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Visitors to the U.S. — including those from visa-free countries such as France, Germany and Britain — would have to submit five years of social media activity before being allowed through the border, according to a proposal by the Trump administration published Wednesday:
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Trump plans to break up the EU by ‘pulling four MAGA allies’ out of the bloc, report claims
Even better, if true.
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What will America look like after 3 more years of Trump?
By Ed Kilgore | Dec 11, 2025
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-will-america-look-like-aft
er-3-more-years-of-trump/ar-AA1SaanA
America could get the full MAGA makeover
Let’s say Trump has the power to do what he wants between now and the end of his second term. What might America look like if he fully succeeds, particularly if his policies are either emulated by state and local Republicans or imposed nationally by Washington?
Some of these likely effects from Trump 2.0 are reversible, but only after much time and effort, and against resistance from the MAGA movement he will leave as his most enduring legacy.
And if Trump bequeaths the presidency to a successor (either a political heir like J.D. Vance or a biological heir like Don Jr.), then what American could look like by 2032 or 2036 is beyond my powers of imagination.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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What will America look like after 3 more years of Trump?
By Ed Kilgore | Dec 11, 2025
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-will-america-look-like-af
ter-3-more-years-of-trump.html
America could get the full MAGA makeover
• A country of millions fewer immigrants, with immigrant-sensitive industries like agriculture, health care, and other services struggling.
• A more regressive system of revenues for financing steadily shrinking public services.
• A fully shredded social-safety net feeding steadily increasing disparities in income and wealth between rich and poor, and old and young, Americans.
• Cities where armed military presence has become routine, particularly during anti-administration protests or prior to key elections.
• Elections conducted solely on Election Day in person, with strict ID requirements and armed election monitors, likely on the scene during vote counting as well.
• A new “deep state" of MAGA-vetted federal employees devoted to carrying out the 47th president’s policies even after he’s long gone.
• A world beset by accelerated climate-change symptoms, particularly violent weather and widespread natural disasters, and a country with no national infrastructure for preventing or mitigating the damage.
• An economy where Al is constantly promoted as a solution to the very problems it creates.
• A scientific and health-care research apparatus driven by conspiracy theories and cultural fads.
• A public-education system hollowed out by private-school subsidies and ideological curriculum mandates.
• And most of all: a debased level of political discourse resembling MMA trash talk more than anything the country has experienced before.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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What will America look like after 3 more years of Trump?
By Ed Kilgore | Dec 11, 2025
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-will-america-look-like-aft
er-3-more-years-of-trump/ar-AA1SaanA
America could get the full MAGA makeover
Good. Fuck you, Ed. Move out of my country.
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Quote:Tough talk from a Joker who spends his day smoking, watching porn, unemployed, and aware that he will die because Medicaid will end for the unemployed, thanks to Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.
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What will America look like after 3 more years of Trump?
By Ed Kilgore | Dec 11, 2025
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-will-america-look-like-aft
er-3-more-years-of-trump/ar-AA1SaanA
America could get the full MAGA makeover
Good. Fuck you, Ed. Move out of my country.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (OBBBA), which became law on July 4, 2025, requires states to implement Medicaid work requirements for many able-bodied adults, including those who are unemployed, starting in January 2027. This change, along with other cuts, is projected to result in a significant number of people nationwide losing coverage, potentially impacting tens of thousands in Indiana.
Specific Impacts on Indiana
• Work Requirements: Starting January 2027 (or potentially earlier if the state receives a federal waiver), most Medicaid expansion enrollees in Indiana ages 19-64 who are not exempt must work, volunteer, or participate in work-related activities for at least 80 hours per month.
• Potential Coverage Loss: While many current Medicaid enrollees already work, individuals who are unemployed and do not meet the work requirements or qualify for an exemption (e.g., parents of a child under 14, medically frail individuals, pregnant women) could lose their coverage.
• State Funding Challenges: The OBBBA caps or limits the use of certain state funding mechanisms, such as provider taxes, which Indiana uses to fund its share of the Medicaid program (Healthy Indiana Plan, or HIP). This could force the state to make further eligibility rollbacks or service cuts to balance its budget.
• Increased Administrative Burden: The law also increases paperwork and eligibility verification requirements, such as requiring redeterminations every six months for expansion populations (instead of annually), which can lead to eligible individuals losing coverage due to administrative errors or missed notifications.
• State Efforts: Indiana lawmakers had already passed state-level legislation earlier in 2025 seeking to impose work requirements, but federal law has set the effective date for these specific federal mandates for 2027.
The law does not automatically "end" Medicaid for all unemployed individuals in Indiana, as certain exemptions and waiver possibilities exist, but it does establish stricter rules and financial pressures that make it more difficult for unemployed Hoosiers to maintain coverage.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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What will America look like after 3 more years of Trump?
