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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

Blake Gendebien is running for New York's 21st district in the special election. He is a husband, father, farmer, and community leader who is Fighting for US!

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/gendebien_website


RFK Jr. Is Already Taking Aim at Antidepressants
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/kennedy-rfk-antidepressants-ssri-school-shootings/

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has been planted by Trump in the role of Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

He wants to slash scientifically-established medication, hospital treatment, financial benefits, and government programs for people with these conditions:
- Chronic illness.
- Autism.
- ADHD, and medication including Adderall and Ritalin.
- Asthma.
- Obesity.
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Psoriasis.
- Mental illness such as depression and anxiety, and SSRI medication including Prozac and Zoloft.

RFK Jr says wants people who live with chronic illness such as those listed above — who often require daily preventative medication, a professional carer/assistant, or an assistive device for their daily functioning and to maintain their quality of life and sense of dignity and autonomy — to be stripped of their treatment and put into in "Wellness Farms" for "three or four years if they need it".

This is the sort of inhumane mistreatment of people requiring medical care that happened in the USSR and still goes on today in North Korea. It should not happen in the USA.

This move by RFK Jr is going to destroy childhoods, ruin families, cause people financial ruin, and for some people it will cost them their life.

#USPol #RFKJr #Trump #ChronicIllness #ChronicDisease #Autism #ADHD #Adderall #Ritalin #Asthma #Obesity #MultipleSclerosis #Psoriasis #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Depression #Anxiety #SSRIs #Prozac #Zoloft


People who don't pay their share of taxes, or run multi-million dollar for-profit companies that don't pay any taxes, want to see the taxes of the people who do pay their taxes.

Ludicrous.

#DOGE #IllegitimateAgency #USpol


Stop saying "DEI is being attacked." Civil rights are being attacked.

Before 1973, U.S. newspapers used to carry ads, "Help Wanted: Male" and "Help Wanted: Female."

Until 1968, it was legal to refuse to sell a house to someone based on their ethnic heritage.

This isn't ancient history. And this is what they're rolling back.

#USPol #DEIA #USHistory
Employment ad from the Pittsburgh Press, 1971, shows jobs classified by "male" and "female"
Help wanted director lists jobs by "female" and "male"
Help Wanted ad from the 1970s says, "MEN NEEDED: EARN HIGH WAGES"


Update: #FAA employees fired incl. one who spoke to me on the record who's partnered with the #DOD on a classified, urgent need for an upgraded radar system for HI to detect cruise missile threats -phone was wiped, inst. knowledge & records erased.

FAA staff fired over the weekend incl. personnel that worked radar, landing & navigational aid maintenance, among others. 100s were fired. One employee said they were harassed on Facebook by #DOGE prior to being fired.

#USPol https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437


"From Elon #Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions, to the #Trump family's vision for remaking #Gaza into another Dubai, we are witnessing the extension of corporate power across the globe at an unprecedented pace."

An emergency town hall via #HaymarketBooks w/ Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

https://youtu.be/iyLiNN_NMO4
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #oligarchy #droitisation #USleft #AmericanLeft #leftActivism #politicalActivism #antifascism


Drug inspectors, AI experts, maternal health WKRs: #TrumpMusk HHS cuts are far-reaching. The# of WRKs let go: unclear —snr officials said as many as 5,200 might receive term. notices *now expected to be somewhat lower.

There may have been some reprieves -reported that the Indian Health SVC was in line for big cuts -not yet materialized. Members of the EIS program -had been warned Fri they were to be fired -by midday Mon none had received term. letters.

#USPol #HHS #DOGE
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/17/trump-layoffs-hhs-impact-on-health-safety-cdc-fda-cms/


Before election day pathologically lying Donnie repeatedly denied any affiliation with the subversive authors of "Project 2025", following his incurable psychopathic urge to lie.

Yet what he's responsible for now is exactly having "Project 2025"'s subversive plot to sabotage U.S. government put into practice.

Firing the aspiring fascist Trump regime & its conspiring subversive bastards of the people's democracy, before they can inflict even more damage on the nation, government & country is who now?
Public servants & the sovereign of all government, the people.

#RuleOfLaw #NationalSecurity #Democracy #Freedom #Law #Justice #Constitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #DefendDemocracy #YouMatter YourVoiceMatters #RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #WeThePeople #WeGoForward #USPol #USPolitics


Here's a great diagram of the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant's actions.... sorted out into themes by Christina Pagel (UCL)

[with link to Pagel's orginal post in the Alt-Text]

#USPol

h/t Carole Cadwalladr
Apologies to alt-text readers; the diagram is so complex & text heavy I couldn't type it all in but here is a link to Pagel's orgianly post that might allow your text reader to work... and again sorry for making this less easy than just having alt-text:

https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/so-this-is-how-liberty-dies-making


The NAACP has published a spending guide for Black consumers showing companies that have rolled back their DEI initiatives and others that have maintained their commitment. #freedom #uspol #equality #AllOfUs #together #dei

https://apnews.com/article/black-consumers-dei-buying-guide-naacp-34664d8af92e2dc1ba787a498348b7a4


Trump is a [insert your own favourite expletives here. As many as you like!]

