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@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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-27 23:15:31

The Abundance Debate Hits California by Pod Save America
#uspol

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-09-27 21:07:34

Really hoping to see some One Piece flags in the pictures from the next #NoKings Day protests. I also hope everyone has brotherd to check the notes from Nepal. Regimes can collapse faster than expected. Sometimes it can be a total surprise.
I know things feel impossible right now, but you need to have a plan for when you win because it might surprise you. The other good thing about having a plan is that it gives you something to fight for instead of just something to fight against.
#USPol

@smashtie@mas.to
2025-09-26 05:45:27

'Bondi said in a statement that the indictment "reflects this Department of Justice's commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people."' I wonder if there are any other people who might be more obviously guilty of abusing positions of power ... 🤔 #uspol

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-09-26 16:30:19

House Oversight cmte Democrats release 6 pages from Epstein files.
They mention Prince Andrew (and his massages), Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel.
AND Elon Musk possibly on Epstein’s island
#uspol #epstein #PrinceAndrew

@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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-27 21:06:25

Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force | The Ezra Klein Show
#uspol

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-27 14:56:50

You ever go to a party at a house you don't know, then someone talks to you and you're like, "oh hey, who are you?" And they're like, "I live here, you're in my house."
That's the way energy liberals bring to antifascism. Like, we're all super glad you're here. Most of us understand why you're late, and we're just glad you finally made it. But like, you're kind of in our house. You didn't invent this shit, but we've been here for a while.
#USPol

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-09-25 15:50:40

"Bondi and prosecutors have reservations over charging Comey"
Trump only wants fodder for rants and distractions. An indictment suffices for that. Failed cases give him even more fodder. Win for him whichever way it goes. 😢
#uspol #Comey #justice

@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.]
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-26 07:33:09

Reagan's "Welfare Queen" rhetoric was a dog whistle. The whole "southern strategy" was full of dog whistles. Every time Republicans talked about gay marriage as a "states rights" issue, those were dog whistles. Naming a government agency "the Department of Homeland Security" was a dog whistle. Trump's speeches leading up to his first term were full of dog whistles.
Nazis have total control of all branches of government. They've cut off funding to all but the most oppressive elements of the government. There are concentration camps, both in client states (CECOT, among others) and in the US (Alligator Auschwitz, among others). They're actively carrying out ethnic cleansing.
When DHS puts out some Nazi shit, it's not a dog whistle. It's a vuvuzela. They're not trying to signal their intent without any of the "normies" noticing. They actively doing what they wanted to do. It's not a signal because there's nothing to signal. It's a celebration.
#USPol

@light@noc.social
2025-10-25 09:01:32

Republicans are the new Democrats
#USpol

@profcarroll@federate.social
2025-10-22 14:22:04

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

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-09-22 20:39:31

#UsPol #FreeSpeech #Kimmel
"Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension"

@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

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-08-26 11:36:53

Since leaving the US, things have gotten a lot better for me but it's still hard existing under capitalism. Just being a human is hard enough, but parenting is an order or magnitude harder.
Even here, with all the complexity of being an immigrant, it's somehow still less emotionally challenging than being in the US.
I wrote up a reflection on some of my feelings before leaving tangled up with some of the challenges I still have. I hope this helps some folks feel less alone, or makes it easier for other folks to understand why some parents are having a hard time.
CW: just.... Lots... Death, gun violence, trauma, etc
#USPol

@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue
2025-10-22 04:39:32

Apropos of nothing… #uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-27 02:27:02

The people, united, will never be defeated.
Protest works, boycotts work.
Sinclair and Nexstar to reinstate Kimmel on ABC stations
#USpol

@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

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-09-24 22:17:14

Okay, _this_ is funny.
nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tr

@glauber@writing.exchange
2025-08-22 19:46:25

This made my day.
#uspol

“I look extremely good in shorts.”

