REVEALED by Correspondent @stevanzetti: We identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as #ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/

#SocialMedia #extremism #immigration #border #politics #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #Fascism #Trump #news

The gop in the House and Senate are “…scared sh*tless about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff,” if they openly defy 45.

They’re in denial about what happens to them if Congress is fully nullified & 45/musk consolidate their hold on the US?

45/musk will liquidate them. If they want to survive, gop Senators & Representatives must to exert Congressional power to preserve it & their lives.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-congress-political-violence

#USpol #coup

National Embarrassment!

Trump's White House releases Time cover featuring Trump wearing a crown
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol

Nun Ausverkauf der Legislative und Judikative in den USA.

#Trump #uspol

We are on the road for democracy and justice by Bernie Sanders

What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/19/trumpism-bernie-sanders

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #corruption

are we witnessing 'the dumbest imperial collapse in history'?
#uspol #trump #dumbarse #prospect
https://prospect.org/world/2025-02-19-musk-trump-causing-dumbest-imperial-collapse-in-history/

Catch up on our January/February 2025 issue ... because our next one is coming very soon! 🤠 https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/january-february-2025/

#journalism #media #Texas #nonprofit #news #politics #USpol

Someone putting to many words a thought I've been screaming into the void

#canada #uspol #uspolitics #media

https://www.readtpa.com/p/stop-analyzing-trumps-unhinged-ideas

The fact that they don't want us to see the protests going on across America right now should be a story in itself...

#USPOL #Media

Americans and their dodgy elections.
America has betrayed Europe, let's not be deers in the headlights, let's be smart.

#Ukraine #USPOL

Would the whole world seem less doomed if I was less depressed? Maybe, but the whole world seems doomed right now, so the depression isn’t going to go away by itself so I can find out.

#UKpol #USPol #MentalHealth

“This shit doesn’t happen in France.”

What, the same France that keeps nearly electing a fascist President every five years, for a treat?

(Do not get your hot liberal takes from the actor Emma Kennedy.)

#USPol #UKpol

“Court pushback against Trump executive actions reaches intelligence community as judge halts firing of CIA & ODNI personnel involved in DEI. Judge Anthony Trenga (GWBush appointee) grants administrative stay blocking dismissals of 11 officials.”
-J Gerstein

“We’re very gratified by the judge deciding to do an administrative stay for a week, basically while the govt answered some of the questions.
-ATTY K Carroll

#Trump #USPol #DEI

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/judge-halts-firing-dei-personnel-00204803

[Thread] Unfortunately, South Dakota #HB1258 was defeated [which would have put more restrictions on #LithiumMining]... And I knew Burgum would betray #NativeAmericans (even though he promised not to).

‘Unleashing American Energy’: Mining and Drilling Accelerated Under Trump Administration

By Angelica (Angie) Solloa • February 12, 2025

"You may have heard that #DebHaaland (Laguna Pueblo) transitioned out of her role as the US Secretary of the Department of Interior and announced her candidacy for Governor New Mexico. Her successor, former North Dakota Governor #DougBurgum, is steadfast in carrying out Trump’s Executive Order 14154 '#UnleashingAmericanEnergy' which aims to accelerate #mining and drilling on federal and #TribalLands.

"On February 3rd, Doug Burgum released this document which outlines all the revoked projects and programs intended to protect land and the people; giving a pathway for #MiningCompanies to hit the ground running across Turtle Island.

"In the #BlackHills, the #SacredLands of the #Lakota Peoples’, mining and drilling companies aren’t hesitating to cash out. Currently, South Dakota House Bill 1258 is under consideration by the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, where it will come to a vote this Thursday, February 13th. Community members and citizens of the area were given just six days’ notice.

WHAT IS HB 1258?

"The passage of South Dakota House Bill 1258 would hold lithium mining to the same standards and laws as silver and gold. Under the current law, lithium mining is treated like mining for sand and gravel, and there are not enough protections for human #health, #food systems, #water, #wildlife, and the #land.

"HB 1258 would offer more accountability and appropriate processes for mining companies that would better protect the land, the people, and the economy of the #Ȟesápa. #NDNCollective, alongside partner the #BlackHillsCleanWaterAlliance, collaborated to spread the word as fast as possible, calling on relatives to swiftly take action ahead of Thursday, February 13th."

Read more:
https://ndncollective.org/unleashing-american-energy-mining-and-drilling-accelerated-under-trump-administration/
#ProtectTheBlackHills #ProtectTheSacred #DefendTheSacred #NoMiningWithoutConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #DrillBabyDrill #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #LeaveItInTheGround #CorporateColonialism #USPol #NoLithiumMining #DefendMotherEarth

#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #USAID

From WTOP NEWS: The USAID shutdown is upending livelihoods for nonprofit workers, farmers and other Americans

https://wtop.com/world/2025/02/the-usaid-shutdown-is-upending-livelihoods-for-nonprofit-workers-farmers-and-other-americans/

Sometimes I'll be sat around and just randomly think ‘I'm somewhat angry about the Congo’.

