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  • Over 300 South Koreans to return home after arrests at US Hyundai plant

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  • For those who were curious, "home" means South Korea, not their homes they made in the US.

    Also there's this:

    Lee’s government even promised at least $50bn of investments during his recent meeting with Trump, a gesture that resulted only in a “crackdown” against South Korean citizens.

    CBS, are you paying attention? Probably not.

  • Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

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  • Seriously. I am having trouble finding the Reddit AMA from before the election (which is its own little brand of worrying), where one of the New York Times editors was asked why they were so hyper-critical of Biden on a few different valid bases, but willing to give a broad free pass to Trump on many objectively horrifying things he was doing or planning. And they basically said, well Trump's popular and Biden is not, so we're reflecting that reality, it's okay if you don't understand news you're not a professional like me 😎.

    I'm glad if they found their voice now that it's more or less too late, but I still admit to a little bit of guilty desire to see Trump's goons smash up their offices or something, so that maybe they'll take the lesson a little more thoroughly to heart, and fucking remember next time what their fucking job is.

  • Over 300 South Koreans to return home after arrests at US Hyundai plant

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  • Yeah. If you look at what the directives have been from above, it's very very obvious in retrospect that ICE would be just wandering around arresting people completely at random, because they will literally get in trouble if they do literally anything else.

  • Politics @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Harvard Dominates Headlines, But Other Schools Are Quietly Battling Trump

    truthout.org /articles/harvard-dominates-headlines-but-other-schools-are-quietly-battling-trump/
  • U.S. News @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Mexican festivals in Chicago canceled amid Trump plans to deploy troops

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/sep/06/chicago-mexican-independence-day-trump

  • Chernobyl - A Masterclass in Perspective

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  • Yeah. IDK whether it is what you're talking about, but I saw a YouTube video somewhere that was comparing the shots from the miniseries to shots from real life, and they were remarkably similar. There's a ton of authenticity in the show, even in little details.

    I read an interview, also, where someone who lived in the USSR at the time said it was very accurate. One of the things he mentioned, not really a show commentary but just something that was in his memory from the time that wasn't in the show, was that the radio station (there was only one) switched from programming into classical music, which was always a sign that something big had happened and they were trying to figure out what they wanted to say about it before they made any kind of announcement. His friends were speculating that Gorbachev had died. Eventually, it came back on, and they all heard the first public announcement about the disaster.

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    [Video clip] Tech CEOs at the White House - One-upping each other in Ass-kissing

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  • For now. Graduating to siccing these extralegal structures and punishments against peer enemies is usually in the game plan at some point.

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    [Video clip] Tech CEOs at the White House - One-upping each other in Ass-kissing

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  • Tell me I'm crazy, are not Safra Catz and Satya Nadella naturalized citizens? Subject to arbitrarily getting fucked up any time any of them steps on the wrong tail? Neither was born in the US. Catz is presumably safe, because she's white Israeli, but...

    What the Jesus Christ man

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    [Video clip] Tech CEOs at the White House - One-upping each other in Ass-kissing

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  • CBS Abruptly Changes Editing Rules After Attacks From Administration

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  • every single company and institution, especially the ones that the people rely on, will literally do whatever the government wants without even second guessing it all in an effort to save their own ass

    In some authoritarian structures, this is true. At least in the short run. In Russia, if you play ball with the government, you'll be largely protected against hostile forces in the crooked and dangerous melee of existing day-to-day in business or media, because you're on the side of the boss.

    In Trump's structure, there is absolutely no safety in any direction. And there is doubly none for establishment media. CBS is not going to get a goddamned thing in exchange for their obedience. They'll still be the enemy, and they're still going to get all fucked up (maybe physically in a real sense) any time it suits the mad king's urges. I think they're just doing it because (ironically enough) they don't really have a grasp of what is going on, or maybe are just petrified and don't know what to do and so they're just clinging to the hope that obeying will keep them safe. But it won't. It doesn't change the equation in the slightest. Actually, if you have big money and institutional backing, fighting back like Harvard or Chicago is probably safer, honestly.

