Tootfinder

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol

Daylight Savings Time (DST) in the twenty-first century, yay or nay?
Please consider boosting for a more statistically significant result.
#daylightsavingstime #dst #us

"Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/29/us-authoritarian-donald-trump-national-guard

"No high-level US representatives will go to UN climate talks, Trump officials say"
#UN #UnitedNations #US #USA

Why Trump's ICE is kidnapping & disappearing so many legal US residents today: #UsPol

The US mainstream media is thoroughly broken: Bari Weiss, Who Thinks Everything Is Woke, Will Be CBS Editor-in-Chief
Anti-woke, anti-trans, pro-Israel Bari Weiss will soon lead one of the biggest media companies in the U.S.
#uspol #newsmedia

Bari Weiss, Who Thinks Everything Is Woke, Will Be CBS Editor-in-Chief
Anti-woke, anti-trans, pro-Israel Bari Weiss will soon lead one of the biggest media companies in the U.S.

More on CBP treatment of Canadians at the US border, this time with CBP’s own statistics, which are interesting: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-canada-device-searches-1.7619944?cmp=rss

Surge in U.S. customs searches of electronic devices raises concerns about harsh treatment of Canadians | CBC News
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports a sharp rise in electronic device searches at crossings, raising concerns about privacy, discrimination and harsher scrutiny of Canadians. "There's a lot of fear going into the United States," a Toronto-based immigration lawyer says.

From #LizOyer @lawyer_oyer@instagram.com
Two #federaljudges have now disqualified Trump’s picks for #USAttorney jobs (in

While the #us is a #shitshow we also are letting the rich assholes get away with too much shit up here in #Canada
Axe! Axe! Axe!

What do you think? Did Venezuela just “thwart” a false flag?
“Venezuela says it has thwarted what it calls a CIA-linked plot to attack a US warship anchored in Trinidad.
It claims the US would have blamed Venezuela for the attack on the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, to justify aggression against it.”
Australia Broadcasting reporting: #usa #venezuela #war
Yup. Trump wants a confrontation.
No. Venezuela likely faking the false flag.

How Chicago Labor History Teaches Us To Fight Fascism Today | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois by Kat Abughazaleh
#uspol

"Determined Scientists Created Only Puffin Colony in the US, and Continue to Protect it Decades Later"
#US #USA #America #Puffins

Determined Scientists Created Only Puffin Colony in the US, and Continue to Protect it Decades Later - Good News Network
For 50 years, the state of Maine has drawn worldwide attention for its efforts to restore a puffin colony, an effort that has brought controversy, hope, and a cottage industry you have to see to believe. Featured recently on the PBS News Hour, it’s a story that begins back in 1973 when a young ornithologist […]

»Frühere Beraterin Bidens — Trump fordert Entlassung von Microsoft-Managerin:
#US-Präsident #Trump geht weiter gegen politische Gegner vor. Nun fordert er den Rausschmiss von #Microsoft-Managerin Monaco. Sie war…

Trump fordert Entlassung von Microsoft-Managerin Monaco
US-Präsident Trump geht weiter gegen politische Gegner vor. Nun fordert er den Rausschmiss von Microsoft-Managerin Monaco. Sie war unter anderem stellvertretende Justizministerin unter dem Demokraten Biden.

Ah, good thing Ireland didn’t bet a major chunk of its economy on US Big Tech creating jobs or anything.
*phew!*
#BigTech #USA #AI

Erstmals hat #Solarenergie im Mai mehr Strom erzeugt als #Windkraft in den #USA.
#Solar deckte üb…

EIA: Solar outproduced wind for the first time ever in May
Wind + solar produced over one-fifth of total US electrical generation in May, according to data just released by the US EIA.

