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Kinda weird it makes sense to make a graphic like this.
No idea what I should use it for.
Flyers to hand to soldiers?
#USpol #Chicago #law

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Carving Pumpkins to save democracy
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I wasn't expecting to find that there.
#DonaldTrumpIsAPedophile #USPol

The Radical Left does not have the majority in Congress. In the Senate, Republicans have the majority. In the House of Representatives, Republicans have the majority. In Congress, Republicans have the majority. Republicans control all three branches of the federal government.
Spread it wide, loud, and clear.
#uspol

We have always been at war with Eastasia.
"President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt."
#Politics #USPolitics #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.
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The gop controls all three branches of government, if their government shuts down, then the gop are the one’s who shutdown their government.
#USpol #shutdown

DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate for Protesting ICE
- the indictment of Abughazaleh shows how dissent is being silenced in the USA -
#USPol #USAPol

Trump DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate for Protesting ICE
She and five other protesters face up to eight years in prison if convicted.

Dropping the penny is one thing, but like everything this moronic administration does is unplanned chaos.
https://fortune.com/2025/10/30/america-is-running-out-of-pennies-costing-millions/

America’s officially running out of pennies — and it’s costing retailers millions
“Let’s rip the waste out of our great nation’s budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"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

Google, which is happy to answer all kinds of questions using their AI, seems to answer with a mix of non-committal results, a few current ones, and plenty outdated results for "who has the majority in the house" and similar questions.
Are you getting better results?
EDIT: I get reports from people that they get better results
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Kids and gun violence
This week's Executive Disorder started with a conversation about the school shooting in Twin Cities...
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“There is a fine line between vision and hallucination. People have to follow you for it to be a vision.” - Dr. Oz.
No, that is not in fact the difference you charlatan.
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Someone should kill every last one of those pathetic fascist cunts. #USpol

Because for a moment there one of Trump's minions was in the news more prominently than he was, and we obviously can't have *that*!
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This booty call is too aggressive for me.
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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.

'Bondi said in a statement that the indictment "reflects this Department of Justice's commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people."' I wonder if there are any other people who might be more obviously guilty of abusing positions of power ... 🤔 #uspol

Former FBI director James Comey indicted on two charges
James Comey says he is innocent after being accused of lying to Congress in 2020 while testifying about leaks to the media.

The gop controls the House, Senate, and the White House. It is their government.
If the government shuts down or the government stays open, that is on the gop.
#USpol

House Oversight cmte Democrats release 6 pages from Epstein files.
They mention Prince Andrew (and his massages), Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel.
AND Elon Musk possibly on Epstein’s island
#uspol #epstein #PrinceAndrew

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.
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Building a big bribe room to sell the country off for parts while the government is rapidly deconstructed into a legislatively induced coma #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

Who knew?
They were keeping the Epstein files in the East Wing of the White House!
#uspol
#justjoking

Watching Australian Senator Nick McKim describe the US slide into fascism:
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement
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I don't think that the dipshit and Vance are capable of taking responsibility for their failures and that says a lot about them.
#USPolitics #USPol #Politics

The United States in the last 8 months has threatened to invade, or invaded:
Canada
Mexico
Panama
Greenland
Denmark
Venezuela
Los Angeles
Washington DC
Chicago
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Boston
And many others. potus and kegseth plan to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War.
This sounds like Nobel Peace Prize behavior, am I right? 🤦‍♂️

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

#UsPol #FreeSpeech #Kimmel
"Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension"

The Abundance Debate Hits California by Pod Save America
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I know it was 3000 years ago now, but I want everyone to remember that Portland beat Trump last time because normal people came out every night to resist.
Portland made Trump look weak once. He pulled out everything he had to terrorize and intimidate people, and federal agents got pushed out of the city anyway. He was embarrassed. Now he can do more and he probably thinks that he has more time, but Portland maybe able to prove him wrong.
Portland ended Trump's presidency once, and it can happen again... especially if Portland keeps doing a good job of reminding everyone that the whole invasion is an attempt to distract from #Epstein.
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"Trump calls for end of Senate filibuster to break funding stalemate"
Ah yes, end filibuster to end shutdown, and keep the buster ended for all the grifting and dictating to come. 🤓
#filibuster #uspol #USA #shutdown #strategy #corruption

