Just a reminder… #USPol #USPolitics #politics
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"Your photos reveal a lot of private information."
Tool by @ente
I tried to make a longer rant than my usual clips. So this is more practice than anything else.
A rant about when you're in a bad neighborhood, the only nice looking buildings are run by the government. The only park within a short walking trip of my home (about a mile and a half) is only there as the courthouse, library and #police station needed to look nice.
If the #usa cared about its people, everything would be like this.
Dammit people, do you not see the crossroads we are at? We are in Nazi Germany, at the twilight of civility before fascism firmly takes root and can no longer be stopped. You can't just stand there aghast and scandalized and talk about how it's illegal or shocking or vile. If we don't take *action*, the chance for action will pass.
We are witnessing the active consolidation of power by a fascist government as politicians and judges are arrested and harrassed, people are rounded up and sent to camps, the armed forces are mobilized against our citizens, rule of law is discarded, and war is looming.
What else do you need to see to convince you that we are OUT OF FUCKING TIME? Act now, in defense of your neighbors and your representatives and your nation, or expect it all to be yanked from your hands for the duration of the long, dark night. It is a countdown to war and death camps. This isn't a game. This isn't a hypothetical. IT IS FUCKING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!
"Since June 6 — when the Department of Homeland Security began widespread raids throughout the Los Angeles region — the number of immigrant parents making emergency arrangements for their children’s care has skyrocketed. Parents have flooded legal rights organizations in person and on Zoom for help filling out the forms that will designate another adult to take over responsibility of their children, many of whom are citizens, if they are detained or deported."
🚨NEW: President Trump’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, quietly raised over $50 million through private token sales—
likely sending tens of millions to him and his family.
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Me, for @Forbes
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Wise words from Timothy Snyder: "Whatever they say, the people who start wars are often thinking chiefly about domestic politics."
Madman #politics: "He’d already been having a rough few weeks: adverse reactions to his mass deportations & step-by-step imposition of martial law, the slow crumbling of his foolhardy tariff regime, growing opposition to his "big beautiful bill." & now this. Anyone could see it was more than a man, esp. a narcissist, could take."
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/22/with-strikes-on-iran-has-chosen-a-path-of-insanity/
Paris says No Kings!
#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #NoKings #USPol
40% of public radio stations serve rural news deserts—areas already drowning in Fox propaganda.
Yet the GOP just cut $9 billion from already-approved funding. The House passed it (216-213), the Senate forced it through (51-48), and sent it to Trump—all in hours.
The kicker? This money was just allocated days ago in the reconciliation bill. They passed one bill to fund it, then another to gut it.
Republicans know *exactly* what they’re doing.
#uspol
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trumps-cuts-npr-pbs-foreign-aid-pass-congress-rcna219296
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Mr. President, is the ceasefire in the room with us?
“The launches came after 4 a.m. local time in Tehran, the time Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would stop its attacks if Israel ended their airstrikes.”
First time I've heard of Zohran Mamdani, he sounds great. The left needs inspiring candidates like this.
#USpol #NewYork https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/23/zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-socialist-western-left-learn-much-playbook
Really enjoy the entire world having to worry about the minute-to-minute emotional state of a 79-year old narcissistic rapist and fraudster. It really brings home how effective constitutional democracy actually is.
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Report: Danish shipping giant Maersk will divest from companies linked to Israel’s illegal settlements after a sustained pressure campaign by activists.
"Compliance with international law and basic human rights is not optional. Doing business with Israel’s illegal settlements is no longer viable.”
#Palestinian Youth Movement
The group is now calling for Maersk to stop transporting F-35 fighter jet parts.
#Maersk #illegalSettlements #USPol #EuroPol #UKPol #Protests .