October 18th, if I lived in the US I would join these demonstrations.
#usa #nokings

Only to split it into smaller chunks, the reason: Pulling 8 #USB #cables one by one through one of those #LEGO

Das gehörte wohl mal in aller Deutlichkeit gesagt - ob ein Gericht allerdings dafür die richtige Bühne ist? Womöglich gerechtfertigt dadurch, dass die Politik das auszusprechen kläglich versagt und sich feige wegdeduckt.
#USA Kritik an Darth Trump Administration

Klage gegen soziales Netzwerk: Landgericht bescheinigt US-Regierung "faschistische Tendenz" - Golem.de
Ein Richter am Landgericht Bonn hat über eine Klage zum Zugriff von US-Geheimdiensten auf Social-Media-Daten entschieden - und mit Aussagen zur Trump-Regierung Aufsehen erregt.

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 2. Oktober 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Auk". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

I’m still seeing folks looking at the US political hellscape and saying…
“If only there was a better third party, that’d solve this.”
In most cases, that’d just split the vote of folks opposed to MAGA.
One reason MAGA has been successful is Turnip’s ability to browbeat unity into a solid voting coalition.
#USpol

"CDC erupts in chaos after ousted chief Susan Monarez refuses to resign"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/27/cdc-director-susan-monarez-ousted
This is the way: resistance!

„Wenn Faschisten sterben, jammern Demokraten nicht“ – dieser Satz kostet Mario Sixtus (ZDF) sein US-Visum. Das US-Außenministerium zeigt: Wer die falsche Meinung äußert, wird bestraft. Doch wo bleibt die Debatte über Meinungsfreiheit und politische Zensur? #USPolitik #Medien

Social Media: ZDF-Autor verliert US-Visum nach Kommentar zu Kirk - Golem.de
Das US-Außenministerium entzieht Ausländern das Visum, weil sie sich auf Social Media negativ über den ermordeten Charles Kirk geäußert haben.

Watching Australian Senator Nick McKim describe the US slide into fascism:
#USpol

"‘The forgotten forest’: how smashing 5.6m urchins saved a California kelp paradise"
#US #USA #America #California

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Unfortunately, smart money says that Alligator Auschwitz is already living up to that nickname.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a67951055/alligator-alcatraz-missing-detainees/

October 18th, if I lived in the US I would join these demonstrations.
#usa #nokings

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

I’m so frustrated, I don’t want to wait another 4–6 months for his heart to fail. Someone please put an end to the orange fascist influencer already.
#USA #US #Trump

US ethnic cleansing and what to do about it
Reposting link to source article instead of screenshot of tweet that had no alt text:
Data on arrests shows that ICE was heavily engaged in racial profiling in LA, because their arrest numbers fell by ~66% after that were ordered to stop making arrests based just in factors like skin color, with place, or language spoken.
#ICE #USPol

"Bondi and prosecutors have reservations over charging Comey"
Trump only wants fodder for rants and distractions. An indictment suffices for that. Failed cases give him even more fodder. Win for him whichever way it goes. 😢
#uspol #Comey #justice

"Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation"
#US #USA #America #Climate

The Maga Fascist Trump administration is stuffed with criminals from top to bottom. And they are freeing the criminals from prosecution while attacking law abiding citizens and putting them in concentration camps.
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/tom-homan-fbi-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk8.zrma.wrzBK7wHnHtJ&smid=url-share

Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 2. Oktober 1969 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Milrow". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

"Washington State Protects the Old-Growth Forests of Tomorrow, Creates 77,000 Acres of ‘Legacy Forests’"
#US #USA #America #Washington

Washington to Protect the Old-Growth Forests of Tomorrow, Creates 77,000 Acres of 'Legacy Forests'
The legacy forest announcement raises an interesting question for forest management and conservation to consider around the world over.

Kudos to the US Secret Service #USSS for their big success!
No, not the dismantling of five #SIM farms, but the almost complete domination of the media sphere: " #Telecom threat", "crippl…

U.S. faces rising death toll from wildfire smoke, study finds #UnitedStates

U.S. faces rising death toll from wildfire smoke, study finds
Wildfires burning across Canada and the Western United States are spewing smoke over millions of Americans—the latest examples of ashy haze becoming a regular experience, with health impacts far greater than scientists previously estimated.

