@AlSweigart All of the current Iranian leaders hold a PhD and all have battle experience in warzones (Iraq) 🧠 <-- real leaders

Compare that to the leaders of US and you can see the Iranian winning strategy was simply out thinking Trump, Vance, Hegseth, etc. <-- who are puppets for multinational corporations and billionaire donors

#iran #iranwar #uspol

Peeling paint by Adam Ziglis

@politicalcartoons

https://bsky.app/profile/adamzyglis.bsky.social/post/3mp2c7n2myk25

#uspol #PoliticalCartoons

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Editorial cartoon: Trump's face peels off, like Washington reflecting pool bottom, to reveal underneath Trump is in clown makeup.

Weak old man doesn't know what's going on....

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/gop-senator-was-yelling-at-trump-during-closed-door-lunch-over-iran-deal/
#Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics

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Cassidy was “yelling” at Trump, the source said. This source also tells me that Trump went after Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) for missing yesterday's war powers vote, which was successful, 48-50. But worth noting: McCormick was with Trump at a Pennsylvania rally. And even if he were at the Capitol, the resolution still would've been successful because McConnell was absent.

Are things so bad for Trump that the GOP are in mortal fear for their whole hustle?
Actually shouting at The Boss?! No respect any more... 😂

#Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics

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‘A Total Cluster F*ck!’ GOP Senator Was ‘Yelling’ at Trump During Closed-Door Lunch Over Iran Deal

"This isn’t just🚨a violation of our #constitution on multiple levels,💔denying a person WATER for 30 HOURS is #torture & a crime against humanity."
-A Standal

"An attorney🚨was punished for giving water to a client who went 30 hours without it at Adelanto #ICE. Instead of fixing the issue, they banned her from face‑to‑face visits. #GEOGroup gets $142M/yr to run this place. This is why we fight in L.T. v ICE."
-IMMDef
#DeathCamps #DHS #Immigrants #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Detention #Uprising #USPol

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A memo dated June 12, 2026, addressed to the fac, notifying an ATTYs suspensin from contact visits due to a violatin involving a detainee's personal water bottle, It states that all future visits by the ATTY will be restricted.

Ken Burns would be proud. I can almost hear the soft violin music in the background.
#USpol

“My dearest Penelope, we've entered a new phase in this war …” - Rick McKee

"PMG Steiner told senators: under a new proposed rule,🚨the #USPS will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump admin."

Alarming, but:⚡"Mult fed #courts are hearing lawsuits against Trump’s order & the USPS’s new reg. A fed judge in MA last week⚡allowed pro-voting grps & Dem st AGs to proceed in challenging Trump’s order, said➡️would directly🚨harm states’ ability to carry out #elections -if it's fully implemented.
#VotingRIghts #USPol
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/postmaster-general-steiner-postal-service-will-not-deliver-mail-ballots-state-voter-rolls/

...few Americans...were confident they would recognize a fascist if they saw one.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

#uspol #worldcup

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Repost of something from "@PitBackle" on some social media network, with a World Cup match report, BEL 0 IRN 0. Text of post is "We didn't win against Iran but at least it didn't cost us 300 billion USD."

"The #EIA🚨confirmed US Cushing crude #oil inventories have🚨crashed to 19M bbl, the lowest level since 2014 & just 2 days from rock bottom where pipelines lose pressure & the strategic hub begins physical breakdown, with the US SPR falling another 9.1M bbl to 331.2M,🚨the lowest since 1983.

The IRGC Navy🚨continues to halt new permits for SoH passage, with only directly selected vessels still allowed through."
-Hormuz L
We're not out of the woods, &🚨Trump continues to LIE re IR...
#IranWar #USPol

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h/t Conflict Alarm: pic of Trump in trad attire: Open, the Strait... Man: "Does he think he's Moses?" Another man: "Yes, last week h thought he was Jesus."

You can't shame the shameless, you can't appeal to a Fascist's better nature....

