jamesdanko19

Johnson City High School , Rochester Institute of Technology, clinical microbiologist, acutely aware of creeping fascism. (no longer creeping)

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

To be clear: ICE shot and killed a man who was not their target. He had no criminal record, was seeking legal status, & was pushed off the road by unmarked cars.

There’s “no body cam footage”, his family can’t recover his body, and the witnesses in his van have been detained.

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

In NO WORLD should this name be redacted

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

I don't know what the fuck happened to this country - why we let these horrific things happen and do absolutely nothing - but it is all heartbreaking.

Donald Trump has just fucked America up.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump's Beef Catastrophe: Incompetence, Blithering Idiocy, and Blatant Lies Have Obliterated America's Beef Industry

In yet another humiliating display of incompetence, the authoritarian Trump regime has turned America's once-mighty beef industry into a national punchline. After months of touting "record" export numbers as proof that his chaotic trade policies were somehow working, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been forced to admit it inflated beef export sales by a staggering 90 percent.

According to a bombshell Reuters report, the USDA bragged in early July that U.S. exporters had sold more than 126,000 metric tons of beef to foreign buyers for a sales period ending in late June. The actual number? Just 12,000 metric tons. That's not a rounding error. That's a catastrophic fabrication that would embarrass a high-school bookkeeper.

The fake numbers were so absurd they should have raised red flags immediately. The USDA claimed record sales of more than 38,000 metric tons to Chile and over 32,000 metric tons to Italy — countries that aren’t even major markets for American beef. Reality? A pathetic 367 tons to Chile and 350 tons to Italy. Fourteen other countries saw their numbers slashed as well.

This isn't just bureaucratic sloppiness. This is the Trump regime's signature brand of hype, lies, spin, and propaganda colliding with economic reality — and the American cattle industry is paying the price.

U.S. beef prices have hit record highs this year thanks to tight cattle supplies and strong domestic demand. Exports have been declining since 2022. Higher prices have priced American beef out of the global market, as commodity analyst Austin Schroeder bluntly told Reuters: "We're priced out of the world market to a certain extent. It wouldn't make a lot of sense for that big of an export number."

Meanwhile, domestic supplies are so low the U.S. has had to ramp up beef imports. Earlier this year, a screwworm outbreak forced Texas to declare a state of disaster, further hammering producers already squeezed by Trump-era chaos.

Instead of acknowledging the mess his administration created — from trade wars that disrupted markets to regulatory neglect that left ranchers vulnerable — Trump and his sycophants simply let the USDA pump out fantasy numbers and call it a win.

This is the same pattern we've seen across the board: brag about successes that don't exist, then quietly revise the data when caught. Only this time it's not some abstract economic indicator. It's the backbone of rural America — cattle ranchers, feedlot operators, processors, and exporters — watching their industry get trashed by incompetence and covered up with lies.

The revised numbers aren't just embarrassing, they're devastating. They confirm what ranchers have been screaming for months: America's beef sector is in serious trouble, and the people running the show are too busy tweeting victory to notice or care.

The only question left is how many more "record" numbers will have to be walked back due to Trump being a serial lying sociopath who is too psychologically fragile to handle the truth.

[Chris Mowrey @chrisdmowrey]

Turns out, Republicans talk about election fraud so much because they are constantly doing it.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

"Kex Paxton is  gallivanting throughout Europe with his mistress. His wife is divorcing him on biblical grounds. He's committed voter fraud. He's been impeached by his own party. He's been indicted by his own party. He's had his own lawyer turn on him.

He's just not a good dude, and I think the theme of this week has been that the American people are sick of scumbags. When are Republicans gonna start calling for Ken Paxton to drop out?"

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Read the timeline again slowly. A man who spent a decade risking his life alongside American Special Forces gets picked up by ICE while dropping his kids at school. He complains of chest pain that evening. By morning his tongue is swollen. Within an hour of that, he is dead.

Out of more than fifty deaths in ICE custody under this administration, his is the first ruled an accident. The death certificate has a date on it that predates his own arrest. The county will not release the autopsy that might explain that discrepancy, because ICE asked them not to. That is not how an accident gets investigated. That is how one gets managed.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.

His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.

Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.

You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.

Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?

But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.

And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.

If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.

