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
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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
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The Abundance Debate Hits California by Pod Save America
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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.
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'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
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
Is Kamala Harris backing Mamdani just a way to sabotage Mamdani because people who like Mamdani probably do not like Harris?
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Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force | The Ezra Klein Show
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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.
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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.
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Building a big bribe room to sell the country off for parts while the government is rapidly deconstructed into a legislatively induced coma #uspol
#UsPol #FreeSpeech #Kimmel
"Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension"
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?
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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
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Apropos of nothing… #uspol
The people, united, will never be defeated.
Protest works, boycotts work.
Sinclair and Nexstar to reinstate Kimmel on ABC stations
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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."
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This is the kind of integrity we need. Immense respect to her.
#NicoleCollier #Texas #USPol
This made my day.
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Marc Maron Talks Donald Trump, Comedy and The Left by Pod Save America
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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...
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We must only ever refer to it as the JEFFREY EPSTEIN MEMORIAL BALLROOM.
#jeffreyepsteinmemorialballroom #uspol #releasetheepsteinfiles
Regime Change begins at home.
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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.
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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.
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The hypocrisy of the right is off the charts.
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(gift article)
https://www.nytimes.co…
Once Trump finishes his chat with Putin, can he get back to the Epstein list?
#Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Des Moines Iowa school superintendent detained by ICE
#uspol #school #ICE #DesMoines
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.
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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
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
"Jack Ciattarelli has been running for governor since Mikie was in high school"
- Sean Higins
#NewJersey #uspol
It's always the ones you most expect.
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Not good.
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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.)
Time to test the theory that prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich.
#DOJ #sandwich #prosecution #grandjury #uspol
Great comment from @…, about the visibility of _some_ violence and the taken-for-granted background of _other_ violence.
#USPol #CharlieKirk
When will Bigbird be stopped?!!
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Is "hoping someone gets the death penalty" classified as political violence?
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#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
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
"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
Literally screaming
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Just a normal government employee
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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.
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So, what exactly is the “New Right?” | The Gray Area
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Discuss: The pros of having a conman president.
#uspol #discussion
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.
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Campaign Stream #10: Playing Stray / Face Hurts⭐⭐ !donate !discord by Kat Abughazaleh
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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
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
After the introduction in Dutch, it is Lubach with what’s next for disney.
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I'm gonna bump this again since it's relevant to #NoKingsDay
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Putin and Trump Meet: Everything That Did and Did Not Happen in Alaska by William Spaniel
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Former Disney CEO thinks Disney and ABC messed up.
Because they did.
source: #USpol
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
Meet Robby Roadsteamer, The Man Who Trolled ICE by The Bulwark
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rachel Maddow: Trump’s Alaska Summit With Putin Is an ‘Abject Humiliation’ | Pivot
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His name was Silverio Villegas Gonzšlez.
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Did you know that "James David Vance" is an anagram for "adds caveman jive?"
Well, now you do.
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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.
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Would you vote for Stephen Colbert in a presidential primary?
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So...comedy is illegal again?
#FreedomOfSpeech #Kimmel #USpol
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?
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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).
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Trump keeps praising dictators.
At this rate, I half expect him to give Stalin a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. 🤦♂️
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“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.
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“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.
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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.
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An older video that still has relevance today:
#USpol #radicalization
Violence is never a good answer. You don’t know what side of it you will be on.
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$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.
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