Tootfinder

They make a good point.
#USpol

I’m thinking a protest sign that just says:
TRUMP
EPSTEIN
It could be in the style of a yard sign for the election.
#USPOL

Learn where the term boycott came from!
#uspol #boycott

A short story about hypothetical #USPol. I wrote it a few times but every time I do the situation outpaces the narrative.
https://write.as/hexmhell/uncommon-sense

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On the Bible and immigration.
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Once Trump finishes his chat with Putin, can he get back to the Epstein list?
#Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Over on Twitter, the doofus-and-loud extreme left is utterly crashing out on the fact that "No Kings" is showing that even us so-called libs or neolibs or libtards or whatever they're calling us today ABSOLUTELY DESTROY THEM at the one thing they thought they had in the bag, organizing and protesting.
Carry on!
#uspol

Only in Trump's America: Trump's US Atty. nominee was rejected. So, DOJ made the same man a Special Atty to the US Atty. Because the US Atty position is vacant, that same rejected man is now the acting US Atty. 🤷🏼‍♂️
#uspol #shenanigans #NYT

GOP voted en bloc to not release the Epstein files.
#uspol

Trump keeps praising dictators.
At this rate, I half expect him to give Stalin a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. 🤦‍♂️
#USpol

I'd venture this backlash isn’t just because of one Epstein PR mistake. It’s because Trump smells weak and vulnerable, and his supporters are looking for an exit. The MAGA types loved Trump because he made them feel like winners. And right now he doesn’t.
That doesn't mean we win, yay, time to kick back. His supporters are in an abusive relationship, and they will find it hard to leave.
What this means is − keep the pressure up. ←
Worth skimming this whole roundup from @…. I just don't think the backlash happens without larger underlying weakness.
#uspol https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/114851991461182777

Trump looking down at his shit in the toilet:
"I can't believe Biden left this here"
#uspol

3 guesses where I was this afternoon. First 2 don’t count. #NoKings #USPol #LetThePeopleSpeak

The long-lost hometown college radio station is playing the Beach Boys, "Student Demonstration Time."
Here's to hoping no one earns a "Bachelor of Bullets" today.
#uspol

I wouldn't want him to get his "biggest crowd ever" any other way...
#meme #USPol #Trump

What if Mexico paid to install a wall of windmills on their border with the U.S., would potus explode from the inner conflict?
Green energy really could move us toward a better future.
#USpol

There is a “NO KINGS” sign and protest on a I-295 overpass in Hamilton NJ
#NoKings #Trump #USPol

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

Free, no paywall
#uspol
Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
The Trump administration has made U.S. human-rights reports favorably evaluate countries the president likes, @anneapplebaum writes. Now the State Department portrays “Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador”:

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

Rachel Maddow: Trump’s Alaska Summit With Putin Is an ‘Abject Humiliation’ | Pivot
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The Orange Menace’s Congresional lapdog has broken ranks with him over Epstein.
Taking away healthcare from millions, he’s a-ok with. Concealing the crimes of the Tangerine Fool? Not so much.
And you know just who is the lapdog I’m referring to too.
#USpol

Putin and Trump Meet: Everything That Did and Did Not Happen in Alaska by William Spaniel
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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

Can dems stop pandering to vulnerable minorities and just go away at this point? You could replace most of them with rocks and they’d be just as, if not more useful #pol #democrats #uspol

"The president set a deadline for Russia, threatening trade consequences if no peace deal w Ukraine n 50 days."
So, 24 hrs == 50 days after the first 6 months?🤔
And, anyone offends him: Tariff NOW; but Russia gets mention of a slap on the wrist.
#uspol #Russia #Ukraine

Could The 3.5% Protest Rule Stop Donald Trump? by Pod Save America
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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.
#USpol

Los Angeles : le discours choc du démocrate Gavin Newsom contre Donald Trump (discours intégral) - YouTube
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#UsPol #NIH #Academia
NIH scientists pub…

NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” Monday’s letter from NIH researchers and staffers says the Republican Trump administration’s policies waste public resources and harm people’s health. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his confirmation hearings pledged openness to views that might conflict with his, saying dissent is the “essenc…

