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@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

@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

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-08-06 12:03:02

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-06 17:55:39

#USpol

screenshot of a post by Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie:   A meme featuring two panels with captions.   In the top panel, there is a scene from a movie showing a driver looking shocked inside a vehicle; caption reads: "Democrats leaving Texas to protect their district."  In the bottom panel, there is an image of speaker of the house johnson driving the other way, looking out from a vehicle; caption reads: "Republicans leaving D.C. to protect the Epstein files."  Aug 6, 2025 1:54pm UTC
@joe@toot.works
2025-10-05 12:49:36

The Trump administration sure is good at leaking their own plans for things.
"A senior White House official accidentally leaked details of plans to send an elite army unit to Portland, in the latest intelligence leak by the Trump administration."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

@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…
@jrm4@mastodon.social
2025-10-04 06:00:37

The comedians in saudi arabia feels like a stupid stupid distraction and a way for people to feel morally superior in one of the most pointless ways possible
#uspol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-09-05 19:56:16

The Most Important Election In 2025 | Rep. Mikie Sherrill by Democracy Docket
#NewJersey

@jswright61@ruby.social
2025-08-05 10:26:19

Why, when Republicans attempt to draw district lines such that they choose their voters and get severely overrepresented in the legislature is it “We’re just taking advantage of the rules as they exist.”? But when the Democrats choose to represent the interest of their constituents and not show up, preventing, UNDER THE RULES, a vote to pass this redistricting, they have abandoned or forfeited their offices?
#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

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-03 07:16:35

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#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

@dhuyvetter@mastodon.social
2025-10-03 05:24:34

The US mainstream media is thoroughly broken: Bari Weiss, Who Thinks Everything Is Woke, Will Be CBS Editor-in-Chief
Anti-woke, anti-trans, pro-Israel Bari Weiss will soon lead one of the biggest media companies in the U.S.
#uspol #newsmedia

@vrandecic@mas.to
2025-10-01 05:43:43

The Radical Left does not have the majority in Congress. In the Senate, Republicans have the majority. In the House of Representatives, Republicans have the majority. In Congress, Republicans have the majority. Republicans control all three branches of the federal government.
Spread it wide, loud, and clear.
#uspol

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-09-30 20:30:03

#uspol

Generals and admirals at Hegseth's pointless "warrior ethos" meeting with the caption "This could have been an email"
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-04 19:36:30

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

@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

@scottmiller42@mstdn.social
2025-10-01 15:34:46

I’m still seeing folks looking at the US political hellscape and saying…
“If only there was a better third party, that’d solve this.”
In most cases, that’d just split the vote of folks opposed to MAGA.
One reason MAGA has been successful is Turnip’s ability to browbeat unity into a solid voting coalition.
#USpol

@Treppenwitz@sfba.social
2025-10-03 14:05:43

If you wrote a piece of fiction where this many members of a political party were rapists, people would roll their eyes. #gop #uspol

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-10-06 16:06:51

Remember the time we decried phone-in interviews of (candidates for) President on TV?
Well, guess what. 🥺
#journalism #shame #CNN #uspol #USA

@crell@phpc.social
2025-07-29 17:36:20

Why America refuses to fix anything:
#uspol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-10-02 17:59:09

Is America Heading Towards Civil War? with Rep. Ilhan Omar by Hasan Minhaj
#uspol

@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2025-07-30 19:44:03

I feel like the Guardian might have missed something on her resume...
"Harris, who previously served as California’s attorney general and US senator, offered few details..."
#uspol
#fail

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-08-01 04:50:57

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

@vrandecic@mas.to
2025-10-01 06:01:23

Google, which is happy to answer all kinds of questions using their AI, seems to answer with a mix of non-committal results, a few current ones, and plenty outdated results for "who has the majority in the house" and similar questions.
Are you getting better results?
EDIT: I get reports from people that they get better results
#uspol

Three Google results, one highlighting a non-committal answer, and two stating that the Democrats have the majority in the House (since the results are outdated)
@jrm4@mastodon.social
2025-10-01 14:45:00