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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    US Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Hire Armed Special Agents

    truthout.org /articles/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-will-hire-armed-special-agents/

  • Chernobyl - A Masterclass in Perspective

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  • This made me want to watch it again.

  • U.S. News @beehaw.org
    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Minnesota man freed after 27 years in prison for murder he did not commit

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/sep/04/minnesota-wrongful-conviction-bryan-hooper-released

  • Trump Tried to Fire Fed Reserve Gov Lisa Cook. Now His DOJ Is Investigating Her.

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  • Pretty much, yeah. She's doing the right thing. Push back. Make them work. No one has infinite time or resources. No matter how much danger it puts you in to make yourself a little outlier, it won't hold a candle to some poor bastard who's going to CECOT or whatever, and maybe the time they spend on you will be less attention they can spend on expanding some "detention center" somewhere.

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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Chernobyl - A Masterclass in Perspective

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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Trump Tried to Fire Fed Reserve Gov Lisa Cook. Now His DOJ Is Investigating Her.

    truthout.org /articles/trump-tried-to-fire-fed-reserve-gov-lisa-cook-now-his-doj-is-investigating-her/
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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail can stay open, appeals court says

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/sep/04/alligator-alcatraz-appeals-court

  • McConnell: ‘There’s certain similarities right now to the ‘30s’

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  • Yeah, too right. It's a little surprising to hear someone in his position talking about it, it means they're waking up, which I guess is a good thing?

    Oh, to the United States in the 1930s? Fuckin' what lol. The tariffs are hardly the most important things going on right now. Well, hopefully McConnell lives long enough to get "night of the long knives"ed.

  • MTG warns Epstein clients she’ll ‘say every damn name’ on House floor as she tells sex abuse victims, ‘Give me a list’

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  • Yeah. Broadly speaking, the idea of not funding Ukraine's defense might just be some anti-war populism brainrot, but stuff like "Nazis in Ukraine" and talking about Zelensky as a dictator but being super gung-ho about Assad, things like that, start to cast it in a little bit of a different light.

    Full disclosure, I got randomly curious and looked up what she thinks about Maduro, and she's 100% opposed to the Russia point of view: https://www.usasocialite.com/marjorie-taylor-controversial-comments/ ... so who knows, maybe I am wrong.

  • I didn't think it was possible to sum up reddit with a single image, but...

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  • I had a conversation with a particular Lemmy-instance admin after getting banned for having the wrong opinions, and you could feel through the screen how frustrated he was that he couldn't just mechanically prevent me from saying certain things, because of being accustomed to being in an environment where he could dictate what conversations were allowed, and everyone had to be nice to him. To the point that it was this wild out-of-pocket thing if someone could speak to him without having to "talk up" to him. It was kind of fun honestly lol.

  • I didn't think it was possible to sum up reddit with a single image, but...

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  • I absolutely think that's part of the strength of Lemmy.

    I have no idea why the Lemmy devs copied the reddit "lords and peasants" model of moderated interactions, and I don't know if Lemmy will survive long term against the tide of corruption that Reddit is in the late stages of right now. But at least it's pretty easy to move to a different fiefdom if you want to. If, for example, your home server lemmy.world gets all enshittified and filled with obnoxious interactions, you can just up and leave and still keep nearly all of your engagement if other people are in agreement.

    You can take a look at lemmy.ml or blahaj and see what Lemmy could look like if that wasn't possible. To me, moving servers when stuff gets weird is a healthy thing.

  • MTG warns Epstein clients she’ll ‘say every damn name’ on House floor as she tells sex abuse victims, ‘Give me a list’

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  • She's performatively anti-war, but if you look a little more closely you can see that her "anti-war" always lines up with Russia's "anti-war." She was very upset that Trump wanted to put new sanctions on Russia if a peace deal wasn't reached, for example. An anti-war person would be in favor of going to bat for peace, right?

