2026-03-17 20:17:16
vote counts not done but seems like Kat Abughazaleh doesn't have it. that sad!
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More judges like this, please!
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I'm not saying that the 1976 movie "Network" was prescient . . . but . . .
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.
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Nice job #newJersey
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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
Well - I guess that's one thing we can hope for to fix this shitty timeline.
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There it is. The Homelander-jerking-off-in-public moment.
#TheBoys #uspol https://mastodon.online/@RejoinEU/1163
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.
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"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.
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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!).
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A real “my shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt” sort of moment
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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.
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Can #uspol *stay* in the US please? Get a visa if you want to come out.
If a politician does something unethical they have to go. Doesn't matter about the political party.
eric swalwell can get fucked.
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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.
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Did Trump choose tonight’s deadline to distract from election results?
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Seems to me that a working democracy would just remove someone from office for threatening to kill "a whole civilization".
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Today, tech people discovering what black voters already knew about Bernie Sanders
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The grift never fucking ends.
"Republican leaders will pay private lawyers up to $550 an hour in taxpayer money to represent the Legislature in a lawsuit challenging them over that very practice: using taxpayer money to hire private attorneys."
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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.
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Ah. Yes of course. We're closing the straight now. Perfect sense.
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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:
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This will be very hard work.
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I Have a Trump Theory... by Hank Green
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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.
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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. 😈
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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.
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Well I guess eric swalwell can get fucked.
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Good news from Fox!?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/inside-antifa-linked-groups-plan-structurally-change-us-may-day-unrest-approaches
A corrected official seal for ice:
#satire #USpol #ice #GraphicDesign
Well articulated: grief that American autohegemonicide provokes.
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What Appalachia Can Tell Us About the Future of the Democratic Party (ft. John Russell) by How Is This Better? and More Perfect Union
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> "'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!
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The Names They Call Themselves
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Back over $100
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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.
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I'm so tired of winning.
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I tracked the AI Money in politics by Phil Edwards
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How well do your Congressional representatives align with the ACLU? They have a neat little summary:
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What Causes Wars: An Introduction to Crisis Bargaining Theory by Lines on Maps Extra
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Wow things are going great.
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I think he plans to try to sleep with the peace treaty.
He plans to use a double sided ceasefire. Ew.
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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 😳😝
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Oil market is just climbing and climbing.
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What 4 generations of veterans think of Trump’s Iran War by How Is This Better?
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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).
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We Found The Radical Solution To Skyrocketing Grocery Prices by More Perfect Union
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Oh boy.
#newJersey #uspol #elections
AOC making sure #newJersey knows what's up
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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/
Cory Booker SOUNDS OFF on Trump, Outlines New Tax Plan for Dems by Pod Save America
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Blanche DuBois - always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Todd Blanche - always depends on the kindness of redactors.
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The F-15 Rescue: What Actually Happened and the Fallout Afterward by William Spaniel
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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.
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I need some people I don't like to vote with me the next few elections.
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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.
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Opening up the straight is easy. We can't do it. But it's so easy!!
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How Israel Assassinated the Ayatollah & Iran’s Upcoming Succession Crisis by William Spaniel
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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
Eight Key Things to Watch for in the Iran War by William Spaniel
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It’s TACO Tuesday! 🌮🌮🌮
Live updates: Trump pulls back on Iran threats for two weeks, subject to Iran agreeing to terms | AP News #USpol