Re: E.g. that Riyadh show etc.
The way some of y'all are holding comedians to the moral standards that actual leaders should hold is *deeply* goofy.
That's not their job. Their job is to point at the absurdity so people can see it. The more they do that, the better.
#uspol #comedy

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

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

@joe@toot.works
2025-08-01 19:29:07

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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-09-02 00:34:48

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

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

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team.
#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
2025-09-23 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

@samueljohn@mastodon.world
2025-07-22 06:05:13
Content warning: USPOL / satire

I introduce a verb: to trumple, which is stupidly tramp on something others have built up and shouting at the same time that this is making things great again.
Example: The orange one trumpels the values that actually made America great.
#uspol #trumple

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-09-28 21:48:51

Because for a moment there one of Trump's minions was in the news more prominently than he was, and we obviously can't have *that*!
#uspol

@crell@phpc.social
2025-08-02 17:18:33

To the surprise of no one, yet another study shows RFK Jr is full of shit. Vaccines are safe.
thehill.com/policy/healthcare/

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-10-02 15:31:48

this starts slow but I think gets pretty good.
How to Protest The Trump Regime Like The Civil Rights Movement by Offline with Jon Favreau
#uspol

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-09-01 17:29:02

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

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-09-05 02:17:40

"I even have a Department of War. Now give me my Nobel Peace Prize."
- Someone in Washington DC. Probably.
#uspol #USA #war #names #DepartmentOfWar #DOD #NobelPeacePrize

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-30 22:09:07
Content warning: good advice

"Figure out today what your core values are and don’t trade them away.
"Coates’s “all humanity is equal and is worthy of that” is not a bad place to start. But find the foundational ideas that matter to you. Then look for ways to act in the world, close to home, that rise out of those values."
- @…
#politics #ethics #USPol

@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

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-08-31 06:35:38

"Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode"
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@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

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-08-28 18:42:01

More on CBP treatment of Canadians at the US border, this time with CBP’s own statistics, which are interesting: cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-09-06 15:25:29

NJ Governor Murphy opens Office of Strategic Defense Investment to foster industry growth
#NJ #GovMurphy #defense #USpol

@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

@joe@toot.works
2025-08-28 12:19:22

I don't think that the dipshit and Vance are capable of taking responsibility for their failures and that says a lot about them.
#USPolitics #USPol #Politics

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-02 19:13:24

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

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-09-28 07:20:21

I know it was 3000 years ago now, but I want everyone to remember that Portland beat Trump last time because normal people came out every night to resist.
Portland made Trump look weak once. He pulled out everything he had to terrorize and intimidate people, and federal agents got pushed out of the city anyway. He was embarrassed. Now he can do more and he probably thinks that he has more time, but Portland maybe able to prove him wrong.
Portland ended Trump's presidency once, and it can happen again... especially if Portland keeps doing a good job of reminding everyone that the whole invasion is an attempt to distract from #Epstein.
#USPol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-29 13:45:53

This booty call is too aggressive for me.
#uspol

Email from Gavin newsom with subtext wake up
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-02 01:06:28

Watching Vlad Vexler discuss potus’ status:
#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
2025-09-02 19:20:17

“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

@jrm4@mastodon.social
2025-07-23 14:40:43

Also, calling it now:
Josh Johnson will 100% enter the pantheon of comedy greats. His name will go next to Carlin, Pryor, etc.
#blackmastodon #blackfedi #uspol

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-07-23 16:40:39

Half the time I don't know whether authoritarian social media posts attributed to Donald #Trump are really him or just satire. Trump has replaced the Constitution with Poe's Law. #uspol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-09-28 16:17:07

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement
#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

@joe@toot.works
2025-07-26 15:33:25

"Reverse judicial precedents"? The Orange Dipshit is trying to use executive orders to eliminate legal protections for the unhoused?
"The order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to “reverse judicial precedents and end consent decrees” that limit jurisdictions’ abilities to relocate homeless people."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-01 00:34:27

