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I'm old enough to remember the unraveling of the Watergate cover-up, and the Epstein story has a very familiar stench. #USpol

Fun fact: did you know that of the about 3.55 million active duty NATO soldiers on earth only about 1.3 of them are US soldiers? That means the non-US NATO soldiers outnumber the all the active duty US soldiers on earth almost 2 to 1?
#USpol #EUpol

Frail elders should be treated better.
ICE Dragged an Elderly Man in Underwear Into the Freezing Cold
#uspol

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Greenland should rename itself “Epsteinland” and I guarantee Trump will forget all about it.
#uspol

Ya know who gets to rename the Department of Defense if anyone does? The US Congress.
Ya know who gets to rename the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if anyone does? The US Congress.
Ya know who history will never be kind to no matter what he tries to rename? A 79 year old dunce.
#USpol

More judges like this, please!
#uspol #immigration

Wow. Trump’s speech was 18 minutes that were nearly 100% fact free.
#trump #uspol #truth

En kommentar til den seneste udvikling i vores forhold til USA. Artiklen er i Ÿvrigt flere år gammel, men jeg tænker stadig aktuel. #USPol https://worldmhc.org/

That’s some free speech right there. #uspol

I really hope that the Democrats learn from their previous issues and run somebody less conservative for president, next time. (Assuming that there is a next time.)
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

🤦 Ain’t no way they actually posted this mess. 🤦
#USPol

WTAF!? #uspol #murder #robreiner

Trump’s approval rating slips on the economy and immigration:
#USpol

Trump’s approval rating slips on the economy and immigration - AP-NORC
Approval of Trump’s handling of the economy and immigration are down about 10 points since March. Border security remains Trump’s best issue with 50% approval.

And I'm ashamed to be an American
Where fascist thugs are free.
And I won't forget the ones they killed
Or maimed or took from me.
And I'll gladly stand up, next to you,
And shame and film today.
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love my home.
Let's free the USA.
#uspol

Brad Knott R-NC is arguing against releasing the Epstein Files because people in the files may be embarassed. I wonder if he's in the file.
#epstein #Congress #uspol

#uspol

Trump Threatens Europe Over Greenland; Europe Responds by The Bulwark
#uspol

I'm going to go back to my social media break, but before I do I'm going to leave you with a thought experiment.
Imagine we're in the middle of the second American Civil War. What do you wish you had done to prepare? What do you wish you had done to bring the regime down faster? What do you wish you had done to avoid this ever happening?
Got some ideas? Think about them. Talk them over with friends. Ok... Now what can you do right now? Ok, now do it.
#USPol

That’s some free speech right there. #uspol

RE: #USPol

#uspol #greenland #dkpol I believe that Trumps interest in Greenland is mainly a vanity project to help him build a legacy for his presidency. As such he is presumably on a deadline, either hoping to a…

are we in year 10 AE? After Elevator?
The Election That Could Rein in the Chaos | 'The Opinions' Podcast
#uspol

Having a functional democracy is apparently too woke for MAGA.
#USPol #USA #US #America

What does one call a friend, neighbor and ally that one day suddenly, and without warning, becomes hostile?
In Norwegian (and English) we have a suitable word for this: Quisling.
#uspol #denmark #greenland

So, we can't have affordable health care, everything costs too much, and there's a felon running everything ... but I guess we have The Hunger Games, now?
“first-ever Patriot Games, an unprecedented four-day athletic event featuring the greatest high school athletes — one young man and one young woman from each state and territory.”
#Trump #Politics #USPolitics #USPol

Now perhaps might be a good time for the reminder of a truth always obscured:
Black People (not Black "women" -- ALL BLACK PEOPLE - you have to watch how they do black men dirty here) are the practical always-voting correctly BASE of the Democratic party -- which in turn makes them the moral center of voting in America.
#uspol

What is in this bag that Trump gave María Corina Machado?
#uspol

#uspol #venezuela #meme

It’s only the third day of 2026! 🤬
#uspol #vepol #WagTheDog

Seems the FBI is not yet ready to take in surrendering forces from fictional terrorist organizations. No word on whether or not they could take surrendering Nazgul, Decepticons or Cobra from GI Joe either.
#USpol #antifacsist

I'm not sure why it took them this long to stand up against the administration. His attacks against churches, hospitals, and schools isn't new.
"'We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools,' the bishops said in a special message, the first of its kind in 12 years."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

