CW: #uspol #trump #gaza

On Saturday, Trump reiterated his dream [about Gaza] to reporters, saying: "You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, 'You know, it's over.'" Invoking his inner real estate developer, he referred to Gaza as a "demolition site."

Trump's plans will no doubt be of interest to the many (normally Democratic) voters there who voted for Trump to teach Joe Biden a lesson. Maybe the real lesson will be to the voters: If the lesser of two evils is 1000x better than the greater of two evils, go with the lesser.

https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Items/Jan27-2.html

So according to the absurd Executive Order, I am trans now, because everyone is. "At conception," we are all female. We don't develop male parts until later.

I'm using my newfound transness as an excuse to buy some pro-trans merch from folks that support stuff like The Trevor Project. I will make it more visible that they have allies.

T-Shirts and stickers aren't much help. They're basically better than nothing. I'm also looking for more material ways to help.

(lest anyone misunderstand: no, I don't identify as trans. Not trying to take anything away from real trans people with real struggles. I'm trying to mock the EO for being dumb and say how it motivated me to support trans causes more. I identify as SWAMP: straight, white, anglo, male, protestant. But I want to help.)

#uspol #trump

Ben Jennings on the relations between Donald Trump, Keir Starmer & Elon Musk...

#USPol #politics
#ElonMusk #KeirStarmer #DonaldTrump

“I think he doesn’t understand how terrorism investigations work.”

Our top story: Jaeson Jones is trained as a cop—not a journalist. Yet the 51-year-old holds a lucrative correspondent contract at one of the country’s most prominent MAGA-aligned television networks. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-border-propagandist/

#border #politics #media #Trump #DonaldTrump #police #news #USpol #politics

oy gevalt, google Chris Butler. According to the Science of Identity website "Jagad Guru appeared in this world in 1948 as Chris Butler." #Gabbard, god forbid she -- not even a Manchurian Candidate because she doesn't even try to her closeness to #Putin (and #Assad) gets confirmed, and #Hegseth might have some interesting, hilarious religious discussions that might lead, I'm afraid to Hegseth acting upon his warrior ethos.

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/27/are-there-any-real-left-tulsi-rfk-jr-offer-them-a-chance-to-stand-up/

#TulsiGabbard
#UsPol

#Maine Law Firm Tells #PublicSchools to #ResistICE Enforcement by Destroying #Immigration Records

https://www.themainewire.com/2025/01/maine-law-firm-tells-public-schools-to-resist-ice-enforcement-by-destroying-immigration-records/
#ImmigrantRights #HumanRights #AbolishICE #ICERaids #USPol #MaineSchools

Want to earn my respect, journalists? Refuse to call him President and call him Convicted Felon every time you mention him or write about him. Because that's what he is. #Politics #Democracy #Journalism #US #USpol

#Maine Law Firm Tells #PublicSchools to #ResistICE Enforcement by Destroying #Immigration Records

By Steve Robinson January 26, 2025

"A leading progressive law firm in Maine is advising public school officials on how they can effectively resist potential immigration enforcement actions that may involve the families of minors who attend government-run schools, including by destroying evidence of potential immigration crimes.

"The advice may place school officials in the legal crosshairs of the Trump Administration under a new policy advisory distributed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which warns state and local officials not to interfere with federal law enforcement activities.

"'[S]chool officials should generate a plan for what to do if immigration officials seek to conduct activities at school, and provide appropriate training to those who may come in contact with officials,' law firm Drummond Woodsum warned in an 'Immigration Client Alert' distributed on Jan. 21.

"A copy of that advisory email was obtained by the Maine Wire and is published [at the link] in full.

"The memo advises clients who may have evidence that a student and that student’s parents or guardians are not U.S. citizens or are present in the U.S. without authorization.

"According to Drummond Woodsum, school officials should destroy those records or stop collecting them so as to #obstruct or prevent federal immigration officials from enforcing American immigration law.

"Schools may have collected data on students’ #USCitizenship, #nationality, #CountryOfBirth, #USEntryDate, the date a student first attended school, or the #ImmigrationStatus of the student or their parents or guardians, the memo states.

“'[T]his information should not be stored as part of a students education record and should be destroyed as soon as it is no longer needed,' the memo states."

https://www.themainewire.com/2025/01/maine-law-firm-tells-public-schools-to-resist-ice-enforcement-by-destroying-immigration-records/
#ImmigrantRights #HumanRights #AbolishICE #ICERaids #USPol #MaineSchools

Der Derpenführer is really weird.

“Donny still hasn’t figured out that _wildfires and forest fires are two different things_. it’s just like his confusion about political asylum and insane asylums. all Donny sees is the word “asylum” and _away we go_ on another deranged reverie about Hannibal Lecter.”

