I'm starting to become patriotic for my country. It sounds stupid, but... America is trying to take our asses.
uspol
A candle for Minnesota. For the protesters across the country. For the people who are protecting their neighbors, blowing whistles, standing up for families and immigrants and civilians and children.
RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115973241364827209
🗣 THIS IS THE ENERGY!!!
“we outnumber them. if we need to hunt you down the way they hunted nazis for decades, we will. we will achieve justice.”
🗣 SOMOS MÁS Y NO TENEMOS MIEDO.
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Newsletter: Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles
The formerly anti-government bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up, applauds federal plan to stockpile seized crypto with no clear benefit to national interest
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-reserves-no-public-good-no-principles/
Thanks to Melissa Hellmann of The Guardian (US) for reporting on the lesser known victims of #ICE so far this year.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/deaths-ice-2026-
#FederalReserve Chair #JeromePowell is speaking
Says #Trump #tariffs were far higher than expected & that larger than expected tariffs mean higher #inflation, slower growth.
"We face a highly uncertain outlook with elevated risks of both higher #unemployment & higher inflation," undermining both of the #Fed's mandates of 2% inflation & maximum employment, Powell said in prepared remarks for a business journalists' conference.
1/x OK-doke, Mastodon #resistance peeps. Several morning 🧵 to-dos in the face of the CR shitstorm and *certain* spinless Dem capitulation.#USpol #Democracy
First up:
Good (and early) “Fridays in Trumpland” post from The Newsletter with ECM with phone numbers of all Dem Senators and script too: https://open.substack.com/pub/newsletterwithecm/p/fridays-in-trumpland-3132025
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This is a perfect example of why we shouldn't tell people to "vote blue, no matter who." This guy will have a "D" after his name on the ballot. It is imperative that voters do their own research.
...A Trump-voting pastor could be the one who stops Democrats from being able to take control of the U.S. Senate. Only two filed for U.S. Senate in Nebraska and one is a Donald Trump-supporting far-right pastor calling himself a "free thinker."...
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This week's comic: Playing the wealth card
#cartoon #comic #billionaires #uspol #oligarchy #authoritarianism #economy
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
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
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He's only look after our long term interests..
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New from @candicequestions: Former Tarrant County GOP Chairman Bo French is running a 'fossil fascist' campaign for Railroad Commissioner, blaming the sins of the oil and gas industry on scapegoats and racist conspiracies. https://www.texasobserver.org/bo-french-blood-and-oil-railroad-commissioner/
#Republicans #Texas #midterms #politics #USpol #news #fascism #OilAndGas #environment #ClimateChange
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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Newsletter: As the president’s family’s shady dealings continue to mount, SEC enforcement actions have collapsed to twenty-year lows. The CFTC says it doesn’t need staff when it has AI.
Representative Raskin cited my analysis in his letter investigating Trump’s memecoin dinner
https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-memecoin-dinner-guests/
The Guardian: US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN
Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets
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/
Palantir has issued a far-right, racist manifesto denouncing "dysfunctional" & "regressive" cultures & critticising "attempts to hound wealthy figures out of public life by scrutinising their behaviour."
It also called for "the expansion of AI weaponry."
Palantir shares fell immediately.
Palantir "has accelerated Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza", & yet the British govt has granted it access to the NHS.