[TeinaPosts.🇪🇺 @RafaMorgan64]

When Lavrov says Ukrainian land was always theirs, he's admitting that Russia never planned to uphold the multiple agreements they signed ratifying Ukraine's 1991 borders.
It's another reminder that agreements with Russia are worthless.
Remember that.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

A trillionaire tweeting out a 100% QAnon video should be a bigger deal.

“Promise me that we're gonna make it to the light
So is it an awakening or is this a knife in the night?
so come on brothers, sisters, stand up tall
Because guess what?
Where we go one, we go all”

This refers to at least three QAnon slogans—“Dark to Light,” “Great Awakening,” “Where We Go One, We Go All.”

Elon Musk is now Big Brother and Q rolled in one. He must be stopped, or he will end us.

[Derek Cressman @DerekCressman]

Notice this fraud was caught without needing to pass the SAVE act.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

ICE agents killed a man in cold blood at a traffic stop in Houston who had been in this country for 35 years. His son heard about it on a Facebook post and recognized his father’s voice, pleading for help as they left him to bleed out on the street.

If you don’t think ice are the American Gestapo listen to my friend, Werner Reich who was taken by the Nazis when he was 14 years old and put in three different death camps. He was in Auschwitz the year I was born 1944.

I have filmed Holocaust survivors for many years. Their stories have never been more important. #neveragainisnow

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

This man’s heartbreak is unbearable. Fuck ICE and fuck that little gestapo ghoul Stephen Miller.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Served with our troops, never broke the law, kidnapped and killed anyway.

[jamesdanko19 @jamesdanko191]

@jasonllevin Completely…

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

For the past year, MAGA has been screaming “Europoor” like a cheap car alarm going off at three in the morning. Nobody asked for it, nobody knows how to turn it off.

But then along comes this chart.
America sits at number four in average wealth. Except “average” is the statistic billionaires hide behind. Put Elon Musk in a room with 500 broke MAGA guys, and on average, everyone in that room is a multibillionaire. That’s the trick!

Now look at the median. The actual middle American, the real one with the pickup truck, the missing teeth and the medical debt. Fourteenth place. Behind Belgium. Behind Italy. Behind Spain. And the ordinary European? The man MAGA calls a Europoor pays $9 for his insulin, glances over at the American paying $900 for the exact same vial, shrugs, and goes back to being more than twice as wealthy. He’d feel sorry for you, but honestly, he’s too busy being on vacation.

And that gap between fourth and fourteenth? That’s not a statistical quirk. That’s the entire scam laid bare. America’s wealth exists. It’s just not yours. It belongs to about eleven people in Palo Alto, and you’ve been guarding it for them for free, like an unpaid nightclub bouncer, shouting at Europeans on the internet while the owners drink champagne inside.

American exceptionalism. No other nation on Earth has ever been this successfully convinced to cheer for its own fleecing.

So by all means, keep shouting Europoor. We’ll be over here with our healthcare, our six weeks of vacation, and our double-your-median wealth, trying very hard to hear you over the sound of how sorry we feel.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Mohammad Paktiawal died in ICE custody. He fought with our troops in Afghanistan. He was not here illegally or a criminal. He worked & had a family. There was no reason for his detention. This ongoing inhumanity is a national shame. Powerful @BillKristol:
https://t.co/vsjELCxUNk

[jamesdanko19 @jamesdanko191]

@virtaava @jimstewartson Did Trump vouch for Russia ?

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

ICE killed a father of three yesterday and no one is talking about it.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo spent 35 years in Houston building homes and raising a family.

According to people interviewed, every night after work you'd find him on his porch, listening to music, petting his dog. He helped his three kids (U.S. Citizens) get through college.

It certainly seems that he was doing everything right, and then a federal agent shot him dead during a stop and his own son found out from a Facebook video, recognizing his father's voice as he lay bleeding in the street.

His son says that if his father had recognized any sign of law enforcement, he would have complied without question.

DHS says he "tried to run him over." This is the exact same lie they used to justify murdering Renee Good, a mother of three.

We are being asked to trust a rogue, lawless agency's word over a dead man's family, again, with no body cam release and no independent investigation.

Everyone should be outraged.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

For the second time today , Donald Trump seems to be visibly confused.

This time, he said he was the president for three terms and won three elections.

What the fuck is going on?