That's one small step for mankind, one giant leap for a man

submitted by Markie84 to boycottus
32 points | 7 comments

It’s finally happened. After 14 years, over 700 consecutive days of daily use and 12,040 comments, I’ve deleted my Reddit account.

Another step away from US tech giants, and further into the Fediverse.

Even small steps count, so I can only encourage everyone to look around their own little world to see what alternatives there are to US…

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In Delaware, Corporations Can Now Vote. Are We Insane?

submitted by streetfestival to boycottus
9 points | 0 comments
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporations-can-vote-in-delaware

Seriously. Not dystopian science fiction or a new novel by an AI version of George Orwell. Actual corporations — what America’s first Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall, in 1819 called “an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in…

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Please stop coming to our soccer matches. We don't watch soccer.

submitted by imhungry to boycottus
5 points | 13 comments

Everything else aside, we do not call soccer football. Instead, ‘football’ is what we call the worst and most boring and most physically injurious sport in the entire world, known to you as American Football.

Please don’t come here only to get shot downtown trying to watch a sport we don’t care about over here.

I know this topic has…

8 Congressional Democrats Vote To Defund Schools That Support Trans People

submitted by streetfestival to boycottus
91 points | 28 comments
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/8-congressional-democrats-vote-to

On Tuesday, May 19, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2616, the “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act,” by a vote of 217-198. The bill would hand the Trump administration enormous leverage to strip federal funding from any school that “teaches or advances…

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Major Studios Slam Canada For Slapping “Discriminatory Investment Obligations” on U.S. Streamers

submitted by ZDL to boycottus
20 points | 4 comments
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/major-studios-canada-us-streamers-discriminatory-investment-1236603995/

General comment: You’d prefer we simply ban your content? 'Cause we can do that if you’d prefer. It’s not as if … Well, let’s move to a specific comment to finish that sentence.

“this burdensome framework unfairly…

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The FCC Wants to Rate LGBTQ as Obscene

submitted by streetfestival to boycottus
87 points | 9 comments
https://skepchick.org/2026/05/the-fcc-wants-to-rate-lgbtq-as-obscene/

But Trump’s FCC has decided that this system is no longer working for them. Last month, they released a public notice announcing that they would like to force the TVOMB to change their ratings. Why?

“Recently, parents have raised concerns that controversial…

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MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

submitted by streetfestival to boycottus
38 points | 11 comments
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-mobile-t1-phone-scandal-1795914

Nearly 600,000 Trump supporters paid £74 ($100) each towards a gold smartphone that, nearly a year on, does not exist.

The Trump Mobile T1 phone was announced in June 2025 by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump as a patriotic alternative to Apple and Samsung,…

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Flightradar24 Alternatives

submitted by dudesss to boycottus
13 points | 1 comments

Many of these are USA based. But I’m not sure where else to dump them lol.

Flight

opensky-network.org

github.com/woheller69/planeSpotter

apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/eu.darken.apl

github.com/d4rken-org/airplanes-live-app

www.adsbexchange.com

opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org

Trains

trackyourtransit.com

Marine

www.…

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US adding firing squads, electrocution and gassing to federal execution methods

submitted by streetfestival to boycottus
36 points | 4 comments
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/justice-department-readopts-firing-squads-us-federal-executions-2026-04-24/

April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it…

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Trump says U.S. has seized Iranian-flagged cargo ship near Strait of Hormuz

submitted by Reannlegge to boycottus
21 points | 3 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/strait-of-hormuz-blocked-peace-talks-9.7169599

Trump on social media said the ship was warned by a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer in the Gulf of Oman to stop, but it did not. He said the Navy “stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engineroom” and that U.S. marines had custody of…

Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa”

submitted by streetfestival to boycottus
122 points | 19 comments
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/14/facebook-instagram-antifa-censor/

If “antifa” is mentioned in the context of “references to historical or recent incidents of violence” — a category so sprawling that it includes “historic wars” and “battles” — that post will also be penalized. Should Meta apply this rule as written, the…

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U.S. Senate blocks bid to restrict Trump's ability to continue military action in Iran

submitted by Reannlegge to boycottus
25 points | 5 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/conflict-with-iran-9.7109761

The Latest

  • Israel and the U.S. launched a new wave of strikes on Iran on Wednesday, prompting more missiles and drones fired from Tehran toward Israel.

  • Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to give an update on Canada’s response to the situation in…

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Canadians Are Boycotting US Ski Slopes

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114 points | 12 comments
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/canadian-skiers-skip-us-mountain-resorts-this-season-thanks-to-trump

As of Jan. 22, Canadian bookings to American resorts for winter arrival were down about 41%, compared to just a 5% drop among US customers, according to industry tracker Inntopia.

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