mastodon 4.7.2Morning guy at Digby's Hullabaloo since 2014.
Author 'For The Win' guide: http://bit.ly/30oNLBT
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Trump once threatened to sue me: https://bit.ly/3EHUHhU
Navy vet responds: "If I had done this to an enemy prisoner under my control in the warzone, or if as an officer I had allowed this by any man under my command, I would still be in prison right now. This is the American government doing it to an American."
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https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
IN THE MIDST OF AN ENERGY CRISIS, the Trump administration is paying companies to not build more energy infrastructure.
You read that correctly.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/the-america-first-corporate-graveyard-trump-economy?r=riq9&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
"Hungary the poorest country in the EU
"Hungary is the most corrupt country in the EU
"Hungary is a country the size of Pennsylvania but it’s four times as poor as Pennsylvania
"Italy is 10 times richer than Hungary"
And MAGA thinks it's a model for the U.S. why?
https://digbysblog.net/2026/04/09/an-example-of-failure/
The verdict is in: “The USA loses its long-term status as a liberal democracy – for the first time in over 50 years.”
https://digbysblog.net/2026/03/20/sinking-slowly-in-the-west/
Via a new anti-Trump trade pact led by Canada's Mark Carney, "nearly 40 nations in the EU and Indo-Pacific CPTPP trade blocs are on a quest to save the World Trade Organization at a pivotal meeting in the African nation of Cameroon."
https://www.politico.eu/article/mega-anti-us-donald-trump-alliance-quest-save-world-trade/
Donald Trump shot the United States’ reputation in the middle of Fifth Avenue and killed its trust in us. Now the world is working at shunning the United States like it would a sex offender or murderer in the neighborhood.
https://digbysblog.net/2026/03/12/were-being-shunned/
Nations are climbing out from under U.S. domination and shaking the dust from their feet. Because “everything Trump touches dies,” including U.S. credibility. The world “no longer thinks America is a force for good.”
https://digbysblog.net/2026/05/03/u-s-credibility-dies/
We’ve been sold the “great man” for well over a century. Alone. Resolute. One of those did not ignite fusion for the 1st time last week. Our western myths gloss over that the first transcontinental railroad was financed and subsidized by federal and state governments. We forget westward expansion was fueled by the Homestead Act (free land). Rural electrification, the Central Valley Project, etc. Sorry, Randians, sorry Republicans, that was public investment. https://digbysblog.net/2022/12/14/america-believes-in-investment/