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/dear-leaders-mind-is-a-tumbleweed

#fires #LAfires #potus #asylum #trump #USpol

Have you heard the argument that the US can't deport millions of illegal immigrants, and even if they tried they would collapse their food production etc?

Well there's the theory they will just put them into concentration camps.

Privately run obviously. Which is why these prison company stock prices when up 40% on election day.

#uspol #fascism

Miller: We’re watching incredibly closely but we have not seen [Israel] launch a major military operation [in Rafah]

Kirby: They are not moving in, in a major ground operation

This what they told you while Rafah was being destroyed. Continuous lies.

#Rafah #GenocideJoe #Genocide #Gaza #Israel @palestine group @israel group #USpol

During the first Trump admin, I’d wake up & quickly check the news to see what latest circus act had been performed. I’m not doing that this time. There’s a good chance that it will devolve into a performance by a team of bumbling clowns, but the agenda has been much more carefully & expertly developed this time.

I still check what’s happened from time to time, but… Last time it was disbelief at the idiocy of it all. This time, having studied fascism, it’s all too familiar, & horrifying, so I find myself switching off.

I still care. I do. But it’s just too much.

#USPol

You be the judge.
#Nazis. It's a #JobQualification. #USPol #USPolitics is a #Duopoly controlled by a #Plutocracy. #PlutocracyIsFascist.

Trump is calling for ethnic cleansing—“clean out that whole thing” was his phrase!—but the NYT manages to make him sound like a humanitarian.

But after pressure and outcry from the readers, they changed their title to reflect the outrageous words of orange Hitler.

#NYT #Media #Trump #Hypocrisy #EthnicCleansing #Genocide #Jordan #Egypt #Israel #Gaza #Politics #USpol

“It is literally a demolition site, almost everything is demolished and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change,” Trump said.

Because Israel not FUCKING BOMBING THEM 24/7 just isn't an option?

#USPol #Gaza #Genocide

Anyone who claimed they didn't like Trump but just couldn't vote for Harris because of her (admittedly very disappointing) messaging on Gaza; this is on you.

#USPol #Trump #Gaza #Genocide

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-he-wants-to-clean-out-gaza-send-refugees-to-egypt-and-jordan-d90beccc

Well played all those USians who were too damn pure and ethical to vote for Kamala Harris.

This is what you have wrought. You’ve successfully moved from the previous milquetoast calls for peace and a two state solution to a president who actively advocates for genocide.

Now those of us outside your pissy little nation have to watch while genocide prevails, racism and sexism is cool again and climate change is supercharged

👏👏👏👏👏and 🖕🖕🖕

#USpol #Trump #Genocide #Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-resumes-sending-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel-undoing-biden-pause

$TRUMP coin was just the beginning: The new administration is finding all sorts of ways to cash in

https://www.fastcompany.com/91266892/trump-meme-coin-cash-out-presidency

#tech #technology #news #technews #crypto #scam #news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #corruption

The Orange Regime wants to spend YOUR taxpayer $$$ to build houses for 1 million Palestinians in Jordan so that Israel can complete the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza.

Call your GOP Congressperson and tell them that we demand he build housing for Americans immediately. He can start in Los Angeles.

#Gaza #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #RaiseTheBar #Housing #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #Inflation #LowerCosts #FascistTakeover

@jonah Leave your cars home too…
#Cybersecurity #Resist #Resistance #Protest #HumanRights #uspol
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/subarus-poor-security-left-troves-of-vehicle-data-easily-accessible-182514123.html?src=rss

Trump's trying to grab Gazans by the strip.

So Trump seeks to drive the Palestinian population out of the Gaza strip, into Jordan & Egypt (the governments of which will understandably say "No!"), because everything's been destroyed there anyway.
He wants the Palestinian population to move out of the bombed way, so he & his gang can set up luxury estates for the freaking rich.

It seems the Trump-Kushner gang had quite a lot of time to hatch this mob plot out.

Bibi flattening & bulldozing the Gaza strip, so Jared & Ivanka can build some "tremendous & beautiful homes close to the tremendous & beautiful sea"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev
#Trump #Gaza #Displacement #Speculation #Pathocracy #Psychopathy #Dementia #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice #UnfitForOffice #Corruption #Bribery #MobsterClowns #OrganizedCrime #RuleOfLaw #Law #Justice #Democracy #USPol #USPolitics

Gaza’s Destruction Has Discredited the US-Led Global Order
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/gaza-genocide-censorship-international-law/

#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #Gaza #Palestinians #Israel #USPol

Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territory

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-resumes-sending-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel-undoing-biden-pause?CMP=share_btn_url

#trump #gaza #israel #gazagenocide #GazaCeaseFire #IsraelTerroristState #uspol #palestine

Most people, when advocating ethnic cleansing, would be savvy enough to avoid using the phrase “we just clean out that whole thing”. Not our Donald.