Part of why #Trump has always been so hard to pin down politically is that he was always representing highly conflicting interests. Now, as that eats him alive, the GOP is fracturing in to two main groups: the Pinochet/Franco wing and the Hitler wing.
The Pinochet/Franco wing (let's call them PF) are lead by Vance. PF are also a coalition with some competing interests, but basically it's evangelical leaders, Opus Dei (fascist catholics), tech fascists (Yarvinites), pharma, and the other normal big republican donors. They support Israel, some because apartheid is extremely profitable and some because they support the genocide of Palestinian in order to bring the end of the world. They are split between extremely antisemitic evangelicals and Zionists, wanting similar things for completely different reasons. PF wants strong immigration enforcement because it lets them exploit immigrants, they don't want actual ethnic cleansing (just the constant threat). They want H1B visas because they want to a precarious tech work force. They want to end tariffs because they support free trade and don't actually care about things being made here.
The Hitler wing are lead by Nick Fuentes. I think they're a more unified group, but they're going to try to pull together a coalition that I don't think can really work. They're against Israel because they believe in some bat shit antisemitic conspiracy theory (which they are trying to inject along side legitimate criticism of Israel). They are focused on release of the #EpsteinFiles because they believe that it shows that Epstein worked for Mossad. They don't think that the ICE raids are going far enough, they oppose H1Bs because they are racists. They want a full ethnic cleansing of the US where everyone who isn't "white" is either enslaved for menial labor, deported, or dead. But they're also critical of big business (partially because of conspiracy theories but also) because they think their best option is to push for a white socialism (red/brown alliance).
Both of them want to sink Trump because they see him as standing in the way of their objectives. Both see #Epstein as an opportunity. Both of them have absolutely terrifying visions of authoritarian dictatorships, but they're different dictatorships.with opposing interests. Even within these there may be opportunities to fracture these more.
While these fractures decrease the likelihood of either group getting enough people together, their vision is more clear and thus more likely to succeed if they can make that happen. Now is absolutely *not* the time to just enjoy the collapse, we need to keep up or accelerate anti-fascist efforts to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of history.
Edit:
I should not that this isn't *totally* original analysis. I'll link a video later when I have time to find it.
Here it is:
#USPol

Die #USA sind kein Partner mehr für #Europa.
#uspol #uspolitics

Trump: Zehn Prozent Strafzölle wegen Grönland - auch für Deutschland
Wegen des Streits um Grönland hat US-Präsident Trump Strafzölle gegen insgesamt acht europäische Länder angekündigt - unter ihnen auch Deutschland. Die Aufschläge von zehn Prozent sollen ab dem 1. Februar gelten.

If the Democratic Party takes Congress in 2026, the first thing they should do is end the Senate filibuster. It’s a rule that if it ever did serve a purpose, it now prevents any opportunity for Congress to challenge a POTUS that does not respect the rule of law. It’s not in the constitution.
#USpol #SenateFilibuster

#USpol #ice #iran #refuge #refugee

One of my top guilty Internet pleasures: Wonkette: #USpol

Jesse Watters Pretty Sure Going MAGA Makes Women Hotter
It's literally true if you consider that they look like melted Bratz dolls.

Emma Goldman mentioned, wanted to share.
If this goes viral, drop the alt text in the comments below, a bit lazy to add it myself for long videos, sorry!
#USPol #Spirituality #EmmaGoldman

FULL REMARKS: Elizabeth Warren Issues Blunt Message To The Democratic Party About Its Future by Forbes Breaking News
#uspol

It retrospect, I may have been wrong with my conclusion in my 7th grade essay about whether “ignorance was bliss.”
This is a really frustrating time to know even a little bit about international law and maritime law.
#law #uspol

Three US prosecutors quit their jobs after being pressed to investigate the widow of Renee Good. The failure to investigate the ICE agent shooter was involved.
#uspol #ReneeGood #ICE

3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, quit after the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups.

