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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Usha Vance was reportedly scheduled to attend a dogsled race in the foreign country, sharing in a video statement on Instagram that she was “reading all about it with my children” and was looking “forward to meeting” the island’s residents.

“I’m also coming to celebrate the long history of mutual respect and cooperation between our nations and to express hope that our relationship will only grow stronger in the coming years,” the second lady said. “See you soon!”

Has she not noticed that her husband and his boss keep promising to invade these people's country? Has she not realized that people don't like being threatened daily with invasion? Does she not know that "hope that our relationship will only grow stronger in the coming years" is completely incompatible with threatening every day to destroy the people you're talking to?

Is this about Americans not realizing that other countries are real places that real people care about, and not just quaint scenery for the taking?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

You guys are wearing trousers? I find it slows down the whole process of throwing feces at my enemies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Once they've found they can ignore the courts to just kidnap and disappear anyone they don't like from immigrant populations, what's to stop them moving on to US citizens? Fascists aren't known for their restraint.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Wow. Rising sea levels will improve that place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They're unfortunately not nearly elusive enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Well that should be possible, especially if your fiancée is Canadian, and even more so when you are married.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

There are also all those, in both humanities and sciences, whose projects or departments are denied funding for ideological reasons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

They've been going after academics and students first. Standard fascist dictatorship stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

When I immigrated to Canada the process was rather arduous, and the categories under which you could immigrate were quite restricted. It depends on your skills, your age, your finances, your family (if any) in Canada, which employment categories Canada is prioritizing, and so on. There's information here for anyone considering it:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada.html

And a questionnaire to find out whether you're eligible to apply to immigrate to Canada:

https://onlineservices-servicesenligne.cic.gc.ca/c2c/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Yes, Canada and other countries need to be anticipating large numbers of refugees from the USA. And it's just one more reason why Canada really needs to sort out its housing situation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I don't think you can hold it against a prominent academic and critic of fascism that he doesn't want to stick around and see what the fascists do to the universities, the philosophy departments, professors like him, and their families. And, believe it or not, here in Canada we have good universities that aren't under threat, and probably just as much access to US news as you do.

 

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/37793533

Millions of unmoored and undocumented people are being punished at an accelerated pace for the crime of having enriched the wealthiest country on Earth

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27375048

The dream is becoming reality. At least for the media talking heads who take their orders at weekly meetings in the Kremlin. The US is aligning with Russia’s outlook, they say. Now, Russia can begin to imagine a just punishment for its old enemies in Europe’s democracies(..)

He [Sardaryan] urged Moscow to focus on fomenting “anti-war movements” that will block the roads and impede the functioning of freely elected parliaments across Europe, and “destabilize the situation in all the countries that dare to act against Russia’s interests.”

Note: this article by Center for European Policy Analysis is about what Russian (propaganda)media is saying, as a mean to analyse what's going on in Putins head.

Also, in light of the implications of the content found in recent leaked US signal app group info, it reaffirms an anti-European sentiment ( Europhobia), which appears to be shared by Moscow.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27351157

Summary

DOGE attempted to fire ICU doctors at the NIH Clinical Center, risking patient safety and prompting backlash from scientists and protesters.

The cuts would have eliminated critical "code blue" cardiac arrest teams, potentially forcing patient airlifts. Protests led DOGE to reverse course and reinstate fired medical staff, lab technicians, and blood bank workers.

However, many senior scientists face unpaid leave as contracts expire, and research is hindered by supply shortages.

Since Elon Musk took control, over 62,000 federal workers have been laid off.

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