— President Trump, quoted by USA Today.
@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-24 15:04:15

Marc Maron Talks Donald Trump, Comedy and The Left by Pod Save America
#uspol

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-10-22 15:13:34

This "executive order" system simply has to be removed from the US political system. Why is it even a thing? It's clearly not democratic...
#UsPol

@Treppenwitz@sfba.social
2025-10-23 16:21:11

We must only ever refer to it as the JEFFREY EPSTEIN MEMORIAL BALLROOM.
#jeffreyepsteinmemorialballroom #uspol #releasetheepsteinfiles

Rendering of the JEFFREY EPSTEIN MEMORIAL BALLROOM
@crell@phpc.social
2025-10-16 14:05:20

Regime Change begins at home.
#uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-24 13:02:40

Chat, anyone have a contact at the Pentagon I can get this to? I wanna make sure they update their maps with the current info.
#USpol

A satellite view of a Lake Michigan surrounded by land including the city of Chicago, overlaid with the text "Gulf of FAFO" and a white lightning bolt symbol.
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-08-25 13:01:30

This shit is straight up just the plot to Red Dawn, but the bootlickers can't even recognize it because the call is coming from inside the house.
#USPol

@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…

@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de
2025-08-16 20:28:20

If I got this right with the summit the main accomplishment of Trump against Putin is to keep Alaska (for now).
#pol #uspol

@joe@toot.works
2025-08-15 12:16:39

Once Trump finishes his chat with Putin, can he get back to the Epstein list?
#Trump #USPol #USPolitics

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-09-22 08:40:40

"Trump administration ends government’s annual report on hunger in America"
There. Hunger problem solved. Next.
/s
#hunger #uspol #sarcasm

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-09-26 21:12:38

Des Moines Iowa school superintendent detained by ICE
#uspol #school #ICE #DesMoines

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-24 23:26:56

Someone pointed out that the image of the bullets from the shooter in Dallas today seems to be wet but it didn’t rain in Dallas today.
I wish I could ask JFK if there have ever been any inconsistencies around shootings in Dallas.
#USpol

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-08-20 00:43:26

#uspol

Satirical cover of the book entitled The Art of the Deal, except by Neville Chamberlain instead of Donald Trump
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-24 00:04:47

#USpol

screenshot of a post by felipejohns1: 

He did what the bad guys on UA Flight 93 could not. 

[quote post] davidaugust: 

How many enemies dreamt of destroying the White House. How many soldiers wished they could flatten it. How many generals fantasized about razing the American People's house...

[link from AP apnews.com including preview image showing destroyed East Wing of the White House] 

White House East Wing demolished as Trump moves forward with ballroom construction, A...
@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

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-10-26 15:54:59

I don't know what y'all are complaining about. $230M is less than a dollar per person in USA; less than $2 per voter or tax filer.
How about y'all include $2 "injustice compensation" in annual tax filing for the next four years and we call it square? Deal? 🤑
#USA #uspol #DOJ #corruption #sarcasm

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-09-22 22:58:38

What an idiot. There is no "antifa" organization.
As I said before, "antifa" was what schools used to teach (since public schools were created) as good citizenship.
#trump #antifa #uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-24 00:06:31

We got ourselves an ol' fashioned cole war a comin'!
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland:
#USpol #POpol #RUpol

screen shot a a post by Radostaw Sikorski @sikorskiradek: 

Roger that. 

[quoted post]
The Bulwark @BulwarkOnlinez: 

Reporter: "Do you think that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace?" 

Trump: "Yes, I do." 

Reporter: "Would the United States help them out in some way?" 

Trump: "Depends on the circumstance, but we're very strong toward NATO." 

Still of reporter and potus talking] 

Sep 23, 2025 • 6:21 PM UTC
2 frame still from Family Guy. 

Frame 1: Peter Griffin, labeled Poland, holds a shotgun as Meg, labeled NATO, pleads with him, “Poland, put that gun away!” 

Frame 2: Peter Griffin, labeled Poland and holding the shotgun, says, “I just wanna talk to Russia.”
@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-09-21 21:25:37

"Jack Ciattarelli has been running for governor since Mikie was in high school"
- Sean Higins
#NewJersey #uspol

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-10-21 03:36:01

It's always the ones you most expect.
#uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-23 04:26:56

Not good.
#USpol

Classic “Intel Inside” logo, but instead it says, “MAGA Inside.”
@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-09-21 18:01:21