    She also was pretty much the only person who voted against mourning the victims of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Why? Because (in my opinion) the resolution also had bad things to say about Russia's guy in Syria.

    She's willing to break with Trump, when she gets time amid her busy schedule of various nutty things that her trailer-park schizophrenia has convinced her need to be talked about. When has she ever broken with Russia? (By taking a stand against their aggression in Ukraine for example, the same way she takes a stand against Israel or the US or one particular side in the Syrian civil war or these other geopolitical things she occasionally talks about.)

  • Putin, Xi caught on hot mic discussing organ transplants and immortality

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  • As I understand it, the nihilistic realization that it's all a bunch of insane bullshit and there is no reason to believe in anybody or anything, comes quite early in the Russian system. I imagine the translator takes some comfort in the idea that Putin is just a crazy old man at the end of the day. It probably relieves him from some feelings about his own sins whatever they may be, because nothing matters.

  • MTG warns Epstein clients she’ll ‘say every damn name’ on House floor as she tells sex abuse victims, ‘Give me a list’

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  • I think that's part of the point.

    Trump got distracted, as he does, and has stopped doing Putin's bidding as far as Ukraine.

    Putin doesn't like that, and has reached out to some of his other assets in US government, of which MTG is one. She got vocal about us needing to not strike Iran, which was wildly out of character for her (she generally doesn't give a shit about the world outside of her weird little fantasy version of it, definitely not about geopolitics).

    If she's now making noise about Epstein, in a way that breaks from Trump, then I think the reason is that Russia is telling her to, because they think Trump needs to be punished on this issue.

    I have no idea, but that's what I think is going on. Trump has lost sight of rule number one in American politics: You dance with them as brung you.

  • Putin, Xi caught on hot mic discussing organ transplants and immortality

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  • This is what happens to a motherfucker when anyone who tells you you're talking crazy falls out a window.

  • Florida Democrats RaShon Young, LaVon Bracy Davis Win Special Elections

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  • I have a disappointing prediction I am going to make to you

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    Florida Democrats RaShon Young, LaVon Bracy Davis Win Special Elections

    atlantadailyworld.com /2025/09/03/florida-democrats-rashon-young-lavon-bracy-davis-win-special-elections/
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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    The Los Angeles Schoolteacher Leading the Fight Against ICE

    theintercept.com /2025/09/03/ice-la-immigrants-activists-teacher-union-del-barrio/
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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Trump says he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/sep/01/trump-rudy-giuliani-presidential-medal-of-freedom
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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Astronaut captures rare red aurora from International Space Station

    www.aljazeera.com /video/newsfeed/2025/9/1/astronaut-captures-rare-red-aurora-from-international-space-station
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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    US denies visas for Palestinian officials before UN assembly

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2025/8/29/us-denies-visas-for-palestinian-officials-ahead-of-un-assembly
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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    'Most Illegal Search I've Ever Seen': Trump's DC Crackdown Results in Stream of Abuses

    www.commondreams.org /news/trump-dc-courts
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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    The Student Newspaper Suing Marco Rubio Over Targeted Deportations

    theintercept.com /2025/08/26/stanford-daily-lawsuit-international-student-deportations-visa/
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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    California’s governor has become an anti-Trump comedian. It’s 2017 all over again.

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/aug/23/gavin-newsom-trump-comedy
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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    ‘A new political era’: fresh Democratic faces seek office to prevent their party from ‘sleepwalking into dystopia’

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/aug/23/new-generation-democrats-congress-elections
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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    ‘Everyone is coming into fire’: students return to US campuses bruised and changed by Trump’s assault

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/aug/23/us-college-campuses-trump-funding-protests
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    PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

    Abrego Garcia faces deportation to Uganda after rejecting plea deal

    www.scmp.com /news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322943/us-seeks-deport-abrego-garcia-uganda-after-he-refused-costa-rica-plea-offer