From military contracts to “Spotify-verified” AI-generated bands, via price hikes and artists speaking out against the platform as “the worst thing that has happened to musicians”, it’s not as if users were at a loss for reasons to ditch the Swedish company.

Now, they’ve got a new one, as subscribers are boycotting the streamer for running a series of recruitment ads courtesy of ICE – the controversial US government agency responsible for carrying out Donald Trump’s policy for mass detention and deportation.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/binance-and-ceo-plead-guilty-federal-charges-4b-resolution

Trump: "Kamala supports criminals. She supports crime. Have you seen how she looks?"

Americans: "I agree. Look at her... I want Trump"

Fucking hell man. The fuck is wrong with these people

"Thank you Trump. No more food stamps for those who are hungry. You are unemployed? If you don't work for a corporation, you should die. Collecting data is useless. Jesus didn't collect data. We are lucky we didn't get that STUPID black woman"

- Average american voter

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ending-america-hunger-report-snap-cuts-750f90757f50ab2d8bc97dfca5a917dd

The number of Canadian residents returning from trips to the United States declined again in August, dropping to 2.9 million trips or a 29.7 per cent decrease from a year ago, according to the latest monthly travel data from Statistics Canada.

While the number of trips to Canada by U.S. residents was also down in August, decreasing 1.4 per cent from 2024 to 3.2 million trips, there were more U.S. residents travelling north of the border than Canadian residents travelling south.

https://archive.ph/DrHqk

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/mike-johnson-israel-west-bank

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-speaker-says-west-bank-belongs-to-jews-by-right-in-settlement-visit/

"We have guns. That means our politicians respect us. We are not lapdogs like Canadians or Europeans"

Yeah. About that...

https://apnews.com/article/patrick-morrisey-west-virginia-legislation-lobbying-corporate-management-ab64cfca24f790aa775b8f52a64c924f

"Why didn't the media didn't tell us that Donald Trump was a bad man?"

"The media should have warned us. The media are so evil"

I can't take it anymore... I just can't...

THEY FUCKING WARNED YOU. YOU JUST WOULDN'T LISTEN

👉👉👉https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/25/opinion/what-trump-says.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s08.2I5H.bVc2MAVB2qDe 👈👈👈

You weren't worried when Donald Trump was found guilty of sexual abuse ?

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/09/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-lawsuit-battery-defamation-verdict

You weren't worried when the US army said his team pushed people at Arlington's National Cemetery ?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arlington-national-cemetery-donald-trump-campaign-dispute/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/army-releases-report-trump-campaign-incident-arlington-cemetery-rcna23566

You weren't worried when he said "Haitians in Ohio are eating dogs, they are eating cats" despite NO EVIDENCE that they did any of that ?

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/no-evidence-haitian-immigrants-stealing-eating-pets-ohio-2024-09-10/

You weren't worried when he said Jews would be to blame if he lost ?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/19/trump-blames-jews-election-loss/

You weren't worried when he refused to pay his contractors ?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/

You weren't worried when he told a campaign rally that the golfer Arnold Palmer had a HUGE penis?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rally-arnold-palmer-comment-b2632457.html

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-arnold-palmer-comments-baffle-1971769

80% of the media organizations did their job seriously.

I blame the voters.

Looking for an alt Mastodon instance that's:

• Outside of US
• Good uptime
• Well-moderated (no nazis, TERFs, scammers etc)
• General purpose/topics
• Not subject to privacy invasion and censorship

Ketchup will be thrown at walls tonight.

...a sudden drop in infant genital mutilation in the USA.

I can't see any reason whatsoever for avoiding the Plague States of America.