The Trump administration sure is good at leaking their own plans for things.
"A senior White House official accidentally leaked details of plans to send an elite army unit to Portland, in the latest intelligence leak by the Trump administration."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

The hypocrisy of the right is off the charts.
#uspol
(gift article)
https://www.nytimes.co…

"After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors"
#US #USA #America

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

Thank goodness both Barack Obama and Joe Biden abolished ICE or there’s no knowing what state the US would be in right now.
#democrats #republicans #USA

As a security engineer, whenever anyone talks about a control it's always important to ask "by what mechanism?"
> "Oh, that can't happen because we have a system to stop it."
By what mechanism?
> "We have documentation that says...."
Yeah, that's not a mechanism.
People keep saying, "Trump can't do that!" But like... by what mechanism?
> "The constitution says..."
Yeah... a documented list of rules is not self-enforcing. What is the mechanism?
What makes this impossible? Oh, it's possible under certain conditions? Oh, it's always possible and you're completely relying on the idea that there will never be a malicious actor? Yeah, that's gonna get exploited. Oh shit, now you're owned.
What do you do with a system that's completely owned? Once it's compromised it can never be trusted again. What would you tell a client who told you, "Patching is really hard, so we're just gonna ban the attacker's IP."
What, you're not even gonna reinstall?
I assume we've all had the "burn everything down and start again" client. I wonder how many of us thought we would see the US government ask for them to hold it's beer.
#USPol

Vor der angeblichen Pleitespekulation wurde gemeldet, #Windrose Technology habe einen Großauftrag aus den #USA im Wert von 60 Millionen US-Dollar.
Mehrere hundert E-Lkw des Typs R700 sollen bis 2026 an die kalifornische Spedition

Windrose liefert Hunderte E-Lkw in die USA und startet in Südamerika - electrive.net
Der chinesische Hersteller Windrose Technology hat einen Auftrag über die Lieferung von Elektro-Lkw im Wert von 60 Millionen US-Dollar aus den USA erhalten.

#Mexico sends another planeload of dangerous drug suspects northbound to #US authorities for #prosecution in a so-called "sovereign decision", while President Sheinbaum rids her country of

Not good.
#USpol

Interesting, "How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us."
#trump

Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

Demokratischer US-Gouverneur Newsom: »Null Zweifel«, dass Trump keine freie Wahl mehr zulässt
Der Demokrat Gavin Newsom gilt in den USA als eine Art Oppositionsführer. Er sagt: Es sei »schockierend«, dass nicht mehr Leute gegen Trump aufstünden. »Das ist ein höllischer Moment für unser Land.« #Spiegel #USA

Demokratischer US-Gouverneur Newsom: »Null Zweifel«, dass Trump keine freie Wahl mehr zulässt
Der Demokrat Gavin Newsom gilt in den USA als eine Art Oppositionsführer. Er sagt: Es sei »schockierend«, dass nicht mehr Leute gegen Trump aufstünden. »Das ist ein höllischer Moment für unser Land.«

Klingt ja hart nach Mafia: #Trump #USA

Trump is a vile, fascist caricature of corruption and arrogance, so repulsive that calling him disgusting would be a kindness he hasn’t earned.
#Trump #US #USA

Imagine working in your country’s cybersecurity center or CERT, and suddenly being reassigned to border control and deportation duties. Something is clearly broken and dangerously so.
What will you do as a cybersecurity professional?
#us #cybersecurity

Homeland Security reassigns 'hundreds' of CISA cyber staffers to support Trump's deportation crackdown | TechCrunch
News of the reassignments comes at a time when the U.S. is facing a wave of hacks targeting private industry and the federal government.

📉 Fears that falling birth rates in the US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-falling-birth-population-collapse-based.html

Fears that falling birth rates in the US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
Pronatalism—the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed—is having a moment in the U.S.

