In Canada, the provincial parties tend to be independent from the national ones. The Federal Conservatives like to portray the Canadian economy as weak so the Liberals look bad. Ford on the other hand is portraying the economy as good because it makes him loot better with Ontario voters. So now Ford is going into the election looking like someone who will fight for Ontario and will stand up to the new Axis of Evil.
US 2024 Presidential Election
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No, it's not, please stop with the hyperbole...
Wouldn't it be a good idea for the government to buy a social media company since social media is the new "public square" and it should be a public good, and then the 1st amendment could apply to the platform so there's no censorship?So Trump- who criticized Biden for "playing favorites in the market"- is floating the idea of having the government outright buy a company. For what? What strategic purpose does this serve for the country? Is it going to do more for us than USAID did?
Oh yeah, by the way, actual President of the United States Elon Musk wants USAID shut down, calling it a "criminal organization".
What is USAID, the foreign assistance agency the Trump administration wants to shut down?
Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, the U.S. Agency for International Development provides billions in humanitarian assistance overseas.www.nbcnews.com
White House preparing executive order to abolish the Department of Education
The planned order follows years of campaign promises from President Donald Trump to abolish the department — something he cannot do without congressional approval.
Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration
One of the next moves in President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s effort to fire government employees and curtail operations is using the agency that manages federal employee worksites around the country to cut down on office space.
apnews.com
Republicans rally behind Tulsi Gabbard as Senate panel approves her nomination
The committee’s vote almost guarantees she will be confirmed on the Senate floor
www.independent.co.uk
Okay, but the majority of people using the company aren't under that government. Like porn sites not caving to certain states
Trump to Sign EO Banning Trans Athletes From Women’s and Girls’ Sports
The order will involve how Trump’s administration will interpret Title IX and marks another aggressive shift in the way the federal government deals with transgender people and their rights.
Trump says he's given advisers instructions for Iran to be 'obliterated' if it assassinates him
President Donald Trump says he’s given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him.
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imagine being one of the dullards who believed/lied that Trump and project 2025 were completely separate and that Trump even disliked it.
of course no one really believed it. Everyone knew Trump would stick to that plan, and the US still deliberately voted for it.
I hope they’re proud of themselves
Sure, but getting locked out of a market would likely have an impact on company value roughly proportional to the share that country contributes to the company's revenue. The USA is an extremely large market, so its inaccessibility could massively damage the value of TikTok.
CIA offers buyouts to workforce to align with Trump priorities, says agency official
The Central Intelligence Agency has offered buyouts to its workforce as part of a broader strategy to bring new energy to the spy agency.
www.usatoday.com
He just wants them to stop wasting their time combatting America's enemies and start focusing on persecuting his enemies.Trumpstaffel when?CIA offers buyouts to workforce to align with Trump priorities, says agency official
The Central Intelligence Agency has offered buyouts to its workforce as part of a broader strategy to bring new energy to the spy agency.www.usatoday.com
Technically the TikTok ban could be re-enforced, and since it's a ban on social media owned by a foreign adversary selling to Trump would resolve the issue.
If Trump really wants US gov to own some social media, they should just host the full suite of Fediverse apps. I'm not even kidding about this - I genuinely think having US.Gov Mastodon/PeerTube/PixelFed instances at the very least would be useful. Defederate from no one, assign accounts to federal offices and then use those for official social media communications. [email protected] is official communications from whichever office, and everyone on another instance of any of those already has access to see your feeds, and all without government public communications being subject to the whims of a tech oligarch (that last bit being why it won't happen).
Could even hypothetically spin up two instances of each, with the second being for public use to have social media that is legitimately a "public square" of sorts and subject to 1A.
I totally believe a bunch of people are dumb or uninformed enough to not realize it though, because I've met several who voted for him.
If he'd actually frozen grants when it was threatened I'd be hearing about how massive Medicaid cuts were somehow Biden's fault.
Our Governor actually had a meeting with state Medicaid when he first announced the freezing grants thing because Medicaid grant disbursement was just a few days away and federal Medicaid grants pay for a majority of our Medicaid budget and he was worried about how to keep state Medicaid afloat with the funding pulled out from under it. And let's be fair, we're poor enough as a state that Mediciad being fucked on Trump and Morrisey's watch would have basically guaranteed he was a single term governor.
Seems fine. What could possibly go wrong.
Speaking of conflicts of interest
Cough Vegas Loop Cough
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Ah, so this is how they're improving government transparency.
www.nytimes.com
This one's just funny.
Speaking of conflicts of interest
Cough Vegas Loop Cough
DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA
Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."
www.404media.co
C.I.A. Sends White House an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees
The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force.
Goddamn, I need to get you into a cash game of poker
Unfortunately, none of this is hyperbole. You can maybe quibble a few percent.
I'm pretty sure China already thought of that
An American platform such as this would not know what the term free speech means
It is very much hyperbole.
It wouldn't be able to be censored due to the 1st amendment, which is probably the strongest and most all-encompassing free speech law in the world. Tim Walz didn't know what the term free speech means and you wanted me to vote for that guy?