City of Boise refuses to comply with the fascists. Will not remove the Pride flag from city hall. 🫶💪
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"‘The SAVE Act isn’t about preventing fraud.’ Oregon representative gives fiery speech as House approves changes to voter registration"
“The SAVE Act isn’t about preventing fraud, it’s about preventing participation in our elections" - Rep. Maxine Dexter
#USPol #Oregon #Elections #Voting #SaveAct #VoterSuppression #Resist
Some local coverage for the Oregon #HandsOff protests from OPB:
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/04/05/hands-off-protests-oregon-washington/
“Hands Off” protests began in Tigard in Southeast Portland Saturday morning, with dozens more planned in Oregon, from Gold Beach to Astoria, to Hood River, Enterprise, Redmond and Klamath Falls.
So it turns out that #republicans are the ones canceling Christmas:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/trump-tariffs-dolls-comment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D08.IErv.IE_yFvsuVUSO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #grinch #tariffs #christmas #scrooge #trump #uspol #giftarticle
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"AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real." #USPol
Support the leader who supports the People.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/aoc-email-20250322-1
Canada was poised to elect its own 'Maple MAGA' movement. Then Trump happened.
Some Canadian Conservatives told NBC News they voted Liberal for the first time in Monday's election in a rejection of Pierre Poilievre's seemingly Trump-inspired campaign
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Canada
"When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity
Escalating reports of human rights crimes from Kristi Noem's propaganda to ICE cruelty must be wiped clean with justice." - Will Bunch, Philly Inquirer
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/us-crimes-humanity-ice-kristi-noem-20250413.html
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#trump finally admitted that the #economy isn't doing well.
However in true Republican fashion, he didn't actually take responsibility for anything like an adult.
He blamed it on the past like a child, which I don't think surprised anyone. #maga wouldn't know responsibility if it hit them in the face - the problems in the #usa are never their fault, it's all the libtard Democrats, Biden, or Obama despite him not being in office for a LONG time.
Interesting read…
"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this. Instead, there’s a final battle. And this is where it gets really dark. The people who are advancing this agenda are also building their luxury bunkers and their spaceships to Mars. They don’t believe that there is a future. These people believe history is ending, literally."
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Volodymyr Zelensky continues to do daily broadcasts to his country about the war, as he has been doing for a Very Long Time, because he gets it.
Meanwhile Democrats in the U.S. still haven't figured out the most basic facts that we are also in a war and they also need to be doing daily primetime press conferences.
The former comedian gets it; the career politicians don't.
It's incredibly unbelievable how much Democratic leadership has failed to live up to this moment.
#politics #USPol
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Moron did what now?
#Trump announced a 100% #tariff on #movies produced outside the #US, saying #Hollywood was dying a "very fast death" due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers.
"This is a concerted effort by other Nations &, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging & propaganda," Trump said in a social media post.
[I mean…c’mon, a #NationalSecurity threat?]
#idiocracy #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-announces-100-tariff-movies-produced-outside-us-2025-05-04/
In total #disrespect of #Veterans, #Trump says he is renaming #VeteransDay as ‘Victory Day for World War I’
Trump said he would also label May 8, known as “V-E Day” for “Victory in Europe”, as “Victory Day for World War II,” to commemorate the end of #WWII, but, clearly unbeknownst to the #IdiotInChief, only the war in #Europe came to an end in May. The Americans—quite famously—continued to fight the Japanese until August 1945.
#idiocracy #USpol
https://www.thedailybeast.com/complete-moron-donald-trump-announced-wwii-victory-day-on-wrong-date/
In some meeting, you wear a red band around your arm, in others, you bring your red basecap.
It is INSANE that these children are who #Trump has licensed to reshape (destroy) the #UnitedStates #FederalGovernment.
#FauxNews' Jesse Watters interviewed #DOGE members at their nightly meeting. The meeting was led by #ElonMusk, who the #WhiteHouse & the #DOJ has stated in court is not in charge of DOGE. #AmyGleason who supposedly is in charge was not at the meeting.
Can't protest in person? Looking for a virtual event?
The COVID Long-Haulers Against Fascism group has an online meeting scheduled for Sat, May 3.
It starts at 1 PM Central (11 AM Pacific / 2 PM Eastern)
Details here:
https://www.mobilize.us/covidlonghaulersagainstfascism/event/783737/
I'm planning to be there! 🤞
#USPol #VirtualProtest #Protest #Disability #LongCovid #MEcfs #Resist
“The revolution isn’t happening if it’s not accessible. The revolution isn’t happening if you don’t listen to some of your most vulnerable members.”
Out today in Deceleration: "Mask blocs" in #Texas support the sick, #disabled and otherwise COVID-Conscious communities, providing vital mutual aid amid attacks on public health. https://deceleration.news/texas-mask-blocs-covid-19-federal-and-state-attacks/
#COVID #COVIDIsNotOver #LongCOVID #disability #health #MutualAid #news #politics #USpol #TXlege #Austin #Houston #SanAntonio
"Groups like CPJ have historically focused on the dangerous climate for journalists in dictatorships and repressive regimes abroad. But Trump’s political rise has imported those same threats to the US.
CPJ said it has noticed “a significant increase in the number of newsrooms seeking safety advice, concerned that the changing national political environment could threaten their ability to report without fear of retribution from authorities.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/media/analysis-trump-world-press-freedom-day-chill-journalism
U.S. District Judge Tanya #Chutkan says some nonprofits awarded billions for a so-called green bank to finance #CleanEnergy & #climate-friendly projects cannot have their contracts scrapped & must have access to some of the frozen money. The ruling is a defeat for #Trump’s [mockery of an] #EPA, which argues the program is rife w/ financial mismanagement.
#law #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/epa-green-bank-grants-clean-energy-projects-1bcc9dd5c92f8dfb4304add043711278
I had the dumbest conversation of my entire life.
I told someone how #tariffs work, specifically that they are charged to American companies, and are essentially a tax on them which turns into a tax on the consumer when the company raises prices, and don't make money.
They told me I was wrong, and then I sent them the #wikipedia link which said what I said.
They told me Wikipedia was liberal #propaganda and couldn't be trusted.
I gave up and blocked them
"Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story.”
- #WhiteHouse press secretary #KarolineLeavitt, on why she is now refusing "as a matter of policy" to respond to reporters who have #pronouns in their email signatures.
A trader bought 6,000 $TRUMP on April 21, two days before the announcement that top holders would be invited to dinner with the president. They sold it a few hours after the announcement two days later caused the token price to go up, earning $33k on the trade. Impressive timing!
So #trump is doing exactly what I thought he was going to do with the #tariffs when he failed to actually strong arm any countries into unfair deals -
He is walking them back, and then saying he cut deals! When in reality things just went back to the previous tariff situation between the #usa and #china before the ABSOLUTELY INSANE trade war.
Then since #maga sheep are profoundly dumb, they'll eat it up and praise him for wrecking our #economy.
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