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
⁠PANIC IN #KREMLIN: #PUTIN’S REACTION TO NEW US SANCTIONS Vlog 1206: War in Ukraine
The

Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 1. Oktober 1969 testen die #USA simultan drei Atombomben "Seaweed 1-3". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Remember how you (in the US) thought 2020 was never ending? You didn't imagine 2025 back then did you? 🙋‍♂️
#USA #TooLong #life

"US is violating human rights laws by backing fossil fuels, say young activists in new petition"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

Since leaving the US, things have gotten a lot better for me but it's still hard existing under capitalism. Just being a human is hard enough, but parenting is an order or magnitude harder.
Even here, with all the complexity of being an immigrant, it's somehow still less emotionally challenging than being in the US.
I wrote up a reflection on some of my feelings before leaving tangled up with some of the challenges I still have. I hope this helps some folks feel less alone, or makes it easier for other folks to understand why some parents are having a hard time.
CW: just.... Lots... Death, gun violence, trauma, etc
#USPol

Fascism disgusts me to my core, it corrupts everything it touches, it has no place on this earth, not now, not ever, and I will never stop rejecting it with every part of who I am.
#Fascism #Nazis #US

"Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as ‘Junk Science’"
#US #USA #America #Climate

Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as ‘Junk Science’
A 435-page review found the authors used standard climate denier tropes to produce a report riddled with errors.

Sooo, is that going to work?
"A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from suspending all food aid for millions of Americans amid the ongoing government shutdown and directed it to use contingency funds to pay for the benefits."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol #SNAP

🖕 What, Trump still breathing? Seriously? 🖕
#FuckTrump #Trump #USA #US

How the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
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#uspol #democracy

"Trump administration spending $625m to revive dying coal industry"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels
…

The harsh reality is that the Rule of Law is dead in the USA.
#usa

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US
The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

Fallujah, Iraq is ~15sq mi (~25sq km) & had ~4,000 fighters US military and allies faced in 2nd Battle of Fallujah, one of fiercest fought by US this century.
Caracas Venezuela is ~300sq mi (~433sq km) & Venezuela has ~4.5 million militia now activated.
potus & kegseth must be stopped.
#USpol

129 Pressekonferenzen in den ersten 100 Tagen – Trump inszeniert Politik als Reality-TV-Show. Mit systematischer Wissenslöschung, eigener Propagandaplattform und "Flooding the zone with shit" durch seine absurden Statements greift er die Demokratie an. #Trump #USA

Great Television statt Demokratie: Wie Trump die US-Politik TV-isisiert
129 Pressekonferenzen in den ersten 100 Tagen – Trump inszeniert Politik als Reality-TV-Show. Mit systematischer Wissenslöschung, eigener Propagandaplattform und Zone-Flooding durch seine absurden …

Maybe a bit controversial statement, but has democracy not already died in the US? Congress has no effective oversight anymore, GOP only listens to Trump, democratic party is totally ineffective. Rule of law is severely damaged.
#USA #democracy

"The purpose Bolton stated of creating a group chat in which he would later share his notes...was “For Diary in the future!!!”
I believe the only/big reason #Bolton joined Trump admin was to write a book, I mean "diary", and he gathered info for that from Day 1.
#uspol

This "executive order" system simply has to be removed from the US political system. Why is it even a thing? It's clearly not democratic...
#UsPol

Heute vor 54 Jahren: Am 29.09.1971 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Grommet die 15. Atombombe "Chantilly". Grommet war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1971/72 insgesamt 39 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

There tends to be this implicit assumption that only the state can provide services to the people. It's endemic to liberals. If authoritarians seize power, the thinking goes, there's nothing we can do.
But we have ample examples of the opposite. Trumpism is a specific type of authoritarianism where the state withdraws to allow corporations to control most things. They get a degree of autonomy and, in exchange, bow to the sovereign.
This is common in South American dictatorships (often those backed and supported by the US). So it can be helpful to look to these as examples of how to deal with that type of regime.
#USPol

Father Larry Dowling's account of leading a Eucharistic Procession to offer Holy Communion to those held by ice in Broadview, IL (near Chicago) and being barred from doing so.
"No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ."

