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Geriatric Gardener

“Beyond the App: America's Willing Acceptance of Imperial Crime”

by Raja Sohail Bashir in The Geopolitical Compass on Substack

“This article wields the Signal leak as a diagnostic tool. The disproportionate attention to process over substance exemplifies how the distraction machine operates: trivialities amplified, atrocities obscured, and publics anesthetized to the crimes committed in their name”

open.substack.com/pub/hailyb/p

The Geopolitical Compass · Beyond the App: America's Willing Acceptance of Imperial CrimeBy Raja Sohail Bashir
#Press#US#Signal
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janhoglund

“Trump’s habit of deflection might explain last night's statement, and his habit of distraction might explain today’s social media post, in which the president returned to an exchange of words between him and Maine governor Janet Mills, a Democrat, more than three weeks ago…”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 22, 2025
#trump #deflection #distraction

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Six Grandfathers Mountain

@wdlindsy
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#TrumpDeportations rely on tattoos, it’s bullshit

Right, it's to make money and a #distraction that almost half of #Project2025 has been pulled off

"I’m the #Canadian who was detained by #ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention.

Yet, compared with others, I was lucky"

Jasmine Mooney
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly. What I had experienced was finally starting to make sense.
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky Jasmine Mooney Wed 19 Mar 2025 There was no explanation, no warning. One minute, I was in an immigration office talking to an officer about my work visa, which had been approved months before and allowed me, a Canadian, to work in the US. The next, I was told to put my hands against the wall, and patted down like a criminal before being sent to an Ice detention center without the chance to talk to a lawyer.
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Impish4249

#Fediverse friends, these are tough & frightening times for many of us.

#Humor #sarcasm and #snark are great outlets for stress but can have the opposite effect if not labelled correctly. Please don't assume everyone knows "It's a joke."

For real events lease cite #links, #references & #facts, not just #screenshots, whenever possible.

If we're going to get out of this we need to work with #fact not #distraction.

Please #factcheck or ask others for citations, references & clarification.

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Goggles

TIL (Today I Learned) that, while on the train, if you spray a hand moisturizer that's lightly scented like the cologne my grandma used to wear, then the endless rattling of your crispy-snack package won't irritate the heck out of me – because I'm busy thinking about my grandma.

#distraction
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The 🇨🇦 Resistance

Some of the things that will be used to justify this #War of #Distraction will be #Canada 's retaliation to #US #tariffs. There have already been social media posts about how our economically defensive tactics are "illegal".

Combined with the sociopathic dismissal of #Canada as "not a real country" and how we are "subsidized" or "tariff abusers" -- the #POTUS is 'othering' and essentially de-humanizing #Canadians.

The real motive is to expand territory and gain access to energy and minerals.

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NotImpressed

#Gaza #ceasefire
#Israel #distraction
@palestine

"The Gaza ceasefire is a distraction from "Israel’s" deeper strategy: dismantling Palestinian statehood, imposing foreign control, and ensuring permanent occupation under US guidance"
Slow genocide +"...destroying the Palestinian Authority (PA) would mean that Palestine has no seat at the UN"
Also "destroying UNRWA...which means the agency that registers Palestinian refugee status is being killed"

english.almayadeen.net/article

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