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Dutch digital detoxers unplug en masse. Will the world follow? - Positive News Members of The Offline Club are swapping out their phones for board games, books and tranquillity. The concept is poised to go international after capturing the zeitgeist

Dutch digital detoxers unplug en masse. Will the world follow?
May 31, 2024, Positive.News

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Sixth Tiny Home Village is Ending Homelessness for Veterans Across the US: ‘This place saved me’ The nonprofit Veterans Community Project (VCP) broke ground on its 6th tiny home village across the US to offer military vets a fresh start.

So it CAN be done. "Sixth Tiny Home Village is Ending Homelessness for Veterans Across the US: ‘This place saved me’"

The US Is Now in the Human-Trafficking Business The Trump administration spent $6 million to knowingly disappear hundreds of people into a foreign prison where they are being made to work, without pay, in torturous conditions.

...in which the government traded 238 people to be warehoused for a year in the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo—CECOT—the “crown jewel” of Bukele’s deeply antidemocratic domestic security platform.

The US government is now in the business of trafficking migrants on the global market. On March 15, the Trump administration struck a $6 million agreement with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele...

Yes, there have been grounds for termination for some time. But there no mouse to be found who'll put the bell on the cat.

In normal modern societies kings have tremendous limitations. They are not the kings of old, they are just figureheads. Trump wants to be an absolute monarch. See King Louis XVI of France. Well, he lost his head.

This is the country we’ve become under the Trump administration.

From DAILY DOSE OF DEMOCRACY:

"Pentagon admits it has no idea who’s on the "drug boats".
When you have blatant disregard for international norms and the rule of law and hate people with brown skin, why would you bother to verify the identities of the targets of your extrajudicial killings?"

From DAILY DOSE OF DEMOCRACY:

Current and former prosecutors alarmed after DOJ scrubs mentions of Trump and January 6 from court records.

From DAILY DOSE OF DEMOCRACY:

If you were a foreign leader, you wouldn’t sign anything longer than a lunch receipt either. And if you were an American family trying to buy groceries, you’d be forgiven for wishing the president cared as much about your table as he does about his Diet Coke supply."

Mary Geddry: "So here we are: the world’s largest economy now runs on twelve-out-of-ten diplomacy, a trade deal that renews annually like a bad cable subscription, and a food aid program that vanishes every two months unless you beg for it.

"Pentagon Pete Purges Decorated Admiral for DOGE Goon, 33"

It's ok. Just means the US won't win any wars. Putin must be delighted.

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From the WAPO:

The Justice Department has placed two federal prosecutors in Washington on leave a day after they filed a document in court that referred to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as a “riot” carried out by a “mob,” two people familiar with the matter said.

It has occurred to me.

I wouldn't put it past him. At least we know that he won't last into a third term.

That money goes into something strange, it doesn't pay the troops. It's a pittance for that purpose.

📌 Too bad we don't have a

President 😪 Oh wait ‼️⤵️🐥

'The news is the confession': Ex-GOP insider rages at WaPo for 'twisted' pro-Trump piece Jeff Bezos and other members of the media elite are not to be trusted, and the Washington Post recently showed that with a "twisted" pro-Donald Trump editorial, according to an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.Political strategist Steve Schmid...

'The news is the confession': Ex-GOP insider rages at WaPo for 'twisted' pro-Trump piece

He got the Speaker he wanted - a cuck who will sit in the corner and let him do whatever he pleases whenever he wants.

I wish I could share your optimism.

It's so much more. MAGA has taken over, they have destroyed the system that controlled governmental powers, they are a Mafia, ignoring the law, the courts, the truth, they will cheat when the elections come, if they even allow elections... unless something amazing happens, the before US is no more.

The Art of the Shakedown Tariffs on friends, wars in new time zones, hunger as policy, and masked raids in the rain, the chaos presidency enters its baroque period.

Every time the spotlight drifts toward the Epstein files, another “emergency” conveniently detonates, another shiny headline to keep us staring at the circus instead of the ledger. Whatever’s in those files must be very prosecutable indeed."

Mary Geddry: "When a president demolishes the East Wing, shuts down the government, starves the poor, picks fights with Canada, and sends aircraft carriers toward Venezuela all in the same month, he’s not simply multitasking, he’s burying something.