Tootfinder

You know who probably doesn’t think we are now in a time of peace?
The leadership of Iran.
Everybody who thinks knows peace requires _all_ combatants to stop fighting, not just one side.
#USpol

Remember when George W claimed in 2003 that we needed to invade and occupy Iraq despite any evidence of bioweapons labs because he claimed that they were in RVs, traveling around desert? Mango Mussolini is giving a similar energy, here.
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

#uspol https://hachyderm.io/@rpardee/114723102851049883

Funny, and so true.
#uspol #fascism
ICE Agent or Just Some Person?
"Your clothing should tell a story about you! Just not who you are or that you are acting in any kind of official capacity." @petridishes on the ICE dress code:

The ICE Dress Code
There’s a dress code to help you make that determination.

Biblical scholar responds to DHS Christian Nationalist propaganda:
#uspol

gross https://www.reuters.com/sports/trump-threatens-washington-stadium-deal-unless-nfl-team-readopts-redskins-name-2025-07-20/

I cannot stress enough the stupidity of e.g. "ACAB" and "ABOLISH THE POLICE"
Get out of your feelings and get into your strategy -- it is undeniably true that there is a SEVERE need for police reform
But, tell me, who escorted ICE away from Dodger Stadium?
#uspol #blackmastodon

It's always the ones you most expect.
https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article295212454.html
Put another way, the P in GOP stands for Pedo.

My partner is a Chelsea supporter and was so pissed about what happened they asked me to make a sign for tomorrow's protest...
#USPOL

#NoKings #usa #uspol
Proteste in den USA sind laut Einschätzung eines Wissenschaftlers zweifelsohne mit einer der größten Ein- Tages- Proteste in der menschlichen Geschichte 💪🎉

Someone's gonna commit First Degree Glitter with Intent to Sparkle.
#USpol #ice #glitter

It is silly of #WaPo to focus on the 1st part of Trump's quote and present four pics he has supposedly drawn. And their tabloid-y headline doesn't make it any better:
"Trump said he ‘never wrote a picture in my life.’ Here are four."
#uspol #Epstein

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

People talk about how politics shouldn't be like sports. I think it depends a lot on what sports though.
Like, imagine if politicians had to wear the logos of every company they worked stock in and every company that donated to their campaigns like they're driving NASCAR. Of all sports, almost no one wants anything to be more like NASCAR... And yet, when you think about it, there actually *are* some hints we could take from it.
#USPol

This The Beaverton article is so funny, and not funny.
https://thebeaverton.com/2025/06/canadians-travelling-to-the-us-advised-to-not-fucking-do-that/

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that
OTTAWA - Canadians thinking of planning a trip to the United States are being advised by the Government of Canada to perhaps consider going anywhere else on the entire fucking planet for their summer vacations. 

#nokings #usa #uspol
! wow !

Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein | The Ezra Klein Show
#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

Hey it's lunchtime so I spent a few minutes making a new graphic!
#USPOL

3 guesses where I was this afternoon. First 2 don’t count. #NoKings #USPol #LetThePeopleSpeak

The long-lost hometown college radio station is playing the Beach Boys, "Student Demonstration Time."
Here's to hoping no one earns a "Bachelor of Bullets" today.
#uspol

How to take action against cbs canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert because potus wanted them to?
Do not support cbs, paramount's channels (cbs, nickelodeon, mtv, showtime, bet, comedy central, etc.) platforms and projects: cancel any subscriptions to their services (and tell them why), don't watch and do not praise their work online, do not buy tickets to their movies. So too skydance.
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#NoKings #usa #uspol
Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history?

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

There is a “NO KINGS” sign and protest on a I-295 overpass in Hamilton NJ
#NoKings #Trump #USPol

#UsPol #NIH #Academia
NIH scientists pub…

NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” Monday’s letter from NIH researchers and staffers says the Republican Trump administration’s policies waste public resources and harm people’s health. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his confirmation hearings pledged openness to views that might conflict with his, saying dissent is the “essenc…

I’m thinking a protest sign that just says:
TRUMP
EPSTEIN
It could be in the style of a yard sign for the election.
#USPOL

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

Los Angeles : le discours choc du démocrate Gavin Newsom contre Donald Trump (discours intégral) - YouTube
#uspol

On the Bible and immigration.
#uspol

As expected, they've fallen for it, again.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/18/this-is-a-much-better-place-wsj-bombshell-unites-a-frayed-maga-00464182

Only in Trump's America: Trump's US Atty. nominee was rejected. So, DOJ made the same man a Special Atty to the US Atty. Because the US Atty position is vacant, that same rejected man is now the acting US Atty. 🤷🏼‍♂️
#uspol #shenanigans #NYT

