A pregnant AOC on the campaign trail will be cleanse for the #American #BodyPolitic.
I’m just saying.
Hypothetically.
To tell a story.
It’s not that serious.
Get out of your head.
Stop.
Trump was already cutting low-income energy assistance – the shutdown is making things worse as cold weather arrives https://theconversation.com/trump-was-already-cutting-low-income-energy-assistance-the-shutdown-is-making-things-worse-as-cold-weather-arrives-269342
@TheConversationUS #DonaldTheDeplorable is going his damned best to turn the #UnitedStates into another #Russia. #Qanon in the #Kremlin is celebrating the ‘success’ of Agent #Krasnov.
#Project2025 , #American#Carnage2.0, #USpol #kakistocracy , whatever you want to call it, it is all just the means of achieving the *same* underlying goal; #Russia taking revenge on the #UnitedStates for the disintegration of the #SovietUnion after losing losing the #ColdWar.
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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Today I learned that 1.2M veteran families rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
And that servicemembers aren’t paid enough to feed themselves and families.
The self-disgust and shame of the #American #BodyPolitic has to go somewhere.
Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady9545
#HackerNews #Characterizing #the #American #Upper #Paleolithic #science #archaeology #prehistoric #research
Today I learned that 1.2M veteran families rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
And that servicemembers aren’t paid enough to feed themselves and families.
The self-disgust and shame of the #American #BodyPolitic has to go somewhere.
Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10/31/illinois-immigration-protests/?utm_source=mastodon
@Bellingcat
Watch the videos.
Make up your own mind.
Who is telling you lies.
The witnesses or the armed authorities? In the video.
I put a ? There because nobody is sure who these people are…
No badges, no name tags, no identification to what agency they really are from. #america #gestapo #thugs #ice
Trying to invite violence. By committing violence. Innocents being assaulted. #Trump desperately wants to invoke the insurrection act by having thugs do violence to citizens. #american #justice
Travis F W
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The president is—literally—demolishing the White House.
What a visual for #American #institutions.
Cory Doctorow
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"For the rest of the world to escape dictators' demands, they will have to accelerate their independence from #American tech – not just #Russian gas. A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies – and therefore Trump – a veto over how your technology works."
- @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics
#Tech #Technology #Privacy #Economy #Dictator #Trump #Corruption #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Politics #Law #World #USA #UnitedStates #America #US
"For the rest of the world to escape dictators' demands, they will have to accelerate their independence from #American tech – not just #Russian gas. A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies – and therefore Trump – a veto over how your technology works."
- @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics
#Tech #Technology #Privacy #Economy #Dictator #Trump #Corruption #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Politics #Law #World #USA #UnitedStates #America #US
The president is—literally—demolishing the White House.
What a visual for #American #institutions.
ProPublica
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The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Occasionally I run Americans saying into " #America was a colony too" in way as if that gives them some form solidarity with colonized around the world?
It's so ignorant on so many levels. Moreover, For #NativeAmericans, the transition from " #British" to "American" subjects was, arguably worse and led to a even more horrific new phase in #genocidal #colonialism, as one of the drivers of the #American revolution was a desire to further expand and colonize the #west.
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“The court’s 6-3 conservative majority voted to just let #Trump & ICE continue [warrantless raids] for now as the case works its way up...
They gave no reasoning or explanation for their decision...
Welcome to the era of what critics call the #KavanaughStop. Carte blanche for #ICE to continue violent warrantless raids and stops all over the country. To undocumented immigrants, lawful residents, and #American citizens alike.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXOWAhFz0A
"Blackhawk helicopters. Flash bangs. A chainsaw to cut through fencing. Doors blown off hinges. Holes in walls. An entire building’s worth of American citizens treated as enemy combatants in a war zone.
This happened. In Chicago. In America. This week.
And we’ve already moved on to the next story."
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-sufferable-evil
#ICE #Chicago #USA #UnitedStates #US #America #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Trump #GOP #SCOTUS #DueProcess #News #Press
“The court’s 6-3 conservative majority voted to just let #Trump & ICE continue [warrantless raids] for now as the case works its way up...
They gave no reasoning or explanation for their decision...
Welcome to the era of what critics call the #KavanaughStop. Carte blanche for #ICE to continue violent warrantless raids and stops all over the country. To undocumented immigrants, lawful residents, and #American citizens alike.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXOWAhFz0A
“Gregory Bovino, commander at large of the [CBP] force [in Chicago], contrasted the people being arrested with a white WBEZ reporter, saying agents consider a person’s appearance before taking them into custody.” https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/28/ice-agents-spotted-downtown-on-michigan-avenue-along-chicago-river
Despicable.