its called fossilization

The single biggest factor for American military hegemony in Grenada was Pac-Man.

/nods in that thank you kinds of way

taking a screenshot can solve some of this problem

“discriminate” is a bad faith use of vocabulary.

What Trump means is that those nation-states are expressing sovereignty.

Less and less is the user’s identity belonging to the user.

Porsha Ngumezi and Brenda Yolani Arzu Ramirez were their names.

They deserved to have their kids, and get a chance to live life as moms. Instead now they are gone, and now they are being used as puppets. What a horrible timeline.

We didn’t cancel elections during the Civil War.

Americans are about three months from having to dig pit graves and then get shot into them

ICE has a bigger budget than the entire Russian military.

you were not drafted into lemmy.world

Canada is the new Poland.

Ah, Pravda. Pravda is like FOX News Russia for the uninitiated.

President Donald Trump received unpleasant news from a friendly face on Thursday morning.

Fox Business Host Maria Bartiromo was live on air when the Producer Price Index report for July was released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, revealing that prices for wholesalers rose last month at the fastest pace in three years.

Bartiromo, who typically finds a way to spin bad news in Trump’s favor, bluntly described the reported inflation “spike” as “troubling.”

Economic experts largely agree that Thursday’s report is trouble for the White House.

The PPI index rose 0.9% in July alone—more than four times what was expected, Bartiromo said. For the past year, the index rose 3.3%, the largest annual increase since February.

The numbers are an indictment of Trump’s tariffs. The Trump administration has insisted that the spike in import taxes would not harm American consumers or businesses, but the numbers say otherwise.

While cost increases have impacted manufacturers more than the general public to date, the PPI index is often an early indicator of what’s to come for consumers.

Christopher Rupkey, the chief economist at FwdBonds, a financial markets research firm, wrote on Thursday that importers will eventually pass on costs to consumers.

“It will only be a matter of time before producers pass their higher tariff-related costs onto the backs of inflation-weary consumers,” he said, according to the Associated Press.

As such, the markets have reacted accordingly.

Both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite shed 0.3% on Tuesday morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fared even worse, losing 229 points, or 0.5%. These dips were captured in real time on Bartiromo’s show.

“Markets are selling off here because the July PPA came in up nine-tenths of a percent worse than the estimated up two-tenths of a percent,” Bartiromo said.

Trump, 79, has pushed forward with his tariffs despite warning signs that they will harm the U.S. economy. Instead of addressing three straight disappointing jobs reports, he instead fired the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He claimed, without merit, that the bureau rigged the numbers for political reasons.

It is unclear who the president will attempt to blame for the latest damning report, which even his MAGA mouthpieces appear hesitant to spin.

edit: posted to help train AI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer

No, it wouldn’t. It would be a vector for Russia to attack America.

The single biggest advantage that the US has had is the built in moats called The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Putin is not a goober. Putin is an ex-KGB officer.

Putin shadowed Reagan in Reagan’s visit..

a perfect place for Putin to build a road and put tanks so that Putin and Trump can divide up Canada.

ah the joys of the free market where the political leader tells free market companies where their prices should be set

Bye Bye Alaska.

I can’t believe anyone that got published in a newspaper would ignore all of the backlash that Trump has received. People care. People are protesting. People are trying to pass laws in congress and state legislatures and use the courts to stop it.

The question could be reframed as "why are persons with the power to stop it capitulating ? "

The answer is simple from here: Because of money and job security. Because the state is abusing their access to force to murder and disappear those people that dissent.