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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

this whole "shutdown government services because politics" is truly the most insane and ridiculous "feature" of the United States government.
#uspoli #shutdown #airlines
https://globalnews.ca/news/11513116/us-government-shutdown-airport-flight-reduction/

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

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

Dick Cheney is a good example of why rich people live so long. [ETA: Rich people in the US.]
If he'd just been a regular person, he likely would've died without a heart transplant, if not before from one of his many heart attacks.
#uspol

Dick Cheney's cause of death confirmed by family
The former vice president died at 84, a family statement said.

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

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 6. September 1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Storax die Atombombe "Raritan". Storax war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 62/63 insgesamt 47 Bomben im Testgebiet 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!

#journalism #rights #usa

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is a project that aims to comprehensively document press freedom incidents in the United States — such as the arrests of journalists, seizures of their equipment, interrogations and searches at the U.S. border, subpoenas to testify about sources, leak prosecutions and physical attacks. The Press Freedom Tracker documents cases across the country, involving national, state and local authorities.

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

»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

1. Indict a wealthy person
2. Try the person (optional)
3. Pardon the person
4. Cha ching
#USA #justice #corruption #pardons

In den #USA ist der #Stromverbrauch 2025 zwar gestiegen, doch der starke Ausbau der #Solarenergie konnte über 80 Prozent des Mehrbedarfs ausgleichen.
Während der Zubau bei

Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use
Over the course of 2025, electricity demand has gradually declined.

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

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.

Heute vor 50 Jahren: Am 6. September 1975 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Marsh". 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.

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

"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 […]

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.

Our local bookstore is optimistic heehee
#vote #election #ZohranMamdani #US #nyc #NewYork #mamdani

„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.

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.

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

MAGA is melting down across the US, and here I am in Norway just enjoying the show. Keep falling apart.
#MAGA #US #Fascism

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

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

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

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 5. November 1966 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Simms". Die Operation #Latchkey war eine Serie von 38 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1966/67 auf der Nevad…

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/

"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.

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

First time I’ve been allowed to #vote in any #election - and I got to vote for #ZohranMamdani 🥳
So glad my #US citizenship came through on time to register!
If y’all can vote today please do!!!
#nyc #NewYork #mamdani

RE: #fascism, especially American fascism, there's something you can do. If you're in the US, don't buy anything if you can until Dec 2nd. If you do have to buy something, buy second hand, or buy local. If you're outside, don't buy anything from the US or any US company at all.
Spread the word. Keep it on people's mind. Write your own post. Talk to people you know in person. Print out flyers and post them around town.
The system understands the language of money. If you want a response, you have to speak the language the system understands.
Trump is extremely vulnerable. Don't wait for the regime to recovery. Hit it hard right now, with an economic blockade. Who knows, it might just crumble.
#USPol

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

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

"Colorado mandates ambitious emissions cuts for its gas utilities"
#US #USA #America #Colorado

Colorado mandates ambitious emissions cuts for its gas utilities
Resisting industry pressure, regulators ordered a 41% emissions reduction by 2035.

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…

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.

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.

How can ‘vote blue no matter who’ work when both parties answer to capitalism?
#USPol #USA #US #Republican

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

I'm not sure why it took them this long to stand up against the administration. His attacks against churches, hospitals, and schools isn't new.
"'We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools,' the bishops said in a special message, the first of its kind in 12 years."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

Website with news stories about how our US Gov't is being attacked, and what's happening and being planned to fight that.
https://unbreaking.org/
This is very readable. And it's VITAL reading for those who love humanity and persisting despite great odds.

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

»KI-Blase vor dem Platzen? Google-Chef warnt vor unvermeidlichem Crash:
Der #KIBoom hat die Kurse von #USTech-Aktien zuletzt auf schwindelerregende Höhen getrieben. Immer mehr Börsenprofis warnen vor einem möglichen Platzen einer

KI-Blase vor dem Platzen? Google-Chef warnt vor unvermeidlichem Crash | t3n
Der KI-Boom hat die Kurse von US-Tech-Aktien zuletzt auf schwindelerregende Höhen getrieben. Immer mehr Börsenprofis warnen vor einem möglichen Platzen einer KI-Blase. Ein solcher Crash werde jede einzelne Firma treffen, so Google-Chef Pichai. Ende Oktober 2025 überschritt KI-Chiphersteller Nvidia die Marke von fünf Billionen US-Dollar, was den Marktwert angeht – eine Verfünffachung im Zeitraum von nur […]

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.

"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

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

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.«

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.

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

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

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

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

Heute vor 51 Jahren: Am 02. November 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.

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

The USA shows it's true colors,
"Exclusive: US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal, sources say"
The US is clearly not an ally/friend of Europe.
#usa #ukraine #extortion

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

»Folgen des KI-Booms - In Virginia schiessen die Rechenzentren wie Pilze aus dem Boden:
Nirgends auf der Welt ist die Dichte an #Rechenzentren so gross wie im Bundesstaat #Virginia in den #USA. Für die G…

KI-Boom lässt in Virginia Rechenzentren wie Pilze aus dem Boden schiessen
Im US-Staat Virginia liegt der Ort mit der weltweit höchsten Dichte an Rechenzentren. Die Anwohner sind nicht erfreut.

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

Richard #Grenell (#USA, former ambassador to Germany) is a conceited macho, not particularly intelligent, but obsessed with power. These fifth-rate types, who suddenly see their political opportunities, prove to be particularly perfidious.
Grenell should be declared persona non grata by the EU.
People l…

Elmar Theveßen: Früherer US-Botschafter fordert Visaentzug für ZDF-Journalist Theveßen
Richard Grenell, früherer US-Botschafter in Deutschland, verlangt, dass ZDF-Studioleiter Elmar Theveßen sein Visum für die USA verliert. Theveßen sei ein "Aufwiegler".

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

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
#US–#RUSSIA SECRET TALKS, MASSIVE ATTACK ON UKRAINE, CORRUPTION SCANDAL Vlog 1233: War in Ukraine
No

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 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

Probably unrelated to the #NationalGuard shooting, but does anyone remember when a US attorney and the FBI paid a sex offender to entrap two Muslim men with histories of mental illness into a terrorist plot, that they then arrested them for? Oh yeah, that happened under Obama.
#USPol

"US demands EU reverse new climate rules to allow surge in gas imports"
#US #USA #America #EU

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.

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

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

"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

"Smoke From Wildfires Caused by Climate Change Will Fuel Many More Premature Deaths in the U.S., a New Study Warns"
#US #USA #America

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.

Apparently, in the U.S., communism is more dangerous than anarchism. Guess free healthcare scares them more than Molotov cocktails.
/s
#Satire #Humor #US

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

Good to remember, the US is selling weapons with profit to Ukraine, the EU is paying for them. No "gifts" or "favors" are involved.
#ukraine #weapons #usa

"America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam"
#US #USA #America #Climate

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.

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

"Smashing 6 Million Sea Urchins with Hammers Saved a California Kelp Paradise Thanks to Volunteer Divers"
#US #USA #America #California

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.

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
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"Study outlines steps for California to reach net-zero emissions by 2045"
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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.

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 31. Oktober 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Forest". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Trump can’t possibly be more fascist than Hitler, oh wait, scratch that, he’s the goddamn new Hitler. My bad.
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"California’s kelp forests struggle to recover a decade after collapse"
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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

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

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.
#USPol

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

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…

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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"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

"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.

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.

Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 29. Oktober 1969 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Calabash". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

"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.

Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 29. Oktober 1969 testen die #USA simultan vier Atombomben "Pod 1-4". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

"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.

"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.

"UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain"
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