Trump Agenda: Himself and His Rich Friends
Harris Agenda: Working Americans and Middle Class Families
Vote accordingly
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I will say:
I somehow got on some right-wing SMS spam list, and have been getting comically desperate pleas for fundraising multiple times per day.
…for Trump, until maybe a week ago, when they pivoted hard to raising money for Ted Cruz.
Poll results can be mirages, but I don’t think this is Indivisible just whipping things up. Somebody in the right-wing machine really did suddenly get worried about Ted Cruz.
#uspol https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/113308196276073627
The GOP has spent a century labeling all public works programs that don’t directly benefit the wealthiest among us as “socialism.”
Combining that with their efforts to increase and embrace anti-intellectualism has been *very* effective.
It will take us just as long to reverse the trend. But to quote RATM—
“It has to start somewhere. It has to start sometime.
What better place than here? What better time than now?”
#uspol #WereNotGoingBack @KamalaHarrisWin https://mastodon.social/@MugsysRapSheet/113300590409849064
Latest strip. At the Lancaster, PA rally, Trump got on the subject of his mental fitness and stated “I have no cognitive. She may have a cognitive problem, but there’s no cognitive problem… Got no cognitive.”
Remember when #Trump had to subsidize US farmers because his trade war with China caused the country to put retaliatory #tariffs on soy (and other agricultural products)?
Imagine that amplified 1000X and involving multiple countries and various products & industries (beyond agriculture).
And Trump plans to act without Congress, which he has done before and will do again (only likely worse because he will have nothing to lose).
1 / 6 🧵
(& bonus)
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As a trans woman, I often find myself struggling to properly articulate the real purpose of modern Pig Empire fascism's eliminationist campaign against trans people and anyone else who doesn't fit into the heteronormative binary on which their fragile, but wholly malevolent and dominance based conception of masculinity rests.
On one hand it would be a gross misrepresentation to say that fascists, the political actors driving their movements, and the rich people paying for modern nazism don't really hate trans people and wish to eradicate the public existence of trans identities, because they absolutely do. On the other hand however it would also be a grave mistake to forget that these people foundationally "use the whole cow" and their pogrom against the existence of trans people is also intentionally acting as a type of skeleton key to justify and facilitate a larger eliminationist agenda that revolves around purging their political enemies, removing civil rights and buttressing support for important ideological planks in the fascist platform - like violent nationalism, colonial extraction, white supremacy, eugenicist ableism, patriarchal dominance and so forth.
Indeed, while the fascists certainly do hate trans people and any sort of gender nonconformity, their decision to make anti-trans hate the tip of the fascist spear in a war for control pretty much comes down to the fact that trans people aren't particular numerous, visible, or empowered in our society, which itself has been mainlining normalized transphobic ideology for decades. It's much easier to convince people to hate folks they don't know in everyday life, and the pre-existing marginalization of trans people ensures that these pogroms can be abstract and ideological in a way that greases the path for violent eliminationism more effectively. We are, to put it succinctly, an easy gateway target for fascist repression that in turn can be used to expand the sphere of fascist influence and allow for the elimination of much larger portions of the population down the line by repurposing the justifications for repressions of trans people in a very "first they came for" sort of way.
While all of this is difficult to explain to folks not directly in the fascist crosshairs at any given moment, it's not all that hard to see this principle in action when empowered fascists are able to exercise control over our laws and state structures. Which is why I was utterly unsurprised to learn that American fascists in governments all over the United States are now using their actualized anti-trans pogrom to push a eugenicist agenda designed to target the rights, protections, and threadbare support programs for disabled Americans pretty much anywhere they control the government.
Suit Over Gender Dysphoria Could Dismantle New Disability Rules
"But gender dysphoria is just part of the 130-page federal rule. It also protects disabled parents’ rights in child welfare cases and prevents hospitals from using disability as a factor in determining who gets care in crisis situations, such as equipment shortages during a pandemic. It adds Long Covid to the list of conditions that may constitute a disability and strengthens protections against unnecessary institutionalization, requiring that care be offered in the least restrictive setting and, ideally, in a patient’s community.
