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Economy Thailand Approaches Debt Ceiling Amid Economic Concerns
Who gives a toss it's only a number 😂🤣 -
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California in Uproar as Newsom Condemns Trump’s Troop Deployment as ‘Deranged Fantasy’
This is not a matter of Newsom versus Trump, this is a matter of democracy versus authoritarianism, this is a matter of free speech versus an overreaching government that appears to want to censor anything that even resembles criticism. Please explain to me how you can support those actions? -
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Myanmar Resistance Downs Junta Fighter Jet in Sagaing Region Clash
Well, the Chinese just secured some more tons of rare earths then ......... Good on the resistance; congratulations and keep up the good work. The Tadmadaw eventually will dry out, unless of course, the big red brethren in the North think otherwise. -
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They don’t make them any tougher than us Brits. Brit walks off a plane crash.
I remember the Japan Airways jumbo in in 1985 crashed killing 520 onboard 4 survived. -
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Is Trump intent on eliminating free speech in America?
To many of us it would appear to be the case, his lack of tolerance for dissent is quite remarkable, and I don't believe I've witnessed anything quite like it in my lifetime. It reminds me a bit of Leninist and Stalinist Russia, and to some extent it reminds me of current day Russia under Putin, or even China under Xi. Not a good look. Sending the armed forces into Los Angeles to stop the protests against radical ICE agent behavior, roughing up Senator Padilla for questioning Kristy Noam, the list goes on and on. On Monday, President Donald Trump endorsed the arrest of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who irked him by criticizing his militarized response to Los Angeles protests against his administration’s immigration raids. Just four days earlier, Trump had suggested that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, his former ally, could lose his government contracts for going public with concerns about the president’s fiscal recklessness. It’s not clear whether Trump was serious in either case, whether he intends to follow through on his threats, or exactly how that would work. But the authoritarian intolerance of dissent reflected in those comments is consistent with the various ways Trump already has used the powers of his office to punish people whose views offend him. Then again, maybe not. No such excuse is available for Trump’s plainly serious crusades against foreign students, lawyers, universities, and news outlets he portrays as enemies of democracy and American values. By deporting students who criticize the Israeli government, Trump says, he is fighting antisemitism and protecting U.S. foreign policy interests. The goal, he explains, is to make students think twice before they open their mouths. “Any student that protests,” Trump said during his 2024 campaign, “I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave.” To justify his executive orders against disfavored law firms — which aimed to ruin them by revoking their security clearances, restricting their access to federal officials and buildings, canceling their government contracts, and threatening other contractors with ties to them — Trump likewise cited their support for causes and clients he abhors. Federal judges therefore had no difficulty concluding that the orders violated the First Amendment. Trump’s conflict with Harvard, framed as an attempt to enforce federal civil rights laws, extends far beyond that goal. The administration has said the university cannot regain access to federal research grants unless it surrenders academic freedom by implementing a litany of hiring, admission, administrative, curricular, and disciplinary reforms. Trump is still pursuing his legal vendetta against CBS News, which he absurdly claims committed consumer fraud by editing a pre-election “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris in a way that made her seem slightly more cogent. In February, he upped the ante by raising his already risible estimate of the damages inflicted by that interview from $10 billion to $20 billion. Given this track record, it may not be safe to assume that Trump is only kidding when he threatens government retaliation for constitutionally protected speech. https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/06/12/donald-trump-threats-immigration-protests-gavin-newsom-israel-univserities-elon-musk-jacob-sullum
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