@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineUS days from running low on interceptors, has no ability to evacuate citizens from Middle East because potus & kegsbreath failed to plan.
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schakowsky.house.gov you rep me: impeach, remove, ban from office & prosecute. Not a penny more for this war.
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@stefan@gardenstate.socialAOC making sure #newJersey knows what's up
#uspol #elections
@crell@phpc.socialThe Names They Call Themselves
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@jrm4@mastodon.socialToday, tech people discovering what black voters already knew about Bernie Sanders
#blackmastodon #blackfedi #uspol
@vosje62@mastodon.nl
@davej@dice.campI prefer to think of it as skills-based restructuring. He put 800 general- and flag-level officers into a room, and not one of them could take down an unarmed civilian. 😈
#uspol https://mstdn.ca/@JonChevreau/11634405
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
@seav@en.osm.town
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club"Han (Trump) tilfŸjer, at "det er trist at se, at forholdet tydeligvis ikke er, hvad det har været". Og hvem er det, der selv har Ÿdelagt forholdet ? #trump #USPol #UKPol
Revolutionsgarden modsiger Trump
Hvad sker der? En iransk regeringsbygning er blevet jævnet med jorden i en ny bølge af angreb mod Iran, hvor også den store Mehrabad-lufthavn RE: #uspol @crell@phpc.social
2026-03-04 17:12:35
@stefan@gardenstate.socialCory Booker SOUNDS OFF on Trump, Outlines New Tax Plan for Dems by Pod Save America
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@hex@kolektiva.social @crell@phpc.socialHow well do your Congressional representatives align with the ACLU? They have a neat little summary:
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@stefan@gardenstate.socialThe F-15 Rescue: What Actually Happened and the Fallout Afterward by William Spaniel
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@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineBlanche DuBois - always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Todd Blanche - always depends on the kindness of redactors.
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@timbray@cosocial.ca
@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.org
@cjust@infosec.exchange @davidaugust@mastodon.onlineKristi Noem is reportedly considering sleeping over in American’s homes (whether or not they want her to) just so she can violate the 3rd Amendment too, and have a matched set of violated Amendments.
#USpol #BillOfRights
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI need some people I don't like to vote with me the next few elections.
#uspol
@vosje62@mastodon.nl @hex@kolektiva.social @timbray@cosocial.caGood piece from Timothy Snyder argues that Trump is failing at fascism: #USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@rasterweb@mastodon.social @cjust@infosec.exchange @crell@phpc.social @henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeRE: #USPol
@markrsmith@smithtodon.orgRE: #uspol
@carbonwoman@norden.socialIch glaube, ja es ist kein Zufall, dass ausgerechnet zwei Menschen umgebracht wurden, die Careworker waren. Sich kümmern um andere, offen und emphatisch zu sein, Hilfe zu leisten, wenn sie benötigt wird, das alles stellt für Autoritäre eine Bedrohung da.
Gebt aufeinander acht.
#uspol #Minneapolis
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza @davidaugust@mastodon.online @stefan@gardenstate.socialOpening up the straight is easy. We can't do it. But it's so easy!!
#uspol
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialNext "stand up for science" March 7th!
#StandUpForScience #UsPol
@jswright61@ruby.socialJust got an email from one of my Senators, Jon Ossoff, GA with some welcomed news:
Good afternoon,
On Sunday, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff demanded civil liberties protections before further funds are appropriated to ICE and announced he will oppose the measure scheduled for a vote this week.
(Full text of letter in the image alt-text)
#UsPol
@joe@toot.worksGood.
"Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on Friday joined a coalition of 22 other states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's recent attempt to exert federal control over mail-in ballots and voter rolls.
"An executive order isn’t a royal decree," Kaul said in a statement. "The President can’t unilaterally dictate how states should run elections.""
#Wisconsin #Politics #USPol #Pol #Voting
@hex@kolektiva.socialI saw an article from The Guardian titled "I've spent a decade fighting Trump. Here are six lessons."
Unfortunately I read it. As someone who saw this coming the moment Trump came down the elevator, who started organizing hard after he won the Republican nomination, I have some notes.
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@scott@carfree.cityAbolish the office of United States president. It's too much power for one person, even when the president follows the law, let alone this chud who doesn't. #PresidentsDay #uspol
@holger_moller@bildung.socialIch hoffe inständig, dass wir uns nicht an der #FußballWM in den #USA beteiligen.
Es braucht starke Signale.
#uspol
@adamhotep@infosec.exchangeRE: #uspol
@timfoster@mastodon.socialOK, OK. Here's a board of peas. Now can I have a Nobel prize?
#uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.socialHow Israel Assassinated the Ayatollah & Iran’s Upcoming Succession Crisis by William Spaniel
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@timbray@cosocial.caDaring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
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@markrsmith@smithtodon.orgHow many fronts can we handle?
#uspol #ecuador #military #SpreadThin
@cjust@infosec.exchange#USPolitics #USPol #WhoCouldHaveSeenThisComing
Amazing what can happen in a week.
Ref:
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.clubDet er svært at komme med en fornuftig kommentar til denne tale. Så jeg lader den stå som den er. #USPol #KennethHowery #trump
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaLIVE ON THE GROUND in #Minneapolis!
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@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.clubDen slambert vidste godt, at flagene ville blive sat op og hvorfor. Men han beordrede dem fjernet alligevel. Ud med ham. #USPol #trump
@timbray@cosocial.caI think we all owe a vote of thanks to the courageous and resourceful folk who are capturing the video of the MAGA murderers.
