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PStott

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Is Trump bringing back industry to the USA?

Will Trump impose high tariffs on foreign cryptos?

Should crypto-miners join a Union?

You all know that, when it's all over, cryptocurrency will return to the dust it wasn't made of. But your aquifer will have been pumped dry.

Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 17h

From @candicebernd.bsky.social in our magazine: A Texas Observer analysis found since 2021, at least 60 cryptomines have been developed or are under construction in at least 33 counties statewide. Experts worry our grid, and water supply, can't handle the load.

Crypto's Cryptic Texas Takeover

State regulators don't want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price.

www.texasobserver.org

November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM

PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

So many Americans in Red States have cooked their brains in Fahrenheit.

Trump is fanning the fire

November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM

PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

Strong agree George !!

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

The government has STILL not cleared out the highly partisan decision-makers imposed on the BBC by the Tories. Starmer and co are so amazingly spineless and feeble.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak

Director general under pressure after release of memo criticising reporting on Trump, trans rights and Gaza

www.theguardian.com

November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

Yes.
Read it through
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(see above)

S.V. Dáte @svdate.bsky.social · 3d

Your homework for this Friday night:

1) Read his answers out loud.
2) Tell me he's not out of his mind.

November 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM

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PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

Red States be cooking in Fahrenheit.

November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM

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PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

It's all in the Alt Text.
Please have a read.
It will astound you.
He is a moron.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 2d

#Alt4You
Originally posted by @svdate.bsky.social
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QUESTION:
Mr. President, yesterday in the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roberts said that tariffs are taxes and that they're paid by Americans. He said this pretty clearly, and yet you're saying that this money is rolling in from other countries. How do you square those two?
DONALD TRUMP:
It is -- it's coming in because they've charged us -- you know, those same countries that you talk about are charging us massive amounts of money. If you look at the tariffs over the years that were put on our heads, there's a reason we're $38 trillion owed. Now that money is going to start coming down. But we have presidents that didn't know how to use tariffs. We had presidents that had no understanding of business. But if you take a look at what's happened to us, every country charges tariffs. China, the European Union was brutal. They charge us tariffs, not only tariffs, they charge us tariffs so we couldn't sell cars here. We couldn't sell our product. They didn't want our agriculture; they didn't want our cars.
Now they're taking our cars and now they're taking our agriculture, you know far more than money. It really is a defensive mechanism. If we didn't have tariffs, we would be unable to defend ourselves.
QUESTION:
So, do you agree then that Americans are paying those tariffs?
DONALD TRUMP:
I think -- no, I don't agree. I think that they might be paying something, but when you take the overall impact, the Americans are gaining tremendously. They're gaining through national security. Look, I'm ending war because of these tariffs, Americans would have to fight in some of these wars. They're gaining in national security. They're gaining in economics. They're gaining in so many different ways and they're gaining in self-respect for our own country. Other countries used to laugh at us. They would charge us --Japan was charging us massive tariffs and yet they wouldn't allow our cars to be sold in Japan. But they were selling 9 million cars here, but they

wouldn't allow one car. Not one car was sold in Japan. They don't laugh at us anymore. This is really a matter of -- this is national security. And by the way, going bankrupt is national security. You know, our country was really in trouble. Going bankrupt and the difference between going bankrupt and thriving, that's also national security. When you go bankrupt, when you don't have any money, you have no national security and we are thriving. I mean all this money coming into our country that I told you about, the $17 trillion as of now, but it's going up rapidly. I was in Japan and we have --Toyota is coming in with $10 billion to build plants operated by Americans, but building plants all over the United States. Well, they left -- they took our plants. They sold cars in here without tariffs. They sold cars; we didn't charge them anything. They destroyed our auto industry. We lost 50 percent, 54 percent of our auto industry to other. We used to -- if you go back into the '30s and '40s, we had 100 percent of the automobile business, then it started getting chopped away. But Mexico, Canada, many countries -- | mean, Canada fought us very hard. The ones that don't want us to win are foreign countries that we are able now to do very well with. Those are the ones that fight it, those and maybe people that hate our country. I think it's the most important case maybe in the history of our country.