#USPol #Trump
A sign informing the public that an FBI presentation on “Scams targeting seniors” has been cancelled. This is because of an executive order from the orange fuck wit that no longer allows the FBI to perform community outreach programs.


Did #Trump pardon #LuigiMangione here?

Has he preemptively pardoned his deposers? Are we all now deputized, by him, against him?

#uspol
Donald Trump tweet: He who saves his Country does not violate any law.”


That is some dark comedy.
✈️💥 🛩️🔥 🛬❌

#USpol #PlaneCrash
Screenshot of a post by Just Kidding @internethippo.bsky.social: 

I voted for Trump because he said he would make planes fall out of the sky every day but I never thought he'd actually do it 

February 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM


World news: Europe is in a major geopolitical crisis as tyrants carve up the world between themselves.

UK news: Some royal kiddies done some drawings! Print them out and stick them to your fridge! Tear down the meagre efforts of your filthy lowborn scumspawn to make room! These people are both definitely completely normal and not weird entitled cunts and also, by definition, your natural betters! See their sketches and adore them, you fucking disgusting waste of flesh!

#USpol #ukpol


Bwahahaha! #NOTSatire, from the MOST RESPECTED #news source on teh intertubz! 🤣

Report: Presidents Washington Through Bush May Have Lied About Key Matters

https://theonion.com/report-presidents-washington-through-bush-may-have-lie-1819566677/ (OK it's #Satire, NOT #Realpolitick... 😎) #USPolitics #USPol #Trump #Biden #Obama


So aid programs also have benefits for the donor country?! 😮‍😲

#USpol #Aid #USaid #Musk #Trump #RashadCrenshaw

https://youtu.be/geBaXj1_LPw?si=EoDRxbllaB5lSd12


I'm sorry, but it can't be as simple as "Americans are just racist and sexist" when the official non-racist/sexist option was publicly committing #genocide.

#uspol #uspolitics #genocidejoe #holocaustharris #bluemaga #israel #fediantisemitism


If you know of or are involved with an organization that helps people in a way that the #TrumpAdministration doesn't approve of, and the org is worried about continuing to do their work while protecting their employees, volunteers, and clients, I am happy to meet for free with the org to work through with them what their threat model is and how they can improve their security posture. They can reach out to me on Signal at jik.87. Please :boostRequest: for reach.
#politics #USPol #resist #infosec


Netanyahu says Israel working closely with US on Trump’s 'bold vision' for Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/feb/16/netanyahu-says-israel-working-closely-with-us-on-trumps-bold-vision-for-gaza-video

Well, the current US administration is doing everything to go down in history as the most evil genocidal regime ever in US history.

Not sure how to call this, would neoliberal capitalist oligarchic fascism with at touch of imperialism be.a term for it? Or is Trump simply using Putin's playbook.

More and more I get the idea they need to be stopped short violently...

#uspol #gaza #genocide


Many believe Musk & others will get their money from tax cuts. You can't cut zero tax pmts more than zero. It would be a negative number. It's been well publicized that these men (and they are all men) paid little or no taxes b4 Trump returned to office.

Trump is impounding money PLUS closing agencies w/o telling anyone where future taxes from citizens will be spent.

W/O guardrails, future #tax #revenue will go directly to #Trump's #pocket. No other reason to decimate agencies.

#USPOL


Inhaltswarnung: Vance, abortion buffer zones, & an ace protest sign


"MAGA Women Think Musk is Robin Hood" - This woman's take is EXACTLY what I am hearing on the ground. 100%.

#DOGE #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #News #Project2025 #Fascism

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RPV1YjTuuWc&si=7Juv6z02r71eT131


Did you know that NNSA, the agency DOGE randomly fired people from without knowing the agency secures our nuclear weapons, also helps prevent asteroids from killing us all?

Well, they do, and now you know.

"NNSA works with partners to detect and mitigate impact threats from potentially hazardous near-Earth objects."

This is just the declassified stuff they do to keep us all from dying.

https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/planetary-defense-teamwork

#nnsa #doge #USpol #PlanetaryDefense #asteroids #coup


"the #USAID inspector general recently released a report finding that due to the Trump-Musk pause of funding, nearly $500 million in #food assistance was at risk of spoiling... barely 24 hours after the USAID inspector general revealed all this, #Trump fired him...

whole function of I.G.s is to independently document waste, inefficiency, & #corruption inside #government. That’s what the USAID I.G. did"
https://newrepublic.com/article/191578/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo

#Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #US #USA #News #Press
Text from article:
In this context, let’s also recall that the USAID inspector general recently released a report finding that due to the Trump-Musk pause of funding, nearly $500 million in food assistance was at risk of spoiling. That revealed an extraordinarily cruel and wanton attitude toward the global poor, and barely 24 hours after the USAID inspector general revealed all this, Trump fired him.

