"The limit, the constitutional remedy for impoundment and presidential misconduct is impeachment, not litigation. Folks, but *especially* congressfolks need to beat this idea that "courts will save us" out of their vocabulary. It is *your* job."

‪Pwnallthethings‬ ‪

#RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #Jeffries #HakeemJeffries #Deadwood #VichyDems #Resist #media #socialmedia #Resistance #marker #FascistAppeasers #FascistEnablers #FascistTakeover #MakeThemFight

#canpol #canpolitics #uspol #uspolitics #bordersecurity #resisttrump

🎤 😂

#USPolitics #AgentKrasnov #Birther

Course you will Keith. Because you've had done so well at that since you lied your way into Downing Street.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/23/keir-starmer-emmanuel-macron-united-leadership-support-ukraine-donald-trump

#UKPolitics #USPolitics

Elon Musk accomplished nothing last week.

(no. destroying lives is not an accomplishment.)

#uspol #USPolitics #sociopath #media #socialmedia #elon #musk #elonmusk #FascistTakover

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

According to a retired KGB agent, Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB as far back as the 1980's, prior to the breakup of the USSR.

Trump's actions towards Russia and Putin since then are telling - FACTS ARE FACTS!

Trump's KGB codename is....
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol

Ruth Ben-Ghiat offers a skillful criticism of the press and journalism in the Trump era (screenshot).
Not that the press will take notice, since it is nestled into a larger article. The 4th Estate has often failed the nation.

Peter Baker (finally) outlines how Trump uses propaganda and lies to advance his version of reality.

"In Trump’s Alternate Reality, Lies and Distortions Drive Change"

#USpol #Uspolitics #Trump #Propaganda #Journalism

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/us/politics/trump-alternative-reality.html

Seems as if Hegseth is anxious to have US military start unashamedly committing war crimes, too.

#uspolitics #WarCrimes #Israel #Russia

" ... outright fascism in Europe was never quite so well funded and promoted as it is now, since the US government and the social media platforms that do its bidding decided backing outright fascism was a good way to smash the EU."

Stewart Lee keepin' it real.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/23/donald-trump-bullshit-blitz-has-europe-on-its-knees

#USPolitics #Fascism

The new motto of journalism should be:

|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
| Speaking truth to power; |
| Restoring power to the truth. |
|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿|
(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ 　 づ

#journalism #politics #USPolitics #democracy #ReallyNewJournalism

IOW, a 'trusted #news source' finally admits it's partisan and politically tailors it's 'reporting'. How cool is that?

"MSNBC will lean into 'progressive' (🤣) roots in #Trump era"
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/23/msnbc-maddow-trump-programming-changes #ProgLibs #Censorship #MSM #MediaBias #USPol #USPolitics

The MeidasTouch Podcast is actually pretty good.

Give it a try.

#uspol #USPolitics #sociopath #media #socialmedia #elon #musk #elonmusk #FascistTakover #podcast #MeidasTouch

"Something is shifting"

#uspol #USPolitics #sociopath #media #socialmedia #elon #musk #elonmusk #FascistTakover

The big names, like Pelosi, @schumer.senate.gov , and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social hate the activists in the base.

So even when a big progressive conference (like Netroots Nation, for example) happens the powerful are not there making waves and surprising people.

Our leadership is lethargic AF.

#USPolitics #uspol #FloodTheZone #Media #Strategy #Messaging #DeadwoodDems #FascistTakeover #FascistEnablers #Inert #Lethargy #Pelosiism #DemandMore #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #Jeffries #Schumer

Both Trump and Musk have been telling huge lies about everything for decades.

It's amazing that anyone believes a word they say.

but somehow huge swaths of the public are oblivious to the fact that they've been profoundly gaslit.

#Gaslighting #Lies #Liars #USPolitics #uspol #FloodTheZone #Media #Strategy #Messaging #DeadwoodDems #FascistTakeover #FascistEnablers #Inert #Lethargy #Pelosiism #DemandMore #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #Jeffries #Schumer

Inhaltswarnung: Deportation "ASMR" Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

Enrique Tarrio follows and insults officers who defended US Capitol on January 6 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/22/enrique-tarrio-capitol-police #USCapitolattack #WashingtonDC #Thefarright #USpolitics #USnews

If your Rep or Senators are Dems call them and gently point out that they are FAR LESS popular than the orange imbecile currently destroying our nation.

