2026-04-30 14:57:39
Opening up the straight is easy. We can't do it. But it's so easy!!
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Why not eliminate single-representative districts and switch to some form of proportional representation? (Or just go with nationwide independent redistricting commissions.) Too much time and resources are spent on gerrymandering and redistricting legal warfare.
But of course, those that benefit under the current system (*cough* GOP *cough*) won’t change it.
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I would like to add 2 more independent branches of the government:
- News
- Unions
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#USPolitics #USPol #WhoCouldHaveSeenThisComing
Amazing what can happen in a week.
Ref:
I saw an article from The Guardian titled "I've spent a decade fighting Trump. Here are six lessons."
Unfortunately I read it. As someone who saw this coming the moment Trump came down the elevator, who started organizing hard after he won the Republican nomination, I have some notes.
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It's only political violence if it's against wealthy conservatives. Otherwise it's just sparkling 2nd amendment rights.
#uspol #whcdinner #whcadinner
Graham Platner On Service, Messaging & the Future for Democrats | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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WTF is this? Delaware, which has more corporations than people, will let corporations vote?! #uspol
Congress is considering a bill to give oil companies immunity for all the lies and harm they've caused. This is completely bass-ackwards.
Contact your Congresscritters and demand they vote no.
https://www.noimmunityforbigoil.org/
We're back over 100.
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They should really 86 the Comey indictment.
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Street thick with protesters carrying signs for No Kings in Ithaca last Saturday
#photo #photography #politics #uspol
There it is. The Homelander-jerking-off-in-public moment.
#TheBoys #uspol https://mastodon.online/@RejoinEU/1163
#uspol Early voting (midterms primary runoff) started at 7a this morning here. I showed up ~4 minutes later. Had my vote case (five different races) and was out the door four minutes later. I imagine actual election day won't be too bad but figured I'd get things done before heading to Tek so I wouldn't have to worry about coordinating things later.
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
Hasan Piker: Subpoenaed by the Feds by What Now? with Trevor Noah
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Assassination will not help! It'll martyr him, exacerbating the very problems you're trying to solve.
There is no shortcut to removing him. The only path forward is to vote for pro-impeachment candidates in November. #Assassination attempts will thwart this.
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Did Trump choose tonight’s deadline to distract from election results?
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If I say, “the wholly morally irredeemable adviser to the president,” you can probably guess who I mean.
That’s messed up.
Odd that more that one could technically fit the bill.
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Well - I guess that's one thing we can hope for to fix this shitty timeline.
#USpol #USPolitics #Shitpost
Reducing the presence of the US military in Germany would be a top ten failure of military, national security and international relations not only in US history, but quite possibly world history.
The US abandoning our German allies and Europe would be so catastrophic as to strain the meaning of the word.
potus is so clearly unfit to lead. potus endangers every American, and human on earth, even by posting this.
On the face of it, building a ballroom to increase security is completely ridiculous.
If one went to a psychiatric hospital and said, “I feel like we need to build a ballroom to keep people safe,” you’d likely be evaluated and maybe held on a 72 hour hold.
Not one penny should go to potus’ illegally conceived personal fun house emotional support ballroom.
Wanna talk bunkers? Ok maybe. Ballroom? Get stuffed.
Scott Bessent: D-Day was a deescalation
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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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#USPol #USpolitics #network1976
I'm not saying that the 1976 movie "Network" was prescient . . . but . . .
Jim Acosta Just Did the Thing Trump Won't Stop Bragging About
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The Dow Jones is over 50,000, she’ll be fine.
And I hope she gets exactly the care, sympathy and support she deserves.
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There is no excuse for the US the ever have any military personnel die in combat again.
Just issue them each a ballroom and they’ll be fine.
🪖🪩🕺🏻
#USpol #DanceFighting
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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RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116292642552859449
So …. Trump raises fuel prices with his war, then his USPS squeezes us further.
The pain is the purpose.
Good news from Fox!?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/inside-antifa-linked-groups-plan-structurally-change-us-may-day-unrest-approaches
How To Actually Tax The Rich by Prof G Markets
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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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The BBC says the Trump administration is involved in insider trading. In other news: water is wet.
#satire #USpol #InsiderTrading
vote counts not done but seems like Kat Abughazaleh doesn't have it. that sad!
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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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With the acting Attorney General by his side, FBI Director Kash Patel publicly addressed allegations about his conduct, saying, “I’m not as think as you drunk I am,” and “let’s go do karaoke!”
#satire #USpol #KashPatel
Nice job #newJersey
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The flu pandemic that killed 50,000,000 people in the last century was first detected on a US Army base.
But sure kegsbreath, let's not vaccinate against it.
h/t @…
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the world is healing
The Rat Utopia Experiment - Blast! (Official Music Video)
#music
No philosophy, ideology nor belief. Just tribalism and blind loyalty.
#USpol #Kimmel #MichaelKnowles #maga
Speaker Mike Johnson is 6 years old and thinks Congress is school.
Let me make my case.
He made it all recess and no work.
😲😝😳
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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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School's Out. Campus Political Wars Are Just Beginning by How Is This Better? and More Perfect University
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Ah. Yes of course. We're closing the straight now. Perfect sense.
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Claiming a former FBI head who _LET POTUS SLIDE_ hurt innocent people is ghoulish. Perhaps Mueller hurt us all by failing to jail or stop potus.
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Well I guess eric swalwell can get fucked.
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I'm still waiting for a gerrymandered district that is just one republican donor's house.
or maybe a representative can just represent themselves.
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Back over $100
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lol at people pointing out that gas station signs can't go past $10.
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Should the Next Democrat Punish Red States? JVL Says... Maybe | The Next Level
great podcast if you want to feel super doomer.
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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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Well articulated: grief that American autohegemonicide provokes.
#USpol #autogegemonicide
The Trump administration announced it will suspend visa bond requirements for foreign visitors from World Cup-qualified countries who have purchased tickets for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Visitors will still face the real chance of being tortured and killed by ice or cbp because that’s what they do now.
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kegbreath is too drunk to realize he, himself, from fully public and open statements, is being quoted.
Remove him from office and ban him from future federal office, now.
#USpol #hegseth #hegsethPete
😲😝
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Two pilots rescued after the Iranian menace shot them down.
And the orange ghoul who brags about drapery and a ballroom every five seconds hasn’t paraded these heroes he rescued in front of so much as a single camera.
Strains credibility, doesn’t it. 🤔
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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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