"“Ohio” is a protest song written by Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970. "
#USpol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9VqfVQ9c

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

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

Trump looking down at his shit in the toilet:
"I can't believe Biden left this here"
#uspol

Also so langsam wünsche ich mich, als Kind der 80er, fast in die Zeit des kalten Krieges zurück.
Es lief zwar vieles grundsätzlich falsch und es gab immer diese nervöse Hintergrundschwingung ... Aber zumindest musste ich mich nicht jeden Tag aufs neue fragen, ob denn die Welt nicht noch mehr n Rad ab hat.
Jeden Tag irgend ne neue Irrsinnigkeit 🙈
#uspol

Very efficient: running Reichstag moment and Kristallnacht reenactment all in one day instead of months apart
I really had hoped the situation would have calmed down over night, just to wake up reading about Trump having setup everything to burn down his country completely—and then gone golfing
#USPol #WTF

Was ich zum Besuch von Merz im Oval Office bei Trump sagen kann beschränkt sich im Moment auf: Merz trug einen Anzug.
#pol #depol #uspol

Further detail about what's been happening expanding on my thread about context: #USpol

I don't want to write spoilers or need content warnings here, so:
It's popcorn 🍿 time in the US 🇺🇸! Bring out your best bullshit bingo sheets for billionaire battles!
#uspol #spacekaren #drump

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

"Streit eskaliert: Trump vs. M..."
Puh, zum Glück nicht #Merz. 😰
#depol #uspol

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…

I wouldn't want him to get his "biggest crowd ever" any other way...
#meme #USPol #Trump

Over on Twitter, the doofus-and-loud extreme left is utterly crashing out on the fact that "No Kings" is showing that even us so-called libs or neolibs or libtards or whatever they're calling us today ABSOLUTELY DESTROY THEM at the one thing they thought they had in the bag, organizing and protesting.
Carry on!
#uspol

Here's a great modern version of the classic "Join or Die" cartoon from the American Revolution to prepare for Friday.
#NoKings #uspol

Trump supporters:
2015: This will be a nice joke on the establishment. 😜
2025: Oh $#!t. This's no joke. 😲
#uspol #Iran #Trump #war

Kamala Harris called it. #Politics #USPolitics #USPol

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

President Epstein List has an insufficiency? Sounds right.
#USpol

Trump underwent medical testing for leg swelling, hand bruises: White House
The testing showed results in the normal limit, Leavitt said.

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

Epstein shit and adjacent, Rural America, Poverty, Abuse
Everyone who's not a pedophile thinks pedophiles are bad, but there's this special obsessed hatred you'll find among poor rural Americans. The whole QAnon/Epstein obsession may not really make sense to folks raised in cities. Like, why do these people think *so much* about pedophiles? Why do they think that everyone in power is a pedophile? Why would the Pizzagate thing make sense to anyone? What is this unhinged shit? A lot of folks (who aren't anarchists) might be inclined to ask "why can't these people just let the cops take care of it?"
I was watching Legal Eagle's run down on the Trump Epstein thing earlier today and I woke up thinking about something I don't know if I've ever talked about. Now that I'm not in the US, I'm not at any risk of talking about it. I don't know how much I would have been before, but that's not something I'm gonna dig into right now. So let me tell you a story that might explain a few things.
I'm like 16, maybe 17. I have my license, so this girl I was dating/not dating/just friends with/whatever would regularly convince me to drive her and her friends around. I think she's like 15 at the time. Her friends are younger than her.
She tells me that there's a party we can go to where they have beer. She was told to invite her friends, so I can come too. We're going to pick her friends up (we regularly fill the VW Golf well beyond the legal limit and drive places) and head to the party.
So I take these girls, at least is 13 years old, down to this party. I'm already a bit sketched out bringing a 13 year old to a party. We drive out for a while. It's in the country. We drive down a long dark road. Three are some barrel fires and a shack. This is all a bit strange, but not too abnormal for this area. We're a little ways outside of a place called Mill City (in Oregon).
We park and walk towards the shack. This dude who looks like a rat comes up and offers us beer. He laughs and talks to the girl who invited me, "What's he doing here? You're supposed to bring your girl friends." She's like, "He's our ride." I don't remember if he offered me a beer or not.
We go over to this shed and everyone starts smoking, except me because I didn't smoke until I turned 18. The other girls start talking about the rat face dude, who's wandered over by the fire with some other guys. They're mainly teasing one of the 13 year old girls about having sex with him a bunch of times. They say he's like, 32 or something. The other girls joke about him only having sex with 13 year olds because he's too ugly to have sex with anyone closer to his own age.
Somewhere along the line it comes out that he's a cop. I never forgot that, it's absolutely seared in to my memory. I can picture his face perfectly still, decades later, and them talking about how he's a deputy, he was in his 30's, and he was having sex with a 13 year old girl. I was the only boy there, but there were a few older men. This was a chunk of the good ol' boys club of the town. I think there were a couple of cops besides the one deputy, and a judge or the mayor or some kind of big local VIP.
I kept trying to get my friend to leave, but she wanted to stay. Turns out under age drinking with cops seems like a great deal if you're a kid because you know you won't get busted. I left alone, creeped the fuck out.
I was told later that I wasn't invited and that I couldn't talk about it, I've always been good at compartmentalization, so I never did.
Decades later it occurred to me what was actually happening. I'm pretty sure that cop was giving meth he'd seized as evidence to these kids. This wasn't some one-off thing. It was regular. Who knows how many decades it went on after I left, or how many decades it had been going on before I found out. I knew this type of thing had happened at least a few times before because that's how that 13 year old girl and that 32 year old cop had hooked up in the first place.
Hearing about Epstein's MO, targeting these teenage girls from fucked up backgrounds, it's right there for me. I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in sex trafficking of minors or some shit like that... but who would you call if you found out? Half the sheriff's department was there and the other half would cover for them.
You live in the city and shit like that doesn't happen, or at least you don't think it happens. But rural poor folks have this intuition about power and abuse. It's right there and you know it.
Trump is such a familiar character for me, because he's exactly that small town mayor or sheriff. He'll will talk about being tough on crime and hunting down pedophiles, while hanging out at a party that exists so people can fuck 8th graders.
The problem with the whole thing is that rural folks will never break the cognitive dissonance between "kill the peods" and "back the blue." They'll never go kill those cops. No, the pedos must be somewhere else. It must be the elites. It must be outsiders. It can't be the cops and good ol' boys everyone respects. It can't be the mayor who rigs the election to win every time. It can't be the "good upstanding" sheriff. Nah, it's the Clintons.
To be fair, it's probably also the Clitnons, a bunch of other politicians, billionaires, etc. Epstein was exactly who everyone thought he was, and he didn't get away with it for so long without a whole lot of really powerful help.
There are still powerful people who got away with involvement with #Epstein. #Trump is one of them, but I don't really believe that he's the only one.
#USPol #ACAB