Whatever #DeadwoodDems have been doing it's been catastrophic for their approval ratings.

Demand Change.

#RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #USPolitics #uspol #FloodTheZone #Media #Strategy #Messaging #DeadwoodDems #FascistTakeover #FascistEnablers #Inert #Lethargy #Pelosiism

the correct metaphor is boxing.

we have to throw more punches than the Cons do. and none of their punches can go unanswered. the truth is on our side. we will land more punches.

the only way to lose is if dimwits like Jeffries and Schumer continue inert lethargic Pelosi-ism.

#USPolitics #uspol #FloodTheZone #Media #Strategy #Messaging #DeadwoodDems #FascistTakeover #FascistEnablers #Inert #Lethargy #Pelosiism #DemandMore #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #Jeffries #Schumer

Ask your friends and neighbors:

What does that orange freak mean when he says he "closed the border"?

People and things cross that border in both directions every day, just like they always have.

#Gaslighting #propaganda #lies #liars #border #immigration #immigrants #USPolitics #uspol #FloodTheZone #Media #Strategy #Messaging #DeadwoodDems #FascistTakeover #FascistEnablers #Inert #Lethargy #Pelosiism #DemandMore #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #Jeffries #Schumer

The police are such upstanding, professional, ethical people, I don't know why you'd need one of these in the first place. What's to worry about?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/22/trump-administration-shuts-down-national-police-misconduct-database

#USPolitics #ACAB

Tax cuts only for those who don't need them.

#USPolitics #uspol #FloodTheZone #Media #Strategy #Messaging #DeadwoodDems #FascistTakeover #FascistEnablers #Inert #Lethargy #Pelosiism #DemandMore #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll

Steve Witkoff: from property developer to global spotlight as Trump’s tough-talking troubleshooter https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/22/steve-witkoff-trump-gaza-ukraine-envoy #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Palestinianterritories #BenjaminNetanyahu #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Worldnews #Ukraine #USnews #Gaza

Baseball is the WRONG metaphor.

Boxing is the right metaphor.

They are not pitches that we choose to swing at.

They are punches. Not every punch lands. Some do lots of damage.

but we MUST throw more punches than they do.

Not responding to a barrage of blows to the head is the same as throwing in the towel.

#USPolitics #uspol #FloodTheZone #Media #Strategy #Messaging #DeadwoodDems #FascistTakeover #FascistEnablers #Inert #Lethargy #Pelosiism #DemandMore #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll

Describing the current situation in the US as a “constitutional crisis” is a counter-productive understatement because “the abstraction of constitutional crisis obscures the immediate danger, making what’s happening seem like an issue more for legal experts and policy wonks than for the everyday Americans who stand to lose not only essential government services but also fundamental rights.”

Read David A. Graham in @TheAtlantic

GIFT LINK:
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/02/constitutional-crisis-language-effective/681800/?gift=m7A4xd1YdUQAlZ44BfAFpnzCGbhr5Rg9_S0t29xpAGQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#USPolitics #journalism

Well that didn't take long.

https://kyivindependent.com/us-threatens-to-shut-off-starlink-if-ukraine-wont-sign-minerals-deal-sources-tell-reuters/

#USPolitics #Ukraine #SpaceKaren

"'I don’t know if you’ve been watching but we got rid of woke over the last two weeks. Woke is gone-zo,' Trump said, to applause. “We’re a merit-based society now.'"
Space Karen and 47 applying the term "merit-based" has made my cognitive dissonance-o-meter explode.

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/22/trump-dei-christians-woke-civil-rights/

#USPolitics #DEI

God damn those woke snowflakes at the ... Financial Times.

"America has turned on its friends
Donald Trump’s abandonment of allies is real and will endure"

https://www.ft.com/content/1511aa42-a9ad-4952-99c8-98bea07d0414?accessToken=zwAGLqzYNe_Qkc8VEapCqa1JUtOZyJi-oH0EFA.MEQCIFSrGBIv_tUi1LtxlmlosDRTuYTIh7XvTYNS4hEMTfdTAiBg0Xt5RNQ9AoBblneLq07RXcCyBBZ6cOfRrqWxdSp21g&sharetype=gift&token=d09a257b-3c49-469b-b0bd-8b50185d90e8

#USPolitics

You'd have thought the "leader of the free world" being a Russian asset might be getting more attention really.

