I'm struggling to understand the perpetual framing of the shutdown as a question of whether Democrats will "cave" or not. Why isn't the media asking if the Republicans will "cave," "especially when "caving" means giving people the subsidies that will allow them to access Obamacare, that will allow them to live or die?
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Every time I've seen/heard about the Trumpwits' panicky reactions to Kamala Harris being the presumptive nom, I've thought about this meme. No idea who made it, but it's perfect.
Simone Biles, please forward a G.O.A.T necklace to the Naval Observatory, care of Future Madame President Harris.
She just nailed the landing of a lifetime.
Latest comic: Lowering the temperature
#uspol #cartoon #2024election #authoritarianism #fascism #media #politics
How the #Trump Administration Is Giving Even More #TaxBreaks to the #Wealthy
The #Treasury Department & #IRS are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big #corporations & the #ultrarich.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Trump’s support among voters is fading fast, but Congressional Republicans refuse to acknowledge their peril, as they succumb to nearly all of his demands.
⚡️”The gap between voters saying their vote is anti-Trump and those saying it’s pro-Trump is larger than ever.
It’s also the largest such gap since 2006.”
-A Blake
#DementiaDon #Fascism #TrumpShutdown #Shutdown #Trumpcession #Economy #NoKings #Sadism #Protest #USPol
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/politics/anti-trump-vote-virigina-new-jersey
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Latest comic: JD Vance is an anti-abortion extremist
#ParolesDHistoire | Un #fascismeÉtatsunien, avec #SylvieLaurent
L'historienne parle de son ouvrage #LaContrerévolutionCalifornienne
https://parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/2025/11/10/409-un-fascisme-etats-unien-avec-sylvie-laurent/
#politiqueAméricaine #USpol #extrêmeDroite #extrêmeDroiteAméricaine #droiteIdentitaire #nativisme #extrêmedroitisation #néolibéralisme #SiliconValley #tech #droiteTech #technoautoritarisme #Californie #livres @bookstodon
This is an important, eloquent piece by @aphyr - worth a boost I’d say: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago
What he wants you to understand is the experience of being under siege by the secret police.
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Jesus HOPPING christ.
If you're a constituent, flood Schumer's inbox. Flood all their inboxes. Better yet, call them. Holy fuck.
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave?
How the Senate Democratic leader and his Gang of Eight keep trying to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
https://prospect.org/2025/11/08/why-does-schumer-keep-trying-to-cave-government-shutdown/
Here’s what occurred. It has been widely assumed that the group of eight mostly centrist Senate Democrats, who have been looking to broker a hollow deal on Republican terms, were free-lancing. In fact, they were acting with the express approval of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and were reporting to him daily.
#uspol #uspolitics #politics #Schumer #ChuckSchumer #FuckChuck #fascism #FuckingIdiots
BREAKING: Abortion rights initiative WILL be on the ballot this November in Missouri.
#Harris2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #voteblue #vote #KamalaHarris #usa #uspol
This is the most damning and horrifying text in this article:
>Bonica found that out of some $670 million in donations, just $11 million wound up in the coffers of campaigns, national party committees, and individual candidates. The other $659 million stayed with the fundraising groups themselves. That works out, Bonica wrote, to “a fundraising efficiency rate of just 1.6 percent.”
Hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Democratic donors.
#politics #USPol #DCCC #DSCC
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-fundraising-scam-pac-report/
I think it's fair to say that much of the media coverage and public discourse surrounding Project 2025 has (rightfully) focused on the fact that it represents a blueprint for transforming America into an overtly (as opposed to covertly) fascist nation where virtually every aspect of political, social, and personal live is governed according to white supremacist, theocratic, Christian Nationalist principles. Given the broad coalition of billionaires and corporate actors working to make Project 2025 a reality however, would it really surprise you to learn that this same blueprint represents a massive financial gift to the rich at the expense of labor class Americans? According to a recent study conducted by Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee, that's precisely what Project 2025 will do:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/project-2025-taxes
Trump-Aligned Project 2025 Would Mean Higher Taxes for Workers, 'Corporate Welfare' for the Rich
"An economic analysis of the far-right Project 2025 agenda crafted by at least 140 former Trump administration officials shows that the plan would result in higher taxes on working-class Americans and "corporate welfare" for the rich and large businesses."
Like most right wing proposals that actively harm the labor class, the sausage is made by combining multiple regressive taxation policy decisions that ultimately rob American workers and their families of their hard-earned income:
"Together, these changes to tax rates would mean that a family of four earning $90,000 per year would have paid roughly $2,300 more in taxes last year," the JEC found. "If the Child Tax Credit was also eliminated, this family would have paid roughly $6,300 more. Meanwhile, millionaires would pay a lower top tax rate."
The analysis also points to Project 2025's push for a "national sales tax," a highly regressive proposal endorsed by dozens of Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives.
A national sales tax would "force working families to pay more at the grocery store, gas pump, and any other place they buy goods or services," JEC said Thursday, noting that past GOP proposals "would have hiked the cost of essentials like groceries and housing—usually exempt from state and local sales taxes—by 30%."
This would then in turn be combined with significant tax cuts for American corporations, with more goodies for the rich likely on the way during a potential second Trump presidency:
"Meanwhile, Project 2025 calls for reducing the U.S. corporate tax rate from 21% to 18%. According to The Washington Post, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's advisers have discussed slashing the tax rate to as low as 15%, and the president himself has told leading executives and his wealthy campaign donors that he intends to push for additional tax cuts if he wins another four years in the White House."
