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Indivisible has launched a campaign to get people to physically visit their representatives this week:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cru6DBkH5gadq3S-mVhiSU72mC2ZeDHXG93jeiemFH0/edit?tab=t.0

Recording of the Indivisible/Working Families/Move On call from yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yf3AstpQI

You're not into electoral anything, ever? Cool, there's mutual aid work in your community that needs help. And food banks and libraries and school boards. Archive projects. Foster kids.

https://protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/How-You-Can-Protect-Democracy.pdf

#uspol

Fox News has removed the stock market data from the chyron.

#FoxNews #MAGA #fascism #uspol #stockmarket #DOW #Nasdaq

Make
America
Great
(Depression)
Again

(sorry)

#MAGA #USPol #economics #StockMarket #Trump #tariffs

Un-fucking-believable

Senate confirmed #MehmetOz to oversee #HealthInsurance for millions of Americans

TV’s “#DrOz” & known quack has been confirmed to lead the Centers for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services, which has a massive $1 trillion+ budget & oversees health insurance for millions of Americans.

#health #Insurance #medical #benefits #PublicHealth #law #USpol #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy

Via @indivisibleteam:

#Republicans have a new talking point for gutting #Medicaid & #SNAP to give #billionaires even more #TaxCuts:

“We are all going to die.”

If your senator is a #GOP ghoul like #JoniErnst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with #Trump’s #TaxScam

#IApol #USpol #Senate #law
https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-republican-senators-you-dont-want-pay-price-their-billionaire-tax

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.

He was a 24/7 caregiver for his severely disabled son Wael.

At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.

I wrote about Wael and how our caregivers are an extension of us.

Without them we can’t do basic activities of daily living.

Wael died on Friday at age 30.

He didn’t even get to say goodbye to his father.

ICE caused his death & unnecessary suffering.

Now they’re refusing to allow Maher to attend the funeral.

Absolute ghouls.

#uspol #fascism #eugenics #disability #abolishice #immigration

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/tarrant-county/disabled-son-ice-detainee-dies-30-days-hospitalization/287-0b945cda-2cd7-4abd-8eb9-d81117e47061

US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo

https://www.wired.com/story/us-judge-rules-ice-raids-require-judicial-warrants-contradicting-secret-ice-memo/

#ICE #Minneapolis #uspol #tesla

US Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) roughed up and handcuffed for asking Kristi Noem a question at a press conference.

It's time to storm the castle.

#Impeach #Convict #Remove #Indict #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Beware of Login.gov, which several government systems including Social Security encourage you to transition to using.

Looks like there plans to make it a universal identifier, hooked to all the information the government has about you. It's always been billed as a login-only system that respects privacy, but that could end under the current regime. The linked article from 404 Media has audio of a meeting about doing just that.

https://www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-a-musk-ally-plans-to-push-ai-on-the-government/

#TechCoup #USPol

Advising #patriots to display American flags at #nokings day of defiance. #uspol #albuquerque #santafe #newmexico #indivisible

#Families, #LGBTQ+ advocates sue to block #Trump order on care for #transgender youth

The action follows a Trump admin order seeking to halt federal support of #gender transition care for those under 19.

#law #USpol #CultureWars #hate #discrimination #bigotry #health #medicine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/04/transgender-care-lawsuit-trump-executive-order/

The governor of my state is being targeted because she insisted that she intended to follow state and federal law in governing Maine. It would appear the people targeting her don't have much respect for state and federal law, nor for state's rights, even as they hide under the cover of these. That's where we are now, apparently.

#maine #USPol

#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #Citizenship

From CNN.com: Trump can’t end birthright citizenship, appeals court says, setting up Supreme Court showdown

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/politics/trump-cant-end-birthright-citizenship-appeals-court-says?cid=ios_app

Something to know about Maine is that according to Wikipedia the population is around 1.4 million, placing it 42nd out of 50 in terms of population among US states. Average population density is a bit over 41 per square mile (the NYC area tends to have over 10,000 per square mile, by contrast). According to the 2010 census (again from Wikipedia), 94.4% of people here are (non-Hispanic) white.

Doing the arithmetic, there are roughly 78,400 non-white people in this state. Under the assumption that the targets of certain federal agencies are not white, wouldn't searching Maine be a waste of resources? Unless those resources were not in fact intended to efficiently find people with unfavored immigration statuses, say. You don't go looking for needles in one of the biggest haystacks.

To be clear I am not saying other places should be trageted. I am saying that the facts speak to ulterior motives.

#maine #uspol

Hey um remember those two astronauts who are still stranded on the space station

https://www.404media.co/nasa-dei-drop-everything-executive-order/

#USPol

This week's comic: "Protecting the children"

#uspol #comic #cartoon #children #education #lgbtq #climate #health #healthcare #transgender

Someone should tell Reddit that there is Lemmy (and mastodon, of course)

#uspol #reddit #lemmy #fediverse

For the past years I've been told over and over by gun nuts that they NEED them in case the government is trying to fuck over citizens

Where the fuck are they now?

Many of them voted for this bullshit, so never ever use that bullshit excuse to me again please

I don't buy it

#US #USPol

#Trans #uspol

WTAF?

#CIA offers #buyouts to entire workforce to align with #Trump priorities

A CIA spox said in a statement the moves were meant to align the agency with the goals of Trump’s new ClA Director #JohnRatcliffe.

"Director Ratcliffe is moving swiftly to ensure the ClA workforce is responsive to the Administration's #NationalSecurity priorities. These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the Agency with renewed energy," a CIA spox said.

#law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cia-offers-buyouts-entire-workforce-align-with-trump-priorities-wsj-reports-2025-02-05/

“This is the administration trying to ramp up agreements with local law enforcement agencies to be a force multiplier for mass deportation.”

New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Police are signing 'task force' agreements with #ICE in order to ramp up the displacement of the undocumented. https://www.texasobserver.org/local-state-police-ice-287g-task-force/

#immigration #politics #USpol #Trump #news #HumanRights #CriminalJustice #police

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,_detentions_and_deportations_of_American_citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration

#USpol #USpolitics

Message for Americans:

Times are tough for many now, especially for migrants, #LGBTQI+ people, and people losing jobs. My thoughts are with you ❤️
#USpol #USpolitics

Maybe a song on this #JukeboxFridayNight #playlist from 3 January of #HelpingPeople will bring comfort? 🤗

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZe9K6g9lwnSM2obWuPG_QU-ONrQxlMwF

HT @stevenixon who's pulled these #playlists together for JFN community. 🎶 🎧 ❤️
https://www.youtube.com/@SteveNixon/playlists

Fuck ICE #AbolishICE #Politics #UsPol