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"We're not redrawing the districts to discriminate based on race, we're drawing them to favor our own party," is such an interesting thing to say out loud. On the one hand, pretense of democratic norms is completely gone; says a lot about where the country is headed. On the other hand, the need to maintain a pretense of non-racism persists? That's probably better than them feeling comfortable to go full mask-off about white supremacy. They're already flaunting breaking a lot of laws, so I wonder whether the legal or social-norms aspects of coming out as explicitly racist matter more to them here.
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The Massive Fraud that’s Tearing America Apart by Hank Green
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The Pentagon is so clean on OPSEC that I’m learning National Guard in DC is canceling hotel reservations there to move to Chicago and Baltimore _from the protestors planning to meet them_.
#USpol #Chicago #Baltimore

Okay, so while I don't like the "Democrats need to do more" because it's stupid
I think there's room for "Democrats need to SAY more."
Like the clip of Maxwell Frost. But y'all can go even harder. Call them names, remind the people of how absolutely scummy they are right now
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#UsPol #IfOnly
Sometimes I just imagine how different the world would be right now, as well as the lives of so many people, if a few 100k US voters had voted for Kamala Harris instead of #Trump...

72 years later, this image still seems to resonate.
'In America - At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served' (Krokodil # 4, 1953) by Yuliy Ganf. The solider at the table being well fed is labeled “war” and the neglected tables are labeled 'Education', 'Health Care', 'Libraries' and 'Art'.
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I don't even have to read the news to find out if the bill passed I can just wait for a Democrat to text me asking for $5 to know what's going on.
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This is a good analysis of what's happening in America, right now.
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

In accordance with Sec. 2. (e) of Executive Order 14190, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” as signed by potus on January 29, 2025, the U.S. Government will _not_ be "modifying a [Department]'s name," despite SecDef and potus' desires for the Department of Defense's “social transition.”
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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There were significant fewer American flags flying in my suburban NJ neighborhood this Fourth of July.
#uspol #july4th #trump

Latino Voters Are Feeling BETRAYED By Trump (w/ Carlos Eduardo Espina)
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The scary thing is not that so many Americans find it easier to imagine the apocalypse than the end of cars. The scary thing is that so many actually prefer the former to the latter, and by not choosing the latter so choose to manifest the former.
#USPol #FuckCars

#UsPol #SaveThePlanet
"US Environmental Protection Agency suspends 139 staffers over letter criticizing Trump policies"

US Environmental Protection Agency suspends 139 staffers over letter criticizing Trump policies
The letter, signed by more than 200 people, accused Administrator Lee Zeldin of pushing policies that endanger public health and the environment.

Why, when Republicans attempt to draw district lines such that they choose their voters and get severely overrepresented in the legislature is it “We’re just taking advantage of the rules as they exist.”? But when the Democrats choose to represent the interest of their constituents and not show up, preventing, UNDER THE RULES, a vote to pass this redistricting, they have abandoned or forfeited their offices?
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I had not heard of multimember districts before, as an idea.
How to Rebuild American Democracy in 20 Minutes by PoliticalZane
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No ok.
Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net
#USpol #labor #labour

Why America refuses to fix anything:
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The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything
In the Booming Twenties, all decision-making is about protecting the value of financial assets held by older people. Therefore, the number must go up. And nothing else matters.

I feel like the Guardian might have missed something on her resume...
"Harris, who previously served as California’s attorney general and US senator, offered few details..."
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This, children, is what fascism looks like.
#uspol #usfascism

I can immediately think of 3 relatives who will be harmed by the Big Ugly Bill that passed today. A 4th is a possibility. My wife and I may have to financially support some of these folks as a result.
How many of your folks are hurt?
#USPol #Trump

This is a great interview.
#NewJersey !!!! #uspol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v1fHoOH9s

I wasn't expecting to find that there.
#DonaldTrumpIsAPedophile #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

Breaking: First Convicted Felon Arrives at Alligator Auschwitz
#USpol #Indivisible #50501Movement

Like Trump himself, those attracted to his administration don't actually believe in their own talking points. They just want power. #uspol

"Trump used Juneteenth to denounce ‘nonworking holidays.’ Some political observers say it wasn’t a coincidence"
Man, these political observers are really sharp. Nothing, I mean *nothing*, gets past them. 🙄
#uspol #Juneteenth #sarcasm

Chapeau: Bruce Springsteen bezieht Stellung. / Bruce Springsteen takes a stand. 👏
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https://youtube.com/…

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.

