I am surprised my beloved #mastodon isn't at the head of sharing Southpark's "Pro-Trump" message - so,
Here:
https://southpark.cc.com/sites/hetrumpedus/index.html
#uspol #us #freespeech #democracy #southpark #paramount #entertainment
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“The whole system is premised on commodifying human beings.”
From Sandy West in our magazine: In the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, adoptions are on the rise in #Texas. But some private foster care and adoption agencies may have crossed serious ethical lines. https://www.texasobserver.org/private-adoption-agencies-legal-custody-battles/
#RoeVWade #children #HumanRights #politics #USpol #Texas #adoption #news
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Call your Republican Senators RIGHT NOW.
Not later; not tonight; RIGHT NOW. Pick up the phone and dial the switchboard if you don’t know their office’s direct number:
(202) 224-3121
Tell your Republican Senator or Senators that you demand they vote AGAINST the Big Ugly Bill that transfers wealth to the billionaire class at a scale not seen in decades if ever, while ballooning the debt to unimaginable levels.
(They'll pretend to care more about that second part, so include it.)
They’re still going through amendments. There is still time, if you call RIGHT. NOW.
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Ron Wyden said that his investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged to the Treasury Department $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers involving Epstein, much of which appeared to be related to his massive sex-trafficking network.
Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
https://newrepublic.com/article/198247/trump-epstein-fiasco-ron-wyden
#JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinCoverUp #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinFiles #MAGA #DonaldTrump #PamBondi #USPol
Wow, "AI" is doing the thing is absolutely known for doing, which is pulling nonsense straight out of its cybernetic ass, who could have possibly predicted this utterly predictable turn on events
https://gizmodo.com/fdas-new-drug-approval-ai-is-generating-fake-studies-report-2000633153
We can stop worrying about those random 30 Nazis showing up and walking around with flags.
Now that ICE is funded and staffing up.
Newsletter: Crypto bills have passed the House with “2, 3, 4 o’clock” phone calls from Trump to give “a little love” to Republican holdouts, $6.9 million in crypto lobbying, and a $141 million midterm threat. The bills feature few consumer protections and destabilizing loopholes.
from @rubenbolling
Know your ICE agent:
Being able to discern between a federally authorized ICE agent and a criminal kidnapper within seconds of first interaction is absolutely essential.
If your abductor is an ICE agent, you must obey, comply and submit. If your abductor is a criminal kidnapper, you are free to fight for your life.
#Cartoon #Comics #Humor #Politics #ICE #Trump #GOP #USPol #Immigration #US #USA
Newsletter: Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat.
Great headline.
Senate Passes Megabill as Murkowski Stays Bought
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-01-big-beautiful-bill-trump-murkowski/
#LisaMurkowardski #LisaMurkowski #Alaska #VoteHerOut #USPol #BigFuglyBill #BBB #RepublicansOwnItAll
This is well beyond Trump.
This is a kitchen sink wet dream of U.S. oligarchs who have been scheming for its passage for decades. It's a transformation of American society, democracy, economy, etc., and not for the better.
Then they're planning on letting the #ChristoFascist #Dominionists play the role of Kapo in the new #TechnoFeudalism
So...fun times. What are you doing to prepare?
#Resilience is an act of #Resistance
@redstateinsurgents
#trump #USPol #Billionaires #Oligarchs #Antifa #Antifascist #AntifaAF #TVAC
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All politics are local, so here are some things that might primarily be of interest to locals in #SomervilleMA but also others.
First, there was a mayoral candidate forum on Monday night. The video is now online. I think it's pretty representative of each candidate's style and positions, personally. You can watch that here (and you can adjust the speed, if that's your thing, fyi).
https://vimeo.com/1103544916?share=copy
#SomerPoli #MApoli #USpol (1/?)
Introducing the July/August 2025 issue of our magazine, with reporting from Sandy West on predatory adoption agencies, Chilton Tippin on international #politics and natural resources, and much more.
Become a member of the Texas Observer and get the best of our journalism, starting at just $3/month: texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join
#journalism #Texas #nonprofit #culture #news #USpol #environment #water #children
We shouldn't call it #AlligatorAlcatraz because that was a prison meant for people who committed horrific crimes.
Those migrants have not.
It's a concentration camp.
It's Alligator Auschwitz.
