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@davej@dice.camp
2025-09-19 07:00:32
Content warning: CW: uspol, Trump, Kimmel

“Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that's possible.”
Fine. Make *him* VP then.
So, do you think Trump and Prince Andrew casually reminisced over breakfast about children they'd raped?
#uspol #Trump

Post on Truth Social from Donald Trump:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump • 38s

Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that's possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!
President DJT
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-12-19 02:27:59

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

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-17 14:59:44

What would win the next US election?
#USPol #Shitpost
An anthropomorphic guillotine
Barnaby Jones's last single
3:22 of silence from The Offspring
The WKUK "it's illegal to say" sketch

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-10-17 21:16:59

#uspol

Cartoon depicting "Kristi Noem's All New TSA Checkpoint" with a TSA agent asking travelers, "Identification...destination... political affiliation..."
@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-10-18 00:34:21

Campaign Stream #10: Playing Stray / Face Hurts⭐⭐ !donate !discord by Kat Abughazaleh
#uspol

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-10-17 19:20:45

Discuss: The pros of having a conman president.
#uspol #discussion

@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
2025-10-18 18:28:37

I count well over 100 people out protesting in my small, relatively conservative town of Battle Ground, Washington.
So proud of everyone.
Edit: Revised count, I think approximately 250.
#USPol #NoKings

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-12-18 02:24:25

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

@crell@phpc.social
2025-10-16 14:05:20

Regime Change begins at home.
#uspol

@joe@toot.works
2025-11-16 16:44:26

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

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-16 09:38:25

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

A screenshot of an X (formerly Twitter) post from an account labeled “Homeland Security” with the handle @DHsgov, dated Nov 14. The post contains inflammatory language criticizing protesters at an ICE facility. Below the text is an embedded news video still from NewsNation showing a crowd of protesters outdoors at what the banner identifies as the Broadview, Illinois ICE facility. The scene shows many people standing closely together, some clapping or raising their hands, and a woman in the for…
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-18 07:48:35

I'm gonna bump this again since it's relevant to #NoKingsDay
#USpol

@profcarroll@federate.social
2025-11-14 23:35:43

That’s some free speech right there. #uspol

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-11-18 18:40:48

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

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-18 17:09:44

I keep saying the same thing over and over with my kids: you don't make decisions with your voice, you make them with your body.
"I want to go to the park."
"Ok, put your shoes on."
"I want to go on my play date."
"Put on a jacket and get in the bike."
"I don't want to be late to school."
"I don't control time, if you don't want to be late you have to brush your teeth."
There's a fundamental truth underlying this concept though, one that I hadn't really thought about. On some level, I feel as though, any choice you can't make with your body isn't a real choice. If you're begging someone to do something for you, it's ultimately not something you control.
As I'm compelled, by threat of violence against my family, to pay for war against my comrades and to kill people I don't even know, I think about that. How far is our concept of freedom from the police state we are taught to imagine as the global beacon of liberty. My participation in the violence had always been compulsory.
Perhaps we could do better than just #NoKings.
#USPol

@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue
2025-12-15 03:56:26

WTAF!? #uspol #murder #robreiner

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-10-17 02:27:52

Meet Robby Roadsteamer, The Man Who Trolled ICE by The Bulwark
#uspol

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-09-19 07:31:13

We'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

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-10-17 05:11:27

"The purpose Bolton stated of creating a group chat in which he would later share his notes...was “For Diary in the future!!!”
I believe the only/big reason #Bolton joined Trump admin was to write a book, I mean "diary", and he gathered info for that from Day 1.
#uspol

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-12-17 23:45:47

During his address #TheAmericanFascist will:
#USA #USPol #Poll #BoostForReach
Declare War on Venezuela
Announce Martial Law
Announce he is running for President in 2028
Announce the Republican Party is the Only Party
Mention Rob Reiner more than once.
Show off his “Peace Prize”

@profcarroll@federate.social
2025-11-14 23:35:43

That’s some free speech right there. #uspol

Podcast interview of Hunter Biden
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club
2025-10-15 05:28:55

Hvis man Ÿnsker at vide, hvordan Nazityskland kunne udvikle sig som det gjorde i 1930'erne, kan man bare kigge på USA i dag. Og samtidig spŸrge sig selv, hvorfor amerikanerne ikke i stŸrre stil siger fra, ligesom man efter anden verdenskrig spurgte, hvorfor tyskerne ikke tidligere stoppede vanviddet. #USPol #naziTyskland

