United States | News & Politics

4015 readers

99 users here now

Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

No memes/pics of text

Post news related to the United States.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

simsymbiote@midwest.social

Type1@midwest.social

exposingfash@midwest.social

701

US medical equipment company Stryker says cyberattack disrupted its global networks (apnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

CNN - Pro-Iran hackers claim cyberattack on major US medical device maker

Bloomberg

TechCrunch - Pro-Iran hacktivist group says it is behind attack on medical tech giant Stryker

702

Meet the man pledging to donate $16 million to help Minneapolis residents pay rent post-ICE surge (www.startribune.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

John Wilson grew up as a renter before his biotech company took off. Now he wants to help people struggling after Operation Metro Surge.

gift link — uses URL shortener because lemmy removes the gift token from the URL

703

Republican says he lied about racist posts on porn site to protect Trump (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

3 comments fedilink

Mark Robinson, who ran for North Carolina governor in 2024, tells podcast he had ‘obsession’ with porn and sex

704

Once again, ULA can't deliver when the US military needs a satellite in orbit (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

705

Trump's team game planning for potential Iran peace talks (www.axios.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

706

Trump threatens to deploy ICE agents to airports Monday if funding deal isn’t reached (www.cnn.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

707

Elon Musk offers to pay the salaries of TSA agents as Trump threatens to replace them with ICE (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

https://archive.ph/4jlTM

708

‘I’m glad he’s dead’: Trump reacts to death of ex-FBI chief Robert Mueller, 81 (www.france24.com)

submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

9 comments fedilink

Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who led the investigation into alleged Russian interference in US President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, has died aged 81. The veteran prosecutor, long seen as a bipartisan figure, drew a sharply divisive response from Trump, who said he was “glad he’s dead” in a post on social media.

709

Why craft-lovers are losing their craft (writings.hongminhee.org)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

710

Heatwave scorching US west ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis, say scientists | Unseasonably warm and even dangerous temperatures this week were up to 30F above average for the time of year (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

711

Senator Launches Investigation Into Methane Pollution in the Permian Basin (insideclimatenews.org)

submitted 1 month ago by wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

712

Ray Dalio warns a brutal ‘final battle’ for the Strait of Hormuz is coming—and losing could end the American empire (fortune.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

https://archive.ph/d3LRj

713

Top Trump Fema official claims to have teleported to a Waffle House before. (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by btaf45@midwest.social to c/usa@midwest.social

20 comments fedilink

714

Graphics show the scale of extreme heat hitting the US (apnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

715

'Multiple waves' of unauthorized drones recently spotted over strategic US Air Force base (abcnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

716

Wall Street dreads economic catastrophe as Trump guardrails erode: 'What is he doing?' (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

717

CBS News will end radio service, cut jobs as Bari Weiss seeks revival (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

https://archive.today/1dP6u

“Today, we informed our CBS News Radio team and approximately 700 affiliated stations that we will end the service on May 22, 2026,” wrote Weiss and Cibrowski, who have led the network since parent company Paramount Skydance acquired Weiss’s online publication, the Free Press, in October and named Weiss editor in chief. “Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.”

718

Thousands ordered to evacuate as Oahu floods put dam at imminent risk of failure (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

719

Trump says he mulls 'winding down' the Iran war, even as more Marines head to Mideast (www.npr.org)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

720

Prosecutors ask for charges against two officers involved in Breonna Taylor killing to be dropped (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

Taylor, 26, was shot to death by police when they broke down the door of her apartment while serving a no-knock drug warrant looking for a former boyfriend who no longer lived there

721

Critics Blast Fed Panel Decision to Mint Trump Gold Coin for US 250th Anniversary Celebration (truthout.org)

submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

8 comments fedilink

The US Mint is generally prohibited from producing coins featuring living public figures or presidents.

722

U.S. services prepare to receive F-35 jets without radars (defence-industry.eu)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

U.S. services also preparing to receive tanks with no turrets and trucks with no engines, for the time being. Temporary setbacks!

Damn the rest of the world is so jealous of our F35s!

723

Budgeting Scolds Are Gaslighting Struggling Americans (jacobin.com)

submitted 1 month ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/usa@midwest.social

1 comments fedilink

724

First American Pope Urges Nations To Provide Universal Healthcare (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/usa@midwest.social

0 comments fedilink

725

A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

4 comments fedilink

Congressman Jim Himes claims a sweeping surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by Kash Patel's FBI, according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260320205610/https://www.wired.com/story/a-top-democrat-is-urging-colleagues-to-support-trumps-spy-machine/