This was never about “protecting” college seats for US citizens. It has always been about fear—about sending a chilling message to undocumented youth that they are not welcome, no matter how long they’ve lived here, or how much they’ve already given back.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dream-act-paxton-trump-immigrant-rights-movement/
uspol
Call it the 911 presidency.
Despite insisting that the #US is rebounding from calamity under his watch, #Trump is harnessing #EmergencyPowers unlike any of his predecessors.
Whether it’s leveling punishing #tariffs, deploying #troops to the #border or sidelining #EnvironmentalRegulations, Trump has relied on rules & laws intended only for use in extraordinary circumstances like #war & #invasion.
#USpol #law #ExecutivePower #AbuseOfPower
https://apnews.com/article/trump-emergency-powers-tariffs-immigration-5cbe386d8f2cc4a374a5d005e618d76a
Today is the last day to submit a comment to the FDA and tell them you want the right to access Covid vaccines!
The same people trying to restrict access are the ones who screamed about choice & autonomy when there were mandates.
Let people have choice and autonomy now.
Tell them you don’t agree with removing tools to stay healthy. To protect one another.
You can submit anonymously and it only takes a few minutes
It’s been 123 days since 47’s inaugural (1337 to go).
Look at the destruction he’s already caused, and consider what’s to come in his Big Bad Budget Bill.
Most of the analyses by pundits & experts focus on the billions wiped from services funded by taxpayers & used by taxpayers. The HUMAN cost is rarely mentioned, but it’s the impact to HUMAN LIVES that really counts.
Immigrants, elders, the hungry, the sick, disabled, infants & kids, at-risk youth, queer & trans, working families losing insurance, losing jobs, losing heart.
All this HUMAN misery to keep the morbidly rich happy. Fuck that!
In the errors & take-backs so far we’ve seen that PUSHBACK WORKS!
He’s only getting started — SO ARE WE!
🚨CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY! 202-224-3121
#StopTrumpNow
#uspol
No crowds. No enthusiasm. No throws. Malevolent octogenarian toddler's birthday parade stink stank, stunk. #USpol #NoKings
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-military-birthday-parade-dc-failure-1235365040/
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Analysis: The absolute silence from the Madleen crew members’ governments is beyond words, "reflects Israeli impunity."
"If any other state had sent its military forces to seize a small civilian boat carrying 12 unarmed civilians ... it would immediately be recognised for the act of state piracy that it indisputably is."
"But for Israel, there’s always an exception.”
~Mouin Rabbani
https://aje.io/p6b8m7?update=3762775
#Madleen #israeliImpunity #USPol #EuroPol #UKPol #BDS @palestine .
If anyone is considering blaming those in LA for confronting ICE for the rise in violence, I strongly recommend reconsidering your position.
This *is* the plan. It has always been the plan to rachet up ICE violence until that are finally confronted.
Now is the time to support those on the front lines resisting the government troops who are, quite literally, rounding up folks and sending them to concentration camps*.
It’s understandable that some feel uneasy or frightened ahead of tomorrow’s nationwide NO KINGS protests.
Some will stay home, not knowing whether they can exercise their civil liberties safely.
But, honestly, the FEAR some are feeling is THE REASON these protests are necessary.
Newsletter: As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis
"They cut SNAP. So like 30% of children who rely on food stamps will lose their food stamps. "
They changed the rules about what counts as a child. It's no longer 18 & under, now it's 7 & under.
So if you're a parent with a child who would otherwise qualify for food stamps, but your child is 9, you're shit out of luck.
The GOP:
"They're literally taking food out of children's mouth to put money in Elon Musk's pocket"
@emptywheel on the @nicolesandler show.
https://www.youtube.com/live/hMeCXqlMog4?t=1804
#uspol
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Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque | The New Republic
Trump is an idiot.
A modern Croesus, everything he touches turns to shit...
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Analysis: Trump welcomes South African Afrikaners as refugees fleeing “white genocide."
Trump describes these white descendants of Dutch settler-colonisers as "victims of unjust racial discrimination".
South Africans are joking about this as the "Great Tsek", which refers to:
1. The "Great Trek" — the 1800s migration of Dutch settlers into South Africa's interior, &
2. The word "tsek" - roughly meaning "f*ck off.”
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/21/south-africa-trump-afriforum-white-refugees/
Dear G-d:
When I said that I wondered what watching a dictatorship form would be like, I didn't mean it *this* way!
Over 100 years ago, El Paso became the first city in the USA to ban marijuana. Now, #Texas is renewing its commitment to tradition with a bill that will destroy 10,000s of jobs if it goes into effect, fully banning all products with THC despite years of normalization of their usage in our state.
