This week's comic: Playing the wealth card
#cartoon #comic #billionaires #uspol #oligarchy #authoritarianism #economy
uspol
mar 15
5 min
How to kill the goose which lays golden eggs. University layoffs.. censorship, research shutdowns, cuts to basic research in government foundations and agencies, universities revoking degrees, and all the crazy shit ICE is doing, I certainly painting an American education and a unique fashion.
And you can have a side of deadly preventable diseases!
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BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and was not notified in advance that people were going to be fired.
#politics #USPol #DOGE #coup #USDS
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I wasn’t expecting the bit in the #Melania documentary where she sat down and watched two very early episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond in a row and they showed you them in real time, with ads, so that took up about 50% of the running time.
But as a creative decision by the director I think it was sound and was definitely the highlight of the film. #USpol
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New today: I created a brief guide to help Texans, especially #LGBTQIA+ folks and allies living here, better understand the legislature and which bills are likely to become law ... and which ones probably won't go anywhere.
If we're going to be share, fight, protest ... we should make it count. https://kitoconnell.com/2025/03/22/bad-bills-texas-legislature-understanding-how-to/
#Texas #TXlege #politics #USpol #transphobia #HumanRights #Republicans #GregAbbott #fascism #genocide #News
Boston declares itself a pro-trans sanctuary city amid GOP’s escalating attacks
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/boston-declares-itself-a-pro-trans-sanctuary-city-amid-gops-escalating-anti-trans-attacks/
Boston won't comply w. anti-LGBTQ+ fed. orders
* decision comes w. some risk. 🏳️⚧️🙏
#USpol #Boston #LGBTQ #SanctuaryCity #TransLivesMatter
#Trump #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide
It's incredible how they don't even notice how Jordan makes fun of them on the spot
Unfort these are also the nutjobs who picked a criminal for President..
I wonder what they're high on
It appears former USMC folks are leading the charge against the travesty in DC. 👏
“As a United States Marine Corps combat veteran stationed overseas their entire enlistment, this is the exact situation we are trained to look for and not participate in”
He then asked for whoever is reading the email to maintain the culture he was taught in the Marine Corps: “Honor, Courage and Commitment.”
Due to the nature of my work, whether I show up for work today or not in solidarity with Minnesota changes almost nothing, but it does give me an avenue to say something so here's my email auto-reply.
"Organizations in Minnesota have called for a day of solidarity on January 30th to highlight what's happening there. As a show of support for the people of Minnesota and people everywhere risking their lives and livelihoods to defend my rights as an American, I'm offline today.
I hope those of you who are able are doing the same and if you'd like to take it a step further, here are some organizations I'm supporting who are delivering mutual aid, legal help, and press coverage you can donate to.
Immigrant Rapid Response Fund by Women's Foundation of Minnesota:
https://www.grapevine.org/nonprofit/8wSQPNA/Immigrant-Rapid-Response-Fund
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota:
https://www.ilcm.org/donate/
Subscribe to the Minnesota Star-Tribune:
https://www.startribune.com/subscribe
Donate to Minnesota Public Radio:
https://support.mpr.org/news-web
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Seeya next week.
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Mar 26
2 min
He's only look after our long term interests..
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May he never be able to show his face in public again. May his crimes follow him like a vengeful ghost wherever he goes
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2026/feb/05/border-patrol-boss-gregory-bovino-tossed-from-las/
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The first words of the top headline on The Guardian US homepage right now:
“‘This is a coup’”
The White House (WH) Office of Management and Budget (OMB) quietly took down a website required by law.
The website let the public view “approvals of federal funding provided in appropriations laws.” In 2022, Congress mandated this information be posted on the WH’s website.
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(see screenshots for the remainder of the article in the following post)
~ White House scraps public spending database ~
https://www.ajc.com/news/white-house-scraps-public-spending-database/ARLAYFBOB5FNLD6P2OHIHXT6LI/
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If you organize or participate in #TeslaTakeDown protests you may have gotten an email from @indivisibleteam about fashy “counterprotesters” showing up at these events! If you are new to protesting or organizing, this may be very alarming, but here are some things you can do to help keep everyone safe.
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Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis is often framed as a political or law-enforcement story. It is also, unavoidably, a software story.
This article looks at how familiar technical patterns - API access, identity resolution, data enrichment, and permissive authorization models -enable surveillance and intimidation at scale. Not through exotic technology, but through ordinary, well-designed systems doing exactly what they were built to do.
https://netapinotes.com/accountability-apis-and-the-united-states-of-surveillance/ #APIs #uspol #minneapolis #msp
NEW: For The Barbed Wire, I spent weeks talking to current and former students, faculty, nonprofits and others, documenting LGBTQ+ life at #Texas' public universities, where in the last two years students have lost access to health care, advisors, safe spaces, funding for #queer and #trans student orgs and much more.
If there's hope, it's that some communities have stepped up to support the students and what they've lost.. https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/05/communities-ripped-apart-on-texas-college-campuses-lgbtq-services-have-been-completely-decimated/
A musician friend notes, "I guess now we have an answer to the burning question, "How terrible does an elected leader have to be to warrant a public rebuke from the decidedly non-political Musicians' Union?" "
“Whether you liked Ms. Harris or not, this last election was a choice, a very simple one. You had the choice between the Constitution and the criminal. And this country chose the criminal. You put a criminal at the top of America. A convicted felon.”
— Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura
#TrumpMustGo #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Representative Raskin cited my analysis in his letter investigating Trump’s memecoin dinner
https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-memecoin-dinner-guests/
Trump offered to unfreeze funding for NYC tunnel (money that was already appropriated by Congress)
IF Dulles airport and train New York Penn train station are renamed after him...
🤔
So it's not just extortion, but super petty extortion.
Where are the emperor's clothes again?
#MyThoughts
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#USA #US #USpol
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Good news: "FEMA must "immediately comply" with an order to disburse federal funding to 22 states and Washington, D.C., a federal judge ruled.
Judge McConnell finds the agency's "manual review" of grant payments violates his injunction."
-A Klasfeld
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.58912/gov.uscourts.rid.58912.175.0_4.pdf
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#kleptocracy & #corruption on full display:
Exclusive: #SpaceX, #ULA to clinch multibillion-dollar #Pentagon launch contract
#ElonMusk's SpaceX & United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a #US #SpaceForce rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars over the next several years to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive #satellites into #space, acc/to 2 people familiar w/the procurement decision.
#law #Trump #broligarchy #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-ula-expected-clinch-multibillion-dollar-contract-key-pentagon-launch-2025-04-04/
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre
#TrumpKillsUsAll #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #FightFascism #USPol