It does not matter if Trump is a fool¹ as long as he is a tool².
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¹but it may help the latter
²for Project 2025 and others
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To the surprise of no one, yet another study shows RFK Jr is full of shit. Vaccines are safe.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5403751-aluminum-vaccines-autism-study/

Kids and gun violence
This week's Executive Disorder started with a conversation about the school shooting in Twin Cities...
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The Most Important Election In 2025 | Rep. Mikie Sherrill by Democracy Docket
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Do we need memes for each gop member of Congress with their face, name and the words “destroyer of Medicaid, SNAP and the Affordable Care Act,” then paper their districts with them?
Because they need to own this for the rest of their careers.
#USpol #Indivisible

Today my overly-optimistic cousin said "This is the absolute best time to be alive" and I said "Well, I would argue that 2024 was much better than right now..."
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The might of the USA versus one man
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Trump’s Running Tab in the Abrego Garcia Case
Rather than admit a mistake, the Trump administration is trying to build a criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia by cutting deals with felons, driving out federal prosecutors, and threatening to deport him again, @NickMiroff writes.

Inside the Negotiations Over Abrego Garcia’s Release
The administration is cutting deals with felons, driving out federal prosecutors, and threatening to abandon its criminal case—all to avoid admitting error.

Well worth reading this story of a dedicated guardian of the American People and the US Constitution, and the enemies within who forced them from their post.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/goodbye-to-all-that

How Chicago Labor History Teaches Us To Fight Fascism Today | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois by Kat Abughazaleh
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Also, calling it now:
Josh Johnson will 100% enter the pantheon of comedy greats. His name will go next to Carlin, Pryor, etc.
#blackmastodon #blackfedi #uspol

Half the time I don't know whether authoritarian social media posts attributed to Donald #Trump are really him or just satire. Trump has replaced the Constitution with Poe's Law. #uspol

#USpol #TrumpTariffs #economics #trade

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

Don’t let this week’s war make you forget last week’s assassinations.
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Imagine if the media just stopped reporting on everything that #Trump says.. Since it's completely incoherent and unreliable anyway.. Wouldn't everyone just be happier? 🤔
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Hardcore criminals? Like…say with 34 felony convictions?
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NJ Governor Murphy opens Office of Strategic Defense Investment to foster industry growth
#NJ #GovMurphy #defense #USpol

Wait, could I have entered that competition? Like could space command be in my breakfast nook?
#USpol #SpaceCommand

He still doesn’t admit that import taxes (tariffs) are paid by Americans importing, not by other countries.
#USpol #TrumpTariffs #economy

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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President wants-to-gerrymander-the-gop-into-permanent-power says _Democrats_ cheat.
Every accusation really is a confession.
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"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

This booty call is too aggressive for me.
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"Reverse judicial precedents"? The Orange Dipshit is trying to use executive orders to eliminate legal protections for the unhoused?
"The order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to “reverse judicial precedents and end consent decrees” that limit jurisdictions’ abilities to relocate homeless people."
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114,000 schools in the United States.
Deploying a single National Guardsman costs ~$530/day.
Or ~$60 million a day, or for a 180 day school year more than $10 billion dollars.
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Watching Vlad Vexler discuss potus’ status:
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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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source: #USpol

The Washington post isn't so bad.
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“That’s not this country, we have to do something.”
Breaking laws by deploying soldiers ain’t it.
Common sense gun control laws can be.
Breaking Posse Comitatus won’t solve underlying causes of crime.
And red states are more murdery than LA, DC and Chicago.
He’s grabbing power.
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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

Hurt by the Trump Administration? This site is collecting stories of people who have been directly impacted by the Trump Administration.
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Call your Senators now. @… can make it easy, or just dial 202-224-3121 and ask the Capitol switchboard to connect you.
#USpol #bbb

