2026-02-19 01:14:20
Time to get messy.
#uspol
Time to get messy.
#uspol
Husband of US Labor Secretary barred from Labor Department offices due to sexual assault complaints from staff (free link)
#labor #uspol #LoriChavesDeRemer
How Is The Dow - Auto-Tune The News, Wherein Pam Bondi Discovers An Unassailable Riposte That Canno
#uspol
Well - I guess that's one thing we can hope for to fix this shitty timeline.
#USpol #USPolitics #Shitpost
RE: #uspol
I heard a radio report on the Iran war and when the reporter said “People are critical of the regime” I just assumed they were talking about the US government.
#USPOL
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
Frail elders should be treated better.
ICE Dragged an Elderly Man in Underwear Into the Freezing Cold
#uspol
There it is. The Homelander-jerking-off-in-public moment.
#TheBoys #uspol https://mastodon.online/@RejoinEU/1163
#USPol #USpolitics #network1976
I'm not saying that the 1976 movie "Network" was prescient . . . but . . .
Honest question: Has "assassinate the leader of a country and the populace will rise up and overthrow the government and setup a new more US-friendly government" EVER worked? I know we've tried it a bunch of times, but I'm pretty sure it has failed miserably every single time.
#uspol
I love dunking on Fascists as much as the next guy. But this whole “Wow look they can make the draft automatic but not voter registration huh?” pretty crucially misses that then draft registration process is entirely handled by the federal government, while elections are not (And that’s a good thing!).
#USPol
vote counts not done but seems like Kat Abughazaleh doesn't have it. that sad!
#uspol
A real “my shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt” sort of moment
#uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/melania-trump-epstein-speech-puzzle
"This is what American people voted for."
Progressives just got our sound bite for the next forever elections.
#uspol #uspolitics
Trump, in trying to impress Japan, likened his attack on Iran to Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. He is directly admitting that he's the bad guy.
#uspol
Can #uspol *stay* in the US please? Get a visa if you want to come out.
Did Trump choose tonight’s deadline to distract from election results?
#USPol #USPolitics
LAPD declared an anti-ICE protest to be unlawful assembly on Saturday after sex toys were thrown at a detention facility. LAPD Central Division said criminal behavior by some lead to arrests, and officers feeling both threatened and aroused lead to one divorce and many instances of chaffing.
#USpol #satire
Seems to me that a working democracy would just remove someone from office for threatening to kill "a whole civilization".
#DonaldTrump #USPol #Iran
Hvor længe skal der gå ? #deMagaFication #maga #trump #USPol
Nice job #newJersey
#uspol
Today, tech people discovering what black voters already knew about Bernie Sanders
#blackmastodon #blackfedi #uspol
"It is unconscionable, it's illogical, it is difficult to comprehend," said the Irish Prime Minister about protestors blockading Ireland’s only oil refinery because they want the price of gas to go down. In other news, Trump is blockading Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz for the same reason and I plan to hit myself in the head to stop my headache.
#USpol
There are a lot of takeaways from this:
1. Organizing locally gives you a massive advantage because you will always know your local area better than ICE ever can.
2. Be agile. You can always change tactics faster than a centralized organization.
3. Organize now. The sooner you build your networks, the sooner you can learn.
4. Identify ICE facilities and organize monitoring them directly.
But I think the most interesting one that's not explicitly in there, one that's hinted at the last one, is to go on the offensive. ICE is already afraid. If we all take the anger we have at the murder of #ReneGood, find the local ICE facility that they'll stage from, and bring that anger to #OccupyICE we might be able to just shut the whole thing down preemptively. Completely stop all ICE operations across the US. If they want to fight, they can fight *with everyone, all at once.*
Shut down their ability to operate at all. They have a logistics pipeline. They need cars, they need oil in those cars, they need to be able to move those cars to target areas. They also need money to pay those agents. All of those can be disrupted.
The regime needs your money and labor to maintain the illusion of legitimacy. They chose a bad time because you can hit both of those at once *right now* with a combination of #GeneralStrike and #TaxStrike, and then #BoycottEverything.
The regime is weaker than it's ever been. It's flailing. Their own base is demanding the release of the #EpsteinFiles. Their last gasp attempt to prevent the radical change that's coming is just to ethnically cleanse the US back to the 50's (which is what they always meant by "Make America Great Again"). Trump will do anything to stay in power, even if it means killing everyone on Earth in the process. But Americans can end it now by going on the offensive.
Now is the time.
#USPol
This will be very hard work.
#uspol
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
If a politician does something unethical they have to go. Doesn't matter about the political party.
eric swalwell can get fucked.
#uspol
Good news from Fox!?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/inside-antifa-linked-groups-plan-structurally-change-us-may-day-unrest-approaches
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
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
Ah. Yes of course. We're closing the straight now. Perfect sense.
#uspol
I have one wish for the youth of today... and it's that they hate Trump as much as I hated Reagan when I was a young person.
#USPOL
The Names They Call Themselves
#uspol
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
Well articulated: grief that American autohegemonicide provokes.
#USpol #autogegemonicide
> "'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
I Have a Trump Theory... by Hank Green
#uspol
Well I guess eric swalwell can get fucked.
#uspol
It seems the President of the United States is hitting on or trying to date (?) perhaps the President of China, and potus also believes that one must block the Strait of Hormuz in order to open it (big destroy-the-villiage-to-save-the-villiage energy here), and finally potus would rather hug things out but also might get violent and wants you to know that he is a violent man.
Rabies-like logic.
#USpol
Back over $100
#uspol
RE: #uspol
A corrected official seal for ice:
#satire #USpol #ice #GraphicDesign
What Appalachia Can Tell Us About the Future of the Democratic Party (ft. John Russell) by How Is This Better? and More Perfect Union
#uspol
How well do your Congressional representatives align with the ACLU? They have a neat little summary:
#uspol
I'm so tired of winning.
#uspol
I tracked the AI Money in politics by Phil Edwards
#uspol
I think he plans to try to sleep with the peace treaty.
He plans to use a double sided ceasefire. Ew.
#USpol
Wow things are going great.
#uspol
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
Oil market is just climbing and climbing.
#uspol
What Causes Wars: An Introduction to Crisis Bargaining Theory by Lines on Maps Extra
#uspol
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
What 4 generations of veterans think of Trump’s Iran War by How Is This Better?
#uspol
We Found The Radical Solution To Skyrocketing Grocery Prices by More Perfect Union
#uspol
Oh boy.
#newJersey #uspol #elections
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
AOC making sure #newJersey knows what's up
#uspol #elections
Blanche DuBois - always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Todd Blanche - always depends on the kindness of redactors.
#USpol
Cory Booker SOUNDS OFF on Trump, Outlines New Tax Plan for Dems by Pod Save America
#uspol
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
The F-15 Rescue: What Actually Happened and the Fallout Afterward by William Spaniel
#uspol
I’m so glad that the United States Navy and the IRGC are playing chicken in the Strait of Hormuz and not trying to sort things out like a bunch of sugared up 5 year olds. /s
https://houseofsaud.com/us-navy-hormuz-transit/
I need some people I don't like to vote with me the next few elections.
#uspol
Opening up the straight is easy. We can't do it. But it's so easy!!
#uspol
How Israel Assassinated the Ayatollah & Iran’s Upcoming Succession Crisis by William Spaniel
#uspol
Happy U.S. Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day!
Oh the irony as the U.S. builds and fills concentration camps.
😳😐
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Hostage_and_Wrongful_Detainee_Day