When our potus was not a suspected child rapist/murderer, US was secure for ~80 years with Greenland under Denmark’s protection.
Now our potus is a suspected child rapist/murderer, so Greenland is suddenly in danger of something from russia or china? Hmm.
#USpol #Greenland

So if it's that easy to go in and yoink a dipshit leader of another country, law be damned, can we do Netanyahu next?
Or would someone like to do Trump? We wouldn't mind, really.
#uspol #gaza

Gosh, Nancy Pelosi is retiring so young! I hope she's saved up enough money for retirement.
#USPOL

Dick Cheney is a good example of why rich people live so long. [ETA: Rich people in the US.]
If he'd just been a regular person, he likely would've died without a heart transplant, if not before from one of his many heart attacks.
#uspol

Dick Cheney's cause of death confirmed by family
The former vice president died at 84, a family statement said.

THIS Is What a Strong Democrat Looks Like | The Next Level by The Bulwark
#uspol

In the first attack on a speedboat in September 2025, Trump and Hegseth used a military plane made up to look civilian. That’s a war crime called “perfidy”. (Free link)
#uspol #usnavy #uscg

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”

“Why yes, good sir, men are meant to court women for the sole purpose of producing offspring! Anything else is simply un-American!”
-- #MAGA
#USPol #US

JB Pritzker SLAMS Republicans for Caving to Trump by Pod Save America
#uspol

SCHULTZ!
“I know nothing!!!!”
#uspol #HogansHeros #mikejohnson

As fascist goons ethnically cleanse their way through American cities, casually murdering anyone who slightly inconveniences them, I'm reminded of a Zapata quote I've kept close to my heart for a few decades now: “I’d rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.”
#USPol

Pelosi will *not* seek re-election!? This week just keeps getting better…
#USPOL

This movie is nearly 30 years old.
#uspol

Wag the Dog (1997) ⭐ 7.1 | Comedy, Drama
1h 37m | R

:bisexual_pride: :bisexual_pride: :bisexual_pride:
#USPol #Meme #Memes #Humor

#USpol #ice #illegal #law

Fuck Elon and his money! (I was really hoping for more good news this week.)
We absolutely need to destroy the value of every company that asshole is associated with.
#USPOL

It's crazy how some of these gerrymandered districts look.
#Politics #USPol #USPolitics

Huh, looks like we got ourselves a hot shop...
#USPol

I’m in Chicago, first snowfall. Horrifyingly beautiful.
Beautiful because nature can be wonderful.
Horrifying because humans are too often not.
Nearby, there are federal prisoners in Broadview probably freezing to death tonight.
We each have our challenges, all are real.
May God’s mercy visit and comfort them.
And may His wrath visit their captors.
#USpol

Wrapping 2025 w/ Jon Favreau & Tim Miller | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
#uspol

I heard a comparison where someone said:
The Republicans rob you like a stick-up. They're brazen and open about.
The Democrats rob you like a pick-pocket. They're sneaky and you don't see it happen.
Damn...
#USPOL

So, Gableman's argument is that if he isn't allowed to pick which judges hear his case, it is a violation of due process? I don't think that is the way the law is meant to work.
"Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman says his due process rights have been denied during the ongoing fallout of his investigation of the 2020 presidential election."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

Oh hey, more folks pointing out that the shutdown may just be the goal #USPol

Do you oppose US imperialism?
#USPol #USA #US #Imperialism

A friend of mine, who I'm pretty sure is left-leaning (meaning, in the US at least, a Democrat) asked me:
"Isn't democratic socialism different from actual socialism?"
Ohhh, where do we begin! But the good thing is, people are asking these questions... Not just straight up condemning "socialism" because of the name.
#USPOL

What a Difference a Year Makes (with Jonathan Chait) | The Focus Group by
The Bulwark
#uspol

I have a folder on my computer called "1-7-2026 ice murder number 1" and put some videos of events there to save them in case they vanish from online.
Why number 1? Because it was afternoon and there was no way to tell how many they'd commit before the day was done.
ice must face Justice.
#USpol

The fascist who killed Heather Heyer at Unite the Right helped turn the tides against the last Trump administration. He said there were "very fine people on both sides." The resistance grew, antifa doxxing fascists started getting those fash fired.
But some of those fash didn't stop. They kept organizing their terror cells. The fash who killed Heyer was with a group called Vanguard America. Patriot Front is a Nazi group that split off from Vanguard America. They started terrorizing people by loading up in box trucks and piling out for spontaneous marches.
That box truck tactic probably sounds familiar. Patriot Front basically disappeared at the same time that ICE started recruiting hard.
Let me make it more clear. The very same Nazis from UTR who killed Heather Heyer, who Trump called "very fine people," are now employees of DHS. They've been carrying out the ethnic cleansing they always dreamed of, and they're being paid by the government, *with your tax dollars*, to do it. And now, just like in Charlottesville, they've murdered an unarmed protestor.
This feels similar because it is. These are the same people killing daughters and mothers. Killing unarmed protestors, out of rage not fear, then lying and claiming self defense. This is the same tactic it's always been. This is the same thing they've always done.
It seems like we may have reached the Heather Heyer point of this administration early with Renee Good. Now would be a good time for everyone to get into the streets and stay there until this is over. Everyone turned the tides before, and now he's so much weaker.
This can all be over if we fight like hell to end it.
#USPol

