Tootfinder

They make a good point.
#USpol

I'd venture this backlash isn’t just because of one Epstein PR mistake. It’s because Trump smells weak and vulnerable, and his supporters are looking for an exit. The MAGA types loved Trump because he made them feel like winners. And right now he doesn’t.
That doesn't mean we win, yay, time to kick back. His supporters are in an abusive relationship, and they will find it hard to leave.
What this means is − keep the pressure up. ←
Worth skimming this whole roundup from @…. I just don't think the backlash happens without larger underlying weakness.
#uspol https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/114851991461182777

Learn where the term boycott came from!
#uspol #boycott

A short story about hypothetical #USPol. I wrote it a few times but every time I do the situation outpaces the narrative.
https://write.as/hexmhell/uncommon-sense

#uspol

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

"The president set a deadline for Russia, threatening trade consequences if no peace deal w Ukraine n 50 days."
So, 24 hrs == 50 days after the first 6 months?🤔
And, anyone offends him: Tariff NOW; but Russia gets mention of a slap on the wrist.
#uspol #Russia #Ukraine

US ethnic cleansing and what to do about it
Reposting link to source article instead of screenshot of tweet that had no alt text:
Data on arrests shows that ICE was heavily engaged in racial profiling in LA, because their arrest numbers fell by ~66% after that were ordered to stop making arrests based just in factors like skin color, with place, or language spoken.
#ICE #USPol

Free, no paywall
#uspol
Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
The Trump administration has made U.S. human-rights reports favorably evaluate countries the president likes, @anneapplebaum writes. Now the State Department portrays “Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador”:

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

We got 'em!
#uspol

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

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

Two things can be true, even if they seem in opposition.
Hitler's race law was based on Jim Crow. Lebensraum was a direct translation of Manifest Destiny to Europe. The genocide of indigenous Americans was the inspiration and roadmap for the Holocaust. Red Summer was a genocide event. Chinese exclusion was a genocide event. The genocide of indigenous Americans continued, and the Dakota Access Pipeline is an example of that continuance.
And... Trumpian fascism is new phase of America that's markedly different than anything that anyone alive had ever experienced. Trump was inspired by Hitler's speeches and read them regularly. He admires Hitler and tries to emulate him. The language he used during his first campaign were developed by Neonazi groups like Aryan Brotherhood working with the KKK. His image was shaped by white and Christian nationalists, as is his platform today. He is a new and more dangerous kind of monster. The death camps are new. The scale of what's happening is new. The concentration of power is new.
These can both be true, and are.
#USPol

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

The Orange Menace’s Congresional lapdog has broken ranks with him over Epstein.
Taking away healthcare from millions, he’s a-ok with. Concealing the crimes of the Tangerine Fool? Not so much.
And you know just who is the lapdog I’m referring to too.
#USpol

Can dems stop pandering to vulnerable minorities and just go away at this point? You could replace most of them with rocks and they’d be just as, if not more useful #pol #democrats #uspol

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every time Kash Patel is on TV (usually while standing next to Whiskey Pete, behind Trump), he looks like his mushrooms just kicked in. What the hell is up with that?
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

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

If I got this right ICE is well known for coming masked in military clothing and suspiciously neutral vans without warrants to arrest people.
So what if a bunch of lookalikes would show up on a golf course and just take Trump away?
Ok, I assume there is guards…
#pol #uspol

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I think it's a generally bad thing that I've referenced a specific Nazi death camp in reference to #USPol so often that I was thinking "oh, I should probably just bookmark this." I think that's a bad sign and I don't like it.

If you want to watch a petty video about terrible republicans I have the video for you.
#uspol

#UsPol #IfOnly
Sometimes I just imagine how different the world would be right now, as well as the lives of so many people, if a few 100k US voters had voted for Kamala Harris instead of #Trump...