I think I need to clarify some shit for (white) liberals.
How many times have you wondered if someone you're talking to in an informant sent to entrap you? How many times have you or a friend of yours been hit by a car, intentionally? How many friends have been hit, or almost hit? Ever been stabbed? Know anyone who has? Has the FBI ever knocked on a friend's door? Have police ever kicked down your door? Have you ever been arrested? Pepper sprayed? Does the sound or smell or blast balls give you flashbacks? Do you ever wonder what all the CS exposure is doing to your body? How many times have you been shot or shot at? Do you wonder every day if this is the day they'll come to kill you? Would anyone in your social circle answer these questions differently?
When you vote, you risk nothing (big asterisk, but if I'm talking to you then it doesn't apply to you). What you get out of voting is exactly what you put into it. Direct action is the same.
If you aren't worried about someone murdering you, then you probably aren't actually threatening the system. That's the difference between voting, and doing something useful. If they had to murder all the liberals in order to keep going, fascism would end. If they're only murdering radicals and marginalized people, then you're just like all the "good Germans" who hated Hitler but did essentially nothing.
It's already that bad for some people. How much are you willing to risk? How many people are you willing to sacrifice for your comfort? These are the questions we're all thinking about every time you tell us to vote.
(I'm tagging this #USPol so it's easy for folks to filter out if they're already well acquaintaned with the horror. I'm not CW, because USPol is just expected to be triggering.)

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-08-21 21:10:05

Everybody in a blue state needs to watch this
#USpol #BlueWall #trifecta

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-08-27 21:25:18

Time to test the theory that prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich.
#DOJ #sandwich #prosecution #grandjury #uspol

@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-23 00:54:28

#USpol

A young child with a concerned expression looking at a TV screen showing a close-up of a frowning trump, with the text "MOMMY! It's the guy from Epstein's list!" overlaid.
@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!”
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-09-12 14:57:55

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

@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..."
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-23 01:33:45

Don’t worry everybody, just take Panadol.
#USpol #Tylenol

screenshot of the Wikipedia entry for Paracetamol:   Paracetamol   Paracetamol, or acetaminophen, is a non-opioid analgesic and antipyretic agent used to treat fever and mild to moderate pain. It is a widely available over-the-counter drug sold under various brand names, including Tylenol and Panadol.   [molecular diagram and imagery of Paracetamol]
@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-10-26 06:02:49

#WaPo Editorial Board: "In defense of the White House ballroom"
And that, my fellow citizens, is how democracy dies. In darkness and in broad daylight. 🥹
#shame #journalism #USA #uspol

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-09-27 21:49:38

I know it was super popular to cancel your subscription to #Disney over #JimmyKimmel, but has anyone considered cancelling their subscription to "pay for the occupation of US cities and send weapons to Israel to use on children in #Gaza"? Because cancelling that one would send an even bigger message. Just a thought....
#TaxStrike #USPol

@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

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-08-27 01:34:42

That meeting could have been a TV show. 📺 🇺🇸
🎁
#USA #uspol #meetings #cabinet #NYT #NY_Times

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-21 18:21:58

#NoKings #USpol

2 post thread: 

Post 1: John Ekdahl @JohnEkdahl: 

Does this "No Kings" messaging make a lick of sense to anyone outside the far left?

Post 2: Heath Mayo @ HeathMayo: 

The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, for starters.
@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-18 02:56:52

Literally screaming
#uspol

Ai image of Gavin newsom with a bunk of right wing cooks laying hands in him in a prayer like the bullshit trump posts
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-08-15 21:12:56

#uspol

Cartoon of two National Guardsmen in DC. One says, "My orders are to make the homeless disappear. Yours?" The other replies, "The Epstein headlines."
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-21 17:23:39

#limerick #satire #USpol

Donny J had to put on his pants,
To go to the inaugural dance.
He pulled up with a sigh,
And yanked on the fly;
Someone please call an ambulance. 

davidaugust.com
@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!”
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-21 17:59:16

European rulers in part saw Crusades as how to remove troublesome or ambitious warriors from Europe, reducing threats to their authority.
Starting wars in Venezuela, Afghanistan or the other dozen places potus suggested/threatened, might serve comparable purpose.
Let’s thwart him anyway.
#USpol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-18 12:56:54

So, what exactly is the “New Right?” | The Gray Area
#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