So sorry to everyone who thought he was actually done.
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So if the U.S. Capitol Police had beefed up a protective detail on Murkowski and Murkowski’s family, to protect them from maga violence and give the Senator the sense of security to vote as they themselves now seem to think they should have, would things be different?
We may never know.
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The Abundance Debate Hits California by Pod Save America
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Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force | The Ezra Klein Show
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Another CEO got killed? That’s awful, all they did was guide the use of resources to make the world a better place. They helped not only shareholders, but employees and everyone else have a better life and a great chance to have basics like shelter more easily. Right? Who would do that.
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I just wrote this: #USpol

Vent or Win, Choose Wisely - David August - Medium
You can blame people you basically agree with, or you can work with the people available to try to work toward better. The first feels good for maybe 5 minutes, then ruins improvement right now; the…

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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Marc Maron Talks Donald Trump, Comedy and The Left by Pod Save America
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Did you know the Palermo Protocol was adopted by the United Nations in 2000 and says “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of people through force, fraud, or deception, with the aim of exploiting them” is human trafficking?
#ice #USpol

h/t @…
#USpol #Scotland #satire

Mehdi Hasan: Jubilee “Debate” Left Me SPEECHLESS by The Bulwark #uspol

🎶 Tariffs are an import tax, import tax, import tax, Americans pay for import tax, so er-lie in the morning. 🎶
And in the evening.
And at night.
What I am saying is the tariffs are the largest tax hike in U.S. history.
In addition to all the damage to our economy and alliances.
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My article Vent or Win, Choose Wisely has been accepted for publication by The Geopolitical Economist:
https://medium.com/the-geopolitical-economist/vent-or-win-choose-wisely-c618c86f1472

Vent or Win, Choose Wisely - The Geopolitical Economist - Medium
You can blame people you basically agree with, or you can work with the people available to try to work toward better. The first feels good for maybe 5 minutes, then ruins improvement right now; the…

The Gloves Are Off | "I Absolutely Love That Colbert Got Fired" | Trump & Epstein's Wonderful Secret #uspol

What a day that shall be.
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The US Virgin Islands have their own territorial court system, and any crimes committed there may be territorial crimes, not federal crimes.
The prosecution of such crimes would not need US DOJ nor White House permission to proceed.
Epstein Island is in the US Virgin Islands.
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Legend is Rome decided not to have kings anymore, and so created the first modern-ish republic, because of a sex crime by someone close to their king.
Our entire system of government has a history of not having sex crimes be acceptable.
But the felon in chief thinks pretending sex criminal close friends of his don’t implicate and contaminate him.
Legend is Romans exiled their last king.
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DONAKD is a portmanteau of Donald and Awkward.
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Ya know who ran for president on a promise to get us out of wars and then expanded our participation in wars and so Congress told him they were gonna impeach and remove him so he resigned?
This question should have two answers.
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It makes sense Oceania bombed Eastasia, because we have always been at war with Eastasia.
#USpol #Orwell1984

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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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Liberty falls.
#USpol #satire #critique #liberty

Should I design a shirt that says “my president bombed iranian nuclear sites and all I got was this vaguely radioactive t-shirt”?
#USpol #iran

Bad to hurt civilians. Always.
Bad to hurt anyone. Always.
They’ve been targeting the ballistic missile scientists of their adversary, killing them, for years.
And then their adversary’s ballistic missiles aren’t hyper accurate.
Almost like when you degrade your enemy’s military, your enemy’s military gets less exact.
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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? 🤦‍♂️

You know who probably doesn’t think we are now in a time of peace?
The leadership of Iran.
Everybody who thinks knows peace requires _all_ combatants to stop fighting, not just one side.
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New York Times op-ed coming soon (probably):
Why Ionizing Radiation is Actually Good for You
“Sprinkle fallout on your breakfast cereal and you’ll feel warm all day,” says HHS Secretary rfk jr, “I did that starting this morning, and aside from the hair loss and my stomach lining sloughing off, I feel great!”
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Not good.
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Someone's gonna commit First Degree Glitter with Intent to Sparkle.
#USpol #ice #glitter

"…the long arc of history has never been kind to those who rule by force rather than persuasion."
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/court-victory-masks-political-freefall

Court Victory Masks Political Freefall
As the President basks in Supreme Court victories and executive power grabs, his core supporters are peeling away—and the consequences may be deeper than he thinks.

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.
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Further detail about what's been happening expanding on my thread about context: #USpol