#uspol #Gaza #Trump

#KristiNoem is in?! FUUUUUCK!!!!
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5106903-democratic-senators-kristi-noem-homeland-security/
#USPol 👿

I know I'm going to sound biased now,
but this is seriously an amazing article written by @jonah from @privacyguides I would have totally recommended it even 2 months ago.

If you are planning to attend any protests, but especially in the US right now,
Read This First 👇👇👇

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

#Privacy #PrivacyGuides #HumanRights #USpol

This week the CDC failed to issue its “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report” for the first time since 1960.

MMWR is where the medical community first was alerted to what came to be known as AIDS.

Thanks, Republicans!

#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #CDC #MMWR #RepublicansKillUsAll #USPol

If you're one (like me) who will miss #PaulKrugman's columns in the #NYTimes …
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/paul-krugman-leaving-new-york-times-heavy-hand-editing-less-frequent-columns-newsletter.php

… and who regrets that he doesn't have an active #Mastodon account …

… you can follow an #RSS feed of his Substack newsletter here on Mastodon = @paulkrugman.substack.com.

#Economics #USEconomy #USPol #USPolitics

#PrivateEquity is responsible for the exorbitant prices of fire trucks & disrepair issues, that’ve likely caused injuries & deaths nationwide. PE’s focus on profits, rather than the quality of their wares, led to shortage of fire trucks during the #LAFires.

“A private equity roll-up of fire trucks is why >1/2 the fire trucks in LA were out of service during the catastrophic wildfires in the Palisades & Eaton.”
-M Stoller

#USPol #CorporateGreed #Plutocracy

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll

"Trump fires 17 independent watchdogs at US government agencies" in "apparent violation of federal law".

"Apparent violation of federal law" makes me a bit uneasy. Yes, the end result of "you're fired" or "enjoy your new office in the roomy janitorial closet next to the bathroom in the basement or a tool shed in Alaska" is the same.

Still...take a breath before you write, please.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/25/trump-fires-17-independent-watchdogs-government-agencies

#media #uspol

1. Don't focus on #TFG but on the fascists who do his dirty work for him.
2. Gather reliable information about the potential impact of their policies on your community.
3. Find creative ways to disseminate the information in your community.
4. Identity good opposition candidates to run against them.

#uspol #uspolitics #opposition #resist #resistance

https://newrepublic.com/article/190574/trump-second-resistance-playbook

Jeff Bezos, when America is done with him.

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

...The Constitution gave Congress the power of the purse, and that power precludes the President from unilaterally deciding not to spend money that Congress has provided...

So...now we should ask, when did Congress hold a vote to eliminate predetermined funding for the institutions and programs that Trump is unilaterally withholding funds.

They didn't. So, where is the money going? Into whose pockets? I'll give you one guess.

#Impoundment #Corruption #USPOL

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/faqs-on-impoundment-presidential-actions-are-constrained-by-long-standing#:~:text=Presidential%20Action...-,FAQs%20on%20Impoundment%3A%20Presidential%20Actions%20Are%20Constrained%20by%20Long%2DStanding,Congress%20has%20provided%20in%20legislation.

Watch the enablers, the collaborators, and the normalizers. They are legion and they must be vociferously condemned.

If there was ever a group in need of haters it's them.

#RaiseTheBar #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #Pelosi #Schumer #Jeffries #VichyDems #Impeachment #Resist #Resistance #FascistAppeasers #FascistEnablers #FascistTakeover #PrimaryThemAll #MakeThemFight

@mekkaokereke has talked about how Black people have knowledge that white people don’t, often relevant to the coming #uspol years. I realized I was ignorant of Black activist writing from the 70s. I’d only read up through early civil rights.

Just finished “Assata”, by Assata Shakur and holy shit. There is SO much in there relevant to today’s world. And I’m sad to realize I’d never heard of her before. Highly recommend reading it if she’s new to you.

What should be next, I wonder. (1/?)

Leaving aside how awful it is for the USA that #PeteHegseth has been confirmed, it's probably going to destroy Pete Hegseth, right? He's been put into an incredibly stressful job which he can't do, where he'll be surrounded by people who hate, fear and distrust him, and he has very little self-control and serious substance abuse issues.

#USPol #Hegseth

Hey Schumer,
Appeasement is NOT an option. If you can't get that thru your skull in the next 24 hours just resign and go away now.

#RaiseTheBar #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #Schumer #VichyDems #Integrity #Values #Honor #Collaborator #SellOut #Unamerican #Impeachment #Resist #Resistance #FascistAppeasers #FascistEnablers #FascistTakeover #PrimaryThemAll #MakeThemFight