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

Vacationing at tax-payer expense has prepared Ohio’s least favorite son to assume the role of president of the United States according to him?
Dude, there’s a couch somewhere waiting for you to defile it. Get to it.
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Not for nothing, but if Portland had its own nuclear capability, they wouldn’t be facing imminent invasion by the United States federal government. /s
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What an idiot. There is no "antifa" organization.
As I said before, "antifa" was what schools used to teach (since public schools were created) as good citizenship.
#trump #antifa #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!

Republicans are the new Democrats
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Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force | The Ezra Klein Show
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Really hoping to see some One Piece flags in the pictures from the next #NoKings Day protests. I also hope everyone has brotherd to check the notes from Nepal. Regimes can collapse faster than expected. Sometimes it can be a total surprise.
I know things feel impossible right now, but you need to have a plan for when you win because it might surprise you. The other good thing about having a plan is that it gives you something to fight for instead of just something to fight against.
#USPol

Regime Change begins at home.
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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

"Trump administration ends government’s annual report on hunger in America"
There. Hunger problem solved. Next.
/s
#hunger #uspol #sarcasm

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I translated bondi's statement into what she meant:
#USpol #satire #Comey

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...
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Everybody in a blue state needs to watch this
#USpol #BlueWall #trifecta

Anchor Light Publications (@anchorlightpublications)
This smart informed citizen dispenses more structure and planning in 4 minutes than the Democratic Party has since Trump was elected! Lead Gentlemen. Time is of the essence! Help us help you! @GavinNewsom @PeteButtigieg @JoshShapiroPA @DNC

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

Marc Maron Talks Donald Trump, Comedy and The Left by Pod Save America
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It's always the ones you most expect.
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Someone pointed out that the image of the bullets from the shooter in Dallas today seems to be wet but it didn’t rain in Dallas today.
I wish I could ask JFK if there have ever been any inconsistencies around shootings in Dallas.
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This shit is straight up just the plot to Red Dawn, but the bootlickers can't even recognize it because the call is coming from inside the house.
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We got ourselves an ol' fashioned cole war a comin'!
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland:
#USpol #POpol #RUpol

Okay, _this_ is funny.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-statues-capitol-national-mall-dc-rcna233492

"Jack Ciattarelli has been running for governor since Mikie was in high school"
- Sean Higins
#NewJersey #uspol

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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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
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Don’t worry everybody, just take Panadol.
#USpol #Tylenol

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When will Bigbird be stopped?!!
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Chat, anyone have a contact at the Pentagon I can get this to? I wanna make sure they update their maps with the current info.
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I think I need to clarify some shit for (white) liberals.
How many times have you wondered if someone you're talking to in an informant sent to entrap you? How many times have you or a friend of yours been hit by a car, intentionally? How many friends have been hit, or almost hit? Ever been stabbed? Know anyone who has? Has the FBI ever knocked on a friend's door? Have police ever kicked down your door? Have you ever been arrested? Pepper sprayed? Does the sound or smell or blast balls give you flashbacks? Do you ever wonder what all the CS exposure is doing to your body? How many times have you been shot or shot at? Do you wonder every day if this is the day they'll come to kill you? Would anyone in your social circle answer these questions differently?
When you vote, you risk nothing (big asterisk, but if I'm talking to you then it doesn't apply to you). What you get out of voting is exactly what you put into it. Direct action is the same.
If you aren't worried about someone murdering you, then you probably aren't actually threatening the system. That's the difference between voting, and doing something useful. If they had to murder all the liberals in order to keep going, fascism would end. If they're only murdering radicals and marginalized people, then you're just like all the "good Germans" who hated Hitler but did essentially nothing.
It's already that bad for some people. How much are you willing to risk? How many people are you willing to sacrifice for your comfort? These are the questions we're all thinking about every time you tell us to vote.
(I'm tagging this #USPol so it's easy for folks to filter out if they're already well acquaintaned with the horror. I'm not CW, because USPol is just expected to be triggering.)