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@davidaugust@mastodon.online @crell@phpc.socialRE: #uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.socialEight Key Things to Watch for in the Iran War by William Spaniel
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@hex@kolektiva.socialSo the Right has been talking about how the FEMA concentration camps, the pedophile conspiracy, and how they're gonna take all the guns, but now that the pedophile conspiracy is building concentration camps and disarming then executing legal gun owners, all I can hear is the sucking sound as they try to swallow the whole damn boot.
#USPol
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de @rasterweb@mastodon.socialI keep seeing a meme about Obama not being on the Epstein list, but it is mainly because he's not a white man? I mean, as a member of the ruling class he probably still played a part in white supremacy, but he is a black man.
#USPOL
@hex@kolektiva.socialThis is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol
@crell@phpc.socialOH: I have a Home Warranty. You pay them a monthly premium, then when something breaks, you pay them a flat fee. Then the technician diagnoses the problem, and the company finds a reason why your plan doesn't cover that. Feels like American insurance in a nutshell.
#uspol #insurance
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club @stefan@gardenstate.socialIs Fascism Back? by Johnny Harris
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@markrsmith@smithtodon.org @crell@phpc.socialRE: #uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineThe state of Montana sent violence to Washington DC in the form of wanna-be-Capitol-policeman Senator Sheehy.
As an American, I am ashamed of Montana, the Senator and (for once again bringing violence to the US Capitol) the GOP.
The country, Montana and our veterans deserve better.
No Senator should try to do the job of the US Capitol police. Breaking a USMC vet's arm is a vile act by Sheehy.
Sheehy denigrates the Senate and debases himself with violence.
#USpol
@stefan@gardenstate.socialMinnesota Proved MAGA Wrong (w/ Adam Serwer & Bobby Pulido) | The Bulwark Podcast
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@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club @stefan@gardenstate.socialJared Kushner's DISGUSTING Gaza PowerPoint (w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates) | The Bulwark Podcast
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@cjust@infosec.exchange#USPol #USpolitics #network1976
I'm not saying that the 1976 movie "Network" was prescient . . . but . . .
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club @davidaugust@mastodon.online @markrsmith@smithtodon.orgHusband of US Labor Secretary barred from Labor Department offices due to sexual assault complaints from staff (free link)
#labor #uspol #LoriChavesDeRemer
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @cjust@infosec.exchangeWell - I guess that's one thing we can hope for to fix this shitty timeline.
#USpol #USPolitics #Shitpost
@crell@phpc.socialThe Choice
#RankedChoiceVoting #uspol
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club @stefan@gardenstate.socialScott Bessent: D-Day was a deescalation
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@hex@kolektiva.socialI'm going to go back to my social media break, but before I do I'm going to leave you with a thought experiment.
Imagine we're in the middle of the second American Civil War. What do you wish you had done to prepare? What do you wish you had done to bring the regime down faster? What do you wish you had done to avoid this ever happening?
Got some ideas? Think about them. Talk them over with friends. Ok... Now what can you do right now? Ok, now do it.
#USPol
@stefan@gardenstate.social @davidaugust@mastodon.onlineClaiming a former FBI head who _LET POTUS SLIDE_ hurt innocent people is ghoulish. Perhaps Mueller hurt us all by failing to jail or stop potus.
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@crell@phpc.socialMore judges like this, please!
#uspol #immigration
@stefan@gardenstate.socialMessage from Seth Moulton
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@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineThis admin isn’t playing chess getting US soldiers killed. They’re playing tic tac toe, badly, getting US soldiers killed.
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@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club @stefan@gardenstate.socialTime to get messy.
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @davidaugust@mastodon.online @stefan@gardenstate.socialHow Is The Dow - Auto-Tune The News, Wherein Pam Bondi Discovers An Unassailable Riposte That Canno
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@davidaugust@mastodon.online @stefan@gardenstate.socialDemocratic president should use ICE money for:
- guaranteed jobs program
- workers to build housing
- Healthcare worker
take the money and redirect it.
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @stefan@gardenstate.socialFrail elders should be treated better.
ICE Dragged an Elderly Man in Underwear Into the Freezing Cold
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@davidaugust@mastodon.online @davidaugust@mastodon.online @stefan@gardenstate.socialvote counts not done but seems like Kat Abughazaleh doesn't have it. that sad!
#uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.socialWhat is in this bag that Trump gave María Corina Machado?
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@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineWhen our potus was not a suspected child rapist/murderer, US was secure for ~80 years with Greenland under Denmark’s protection.
Now our potus is a suspected child rapist/murderer, so Greenland is suddenly in danger of something from russia or china? Hmm.
#USpol #Greenland
@stefan@gardenstate.socialTrump Threatens Europe Over Greenland; Europe Responds by The Bulwark
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@stefan@gardenstate.socialare we in year 10 AE? After Elevator?
The Election That Could Rein in the Chaos | 'The Opinions' Podcast
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!["TO ANNOUNCE THAT
THERE MUST BE NO CRITICISM OF THE PRESIDENT,
OR THAT WE ARE TO STAND BY THE PRESIDENT, RIGHT OR WRONG, IS NOT ONLY UNPATRIOTIC AND SERVILE, BUT IS MORALLY TREASONABLE TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC."
Theodore Roosevelt
[sepia photo of Theodore Roosevelt]](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/116/246/356/050/549/468/original/78995d04c850420b.jpeg)
![BREAKING: A defiant Pete Hegseth lashed out at his critics on Thursday. "I get knocked down, but I get up again," he told reporters at the Pentagon. "You're never gonna keep me down." Revealing the secret to his resilience, Hegseth said, "I drink a whiskey drink, I drink a vodka drink, I drink a lager drink, I drink a cider drink."
[photo of hegseth speaking to press outside]](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/116/239/598/557/123/134/original/6c5882e38b737c18.jpeg)
