File under “sure, Jan”
#Fed Chair Nominee Asserts at Hearing He Won’t Do Trump’s Bidding
Kevin M. Warsh, Trump’s nominee for #FederalReserve chair, told senators at his confirmation hearing that #Trump had not asked him for any commitments 😉. Democrats pressed him on his #independence & details of his personal financial assets.
#economy #banking #kleptocracy #Senate #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/21/business/kevin-warsh-fed-chair-hearing?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Even when the ruling class has become reactionary, its ideology remains dominant for a long time. In the first place, it rests on force of habit and tradition; secondly, it is actively imposed by the whole machinery of power (above all, the state) and by the numerous institutions of the ruling class (the Church, the press, and so on), and thus at the same time hinders the spread of new ideas. However, the progressive ideology possesses a decisive advantage in that it reflects the demands of social development. Revolutionary ideas can be forbidden but they cannot be destroyed. Sooner or later they take hold of the masses, spur them to action and then comes the end of the old system. #UsPol
Families can't afford healthcare, food, and housing, but the president is spending billions to send violent ICE agents into our communities. I'm marching on March 28 to say NO KINGS!
Join us in person or virtually online www.nokings.org #uspol #uspolitics #NoKings
"Groups like CPJ have historically focused on the dangerous climate for journalists in dictatorships and repressive regimes abroad. But Trump’s political rise has imported those same threats to the US.
CPJ said it has noticed “a significant increase in the number of newsrooms seeking safety advice, concerned that the changing national political environment could threaten their ability to report without fear of retribution from authorities.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/media/analysis-trump-world-press-freedom-day-chill-journalism
RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116444986956724223
Iran is doing more for the left’s messaging than the Democratic Party ever has 🤣
So #trump is doing exactly what I thought he was going to do with the #tariffs when he failed to actually strong arm any countries into unfair deals -
He is walking them back, and then saying he cut deals! When in reality things just went back to the previous tariff situation between the #usa and #china before the ABSOLUTELY INSANE trade war.
Then since #maga sheep are profoundly dumb, they'll eat it up and praise him for wrecking our #economy.
Our top story: After over 25 years in the U.S., and despite raising a family here and having a path to citizenship, Moizali Momin was nearly deported to India. He spent months in cramped, dirty detention centers at taxpayer expense. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-ice-detention-bond-prosecutorial-discretion/
#ICE #immigration #Texas #Houston #GulfCoast #HumanRights #News #politics #USpol #fascism
UPDATE: a spokesperson from JP Morgan Chase told the Texas Observer they fired the operator of a neo-Nazi X account who we identified as their employee.
"This person is no longer at the firm. We do not tolerate hate in any form and take incidents such as this very seriously."
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
#politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #Texas #news #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
My latest for Deceleration: Greg Abbott could defund the #police in San Marcos—at least partially—if the Texas governor carries through with his threats over a proposed city council resolution calling for a ceasefire in #Gaza. https://deceleration.news/palestine-greg-abbott-defund-san-marcos-police-israeli-violence/
#politics #Texas #SanMarcos #Palestine #FreePalestine #BDS #news #GregAbbott #USpol
I don't think it's possible to be where we are in #uspol (and in the global authoritarian slide) without our information ecosystems being such a mess.
There's a ton of work to do on the distribution side of the problem, but also on the info-making side: Even great newsrooms aren't built to make the kind of knowledge we need in this moment, bc what they make are endless streams of atomized stories.
And we ordinary people are all out here in the feeds trying to piece it together in our heads.
Where to go for a PhD? Change of interest from non-US students.
Source: Economist, 2025 https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/05/21/america-is-in-danger-of-experiencing-an-academic-brain-drain #science #uspol
Pam Bondi has spend more time investigating the people who are reading the #Epstein files then the people who are in the Epstein files
They had exactly 4 computers available for congress to view the millions and millions of (still redacted) pages
Even worse, they kept a record of what they searched and used it against them
Yeah.. The Gestapo would be jealous on the DOJ
Remember! Every day is a GREAT day to DOX an #ICE agent! 
They DO NOT have rights or privacy while wearing a mask
I'll happily host it all!❤️
I am speechless. He isnt done. Now he wants a 250 character SCULPTURE GARDEN???
All of him I assume.
I can't keep up. Im trying to keep up, I can't keep up with all the corruption.
and all the tacky leftovers.
#uspol #corruption #vanityprojects #waste #fraud #abuse #thistimelinesucks
I think I've already posted this but it's worth re-posting:
"Trump admin's attacks on chronic disease research abandons long COVID and ME/CFS patients... Again"
"Budget cuts and the dismantling of federal agencies are making it harder for patients with long COVID and ME/CFS"
Edit: added hashtag
She's clinically ill. Why is she in Congress?!?
"Get the f**k out of my face": GOP Rep. Mace shouts at constituent who asked her about town halls
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/20/get-the-fk-out-of-my-face-rep-mace-shouts-at-constituent-asked-her-about-town-halls/
With 16 Democrats voting in favor, the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill has passed cloture in the Senate.
Alsobrooks (MD), Blunt Rochester (DE), Booker (NJ), Cortez Masto (NV), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Gillibrand (NY), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Lujan (NM), Ossoff (GA), Padilla (CA), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Slotkin (MI), Warner (VA).
RE: https://disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/115992177959522535
Update from #MEAction
"Why We Launched an ICE campaign"
https://www.meaction.net/post/why-we-launched-an-ice-campaign
"Congress cut $1 trillion dollars from Medicaid over 10 years, gutting healthcare access and home and community based services that tens of thousands of people in our community rely on to survive. Meanwhile, in the same bill that stripped money from Medicaid, Congress allocated $85 billion to ICE."
#USPol #MEcfs #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #Disability #ICEout #AbolishICE #Resist
In broad strokes, these are some of the main elements of the Muskist regime of accumulation. Fuse with the state by becoming a monopoly provider for essential functions. Concentrate production while prioritizing resilience, independence, and control. Sell technology for national and individual self-reliance in a hostile world filled with racialized others. Accelerate digitization to make everything programmable, including and especially the human brain.From Muskism As Fordism
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This is the other side of the Muskist mode of regulation: a vision not of shared prosperity but of violence. The fan contract for those inside the walls of a fortified West, and expulsion for those marked as illegitimate. After both the models of Fordist industrialism and post-Fordist outsourcing and globalization have receded, Muskism holds out the prospect of a purified community of survivors.
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In many ways, the ICE incursion was Muskism in action: heavily armed agents equipped with data analytics dashboards and facial-recognition software, using high technology to purge those migrants deemed out of place and punish their “woke” enablers.
SCOOP: Trump to launch branded crypto wallet and trading application, encouraging his supporters to purchase his memecoin and other crypto assets.
A centralized intelligence database on all Americans is not inherently legal.
It likely breaks the Privacy Act of 1974, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments.
This must be stopped. Contact your Senators and Representative and ask them to stop it. I use @5calls to call mine.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans
#JDVance met privately Tues morning with #LauraLoomer, a #FarRight crackpot whose criticisms of some of the #Trump admin’s hires have led to their ousters.
Vance met alone with Loomer at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. It was not immediately clear what the pair discussed.
#USpol #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/laura-loomer-jd-vance-meeting?cid=ios_app