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

#uspol #charliekirk

Okay, so while I don't like the "Democrats need to do more" because it's stupid
I think there's room for "Democrats need to SAY more."
Like the clip of Maxwell Frost. But y'all can go even harder. Call them names, remind the people of how absolutely scummy they are right now
#uspol

How the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
1/2
#uspol #democracy

I know that deploying the national guard and the FBI to DC is just the orange dipshit's pathetic attempt to get his followers to stop talking about him being in the Epstein files, but it's still a very bad situation.
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

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

"The US government has announced a new contract granting xAI up to $200 million to modernize the Defense Department"
#grok #xAI #uspol #AI #LLM

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

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

Uspol
"We're not redrawing the districts to discriminate based on race, we're drawing them to favor our own party," is such an interesting thing to say out loud. On the one hand, pretense of democratic norms is completely gone; says a lot about where the country is headed. On the other hand, the need to maintain a pretense of non-racism persists? That's probably better than them feeling comfortable to go full mask-off about white supremacy. They're already flaunting breaking a lot of laws, so I wonder whether the legal or social-norms aspects of coming out as explicitly racist matter more to them here.
#USPol

#UsPol #SaveThePlanet
"US Environmental Protection Agency suspends 139 staffers over letter criticizing Trump policies"

US Environmental Protection Agency suspends 139 staffers over letter criticizing Trump policies
The letter, signed by more than 200 people, accused Administrator Lee Zeldin of pushing policies that endanger public health and the environment.

I don't even have to read the news to find out if the bill passed I can just wait for a Democrat to text me asking for $5 to know what's going on.
#USPOL

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

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

So #Trump shut down trade with the rest of the world, then deported or otherwise forced out almost all of the people who harvest things grown in the US, and I'm just wondering if anyone else is trying to figure out where the food is going to come from.
#USPol

The reviews are in. No one give a shit about Rahm Emanuel
#uspol

There were significant fewer American flags flying in my suburban NJ neighborhood this Fourth of July.
#uspol #july4th #trump

$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

As Trump's tariffs cut off the US from imports and as he deports the core of the US labor force, I think about the fact that tariffs and other import taxes were a major part of the lead up to the Revolutionary War. It's no coincidence that a bunch of the Founding Fathers were smugglers.
The logistics of the resistance and the logistics of the population were intertwined, meaning that it was not always possible to attack resistance logistics without alienating the population.
All this is worth keeping in mind right now.
#USPol

“As Trump visits Texas to survey flash flood damage, the White House has quietly backed away from plans to abolish FEMA, according to officials.”
- @aaronparnas.bsky.social
A good thing potus is the taco man 🌮
#USpol #FEMA

When Will Democrats Get Mad? - with Rep. Jasmine Crockett
#uspol

#charliekirk

I just assume Putin will trick Trump into giving Alaska back.
#uspol

This is a good analysis of what's happening in America, right now.
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

I can immediately think of 3 relatives who will be harmed by the Big Ugly Bill that passed today. A 4th is a possibility. My wife and I may have to financially support some of these folks as a result.
How many of your folks are hurt?
#USPol #Trump

#economics #recession #USpol

Did you know that this president had sex, repeatedly, forcibly, with an underage girl who worked on his property?
That means he is known to have committed sex crimes, against a child, but it somehow doesn’t tarnish his popularity.
It was Thomas Jefferson, who else?
#USpol #epstein…

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

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

The Massive Fraud that’s Tearing America Apart by Hank Green
#uspol

We have always been at war with Eastasia.
"President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

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

The scary thing is not that so many Americans find it easier to imagine the apocalypse than the end of cars. The scary thing is that so many actually prefer the former to the latter, and by not choosing the latter so choose to manifest the former.
#USPol #FuckCars

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

Latino Voters Are Feeling BETRAYED By Trump (w/ Carlos Eduardo Espina)
#uspol

#USpol

This is a great interview.
#NewJersey !!!! #uspol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v1fHoOH9s

