In #books: It starts with questioning the legitimacy of the camps. In this excerpt, John Washington of Lookout News explains how we got here ... and looks toward a future where we put an end to immigrant detention. https://www.texasobserver.org/excerpt-how-to-close-a-camp/

#bookstodon #immigration #ICE #HumanRights #politics #USpol #history

If we want to make certain that fascism does not come to America, we must make certain that it does not thrive anywhere in the world.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

: #delusionaldon #democrats #donaldthehoaxtrump #eightysix47 #makebelieveeconomy #nokings #trumpcurse #trumpstein #trumpsteincoverup #trumpublicans #uspol #uspolitics @uspolitics :

ongoing coup 🤝 ongoing corruption

"The National Guard has signed a $292 million contract to house thousands of troops deployed to D.C. in 2,000 apartments in the city"

https://www.notus.org/defense/national-guard-housing-contract-troops

#uspol #WashingtonDC #DC

"I've covered up some sketchy shit in my time, but it was never as bad as that guy!"

If you boys are so good how come Trump got to destroy the United States? You whacked JFK for far less....bunch of losers.

#CIA #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

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‘Shameful’ Trump cover-ups torched by ex-CIA director: Tiptoe past the graveyard’

#Cuba - #Solarpowered #tricycles help #Cubans navigate #FuelShortages and blockades

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ
Updated 4:38 PM UTC, July 10, 2026

HAVANA (AP) — "Cuba’s iconic vintage cars have all but disappeared and in their place, small electric tricycles — most of them made in China — have become the primary means of transportation for hundreds of thousands of Cubans grappling with a prolonged fuel crisis.
These are no ordinary electric tricycles — many Cubans have outfitted them with #SolarPanels, allowing the vehicles to recharge without relying on the island nation’s strained power grid.

"The three-wheelers are a far cry from the old-timers that only a year ago cruised the streets spewing clouds of black smoke.

" 'This is how people get around now,' said 40-year-old Liecer de la Cruz, who owns one of these vehicles.

"The tricycles, with a cost between $2,000 and $4,000, are used to transport goods and serve fixed routes once covered by buses.

"While their price is out of reach for most Cubans, many have sold their older gasoline-powered cars to buy the tricycles. Others got them from relatives abroad, where they are generally cheaper, and some small-business owners even used their profits to invest in them, expecting to recoup the cost."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-fuel-crisis-electric-tricycles-fa75dc2aca5b78dac90b1e86c7c762b1

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

#SolarPunkSunday #PostOil #SolarBikes #SolarTrikes #BikeTooter #USPol #WorldPol #USBlockade

The political fascist state is based on the "leader principle," under which the people must follow blindly the dictates of a few men.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

Same shit, different tiran

#Trump #ICE #USPol

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ICE (left) Gestapo (right) "Corporate needs you find the difference between these pictures" "They're the same picure."

The Guardian: ‘Shameful’: Pentagon accused of cover-up over US military casualties in Iran war

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/pentagon-iran-war-casualties-cover-up

#iranwar #iran #uspol

#OneYearAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

July 25, 2025 - In a Newsmax interview, Trump refused to rule out a pardon for convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a twenty-year prison term.

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#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

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For those who think he is joking; the joke is on you:

"Trump jokes he will run for President again"

#Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Joke #Jokes #Humour #Humor

"Experts have long said the U.S. is underprepared to rein in foodborne outbreaks. But after the Trump administration slashed key officials — from federal employees who investigate the source of illnesses to those who share information with the public — Kennedy appears to face an even more daunting task to contain the parasite and build trust in the administration’s response."

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/cyclospora-outbreak-tests-rfk-jr-response-funding-cuts.html

#PublicHealth #diarrhea #cyclospora #epidemiology #HHS #FDA #CDC #DOGE #USpol

#Waste of taxpayer💰:🚨The #NationalGuard: signed a $292M contract to house 1000s of troops deployed to DC in 2K apts in the city.