Striking down the entire rule would have wide-reaching implications for all disabled Americans and other marginalized groups who rely on federal agencies’ interpretations of decades-old laws to enforce their rights, says Mia Ives-Rublee, senior director of the Center for American Progress’ Disability Justice Initiative. “They’re utilizing LGBTQ issues as a wedge,” Ives-Rublee says. “The attack is really about the regulatory process of the federal government, and this will impact almost every interaction that a disabled person has with the services and supports that they receive.”
As I've written many times in the past, fascism isn't ultimately a violent chud rush similar to what we say during the January 6th 2021 coup (or autogolpe if you prefer) attempt by Trump supporters, so much as a legalist doctrine enforced by empowered nazis and the state at their disposal; a sort of violent game of "Simon Says" with prison camps and pogroms. The use of politically activated anti-trans sentiment to eliminate protections for disabled people isn't a bug in the fascist program but rather an intended feature; and it certainly won't be the last legalist application of fascist ideology if this movement continues to accumulate power in our society. Cis people should of course oppose the fascist anti-trans pogrom in action because it's the right thing to do, but also because you can bet your bottom dollar that it won't, and isn't stopping after they drive trans people out of public life - you and yours may well be next.
#TransRights #Fascism #Ableism #Pogrom #USPol #GOP #Eugenics
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New today from Francesca D'Annunzio: “This moment calls for compassion and meaningful immigration reform that prioritizes saving lives. The future of humanity depends on our response.”
Texans will be forced to defend their communities from #Trump's attacks ... https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-front-lines-mass-deportations/
#immigration #Border #politics #USpol #election2024 #news #Texas
Do not overlook the role of religion in this authoritarian mess. It matters that a large majority of white Trump voters identify as Christian. Yes, yes white supremacy is a big deal here. As is male supremacy. But omitting Christianity/Catholicism from the equation is intellectual malpractice.
What Links Religion and Authoritarianism?
The connections between religiousness and authoritarianism, studied for decades, depend upon the kind of religious belief.
https://daily.jstor.org/what-links-religion-and-authoritarianism/
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somehow brandon returned:
https://www.bitview.net/watch?v=Bu_Ysqc6cg8
https://www.kamtape.com/index.php?v=bqkvfgsrvMk
https://archive.org/details/cocksock69-darksockholeslam
#joebiden #donaldtrump #kamalaharris #election #uspol
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We need one more Biden misstep calling Republicans Drag Queens. He's so close he doesn't even realize his power.
#MAGA #MAGAGarbage #USPol #Trump #KamalaHarris #Biden #Harris
Looks like Maya Rudolph will make a surprise appearance on #SNL tonight in the last few days of her presidential campaign
#HarrisWalz2024 #usa #uspol #election #uspolitics #kamalaharris #vote #voteblue
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However you might be feeling about NPR, this is an excellent podcast, esp season 2, and so relevant right now.
Back up everything friends! https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/noaa-research-websites-go-dark-saturday-night #science #uspol
The US SENATE will have two new Black female senators:
Democrats Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and
Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware!
#uspol #election2024
"Pres Trump just fired:
• 90 physicians
• 350 nurses
• at least 25 nurse practitioners
• nearly 20 dentists
• 85+ pharmacists
• 45 lab techs
Employed by the Indian Health Svc to provide HC. This is going to have dangerous consequences for our Indigenous brothers & sisters."
-Sen Luján
Snr officials: ~5,200 ppl on probat. employment -recent hires -across agencies incl. #NIH #CDC will be fired🚨Fri. CDC: ~1,300 WKRs...
#Racism #Trump #PublicHealth #USPol #HHS
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/federal-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/
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The Republican culture wars in Texas will soon turn the state into the Forbidden Zone from Planet of the Apes.
Physicians are leaving. Women are leaving. Businesses are leaving. Teachers are leaving at a rate that’s 25% higher than that of other states.
You break it, you bought it.
#Texas #CultureWars #RepublicansDidThis #ForbiddenZone #USPol #NoRepublicansEverAgain
"They'll be jobless and hungry--they won't even miss their homes."
Trump's war on veterans targets program to help them keep their homes
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/4/2314520/-Trump-s-war-on-veterans-targets-program-to-help-them-keep-their-homes?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main
#Veterans #EndDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol
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The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/