Tootfinder

Trump keeps winning:
US embassy tells all Americans to leave Iraq immediately after Iran managed to hit its air defence system in Baghdad. Overland, because the country's airspace is closed.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/united-stat

U.S. Embassy Urges Americans To Leave Iraq
The U.S. embassy in Baghdad was struck by an overnight missile attack.

Reid Hoffman and Lever for Change award $9M to CalMatters to scale its Digital Democracy tools, which give access to legislative data and use AI for analysis (Lever for Change)
https://leverforchange.org/article/press-release/trust-in-americ…

The Trust in American Institutions Challenge Awards $9 Million to CalMatters to Build Trust in U.S. Institutions - Lever for Change
Chicago, IL, April 14, 2026 – Reid Hoffman and Lever for Change have awarded $9 million to CalMatters through The Trust in American Institutions Challenge, an open call…

I don’t have anything to carry around for this. Do you? https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbie-warns-americans-must-be-prepared-to-prove-citizenship/

ICE Barbie Warns Americans Must Be Prepared to Prove Citizenship
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem defended ICE agents as tensions escalate in Minneapolis.

Is Latin America Ready to Abandon Cuba? (Simon Romero/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/world/americas/cuba-support-latin-america-conservative.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p10#a260314p10

As an anarchist, in the face of current political realities, I sometimes console myself* with the thought that:
1. If humanity has the potential to build an anarchist society, it will prevail for a much longer period of history than the current terminally-unstable configurations.
2. If not, extinction, and my opponents will still be just a blip in the span of history.
*This may or may not be a consoling thought for you.
#anarchy

This👇
https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116076016524108627
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io - So many people here are like, oh I wish I could move to (another country, that is also having a hard far right turn, and anti-immigrant horrors, just in a language they don’t speak)
It’s totally fine to feel you need to get away for safety and yes white cis Americans will likely face less of a threat in many places
However
I’m so irritated by the pretense that all of the current problems in the world are limited to US borders. We are going through a rough time of it.. but a lot of these problems are structurally global. ‘America is the worst’ is also a form of American exceptionalism.

Trump Is Tearing Apart the North American Auto Industry | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-02-15/trump-tearing-apart-north-american-auto-industry

Steve Bannon, one of the leading figures behind President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement discussed opposition strategies against Pope Francis with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Bannon, a former White House adviser to Trump, told Epstein that he wished to “take down” the leader of the Catholic Church.
In June 2019, Bannon wrote to Epstein: “Will take down Francis. The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU
– come on brother.”
This exchange came years after Epstein served a lig…

Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics
Letters from Leo is a chronicle of how Pope Leo XIV’s papacy intersects with American politics, faith, and the digital age during the presidency of Donald Trump. Click to read Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics, by Christopher Hale, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

More Americans doubt vaccine safety than trust it, POLITICO Poll finds (Lauren Gardner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/14/poll-rfk-maha-vaccine-safety-americans-00869088
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p31#a260414p31

Native Americans are being swept up by ICE in Minneapolis, tribes say (Mariana Alfaro/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/15/native-americans-ice-minneapolis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p150#a260115p150