Also #auschwitz started with 2000 people capacity.
The Alligator version is twice as big.
Rep Chris Murphy on how we need to do a better job of talking to the 75% of people in the US not on Medicaid.
"If you're a 60 year old couple in Connecticut making 80,000 a year, you are probably on the exchange, and that couple will see a $26,000 annual increase in their premiums. A 400% increase in their out-of-pocket expenses."
Everyone gets hit. You either lose your coverage or it gets more expensive.
Just published from my archives, an interview with KD Drackert, a local Long #Covid activist, #LGBTQIA+ performance artist and all-around fab person. They are a founder of our mask bloc/air filter lending library, Clear the Air ATX.
Read it: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lefts-forgotten-132515558
(Free! No Patreon login/membership necessary)
(📷Kit O'Connell, January 2024 at the @TexasObserver office)
#LongCovid #health #HumanRights #activism #Texas #Austin #politics #USpol #RFKJr #Trump #CovidIsNotOver #MutualAid
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The primary difference between the fascist government running America and the Nazis, is that the nazis tried to find the cheapest way to kill millions of people.
Our assholes are trying to figure out the ways to make the most money while doing the same.
This bill is a money-making eugenics plan, not a spending bill. #ThisIsFascism
Scientists and engineers ask questions that lead to discoveries we can’t yet imagine, sometimes even trillion-dollar breakthroughs. And yet today, we're systematically undercutting their work.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sheril/p/the-end-of-american-dominance?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #uspol #science
New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional #Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant #children fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release. https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/
#immigration #politics #USpol #HumanRights #news #border #refugees
Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.
h/t @cryptadamist
![Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX
You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫
[AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette]
2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025](/proxy/post_attachment/778077/110868f579.png "Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX
You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫
[AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette]
2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025")
Nothing is more valuable than a clear-headed understanding of which particular lies are most likely to succeed in the present environment, and which are just evanescent byproducts of the generally mendacious atmosphere. Dodge the decoys, save the right kind of energy to counter the real blows. Turning up the heat in lamenting the current crisis risks mistaking a mere mirage for a more substantial threat.
I found this to be an excellent and orienting read for anyone concerned about the US right now.
While folks are understandably worried about this administration, which has already inflicted significant harms, it's important to stay level headed and aligned with the actual facts and truths. That's our primary defense against what's happening which, as Arendt argued in the 1970s, hinges on a process of defactualization. Shouting "fascism!" and drawing analogies with the Nazis, as this essay argues, is going too far, turning up the heat about a mirage. Much as we wish they'd do better--and they could do better--in point of fact we do still have a functioning judicial system and media ecosystem, and there are significant numbers of people, including politicians and judges, fully willing to challenge every lie the administration emits. As dangerous as these times are we are nowhere near as far along the authoritarian trajectory as shouting "fascism!" makes it sound, and we should really stop doing that. Doing so grants bluffs and bluster more power than it actually has, which is ultimately a form of surrender. We should recognize our own strength and save it for real threats.
This is one of many reasons why I relentlessly call BS on generative AI and the claims about it coming out of the technology sector. There is a defactualization process at work there that plays into the broader political one; some of the individuals enacting this defactualization in tech are personally involved in doing the same in the federal government. If you've been watching you probably know some of their names and the companies they came from. Generative AI is itself a defactualization machine; that's one of its primary appeals to this crew.
Dodge the decoys and save your energy for the real blows.
#USPol #HannahArendt #authoritarianism #despair #tech #dev #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM
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"Trump🚨isn't hiding his fascist dreams. In just the past 24 hrs:
*Threatened to deport US citizens “born in our country” *defines as “bad ppl."
*Vowed to investigate NYC’s Dem mayoral nominee Mamdani *if he’s in the US “illegally.”
*He'd look into whether Musk was legally in the US.
*Joyfully visited the new fascist spectacle: #AlligatorAlcatraz” +vowed to build even more such camps."
*He/Noem threatened to criminally prosecute CNN rptrs.
#Fascism #Citizenship #USPol https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-big-bill-gives-him-to-create
Is someone keeping a database of disappeared people?
We’re going to need one.
#BigFuglyBill #BBB #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
AOC: “I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.”
https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3lt3fvohzjc2q
#USPol #ConcentrationCamps #EthnicCleansing