Look folks, I don't think you need me to tell you that so-called "trickle down economics" has been demonstrably proven to be failed policy, and an utter disaster for Americans who don't happen to be billionaires and/or corporate CEOs. But the taxation changes being discussed here aren't even "trickle down" initiatives so much as directly robbing labor class families to fill corporate coffers. No reasonable person should need any more reasons to think Project 2025 is a nightmare that cannot be allowed to become reality, but even broke cracker fascists who think they'll somehow benefit from the installation of a permanent white supremacist, Christian Nationalist regime should realize that paying thousands of dollars more per year in various taxes to help corporate CEO's buy yet another yacht is a terrible deal for everyone but rich people who are already living high on the hog.
"Trump's airbrushed version of Jan 6 distorts history. See the evidence for yourself. "
NPR does a great job sharing details -
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/04/g-s1-102891/jan-6-archive
@NPR #uspol #jan6 #history #democracy #trump #freedom #liberty #washingtondc #law #ruleoflaw #fascism #antifa
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal weighed in on my reporting about the company’s apparent campaign finance violations, arguing that Coinbase is not a federal contractor.
I have updated the article to include his comments, and I’ve also noted that this argument does not seem to square with the law.
The article, with these updates, is here: https://citationneeded.news/coinbase-campaign-finance-violation/
More to come soon.
#CitationNeeded #Fairshake #Coinbase #USpolitics #USpol #crypto #cryptocurrency
![(Screenshotted image:) What is the source of the funds used to pay for the Cryptocurrency Management and Disposal Services requested under this RFP? All funds associated with this RFP will be paid out of the Assets Forfeiture Fund. The Fund receives proceeds from the sale of property forfeited to the U.S. Government under the Department of Justice Asset Foreiture Program.
While this Q&A document seems to be what Grewal is drawing upon for his claim that the Marshals Service “made clear in the public RFP” that they would not be “paying [Coinbase] with appropriated funds,” there does not appear to be any statement within the RFP that explicitly addresses whether the funds for the contract are appropriated from Congress or not.
Lawyers at Public Citizen weighed in: “Grewal’s argument that funds in the Assets Forfeiture Fund are not ‘appropriations’ is incorrect. Just this year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a similar contention, making clear that an appropriation is simply ‘a law that authorizes expenditures from a specified source of public money for designated purposes’. Consistent with the Court’s holding, a report16 published by the Congressional Research Service explicitly describes the Department of Justice’s Asset Forfeiture Fund as appropriated by Congress.”](/proxy/post_attachment/320326/d15f110908.png "(Screenshotted image:) What is the source of the funds used to pay for the Cryptocurrency Management and Disposal Services requested under this RFP? All funds associated with this RFP will be paid out of the Assets Forfeiture Fund. The Fund receives proceeds from the sale of property forfeited to the U.S. Government under the Department of Justice Asset Foreiture Program.
While this Q&A document seems to be what Grewal is drawing upon for his claim that the Marshals Service “made clear in the public RFP” that they would not be “paying [Coinbase] with appropriated funds,” there does not appear to be any statement within the RFP that explicitly addresses whether the funds for the contract are appropriated from Congress or not.
Lawyers at Public Citizen weighed in: “Grewal’s argument that funds in the Assets Forfeiture Fund are not ‘appropriations’ is incorrect. Just this year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a similar contention, making clear that an appropriation is simply ‘a law that authorizes expenditures from a specified source of public money for designated purposes’. Consistent with the Court’s holding, a report16 published by the Congressional Research Service explicitly describes the Department of Justice’s Asset Forfeiture Fund as appropriated by Congress.”")
This is the line for tonight's Harris/Walz event -- in a Republican district of WI.
#Trump's #Racist Attacks on #KamalaHarris Are Part of a Larger, #Unhinged Plan
Team Trump believes questioning #Harris' racial identity is smart #politics — & is behind him "100 percent," says a person close to Trump
#deranged #weird #racism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #misogyny #MAGA #Republicans #USpol
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-kamala-harris-racist-attacks-larger-plan-1235073171/
I sincerely hope so much that within some years #MAGA will be just a very dirty stain in the #US history
It's gonna take a looot longer to restore everything the dictator has broken I know, but let's hope MAGA will become such a dirty word like nazi's because they're the same thing
And yes I went there:
MAGA = NSDAP = NAZI
Hot take: the AI bubble already burst, and what we're experiencing now is the bailout. "Patriotic tech" is one of the forms it's taking.
It seems to me that, as with the still ongoing COVID pandemic that very few recognize as such, the looming asset collapse and economic recession we're living through in the US is not perceived because it's not talked about as such, and therefore might as well not be happening.
#US #USPol #USEconomy #AI #bubble #recession #COVID #COVIDPandemic
It seems to me that, as with the still ongoing COVID pandemic that very few recognize as such, the looming asset collapse and economic recession we're living through in the US is not perceived because it's not talked about as such, and therefore might as well not be happening.
#US #USPol #USEconomy #AI #bubble #recession #COVID #COVIDPandemic
What utter nonsense lol—
Vance spoke of a “healthy ruling class” and not turning the country over to “people who don’t really have a direct stake in it.”
How would she spin that?
~ Usha Vance tries to defend her husband's 'childless cat ladies' comment ~
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/g-s1-15408/usha-jd-vance-childless-cat-ladies
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They should have played this when he entered into congress
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Political pronouncement (it will probably piss you off)
July 30
#uspol #harris2024 #Musk
#TheScentedOne #BigPlatform
A few words about Xitler and his little ban habit and Big Platform in general.
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I'd like a reporter to ask JD #Vance what he & his wife use for contraception. He can't say 'nothing' because he doesn't have a shit ton of kids. She's still of childbearing age at 38. She should be able to produce a baby every year.
If Vance refuses to answer & says it's personal, then ask him why he thinks he has the right to control the personal decisions of other men & women.
Reporters are failing. Make these men answer questions about the things they want to control in others.
#USPOL