#USPol #USPolitics #Trump #DOJ #Fascism #Fascists

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Aaron Rupar © @atrupar.com - 50m “That's it?" -- Durbin confronts a Trump DOJ nominee named Konstantinos Ligris with some of his tweets -- including calling Walz “tampon Tim," Biden officials "retarded," and referring to cops as "dumb as dirt" -- and Ligris doesn't even try to defend them, leaving Durbin dumbfounded

An appealing image, 'trump buried alive in hot sand', like an ancient Persian punishment.

https://fpif.org/trump-trapped/

#Trump #USPol #USPolitics #Geopolitics #Iran #StraitOfHormuz

"Dem incumbents:⚡lost to challengers from their left:
—2 congressmembers (both NY)
—3 st senators (1 in NY, 2 in MD)
—4 st house mems (3 in NY, 1 in MD)
(doesn't incl open seat results like: DSA-backed Valdez, Kawas, or Sairitupac⚡winning in NY. More centrist candidates got some open seat wins:⚡McAdams in UT."
-Taniel

Army vet C Conley💙won the NY-17 Dem primary. Gen #election fight btw: past nat sec staffer for Biden & Lawler - dist fav Harris in 2024.

#Democrats #USPol
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/23/cait-conley-wins-new-york-congress-primary-00972383

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Cait Conley wins Democratic primary in blow to Republican…

@AlSweigart

They had an easy time with the mentally deficient.

#USPol

#Trump has been pushing the #Senate to remove the #filibuster in order to pass the “SAVE America Act” because he doesn’t even have enough Republican votes for it to pass. It would introduce new voter #identification requirements.

The measure as written constitutes #VoterSuppression.

#law #USpol #POTUS #MafiaState #extortion

Fun work around of an incompetent president, even though #Trump has said he would not sign the #housing bill, it can still become #law WITHOUT his signature. If #Congress is in session, #legislation can generally become law 10 days after a bill is enrolled & presented to the president.

Oooh I kind of want it to go like this just to show him he’s unnecessary.

#USpol #POTUS #MafiaState #extortion

#AffordableHousing leaders were apoplectic at the news that the #housing bill signing would not go ahead on Wednesday. Some had received invitations to the bill signing late last night and were en route to the Capitol when they learned that #Trump had canceled the event.

#law #USpol #POTUS #MafiaState #extortion

#House Democratic leaders on Wednesday described #Trump’s decision to cancel the signing ceremony for the bipartisan #housing bill as erratic behavior #unfit for a president.

“All of a sudden, Donald Trump decides he’s not coming to sign the bill,” Representative #TedLieu, the House Democratic vice chair, said at a news conference. “Well, why is that? Did he wake up on the wrong side of the bed?”

#law #USpol #POTUS #MafiaState #extortion

☔ US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit

｢ The volunteers and former climate.gov admins got together and launched climate.us. On Tuesday, the team announced that it had completed the project to restore everything lost when climate.gov shut down ｣

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/

#science #climate #uspol

RE: https://mas.to/@dfwsupportcommittee/116803423967594608

Solidarity with the #PrairielandDefendants @dfwsupportcommittee ✊️

"A group of Texas protesters convicted of terrorism charges received unusually harsh sentences of at least 50 years in prison on Tuesday in a closely watched case that was widely seen as a test case of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on dissent."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced

#USPol #authoritarianism

UN report says Israel's targeting of Palestinian children forms part of "Israel's genocidal intent to destroy the Palestinian group, in whole or in part."

Children represented 30% of those killed in Gaza.

"Even after the Oct 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed & seriously injured."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-deliberately-targeted-palestinian-children-part-genocide-un-inquiry-finds

#USPol #EUPol #gazagenocide #UN #news #palestine .

Palestinian children are "increasingly unprotected", as Israel forces human rights organisations to cease or curtail work across the occupied Palestinian territories, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child warned on Monday.

The committee condemned Israel's designation of civil society groups as "terrorists".

#us #uspol #usa #eu #eupol #uk #ukpol #israel #Palestine #warcrimes #genocide

Cait Conley has won the Democratic Primary in the US House race in NY-17.

Conley (D) will run against incumbent Mike Lawler (R) in November.

Cook considers the race to be a tossup.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/us/elections/results-new-york-us-house-17-primary.html

21/x

#NewYork #Elections #Politics #USPol

It's coming, Todd. You know it. Trump knows it. We all know it. The most corrupt wannabe AG in US history.

#DisbarToddBlanche #DC #ABA #DCBar #USPol

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B/W photo of Todd Blanche. Caption: DISBAR TODD BLANCHE.