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

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

@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

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

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-20 00:18:10

Won 5 Emmys for Andor, a series about autocratic breakthrough and fascism. Then greenlights turning the entire company into the theme park ride. 🤦‍♂️
#iger #USpol #BoycottDisneyABC

@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

@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
2025-10-18 07:48:35

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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-16 15:31:14

Putin and Trump Meet: Everything That Did and Did Not Happen in Alaska by William Spaniel
#uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-19 21:54:50

Former Disney CEO thinks Disney and ABC messed up.
Because they did.
source: #USpol

Screenshot of a post by Michael Eisner @Michael_Eisner: 

Where has all the leadership gone?  If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment?  The “suspending indefinitely” of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the Chairman of the FCC's aggressive yet hollow threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out-of-control intimidation.  Maybe the Constitution should hav…
@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-10-26 21:33:39

What #WaPo needs an entire editorial board for, #NYT can do with just one "op hole":
"Why Trump’s East Wing Demolition Needed to Happen"
#shame #journalism #USA #uspol #ballroom #EastWing #WhiteHouse

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

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

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-18 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
2025-08-18 17:51:14

President sundowning-at-1-pm was asked for his license plate to vote?
Did he mean a valet in 1993 asked for his plate? Because no American politcal election in almost 250 years has asked anyone for their license plate.
#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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-15 20:48:53

Rachel Maddow: Trump’s Alaska Summit With Putin Is an ‘Abject Humiliation’ | Pivot
#uspol

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

His name was Silverio Villegas Gonzšlez.
#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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-18 00:32:03

Presidential lesson number 7582: don’t let folks who might know about crimes you’ve committed “die by suicide” while in custody because then their ghost will continue to pursue you and is immortal.
#USpol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-12 11:55:40

Would you vote for Stephen Colbert in a presidential primary?
#uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-18 02:10:56

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-17 04:46:13

So in January 2028, when potus refuses to leave and tries deploying DC, SC, OH and WV National Guard to hold DC, will NY, MD, VA, DE, NJ and PA National Guards have enough forces to counter, or do other states need to build a naval guard elements to retake the capital from the water?
#USpol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-22 23:51:22

If all of bordering states followed illegal orders from potus to invade Chicago, it’d be:
~45,000 invaders vs. ~32,000 defenders.
(Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin National Guard against Illinois National Guard, State Police, Chicago Police, County Sheriffs)
Plus, it would take more than 53,000 soldiers to even begin to think one could hold Chicago (population ~2.6 million).
#USpol

A bar chart titled "Troop Density Ratios for Occupation/Counterinsurgency (per 1,000 residents)" comparing troop densities for various military doctrines and historical operations, with a highlighted U.S. doctrinal benchmark.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-16 19:47:49

Trump keeps praising dictators.
At this rate, I half expect him to give Stalin a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. 🤦‍♂️
#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

@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-16 01:12:32

Int. military base, Anchorage, Alaska - day
Former KGB agent winces as he imagines meeting with the 34 time felon. It’s the obsequiousness and the overuse of pancake makeup, tacky. But you don’t always get to choose who you’re handling, and this asset was well placed; insanely well placed.
#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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-14 17:41:44

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

@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…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-24 19:53:42

The vice president is misrepresenting reality and getting petulantly angry when he is called out on it.
#USpol #Dallas #ice #vp

A heated exchange too long to fit alt text unfolded after JD Vance claimed a gunman used bullets “carved” with anti-ICE messaging during a Dallas ICE facility shooting. Critics, including Jon Favreau, accused Vance of spreading misinformation. The text was written in blue pen ink, not carved. A community note clarified that the victims were ICE detainees, not law enforcement as the vp contended, with two dead and one injured. FBI Director Kash Patel shared a photo of a bullet casing with “ANTI-…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-12 22:36:19

The crime rate in DC is lower than at any other time in the last 30 years, but with potus ordering federal agents and U.S. military into DC, he is committing crimes and directing them to do so.
#USpol #DC #FreeDC

screenshot of a post by pictures.of.sue: 

Hi, German here 

We remember that Adolf acted from within against his own citizens. 

The alarm bells are ringing so loudly, open the window, you can hear me! 

[screenshot of a post by Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump • 7h 

LIBERATION DAY IN D.C. WE ARE TAKING OUR CAPITAL BACK!!! 

Munich, Germany
@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
@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