Also so langsam wünsche ich mich, als Kind der 80er, fast in die Zeit des kalten Krieges zurück.
Es lief zwar vieles grundsätzlich falsch und es gab immer diese nervöse Hintergrundschwingung ... Aber zumindest musste ich mich nicht jeden Tag aufs neue fragen, ob denn die Welt nicht noch mehr n Rad ab hat.
Jeden Tag irgend ne neue Irrsinnigkeit 🙈
#uspol

"“Ohio” is a protest song written by Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970. "
#USpol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9VqfVQ9c

Two things can be true, even if they seem in opposition.
Hitler's race law was based on Jim Crow. Lebensraum was a direct translation of Manifest Destiny to Europe. The genocide of indigenous Americans was the inspiration and roadmap for the Holocaust. Red Summer was a genocide event. Chinese exclusion was a genocide event. The genocide of indigenous Americans continued, and the Dakota Access Pipeline is an example of that continuance.
And... Trumpian fascism is new phase of America that's markedly different than anything that anyone alive had ever experienced. Trump was inspired by Hitler's speeches and read them regularly. He admires Hitler and tries to emulate him. The language he used during his first campaign were developed by Neonazi groups like Aryan Brotherhood working with the KKK. His image was shaped by white and Christian nationalists, as is his platform today. He is a new and more dangerous kind of monster. The death camps are new. The scale of what's happening is new. The concentration of power is new.
These can both be true, and are.
#USPol

If I got this right ICE is well known for coming masked in military clothing and suspiciously neutral vans without warrants to arrest people.
So what if a bunch of lookalikes would show up on a golf course and just take Trump away?
Ok, I assume there is guards…
#pol #uspol

Here's a great modern version of the classic "Join or Die" cartoon from the American Revolution to prepare for Friday.
#NoKings #uspol

Every time Kash Patel is on TV (usually while standing next to Whiskey Pete, behind Trump), he looks like his mushrooms just kicked in. What the hell is up with that?
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

Very efficient: running Reichstag moment and Kristallnacht reenactment all in one day instead of months apart
I really had hoped the situation would have calmed down over night, just to wake up reading about Trump having setup everything to burn down his country completely—and then gone golfing
#USPol #WTF

I don't want to write spoilers or need content warnings here, so:
It's popcorn 🍿 time in the US 🇺🇸! Bring out your best bullshit bingo sheets for billionaire battles!
#uspol #spacekaren #drump

I think it's a generally bad thing that I've referenced a specific Nazi death camp in reference to #USPol so often that I was thinking "oh, I should probably just bookmark this." I think that's a bad sign and I don't like it.

So as @… pointed out, "Sneaky way to include the Russian flag in your official messaging." 🤔
#USpol #dod

"Streit eskaliert: Trump vs. M..."
Puh, zum Glück nicht #Merz. 😰
#depol #uspol

Lots of chatter about: "Black folks, this is not our fight"
Well, of course it is -- we wrote the playbook.
Literally.
Now we, and everyone else, needs to follow THAT PLAYBOOK, that's all.
#uspol #blackmastodon

Doublespeak, hypocrisy, and shameless lying are requirements to be a Republican these days.
#uspol #GOP #TrumpFascist

Heh, so people in the import/export world, instead of dealing with Trump’s short-attention-span/TACO tariff policies, now have to deal with the uncertainties of US constitutional litigation. Joking aside, I think that’s an improvement.
#USpol

I asked AI to design a challenge coin* for the U.S. Marines for their campaign in Los Angeles against the American people.
Here’s what it suggests. Are you few the proud yet?
*medallion recognizing membership/achievement/boost morale, often collected or exchanged.
#USpol #USMC

How the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
1/2
#uspol #democracy

Kamala Harris called it. #Politics #USPolitics #USPol

Seems to me Coke should put pages of a certain file and list on their bottles, just print them on there. It would really get the information to the people.
Could be so refreshing.
source: https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/32028

#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...