Mamdani-backed candidates sweep Democratic primaries in New York City

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/new-york-primary-results-house?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#uspol #GoodNews

Perhaps they could use AI to clear out the algae in the #ReflectingPool

I mean, why not... everything else is AI

😅🍟

#USpol

Say what you will about FDR but he sure wasn’t wrong here and really quite prolific.
#USpol

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A meme with a photo of Franklin Delano Roosevelt with an excerpt from a speech he gave in commencement address at Oglethorpe University on 22 May, 1932. THE MILLIONS WHO ARE IN WANT WILL NOT STAND BY SILENTLY FOREVER WHILE THE THINGS TO SATISFY THEIR NEEDS ARE WITHIN EASY REACH.... WE NEED TO CORRECT, BY DRASTIC MEANS IF NECESSARY, THE FAULTS IN OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM FROM WHICH WE NOW SUFFER. WE NEED THE COURAGE OF THE YOUNG. YOURS IS NOT THE TASK OF MAKING YOUR WAY IN THE WORLD, BUT THE TASK OF REMAKING THE WORLD WHICH YOU WILL FIND BEFORE YOU.

#Maine protesters call out #SenatorSusanCollins for not holding a town hall in 25 years

Story by Allyson Lapierre, WGME, March 16, 2025

PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) -- "Dozens of protesters took to Congress Square Park in #PortlandME on Sunday, calling on Senator Susan Collins to hold a town hall for her constituents.

"The group #IndivisibleGreaterPortland says Senator Collins has not held a town hall for Mainers in over 25 years. So, on Sunday, the group held a town hall without her.

"Participants voiced concerns about federal cuts from #DOGE, #tariffs, and Trump's talk about taking over #Greenland and Gaza.

"'People are scared. People have questions. People need answers. People don't understand what's going on. Things are just moving too fast, and they're out of touch with their elected officials who basically are sending form letters and not explaining their votes,' Marie Follayttar, who attended the event, said.

"CBS13 reached out to Senator Collins for a response but did not hear back."

Source:
https://wgme.com/news/local/protesters-in-portland-demand-town-hall-from-senator-collins-maine-trump-elon-musk-doge-gaza-greenland

#MaineResists #MaineResistance #Indivisible #MaineProtests #UselessSusanCollins #USPol

If you're going to get locked away for handling zines for 30 years, you might as well blow shit up, .....they brought this upon themselves....

#Texas #Fascism #Antifascism #USPol #USPolitics

"Haberman and Swan’s “Regime Change” is exceptional. It transcends its genre.

It is particularly strong on the Admin’s colossal financial corruption, its heedless destruction of invaluable agencies such as USAID, and the sordid and unhinged nature of Trump and the culture over which he presides.

Haberman and Swan contend that Trump ran in 2024 for one reason above all: “This was about staying out of prison.”
"

We knew that!

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/06/chronicle-of-a-disaster-foretold
#UsPol
1/n

#Colombia’s race:🚨contested bc: #election results: within a margin of error. Yet all MSM -esp #US media:🚨called it for the far R, #Trump-backed cand w/o Q.

Meanwhile G Petro🚨has outlined Israeli #electioninterference & is asking for the media to respect: ongoing scrutiny, audit & counting, warning powerful ints were seeking to return CO to violence.

He ultimately called for peace, though urging🚨those resp for electoral fraud were risking instability."
-F Isabel
#USPol
https://chuygarcia.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/chuygarcia-evo.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/letter-to-admin-re-colombia-6.17.26-final.pdf

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Post about of the letter including a CO flag: Rep Garcia leads colleagues in letter opposing US interference in CO's presidential letter.

"Job cuts🚨at US #factories ran near their highest levels since the end of the global FIN crisis in 2009 & the Covid-19 pandemic as🚨worries grew over global demand & rising costs, S&P Global reported Tues.

Broadly, the S&P #manufacturing “flash” reading for its purchase managers index came in at 55.7, up narrowly from May & better than the DJ consensus est for 54.8."

Trump's #economy is weakening. His promise of robust MFG bldg/hiring...
#Lies #Jobs #Inflation #USPol
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/23/factory-job-cuts-reported-around-financial-crisis-and-covid-levels-for-june-sp-says.html

"Shipping⚡thru the SoH is recovering under #Iran’s mgt, as IR & OM move➡️toward a new nav f/w under the MOU.

MarineTraffic & Kpler data:⚡Crossings nearly tripled wk-on-ek, rising from 32 vessels (12-14 Jun) to 93 (19-21 Jun), with the biggest jump on Sat, from 3 to 42 crossings.

Windward data:⚡recorded 36 vessel transits on Mon, while HFI Res:s flows appear to be stabilizing within the 30-40 ships/day.

