Phillips O’Brien’s free weekend update - continuing pessimism about the US and some interesting reporting from a US Senate Hearing (with appropriate links)
#Ukraine #SlavaUkraini #DontBuyAmerican
https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/weekend-update-127-cavoli-testifies?r=1uokdg&utm_medium=ios

Had a serious family discussion about making sure we don't buy American. Looks like we don't do too bad, the only thing we could find was a single tin of Heinz baked beans.....

One of my local cafes has decided it won’t offer Americanos on its menu anymore……
#DontBuyAmerican #CafeRhubarbCrieff
#StandWithCanada
#ElbowsUp

#dontbuyamerican the world will trade without America. Be it so. Can’t wait for #trump going full panic mode. #EU should get #ceta and #Mercosur agreements ratified. That’s the answer we need to give! https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/donald-trump-seine-zoelle-sind-eine-kampfansage-an-die-welt-a-91a8363d-1b4c-40d5-9be1-398badcd0bd0?sara_ref=re-so-app-sh

Used the @FediTips guide to change Masto servers yesterday. The server I was on appears to be hosted in the US. Which was making me increasingly uncomfortable. Whereas this one seems to be hosted elsewhere (Canada). I've been trying to decide on a new server for a while, and recent events just tipped it over.
#FediTips #ElbowsUp #DontBuyAmerican

Think before you shop use local suppliers and ditch Amazon
#binit #supporttheworldeconomy #dontbuyamerican #OutWithTrump #ditchtheyanks

Please don't let your hard earned cash, enter America,send it to countries around the rest of the world and help their own economies.Sit back while the demonic Republicans ruin their own country and economy by alienating everyone else with their right wing fascist policies
#dontbuyamerican #supporttheworldeconomy #OutWithTrump

Always worth remembering, they never intend their children to be exploited in this way. #DontBuyAmerican “To recap, they made the state hostile to immigrants. They deported a bunch of people, or scared people into not coming, or moving out of the state. They exacerbated worker shortages, so now they’re trying to gut child labor protection standards, while at the same time passing a law that would allow them to classify these children and other workers as interns,”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor

Ach, this is just getting so depressing. Phillips O’Brien once again ringing all the alarm bells. Free to read #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini #DontBuyAmerican
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/ukraine-was-just-knifed-in-the-back?utm_medium=ios

Pretty awful reading, but there are clear lessons! If you are resident but not born in the USA - leave. Now. If you are thinking about travelling to the USA - don’t! And oh yes, #DontBuyAmerican ever.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

Given how more people are thinking about how to pivot their consumption away from Amazon and US companies in general, I figure this right be a good time to link a blog post I put together with a list or Australian Friendly Local Game Stores.

https://hobbies.deimos-legion.net/2024/10/25/australian-flgs/

Feel free to post more below, as well as any similar resources for other interests or parts of the world.

More of this please! #Ukraine #DontBuyAmerican #Zelensky #SlavaUkraini #StandWithUkraine #Bulgaria
https://masto.ai/@meduza_en/114121911884223928

The brilliant Marsh Family strike again! #Ukraine #DontBuyAmerican #Zelensky #SlavaUkraini
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pvT3aQjLxdE&feature=shared

And this will just keep happening won’t it? Trump’s demands will continually be ramped up. He’s the ultimate bad faith actor

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini #DontBuyAmerican https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/114108858717772017

So, I can’t work out how to get it from Bluesky to here, but there’s a clip of a Fox interview with Vance where he describes UK & French troops in Ukraine as ‘20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years’.

So much for the non American soldiers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan.

Time to draw up that invoice for military contributions and serve it on USA. If they want transactional politics let’s just do that!

This WWII relic in Crieff takes on a new rather more sombre meaning in these current times #SlavaUkraini #Ukraine #DontBuyAmerican

FFS, Beth Rigby on Sky - Zelensky will have to apologise & maybe resign. I am so sick of the framing of all of this. So disgusting

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini
#DontBuyAmerican
#SkyNews

Phillips O’Brien - blunt as always #Ukraine #StandByUkraine #DontBuyAmerican
https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/just-say-thank-you-and-shut-up?r=1uokdg&utm_medium=ios