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🇺🇸-🇮🇷 Looking at the #US armada being deployed towards #Iran for the 2nd time, I'm reminded of a conversation I once had with someone in the military.
They said they & some friends voted #Republican this time because they were extremely worried about being deployed to a war with a major power under continued #Democratic leadership.
If you don't want the possibility of being used in actions you might consider unjust, seriously weigh whether #military service is right for you
@Strandjunker Important for everyone to understand that the primary tool to use to punish #trump and the #republican party for this is to vote them out of power in the midterms.
And DON’T tell people “there won’t be midterms”. Instead, tell people what you’re *going* to be doing to help ensure there will be free and fair midterms.
Judge Cannon’s final blocking of Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case — because it would be “unfair” to Trump — proves beyond doubt what the public long suspected: Trump and his cronies committed treason against the United States.
@Strandjunker Important for everyone to understand that the primary tool to use to punish #trump and the #republican party for this is to vote them out of power in the midterms.
And DON’T tell people “there won’t be midterms”. Instead, tell people what you’re *going* to be doing to help ensure there will be free and fair midterms.
RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116104415892501106
Trump just admitted he is out to destroy the world ―and, in the process, the USA― because he can.
i have said from the start that everything about Trump’s ascension to the White House is a carefully cafted conspiracy of fascist #GOP #Republican fringe groups; who found the sociopath they needed to undo the enduring legacy of their biggest traitor: Dwight Eisenhower.
Reagan-Bush were a #MIC fuck you to Eisenhower. #MAGA will destroy his Pax Americana (of trade pacts & NATO) to finish the job.
#Trump said didn't make sense to him, big surprise.
"I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country. I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country-destroying embargo. I can embargo. *I can do anything I want*, but I can't charge $1 because that's not what it says," he said.
"How ridiculous is that?"
You are what is ridiculous, idiot.
#law #economy #tariffs #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #geopolitics #SCOTUS
Today in Labor History February 21, 1937: The League of Nations banned foreign nationals from volunteering in the Spanish Civil War. Nevertheless, thousands from Britain, the U.S. and other countries came to Spain and joined the Republicans in the fight against Franco and fascism. Altogether, over 59,000 international volunteers supported the anti-fascist cause, along with over 3,000 soviet “technicians.” Roughly 500,000 soldiers and civilians died in the war. The antifascist republican forces lost, leading to a 40-year fascist dictatorship.
One of the battalions of American volunteers was named the Tom Mooney Machine-Gun Company, after the anarchist IWW member Tom Mooney, who was framed for the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco. It was led by Oliver Law, a communist, and the first black man known to have commanded white U.S. troops. Law was from West Texas and had worked as a stevedore. Due to his skill, Law quickly rose in the ranks of the Republican army. However, he died on July 9, 1937, as he led an attack on Mosquito Crest.
You can read more about Mooney here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #TomMooney #AbrahamLincolnBrigade #SpanishCivilWar #fascism #dictatorship #antifascism #solidarity #civilwar #antifa #civilians #franco #spain #union #republican #blackhistorymonth #IWW #anarchism #communism #tommooney #BlackMastodon
Today in Labor History February 21, 1937: The League of Nations banned foreign nationals from volunteering in the Spanish Civil War. Nevertheless, thousands from Britain, the U.S. and other countries came to Spain and joined the Republicans in the fight against Franco and fascism. Altogether, over 59,000 international volunteers supported the anti-fascist cause, along with over 3,000 soviet “technicians.” Roughly 500,000 soldiers and civilians died in the war. The antifascist republican forces lost, leading to a 40-year fascist dictatorship.
One of the battalions of American volunteers was named the Tom Mooney Machine-Gun Company, after the anarchist IWW member Tom Mooney, who was framed for the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco. It was led by Oliver Law, a communist, and the first black man known to have commanded white U.S. troops. Law was from West Texas and had worked as a stevedore. Due to his skill, Law quickly rose in the ranks of the Republican army. However, he died on July 9, 1937, as he led an attack on Mosquito Crest.
You can read more about Mooney here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #TomMooney #AbrahamLincolnBrigade #SpanishCivilWar #fascism #dictatorship #antifascism #solidarity #civilwar #antifa #civilians #franco #spain #union #republican #blackhistorymonth #IWW #anarchism #communism #tommooney #BlackMastodon
RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116104415892501106
Trump just admitted he is out to destroy the world ―and, in the process, the USA― because he can.
i have said from the start that everything about Trump’s ascension to the White House is a carefully cafted conspiracy of fascist #GOP #Republican fringe groups; who found the sociopath they needed to undo the enduring legacy of their biggest traitor: Dwight Eisenhower.
Reagan-Bush were a #MIC fuck you to Eisenhower. #MAGA will destroy his Pax Americana (of trade pacts & NATO) to finish the job.
#Trump said didn't make sense to him, big surprise.
"I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country. I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country-destroying embargo. I can embargo. *I can do anything I want*, but I can't charge $1 because that's not what it says," he said.
