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[?]Nonilex » 🌐
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The Government Accountability Office outlines some of the impacts of rising government on Americans—including higher borrowing costs for things like mortgages & cars, lower wages from businesses having less money available to invest, & more expensive goods & services.

    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
    @Nonilex@masto.ai

    The $38 trillion update is found in the latest Treasury Department report, which logs the nation’s daily finances.

    Kent Smetters of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model, who served in President George W. Bush’s Treasury Department, told The Associated Press that a growing load over time leads ultimately to higher , eroding Americans’ purchasing power.

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      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
      @Nonilex@masto.ai

      US hits $38 trillion in debt

      In the midst of a federal government , the govt’s gross national surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record number that highlights the accelerating accumulation of debt on America’s balance sheet.

      It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic—the US hit $37 trillion in gross national debt in August this year.


      apnews.com/article/trump-treas

        [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🌐
        @freeschool@qoto.org

        "Cars are literally killing the planet" [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

        @kim_harding
        I admit it's powerful and staring us in the face daily.

        are literally killing the

        , , is direct impacted

        At the same time I'd like to see people say this and fuck that less.... because it's a little too much like asking for no cars or to damage them INSTEAD of nicely needing to reduce that towards calmer transition because anyway we can't them (if it means getting rid of etc)... and better we reduce (also gives us ideas for other ideas in its place an literally can be life and death or cause trouble to solve one thing). So a is also a collection of things that need solving (both reduce and increase other ways to it / render it useless so even if someone gave it free you'd be like "I already have XYZ way no thanks don't need it").

        So instead of "fuck" (which I understand as an expression etc and don't want to over-intellectualise) maybe is more realistic controlled word and kind of lets viewer / reader have less of that and more to themselves as "fuck, I didn't know cars are more damaging than on earth / in the + / etc)

        It's like too much fuck this fuck that everywhere (even fuck etc is too much) and so I think I was looking for real even balanced focus for determined people who will be shocked or not just to say fuck to themselves if it really hits home rather than too much like wanting to damage more things.

        I've personally kicked side-mirrors off cars when younger and well it's not the way though it might have hit the point about how I feel after the pub.

        vs

          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
          @Nonilex@masto.ai

          “I’m the one that makes the decision & that decision would have to go across my desk,” said, “& it’s awfully strange to make a decision where I’m paying myself.”

          Trump is not, in the immediate instance, “the one that makes the decision.” That will be up to leadership—specifically, under DOJ’s procedures, the department’s No. 2 or No. 3, Deputy AG or Associate AG .

            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
            @Nonilex@masto.ai

            The NYT reported yesterday that has filed paperwork claiming that the owes him roughly $230M in funds—damages that he claims are due to him in compensation for the federal investigations into his conduct related to the & his improper hoarding of at Mar-a-Lago. The is so obvious that even Trump himself seemed to acknowledge it when questioned by journalists about the Times’s reporting.

              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
              @Nonilex@masto.ai

              is a skilled . Since
              winning the 2024 election, he has secured $16M from to settle a baseless lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview with then-candidate Kamala Harris; pocketed another $16M from after suing the company for defamation; & scooped up almost $60M combined from tech giants , , & to resolve lawsuits over his social-media bans following the on , 2021. Now he is extorting a new target: the itself.

                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                to : Pay Up

                The goal is not just dictatorial power, but ostentatious performance.

                By Quinta Jurecic


                theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                  They’re admitting it now

                  will be torn down fully to make way for

                  The full East Wing of the White House will be torn down to make way for Trump's new ballroom, contradicting the former New York real estate magnate's pledge that the project would not interfere with the existing .


                  reuters.com/world/us/white-hou

                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                    It was the 9th known attack by Special Operations forces since the operation began in early September, bringing the officially acknowledged death toll to 37. The consecutive strikes in the mark an expansion of the campaign, which started in the , & highlights how the effort has evolved into a wider operation even as experts & lawmakers on Capitol Hill question the legal basis & strategic purpose.