Despite the recovery,🚨shipping remains:⬇️pre-war levels of 120-140 Vs/day."
-Drop SIte
#USPol

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A tweet discusses the implied oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz, featuring a graph that shows daily and seven-day average flows. The data indicates a total flow of 13.1 million barrels, with a breakdown of 5 million from Iran and

"Top-ranking Senate Democrats are calling for hearings into a secret $500 million investment into the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture from a group led by a senior Emirati royal"

by Sam Kessler for @wsj

#news #uspol #politics #trump #crypto #WLFI $WLFI $USD1

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senate-democrats-call-for-hearings-into-500-million-trump-deal-with-emirati-royal-edac2509

Eyes widen as #SusanCollins struggles through Fox News interview: 'Yeah, she's cooked'

Nicole Charky-Chami
June 22, 2026

" 'Susan Collins is unsteady and struggling throughout this entire segment. Her inability to sit through even a softball interview gives a lot of insight into why she hasn't held a town hall in 25 years,' Lauren French, communications director at Democratic group Senate Majority PAC, wrote on X.

" 'Susan Collins is on Fox News but notably, the interview was pre-taped. She seems to be struggling her way through it. I wonder how heavily it's been edited,' journalist Aaron Rupar wrote on X."

Read more:
https://www.rawstory.com/susan-collins-fox-news-interview/

#UselessSusanCollins #USPol #MainePol

"Close #Trump advisors have been informing him🚨the likeliest cause of any “rip” in the Reflecting Pool surface came from him insisting the full motorcade drive on the fresh surface to “inspect” it before it was refilled,🚨which he immediately denies to blame liberals."
-J Bourscheid

#Waste #Fraud #ReflectingPool #Kakistocracy #Kleptocracy #Incompetence #Scapegoating #Uprising #USPol

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Pic of Trump's motorcade driving on the reflecting pool when it was empty.

Report: If Israel persists in its “aggression & occupation” of Lebanon, it will be kicked out in disgrace, as in 2000.

"If you do not withdraw from southern Lebanon on your own feet, the epic of the year 2000 will be repeated once again...The choice is yours.”

~Head, IRGC's Quds Force

In 2000, Israeli soldiers withdrew unconditionally from the south of the country after 22 years of occupation.

https://aje.news/x8jdl1?update=4686868

#USPol #EUPol #news #IranWar #lebanon .

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Israeli tank

Good: With 100K fed science agency jobs & funding for weather & ocean monitoring🚨falling victim to current US policy, experts: warning: US➡️ceding its global lead in climate #research.⚡But a grp of fmr govt wkrs secured💰-to help keep: N's👀: re➡️realities of a warming W.

Climate.us,⚡blt by fmr staff of the #NOAA Climate.gov, aims⚡to restore access to "accurate, accessible & scientifically rigorous" #climate info➡️raising awareness:🚨heat waves, storms, sea lev rise...
#USPol
https://www.dw.com/en/experts-fired-by-trump-resurrect-mothballed-climate-website/a-77678690

"I want them to know that they lost. I won. I can speak out now. And you didn't shut me up forever."

Good for everyone getting vindicated.

> People fired over Charlie Kirk posts get big payouts for First Amendment retaliation

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5856300/charlie-kirk-assassination-jobs-social-media-payouts-fired-first-amendment-settlements

#news #USNews #USPol #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #CharlieKirk

Cowards...😡

https://www.404media.co/libraries-not-doing-pride-displays-say-they-shouldnt-be-judged/
#Libraries #Pride #USPol #USPolitics #LGBTQIA

Report: Israeli officials intend to stay in Lebanon until at least November after the US midterms.

Why? Not because of the US-iran MoU, but because they believe "a new window will open for renewed aggression on Iran".

In other words, for Israel, the Lebanon front is "a declared strategic horizon", & the MoU is irrelevant.

Tel Aviv is explicitly stating its intent to stall.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/maximum-danger--how--israel--can-sabotage-the-iran-us-deal

Thanks to @ Miro_Collas

#USPol #israel #lebanon #news #israeliCrimes #EUPol #USIranMoU .

RE: https://mastodon.green/@davidallengreen/116799134433630973

This!

Americans are looking on with envy at how we can pressure our Leaders to leave. If only theirs would fuck off...