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Just a normal government employee
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The people, united, will never be defeated.
Protest works, boycotts work.
Sinclair and Nexstar to reinstate Kimmel on ABC stations
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Sinclair and Nexstar to reinstate Kimmel on ABC stations
Viewers in Washington, DC, St Louis and Seattle will be able to watch the late night comedian's show again.

Literally screaming
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Not good.
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#SolarPunkPrompts: Bonetheives
A motley crew of bicycle anarchists from the Cascadian Autonomous Region make their way through the decaying and fragmented remains of fascist America in search of Trump's mausoleum. In this buddy road trip story, the group has all sorts of unexpected adventures, dodging cults and corporations offering government service subscriptions, on their quest to steal Trump's bones and bring them back to Portland, so they can be integrated into the construct of the new Portland People's Assembly Hall public urinal.
#USPol #Fiction #Writing

So, what exactly is the “New Right?” | The Gray Area
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European rulers in part saw Crusades as how to remove troublesome or ambitious warriors from Europe, reducing threats to their authority.
Starting wars in Venezuela, Afghanistan or the other dozen places potus suggested/threatened, might serve comparable purpose.
Let’s thwart him anyway.
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#NoKings #USpol

Campaign Stream #10: Playing Stray / Face Hurts⭐⭐ !donate !discord by Kat Abughazaleh
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#USpol #SNAP #WIC #food #FoodSecurity

Liberals: You have a choice. When Trump comes for you, you can buckle and comply or you can radicalize and fight harder. Decide now what you're going to do, because a lot of us will die if you decide to save yourself.
We will win in the end, with or without you. But, if you survive, you will always know which choice you made and you will have to live with it.
#USPol

#limerick #satire #USpol

What would win the next US election?
#USPol #Shitpost
An anthropomorphic guillotine
Barnaby Jones's last single
3:22 of silence from The Offspring
The WKUK "it's illegal to say" sketch

Won 5 Emmys for Andor, a series about autocratic breakthrough and fascism. Then greenlights turning the entire company into the theme park ride. 🤦‍♂️
#iger #USpol #BoycottDisneyABC

Former Disney CEO thinks Disney and ABC messed up.
Because they did.
source: #USpol

After the introduction in Dutch, it is Lubach with what’s next for disney.
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His name was Silverio Villegas Gonzšlez.
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Added 3 new nicknames to my @… bot that posts a nickname for potus every hour.
It's very handy when writing something and wanting to use something other than his name.
#USpol

So...comedy is illegal again?
#FreedomOfSpeech #Kimmel #USpol

Did you know that "James David Vance" is an anagram for "adds caveman jive?"
Well, now you do.
#USpol

Presidential lesson number 7582: don’t let folks who might know about crimes you’ve committed “die by suicide” while in custody because then their ghost will continue to pursue you and is immortal.
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President sundowning-at-1-pm was asked for his license plate to vote?
Did he mean a valet in 1993 asked for his plate? Because no American politcal election in almost 250 years has asked anyone for their license plate.
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“I’m so sorry for involving you by texting you but have no other reason to text you but to create a paper trail of my confession to you that makes no sense and serves no goal I could possibly have.”
Bondi and Patel are not good at things.
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“I’m so sorry for involving you by texting you but have no other reason to text you but to create a paper trail of my confession to you that makes no sense and serves no goal I could possibly have.”
Bondi and Patel are not good at things.
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So in January 2028, when potus refuses to leave and tries deploying DC, SC, OH and WV National Guard to hold DC, will NY, MD, VA, DE, NJ and PA National Guards have enough forces to counter, or do other states need to build a naval guard elements to retake the capital from the water?
#USpol

Trump keeps praising dictators.
At this rate, I half expect him to give Stalin a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. 🤦‍♂️
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Int. military base, Anchorage, Alaska - day
Former KGB agent winces as he imagines meeting with the 34 time felon. It’s the obsequiousness and the overuse of pancake makeup, tacky. But you don’t always get to choose who you’re handling, and this asset was well placed; insanely well placed.
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