@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineVacationing 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.
#USpol
@stefan@gardenstate.socialThis booty call is too aggressive for me.
#uspol
@crell@phpc.social
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.orgBecause 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*!
#uspol
@hex@kolektiva.socialI 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.
#USPol
@joe@toot.worksI 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
@timbray@cosocial.caMore 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
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineAnother 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.
#USpol
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social"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!
@stefan@gardenstate.socialTa-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online🎶 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.
#USpol
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialIs Kamala Harris backing Mamdani just a way to sabotage Mamdani because people who like Mamdani probably do not like Harris?
#USPOL
@markrsmith@smithtodon.orgHouse 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
@hex@kolektiva.socialReally 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
@smurthys@hachyderm.io
@smashtie@mas.to'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
@stefan@gardenstate.socialThe Abundance Debate Hits California by Pod Save America
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@jrm4@mastodon.socialAlso, 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
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialThe only phrase that sums things up is "I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!"
I don't know how the experts I hear on NPR can talk after hearing a Trump audio clip that is clearing the ramblings of a madman and not call it out as such.
They somehow remain all serious and explain things clearly. How do they do it?
#USPOL
@joe@toot.works"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."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol
@samueljohn@mastodon.world
@davej@dice.camp
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzGlaring coercion, principled refusal. Not much surprises me out of the US currently, but this did.
"House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) said that Democrats who left the state would only be allowed to leave the chamber on Monday if they signed an agreement to be accompanied by an escort from the Texas Department of Public Safety."
Rep Nicole Chandler declined to sign the agreement, and "NBC News correspondent Ryan Chandler reported that Collier was "locked into the House chamber" because she refused to sign the document."
"In my heart I don't feel compelled to sign it"
"I'll just sit here, I don't know… I guess I'll wait til Wednesday."
!
This is the kind of integrity we need. Immense respect to her.
#NicoleCollier #Texas #USPol
@stefan@gardenstate.socialTrump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force | The Ezra Klein Show
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineNot for nothing, but if Portland had its own nuclear capability, they wouldn’t be facing imminent invasion by the United States federal government. /s
#USpol
@hex@kolektiva.socialSince 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
#USPol
@glauber@writing.exchangeThis made my day.
#uspol
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social#UsPol #FreeSpeech #Kimmel
"Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension"
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.orgThe hypocrisy of the right is off the charts.
#uspol
(gift article)
https://www.nytimes.co…
@mlawton@mstdn.social“ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds”
It’s going to get much, much worse. I’m afraid for so many people. #USpol
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de @davidaugust@mastodon.onlineWhat a day that shall be.
#USpol #USpolitics
![[Video reveals lines of text (below) as a singer Lizzy of Lizzy and the Triggermen sings Irving Berlin’s “When That Man Is Dead and Gone.”]
The life expectancy of a 79 year old male New Yorker is 7 years, 9 months and about 11 days.
His health is lower than average but his health care will be above average.
A glimmer…
[silhouette of the Grim Reaper with a Scythe]
Source: https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/publications/docs/adm/06adm-5att8.pdf
[confetti falls]
[digit…](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/921/607/183/568/583/small/fbb9030f86230a70.png)
@jrm4@mastodon.socialYou don't need to *agree* with Hakeem Jeffries being lukewarm on Mamdani; but you do need to understand where it's coming from.
Because if you think it's because *Jeffries* is some kind of corrupt old school insider, you're an idiot.
It's a complex game and behind the scenes maneuvering matters, like it or not.
#uspol
@hex@kolektiva.socialThis 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.
#USPol
@joe@toot.worksThis repugnant tax bill that the GOP is trying to push through will hopefully be the end of the GOP.
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol #GOP
@smurthys@hachyderm.io @crell@phpc.socialBiblical scholar responds to DHS Christian Nationalist propaganda:
#uspol
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org @davidaugust@mastodon.online @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzGreat comment from @…, about the visibility of _some_ violence and the taken-for-granted background of _other_ violence.
#USPol #CharlieKirk
@stefan@gardenstate.socialMarc Maron Talks Donald Trump, Comedy and The Left by Pod Save America
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineThe 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.
#USpol
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMy partner is a Chelsea supporter and was so pissed about what happened they asked me to make a sign for tomorrow's protest...
#USPOL
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org @markrsmith@smithtodon.org @hex@kolektiva.socialI 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.)
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineChat, anyone have a contact at the Pentagon I can get this to? I wanna make sure they update their maps with the current info.
#USpol
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialHey it's lunchtime so I spent a few minutes making a new graphic!
#USPOL
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz47's government being a menace to the whole world again. Tuberculosis in prisons means tuberculosis everywhere.
"Detainees have tested positive for tuberculosis at the Anchorage Correctional Complex in Alaska and Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California, according to news reports. ...
"Tuberculosis thrives in carceral settings of all kinds. It spreads through the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or spits, and it only takes a few droplets to sicken someone. ...
"Almost everyone who contracts it needs treatment to survive, and those who do may live with lungs so damaged they struggle to breathe. ...
"Anyone in ICE custody with symptoms suggestive of tuberculosis is supposed to be placed into an airborne infection isolation room with negative pressure ventilation ...
"But ICE detention facilities don’t necessarily have such rooms ... The typical solitary cell does not use negative pressure, detention and medical researchers said. ...
"Experts expect the situation to get much worse in the months ahead. That’s because Trump’s drive to deport one million people hasn’t yet coincided with the height of flu season, or the GOP’s recent cuts to the health care system, or its exclusion of undocumented immigrants from several social programs."
- Whitney Curry Wimbish, The American Prospect
#tuberculosis #USA #USPol
@stefan@gardenstate.socialMehdi Hasan: Jubilee “Debate” Left Me SPEECHLESS by The Bulwark #uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineSomeone 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.
