@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-04-07 16:48:01
Content warning: USPOL, War
Did Trump choose tonight’s deadline to distract from election results?
#USPol #USPolitics
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-04-07 16:48:01
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-04-08 01:04:52
I think he plans to try to sleep with the peace treaty.
He plans to use a double sided ceasefire. Ew.
#USpol
@cjust@infosec.exchange2026-03-06 23:26:57
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-08 05:10:46
Abolish ICE by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
#uspol
@ellie@ellieayla.net2026-04-08 00:07:44
Can #uspol *stay* in the US please? Get a visa if you want to come out.
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizza2026-04-07 15:30:31
Seems to me that a working democracy would just remove someone from office for threatening to kill "a whole civilization".
#DonaldTrump #USPol #Iran
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-06 16:23:31
Content warning: USPOL, Race
I 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.social2026-02-08 04:49:29
Rewriting an earlier post that should have been edited and verified *a lot more* before posting.
I'm going to connect some dots here. ICE can cross designate with any agency (19 of U.S. Code 1401):
> The terms “officer of the customs” and “customs officer” mean any officer of the United States Customs Service of the Treasury Department (also hereinafter referred to as the “Customs Service”) or any commissioned, warrant, or petty officer of the Coast Guard, or any agent or other person, including foreign law enforcement officers, authorized by law or designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to perform any duties of an officer of the Customs Service.
Back in September Trump diverted a bunch of Federal staff to ICE:
#USPol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-04-06 14:27:55
![post by Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe @IRANinZIMBABWE
8 P.M. is not that good. Could you change it to between 1 and 2 P.M., or if possible, 1 and 2 A.M.?
Thank you for your attention to this important matter. I.E.Z.
[quoted post]
Donald J. Trump
@reaDonaldTrump
Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!
3:02 AM • 4/6/26](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/116/358/211/068/820/519/original/5303b07d9772b7ca.jpeg)
@crell@phpc.social2026-03-05 22:44:31
The Names They Call Themselves
#uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-03-06 21:27:16
What 4 generations of veterans think of Trump’s Iran War by How Is This Better?
#uspol
@jrm4@mastodon.social2026-03-05 16:36:56
Today, tech people discovering what black voters already knew about Bernie Sanders
#blackmastodon #blackfedi #uspol
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-08 05:06:12
FPS is the biggest available channel that I'm aware of to funnel Academi into ICE/CBP enforcement operations. The point of using FPS to support ICE agents is that FPS is stocked full of troops from EriK Prince's private army (now called "Academi" but formerly called "Blackwater"). This means that carrying out ethnic cleansing can dump money directly into the pockets of America's version of the Wagner Group (side from, of course GEO Group).
The Erik Prince angle also means that there can be an alternative chain of command that exists outside of official channels. ICE is already bad enough, but similar people have worked as mercenaries for a long time. Having an established chain of command over armed occupiers, one based entirely on economic incentives, one that can't be legally monitored or audited, one that's completely outside of the government, should be especially worrying.
I don't believe we've ever seen a clear explanation of who was kidnaping people off the streets, but I know that Academi had a contract (I believe with FPS) in Portland at the time. We also don't know who is on the ground in US cities right now, because they're wearing masks.
The bit reason J6 didn't go as planned is that Erik Prince wasn't behind it. Now there are troops with experience occupying American cities who can be called directly via Erik when Trump wants to make sure he doesn't lose again. And Erik won't back out at the last minute this time, because he's already seen that there will be no consequences for participating in a coup... if the time comes.
#USPol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-08 03:24:15
How am I doing? Well I just looked up how to pronounce eschatological, because for some reason I want to be able to describe American foreign policy accurately 😳😝
#USpol
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-04-07 21:51:11
> "'Down with the USA’ or ‘Death to the USA’ is not directed at American citizens, but at the policies of the U.S. government," the Iranian embassy in South Africa stated on X.
In that case I agree with those slogans!
#USPOL
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-06 21:59:33
We Found The Radical Solution To Skyrocketing Grocery Prices by More Perfect Union
#uspol
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-04-05 03:26:48
@seav@en.osm.town2026-04-03 03:42:16
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-02-06 18:43:53
Just added a bunch of names to @…, so now there are more than 280 ways to call potus names.
Useful for all the times you want to refer to him without using his name (every time).
#USpol
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org2026-03-05 02:36:03
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-08 02:00:51
What Causes Wars: An Introduction to Crisis Bargaining Theory by Lines on Maps Extra
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-01-08 05:04:42
Ice agent “logic”:
“They’re coming right at us!!! We better get our murder on!!!”
She wasn’t heading toward him, her wheels were turned away.
#USpol
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-04 04:06:40
Content warning: CW: Hegseth.
I 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
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-28 17:38:38
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club2026-03-04 06:19:21
"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
@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.org2026-03-02 10:04:09
@crell@phpc.social2026-03-04 17:22:23
How well do your Congressional representatives align with the ACLU? They have a neat little summary:
#uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-06 03:51:14
Oh boy.
#newJersey #uspol #elections
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-04-07 22:52:31
It’s TACO Tuesday! 🌮🌮🌮
Live updates: Trump pulls back on Iran threats for two weeks, subject to Iran agreeing to terms | AP News #USpol
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-05 22:23:13
AOC making sure #newJersey knows what's up
#uspol #elections
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-27 22:59:08
Good piece from Timothy Snyder argues that Trump is failing at fascism: #USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-04-06 22:19:09
Potus issued what he called a “final” ultimatum to Tehran, who killed thousands of its own people earlier this year for protesting, to reopen the strait and agree to Washington’s terms or face attacks against Iran’s civilian infrastructure, including bridges and power plants.