                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                      “Three male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters,” posted late Wednesday evening adding that the admin would not relent in its campaign against vessels they claim are bringing drugs destined for the . “We will find them & kill them, until the threat to the American people is extinguished.”

                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                        JFC

                        has to stop this!

                        The admin carried out another deadly strike against alleged drug traffickers on Wednesday, targeting a vessel in the eastern Ocean for the second straight day, Secy said in a social media post.


                        nytimes.com/live/2025/10/22/us

                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                          “The more recent, extra-biblical detours of white American evangelicalism have also had an echo overseas. Vaccine skepticism and broad suspicion of science, xenophobia, openness to theocratic government, belief in QAnon conspiracies, and even love of Donald Trump are visible in evangelical cultures around the world.”

                          ~ Ibid., p. 122


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                            [?]HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 » 🔓
                            @HistoPol@mastodon.social

                            an dieser Stelle nicht behaupten, eine Universallösung zu haben.

                            Aufgrund des vorher Gesagten scheint mir jedoch evident zu sein, dass wir 👉zu gemeinsamen Fakten zurückkehren müssen.👈Dabei ist es wohl unstrittig hilfreich, das Spaltende möglichst zu Minimieren. Laut vielen jüngeren Studien kann hier als wesentliches Element die der -Social-Media-Plattformen, , , und benannt werden.

                            Aufgrund der zwischen und ...

                            @mspro

                              [?]HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 » 🔓
                              @HistoPol@mastodon.social

                              wird verstärkt als Waffe benutzt: Beispielsweise verwendete den Begriff bereits in seiner ersten Amtszeit zur Diffamierung der Medien, die ihn kritisierten.

                              II DAS KORN DER SELBSTZERSTÖRUNG
                              Spätestens seit (Cogito, ergo sum--Ich denke, also bin ich), wissen wir, dass es keine objektive Wahrnehmung gibt. Dennoch konnte man sich selbst nach der bislang größten Krise der Menschheit, dem 2. Weltkrieg, auf grundlegende Fakten einigen. Dies ist mit den @mspro

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                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                              The , facing immense pressure from the White House, struck a deal with the admin on Wednesday that removed, at least temporarily, the threat of a federal *investigation*.

                              The announced the deal. It was the first time a public had cut a far-reaching agreement with the Trump admin, which is carrying out an extraordinary campaign to shift the ideological tilt of the higher system.


                              nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/poli

                                [?]Erik Jonker » 🌐
                                @ErikJonker@mastodon.social

                                So symbolic, Trump destroying the White House and the USA.
                                nytimes.com/live/2025/10/22/us

                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                  Unbelievable. is demolishing the ENTIRE to make way for his , a construction project that is FAR MORE EXTENSIVE than he initially let on, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.

                                  The tear-down should be finished by this weekend, according to the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the plans.


                                  nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/poli

                                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                    You know how you move into a place & it has rules, like no pets, no smoking etc?

                                    Next level, you buy a home that’s designated a & in the deed it stipulates renovations are limited to interior & have to conform to a specific era.

                                    Now imagine you’re a renter, or better yet, a house guest.

                                    Cuz that’s what is. A FUCKING HOUSEGUEST! And he is literally demolishing a .

                                    THE historic landmark.
                                    Fuck this guy.


                                    reuters.com/world/us/watch-liv

                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                      @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                      "The Trump regime is not only about incompetence, but deliberate destruction. The same Trump who bankrupted casinos, stiffed workers, and conned investors is now doing the same to the United States. He’s using the tactics that defined his private life—bullying, suing, demolishing, lying—to dismantle the foundations of democracy."


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                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                        @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                        "While Trump builds ballrooms for billionaires, 20 million Americans are losing their health care. Families can’t afford rent or food. Rural hospitals are closing."

                                        ~ Ben Meiselas


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                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                          "The physical destruction of the White House is about as giant a metaphor as one can get."

                                          ~ Jennifer Rubin


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                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                            "New images of the White House East Wing show a much larger demolition site. This is why the White House ordered employees not to share any new photographs or videos of the demolition process."

                                            ~ Aaron Parnas


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                                            Photo below from Parnas' article.