#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...

Could The 3.5% Protest Rule Stop Donald Trump? by Pod Save America
#uspol

Doublespeak, hypocrisy, and shameless lying are requirements to be a Republican these days.
#uspol #GOP #TrumpFascist

What if Mexico paid to install a wall of windmills on their border with the U.S., would potus explode from the inner conflict?
Green energy really could move us toward a better future.
#USpol

"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

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

They make a good point.
#USpol

Lots of chatter about: "Black folks, this is not our fight"
Well, of course it is -- we wrote the playbook.
Literally.
Now we, and everyone else, needs to follow THAT PLAYBOOK, that's all.
#uspol #blackmastodon

#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 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.

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

Billionaire Republicans have destroyed the American Dream.
#uspol

Will the L.A. protests help Trump? by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
#uspol

So as @… pointed out, "Sneaky way to include the Russian flag in your official messaging." 🤔
#USpol #dod

Liberals would rather go to a peaceful candle light vigil for children who have had their parents stolen from them than brick a cop who's stealing parents away from their kids, and they wonder why all their politicians "are so concerned" about Gaza but aren't willing to actually do anything to stop arms shipments to Israel.
#USPol

If you think things are okay try following the #ICE hashtag and then report back.
#USPOL

I asked AI to design a challenge coin* for the U.S. Marines for their campaign in Los Angeles against the American people.
Here’s what it suggests. Are you few the proud yet?
*medallion recognizing membership/achievement/boost morale, often collected or exchanged.
#USpol #USMC

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

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

#USpol #cat #CatsOfMastodon

Remarkable healing on that ear too.
#USpol #assassination #Columbo #meme

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

😡
#USpol

I expect this all to amount to nothing. But I guess we'll see.
#uspol

😝
#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

Follow the money.
#uspol #youtube

Seems to me Coke should put pages of a certain file and list on their bottles, just print them on there. It would really get the information to the people.
Could be so refreshing.
source: https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/32028

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

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

😝
#USpol

Apt as ever.
#USpol

72 years later, this image still seems to resonate.
'In America - At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served' (Krokodil # 4, 1953) by Yuliy Ganf. The solider at the table being well fed is labeled “war” and the neglected tables are labeled 'Education', 'Health Care', 'Libraries' and 'Art'.
#USpol

I just checked the map of bigoted Congressperson Mary Miller’s district and oh my gosh is it gerrymandering run amok.
#USpol #ILpol #Congress

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

The broken clock is right (twice a day): #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

#NoKings #taco #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