November 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM

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PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

This.

noids @noids.bsky.social · 1d

November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM

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Mark Lemley

@marklemley.bsky.social

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

electrek.co

November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM

PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

This.

noids @noids.bsky.social · 1d

November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM

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beornblack.bsky.social

@beornblack.bsky.social

$The MSC Ruby is almost ready to leave Felixstowe. Seven remote-controlled gantry cranes are still at work, stacking containers in the ship’s bays. Some 11,000 containers pass through this port each day, making it Britain’s primary conduit to the arteries of global trade. The Ruby’s next call is Gran Canaria—then, the long run down the coast of Africa. Watching the scene, Adam Gibson, the lone police officer at the port whose job is finding stolen cars, sounds rueful: “There’s no way in hell I can search even a small fraction of them. We could be standing here now and there could be three or four boxes of stolen cars just there in those stacks. They could be manifested as teddy bears.” Without many people noticing Britain has become a leading exporter of stolen goods. In the past decade the number of vehicles stolen in the country has risen by 75%. Most end up on container ships; the top destination is west Africa. More recently London has become known as the “phone-snatching capital of Europe”. If the victims manage to track their devices, the goods are most likely to turn up in China. British farmers are plagued by raiding gangs. Their tractors and GPS kits usually head east, to Russia or eastern Europe. For centuries criminals have nicked valuable products and smuggled them across borders, beyond the reach of the law. Britain today shows how this model has evolved in new and alarming ways. Encrypted communications have enabled criminal gangs to operate and co-operate more freely than ever before, and establish global supply chains. As countries in Africa and Asia have become richer, demand for the products common on the streets of the rich world is growing. This combination has spawned a flourishing criminal enterprise. Call it Grand Theft Global Inc.$

Britain is a “perfect place” for this business, says Elijah Glantz of RUSI, a think-tank, because of its saturated consumer market and weak export controls. There are lots of expensive cars and phones to steal, and it is easy to get them away. There is also almost no deterrent: Britain’s police solve only 5% of crimes (and 2% of vehicle thefts). In continental Europe and America such criminal enterprise is growing, too, though America has stronger scrutiny of exports due to fear of fraud and tax evasion. Canada has been hit by a rash of vanishing vehicles. But for now, Britain has the dubious title of world leader. “The UK sees itself as a recipient of criminality, not an exporter,” says Mr Glantz.
Cars show how the model has evolved. Like other rich countries, Britain experienced a sharp drop in vehicle crime in the 1990s, thanks to immobilisers and other technology. In 2013 Britain had only 2.7 thefts for every 1,000 privately owned cars, according to RUSI. Now it is 4.4. Thefts have risen from 90,000 in 2020 to 130,000 last year. That has fed into a 45% real-terms rise in the cost of car insurance (in the EU it has risen only in line with inflation). Vehicle crime is “my number-one issue”, says Dan Tomlinson, the Labour MP for Chipping Barnet, a leafy north London suburb.

The method is typically as follows. To defeat sophisticated security systems, thieves use specialised equipment. Once in, they mask the car with fake number plates and use jammers to override GPS tracking. Then they move it, usually across county lines (collaboration between police forces is often poor), where it will be sold to a group that handles logistics. Sometimes the car is hidden in a shipment of other goods, under a false manifest. More often, the gang employs a third group to give the car a “new identity”—not only paperwork but markers including the vehicle identification number, a unique code stamped on the chassis.
Uncontained
This whole process—from theft to container—often takes less than a day. That is partly because Grand Theft Global Inc is not one outfit but a sophisticated supply chain. It is also lucrative. Consider a Toyota Hilux, which when new costs around £40,000 ($54,000). The group that steals one might be paid £1,500 for a night’s work. If another gets it to west Africa, where Hiluxes are sought after, they can sell it for more than it fetches in Britain.
In his large inspection tent at Felixstowe, Mr Gibson provides a guided tour. The cars are all shiny SUVs, though most have been dented by ratchet straps (the thieves don’t mind because that can be fixed cheaply at the other end). Shelves are piled with engines, batteries and sundry parts from cars taken to a “chop shop”, a freelance operator who will break them up without asking questions. Some are literally sawn into thirds. Gangs have also begun to target rental companies using fake documents. On the day your correspondent visits, Mr Gibson opens a container, following a tip-off. Inside is a Porsche 911 Carrera S that was rented in Germany two weeks ago: somehow it has found its way into a box in Britain, bound for Africa.