NOW PLAYING -- To the Contrary with Charlie Sykes 2/17/26: Trump Just Did Something No President Has Tried Since 1798 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPsHNyK15og
#news #uspol #geopolitics #commentary #russia #putin #AlexeiNavolny #left #CharlieSykes #vsn #radio #murder #assassination #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #trump #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist
This is personal: "Appointing the 4 Horseman of the Scientific Apocalypse — RFK Jr. as Sec of #HHS, Dr. Oz to run Medicare & Medicaid services, Dr. Makary as head of the #FDA & Dr. Bhattacharya to run# NIH — has signaled the end of any serious approach to biomedical #science & public health by the federal govt. Together & separately, they have taken a wrecking ball to our august scientific institutions that were previously considered to be the best in the world."
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/16/donald-trump-goes-nuclear-in-the-gops-war-on-science/
Yesterday, in the fearlessly political email from Penzeys — the only place I buy spices now:
It’s been 10 years since he launched his political career with “Mexicans are rapists & murderers." Republicans at the time claimed he wasn’t racist, it was just that he was trying to protect us from the worst of the worst.
Now that the Republicans in Congress & on the Supreme Court have ruled him beyond the bounds of any law, it’s not the worst of the worst he’s rounding up, it's just moms at chemo treatments, kids at little league practice, & pretty much anyone who is an essential worker. Seems it was just racism all along.
As is our way, to bring attention to 10 years of Republican racism that the President, Congress, & the Supreme Court are not even trying to hide anymore, free $17.95 Mexican Vanilla Extract with $10 purchase & showing this email or the printed-out coupon from below in our stores or by using the code GOOD at checkout online at penzeys.com.
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National #Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office)
“There appears to be no plan for where the NSF staff will go.” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/national-science-foundation-to-be-requisitioned-as-mansion-for-hud-secretary-and-also-hud-office #uspol
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🚨"The Trump DOJ’s goal is to force💔100,000 undocumented students to drop out of college & deport themselves."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
"DOJ is suing MN over its policy of offering in-state tuition regardless of immigration status, following suits in TX & KY. MN is one of 27 states plus DC that provide in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrant students."
-J Gelatt
#Immigrants #Universities #Racism #DueProcess #DHS ICE #TrumpRegime #Fascism #Deportations #Resist #USPol
https://www.startribune.com/us-justice-department-sues-minnesota-for-offering-in-state-tuition-costs-to-undocumented-students/601380357
An 82 year old with a valid green card has been disappeared to Guatamala.
Luis Leon came to the US in 1987.
He sought asylum from political persecution in Chile.
He’s been in the US almost 40 years.
He lost his wallet (and green card) in June & when he went to replace it he was disappeared by ICE
What followed for his family is the stuff of nightmares.
They couldn’t find him. Couldn’t talk to him. Couldn’t get him a lawyer.
This was a senior citizen who did absolutely nothing wrong.
Who hasn’t lost their wallet at some point?
On July 9th the family were informed he had died.
They were consumed with grief and still had no information about what happened to him.
Mercifully it turns out that information was a mistake, and Leon was instead being held in Guatemala.
Why Guatemala? No one knows.
Was it a mistake? Was it punishment?
This is what happens when you move fast and break things.
Someone who was granted political asylum should never have to fear being deported to a foreign country. This shouldn’t even need to be said.
He has multiple health issues and his current condition is unknown.
Family is flying to Guatemala to see him
This should never happen. People need to keep speaking out.
Leon did everything the “right” way and still got disappeared.
The cruelty seems to be the point
We're all 1 awful twist of fate away from being George Retes: "Retes, who served in Iraq, said agents never told him why he was being detained @ the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown LA. He was packed off, w/o a phone call, access to a lawyer, or even a way to clean the pepper-spray residue off his clothes & face, he said. While in custody he became so distressed that he was put on suicide watch, but he was still not allowed to contact an attorney."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-vet-calls-investigation-being-013820898.html
#USPol
As predicted by everybody:
More Than 90 Percent Of ICE Detainees Have Never Been Convicted Of Violent Crimes | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/26/more-than-90-percent-of-ice-detainees-have-never-been-convicted-of-violent-crimes/
#USPol #PresidentForSale #Resist #Indivisible #VisibilityBrigade #Fascism