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-12-15 03:21:20

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

Two people approach FBI headquarters saying they are antifa (fictional construct of the current Presidential administration, inspired by the idea of Anti-Fascism) and want to turn themselves in, but the FBI is unable or unwilling to accept their “surrender.”
@joe@toot.works
2025-11-15 17:11:41

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

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-11-14 22:12:27

#uspol

Cartoon of Trump sleeping at his desk while an aide says, "The president is merely demonstrating he's not woke."
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-04 15:29:28
Content warning: USPOL Trump Mamdani

I seriously laughed out loud when I read that Trump said that he is better looking than Mamdani.
First of all, it doesn't fucking matter!
Second, it's totally wrong. Mamdani is a good looking dude. 😉
#USPOL

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-06 05:40:04
Content warning: USPol, good summary

@… lays out the gap between (a) Democrats' collective fantasies of "the next election" and (b) what's actually happening.
#USPol

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-17 16:36:31

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

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-12-04 18:29:15

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-18 06:21:12

#USpol #ice #illegal #law

screenshot of a post by Paul @SkylineReport: 

Nov 15 

ICE dragged the country through a full-blown panic just to spit out 16 cases. Sixteen.
That's a joke, a wet firecracker, an insult to everyone they terrorised. 

Meanwhile Trump has shoved thousands of actual criminals back onto the streets with his clown-car pardons. Forget 16. His body count of offenders not behind bars anymore is in the thousands. 

[quote post] 
CBS News @CBSNews: 

Nov 15 

Only 16 of over 600 detained by ICE in Chica…
@jrm4@mastodon.social
2025-11-07 21:12:16

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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-12-14 15:02:09

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

@profcarroll@federate.social
2025-11-12 16:37:52
Content warning:  

Release by House Oversight Committee Democrats today include emails between Epstein & Ghislane re: Trump #uspol #EpsteinFiles
Epstein to Maxwell Apr 2, 2011
“i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump..[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never o…

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-18 16:07:28

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

A screenshot of two social media posts. The top post shows a user reacting to another account that laments people burning red political hats associated with the Make America Great Again slogan. Four images below that text show different views of these red hats on fire, some on pavement at night and one being held under a flame. The bottom post contains a reaction meme using a scene from a TV comedy where a blonde woman at a study table looks incredulous while someone in the background watches. …
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2025-11-04 17:30:09

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

@jswright61@ruby.social
2025-10-12 13:06:58

Anything to deflect the narrative!
Adelita Grijalva elected but not yet sworn in.
Epstein files not released.
Hundreds of thousands will lose health care under the Republican budget.
Foreign governments buying gold and not USD.
But what is the MSM reporting?
Democrats shut down the Government.
Blue cities unsafe.
Tylenol unsafe.
Circumcision unsafe.
And now we get to talk about this?

@profcarroll@federate.social
2025-11-12 16:37:52
Content warning: Implied Sexual Abuse

Release by House Oversight Committee Democrats today include emails between Epstein & Ghislane re: Trump #uspol #EpsteinFiles
Epstein to Maxwell Apr 2, 2011
“i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump..[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never o…

An email communication dated April 2, 2011, from Jeffrey Epstein to a recipient named Gmax, discusses an unnamed individual and mentions a "victim." The email highlights concerns about that individual's connections and mentions a police chief. Released by House Oversight Committee.
@vrandecic@mas.to
2025-10-01 05:43:43

The Radical Left does not have the majority in Congress. In the Senate, Republicans have the majority. In the House of Representatives, Republicans have the majority. In Congress, Republicans have the majority. Republicans control all three branches of the federal government.
Spread it wide, loud, and clear.
#uspol

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-07 14:15:11

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

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-15 20:50:35

I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
#USPol

@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club
2025-10-10 10:45:59

Nå. Så blev det ikke til Nobels fredspris til Trump i denne her omgang. #trump #USPol #nobelsFredspris

@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue
2025-12-07 20:27:53

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

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-10-18 23:10:19

"there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren't forced to serve seven years in prison"
I know. One of those "rogues" might even be(come) President. 🤷‍♂️
#USA #uspol #GeorgeSantos #Santos #justice #sarcasm #shrug

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-12-12 00:13:43

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

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 16:52:09

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

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-11 22:24:52

“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

@jrm4@mastodon.social
2025-10-04 06:00:37

The comedians in saudi arabia feels like a stupid stupid distraction and a way for people to feel morally superior in one of the most pointless ways possible
#uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-10 07:52:41