Between 2021 and 2024 almost four in ten stolen cars intercepted at Britain’s ports were heading for the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS). The DRC seems to be acting as an entry point to a wider African market. One in five was heading for the United Arab Emirates. From there gangs reach customers across the Gulf. Most thefts in Canada follow the same two routes. Buyers largely want SUVs that can handle poor roads. Increasingly, however, the elite also want sports cars, which often stick out on the streets of Kinshasa (not least because many are right-hand-drive). Sometimes, says Mr Gibson, thieves seem to work to an “order”.
Grand Theft Global Inc works in a similar way for phones. Some 70,000 phones were stolen in London last year, a rise of more than a third on the year before. Britain accounts for 40% of the stolen phones in Europe. As with cars, low-level thieves sell them on to a fence (a thief might get £100-200 for one that is unlocked, or £30-60 for one that isn’t). Again, third-party services have popped up, such as shops that specialise in overcoming security features. Large batches of phones are then wrapped in tinfoil to prevent tracking, and exported, often via container ships.

August 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM

PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

It's all in the Alt Text.
Please have a read.
It will astound you.
He is a moron.

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 2d

#Alt4You
Originally posted by @svdate.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/svda...

November 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM

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Dyke Spiegel

@cowgirlshebop.bsky.social

This spineless fucking dinosaur.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 3d

DEMS SIMPLE PROPOSAL:
A simple one year extension of existing ACA tax credits
Re-open the government
Establish committee to continue negotiations for long-term lower healthcare costs

November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM

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George Monbiot

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

The government has STILL not cleared out the highly partisan decision-makers imposed on the BBC by the Tories. Starmer and co are so amazingly spineless and feeble.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak

Director general under pressure after release of memo criticising reporting on Trump, trans rights and Gaza

www.theguardian.com

November 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM

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BladeoftheSun

@bladeofthes.bsky.social

Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA.

It has made JD Vance very mad.

It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?

November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM

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PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

Yes it's insane.
Maybe American brains are fried because they are cooked in Fahrenheit?

November 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑

@50501movement.bsky.social

Chuck Schumer doing what he does best: folding to Trump’s authoritarian regime and failing the American people. You’d think after last week, he’d understand the moment we’re in and the leverage he has. He must be replaced as leader immediately, and the out-of-touch corporate old guard needs to go.

Deal to end government shutdown in reach

At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.

www.axios.com

November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM

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PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

Oh, America

Just do something.

November 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM

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PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

Spot on.

Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’

Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

www.theguardian.com

November 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM

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PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

"take from the BIG BAD Insurance Companies"

How does the average US citizen act upon this advice?

November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM

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Brent Toderian

@brenttoderian.bsky.social

According to this ranking, Canada’s reputation has improved since 2024. We are now the 2nd most reputable country in the world.

The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…

List of countries with the best reputation, showing change between 2024 and 2025.

November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM

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PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

There are too many low-mileage mint-condition fondue sets in charity shops and attics.
Yes indeed, let's start cooking.

Patrick Meier, PhD @patrickmeier.bsky.social · 23d

No Kings, Swiss edition 🇨🇭

November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM

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PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

🤣 Lovely wee thread from @patrickmeier.bsky.social .
I've bookmarxed it.

Patrick Meier, PhD @patrickmeier.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite stories about Mamdani’s father, who was jailed during the civil rights march in Montgomery in 1965:

Weeks after he got out, the FBI paid him a visit. They asked why he was at the march, and who had influenced him. An hour into the interrogation, they asked, “Do you like Marx?”

🧵

November 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM

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PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

Progress!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM

PStott

@peterstott.bsky.social

Progress!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM

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tiago

@tiagocharters.nexp.pt

Wait. For. It.

November 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM

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