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OMG I just saw that US Forces birthday parade for the first time - it was terrible!
Really, laughably bad.
#uspolitics

Remember when George W claimed in 2003 that we needed to invade and occupy Iraq despite any evidence of bioweapons labs because he claimed that they were in RVs, traveling around desert? Mango Mussolini is giving a similar energy, here.
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

Key date is approaching for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act
"Back in Washington, the Executive Officer for the Joint Staff refuses to convey additional orders continuing martial law from the White House — and further notifies the forces that illegal orders have been issued, and that the president has acted ultra vires (i.e. “beyond his authority”) to his constitutional executive powers by issuing unlawful orders. He then proceeds to the White House with the Provost Marshal of the Military District of Washington, accompanied by a number of MPs, where they arrest the president and the vice president for violating their oaths of office."
#USPolitics #MarshalLaw
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/trump-insurrection-act-april-20-20269810.php

The proposed sell-off of federal lands in the Senate budget bill includes a LOT of Joshua tree habitat—the trees grow in some of the largest areas of undeveloped land in the lower 48 states
The place where eastern and western Joshua trees hybridize, north of Creech AFB, is included
#JoshuaTree #USpolitics

"What comes next? Perhaps it shouldn’t be so hard to imagine, given the drift of what’s now called geoeconomics. Already, China commands global trade, and modeling from Bloomberg shows that, as constituted today, the tariffs will only add to the lead — pushing many more countries to work more with China and less with America. According to one model, 30 percent of American trading partners would fully recover from even total cessation of U.S. trade within one year; within five years, more than half would. "
#GiftArticle #China #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/china-trade-economy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.hIwJ.AfGyLW35RqaM&smid=url-share

"On Wednesday, the museum announced that the rest of Tolokonnikova’s performance would have to be postponed indefinitely, because of “ongoing demonstrations and military activity”.
“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops,” she posted on Instagram, “and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”"
...
“I guess the National Guard will be performing POLICE STATE instead of me this week,” Tolokonnikova wrote on Instagram.
#NoKings #USPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state

Kamala Harris called it. #Politics #USPolitics #USPol

"For her part, Ms. Petrova is seeing the United States from a new and unsettling vantage point. “I feel like something is happening generally in America,” she said, in an interview over a video link. “Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.”"
#GiftArticle #USPolitics #UnAmerican
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/science/russian-scientist-ice-detained-harvard.html?unlocked_article_code=1._E4.cPsK.7-ImYTH7vDbB&smid=url-share

We are at the point in the fillum where the genial but strict Irish priest hands a pair of boxing gloves to the two adolescent proto-gangsters, points at the slack roped ring and says "Sort it out in the ring lads. And leave it in the ring."
Of course one of them ends up executed at the end of the film.
#TrumpVMusk

"When the Trump regime took over in January and Elon Musk's data-raiders started hacking federal agencies of various kinds, a group chat in which I participate started speculating about what kinds of terrible things this crowd might do. One member of the group wondered if the hacking might include the Social Security Administration's "death master file" – a list of people, presumably deceased, who would not receive any federal benefits and whose names and other identifying information would be flagged so that financial institutions would refuse to serve them.
What if, the conversation continued, the infamously cruel and paranoid regime decided to add living persons to the death master list? Doing so would destroy people's actual lives – which might make it just what a vicious government would do."
#USPolitics
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/

#USPolitics #NoKings

"The Republican Party is a hollow, decrepit husk. It is not a political movement. It is not a governing apparatus. It is not even an ideology with any internal coherence. It is a decaying vessel for a set of impulses: authoritarianism, greed, cruelty, nostalgia, and fear. And now, with the party marching in lockstep behind a man openly exploring how to violate the Constitution to seize a third term in office, it is fair to say the Republican Party has collapsed into something far worse than irrelevance. It is a clear and present danger to democracy."
#USPolitics
https://www.theindex.media/the-gop-is-the-most-dangerous-organization-in-america/?ref=dispatches-newsletter

"But Wall Street professionals, like so many other ostensibly smart people, refused to see Trump clearly, mistaking his skill as a demagogue for wisdom as a policymaker. “I don’t think this was foreseeable,” a mournful Ackman posted on X on Monday. “I assumed economic rationality would be paramount.” What an odd assumption to make about a man who bankrupted casinos.
Berezin thinks Wall Street still hasn’t come to terms with the cost of the nascent Trump presidency. “I do think that at this point we might have passed the event horizon, meaning that even if Trump backs off from the tariffs, there’s been enough damage done to the U.S. economy, to the global economy, to investor confidence, consumer confidence, that we’re probably going to see a recession regardless of what happens,” he said.""
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-stock-market-wall-street.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.q7Gk.5YS3EpoLnh8C&smid=url-share

"The damage isn't theoretical. It's active. It's live. And it's reshaping the world. Trade routes are shifting. Investment is diversifying. Global power is rebalancing. China, Korea, and Japan are shaking hands. All of it is premised on a hard-earned truth: the United States cannot be trusted to lead. Not because of one man but because of what half the country has chosen to normalize. Not because of Trump alone but because every institution built to restrain him failed and then got in line."
#USPolitics
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/?ref=dispatches-newsletter

#xkcd #ice #usa #uspol #uspolitics