strong today as it was 60 years ago. Find some before the corporations erase it like they are trying to do with David Rovics and others.

Kremlin envoy wrote “a picture is worth a thousand words” after the photo was placed above a picture of Trump’s granddaughter

This organization and its leaders has warned about rise of fascism for decades.

This quote is from the recent episode of Fallout. I know that it is inflammatory and I’m not endorsing it.

Nearly half of the databases that public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were updating on a monthly basis have been frozen without notice or explanation, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office.

Donald Trump first got involved with the Russian mafia during the ten-billion dollar Bank of New York money laundering scandal, from 1998-1999, when Russian organized crime used accounts at one of America’s oldest banks to move money out of Russia. Federal investigators linked the accounts (specifically those under the company name Benex) to Semion Mogilevich.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59392329

It is unclear how Pretti first came to the attention of federal authorities [on the day he was murdered], but sources told CNN that about a week before his death, he suffered a broken rib when a group of federal officers tackled him while he was protesting their attempt to detain other individuals.

Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state. Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. They aren’t looking for attention or likes on social media. Unless they are killed by federal agents, as Pretti and Renee Good were, other activists do not even necessarily know their names. Many use a handle or code name out of fear of government retaliation. Their concerns are justified: A number of people working as volunteers or observers told me that they had been trailed home by ICE agents, and some of their communications have already been infiltrated, screenshotted, and posted online, forcing them to use new text chains and code names. One urgent question among observers, as the videos of Pretti’s killing spread, was what his handle might have been.

https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/115967673993639921

Planning to print these out and get a protest crowd singing. Then, we’ll plaster them around my local city.

As evidence, the lawsuit cites unnamed “courageous whistleblowers” who allege that WhatsApp and Meta employees can request to view a user’s messages through a simple process, thus bypassing the app’s end-to-end encryption. “A worker need only send a ‘task’ (i.e., request via Meta’s internal system) to a Meta engineer with an explanation that they need access to WhatsApp messages for their job,” the lawsuit claims. “The Meta engineering team will then grant access – often without any scrutiny at all – and the worker’s workstation will then have a new window or widget available that can pull up any WhatsApp user’s messages based on the user’s User ID number, which is unique to a user but identical across all Meta products.”

The protest was already feral. Pots clanged like industrial thunder. Whistles screamed like caffeinated banshees. Smoke detectors shrieked like dying cybernetic birds. Guitars wailed in the key of We Are Not Taking This Anymore. Protesters chanted. People laughed. The air vibrated with that very specific end-of-empire energy where your brain says this is insane but your soul says don’t stop, this is sacred.

Two journalists from Italy’s state broadcaster RAI were threatened by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis while filming a report on rising tensions in the US under Donald Trump’s administration, sparking a political backlash in Italy.

The U.S. Government intends to force visitors to submit their digital history and DNA as the price of entry. With this much data AI tools will likely be deployed to unlock details of your life for border and immigration agencies.

::: spoiler It’s The Beaverton. :::

Diplomat says U.S. fighter jets would enter Canadian airspace more often to address threats

I’m pretty sure that’s a reference to the midterm elections in November 2026

Federal agents have shot and killed another person in Minneapolis, this time a 51-year-old man.

The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.

From the Minnesota General Strike (2026 01 23) https://mastodon.social/@stacescases2.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy/115946359117055592

The 552,000-square-foot warehouse was built in 2024 as a distribution center for Genpak, a food packaging firm owned by Canadian conglomerate Jim Pattison Group, which owns the property.

Three downtown Las Vegas hotels have begun accepting the Canadian dollar at par with the American dollar in an effort to spur Canuck travel.

DISPUTE OVER US-OWED FEES Under U.S. law, it was supposed to give one-year notice and pay all outstanding fees - around $260 million - before departing. But a U.S. State Department official disputed that the statute contains a condition that any payment needs to be made before withdrawal. “The American people have paid more than enough,” a State Department spokesperson said in an email earlier on Thursday.