                                            aaronparnas.substack.com/p/new

                                            A photo of the destruction of the east wing of the White House, 21 October 2025

                                            Alt...A photo of the destruction of the east wing of the White House, 21 October 2025

                                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                              @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                              "Destroying our history is not a metaphor anymore ...

                                              Now the assault on our history by Donald Trump is being done with excavators that are ripping, crushing, and destroying by board and nail and wire and window, the East Wing of the White House."

                                              ~ Lucian K. Truscott


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                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                "Somebody has to be held accountable that the people’s house is being systematically destroyed by a tyrannical toddler with delusions of grandeur, who is so psychologically damaged he needs a $250 million ballroom to make himself feel better about the fact that he’s a weak, pathetic piece of garbage."

                                                ~ Mary Trump


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                                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                  @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                  "With new photographs emerging, it became abundantly clear yesterday that President Trump has ordered the demolition of the entire East Wing of the White House to make room for construction of his ill-fitting, gaudy ballroom."

                                                  ~ David Kurtz


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                                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                    @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                    "'They’re wrecking it,' said Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist and professor emeritus at Towson University told the WaPo. 'And these are changes that can’t be undone. They’re destroying that history forever.'”


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                                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                      @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                      "The metaphorical significance of his destruction of the East Wing, a building that has been a meaningful part of our democratic nation’s history and psyche, is unavoidable."

                                                      ~ Steven Beschloss

                                                      “We are not living in a functional democracy any longer. … Those toppled walls in the East Wing are a pretty stark reminder of that.”

                                                      ~ Chris Murphy


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                                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                        @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                        "The destruction this week of the East Wing of the White House has been uniquely shocking, a physical manifestation of what Donald Trump is doing to our presidency and our country — the excavators and heavy equipment demolishing a 120-year-old literal piece of American history feels in many ways a microcosm of so many Trump controversies."

                                                        ~ Garrett Graff


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                                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                          "It came out of left field, with no real warning or public debate, no permissions asked or given, to serve Donald Trump’s personal whims and vision of building an insane outsized gilded Kremlin-esque ballroom, was done contrary to the administration’s promises (;It won’t interfere with the current building')," (continued in 10)


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                                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                            (continued from /9)

                                                            "and involves deep deep corruption, as the construction is being funded outside normal appropriations channels, purportedly by some opaque set of 'donations' from some unknown mix of companies and individuals who have been promised who-knows-what in exchange.

                                                            It feels personal in some ways, like someone is taking a wrecking ball to America itself."


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                                                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                              @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                              "No planning. No proposals to the National Capital Planning Commission. No opportunity for notice and comment from the public. Just Trump’s whim—and a beloved national symbol tumbles to dust.

                                                              It’s obscene."

                                                              ~ Mona Charen


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                                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                "Over the weekend, I was grateful for Donald Trump continuing to show us very clearly and unequivocally who he is and what he stands for, that he is an empty vessel, that he is an avatar of hate, that he is unpatriotic, that he is soulless. And that utterly and honestly, he hates us. And by us, I mean America."

                                                                ~ Danielle Moodie


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                                                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                  @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                  "He hates America. He hates Americans. He hates everything that this country stands for. And the only thing that he can produce is destruction. …

                                                                  And what he is being faced with now and why I think that he tore down the White House this week and literally is reacting in the way that he is is because no kings really did penetrate this bubble that his MAGA sycophants have created around him."


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                                                                    [?]Erik Jonker » 🌐
                                                                    @ErikJonker@mastodon.social

                                                                    Trump just keeps killing people illegally in international waters, regardless who they are , they deserve a trial, this is not a war situation.
                                                                    But all Trump allies (or countries that keep pretending they are) stay silent.

                                                                    bbc.com/news/articles/cd9k2w8e

                                                                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                      This was the 8th known strike that Special Operations forces have conducted since Sept 2, when the , on ’s orders, began people aboard boats they claim were smuggling drugs as if they were enemy combatants in a rather than suspects.

                                                                      The admin has previously acknowledged 7 strikes, which it said have killed 32 people.

