Monthly Archive: February, 2017

New Post has been published on https://truckfump.life/2017/02/01/washington-a-secretive-chinese-company-with/ WASHINGTON — A secretive Chinese company with deep ties to the country’s Communist Party has become one of the biggest foreign investors in the United States over the past year, snapping up American firms in a string of multibillion-dollar deals. But it is one of its smaller deals that is apparently stalling the...

New Post has been published on https://truckfump.life/2017/02/01/the-atrocity-you-witnessed-tuesday-nightthe/ The atrocity you witnessed Tuesday night—the president of the United States setting it up to appear as though he was summoning in two esteemed jurists for a Bachelor-style rose ceremony in prime time—isn’t just another shiny object meant to distract you from Steve Bannon, or from the Muslim high-schooler who has been detained...

New Post has been published on https://truckfump.life/2017/02/01/its-clear-that-trump-doesnt-intend-to-reassure/ It’s clear that Trump doesn’t intend to reassure people right now as much as stun them. In line with reports that Jeff Sessions and others recommended he take a shock-and-awe approach to his first weeks, Trump appears to be taking an approach of bombardment followed by invasion. When you’re pounding the positions of...

New Post has been published on https://truckfump.life/2017/02/01/the-trump-administration-has-drafted-an-executive/ The Trump administration has drafted an executive order that would change the way H-1B visas are used. H-1Bs are widely used in the tech industry to hire foreign workers. (via Trump may soon sign executive order re-vamping H-1B visa program | Ars Technica)

New Post has been published on https://truckfump.life/2017/02/01/3511/

New Post has been published on https://truckfump.life/2017/02/01/thecuriousviolet-secret-soup/ thecuriousviolet: secret-soup: angstriddentrashhuman: I honestly did not expect our national park service to be so fucking savage. THE PARK SERVICE GOIN IN FOR THE KILL

New Post has been published on https://truckfump.life/2017/02/01/weavemama-its-time-for-that/ weavemama: IT’S 👏🏾 TIME 👏🏾 FOR 👏🏾 THAT 👏🏾 IMPEACHMENT 👏🏾

New Post has been published on https://truckfump.life/2017/02/01/sootonthecarpet-lets-lets-not-call-donald/ sootonthecarpet: lets. lets not call donald trump ‘fuhrer trump’. im not saying this bc of the “is comparing donald trump to hitler minimizing the holocaust” discussion that we were having in early 2016 because i don’t think that rhetoric is relevant any more, at this point historical context is very important, but holy shit, please...