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

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-10-08 15:16:28

Because calling for one's political opponents to be incarcerated is a perfectly normal and healthy part of a liberal democracy. 🙃
#uspol

@vrandecic@mas.to
2025-10-01 06:01:23

Google, which is happy to answer all kinds of questions using their AI, seems to answer with a mix of non-committal results, a few current ones, and plenty outdated results for "who has the majority in the house" and similar questions.
Are you getting better results?
EDIT: I get reports from people that they get better results
#uspol

Three Google results, one highlighting a non-committal answer, and two stating that the Democrats have the majority in the House (since the results are outdated)
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-12-17 01:18:12

Somebody needs to tell Trump WHY Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
#uspol #venezuela #trump #wwii

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-11-19 06:07:23

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

@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue
2025-11-05 03:53:47

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

Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, wearing a WWII German helmet and overcoat… like Sgt. Schultz, “He knows nothing!!!”
@joe@toot.works
2025-11-05 21:49:41

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

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 22:18:05

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-08 21:41:45

Feckless felonious fool claims he “took the freedom of speech away” when it comes to flag burning. That’s not how this works you sanctimonious prick.
#USpol

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-10-07 15:01:20

Six US Surgeons General, Democratic and Republican—including one appointed by Trump is his first term—spoke out with one voice to condemn anti-science HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
#uspol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-10-08 14:54:58

Introducing The Argument: How To Save Liberalism (Without Being Boring) by Jerusalem Demsas
#uspol

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 16:25:43

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

@jrm4@mastodon.social
2025-10-01 14:45:00

Re: E.g. that Riyadh show etc.
The way some of y'all are holding comedians to the moral standards that actual leaders should hold is *deeply* goofy.
That's not their job. Their job is to point at the absurdity so people can see it. The more they do that, the better.
#uspol #comedy

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-12-07 15:41:51

president participation trophy.
#uspol<…

@joe@toot.works
2025-10-05 12:49:36

The Trump administration sure is good at leaking their own plans for things.
"A senior White House official accidentally leaked details of plans to send an elite army unit to Portland, in the latest intelligence leak by the Trump administration."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 16:15:59

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

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-10-06 16:18:12

#IVoted #NJ #USPol

Mercer County NJ elections dropbox
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-11-18 22:18:27

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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-10-06 13:19:51

Trump’s 2 Forbidden N-Words! Hegseth’s Military Fat-Shame! Russell Vought’s Odd Dream?! | HIGNFYUS
#uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-04 19:36:30

Turns out the greatest threat to Americans is American federal security forces.
#USpol

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-10-07 00:02:39

Irony - causing an Insurrection by making up an Insurrection
#trump #miller #uspol

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-09-30 20:30:03

#uspol

Generals and admirals at Hegseth's pointless "warrior ethos" meeting with the caption "This could have been an email"
@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-11-05 03:17:55

Nice graphic from MSNBC
#uspol

point spread
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-11-07 11:43:42

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

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-09-24 12:24:44
Content warning: USPOL

Is Kamala Harris backing Mamdani just a way to sabotage Mamdani because people who like Mamdani probably do not like Harris?
#USPOL

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-03 23:59:18

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

Screenshot of a two post thread.

Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX: 

After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.

MigratingCoconut @aheadwarp9: 

Replying to @GregAbbott_TX 

States cannot tariff each other.  Read the Constitution. Article 1, sections 9 and 10. 

Nov 3, 2025 · 11:04 PM UTC
@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-11-05 02:41:33

80% in #nyc
#uspol

80% in #nyc
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-11-06 13:32:50

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-05 06:07:41

Pure fiction.
This senior adviser to potus can’t even see that Oregon’s 6,695 sworn police officers are less numerous than the FBI’s ~13,700 special agents.
Stephen Miller shouldn’t be trusted to advise on a coffee order, let alone government policy. He is out of touch with reality.
Sources in comment.
#USpol

screenshot of a post by Stephen Miller @StephenM: 

Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. 

(There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and i…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-09-23 12:01:31
Content warning: USPOL

The 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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-11-05 02:46:26

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-12 06:45:11

Father Larry Dowling's account of leading a Eucharistic Procession to offer Holy Communion to those held by ice in Broadview, IL (near Chicago) and being barred from doing so.
"No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ."