They killed thousands of their own, not sure leaving their own in the dark with a longer commute is gonna move the needle there, Nostra-Dumbass.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2026-01-21 23:39:20
RE: #USPol
@carbonwoman@norden.social2026-01-25 14:52:15
Ich 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
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-04-05 13:56:03
Cory Booker SOUNDS OFF on Trump, Outlines New Tax Plan for Dems by Pod Save America
#uspol
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-02-01 06:01:11
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de2026-02-21 20:12:29
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2026-01-24 16:55:31
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-03 10:02:02
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-04-05 14:41:58
The F-15 Rescue: What Actually Happened and the Fallout Afterward by William Spaniel
#uspol
@jswright61@ruby.social2026-01-25 20:17:07
Just 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
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org2026-04-02 01:28:11
RE: #uspol
@cjust@infosec.exchange2026-03-30 16:57:30
#USPolitics #USPol #WhoCouldHaveSeenThisComing
Amazing what can happen in a week.
Ref:
@crell@phpc.social2026-03-02 14:24:46
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-02-26 21:19:48
Next "stand up for science" March 7th!
#StandUpForScience #UsPol
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club2026-01-31 17:17:14
Det er svært at komme med en fornuftig kommentar til denne tale. Så jeg lader den stå som den er. #USPol #KennethHowery #trump
@scott@carfree.city2026-02-16 18:14:00
Abolish 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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-04 16:12:36
US 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.
#USpol
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-28 07:21:53
Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
#USpol
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club2026-04-01 06:41:51
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-04-01 08:33:11
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-04-04 00:13:37
Blanche DuBois - always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Todd Blanche - always depends on the kindness of redactors.
#USpol
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2026-01-24 19:10:20
LIVE ON THE GROUND in #Minneapolis!
#USPol
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-04-03 14:56:24
I need some people I don't like to vote with me the next few elections.
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-03 21:54:23
Kristi 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
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-31 18:13:35
I 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.
#USPol
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-25 01:44:43
I think we all owe a vote of thanks to the courageous and resourceful folk who are capturing the video of the MAGA murderers.
#USpol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-02-03 01:32:07
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club2026-01-31 07:37:30
Den slambert vidste godt, at flagene ville blive sat op og hvorfor. Men han beordrede dem fjernet alligevel. Ud med ham. #USPol #trump
@crell@phpc.social2026-01-30 01:04:40
RE: #uspol
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-03-25 03:29:12
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-04-02 01:33:51
Opening up the straight is easy. We can't do it. But it's so easy!!
#uspol
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org2026-02-22 02:52:44
@cjust@infosec.exchange2026-02-04 17:05:46
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-04-02 01:44:11
@crell@phpc.social2026-01-27 14:08:12
OH: 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
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-03-02 03:09:41
How Israel Assassinated the Ayatollah & Iran’s Upcoming Succession Crisis by William Spaniel
#uspol
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club2026-02-24 16:30:57
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-24 10:32:21
So 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
@crell@phpc.social2026-01-27 14:50:02
RE: #uspol
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-01-18 19:28:58
Greenland should rename itself “Epsteinland” and I guarantee Trump will forget all about it.
#uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-28 22:06:40
Eight Key Things to Watch for in the Iran War by William Spaniel
#uspol
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club2026-02-24 09:52:42
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-30 19:35:49
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-25 06:06:41
This 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
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club2026-02-25 09:10:56
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-27 00:03:53
Is Fascism Back? by Johnny Harris
#uspol
@crell@phpc.social2026-01-23 18:01:33
The Choice
#RankedChoiceVoting #uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-29 23:07:40
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong (w/ Adam Serwer & Bobby Pulido) | The Bulwark Podcast
#uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-29 23:27:35
Jared Kushner's DISGUSTING Gaza PowerPoint (w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates) | The Bulwark Podcast
#uspol
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club2026-03-26 10:53:19
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-01-23 15:47:24
@crell@phpc.social2026-01-18 15:23:29
More judges like this, please!
#uspol #immigration
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-25 03:26:59
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-03-25 16:24:59
Scott Bessent: D-Day was a deescalation
#uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-21 22:26:25
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-21 18:12:25
Claiming 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.
#USpol
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-24 21:21:58
Message from Seth Moulton
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-17 20:17:16
!["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)
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-19 01:14:20
Time to get messy.
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-01-19 17:09:22
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-16 15:39:16
![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)
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-19 23:04:05
How Is The Dow - Auto-Tune The News, Wherein Pam Bondi Discovers An Unassailable Riposte That Canno
#uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-21 16:47:28
Democratic president should use ICE money for:
- guaranteed jobs program
- workers to build housing
- Healthcare worker
take the money and redirect it.
#uspol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-02-12 22:33:12
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-03-14 21:01:59
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-03-18 00:55:43
vote counts not done but seems like Kat Abughazaleh doesn't have it. that sad!
#uspol
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-20 03:38:50
Frail elders should be treated better.
ICE Dragged an Elderly Man in Underwear Into the Freezing Cold
#uspol