It's happened more often than usual lately, a byproduct of recent events and the people discussing them apparently not thinking much about the Congo and it's history at all.

And why would they? You're not supposed to think about the Congo.

I'm somewhat angry about the Congo.

#USPol #Congo #USAID

Elon Musk has now set his sights on the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox, insisting on personally ensuring the gold remains intact. The vault was last opened to journalists and a congressional delegation in 1974.

https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3liif4fed3s2j

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From resistance team of US Natl Park Svc

500+ char posts not resent

Robot NOT affiliated w/ AltNPS
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#AltNPS #Coup #Activism #NationalParkService #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump

A $7M grant to install solar panels through the EPA’s Solar for All program is in limbo. Also unclear: a $300,000 grant for resilient infrastructure from the Department of Energy and $600,000 for food distribution from the Department of Agriculture. https://www.texasobserver.org/climate-funding-freeze-tribes-community-groups/

#Indigenous #NativeAmerican #politics #USpol #Trump #HumanRights #USpol #news

Featured story: Travis County’s progressive DA has secured indictments for the 2021 death of Juan José Galvan Batalla, remembered as a “cheerful” hard worker and beloved sibling. https://www.texasobserver.org/austin-rare-prosecution-worker-death-trench-collapse/

#Austin #Texas #politics #labor #workers #HumanRights #USpol #news #CriminalJustice

For years in the UK, all we got was a news cycle of ignorant dickheads, convinced of their own genius, breaking anything good and wrecking people’s lives for fun, all whilst turning the big racism dial up.

It turns out that’s just what governments do now. Everywhere. And then we all get to die in the wreckage, because solving our real global problem was too much trouble to bother with.

#USpol #ukpol

The March/April 2025 issue of Texas Observer magazine is coming soon for our members, featuring some of our best reporting, a sneak preview of Lise Olsen's new book, Justin Miller's vital political analysis, and more.

Become a member: https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join/

(📸 Cover photo by Shelby Tauber)

#journalism #media #nonprofit #politics #USpol #Texas #CriminalJustice #books #culture #news #TXlege #border #MentalHealth

America enabling a genocide, and some people who claimed to be against the genocide enabled this.
They got played by smarter men, and they will again!

#Netanyahu #USPOL #Gaza

What’s going on right now in the USA feels like a horrible nightmare, a dystopian bad dream. But it’s not a dream.

How can all this be happening? Don’t we have checks and balances in the USA? Doesn’t our democracy have guardrails to prevent us from going over the edge into fascism?

Well, we’re *supposed* to have guardrails. We’re supposed to have checks and balances. But they aren’t working.

And that’s because the “opposition” party is not actually opposing anything. Instead, they’re acting as feckless enablers.

The late David Graeber saw all this coming five years ago...

▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9afwZON8dU

#USA #Politics #USpol

EYES ON THE LIVESTREAM TODAY!
(from #Berlin Conference with UN Rapporteur on #Gaza (Francesca Albanese is a force of nature)

🟥Reclaiming the Discourse: #Palestine, Justice & Power of Truth #Berlin #Germany

5pm CET
11pm EST

#Germany is going full authoritarian against DiEM25's high-profile event on #Palestine with @FranceskAlbs, Amnesty International and others.

Link to Livestream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OxigLiaAQw

Via #Diem25

#news #usa #trump #uspol #israel
@cdarwin @LALegault

The Syrian "Foreign Minister", Asad Al-Shaybani, met and took pictures with U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson

Wilson, a Republican Congressman for South Carolina's 2nd district, is one of the staunchest Zionists in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He is part of the 'Israel Allies Caucus', and is sometimes called 'Netanyahu's messenger' in the US. During the meeting, he was wearing a pin for the Israeli hostages in Gaza, and a pin supporting a 'Free Iran'.

#Syria #US #USpol #Iran #Politics #Netanyahu #Israel #AIPAC #WestAsia

@iran group

The Syrian "Foreign Minister", Asad Al-Shaybani, met and took pictures with U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson

Wilson, a Republican Congressman for South Carolina's 2nd district, is one of the staunchest Zionists in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He is part of the 'Israel Allies Caucus', and is sometimes called 'Netanyahu's messenger' in the US. During the meeting, he was wearing a pin for the Israeli hostages in Gaza, and a pin supporting a 'Free Iran'.

