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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
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-19 08:04:51
Content warning: Nicole Collier / Texas coercion (USPol)

Glaring coercion, principled refusal. Not much surprises me out of the US currently, but this did.
"House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) said that Democrats who left the state would only be allowed to leave the chamber on Monday if they signed an agreement to be accompanied by an escort from the Texas Department of Public Safety."
Rep Nicole Chandler declined to sign the agreement, and "NBC News correspondent Ryan Chandler reported that Collier was "locked into the House chamber" because she refused to sign the document."
"In my heart I don't feel compelled to sign it"
"I'll just sit here, I don't know… I guess I'll wait til Wednesday."
!
This is the kind of integrity we need. Immense respect to her.
#NicoleCollier #Texas #USPol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-17 20:15:11

His name was Silverio Villegas Gonzšlez.
#USpol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-09-19 14:37:00

When will Bigbird be stopped?!!
#uspol

Brandan Carr saying: “Bigbird is a SICKO for suggesting he is taller then Trump and action will be taken!”
@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..."
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-09-18 09:57:48

Liberals: You have a choice. When Trump comes for you, you can buckle and comply or you can radicalize and fight harder. Decide now what you're going to do, because a lot of us will die if you decide to save yourself.
We will win in the end, with or without you. But, if you survive, you will always know which choice you made and you will have to live with it.
#USPol

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

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

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2025-09-18 11:44:17

I'm amused by the inclusion of 'You Can’t Always Get What You Want ' in the set of music played at the Trump/Royal banquet (I think in an orchestral arrangement)
#ukpol / #uspol

@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

@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-09-19 17:18:56

The hypocrisy of the right is off the charts.
#uspol
(gift article)
nytimes.co…

@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-17 19:30:15

Did you know that "James David Vance" is an anagram for "adds caveman jive?"
Well, now you do.
#USpol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-09-18 01:47:01

Just a normal government employee
#uspol

brendan carr saying “If ABC doesn’t star airing Mork and Mindy reruns I will revoke their license!”
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-18 07:48:35

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-19 00:54:47

Added 3 new nicknames to my @… bot that posts a nickname for potus every hour.
It's very handy when writing something and wanting to use something other than his name.
#USpol

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

Regime Change begins at home.
#uspol

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-19 11:22:35
Content warning: tuberculosis/neglect, USA

47's government being a menace to the whole world again. Tuberculosis in prisons means tuberculosis everywhere.
"Detainees have tested positive for tuberculosis at the Anchorage Correctional Complex in Alaska and Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California, according to news reports. ...
"Tuberculosis thrives in carceral settings of all kinds. It spreads through the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or spits, and it only takes a few droplets to sicken someone. ...
"Almost everyone who contracts it needs treatment to survive, and those who do may live with lungs so damaged they struggle to breathe. ...
"Anyone in ICE custody with symptoms suggestive of tuberculosis is supposed to be placed into an airborne infection isolation room with negative pressure ventilation ...
"But ICE detention facilities don’t necessarily have such rooms ... The typical solitary cell does not use negative pressure, detention and medical researchers said. ...
"Experts expect the situation to get much worse in the months ahead. That’s because Trump’s drive to deport one million people hasn’t yet coincided with the height of flu season, or the GOP’s recent cuts to the health care system, or its exclusion of undocumented immigrants from several social programs."
- Whitney Curry Wimbish, The American Prospect
#tuberculosis #USA #USPol

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

That’s some free speech right there. #uspol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-10-18 00:34:21

Campaign Stream #10: Playing Stray / Face Hurts⭐⭐ !donate !discord by Kat Abughazaleh
#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…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-18 02:10:56

So...comedy is illegal again?
#FreedomOfSpeech #Kimmel #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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-19 15:24:58

After the introduction in Dutch, it is Lubach with what’s next for disney.
#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

@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

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-09-12 14:57:55

Is "hoping someone gets the death penalty" classified as political violence?
#USPOL

@shellheim@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-15 05:39:50

We got 'em!
#uspol

The New York Times

Opinion

Guest Essay

Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani

Sept. 14, 2025
@pre@boing.world
2025-09-17 13:36:57
Content warning: UKPol USPol "Investment"