Larry Dowling

I had…privilege…of leading…Eucharistic Procession… to…ICE Detention Center in Broadview…to pray…bring Holy Communion…to…men & women detained…under inhumane conditions. 

Over 1,000 Catholics…marched in peaceful prayer & song, facilitated by…Police Departments &…State Police. I cannot speak more highly of…public safety officers in providing us safe passage. 

Upon arrival…was…different…no ICE or Federal representatives…When requesting to talk w/…representative…over…phone, After…br…
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-06 11:31:42

It is interesting how Billionaire incompetence and Trump's flailing have done more to erode trust in capitalism than most of what the left has done for the last several decades.
#USPol

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-07 14:16:40

Oh hey, good things do happen even in the darkest times. Yarvin is taking about fleeing the country.
The thinks that Trump's fascism is failing (which it is) and tha Trump is incapable of doing what it takes to actually hold power. He's afraid of vengeance, which is honestly unlikely given how completely useless the democrats actually are. But I'm glad he's afraid. I hope he runs away to Russia, gets drafted and deployed to Ukraine, and eats a drone.
I also hope he can somehow convince Thiel to be afraid, but I think that's unlikely.
The fact is that if Trump fails, which I think he will (and Yarvin thinks it could be soon), it won't be because of Democratic leadership. It will be because of antifascist organizing and community resistence. We will have, once again, kept ourselves safe while the DNC argued over how much of their values they should abandon and how much of the left to sacrifice to "get votes."
#USPol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-12-04 05:24:01

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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-11-04 01:41:51

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-03 21:04:00

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team.
#USpol

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-09 08:13:42

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-07 20:18:08

It's worth remembering that the civil war was a slave revolt:
#USPol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-10-02 17:59:09

Is America Heading Towards Civil War? with Rep. Ilhan Omar by Hasan Minhaj
#uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-01 21:55:41

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

greogory bovino in a uniform with a customs and border patrol badge, looking thoughtfully sad, with a speech bubble above them reading, "Hurting people doesn’t make me feel better anymore."
Four men standing at a vice presidential press conference, in front of a blue vehicle, with a thought bubble above gregory bovino in uniform reading, "All this, and my mother still doesn’t love me."
U.S. Border Patrol agent gregory bovino holding a civilian’s arm, looking thoughtfully distraught, with a speech bubble reading, "I’ll never again reach the high I got the first time I violated someone, will I?"
gregory bovino in a U.S. Border Patrol uniform speaking at a dhs seal podium and a microphone, with an American flag in the background and a thought bubble reading, "Now the laxative decides to work?"
@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-10-02 15:31:48

this starts slow but I think gets pretty good.
How to Protest The Trump Regime Like The Civil Rights Movement by Offline with Jon Favreau
#uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-30 23:56:52

The gop controls all three branches of government, if their government shuts down, then the gop are the one’s who shutdown their government.
#USpol #shutdown

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-06 07:03:30

European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can be dangerous and may be subverted. It's generally safer, so Europe's working class decided, to accept some exploitation in exchange for not taking that chance.
The the strategy of "point guns at everyone until they comply" was a sustainable strategy, all of Europe would still be absolute monarchies, feudalism would still be the dominant economic system globally, and England would still control most of the land on Earth. Recognizing that this *isn't* the state of the world should give some clues as to how well Yarvin's ideas continue will play out in the real world.
#USPol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-30 16:05:11

“There is a fine line between vision and hallucination. People have to follow you for it to be a vision.” - Dr. Oz.
No, that is not in fact the difference you charlatan.
#USpol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-29 22:56:38

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-29 20:25:12

The gop controls the House, Senate, and the White House. It is their government.
If the government shuts down or the government stays open, that is on the gop.
#USpol

control 

noun 1. the power to influence or direct people's behaviour or the course of events 

Example: the whole operation is under the control of a production manager 

[example synonyms] jurisdiction sway power authority command dominance
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-11-01 21:10:03

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-27 17:26:16

Happy Thanksgiving!
#USpol

Today we commemorate that time an organized mob of asylum seekers

[The Landing of Roger Williams in 1636 (1857) by Alonzo Chappel depicts Williams crossing the Seekonk River]

showed up at the border and received food assistance.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-29 17:42:17

Watching Australian Senator Nick McKim describe the US slide into fascism:
#USpol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-26 00:28:31

I translated bondi's statement into what she meant:
#USpol #satire #Comey

[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 

[overlaid: If she'd been honest.]
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-28 01:07:36

Not 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