#USpol
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org @stefan@gardenstate.socialThe Gloves Are Off | "I Absolutely Love That Colbert Got Fired" | Trump & Epstein's Wonderful Secret #uspol
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI’m thinking a protest sign that just says:
TRUMP
EPSTEIN
It could be in the style of a yard sign for the election.
#USPOL
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @stefan@gardenstate.social"Jack Ciattarelli has been running for governor since Mikie was in high school"
- Sean Higins
#NewJersey #uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org @davidaugust@mastodon.onlineThe people, united, will never be defeated.
Protest works, boycotts work.
Sinclair and Nexstar to reinstate Kimmel on ABC stations
#USpol
@hex@kolektiva.socialLiberals: 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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @stefan@gardenstate.socialWhen will Bigbird be stopped?!!
#uspol
@hex@kolektiva.socialWe're all really used to an FBI that is incredibly evil, but generally pretty competent. They have no problem using child sex offenders to infiltrate groups of clowns. They have no problem trying to convince civil rights leaders to commit suicide. They have no problem with sowing confusion within leftists groups and trying to get them to kill each other. They've always been radically anti-left, but they've also always been competent.
Fabricating evidence in a really obvious way would always have been off the table because they wouldn't be willing to throw a case. But those competent people have been pushed out of the FBI. It's now Kash Patel's clown show. It serves the whims of the regime above all else. It will sacrifice decades of hard built trust for a quick win, because no one involved is competent enough to understand the consequences of such actions.
In the past, they may have used torture to elicit a confession. They may have entrapped people. They could have deleted exonerating evidence, but they would probably not have just completely manufactured obviously fake evidence just to forward the regime's narrative. I don't think that we've seen anything like this, at the very least in our lifetimes.
We have to foster a new level of skepticism, far beyond what we have been used to... and this is especially true of Liberals, who still don't understand the level of corruption and incompetence in local law enforcement today.
#USPol #CharlieKirk
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineNot good.
#USpol
@hex@kolektiva.socialA 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
@stefan@gardenstate.socialLiterally screaming
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineEuropean 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.
#USpol
@hex@kolektiva.socialPeople talk about how politics shouldn't be like sports. I think it depends a lot on what sports though.
Like, imagine if politicians had to wear the logos of every company they worked stock in and every company that donated to their campaigns like they're driving NASCAR. Of all sports, almost no one wants anything to be more like NASCAR... And yet, when you think about it, there actually *are* some hints we could take from it.
#USPol
@stefan@gardenstate.socialJust a normal government employee
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @stefan@gardenstate.socialSo, what exactly is the “New Right?” | The Gray Area
#uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.socialWhy Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein | The Ezra Klein Show
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineWon 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
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineAfter the introduction in Dutch, it is Lubach with what’s next for disney.
#USpol
@stefan@gardenstate.socialTrump looking down at his shit in the toilet:
"I can't believe Biden left this here"
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineFormer Disney CEO thinks Disney and ABC messed up.
Because they did.
source: #USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlinePotus without the mostus.
As one time governor of Indiana Roger Branigin said, “I never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.”
And potus done done that.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Afetnw70S04
@stefan@gardenstate.socialPutin and Trump Meet: Everything That Did and Did Not Happen in Alaska by William Spaniel
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @davidaugust@mastodon.onlinePresident 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.
#USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineHis name was Silverio Villegas Gonzšlez.
#USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineAdded 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
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineDid you know that "James David Vance" is an anagram for "adds caveman jive?"
Well, now you do.
#USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineThey make a good point.
#USpol
![screenshot of a post by Dr. Allison Wiltz
@queenie4rmnola:
Failing to properly punish the Confederacy
[quote of post by] Fred Fella @FredFellalMO:
My American friends, how did America become such a political cesspool?
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@davidaugust@mastodon.onlinePresidential 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.
#USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineSo...comedy is illegal again?
#FreedomOfSpeech #Kimmel #USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlinePresident Epstein List has an insufficiency? Sounds right.
#USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineTrump keeps praising dictators.
At this rate, I half expect him to give Stalin a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. 🤦♂️
#USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineWhat 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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online“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.
#USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online“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.
#USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineSo 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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @davidaugust@mastodon.onlineThe 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
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineInt. 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
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineIf all of bordering states followed illegal orders from potus to invade Chicago, it’d be:
~45,000 invaders vs. ~32,000 defenders.
(Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin National Guard against Illinois National Guard, State Police, Chicago Police, County Sheriffs)
Plus, it would take more than 53,000 soldiers to even begin to think one could hold Chicago (population ~2.6 million).
#USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineAn older video that still has relevance today:
#USpol #radicalization
![screenshot of a post by ruyihucueb:
BREAKING [siren emojis]
Police Scotland placed on high alert after receiving a tip-off that a rapist with links to a notorious pedophile may have arrived in the country.
[photo of a group of Scottish walking down a street almost in formation]](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/927/459/208/538/959/original/48841cf5ca9bc895.jpeg)
![[overlaid: Here's what she meant to say:]
fake screenshot of a post by Attorney General Pamela Bondi @AGPamBondi:
No one is above the law. Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to being those who abuse positions of power and mislead the American people. We will follow the "facts" in this case.
5:45 PM · Sep 25, 2025
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![screen shot a a post by Radostaw Sikorski @sikorskiradek:
Roger that.
[quoted post]
The Bulwark @BulwarkOnlinez:
Reporter: "Do you think that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace?"
Trump: "Yes, I do."
Reporter: "Would the United States help them out in some way?"
Trump: "Depends on the circumstance, but we're very strong toward NATO."
Still of reporter and potus talking]
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