A lot of media today excited that US companies are "investing" in the UK with announcements timed with the visit from that wanker they elected over there.
But "investment" here means US companies buying UK land and staff and companies, right?
The whole press is celebrating more of the UK being sold to American owners. Like its a really great thing that UK workers will have American bosses and American companies will own and manage sites here.
Seems an odd thing to celebrate. I'd be happier if UK companies were repossessing US assets in this country and the country's wealth was expected to remain with UK owners.
Oh well. Expect "investment" has already meant those media companies are owned by Americans eh?
#ukpol #uspol #investment #thatWankerTheyElected

@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."
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-17 17:11:43
Content warning: US right-wing violence, 2 insightful threads on Fedi

"these guys grew up ... surrounded by guns at home and guns in the media, indoctrinated with the idea that the fastest, most masculine way to solve a problem is by shooting it."
#USPol #violence #CharlieKirk

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

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

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-09-06 19:26:17

I’m going to admit that that “Chipocalypse” post freaked me out considerably. I wonder if history will see it as a turning point in America’s extended democratic crisis? Because to this Canadian looking across the border at the USA, it has that feeling.
#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

@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

@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2025-09-10 06:07:09

Want to complain about #Rx requirements for a #COVID booster in the US? #uspol
You have until September 13 to submit a written comment to the

@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. …
@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2025-09-10 20:53:54

I'm not going to mourn Charlie Kirk. He was a genuinely evil man who liked being cruel to people.
I hope they find the shooter, arrest them, try, and convict them. Because that is the way of a democratic society. Justice must be done.
#uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-17 02:36:31

“I’m so sorry for involving you by texting you but have no other reason to text you but to create a paper trail of my confession to you that makes no sense and serves no goal I could possibly have.”
Bondi and Patel are not good at things.
#USpol

@Treppenwitz@sfba.social
2025-09-18 16:20:43

#uspol #JimmyKimmel #disney #boycottdisney

ARCHIVES Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime 5 entertainers expelled from Reich Culture Chamber for making jokes about Nazi regime Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. PRINT EDITION February 4, 1939
@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-17 02:31:19

“I’m so sorry for involving you by texting you but have no other reason to text you but to create a paper trail of my confession to you that makes no sense and serves no goal I could possibly have.”
Bondi and Patel are not good at things.
#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!!!”
@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…

@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

@shellheim@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-14 13:56:04

This is the profile picture of Tyler Robinson's discord account. What in the internet era is this.
#charliekirk #uspol

Garfield comic depicting the confused face of Garfield’s owner, Jon Arbuckle. He's a white man, wearing a light blue shirt with red hair.
@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.
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-11 14:56:21
Content warning: USPol, categories of violence

Great comment from @…, about the visibility of _some_ violence and the taken-for-granted background of _other_ violence.
#USPol #CharlieKirk

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-09-11 16:49:16

1. There is no “transgender ideology”. Just people trying to be themselves.
2. Antifascist ideology is what most of us learned in school as “being a good citizen”
#CharlieKirk #uspol #bullet

@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

@Treppenwitz@sfba.social
2025-09-18 16:22:15

The least I can do. After you write YOUR letter, post a picture!
#disney #boycottdisney
#uspol #JimmyKimmel

Dear Mr. Iger, I am writing to you today to express my disappointment in ABC's decision to indefinitely suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! over remarks Mr. Kimmel made regarding the death of Charlie Kirk. As a long-time customer of Disney's various brands, I find this action to be a deeply troubling overreaction. Suspending a host indefinitely for commentary, however controversial, sends a chilling message: that ABC and Disney are willing to sacrifice free expression to avoid political pressure. It is …
@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-14 17:41:44

An older video that still has relevance today:
#USpol #radicalization

@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

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

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

@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-13 22:48:27

#USpol

screenshot of a post by America's Lounge Singer @krang.bsky.social: 

no no no you misunderstood. I said "fuck YOUR feelings". MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird 

January 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-09-15 10:32:50

People keep trying to point to an event where the "right/left" political violence thing got out of hand. You cannot point to anywhere in US history where the right hasn't been murdering leftists. It has never happened.
They've been talking about civil war since they lost the last one, and most of US politics before that was just trying to prevent the first one.
There isn't a wave of right/left violence. Right wing violence has just gone unchecked for so long, and been so accepted, that now they're killing each other regularly. The Trump assassination attempts were all from the right. #CharlieKirk was killed by another fascist for not being fascist enough.
Fascists have so completely taken over that they see each other as legitimate targets because they've run out of "leftists" worth murdering. That's the story. That's what people can't wrap their heads around.
Everyone is worried about the right wing response, worries about right wing escalation, but they called for civil war over the cracker barrel logo. They're already maxing out their base. All the proud boys and other Nazis are already hired by ICE. They're also already going as hard as they can. They don't need any excuses. They have total control of everything. This bumbling mess is *the best they can do.* They call for civil war every few days.
We're not seeing a war between the left and the right. We're seeing a war between the right and the far right, where both side opportunistically punch left when they can and liberals help them justify their actions.
#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

