Dolan Boehring

[Dolan Boehring @dolan_boehring]

@PacSurfliners [asking about Surfliner in general, not 786]
For tomorrow, 10/20 (Tuesday), will the Surfliner be running between Orange County and Oceanside? Are certain runs going to be canceled or put on a bus bridge?

[Dolan Boehring @dolan_boehring]

@tsteele93 @Hunteroforcs @waitbutwhy @christoaivalis They're barred from voting in elections that expressly prohibit them. This is not such an election.

[Dolan Boehring @dolan_boehring]

@tsteele93 @Hunteroforcs @waitbutwhy @christoaivalis It was included in the original rules: "Everyone in the world."

I don't think people voting red are "bad people" - I can think of deeply moral reasons to vote red - but the arguments being made generally avoid the implications.

This being an example.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Five stories from just the last 24 hours:

1. Minnesota police chief says ICE has been unconstitutionally stopping & pulling guns on *his own* off-duty officers who are brown/black.

2. The Social Security Administration referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results.

3. Canada struck a historic trade deal with China, declaring them more "predictable" than the U.S., then its PM warned of a rupture with the U.S. and the "end of the rules-based international order."

4. Trump quietly pardoned a slew of more white collar criminals, almost all of whom were convicted of fraud.

5. NYTimes released an editorial documenting how Trump has made $1.4 billion (with a "b") dollars off the presidency in his first year in office -- just on the publicly documented trades and transactions.

That's legitimately 24 hours of news, and it's just scratching the surface.

[Dolan Boehring @dolan_boehring]

Strong post, one quibble with "The public in the US think..."

The US public understands that our government places little value in what we think.

[Lars Christensen @MaMoMVPY]

The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US.

When the outside world observes Trump's insane behaviour and his threats against allies, and we at the same time observe that there is no real action from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court, or the US media about this insanity, we will all have to conclude that the US accepts this behaviour.

The public in the US think the US is entitled to a certain position in the world where there is no room for decent behaviour and where there are no norms and rules.

That means that we all have to conclude that the US — not only Trump — has betrayed the international order that the US, with its Western partners, were the main architects of after the Second World War.

This is the conclusion that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney so clearly laid out in his speech at Davos yesterday. We simply cannot trust the US to play by the rules any more. Therefore, we also fundamentally have to ask ourselves — should we trust the financial and economic structure which is an integral part of the global rules-based order?

Americans live in the illusion that the US can do everything on its own, despite the fact that the US for nearly 20 years has lived beyond its means.

US private and government consumption has been funded by, among others, European central banks and pension funds. But we now have to ask ourselves — why would we trade in dollars? Why would we put our savings into US Treasury bonds?

If the US is not a rules-based society, we cannot trust the dollar to be a stable currency, and it would be insane to hold dollars. As domestic US institutions are eroded and governance structures destroyed, the US will be turned into an emerging market economy — or more accurately, a de-merging economy.

If the US threatens the territory of allies, then the US acts as an authoritarian bully nation. Nobody in their right mind would lend money to the US government. If the US doesn't live up to its international obligations and respect the sovereignty of other nations, why would we expect the US government to honour its debts?

If Trump can tariff nations that will not give up their territory, then there is certainly no reason to believe that the US will not introduce capital controls. And if that is a risk, why would you risk investing in the US?

It is not a question about Europe standing up to the US. It is a question about being prudent with our investments — about reducing risks.

Every day Trump remains in office, distrust of the US increases, and the cost for the US will go up day by day. And this is irreversible. It takes years to build trust, but you can destroy it by your actions in minutes.

Europe has now completely lost trust in the US. And so has Canada. It is up to the people of the US to demonstrate that Trump is an 'outlier', and it is up to the American people to stop him.

If you don't do that, we will have to assume that this is what the US is about — whether the name of the President is Trump or something else, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat.

[Dolan Boehring @dolan_boehring]

Do we know if this was a response to the meeting, or something that was already planned?

If dissidents are resigning from military leadership, that has troubling implications for who remains.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Another one of the many high profile military departures since Trump took office. Gen. Thomas Bussiere, a top Air Force General who was nominated by Trump to become the next Air Force Chief of Staff, resigned after Hegseth/Trump’s farce of a military meeting this week.

[7% peaceful @DavidWinter1962]

@missmayn

[ally @missmayn]

my boyfriend wants to start a company called “just” and manufacture stuff like a refrigerator that’s just a refrigerator or a washing machine that just washes your clothes and their products have no tech and work for at least 15+ years.