Building a big bribe room to sell the country off for parts while the government is rapidly deconstructed into a legislatively induced coma #uspol

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

I'm glad that NPR is there to try to raise the alarm.
"This week marks the fifth anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. An NPR investigation details how the Trump administration is trying to erase government information on the attack."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

Abolish ICE by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
#uspol

Building a big bribe room to sell the country off for parts while the government is rapidly deconstructed into a legislatively induced coma #uspol

Just so you know: a fascist is now running this country, openly pushing for Maduro to resign so his so-called “regime change” can install a literal fascist instead.
#Venezuela #USPol #Politics

president participation trophy.
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FIFA gives its new peace prize to Trump
FIFA gives its new peace prize to President Donald Trump. It’s an unusual break from tradition for the sport-focused soccer organization, whose president has become a close ally of Trump. The ceremony happened Friday during the 2026 World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington. It comes after Trump had openly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. FIFA president Gianni Infantino had said he thought Trump should have …

RE: #Venezuela #USPol

Nice graphic from MSNBC
#uspol

Maduro doing dictator stuff = bad.
Potus doing dictator stuff = bad.
Two things can be (and are) true at once.
#USpol

80% in #nyc
#uspol

Hey, reminder about #BlackOutTheSystem and #MassBlackout. (#Trump to go, there's a way to make that happen. Mass economic action sends the absolutely clearest message there is in the one language American power speaks. From November 25th through December 1st, they're calling for a mass coordinated economic action.
You don't have to feel helpless anymore. There are things you can do that actually hurt the system and can force it to comply.
Here's some info from the announcement page:
The Mass Blackout is a nationwide economic action, coordinated across aligned organizations, calling Americans to:
- Stop online or in-store shopping (except for small businesses)
- Stop work
- Stop streaming, cancel subscriptions, no digital purchases
- Remove the regime
If you must spend: support small, local businesses only. Pay in cash.
#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movment #NoKings

Just learned a new phrase: constitutional omni-crisis.
#USpol

Ciattarelli should run again. he's my fav political opponent ATM.
#newJersey #uspol

I'm at an interesting intersection between poor as fuck (or adjacent, mostly anarchist) folks and generally well off (mostly liberal-ish) tech folks, so every once and a while I can help with some info that bridges that gap. Right now is kind of a critical time for that.
For anyone not extremely affected by the SNAP thing, here's a reasonable video:
#USPol

He doesn't know what tariffs are or how they work, and how the Constitution works.
Great choice of leader Texas.
#USpol #TXpol #tariffs

Sounds like venezuela will pay for the wall.
#uspol

Morbid thought: potus & kegseth want a war w/Venezuela partly to get lithium that is in Venezuela.
You know where else there’s lithium? In potus & kegseth. Each has between 2mg & 7mg of lithium in their bodies.
Like some communist nightmare they use it willy nilly internally. Shall we stop them?
#USpol

Venezuela will be administered by "a group of people"?
I think he means oligarchs?
#uspol

The US has a carrier group in the South China Sea and another near the Philippines. Either could start a blockade of the Strait of Malacca, strangling China’s oil supply. So China may not “take” Taiwan today.
Tomorrow however…
#USpol #China

Protect Yourself From Media Like This... by schnee
#uspol #propaganda

The United States Has Captured Maduro. What Happens Next? by William Spaniel
#uspol

Sad Bovino.
A key figure in the unlawful ice violence and the disappearances of people, gregory bovino is sad.
🧵 1/2
#satire #USpol #ice

Added a whole bunch of new names to my @… bot that posts a useful nickname for potus once every hour.
#USpol #satire

Happy Thanksgiving!
#USpol

Carving Pumpkins to save democracy
#uspol

#USpol