It’s hard to adequately capture the absurdity and malevolence on display here. The whole function of I.G.s is to independently document waste, inefficiency, and corruption inside government. That’s what the USAID I.G. did in documenting the mismanagement that put huge stores of taxpayer-purchased food at risk of going to waste. This is exactly what I.G.s are supposed to do. But apparently because it made Trump and Musk look bad, the I.G. got the ax.

Here you see Trumpworld believing both that they are politically vulnerable to revelations about the misery they’re inflicting on some of the world’s poorest people—they were clearly stung by the I.G.’s findings—and also that they can unabashedly fire the watchdogs who reveal it. They conspicuously did this right after the revelations hit, suggesting they lean toward feeling they can act with total impunity.


"“This is basically telling #USAID personnel not to tell the #truth about what they have seen,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior USAID official, told me, adding that this functionally commands USAID staff to “get in line with the #propaganda narrative.”

Yet the memo also shows that USAID leaks are infuriating #Trump officials precisely because they are exposing the horrifying consequences of the Trump-Musk efforts to cripple this agency."
https://newrepublic.com/article/191578/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo

#Musk #Trump #News #US #USPol
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This assistance—which includes aid for lifesaving food, shelter, and medicine—has gotten bogged down as USAID employees and groups that partner with the agency to distribute these things have struggled to access government funding streams halted by Trump. (A judge has ordered the funds to continue.) In one case, Musk claimed that the administration had restarted some disease-prevention funding, but it remains frozen, the Times reported.

The directive ordering USAID employees to refrain from discussing this with the press represents an unnerving turn in this saga, given how ugly and blatant it is. “This is basically telling USAID personnel not to tell the truth about what they have seen,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior USAID official, told me, adding that this functionally commands USAID staff to “get in line with the propaganda narrative.”

Yet the memo also shows that USAID leaks are infuriating Trump officials precisely because they are exposing the horrifying consequences of the Trump-Musk efforts to cripple this agency.


Did you know the US government has a U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (since 1979) that exists to help make sure dismissals and such are based on merit (or the lack there of) and “…to protect…against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices…”?

Well, now you do.

https://www.mspb.gov/

#USpol #coup


"The useful thing to do is to let your bad friend know you’re upset with them. Give them a chance to make amends. That’s what real friends do." #CanPoli #uspol #flagday https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/article-booing-the-american-anthem-its-our-patriotic-duty-right-now/


They aren't "illegal immigrants". They're undocumented. That term is dated and dehumanizing.

Besides, they aren't doing anything illegal. It's actually a civil offense.

So, how about we treat them with a little bit of *civility* FFS.

#uspolitics #uspol #Trump #republicans


**HOW TO RESIST**

Memes for sharing. 🧵

->Please see also my flyers for printing. Some of them are wallet-sized for easy distribution.

https://mastodon.world/@jblue/114004558909725221

I created these because I keep seeing the question “what can I do?“ The advice below was condensed and compiled from Robert Reich’s articles and others. They have links to resources that provide more info and context. Please feel free to save and share with others.

#resist #resistance #uspolitics #uspol #fascism
The image features a sunset backdrop with the Statue of Liberty. The bold text emphasizes "RESIST." Below, a list of actions is outlined:
-SUPPORT the vulnerable.
-SUPPORT journalists, politicians and lawyers fighting the administration. fascist policies and
-BOYCOTT brands and companies that donate to Republicans.
(goodsuniteus.com).
-VOLUNTEER (mobilize.us).
-CONTACT your reps in
Congress + state AG to block nominations (calls.org).
-PARTICIPATE in mutual aid networks to power the resistance when fascism strikes back.
-SHOW UP to town halls/ school board meetings to stymie radicals.
-DISOBEY if you receive orders to harm others.
robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-
what-you-can-do


I'm so fucking sick of these attacks on human rights.

I propose the following course of action:

We pick a specific target and trash its value.
- Do whatever we can to make it lose money, customers, resources, employees, reputation.
- Do our best to make it toxic waste that investors won't touch.
- We make it easy for anyone to join the carnage.
- We keep hammering it until it dies or we get protections

Then we collectively pick another target and do it again.

And again.

Until the dying screams of US corporations reach the ears of those with the power to call off the attacks on women, minorities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, and everyone else this administration is going after.

When they stop, we stop, negotiate, and stand ready to start again if they don't follow through.

I suggest Tesla be the first to burn.

https://electrek.co/2025/02/13/tesla-takeover-protests-pla-at-stores-this-weekend-tesla-takeover/

#ResistEverywhere #CitizenSabotage #HumanRights #USPol #FuckCapitalism #FuckFascism #EatTheRich