By Ed Kilgore | Dec 11, 2025
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-will-america-look-like-aft
er-3-more-years-of-trump/ar-AA1SaanA
America could get the full MAGA makeover
Good. Fuck you, Ed. Move out of my country.
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The US Is Looking More Like Putin’s Russia Every Day
We may already be on a superhighway to the sort of class- and race-stratified autocracy that it took Russia so many years to become after the Soviet Union collapsed.
By Andrea Mazzarino | Dec 11, 2025
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/putin-russia-trump-autocracy/
It’s strange so many years later, in the United States of America, to feel as if I’m living in a country threatening to become like the Russia of Vladimir Putin that I spent years experiencing earlier in this century. To start, let me tell you a little something about that.
For decades as a young adult, I lived and traveled in Russia. I was an anthropology doctoral student and human rights worker, studying the effects of President Vladimir Putin’s centralizing policies and that country’s Christian nationalist media on the everyday lives of Russians. In one of my last projects, I investigated the government’s practice of separating kids with disabilities (and poorer kids generally) from their parents and detaining them in closed institutions. My report detailed how much changes in society when the government excludes swaths of the population from basic services like healthcare, education, and even just access to city streets. The answer? Everything.
That marginalization was part of a governing process aimed at further enriching the wealthiest few and those in power. It reflected the leadership of figures lacking a basic understanding of what all people need and deserve. I consider that a hallmark of a fascist regime.
One of my last evenings in Russia was a chilly November night in 2014 in the northern city of St. Petersburg. Mothers and children, grandparents and teenagers alike stepped with care to avoid slipping on black ice and bumping into (and possibly falling thanks to) large plastic advertisements for fast food, clothing, cosmetic dentistry, plastic surgery, and even IVF treatments sticking up like weeds on the cobblestoned sidewalks of the city’s center.
Those glowing placards seemed to replace what had once been a slew of different kinds of people when I first traveled to Russia as a college student in the late 1990s. In the same central train stations of that city, old women then sold carrots and beets from cardboard boxes they had lugged from their country homes. Young women could sometimes be seen in bikinis and stiletto heels (even in that weather!) with beer advertisements scrawled across their chests. Uzbek and Tajik men scrambled to finish construction on new stores, restaurants, and apartment buildings before winter set in. Roma mothers, their babies strapped to their backs in jewel-toned scarves, begged for money for food and housing.
Sometimes, when traffic grew too congested for their liking, Russia’s newly rich—aptly dubbed “New Russians” in the country’s popular press—drove their luxury Mercedes and BMWs onto the sidewalks, forcing pedestrians like me, along with mothers pushing strollers and a few wind-worn men and women hurrying to work, to scatter in panic. Despite the chaos and a significant amount of deprivation (more on that later), for many I met then, much seemed possible, including working for ever larger companies, migration, and new luxuries. Electronic remixes of Western songs like “If I Were a Rich Girl” and Cher’s “Believe” blasted from vendors’ tinny sounding boom boxes on repeat.
By the time of my last trip to Russia in 2014, however, shiny buildings had been built, older ones renovated, and developers with close ties to Russia’s political elite were even richer, thanks to the country’s growing oil wealth. Roma (or gypsy) families were no longer anywhere to be seen, as St. Petersburg’s government had conducted “purges” of the city’s informal Roma settlements. Nor were old women selling their wares on the streets, while Central Asian migrants from poorer countries to Russia’s south seemed ever fewer and less visible during the busiest times. Indeed, local authorities were rounding them up and detaining them without warrants, based on ap
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You did that. Pat yourself on the back.
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October 15, 1948
10 Nazis Executed For Murdering U.S. Fliers During War
By United Press
LANDSBERG, Germany, Oct. 15. — Ten German war criminals were hanged here today, seven for the murder of American fliers who were shot down over Germany during the war and three for atrocities at the Flossenburg Concentration Camp.
The executions were carried out in the Landsberg Prison courtyard where Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf after the Munich Putsch.
Clemencies Denied
All were convicted in United States Army trials at Dachua. Their appeals for clemency were denied.
The executions took an hour and 40 minutes, with all the Nazis protesting their innocence.
They brought to 52 the number of lesser Nazis executed here.
One Nazi, a former Gestapo chief, screamed, “You murderers,” to the Americans.
An ironic note was added when American jet-propelled planes from nearby American bases screamed overhead as the men went to their deaths.
Shouts From Gallows
He shouted from the gallows platform, as the noose was adjusted, that his final petition for clemency had not been acted upon.
“I did my duty as a German soldier when I killed American terror fliers who murdered German women and children,” he cried.
His shouts were cut off as the trap was sprung.
Jan Akkerman, former Mayor of Borkum Island off the north coast of Germany, who was executed for inciting his townspeople to attack seven American fliers, died shouting that his execution was an act of revenge by the victorious Americans.
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-borkum-island-massacre-a
nd-trial/
https://newspaperarchive.com/the-lima-news-oct-15-1948-p-1/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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