Look what turns 40 today …

February 21, 1986 ... Elvis Costello proves there's only one king of America. T Bone Burnett helps out co-producing and Elvis takes us down some new roads. There's more acoustic stuff as well as tinges of R&B, roots rock and a new thing called "Americana." Some call King of America among Elvis Costello's best. #elviscostello #kingofamerica #80smusic #80srock #rockabilly #RnB #americana #rootsrock #music #musicsky #musiciansky #rockmusic

http://robinbannks.com/2026/02/21/king-of-america/

Look what turns 40 today …

February 21, 1986 … Elvis Costello proves there’s only one king of America. T Bone Burnett helps out co-producing and Elvis takes us down some new roads. There’s more acoustic stu…

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@DerEmil
Fehlt noch #KingOfAmerica 😒

Let them eat nothing and starve to death while I corruptly profit from the presidency sure is a the most supreme white christian nationalist oligarch authoritarian autocratic way to treat Americans whom you work for as their leader.

I’m sure he won’t lose any votes of people who can afford to respect him with lavish praise and financial tribute. It would be a real shame if something happened to them.

#CorruptFraud
#CriminalPresident
#KingOfAmerica
#FuckYourConstitution
#AmericanFascism https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ur46cint3yxztzj42q4aqxjn/post/3m3s2ikb3622n

Karly Kingsley (@karlykingsley.bsky.social)

He bulldozed the White House during a government shutdown to build himself a ballroom, then sent a letter to the states saying that SNAP benefits for 42 million people may not go out in November to those who rely on it to eat.

Bluesky Social

All sides…

Fascists are coming for you. Speech costs you whatever they say.

One man, anointed above law, Chosen by a god of the supreme white Christian nationalists to rule as dictator king of Citizens United States.

#KingOfAmerica
#DeathToDemocracy https://www.axios.com/2025/10/08/zach-bryan-ice-lyric-bad-news-dhs

DHS escalates fight over Zach Bryan's controversial ICE lyric

DHS and the White House have criticized and mocked Bryan over the song.

Axios

All Universities are now Trump University…

Or else.

Would be a real shame if something were to happen to those endowments and funding.

#KingOfAmerica
#Extortion
#Shakedown
#DeathToDemocracy
https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/115335511270476483

Miguel Afonso Caetano (@[email protected])

"On Wednesday, the Trump White House sent a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” to nine top U.S. universities. The memo offers these institutions a devil’s bargain: In exchange for a promise of preferential access to federal grants, universities must follow the administration’s dictates on admissions, tuition, grading, student discipline, campus speech and protest rules, faculty and staff hiring, athletics, and many other domains that go far beyond federal law. Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would give up its legal rights and would forever be subservient to the whims of the government. If the Justice Department decides that a signatory violated the vague terms of the agreement, that university would be forced to return all federal money it received in that year — along with any private donations at donor request. The government may not use its funding to compel speech or to force recipients to give up their constitutional rights. As faculty members at two of the universities that were reportedly “invited” to sign the initiative, we would personally benefit from the promises it makes. Both of us have received federal funding to support our research and the training of future scientists. But we strongly encourage all universities — including our own — to reject this “Compact” or any future version of it." https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-compact-universities-colleges-free-speech-rcna236003 #USA #Trump #Universities #HigherEd #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom

tldr.nettime

"The average rate that the richest Americans pay, they find, sits at just 24%. That number has fallen markedly in recent years and will remain low for the foreseeable future, thanks to Donald Trump."

#Corruption #Greed #Capitalism #DirtyPoliticians #Dictatorship #KingOfAmerica #EatTheRich #DeposeKingTrump

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/08/billionaire-tax-study/683987/

How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes

A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the <em>Forbes</em> 400.

The Atlantic
#News #Rapist47 will engage in a #war no matter where or with whom but #Putin
He knows he is just a final step to become de real facto #KingofAmerica
Under MAGA dictatorship satire is against the law of Trump #KingOfAmerica
https://mastodon.social/@mattotcha/114993029100336515

So is the personal 747 jumbo jet just that - a gift to the individual, like say an emolument? Will there be a tax or tariff to pay?

Or is it a donation to US government to be used by a supposed future “president” — that won’t ever happen now that we have abandoned democracy in favor of an authoritarian dictatorship theocracy with sham illegitimate rigged elections just like Russia?

#KingOfAmerica
#DeathToDemocray