"How ridiculous is that?"
You are what is ridiculous, idiot.
#law #economy #tariffs #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #geopolitics #SCOTUS
Rep #RandyFine, #Republican of Florida, on Tuesday faced a barrage of calls for his resignation from #Democrats — & silence from Republican leaders — after making an #Islamophobic statement suggesting he prefers dogs to Muslims.
Fine, a first-term congressman… who often makes Islamophobic remarks on social media, made the statement in question on Sunday in response to a post from a #Palestinian activist based in New York City.
#bigotry #hate #Republicans #GOP #Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/politics/randy-fine-muslim-islamophobic-democrats.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
100% This.
"Criticizing the Democratic Party, Resisting ICE & Fascism, Lessons from Minneapolis, the 'Wrong Kind of Muslim' & More - Qasim Rashid | Rapid Response #19
When "your side" is the "lesser of two evils," are you supposed to just keep your mouth shut—even as their actions put you in more danger? Today's guest, Qasim Rashid, has some thoughts."
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Both parties are funded by billion dollar corporations and the full history clearly shows that reality. The history shows too little difference between them. We need new parties, yes, BUT we new floods of activism OUTSIDE of the conventional electoral/politics process.
We need to organize civic society. The current political process/system is not the only space for us to be active. Restricting ourselves to what currently exists will result in failure and limited reform.
The system is the problem.
#ICE #Democracy #US #Republican #Democrat #Fascism #boycott #GeneralStrike #DirectAction
https://www.realitystudies.co/p/qasim-rashid-criticizing-democratic-party-ice-minneapolis-resistance
Kentucky #Republican congressman slams US Attorney General #Bondi for preparing insult cards for Democrat members before scheduled Congressional testimony on the #Epstein files. Contempt of Congress and lying under oath are sufficient cause for impeachment. https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-massie-roasts-pam-bondi-for-her-attempts-to-attack-lawmakers/
Kentucky #Republican congressman slams US Attorney General #Bondi for preparing insult cards for Democrat members before scheduled Congressional testimony on the #Epstein files. Contempt of Congress and lying under oath are sufficient cause for impeachment. https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-massie-roasts-pam-bondi-for-her-attempts-to-attack-lawmakers/
While the #Trump #EPA starts repealing #climate regulations…
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114909337147971539
…the Federal Judicial Center (#FJC) is removing the chapter on climate science from its "reference manual" advising federal judges on scientific issues. The removal was recommended by 27 #Republican attorneys general.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/us-court-agency-pulls-climate-change-from-science-advisory-document/
PS: The FJC manual is prepared with the National Academies of Science (#NAS). But I can't tell whether NAS acquiesced in this move. Does anyone know?
Thanks to RealClimate.org for posting the deleted 91-page chapter on climate science.
https://www.realclimate.org/wp-content/uploads/Reference_Guide_on_Climate_Science_RMSE_4th_Ed.pdf
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
HR7325
To establish the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States, and for other purposes.
📢 Introduced in House
Also the grandstanding performative courtroom drama behavior of the #congress members is quite heavy handed. #JackSmith who has repeatedly been described as measured & calm is coming off a little stiff especially because he keeps being interrupted. He needs to come back at them like they are hostile witnesses.
#law #House #Judiciary #Trump #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
#Republican #House #Judiciary Committee members are going to focus on things like #CassidyHutchinson & the #subpoenas for #Congress members’ phone logs, because if they let #JackSmith get into the actual #evidence he gathered against #Trump, it will be damning.
#law #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
RE: https://telescoper.blog/2026/01/19/barry-wards-letter-about-grok-ai/
Translation for Americans: a member of the Irish parliament (the Dail) who happens to be a barrister (an attorney specialising in advocacy in front of a judge, including criminal prosecution/defense) has formally written to the head of the Irish cybercrime unit setting out applicable charges against X/Grok and sternly requesting formal prosecution of that company on child pornography/trafficking charges.
@cstross Reminder to the #republican party and any of its coalition: there aren’t special rules for distributing CSAM if your name is Elon #musk and you use a computer program to propagate the CSAM. You can argue the technicals in court like everyone else would have to.
RE: https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/115865134938638844
yet another example of why there is not one #GOP #Republican #MAGA #techbro #NatC who would want to quote, even less be like, the closest to an #antifa republican POTUS, Dwight Eisenhower.
here’s the thing though: Eisenhower was as much a corporatist, petromafia bootlicker as every other republican. the only difference between him and Reagan & Bush? he actually saw the concentration camps and that fucked him up.
but Eisenhower agreed to support the 1953 #Iran coup BEFORE becoming POTUS.
As I read about people being harassed for using their cell phone cameras to document the cruelty of ICE raids or comments from assholes like Kristi Noem that doing so is somehow a criminal act, I’m reminded of something someone said when U.S. troops began liberating Nazi concentration camps in early 1945.
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