#USPol #UKPol #USPolitics #USPoliitcs #Starmer #Trump

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116799340438868076

It's a bit late to warn the USA about Brexiting itself when it's already done it.
77 million American voted for .....this..

#Brexit #USPol #USPolitics

An essential column by Paul Waldman on why Trump's aging, compared to Biden's, is an even more important, actually existential, topic for the #media to cover and why aren't they? #Corporate ownership, #greed, #fascism, and this:

"Reporters love to give# Democrats advice and scold them when they don’t take it, while they treat #Republicans
more like a weather pattern they have no way to influence."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-decline

#USPol
#Dementia

When The #TwilightZone Imagined #Fascism in #America in a 1963 Episode Starring #DennisHopper

in History, Television | March 25th, 2025

"Watch through The Twilight Zone, and you’ll find yourself spotting no end of familiar faces: Julie Newmar, Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Montgomery, William Shatner, even Buster Keaton. The 1963 episode 'He’s Alive' is at least doubly notable in that respect, featuring as it does a young (but in acting sensibility, almost fully formed) Dennis Hopper as Peter Vollmer, a ne’er-do-well made into an aspiring dictator by none other than Adolf Hitler. Played by Curt Conway, a specialist in doctors, judges, and other authority figures, the undead Führer offers his young disciple instructions like the above, from an early scene before his identity is revealed.

"'How do you move a mob, Mr. Vollmer? How do you excite them? How do you make them feel as one with you?' Hitler asks. The answer, which he then provides, is first to join them: 'When you speak to them, speak to them as if you were a member of the mob. Speak to them in their language, on their level. Make their hate your hate. If they are poor, talk to them of poverty. If they are afraid, talk to them of their fears. And if they are angry, Mr. Vollmer… if they are angry, give them objects for their anger. But most of all, the thing that is most of the essence, Mr. Vollmer, is that you make this mob an extension of yourself.'

"If accused of scapegoating minorities, he should address the throng thus: 'Should I tell you who are the minorities? Should I tell you? We! We are the minorities.' Soon, we see Peter in full neo-Nazi gear delivering just such a harangue, thoroughly Hopper-ized in diction, to a modestly attended rally. How could these ordinary-looking attendees be a minority? 'Because patriotism is a minority. Because love of country is the minority. Because to live in a free, white America seems to be of a minority opinion!'

"Though hardly artful, this rhetoric eventually makes him into a popular figure, albeit one whose rise is cut short when he turns to conspiracy to accelerate his rise to power.

"And what of the spirit of Hitler? 'Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare?' Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling asks in his episode-closing monologue. 'Any place, every place where there’s #hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s #bigotry.' It was against such broad social phenomena that Serling so often used his scripts to argue, and with 'He’s Alive,' he made use of an unusually vivid ideological example.

"A veteran of the Second World War, which had ended less than twenty years earlier, Serling surely had even fresher memories of the threat of Hitler than did the general American public — and understood even more clearly what could happen if those memories were to fade away."

Source:
https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-the-twilight-zone-imagined-fascism-in-america-in-a-1963-episode-starring-dennis-hopper.html#google_vignette

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05LaTuuKPlI

#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #WorldPol #Twitler
#TheBalladOfTheLittleMan #LittleManWithin

New Analysis Finds #TrumpFamily Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the #Presidency

America’s first family is conducting its #grift in full view of the public, but the profits remain a guessing game

by Nikki McCann Ramirez
August 12, 2025

"Even before Donald #Trump officially began his second term in office, his family businesses were beginning the race to milk the presidency for every cent they could. Now, a new analysis from The New Yorker has put a potential dollar figure on how much Trump’s #crypto ventures, real estate deals, licensing agreements, and other grifts have netted America’s first family over the course of Trump’s time in politics: a staggering $3.4 billion.

"The total is an estimate, as the #TrumpOrganization and its various auxiliary companies and ventures — which are largely under the control of the president’s adult children — have not been entirely transparent regarding their finances.

"The New Yorker estimated that the president’s various #cryptocurrency had generated at least $2.37 billion in value, financial investments coordinated by #DonaldTrumpJr. and #EricTrump have generated $339.6 million, and Trump’s flagship #MarALago resort in #PalmBeach, Florida, has raked in $125 million in extra profits."

Read more:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-family-billions-presidency-1235405843/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/u1KTu

#Grifters #GrifterInChief #USPol #Corruption #TrumpCrimeFamily #TrumpSucks #CapitalismSucks #Capitalism #TheLittleManWithin