Marks the latest step➡️evolved from a temp deployment into a LT mission in DC. Nearly 5,000 troops:🚨deployed in DC, & the NG will maintain its presence in the city thru the rest of Trump’s term. The admin's cont use of deployments would cost $95M/mo, the CBO est in Jan — months before the govt mobilized 1,500 additional mems to DC in May.
#USPol
https://www.notus.org/defense/national-guard-housing-contract-troops

"Sen. Andy Kim on Tuesday unveiled a proposal for all American children to receive Medicare, a program he’s dubbed MediKids, saying Democrats must bring new ideas to move the conversation on healthcare forward.

Kim’s MediKids Act would automatically enroll every child into the program at birth, provide continued eligibility until the age of 26 and cover 100% of the federal medical assistance percentage for this cohort."

https://thehill.com/homenews/5980026-sen-andy-kim-medikids-proposal/

#healthcare #medicare #ChildrensHealth #USpol

"Gulf War Navy #Veteran, Arturo Quiñonez Solis,🚨was deported this AM. He's in a fragile med cond due to open-heart surgery on Jun 2s.

He🚨hasn’t had his meds since he was detained on July 18. #ICE only gave him Tylenol/aspirin, despite having his meds in their poss.

They knew the🚨#deportation flight could #kill him, but they don’t care. There's no reforming this org. You can’t out train #WhiteSupremacy & this kind of #hatred."
#CrimesAgainstHumantiy
#DHS #Torture #USPol
https://youtu.be/j2TGQ56F9sg?si=fsAqXyS9yG3OEGQ9

Hawai’i out there indicting politicians for fraud and bribery, including the Lt Governor. So, you know, it CAN be done.

#USPol

In the United States, native fascists have often been anti-Catholic, anti-Jew, anti-Negro, anti-Labor, anti-foreign-born.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

NOW PLAYING == Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley 7/24/26: Sportswashing, the 2026 World Cup, and the Movement to Boycott the U.S.

https://youtu.be/Uw1ixsM9zrk?si=sfdK_bbW_cyOenI4

#news #culture #uspol #politics #geopolitics #BlackAgendaReport #MargaretKimberley #BlackMastodon #BlackLivesMatter #leftist #revolution #left #antiimperialist #anticapitalist #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia

I Have the Epstein Files Donald Trump Does not Want you to See

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kpsk9C1VnQ

#news #uspol #politics #culture #commentary #progressive #left #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist

Report: A network-state project by tech fascists in Malaysia has been shut down by officials.

Peter Thiel protégé Balaji Srinivasan claimed to be "creating a new nation on Malaysian soil."

"The Network State is a cult ideology that seeks to replace existing nations with new nations run by tech corporations" with minimal tax & regulation.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/malaysia-crushes-network-school-balaji-flees-to-kazakhstan/

#USPol #EUPol #NetworkState #Tescreal #TechFascism #news .

Report: The planned merger of the US & Israeli militaries

The $1.5 trillion war budget passed by the House this week includes a provision for permanently integrating US & Israeli military tech advancements...

... in a way that would, as Netanyahu put it, "turn Israel from a foreign aid recipient to a full-scale partner." 

"Future presidents would not be able to simply withdraw from such a project."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/buried-new-defence-budget-plan-to-merge-us-israeli-militaries

#USPol #EUPol #USIsraelRelations #USDefenseBudget #ForeignTakeover .

Rubio's "summit is the modernization of the very same apparatus that hunted Nelson Mandela. It's the same global pipeline that shared intelligence with apartheid death squads."

"They are trying to build an inescapable transnational cage for anyone who dares to stand against the financial & military interests of empire."

"They call it national security. We call it the facilitation of state terrorism."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf9q9rG3JUY

#USPol #EUPol #RedScare #news #democracy #StateTerrorism #Rubio .

Report: Trump threatens jail sentences of up to 20 years for sharing evidence of Israeli crimes with the sanctioned ICC & for "working with Palestinian human rights groups targeted by US restrictions."