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/donald-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb-under-codename-krasnov-claims-former-soviet-spy-chief/

#USPolitics #AgentKrasnov

Let it be clear that the Must / Trump administration and their Republican collaborators are giving aid and comfort to our enemies. They must be stopped and brought to justice.

"And Americans’ concerns about Trump acting like a dictator are unlikely to be calmed by tonight’s news that Trump has abruptly purged the leadership of the military in apparent unconcern over the message that such a sweeping purge sends to adversaries. He has fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown, who Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested got the job only because he is Black, and Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the Chief of Naval Operations, who was the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and whom Hegseth called a “DEI hire.”

The vice chief of the Air Force, General James Slife, has also been fired, and Hegseth indicated he intends to fire the judge advocates general, or JAGs—the military lawyers who administer the military code of justice—for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Trump has indicated he intends to nominate Air Force Lieutenant General John Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky of CNN call this “an extraordinary move,” since Caine is retired and is not a four-star general, a legal requirement, and will need a presidential waiver to take the job. Trump has referred to Caine as right out of “central casting.”"
#USPolitics
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/february-21-2025

Sign Petition to Ban Platform X (formerly Twitter) in the European Union
https://chng.it/LgSLGZ7G7G

#X #SocialMedia #BanX #ElonMusk #oligarchy #USpol #USpolitics #FarRight #AltTech #Twitter #EU #EuropeanUnion

Underwhelming.

Edit: I went back and speed watched the rest to check I wasn't being too judgemental. I wasn't. It's really bad, and it actually gets worse. Loads of god bless America the truth will save us crap. Most of the big actors seem like they're reading the phone book. There's a really uncomfortable bit where Matthew Modine equates far right nutters with left wing advocacy for trans rights as well.
I'd give it a HARD swerve if I were you.

#TV #USPolitics #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Two years ago, Wisconsin liberals flipped the state Supreme Court, leading to expanded voter access. On April 1, control of the court is on the line again with the retirement of a longtime liberal justice, Ann Walsh Bradley. @bolts looks at the contest between local judge Susan Crawford, who as an attorney, helped lead the challenge to the state’s voter ID law, and Brad Schimel, the former Republican attorney general of Wisconsin.

https://boltsmag.org/wisconsin-2025-supreme-court-election-democracy/

#Wisconsin #WisconsinSupremeCourt #StatePolitics #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

(Don’t forget that $50 million of those contributions appeared to be blatantly illegal, although Trump is already hard at work making the Federal Elections Commission even less effective than it previously was.)

https://www.citationneeded.news/coinbase-campaign-finance-violation/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #Coinbase #USpolitics #USpol

Coinbase says that the SEC has agreed to drop the enforcement case against the company. It only cost them $75 million in political contributions.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #Coinbase #USpolitics #USpol

Sake. So now there's "nazi" and "ultra-nazi". And Bardella acting as if this is all brand new shocking information 🙄

Guardian: "French far-right leader cancels US speech after ex Trump aide Bannon appeared to make 'Nazi gesture'"

Also this, which is just unspeakable.

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/19/deportation-asmr-video-trump-musk-immigrants/

#Fascism #USPolitics #Sadism

Question: At what point in time did the American news consumer stop wanting news and starred wanting opions based on the news?

I ask this because many times I see a straight news article describing an event and it gets ripped apart for not taking a stand for one political stance or the other. And this seems closly tied to the death of traditional media and the rise of newsletters like substack which are often opinion since the writers lack the resources to do news

#news #media #USPolitics

The ‘Gulf of America’ feud is about something bigger: Trump wants to control the media | Margaret Sullivan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/21/trump-media-rename-gulf-of-mexico #USpressandpublishing #Newspapers&magazines #Trumpadministration #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Worldnews #USnews #Media

What.

#USPolitics

"It also details the deeply worrying phenomenon of transnational repression: the Israeli government’s documented efforts, for at least the last decade, to export its suppression of Palestinian civil society and shut down Palestine advocacy in the United States, with troubling implications for the free speech rights of all Americans."

Almost certainly worth reading then.

https://www.972mag.com/suppressing-dissent-trump-zaha-hassan/

#USPolitics #FreePalestine #Bookstodon