Heute vor 54 Jahren: Am 29.09.1971 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Grommet die 14. Atombombe "Pedernal". Grommet war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1971/72 insgesamt 39 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

"In Yellowstone, Restored Bison Replenish Grasslands"
#US #USA #America #Yellowstone

In Yellowstone, Restored Bison Replenish Grasslands

You ever go to a party at a house you don't know, then someone talks to you and you're like, "oh hey, who are you?" And they're like, "I live here, you're in my house."
That's the way energy liberals bring to antifascism. Like, we're all super glad you're here. Most of us understand why you're late, and we're just glad you finally made it. But like, you're kind of in our house. You didn't invent this shit, but we've been here for a while.
#USPol

"Chart: The retiring coal power plants Trump could revive"
#US #USA #America #Climate

Chart: The retiring coal power plants Trump could revive
The Energy Department keeps ordering expensive, polluting plants to keep running at the eleventh hour. Here’s what’s on the line through the end of…

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 29. September 1966 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Newark". Die Operation #Latchkey war eine Serie von 38 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1966/67 auf der Ne…

"Study outlines steps for California to reach net-zero emissions by 2045"
#US #USA #America #California

Study outlines steps for California to reach net-zero emissions by 2045
A 2022 California law mandates net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 and negative emissions every year thereafter. The state can achieve this but will have to act quickly and thoroughly, and success will require new technologies for sectors difficult to decarbonize, a new Stanford University study finds. The state will need to decarbonize not only cars and electricity but also trucks, trains, planes, agriculture, and factories, while slashing pollution from its oil refineries.

"California’s kelp forests struggle to recover a decade after collapse"
#US #USA #America #California

People keep trying to point to an event where the "right/left" political violence thing got out of hand. You cannot point to anywhere in US history where the right hasn't been murdering leftists. It has never happened.
They've been talking about civil war since they lost the last one, and most of US politics before that was just trying to prevent the first one.
There isn't a wave of right/left violence. Right wing violence has just gone unchecked for so long, and been so accepted, that now they're killing each other regularly. The Trump assassination attempts were all from the right. #CharlieKirk was killed by another fascist for not being fascist enough.
Fascists have so completely taken over that they see each other as legitimate targets because they've run out of "leftists" worth murdering. That's the story. That's what people can't wrap their heads around.
Everyone is worried about the right wing response, worries about right wing escalation, but they called for civil war over the cracker barrel logo. They're already maxing out their base. All the proud boys and other Nazis are already hired by ICE. They're also already going as hard as they can. They don't need any excuses. They have total control of everything. This bumbling mess is *the best they can do.* They call for civil war every few days.
We're not seeing a war between the left and the right. We're seeing a war between the right and the far right, where both side opportunistically punch left when they can and liberals help them justify their actions.
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"America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam"
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Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 29. Oktober 1969 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Cruet". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

"US demands EU reverse new climate rules to allow surge in gas imports"
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Reagan's "Welfare Queen" rhetoric was a dog whistle. The whole "southern strategy" was full of dog whistles. Every time Republicans talked about gay marriage as a "states rights" issue, those were dog whistles. Naming a government agency "the Department of Homeland Security" was a dog whistle. Trump's speeches leading up to his first term were full of dog whistles.
Nazis have total control of all branches of government. They've cut off funding to all but the most oppressive elements of the government. There are concentration camps, both in client states (CECOT, among others) and in the US (Alligator Auschwitz, among others). They're actively carrying out ethnic cleansing.
When DHS puts out some Nazi shit, it's not a dog whistle. It's a vuvuzela. They're not trying to signal their intent without any of the "normies" noticing. They actively doing what they wanted to do. It's not a signal because there's nothing to signal. It's a celebration.
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"Smoke From Wildfires Caused by Climate Change Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in the U.S., a New Study Warns"
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Smoke From Wildfires Caused by Climate Change Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in the U.S., a New Study Warns - Inside Climate News
This would represent some of the country’s most costly consequences of a warming climate by mid-century, researchers say.

