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#NoKings #taco #USpol

Heh, so people in the import/export world, instead of dealing with Trump’s short-attention-span/TACO tariff policies, now have to deal with the uncertainties of US constitutional litigation. Joking aside, I think that’s an improvement.
#USpol

We need to have a TACO talk-o about whether chicken bitter is actually a half dozen chickens in an oversized suit.
#USpol

#CNN: "Kristi Noem said a migrant threatened to kill Trump. Investigators think he was set up...
The investigators suspect the letter was to benefit a separate individual..."
Expect these investigators to soon recant or be fired. 😟
#uspol

"Get rid of all of the old Democrats"
partly means
"Jettison people who were responsible for the Civil Rights Movement"
which is stupid
#uspol #blackmastodon #blackfedi

#uspol #lotr

Whatever you do, do not call the number and recount the story of the time you were working commercial towing and a co-worker’s indigestion turned out to be a chest bursting health hazard that should have been nuked from space. 👽
#alien #movie

He he. #TACO #tacoTrump #USPol #trump

Donald Trump TACO Memes Explode Across the Internet
The term TACO, which means Trump Always Chickens Out, was coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong.

OH:
In other words, this is a bad policy that would only be pursued by people who hadn't thought through the consequences that probably harms everyone for no reason.
#uspol

Just found out @… has a Trump litigation tracker.
#USPol #Trump #Law

#uspol Federal grants that my mom's department uses to study long-term care for people with Alzheimer's disease have been withdrawn, and an accompanying letter bearing RFK Jr.'s signature decried their work as unscientific and a waste of money.
This is especially sad to our family as her father/my grandfather had Alzheimer's for many years before he passed.
To sus…

Alzheimer's Association | Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia Help
Alzheimer's Association national site – information on Alzheimer's disease and dementia symptoms, diagnosis, stages, treatment, care and support resources.

Last boost, related #uspol take:
"Here's RFK's plan:
1. Claim vaccines cause autism
2. Push vaccine skepticism, lower vax rates
3. Create autism registry - people avoid getting a diagnosis to stay off it
4. Point to the decrease in autism diagnoses as "proof" vaccines cause autism"
via a screenshot of a tweet by a Skyler Johnson @Skylerfo…

It's not protesting, it is just communicating #climate and #weather science for 100 straight hours. 👏🤓🥼
#uspol #science

#xkcd #ice #usa #uspol #uspolitics

#CNN: Trump administration’s MAHA report on children’s health filled with flawed references, including some studies that don’t exist
Easy. They had AI draft parts of the report. 100 bucks if they didn't.
#uspol #health #LLM #AI

Fire from The Atlantic.
#USPol #Tariffs

Ugh. So twitter right now is WAY too effective at dividing the Dems. I hope we get this out of our system.
For the record, the big problem here is misplaced faith in the (white) left; e.g. Bernie's a good cheerleader but *wildly* ineffective on the ground because at the end of the day you have to work within the ugly system
a thing elder black folks in politics excel at, which the white left ALWAYS seems to forget

Not sure what Americans need to do at this moment, but it probably needs to be soon.
#project2025

Biden's record on covid
Saw a comment along the lines of: "seems unfair to criticise Biden's record on covid, while the situation now under Trump is so much worse".
But I don't think of them as separate. Biden's government _contributed_ to how covid stands under Trump.
If Biden's lot had taken the opportunity to educate people (at least the ones open to considering science findings) that
- it's airborne like smoke
- an empty room can hold infectious virus
- air filters, UV and fresh air reduce the levels of it
- masks work better the better they fit
- you can be infectious without/before symptoms
- you're fairly likely still to be infectious for 10 days, a few people longer
- current vaccines don't stop you catching it or transmitting it
- it can mess with your immune system so you're more likely to catch other things
- vaccinated people can still get Long Covid
- it's not "mild", it's just that the damage is quiet
then even if they hadn't done anything more to address the problem, people would be in a far better position to deploy their own common sense.
And unlike funding or laws, that investment in _knowledge_ is something it would be difficult for Trump's lot to roll back.
But Biden & co chose instead to play down the risks, and explicitly or implicitly mislead people (e.g. the 5-day quarantine, which contradicts the real infectious period).
So, yes it's worse now, but they _contributed_ to how it is now. They chose to encourage misapprehensions and confusion, and the effects of that choice are still playing out now.
Not letting them off the hook on the grounds of being comparatively "less bad", when they themselves laid some of the foundations of the current state of play.
#covid #Biden #USPol #CovidIsntOver

So, has anyone recently heard from/of the Honorable Jim Jordan, US Representative from the great state of Ohio? 🤨
I hope he is OK.
#curious #uspol #Ohio #usa

#NYT: State Department Halts Interviews Abroad for Student and Exchange Visas
He is going to choke the universities and bleed them dry. And set the country back significantly in so many ways.
#uspol #HigherEd #academics #visa

Cory Booker isn't trending on #blackmastodon or #blackfedi ?
Yikes. Red flag, as the kids say.
Anyway, that was amazing and incredible and a ray of hope for all of this. Good stuff.
#uspol

Crypto? More like corrupto.
#crypto #corruption #Trump #uspol
https://us.cnn.com/2025/05/23/politics/trump-crypto-meme-coin-dinner

Tim Cooked? 🤔
#Apple #tariffs #uspol #Trump

"TACO trade" as in Trump Always Chickens Out. 🌮🐥
#taco #Trump #markets #economy #stockMarket #uspol #usa #tariffs