No crowds. No enthusiasm. No throws. Malevolent octogenarian toddler's birthday parade stink stank, stunk. #USpol #NoKings
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-military-birthday-parade-dc-failure-1235365040/
uspol
It’s been 123 days since 47’s inaugural (1337 to go).
Look at the destruction he’s already caused, and consider what’s to come in his Big Bad Budget Bill.
Most of the analyses by pundits & experts focus on the billions wiped from services funded by taxpayers & used by taxpayers. The HUMAN cost is rarely mentioned, but it’s the impact to HUMAN LIVES that really counts.
Immigrants, elders, the hungry, the sick, disabled, infants & kids, at-risk youth, queer & trans, working families losing insurance, losing jobs, losing heart.
All this HUMAN misery to keep the morbidly rich happy. Fuck that!
In the errors & take-backs so far we’ve seen that PUSHBACK WORKS!
He’s only getting started — SO ARE WE!
🚨CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY! 202-224-3121
#StopTrumpNow
#uspol
Analysis: The absolute silence from the Madleen crew members’ governments is beyond words, "reflects Israeli impunity."
"If any other state had sent its military forces to seize a small civilian boat carrying 12 unarmed civilians ... it would immediately be recognised for the act of state piracy that it indisputably is."
"But for Israel, there’s always an exception.”
~Mouin Rabbani
https://aje.io/p6b8m7?update=3762775
#Madleen #israeliImpunity #USPol #EuroPol #UKPol #BDS @palestine .
But uh, how does this work exactly?
IF the US where to invade Greenland, what do we do?
I totally lack any military skills but I certainly felt a strong urge to fight in Ukraine while it's in theory not even part of the EU
So yeah, if the US where to attack Europe because let's be honest.. that's what it is.. what do we do?
Like I said before, first it's a dictator in Venezuela but where does it end
Personally I'd rather die than be under US control 🤷 And I mean that
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If anyone is considering blaming those in LA for confronting ICE for the rise in violence, I strongly recommend reconsidering your position.
This *is* the plan. It has always been the plan to rachet up ICE violence until that are finally confronted.
Now is the time to support those on the front lines resisting the government troops who are, quite literally, rounding up folks and sending them to concentration camps*.
It’s understandable that some feel uneasy or frightened ahead of tomorrow’s nationwide NO KINGS protests.
Some will stay home, not knowing whether they can exercise their civil liberties safely.
But, honestly, the FEAR some are feeling is THE REASON these protests are necessary.
Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque | The New Republic
Trump is an idiot.
A modern Croesus, everything he touches turns to shit...
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Analysis: Trump welcomes South African Afrikaners as refugees fleeing “white genocide."
Trump describes these white descendants of Dutch settler-colonisers as "victims of unjust racial discrimination".
South Africans are joking about this as the "Great Tsek", which refers to:
1. The "Great Trek" — the 1800s migration of Dutch settlers into South Africa's interior, &
2. The word "tsek" - roughly meaning "f*ck off.”
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/21/south-africa-trump-afriforum-white-refugees/
Dear G-d:
When I said that I wondered what watching a dictatorship form would be like, I didn't mean it *this* way!
In which the US takes another step closer to gearing up for future trans genocide.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/house-spending-bill-now-bans-medicaid
Other than the pure racism, the point of immigrant crackdowns (and Congress blocking immigration reform since Reagan) is to maintain a large highly exploitable labor force.
That's why ICE is hitting up day laborers at Home Depot parking lots and small Los Angeles businesses, and not, for example, shutting down the entire US meat and dairy industries which have relied on that exploitable labor for decades.
"Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/nih-national-human-genome-project-institute-hgp-archives-trump-cuts/
(#paywalled)
"My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project [#HGP]...All of that work, like so much else at #NIH, is currently being dismantled...The digital archival records my colleagues and I maintained are currently inaccessible. I worry that they might be gone altogether, either now or sometime in the future."
#DefendResearch #Medicine #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
"The Rule of Idiots"
"In the last days of all empires the idiots take over."
"The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian & Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who absented themselves from reality, plundered their nations & retreated into echo chambers where fact & fiction were indistinguishable."
Sorry, but Los Angeles is close to my heart. I am boosting #USPol, whether the posts have CWs or not. I can and will CW my own. But this is timely in occurrence.
If you have to, mute boosts from me. Getting info to loved ones out there from afar, and we're three days from a major turn or a huge whiff. Not sure yet.
Earlier today, Trump posted about the ADP employment report, which shows private-sector job creation slowing dramatically since he took office.
