Democratic politicians are probably in danger, and they need to fight for their own survival, literal survival, in addition their normal job of advocating for their constituents.
This is not just an average time to be a politician.
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Donald Trump has a secret plan to turn the United States into a dictatorship, and we now see the contours of the fierce political battle ahead.
The US senators are shocked as they realise, Trump tries to copy the dirty tricks of disgraced president Richard Nixon to become all powerful.
Watch my latest political analysis on YouTube in 4K:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTIFRUpItn0
Go get him!
A Missouri Republican has introduced a federal abortion ban in the House
https://www.fastcompany.com/91268914/bill-banning-abortion-introduced-house-missouri-republican
They came for my caregiver's aunt. She's been here since she was 13. She has teenage citizen children.
You're telling me this person who made her life here doesn't belong because what, she didn't do the paperwork? Get fucked #Nazis #ICE #immigration #USpol
Latest comic: What's the point of an economy that no longer serves the interests of human beings?
#labor #workers #economy #oligarchy #technology #automation #uspol #uspolitics #plutocracy
Making vacation plans? Be sure to consider--then dismiss--Florida!
#BoycottFlorida #NoConcentrationCamps #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Trump II: Screwing you, enriching billionaires, betraying America
• Slashing consumer protection, healthcare, and education
• Corruptly turning over your private data to Musk
• Imposing job-killing, price-hiking tariffs
• Pushing tax breaks for billionaires
• Pardoning violent criminals
After years of the crypto industry claiming to fight for liberty, privacy, and free and open information and tech, I'm very excited for our new "pro-crypto Congress" to get to work protecting access to medical care (including reproductive and gender-affirming care), data privacy, press freedom, freedom of expression, net neutrality, and the right to private and secure communications.
This is insane. Under questioning by Sen Angela #Alsobrooks, #RFKJr claims #Black people need fewer #vaccines than #White people. This is pure disinformation & utterly backwards thinking. This guy is interviewing for the job of running all of the #health agencies of the #UnitedStates.
#law #USpol #PublicHealth #medicine #science #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOyjjY-E2YY
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“MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy, and, most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is.”
— Former NFL player Chris Kluwe, protesting a MAGA plaque at public library in Huntington Beach, California, as applause erupted in the room. Kluwe was subsequently arrested.
#MAGA #ChrisKluwe #ImpeachDonaldTrump #StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #USPol
US grocery stores ration eggs as the Trump administration empowers the wealthiest man in the world to gut the federal government.
(The image is from Kroger’s website.)
#USA #GoingGreat #BirdFlu #USPol
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/trump-mass-firings-grocery-limit-egg-morning-rundown-rcna192177
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Ridiculous who elected #ElonMusk anyway?
The highest-ranking career official at the #TreasuryDepartment is departing after a clash with surrogates of #billionaire Elon #Musk’s #DOGE who sought access to sensitive payment systems.
#law #Treasury #economy #USpol #FederalAgencies #kleptocracy #plutocracy #broligarchy #tyranny #autocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-systems/
Greetings from Muskau: Russian Propaganda Surges as Musk, Trump Jr. and AfD Align https://leavex.eu/posts/greetings-from-muskau/
*There are currently masses of Russian propaganda videos in circulation, ostensibly from the news media. Many are attacking the USAID. Elon Musk, Trump Junior and the AfD are happy to help. The closing of ranks is complete.*
Excellent article by @chrisstoecker. Share it.
#Russia #Musk #afd #USA #USPol #Europe #EU #disinformation #FakeNews #trump #USAID
Tonight, on John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, #Mastodon and #PixelFed got a call out for not falling in line with Trump and as an alternative to Meta products.
#USPol #JohnMastodon
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The current US regime is violating several articles in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
If you have have information that could help the ICC to issue international arrest warrants for people in the current US regime, you can send your evidence and information to the ICC here, anonymously or using your real name:
Websites are being scrubbed all over the US government. Census.gov is down. CDC is having information removed.
It hasn't been 2 weeks. People are just complying and we are in so much trouble.
Hey Oregonians 👋
Please contact your Oregon senator and representative (not US level, state level) to ask them to support this bill.
Don't know who they are? See link in reply!
"New bill aims to support Oregon immigrants excluded from federal food benefits"
“No one, no matter their background, their zip code, or their circumstances, should ever have to go to bed hungry"
Afghan pilots who fought in 20-year war against Taliban in limbo after Trump blocks US resettlement plans
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/28/asia/afghanistan-war-pilots-limbo-us-resettlement-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
;_(
#uspol
Trump II: Screwing you, enriching billionaires, betraying America
• Price-hiking tariffs
• Tax breaks for billionaires
• Pardons for violent criminals
• Job-killing halts to infrastructure projects
• Corrupt turnover of power and private data to Musk
• Cuts to healthcare, consumer protection, and education
#Economy #Inflation #Jobs #Corruption #Trump #Autocracy #Musk #Kleptocracy #USPol #Democracy
Coinbase says that the SEC has agreed to drop the enforcement case against the company. It only cost them $75 million in political contributions.
I have a piece in The Progressive today on “The Danger of MAGA History.”
It’s about memory holes, memory trolls, and the creature in the Oval Office.
I hope you’ll read and perhaps boost or repost where you think there might be interest.
https://progressive.org/latest/the-danger-of-maga-history-karn-20250130/
#history #uspol #democracy #authoritarianism #histodons
@histodons
From Ben HsuBorger at #MEAction:
"Why I Joined a Stand Up for Science Rally"
https://www.meaction.net/2025/03/12/why-i-joined-a-stand-up-for-science-rally/
"I have lived as an ME/CFS 'spoonie' for the past 20 years after I got a virus and never recovered. I’ve spent much of the past 10 years of my career advocating for ME/CFS research at the NIH"
"I don’t want to see the same scientific harms that have happened in the ME community become even more widespread across all of science"
@mecfs
The term “DEI” is being used as a cover to tear apart much of the federal government. It’s not that this language didn’t exist before, but it’s being weaponized now. Suddenly the cold, impersonal-sounding acronym DEI has replaced “diversity initiatives,” “civil rights,” “equal rights,” “fairness,” and “anti-discrimination” in everyday conversation. I would suggest that one small thing we can do is return to using those actual words. This week's comic:
#cartoon #uspol
"Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel 'Parable of the Sower' that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and an authoritarian 'President Donner.'
"That day is today."
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/01/octavia-butler-feb-1-2025-black-history-month
@bookstodon #bookstodon #OctaviaButler #books #USpol
I wonder when the US Congress is going to do something about the "do what you did to Twitter to the Federal government" stuff. Are they still alive in there? What's up? Should we turn Congress off and then on again?
#USPol
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