Was ich zum Besuch von Merz im Oval Office bei Trump sagen kann beschränkt sich im Moment auf: Merz trug einen Anzug.
#pol #depol #uspol

Would you vote for Stephen Colbert in a presidential primary?
#uspol

Uspol
"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.
#USPol

I know that deploying the national guard and the FBI to DC is just the orange dipshit's pathetic attempt to get his followers to stop talking about him being in the Epstein files, but it's still a very bad situation.
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

If you think things are okay try following the #ICE hashtag and then report back.
#USPOL

Liberals would rather go to a peaceful candle light vigil for children who have had their parents stolen from them than brick a cop who's stealing parents away from their kids, and they wonder why all their politicians "are so concerned" about Gaza but aren't willing to actually do anything to stop arms shipments to Israel.
#USPol

Billionaire Republicans have destroyed the American Dream.
#uspol

If you want to watch a petty video about terrible republicans I have the video for you.
#uspol

So #Trump shut down trade with the rest of the world, then deported or otherwise forced out almost all of the people who harvest things grown in the US, and I'm just wondering if anyone else is trying to figure out where the food is going to come from.
#USPol

#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.

The crime rate in DC is lower than at any other time in the last 30 years, but with potus ordering federal agents and U.S. military into DC, he is committing crimes and directing them to do so.
#USpol #DC #FreeDC

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
#uspol

Will the L.A. protests help Trump? by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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"Affordable Care Act" is commonly called "Obamacare" in recognition of the US president who got it passed.
"Big Beautiful Bill" is similarly called "The Big Ugly" in honor of...
#uspol #BigUgly #Trump

#USpol #cat #CatsOfMastodon

As Trump's tariffs cut off the US from imports and as he deports the core of the US labor force, I think about the fact that tariffs and other import taxes were a major part of the lead up to the Revolutionary War. It's no coincidence that a bunch of the Founding Fathers were smugglers.
The logistics of the resistance and the logistics of the population were intertwined, meaning that it was not always possible to attack resistance logistics without alienating the population.
All this is worth keeping in mind right now.
#USPol

“As Trump visits Texas to survey flash flood damage, the White House has quietly backed away from plans to abolish FEMA, according to officials.”
- @aaronparnas.bsky.social
A good thing potus is the taco man 🌮
#USpol #FEMA

The reviews are in. No one give a shit about Rahm Emanuel
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😡
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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.
#USPOL

This is a good analysis of what's happening in America, right now.
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

When Will Democrats Get Mad? - with Rep. Jasmine Crockett
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😝
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I just assume Putin will trick Trump into giving Alaska back.
#uspol

Did you know that this president had sex, repeatedly, forcibly, with an underage girl who worked on his property?
That means he is known to have committed sex crimes, against a child, but it somehow doesn’t tarnish his popularity.
It was Thomas Jefferson, who else?
#USpol #epstein…

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

Follow the money.
#uspol #youtube

😝
#USpol

I expect this all to amount to nothing. But I guess we'll see.
#uspol

Apt as ever.
#USpol

The Massive Fraud that’s Tearing America Apart by Hank Green
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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'.
#USpol

For the #NewJersey Primary the almost complete vote counts are:
Democrats: ~786,145
Republican: ~453,000
Looking at Wikipedia both vote counts seem all time highs for primaries with the Democrat last big primary in 1981 with 633,000 votes.
People are paying attention this cycle on both sides of the isle.

I just checked the map of bigoted Congressperson Mary Miller’s district and oh my gosh is it gerrymandering run amok.
#USpol #ILpol #Congress

Latino Voters Are Feeling BETRAYED By Trump (w/ Carlos Eduardo Espina)
#uspol

No ok.
Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net
#USpol #labor #labour

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

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

The broken clock is right (twice a day): #USpol

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

So Assemblyperson Nick Schultz says well how potus is acting as a despot and ice and the military are out of line. Local law enforcement can handle any civil unrest.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL453gcxFr5/

Hawes on Instagram: "This is no less true or relevant today (7/9) than it was a month prior when @asmnickschultz initially addressed the media with this perspective. I would actually say this has “aged” perfectly and that the concern extends far beyond LA’s borders."
424 likes, 25 comments - dr.smrtmouth on July 9, 2025: "This is no less true or relevant today (7/9) than it was a month prior when @asmnickschultz initially addressed the media with this perspective. I would actually say this has “aged” perfectly and that the concern extends far beyond LA’s borders.".

#NoKings #taco #USpol

source: #USpol

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.
#USpol

Call your Senators now. @… can make it easy, or just dial 202-224-3121 and ask the Capitol switchboard to connect you.
#USpol #bbb