Notices by TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️ 🍁 🛡️ (adwright@mastodon.social)

Lockheed is feeling the squeeze of collapsing F-35 sales to the point that the Pentagon denies it has a "kill switch" the US can activate.

They do not seem to realize that no one believes a single word that comes out of any United States corporate and government mouths any more.

The US word on anything means nothing at all. Less than nothing, as it is almost always now a sin of commission, not omission being covered up.

Don't buy American. No low is too low for them to go now.

Anyone want to tell me how this is not as bad as it sounds?

@wendinoakland

I'm aghast. He really is speed-running Hitler.

The scariest part of this is these are only the cases we know about. I think "obituary rules" are in effect here now, God help us all.

Obituary rules are the only obituaries show up in the paper are people whom other, currently living, people care about.

You won't see an obituary from anyone alone with no one, unless they themselves arrange for it.

There is a clear pattern of incommunicado geographic relocation to remote camps.

@wendinoakland

I know this has been the culmination of decades of foundational work but even so, the speed of the collapse; generations of work wiped out in less than two months, damage done that will take generations to fix, if in fact that's even possible at all; and all because rich folk will never be told what to do no matter what.

That that looks to be our species' epitaph is one of the saddest excuses for a joke in existence.

I guess they're right and the only war /is/ class war.

@wendinoakland

This has been in motion since the late 1970s. Small increments by both parties as GOP tacked hard libertarian right and Dems followed.

Citizen United was a huge step forward but these days there are so many ways dark money can come in - look at our CPC - it is last gen corruption now.

I think democracy's kryptonite was disinformation. Once you had a Fox News and Sinclair widebanding horseshit, horseshit became the new lingua franca for political discourse instead of fact.

It's Monday on New Earth.

There's reams of bad news but in the interests of mental sanity, let's look at the good(-ish) news.

- Canada and the new Liberal leader are taking the US threat seriously. We're in it now against the 21st century Hitler Twins. I would be no where else as God is my witness.

- Europe is waking up to the new world order at doubletime speed. It's also worth noting Euro media break more news stories than in America, where money has muzzled most outlets.

- more

/3

- The best part of Musk's public descent into darkness and the world finally seeing him for the monster he is, is even as he and the rest of the billionaire class are plutocratting out on incomes so large they are their own monetary gravity wells, he is making them all by association look as monstrous as he is.

Which is saying something when he sets the standard for them by walking about using his own toddler as an anti-sniper ballistic helmet.

- No one except chuds want to buy a Swasticar

/2

- While being mostly ignored in American corporate-run media, there are protests on the new American fascist policies in every state and the horror stories about disappearances are beginning to make an impression.

- Americans are starting to see GOP health policies for the disasters they are as epidemics join the pandemics competing for those scarce healthcare dollars.

- Elon Musk's negative PR blowback globally even as he secures ultimate power amidst his Vitamin K haze downward spiral.

A Nazi X account followed by JD Vance and Elon Musk is revealed as a BC man whose father runs Trinity Western University, which is hard religious right, similar to a Canadian version of Bob Jones University, so I guess he comes by the Aryan hate honestly.

Warning, our boy's posted all the fan favorite extremist positions on the non-Aryan races, and white ladies? he's up for breeding if you know the right 14 words + yes.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/captive-dreamer-elon-musk-jd-vance/

Today's Good News (2025 edition):

That the oligarchs want to crush Canada so badly means we must be doing something right.

Cross Country Checkup has been mostly American perspectives where we're considered not in the top 5 news stories and not on the American public's radar at all.

The American perspective is Trump's just trolling. Most callers US so far.

Just 3 Canadian calls, all from BC.

All the experts are right wing so far - woman from the Canadian Shark show, former Bush speechwriter David Frum, and Kevin O'Leary is coming on later.

So yeah, they're normalizing it.

Not one progressive Canadian POV so far.

Exactly two weeks after assuming office, the Trump administration has begun flights of detainees to its extra-jurisdictional concentration camp in Cuba.

A reminder that Texas has concentration camps it started building the same week as Trump's election victory so the magic words here are the extra-jurisdictional part. Away from prying eyes or any legal requirements other than whatever Calvinball things Trump signs.

To the stupid: The US is starting to disappear people, just like real Nazis do.

A reminder that it's not just about buying Canadian, but buying from which Canadians.

There is no reason to support any Canadian products, people or companies that support Trump, his policies or goals.

None. Hurt them as they desire to hurt you and yours. Shun them socially, put your money where it helps you, not Trump.

It's war. Quislings are going to just pop out of the woodwork now, grifting their asses off to curry favor and get in on the action dismembering our corpses for their master.

He was a pretty good Prime Minister with the courage to stand up to the US when it counted. When the US was lying to the world about WMDs in Iraq, he stood by the truth. As a direct consequential result of this literally hundreds of Canadian soldiers are alive and well today having not been part of an unjustified war of imperial conquest.

Jean Chrétien on his 91st birthday, with a message for his fellow Canadians and incoming President Trump.

(Reader mode will show it)

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-jean-chretien-canadian-leaders-donald-trump-plan/

"Temporal Prime Directive", my ass.

Captain Kirk in the 1968 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.

#StarTrek

So yesterday Russia hit Ukraine with a multi-head nuclear missile with the nuclear warheads removed.

They intended to show the world they are prepared to use nuclear weapons.

The weapon launch was indistinguishable from that of a real nuclear weapon.

They intended to strike fear into the entire Western world who would have detected the launch.

They're making the case for a First Strike on Russia. Or telling the world to acquiesce.

Fold or Call?

We are here now.

I say Call.

So it was only a hundred years ago - 1924 - when someone figured out the Sun, and all the rest of the stars, were made mostly of hydrogen with some helium. All the other elements were in trace amounts.

She was a student at Harvard named Cecilia Payne.

At the time the consensus was stars were made up of pretty much what Earth was made of.

It took 4 more years for a man to confirm the discovery before it was widely accepted, with him as discoverer.

It's all hers now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

Fucking ow.

@JoscelynTransient

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51yyq0g5x3o

Watching a library burn is tragedy. It's loss. Lots of things are mass-market, replaceable but every library will hold some things there are very few of. Maybe no others. And when things are gone it can be impossible to bring it back. I know, I just spent 5 years of my life on a project that as good as it is can likely never be complete.

Watching a library burn because the fire was deliberately set is a straight-up obscenity. That it was set by fascists makes my blood boil.

War never changes.