                                                                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                        The hit another vessel that the admin claimed was carrying drugs from , a US official said Wednesday. It was the first US strike on a vessel in the Ocean, expanding the military campaign beyond the Sea. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, said the attack late Tuesday on a vessel off the coast of killed 2 or 3 people.


                                                                        nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/poli

                                                                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                          @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                          Exclusive: considering curbs on to made with , sources say

                                                                          The admin is considering a plan to curb a dizzying array of software-powered exports to China, from laptops to jet engines, to retaliate against Beijing's latest round of export restrictions, according to a US official & 3 people briefed by US authorities.


                                                                          reuters.com/world/us/us-consid

                                                                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                            has fired or reassigned about two dozen such top investigators, & he has moved to defund an umbrella group, the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity & Efficiency, further weakening the system that supports robust of operations. The defunding meant, among other things, the shutdown of websites for dozens of inspectors general that publish reports for review & hotline numbers where can submit complaints.

                                                                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                              But last week, she got a notice that had fired her, effective immediately. The reason? A vague line about the admin’s changing priorities, according to two people familiar with the matter [well that’s true. They want to commit & & their offices].

                                                                              Salehi was the latest casualty ofTrump’s mass purge of govt , the investigators assigned to agencies across the admin who act as the eyes & ears of & ensure dollars are not misused.

                                                                                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                                was the kind of internal who had earned a strong reputation for digging up , & abuse during her 15 years in govt service. She had risen through the ranks at inspectors general offices at the Dept & , eventually taking over internal investigations at the of the US, where her office reported saving tens of millions of dollars.

                                                                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                                  Nothing to see here, move along…

                                                                                  Dismisses Yet Another , Fueling Alarms

                                                                                  With the firing of the ’s inspector general, Trump has sidelined around two dozen of the who seek out & in .


                                                                                  nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/poli

                                                                                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                                    But the admin has taken other aggressive steps to assert more sway over .

                                                                                    , for instance, is compiling the largest set of national roll data it has ever collected, an effort to try to prove unsubstantiated claims that large numbers of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally, The Times previously reported.


                                                                                    nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/poli

                                                                                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                                      …The moves by to elevate deniers portends escalating battles over how much his admin wields over balloting across the country.

                                                                                      Already this year, have affirmed that the president has no legal authority over , which have long been the domain of & governments. Judges have largely blocked an executive order that Trump issued in March requiring, among other changes, documentary proof of citizenship to vote.

                                                                                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                                        These changes are unfolding as takes other steps to create more structural advantages for ahead of the 2026 , including pressuring led states to redraw congressional district lines to maximize the party’s chances of keeping control of the .

                                                                                        Now ofcls who have spent years trying to debunk false claims that the voting systems were tilted against Trump are assessing how to work with some of the most fervent proponents of those claims.

                                                                                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                                          @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                                          McCarthy’s appointment comes as nearly all of the experts at have been placed on administrative leave or reassigned this year amid a large-scale *downsizing* of the agency, which had played a leading role in deterring attacks on elections systems & combating about voting.

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                                                                                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                                            Another activist, , who spread debunked claims about voting machines in Georgia when she was the chairwoman of the DeKalb County Party, was named in May to be the director of public affairs at the & Infrastructure Security Agency, or , which is housed in .

                                                                                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                                              …The idea of *reinvestigating* the 2020 election gained steam recently with the White House’s decision to hire , a lawyer who has been tasked with *examining* the 2020 vote & other matters, acc/to a White House official. The hiring of Olsen, who has worked closely for years with the pillow entrepreneur to promote false stolen-election , was first reported by WSJ.


                                                                                              wsj.com/politics/elections/whi

                                                                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                                "When all is said and done, the White House hopes to provide $40 billion in rescue money for Argentina. …

                                                                                                Trump’s economic 'policy' has no real philosophy—it just involves throwing money at people he wants to help and tariffs at people he decides to punish. There’s no other rhyme or reason to it, and now even MAGA is starting to notice."

                                                                                                ~ Andrew Egger


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