My latest for the @TexasObserver: https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-texas-devastating-thc-ban/
#drugs #health #cannabis #news #politics #USpol #TXlege #law #police
In which the US takes another step closer to gearing up for future trans genocide.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/house-spending-bill-now-bans-medicaid
Other than the pure racism, the point of immigrant crackdowns (and Congress blocking immigration reform since Reagan) is to maintain a large highly exploitable labor force.
That's why ICE is hitting up day laborers at Home Depot parking lots and small Los Angeles businesses, and not, for example, shutting down the entire US meat and dairy industries which have relied on that exploitable labor for decades.
"Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/nih-national-human-genome-project-institute-hgp-archives-trump-cuts/
(#paywalled)
"My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project [#HGP]...All of that work, like so much else at #NIH, is currently being dismantled...The digital archival records my colleagues and I maintained are currently inaccessible. I worry that they might be gone altogether, either now or sometime in the future."
#DefendResearch #Medicine #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
"The Rule of Idiots"
"In the last days of all empires the idiots take over."
"The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian & Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who absented themselves from reality, plundered their nations & retreated into echo chambers where fact & fiction were indistinguishable."
Sorry, but Los Angeles is close to my heart. I am boosting #USPol, whether the posts have CWs or not. I can and will CW my own. But this is timely in occurrence.
If you have to, mute boosts from me. Getting info to loved ones out there from afar, and we're three days from a major turn or a huge whiff. Not sure yet.
Earlier today, Trump posted about the ADP employment report, which shows private-sector job creation slowing dramatically since he took office.
Trump pathetically tried to blame Powell for not lowering interest rates, but Biden created more than twice as many jobs under higher rates:
The Outcasts of Zion | review essay by #BenjaminBalthaser
"The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of #AmericanLiberalism’s identity crisis."
#books discussed:
#BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza
#TheThresholdOfDissent
#Doppelganger
#Unsettled
#OurPalestineQuestion
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-outcasts-of-zion/
#JewishAmericanPolitics #JewishAmericanHistory #JewishAmericanLeft #UShistory #USpol #USleft #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineQuestion @palestine @israel @histodons @bookstodon
![review essay in today's Boston Review
text (at right)
POLITICS
The Outcasts of Zion
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.
Benjamin Balthaser
[tags] Books & Ideas, History, Israel and Palestine, U.S.
image (photo, at left): Don Peretz, second from left, in Palestine in February 1949 with fellow American Friends Service Committee volunteers. The group was distributing aid to Arabs displaced during the Nakba. Image: Courtesy of Deb Peretz](/proxy/post_attachment/722312/6e265d1b70.png "review essay in today's Boston Review
text (at right)
POLITICS
The Outcasts of Zion
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.
Benjamin Balthaser
[tags] Books & Ideas, History, Israel and Palestine, U.S.
image (photo, at left): Don Peretz, second from left, in Palestine in February 1949 with fellow American Friends Service Committee volunteers. The group was distributing aid to Arabs displaced during the Nakba. Image: Courtesy of Deb Peretz")
Uncle Sam’s new message to young #BlackAmericans: I don’t want you
Opinion by Phillip E. Thompson, a fmr judge advocate in the Marine Corps & lawyer in Virginia.
“I am a proud Marine #veteran w/deep ties to #military service. My wife served in the #AirForce, my father fought with the #Marines in WWII, & my grandfather served in the #Army in WWI.
#USpol #hate #discrimination #bigotry #racism #WhiteSupremacy
https://wapo.st/3Hd4MZq
The #corruption is overwhelming
#Trump Pardoned #TaxCheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
#PaulWalczak’s #pardon application cited his mother’s support for Trump, including raising millions of dollars & a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
#law #USpol #plutocracy #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/trump-pardon-paul-walczak-tax-crimes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=212B8F5D-CA9A-4035-999B-5C9AC5F92D99
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The #VA, serving some of America’s most vulnerable citizens, is set to lose 83K WKRs.
Morale is plummeting inside the VA as 10s of 1000s of WKRs prepare for deep staffing cuts, raising alarms among staffers, vets & advocates *fear the reductions would severely damage care & benefits for Ms of the US' former service members.
Trump doesn't respect #Vets, POC, #Women, #disabled #LGTBQ ppl, #immigrants...
Amplify: #TrumpRegime's betrayal, & the carnage it's enacting.
#USPol https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/veterans-affairs-cuts-morale-layoffs/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social