A lawsuit against the move "asks the court to declare that the sanctions violate the First Amendment rights to freedom of speech & association & exceed the president’s powers under federal law."

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/lawsuit-challenges-trump-threat-imprison-americans-gaza-advocacy

#USPol #EUPol #GazaGenocide #ICC #News #IsraeliCrimes #palestine .

On the clip of Obama roasting the 💩 out of Trump during the 2011 Correspondent's Dinner, Trump said at this year's Correspondent's Dinner...

“I have watched this clip thousands of times. I keep playing it because they think that was the evening I decided to run for president. It was not.”

Obama is so far under his skin he may as well be a botfly larva, or thousands of them. - Wisconsin Department of Propaganda
#USpol

BHAHAHAHAHAHA
#AmericaFuckYeah
#SmallAndShortDiscovery
#USpol

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Social media post from Mrs. Betty Bowers. “Trump is reported to want to sue over South Park saying he has a tiny penis. That would be funny for two reasons: (1) discovery; and (2) truth is an absolute defense in defamation actions.”

Well, well, well...

#BarronTrump facing questions if he had ‘any involvement’ with #TateBrothers’ crimes

Alex Woodward, Friday 24 July 2026

- Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari is urging the House Oversight Committee to investigate the Tate brothers' connections to individuals in the administration's orbit, including Barron Trump.

- Ansari specifically requested Barron Trump testify about his knowledge or involvement with Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are accused of sexual abuse and trafficking.

- The manosphere influencers were arrested in Miami following a U.K. extradition request for serious trafficking and sexual abuse allegations, with the White House not expected to block their extradition.

- But Barron Trump was reportedly a fan of Andrew Tate and spoke to him over Zoom in 2024, according to The New York Times. Donald Trump Jr. also reportedly met Tate at Trump Tower in 2017, and Alina Habba, a former attorney to the president who briefly served as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, described herself as a “big fan” during a January 2025 podcast appearance.

- Ansari is also seeking records from the Department of Justice and State Department regarding communications between U.S., British, and Romanian authorities concerning the Tate brothers' investigation and extradition.

https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/barron-trump-andrew-tristan-tate-testify-b3021081.html

#USPol #WorldPol #SexTrafficing #SexTrafficking #Manosphere #AndrewTate #TristanTate #ToxicMasculinity #EpsteinClass

1/ The Office of Management and Budget (#OMB) just called for public comments on a comprehensive proposal to overhaul the federal process for awarding research #grants. Comments are due no later than July 13.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/29/2026-10817/regulation-for-federal-financial-assistance

Parts of this proposal have been covered by past Trump executive orders. But this proposal would make them federal regulations harder to repeal by future presidents. Other parts have been foreshadowed but not yet adopted. The proposal would apply to nearly all the federal funding agencies. As a previous president would say, this is a #BigFuckingDeal.

"These proposed updates are intended to enhance…alignment of Federal awards with administration priorities." § 200.205.

Three highlights ...

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#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

2/ Three highlights:

* In general, with few exceptions, funders could not pay #APCs. § 200.461. (This decides the question still under consideration at the #NIH, and applies the answer to NIH and all other covered agencies.)

* Grants could be terminated "mid-award" for "discretionary reasons" including decisions by political appointees that the grants no longer serve agency priorities. § 200.340.

* Grants "must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities." They must not encourage racial preferences or illegal immigration, deny that sex is binary, or promote "anti-American values". When multiple grant applications are equally strong, "preference…should be given to institutions with lower indirect cost rates." Grantees must commit to follow existing guidance on #GoldStandardScience. "Senior [political] appointees…must not ministerially ratify or routinely defer to the recommendations of others [like peer reviewers], but must instead use their independent judgment when evaluating Federal award proposals." § 200.205.

