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‘If you’re going to criticise the past actions of previous US administrations, then it’s probably best you double-check who was in charge at the time.

One criticism from Donald Trump’s Department of State, shared on Thursday, has seen it ridiculed online given the problem itself has lasted for “nearly 7 years”, and the Republican was halfway through his first term back in 2019.

The tweet reads: “For nearly 7 years there have been no direct commercial flights between the U.S. and Venezuela.

“Under President Trump we’re changing that today. Flights between Miami and Caracas restored.”

And sure enough, many X/Twitter users were quick to point out that it was Trump who oversaw the initial decision..

“I wonder who was president 7 years ago,” wrote Francisco Rodríguez, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research…’ (via  indy100)

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‘The White House just posted an hour-long video of Trump repeating a single word – yes, really…’ (via indy100)

Warning: Do not watch the referenced video. That will be 60 minutes of your life you will never get back. 

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https://followmehere.com/2026/05/03/the-era-of-rational-discourse-is-over/

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‘Americans have a long history of being hurried into war on false pretexts. The “yellow press” encouraged a war fever in 1898 by blaming the sinking of the USS Maine on the Spanish, even though the Navy’s own expert said it was caused by an accidental explosion. The George W. Bush administration justified the invasion of Iraq by claiming that Saddam Hussein had connections to the 9/11 attacks and was building weapons of mass destruction, neither of which turned out to be true.

But with the Iran war, as in so many other ways, Donald Trump has broken new ground. He is the first president to start a war without even bothering to lie to the public, because he simply didn’t care what the public thought. The American people weren’t consulted about attacking Iran—neither formally, through their elected representatives in Congress, nor informally, by allowing pundits, activists, and civil-society groups to have their say. As Trump told The New York Times in January, his power as commander in chief was constrained by nothing but “my own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”…’ (Adam Kirsch via The Atlantic)

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https://followmehere.com/2026/05/03/magnificent-drone-footage-of-the-solomon-islands-kavachi-volcano-erupting-underwater/

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‘Wildlife filmmaker Devon Massyn captured absolutely magnificent and rare drone footage of the volcano Kavachi erupting explosively underwater. Kavachi, which sits in the Pacific Ocean near the Solomon Islands, had not erupted for nearly a decade before this.…’ (Lori Dorn via Laughing Squid)

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https://followmehere.com/2026/05/03/richard-dawkins-and-the-claude-delusion/

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‘Prominent evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins became a worldwide laughingstock this week for an unintentionally embarrassing article in which he argued that conversing with Anthropic’s Claude chatbot has made him believe that large language models are not only sentient, but actually conscious….[T]he author of The God Delusion is now suffering from a Claude delusion.…’ (via Flux)

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https://followmehere.com/2026/04/29/maga-supporters-question-if-white-house-dinner-shooting-was-staged/

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‘In a press conference after the incident, Trump appeared to link the shooting to his long-standing proposal for a new White House ballroom. “I didn’t want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we’re planning at the White House. It’s actually a larger room, and it’s a much more secure [sic]. It’s got – it’s drone-proof, it’s bulletproof glass,” Trump said. One theory, presented without evidence, is that security may have been deliberately weakened to support Trump’s case for the ballroom. Several far-right figures, including Jack Posobiec, Chaya Raichik, known as Libs of TikTok, and Tom Fitton have shared theories online that are skeptical of the official explanation. Experts say conspiracy theories often emerge after political violence. Sander van der Linden noted that “Trump is an opportunist…He immediately is thinking, ‘How can I use this to my advantage?’”…’ (via Flipboard)

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https://followmehere.com/2026/04/29/how-to-get-a-passport-without-president-trumps-face-on-it/

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‘News broke Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s face would soon appear on new U.S. passports. It wasn’t exactly a surprise, given the way Trump has been slapping his name on various buildings, planning to plaster his face on two different coins this summer, and naming government initiatives after himself. Have you signed up for a Trump Account or TrumpRX yet?

But there has been some confusion about how widespread the Trump passports will be…

Will every U.S. citizen get a Trump passport? When do the new passports start? And how can I avoid getting a passport that bears the face of our dipshit president?

The Bulwark obtained images of the new passport, which includes a portrait of President Trump in front of a copy of the Declaration of Independence. The President’s signature will also be included in gold-colored ink. Trump will be on the first page of the passport, which has featured an illustration of Francis Scott Key since 2021.

The normal passport includes lines from “The Star-Spangled Banner,” including “O say does that star / spangled banner yet wave / O’er the land of the free / and the home of the brave.”

The passports will reportedly be available to all Americans, but only 25,000 to 30,000 will be printed, according to NPR.

The passports will become available shortly before July 4, according to NPR, though the exact date is still unclear.

Applicants at the Washington, D.C., passport office will get the new passport by default, and it will be the only one available at the Washington Passport Agency, according to the Washington Post. If you steer clear of that office, you should be fine. But the passport will also be available online for people outside of DC, according to NPR, so be careful if you’re applying through that channel.…’ (Matt Novak via Gizmodo)

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