Heute vor 50 Jahren: Am 28. Oktober 1975 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Kasseri". Die Operation Anvil war eine Serie von 21 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1975 und 1976 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

"US solar plant construction is on a record-breaking spree — for now"
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US solar plant construction is on a record-breaking spree — for now
Solar power is having a bumper year as developers race to complete installations before Trump's policy changes pull the rug out from under the industry.

Heute vor 51 Jahren: Am 28. Oktober 1974 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Estaca". Die Operation Bedrock war eine Serie von 27 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1974/75 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

"Smashing 6 Million Sea Urchins with Hammers Saved a California Kelp Paradise Thanks to Volunteer Divers"
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Smashing 6 Million Sea Urchins with Hammers Saved a California Kelp Paradise Thanks to Volunteer Divers
Armed with hammers, they smash the zombie urchins one by one, leaving the larger, healthier urchins intact.

"Colorado town bets on geothermal to power local business growth"
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Colorado town bets on geothermal to power local business growth
Hayden, Colorado, a small former coal town, is building a geothermal heating and cooling network for its new business park, aiming to attract companies while cutting energy costs.Phil McKenna and Jake Bolster report for Inside Climate News.In short:The town is drilling 1,000-foot-deep boreholes to t...

"More Americans Working in Clean Energy Than as Servers or Cashiers"
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More Americans Working in Clean Energy Than as Servers or Cashiers

"Exxon sues California over climate laws, alleging free speech violations"
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"All aboard the clean power express: Colorado startup turns trains into rolling batteries"
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All aboard the clean power express: Colorado startup turns trains into rolling batteries | The Optimist Daily
A Colorado startup is turning freight trains into giant mobile batteries, delivering clean energy where it’s needed, no new power lines required.

"TotalEnergies turns closed US landfill into 7 MW solar plant"
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TotalEnergies turns closed US landfill into 7 MW solar plant
TotalEnergies has completed a 7 MW solar project on a closed landfill in Baltimore, Maryland, using specialized ballasted racking to install more than 15,000 panels expected to meet 11% of the local government’s electricity use.

"San Francisco’s Trash Company Marks 35 Years of Stunning Art Made of Recycled Garbage With Free Gallery Opening"
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San Francisco’s Trash Company Marks 35 Years of Stunning Art Made From Recycled Garbage By Local Artists at Free Gallery Opening
San Francisco’s dump is where Recology Artists-in-Residence scavenge through ‘trash’ to make artwork for traveling exhibit to mark 35 years.

"Heat waves in US rivers increasing up to four times faster than air heat waves, analysis finds"
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Heat waves in US rivers increasing up to four times faster than air heat waves, analysis finds
As the frequency and intensity of heat waves increase across the U.S., a similar but more striking phenomenon is occurring in American rivers.

"California learns from its beaver reintroductions"
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California learns from its beaver reintroductions
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Tásmam Koyóm, a high Sierra meadow in California, U.S. returned to the Mountain Maidu people in 2019, is once again wet where once it had been dry. Rivulets now snake through hip-high grasses and willow thickets, feeding a […]

"The Energy Sector Has Spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on Lobbying This Year. Watchdogs Say That’s Only Half The Story"
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The Energy Sector Has Spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on Lobbying This Year. Watchdogs Say That’s Only Half The Story - Inside Climate News
Critics say the Trump administration’s willingness to greenlight any of the fossil fuel industry’s requests allows it to spend less on lobbying.

"During the Last Government Shutdown, Coal Pollution Spiked"
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During the Last Government Shutdown, Coal Pollution Spiked