I just want to say I can distinctly recall the gas rationing of 1973. I was five years old that summer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis#Price_controls_and_rationing
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#USPol
3/26/26 (13th day calling, I've been remiss some days but resuming my efforts)
I spoke to someone in the DC office & left voice mails at the other offices of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R, NY), requesting that she impeaches Trump for starting an unprovoked war w/ Iran & to use her power to stop the hostilities.
I post for accountability, to compound my emotional benefit, & let my online neighbors see that I care.
It's frustrating that the UK is trying to follow in the USA's political footsteps…
(Not sure who to credit for the artwork.)
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The internet eagerly awaits the first non-AI guerrilla photograph of a yellow submarine sailing the sea of green that is the Washington Monument Reflecting Pool.
#USpol #reflectingPool
RE: https://journa.host/@Chrisblue/116461172752777070
I am thoroughly enjoying this story and watching this clown get his ass handed to him
I'm really hoping USA BlueSky posters start using a cross-posting tool to a Fediverse instance soon and let others know about it. Especially anyone organizing for left(ish) candidates in primaries and general elections in November.
Things are not looking good over there right now and there needs to be a backup plan.
They're getting desperate with the distractions, aren't they?
"Aliens" now is it?
And of course, being Trump's America, they have to think the Aliens are actually Demons because they're not right in the head over there....
....the President is still a nonce who started a war with Iran he cannot win.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/jd-vance-alien-ufo-are-demons
Nothing has really changed.
EDIT: Nothing except the stock market that is.
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The White House says Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick properly divested from Cantor Fitzgerald by transferring leadership to his sons.
Anyway GOP officials called Lutnick about a Cantor-funded PAC planning to spend $1.75M on Ken Paxton and the PAC reversed course, but that’s probably just how independent companies behave when the former owner gets a phone call.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/24/texas-crypto-howard-lutnick-republicans
Gen Yakovleff, fmr NATO dep CoS, has had enough.🚨His assmt of American diplomatic coherence in the Iran #negotiations: stop snorting cocaine btw meetings.
A French general: saying that the US side appears chemically incapable of maintaining a consistent position.
In the past 72 hrs:🚨DC ann direct talks, Tehran denied, Vance was going -then wasn’t going, Kushner was going, Iranians reached out -Iranians said nothing was planned, & Hegseth called the op “laser-focused.”
-Gandalv
#IranWar #USPol
Just one month until a Saudi-backed golf tourney holds a tournament at President Trump’s club.
I've heard all kinds of arguments by establishment #USDemocrats about the #US war on #Iran, how bad the strategy was, how its end-goal shifted from regime change to reopening of the Strait, the lack of an exit strategy, that it is "Trump's war", and myriad others, but what I haven't heard is the simple demand:
STOP THE WAR!
Why is that? Why is it that mainstream Democrats can only allude to but never actually utter this simple demand?
(Adam Smith = progressive Dem) ∉ establishment
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I have one wish for the youth of today... and it's that they hate Trump as much as I hated Reagan when I was a young person.
ceasefire at risk.
to israel and the usa “ceasefire” only means “you cease firing back”
your abusive ex breaking into your new home and smashing up the place doesn’t put the restraining order “at risk” 🤷♂️
its. fucking. broken.
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as #MAGA #GOP #Republican criminals look to reinstate the federal death penalty ―with the nazi barbarism of firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation―, #PopeLeoXIV took to the cameras to commemorate the #abolition of the #deathPenalty in his place of birth, Illinois.
Pope Southside wasted no time calling out right to lifers who cheerlead the death penalty: it goes against Christ’s teachings and RCC doctrine. it’s inadmissible, therefore, a sin.
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Report: Britain is pulling out all the stops to persecute Palestine Action.
The defendents are forbidden from explaining their motivations or mentioning Israel or its genocide.
The jury is told there are criminal charges, but not that the judge can sentence for "terrorism."
The British press has been ordered not to report on the terrorism aspect.
#UKPol #EUPol #USPol #Press #UKCensorship #Palestine #PalestineAction .
#Midterms #primaries updates #GiftArticle link [you *should* be able to access the link till polls close; I probably won’t stay online updating the results]:
So far…
Rep #AndyBarr, a Republican backed by #Trump, easily won a contested #primary for #Senate in #Kentucky, where he will be strongly favored in November to replace the long-serving Senator #MitchMcConnell, who is retiring.
#law #Congress #elections #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us/midterms-georgia-kentucky?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.aA6f.H9CvndCCciBp&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Trump telling O'Donnell "I'm not a rapist. I am not a pedophile" is the new "I am not a crook"
#uspol #60Minutes #Trump #WHCA
“The Pentagon🚨is burning through its weapons at a rate that’s genuinely alarmed its own ofcls. In the 1st 16 days:🚨the US fired nearly 1/2 its combined inventory of ATACMS & Precision Strike Missiles, & nearly 40% of its THAAD interceptors. >850 Tomahawk cruise #missiles:🚨launched in 4weeks.
The US produces ~90-100 Tomahawks/year.🚨It’s now fired more in a month than it makes in 8 yrs. #Hegseth’s🚨solution is to ask Congress for $200B & tell reporters it takes💰to kill bad guys…”
#IranWar #USPol
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Donald Tantrump is talking (again) about pulling out of #NATO.
Don Trumpeone's Mafia protection racket: 'Nice democracies you have there - it'd be a real shame if they burnt down...'
President Trump might want to consider why the UK and other European countries would want to allow the United States of Trump to retain its bases here if no longer part of NATO.
#USpol #GOP #MAGA #Trump
#TyrantTrump #EmperorTrump
#NoKings
https://youtu.be/8EjIMyxdXt4?si=l7yaZcvCy4LICQ-S
Good. More of this sort of moral courage, please. #Politics #Democrats #Democracy #US #USpol #AOC #DemocraticSocialism https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/politics/aoc-congress-israel-military-aid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.EVz2.zpWfd8kYUbiA&smid=url-share