#Syria #US #USpol #Iran #Politics #Netanyahu #Israel #AIPAC #WestAsia
@palestine@a.gup.pe @israel@a.gup.pe

I’m old enough to remember when the name “Bobby Kennedy” didn’t require clarification of “the good one (senior) versus the other one.” In his 42 years, the elder Bobby grew light years beyond his 71 year old son and was a beacon for the good America could be for humanity.
#USPol #WTF

That #LeonardPeltier had to wait a month for his actual release is enraging given how fast the current administration has moved to do its damage. That the former administration didn’t move faster on issues like this radicalizes me to an extent I’m not comfortable with

https://www.kpbs.org/news/racial-justice-social-equity/2025/02/17/leonard-peltier-to-be-released-from-prison-following-commutation-in-fbi-killings

#USPol

Two of Trump’s cabinet picks currently serve on the Board of Directors of TMTG (his publicly traded company behind his social media platform ‘Truth Social’):

🔘 Linda McMahon (Department of Education)

🔘 Kashyap “Kash” Patel (FBI Director)

#USPol #USPolitics #trump #TMTG #DJT

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A couple days ago I posted that #Trump took control of the Kennedy Center board, and one of the first things he cancelled was the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington concert scheduled for this summer.

Well they said fuck you we'll sing in the streets! 🙌 🏳‍🌈💪

#Equality #Protest #HumanRights #USpol #FuckFascism

"our little one's DNA includes enhancements from other organisms"

all of these people are batshit. hey, maybe they used bat DNA

#batboy #elon #uspol #guano

DOGE Mismanagement Principles

Musk et al. don't know or care about the damage they are doing
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-mismanagement-principles

"Sam Rayburn, the #Texan who served as House Speaker for 17 years was fond of saying, "Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one."...

Trashing #government agencies is easy. Making them work is hard...

failure of government systems has big and sometimes irrevocable costs"

#Musk #Doge #Coup #Trump #GOP #US #USPol #Politics #USA #News

The Worst and the Dimmest
https://www.the-reframe.com/the/

"What he's doing is illegal, if you care about #law... It's a #NationalSecurity crisis, if you care about national #security. It's unconstitutional, if you care about the #Constitution. It's likely to be devastating to the #economy, if you care about the economy... It's the most corrupt activity in the history of our country, if you care about #corruption."
- @JuliusGoat

#Musk #Coup #Republicans #Trump #Politics #USPol #US #USA #Media

Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo

Can #Trump & his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people & un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
https://newrepublic.com/article/191578/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo

"the memo warns #USAID employees not to communicate w/the #press about the shocking disruptions in #humanitarian assistance that are... are already producing horrific consequences."

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #USPol #News #World #USA

DOGE Goes Nuclear and Fires DOE Staff in Charge of Our Own Nuclear Weapons
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/doge-goes-nuclear-and-fires-doe-staff

"another #DOGE mistake. They fired #nuclear staff without really knowing what they did, and then tried to rehire them. Outrageous!"

[ #video ]

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #Republicans #GOP #Politics #News #USPol #USNews #US #USA #Press

Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World

Elon Musk’s minions posted classified data on their website for anyone to see.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191580/elon-musk-doge-classified-us-intel-data-website

"this incident doesn’t speak well of the pseudo-agency’s #security procedures. The website has already been hacked by Thursday evening thanks to #coding vulnerabilities. And since #DOGE has gotten into all kinds of sensitive #data, every #American could be at risk."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Musk #GOP #Politics #News #USPol #Press #USA

Trump Admits He Has No Idea Why Elon Musk Met With India’s Modi
https://newrepublic.com/post/191558/trump-no-idea-elon-musk-meeting-india-modi

"Modi was flanked by his entire foreign affairs team... facing some of Musk’s children, while #Musk & #Modi sat in the head chairs that the #president and a foreign dignitary usually sit in...

fuels the perception of #Trump as a simple figurehead while the...[South African immigrant] actually runs the show... One can only wonder how far this will go."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Politics #USPol #India #News #US #USA

There’s a Term for What #Trump & #Musk Are Doing

How regime change happens in #America
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/

DOGE’s true purpose...

The only thing these policies will certainly do, & are clearly designed to do, is alter the behavior & values of the #CivilService.

Suddenly, & not accidentally, people who work for the #American federal #government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Doge #Politics #News #US #USPol

Washington Post Cancels Ad From Groups Calling for Trump to Fire Musk
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/business/washington-post-ad-trump-musk.html

#JeffBezos #WillLewis #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

Hey You! YES, YOU!

RIGHT NOW is the time to SUPPORT Our DEMOCRATIC Nominee in the Special Election for the House of Representatives! #uspol #uspolitics #congress #election #democracy #Democrats #ny21 #vote #VoteBlue #democraticparty

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