I wasn't expecting to find that there.
#DonaldTrumpIsAPedophile #USPol

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

Kids and gun violence
This week's Executive Disorder started with a conversation about the school shooting in Twin Cities...
#USPol

No ok.
Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net
#USpol #labor #labour

Breaking: First Convicted Felon Arrives at Alligator Auschwitz
#USpol #Indivisible #50501Movement

How Chicago Labor History Teaches Us To Fight Fascism Today | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois by Kat Abughazaleh
#uspol

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

This booty call is too aggressive for me.
#uspol

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

Do we need memes for each gop member of Congress with their face, name and the words “destroyer of Medicaid, SNAP and the Affordable Care Act,” then paper their districts with them?
Because they need to own this for the rest of their careers.
#USpol #Indivisible

I had not heard of multimember districts before, as an idea.
How to Rebuild American Democracy in 20 Minutes by PoliticalZane
#uspol

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

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

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

So Assemblyperson Nick Schultz says well how potus is acting as a despot and ice and the military are out of line. Local law enforcement can handle any civil unrest.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL453gcxFr5/

Hawes on Instagram: "This is no less true or relevant today (7/9) than it was a month prior when @asmnickschultz initially addressed the media with this perspective. I would actually say this has “aged” perfectly and that the concern extends far beyond LA’s borders."
424 likes, 25 comments - dr.smrtmouth on July 9, 2025: "This is no less true or relevant today (7/9) than it was a month prior when @asmnickschultz initially addressed the media with this perspective. I would actually say this has “aged” perfectly and that the concern extends far beyond LA’s borders.".

114,000 schools in the United States.
Deploying a single National Guardsman costs ~$530/day.
Or ~$60 million a day, or for a 180 day school year more than $10 billion dollars.
#USpol

#USpol #ice #dhs #AligatorAuschwitz

“That’s not this country, we have to do something.”
Breaking laws by deploying soldiers ain’t it.
Common sense gun control laws can be.
Breaking Posse Comitatus won’t solve underlying causes of crime.
And red states are more murdery than LA, DC and Chicago.
He’s grabbing power.
#USpol

via @cartoonkahuna.bsky.social
#USpol #StephenMiller #ice #comic

Watching Vlad Vexler discuss potus’ status:
#USpol

source: #USpol

So if the U.S. Capitol Police had beefed up a protective detail on Murkowski and Murkowski’s family, to protect them from maga violence and give the Senator the sense of security to vote as they themselves now seem to think they should have, would things be different?
We may never know.
#USpol

Kinda weird it makes sense to make a graphic like this.
No idea what I should use it for.
Flyers to hand to soldiers?
#USpol #Chicago #law

Call your Senators now. @… can make it easy, or just dial 202-224-3121 and ask the Capitol switchboard to connect you.
#USpol #bbb

I just wrote this: #USpol

Vent or Win, Choose Wisely - David August - Medium
You can blame people you basically agree with, or you can work with the people available to try to work toward better. The first feels good for maybe 5 minutes, then ruins improvement right now; the…

Another CEO got killed? That’s awful, all they did was guide the use of resources to make the world a better place. They helped not only shareholders, but employees and everyone else have a better life and a great chance to have basics like shelter more easily. Right? Who would do that.
#USpol

h/t @…
#USpol #Scotland #satire

Vacationing at tax-payer expense has prepared Ohio’s least favorite son to assume the role of president of the United States according to him?
Dude, there’s a couch somewhere waiting for you to defile it. Get to it.
#USpol

What a day that shall be.
#USpol #USpolitics

🎶 Tariffs are an import tax, import tax, import tax, Americans pay for import tax, so er-lie in the morning. 🎶
And in the evening.
And at night.
What I am saying is the tariffs are the largest tax hike in U.S. history.
In addition to all the damage to our economy and alliances.
#USpol

Did you know the Palermo Protocol was adopted by the United Nations in 2000 and says “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of people through force, fraud, or deception, with the aim of exploiting them” is human trafficking?
#ice #USpol