@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…
@shellheim@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-12 14:22:22

This shooting has been the most 21st century-esque political assassination yet. "You are gay if you read this, LMAO" wrriten on bullets. What the hell.
#CharlieKirk #uspol

@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

@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-13 22:07:36

A lot of people seem unaware of who charlie kirk was in fact, not just fantasy.
Perhaps this can help.
Murder is bad, and violence is never a good answer.
(sources follow in comment)
#USpol #kirk

Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamon... @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
-Gay people should be stoned to death
-Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane
-Taylor Swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband
-No one should be allowed to retire
-Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states
-British Colon…
@shellheim@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-12 14:42:49

The suspect of Charlie Kirk's shooting has been apprehended and his mugshot has been released. His name is Tyler Robinson.
#uspol

A white man with a wide forehead. Neutral facial expression. Looks to be in his mid 20s.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 16:52:09

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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-09-07 17:59:40

Should Democrats vote to fund the government at the end of the month?
#uspol

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-03 05:56:43
Content warning: USPol speculation

Seeing rumours that 47 has had some kind of health glitch.
Suppose 47 dies, I don't reckon Vance would be any better. Different style, but a lot of the same people running things in the background anyway.
#USPol #Trump #Vance

@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-12 02:06:16

$27.7 billion budget and they didn’t spring for run-flats.
Honestly, it’s really good that they’re not good at what they do.
#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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-11 17:13:21

Violence is never a good answer. You don’t know what side of it you will be on.
#USpol

screenshot of a post by stone.cold.jane.austennn: 

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR 

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
@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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-11-05 02:41:33

80% in #nyc
#uspol

80% in #nyc
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-09 21:14:56

ice moving still closer to taking anyone they feel like, including natural born Americans with no criminal histories or activities, and disappearing them. Them is you, me and everyone we have ever met.
“ICE has been under immense pressure to quickly increase the number of immigrants it is arresting, with less regard for whether they have any criminal histories.”
🧵 1/4
#USpol

@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

@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
2025-11-10 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

@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-09 17:36:05

#economics #recession #USpol

screenshot of a post by Spencer Hakimian • @SpencerHakimian: 

This really has to be the dumbest recession in American history. 

All because 1 geriatric man is stubbornly holding onto universally debunked 1800s economic theories. 

Sep 5, 2025 • 5:13 PM UTC
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-09 01:51:30

Bill Clinton, who was impeached for committing perjury about sex, may have committed a crime related to sex?
Wait, next are you gonna tell me water is wet?
Sex criminals should be prosecuted. Full stop.
#USpol

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

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-09 05:00:40

Fallujah, Iraq is ~15sq mi (~25sq km) & had ~4,000 fighters US military and allies faced in 2nd Battle of Fallujah, one of fiercest fought by US this century.
Caracas Venezuela is ~300sq mi (~433sq km) & Venezuela has ~4.5 million militia now activated.
potus & kegseth must be stopped.
#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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-07 00:29:50

The Pentagon is so clean on OPSEC that I’m learning National Guard in DC is canceling hotel reservations there to move to Chicago and Baltimore _from the protestors planning to meet them_.
#USpol #Chicago #Baltimore

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

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-06 02:13:04

In accordance with Sec. 2. (e) of Executive Order 14190, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” as signed by potus on January 29, 2025, the U.S. Government will _not_ be "modifying a [Department]'s name," despite SecDef and potus' desires for the Department of Defense's “social transition.”
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
#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
@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…
@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…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-02 19:16:06

Hardcore criminals? Like…say with 34 felony convictions?
#USpol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-02 19:01:50

Wait, could I have entered that competition? Like could space command be in my breakfast nook?
#USpol #SpaceCommand

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-02 19:23:55

He still doesn’t admit that import taxes (tariffs) are paid by Americans importing, not by other countries.
#USpol #TrumpTariffs #economy

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-02 19:32:33

President wants-to-gerrymander-the-gop-into-permanent-power says _Democrats_ cheat.
Every accusation really is a confession.
#USpol

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

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