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

United States Soldiers 

[icon of a stack of laws labeled “UCMJ” and “92,” heart icon, you icon] 

Article 92 Loves You 
Disobey Illegal Orders
@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
2025-09-30 23:56:52

The gop controls all three branches of government, if their government shuts down, then the gop are the one’s who shutdown their government.
#USpol #shutdown

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

The Abundance Debate Hits California by Pod Save America
#uspol

@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-30 16:05:11

“There is a fine line between vision and hallucination. People have to follow you for it to be a vision.” - Dr. Oz.
No, that is not in fact the difference you charlatan.
#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
2025-09-21 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.)

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-29 20:25:12

The gop controls the House, Senate, and the White House. It is their government.
If the government shuts down or the government stays open, that is on the gop.
#USpol

control 

noun 1. the power to influence or direct people's behaviour or the course of events 

Example: the whole operation is under the control of a production manager 

[example synonyms] jurisdiction sway power authority command dominance
@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-07-30 00:21:11

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-29 17:42:17

Watching Australian Senator Nick McKim describe the US slide into fascism:
#USpol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-08-24 15:04:15

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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-29 01:01:01

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

@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

@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-01 23:50:55

Legend is Rome decided not to have kings anymore, and so created the first modern-ish republic, because of a sex crime by someone close to their king.
Our entire system of government has a history of not having sex crimes be acceptable.
But the felon in chief thinks pretending sex criminal close friends of his don’t implicate and contaminate him.
Legend is Romans exiled their last king.
#USpol

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-07-22 23:16:55

Mehdi Hasan: Jubilee “Debate” Left Me SPEECHLESS by The Bulwark #uspol

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-07-27 22:08:28

h/t @…
#USpol #Scotland #satire

screenshot of a post by ruyihucueb: 

BREAKING [siren emojis] 
Police Scotland placed on high alert after receiving a tip-off that a rapist with links to a notorious pedophile may have arrived in the country. 

[photo of a group of Scottish walking down a street almost in formation]
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-07-26 21:16:12

What a day that shall be.
#USpol #USpolitics

[Video reveals lines of text (below) as a singer Lizzy of Lizzy and the Triggermen sings Irving Berlin’s “When That Man Is Dead and Gone.”] 

The life expectancy of a 79 year old male New Yorker is 7 years, 9 months and about 11 days.  


His health is lower than average but his health care will be above average. 

A glimmer… 

[silhouette of the Grim Reaper with a Scythe]  

Source: https://www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/publications/docs/adm/06adm-5att8.pdf 

[confetti falls] 

[digit…
@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!”
@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.]
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-07-28 13:52:08

🎶 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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-07-22 11:24:23

The Gloves Are Off | "I Absolutely Love That Colbert Got Fired" | Trump & Epstein's Wonderful Secret #uspol

@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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-07-26 02:32:56

The US Virgin Islands have their own territorial court system, and any crimes committed there may be territorial crimes, not federal crimes.
The prosecution of such crimes would not need US DOJ nor White House permission to proceed.
Epstein Island is in the US Virgin Islands.
#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.”
@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]
@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.
@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.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-08-31 01:18:22

The United States in the last 8 months has threatened to invade, or invaded:
Canada
Mexico
Panama
Greenland
Denmark
Venezuela
Los Angeles
Washington DC
Chicago
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Boston
And many others. potus and kegseth plan to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War.
This sounds like Nobel Peace Prize behavior, am I right? 🤦‍♂️

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

Not good.
#USpol

Classic “Intel Inside” logo, but instead it says, “MAGA Inside.”
@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

@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

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

His name was Silverio Villegas Gonzšlez.
#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

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-07-18 22:07:31

I have been watching the TV show Blindspot on streaming, and really liking it. Just checked and so glad it was on NBC and not cbs (given cbs’ bad behavior) so I can still watch the rest of it without supporting cbs.
#USpol #tv

@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
2025-08-19 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