Trump pathetically tried to blame Powell for not lowering interest rates, but Biden created more than twice as many jobs under higher rates:
The Outcasts of Zion | review essay by #BenjaminBalthaser
"The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of #AmericanLiberalism’s identity crisis."
#books discussed:
#BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza
#TheThresholdOfDissent
#Doppelganger
#Unsettled
#OurPalestineQuestion
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-outcasts-of-zion/
#JewishAmericanPolitics #JewishAmericanHistory #JewishAmericanLeft #UShistory #USpol #USleft #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineQuestion @palestine @israel @histodons @bookstodon
![review essay in today's Boston Review
text (at right)
POLITICS
The Outcasts of Zion
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.
Benjamin Balthaser
[tags] Books & Ideas, History, Israel and Palestine, U.S.
image (photo, at left): Don Peretz, second from left, in Palestine in February 1949 with fellow American Friends Service Committee volunteers. The group was distributing aid to Arabs displaced during the Nakba. Image: Courtesy of Deb Peretz](/proxy/post_attachment/722312/947d6c2b9566b73ca17cabee58c004c9.png "review essay in today's Boston Review
text (at right)
POLITICS
The Outcasts of Zion
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.
Benjamin Balthaser
[tags] Books & Ideas, History, Israel and Palestine, U.S.
image (photo, at left): Don Peretz, second from left, in Palestine in February 1949 with fellow American Friends Service Committee volunteers. The group was distributing aid to Arabs displaced during the Nakba. Image: Courtesy of Deb Peretz")
Uncle Sam’s new message to young #BlackAmericans: I don’t want you
Opinion by Phillip E. Thompson, a fmr judge advocate in the Marine Corps & lawyer in Virginia.
“I am a proud Marine #veteran w/deep ties to #military service. My wife served in the #AirForce, my father fought with the #Marines in WWII, & my grandfather served in the #Army in WWI.
#USpol #hate #discrimination #bigotry #racism #WhiteSupremacy
https://wapo.st/3Hd4MZq
The #corruption is overwhelming
#Trump Pardoned #TaxCheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
#PaulWalczak’s #pardon application cited his mother’s support for Trump, including raising millions of dollars & a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
#law #USpol #plutocracy #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/trump-pardon-paul-walczak-tax-crimes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=212B8F5D-CA9A-4035-999B-5C9AC5F92D99
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"Tyler McBrien sits down with #AkbarShahidAhmed, the diplomatic correspondent at The Washington Sun, to discuss Ahmed’s new book ' #CrossingTheRedLine: #Biden, His Advisors, and #Israel's War in #Gaza.' They talk about the top officials in the administration who drove Biden’s Gaza policy, how the war quickly became a moral and strategic disaster, and what the heavy civilian death toll might augur for the future."
The #VA, serving some of America’s most vulnerable citizens, is set to lose 83K WKRs.
Morale is plummeting inside the VA as 10s of 1000s of WKRs prepare for deep staffing cuts, raising alarms among staffers, vets & advocates *fear the reductions would severely damage care & benefits for Ms of the US' former service members.
Trump doesn't respect #Vets, POC, #Women, #disabled #LGTBQ ppl, #immigrants...
Amplify: #TrumpRegime's betrayal, & the carnage it's enacting.
#USPol https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/veterans-affairs-cuts-morale-layoffs/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
⚡️President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the US trade court, dealing a major blow to a pillar of the Republican’s economic agenda.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/trump-s-global-tariffs-blocked-by-us-trade-court
Disillusioned & distanced from #Trump, #Musk says he’s exiting Washington & made clear he is frustrated w/obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the #FederalGovernment🎻
Musk dissed Trump’s signature domestic policy, saying it would add to the #deficit. He complained about a lucrative deal that went to a rival co to build an #AI #DataCenter in the #MiddleEast. And he has yet to make good on a $100M pledge to Trump’s political operation.
#BooMutherFuckinHoo #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=94709C91-3556-4635-8095-65DC81177EF3
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700 Marines are being sent to LA to try and stop those who are fighting to protect their immigrant friends and neighbours.
Two journalists have already been shot with “less lethal” ammunition, one of whom required emergency surgery.
They’re shooting at the press.
They seem to want this situation to escalate and they want to silence the brave reporters trying to do their jobs.
Don’t let them. Keep speaking out. Amplify posts from those who are on the ground sharing what’s happening .
Speak up against atrocities. Don’t look away.
#ice #abolishice #uspol #la #fascism #immigration #losangeles