#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Update. Now the National Science Foundation (#NSF) is calling for public comments on a plan to revise its research-funding procedures. Comments are due by August 24.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/24/2026-12725/agency-information-collection-activities-comment-request-national-science-foundation-proposalaward

The full text of the proposal is not online for display in a browser. (Why?) But you can download it from this page.
https://www.regulations.gov/document/NSF-2026-OTR-0001-0003

The text is explicit that one purpose of the new proposal is to align the NSF rules with the proposed, new (May 2026) #OMB rules.

Note that the public comment period on the OMB proposal only closed on July 13. OMB is still considering the comments -- which are overwhelmingly negative -- and has not yet made final rules. In that sense, the NSF is unquestionably obeying in advance.

Also note that if many people skip commenting on the NSF plan (say, because they commented on the OMB plan), NSF might infer that not many people care or that opposition to the OMB plan doesn't carry over to the NSF plan. This looks deliberate. It would have been easy for NSF to wait for final rules from OMB.

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Section 219 of the NDAA hands all 🇺🇸 #data over to Israel 🇮🇱. Mossad will have access to all your personal information. This can not be undone by a new Democratic President. Contact your Senators.
#uspol #privacy #surveillance

When Fighting for Fair Maps Gets You Arrested | Native Land Pod LIVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37zUNs7gpes

#news #uspol #politics #culture #commentary #progressive #left #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist

Republicans Confirm They’re Running On HATE For Midterms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7U8wbDonFM

#news #uspol #politics #culture #commentary #progressive #left #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist

"The Trump administration⚡is facing a fresh legal challenge to the president’s latest round of global tariffs that took effect Friday. The small businesses that sued allege this is🚨an unlawful use of US trade law to try to reimpose the Trump tariffs that SCOTUS struck down."
-Z Tillman

There will be more lawsuits, Trump's #tariffs are obviously, illegal.
#Lawsuit #Law #Trade #Trump #TrumpRegime #USPol
https://bsky.app/profile/zoetillman.bsky.social/post/3mrfy2xyaap2u

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Court doc on the lawsuit.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116975751300542174

For the season ahead, a note to Americans: This is all voter suppression, of course, but it's actually a cause for hope* - a reminder that the fash can only "win" by cheating.

In other words, all you have to do is stop them from cheating.

You're not facing some great army of oppressors; you're facing a small band of grifters who only hold power because you're letting them.

So don't let them.

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*also, a reminder what hope is: https://aeon.co/essays/true-hope-takes-a-hard-look-at-reality-then-makes-a-plan

#midterms #uspol

#Trump Admin Has Taken $13 Billion in Oil Wealth From #Venezuela, But Congress Is 'In the Dark' About Where It Went | Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-venezuela-oil-wealth

#TrumpSucks #USPol #WorldPol #CorporateColonialism #Oiligarchy #Corruption #TrumpAbusesTheSystem

Sex work or starve: Aid workers in #Nepal left jobless by #USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive

By Kristen Gelineau

https://apnews.com/article/usaid-nepal-sex-workers-trump-budget-cuts-d8ea21ca4d43f1598ea54499123d46e0

#USPol #WorldPol #DOGESucks #TrumpSucks

HOUSE GOP⚡IN DANGER ZONE

Sunday is 100 days ahead of the MT #elections. House: gone for 5 weeks. Things:⚡looking bleak for the House R majority.

Two cong generic ballots from July showed💙#Democrats up by 7 & 11 pts. Gas prices have soared to >$4/gal, & heading higher as the unpopular Iran war grinds on.

Trump’s approval rating is⚡stumbling along at record lows, while🚨interest rates/#inflation⬆️. Launched➡️new tariffs on Thurs. Young people can’t find jobs...
#ETTD #USPol
https://punchbowl.news/article/house/house-dander-zone/

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Pic from the article, Johnson at the podium, & Scalise & Emmer, looking concerned.

"Trump's phantom enemies"

Trump "is laying the groundwork for blacklisting & criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war & anti-imperialist dissent."

"Elections will be sabotaged in the name of 'national security.' Left-wing dissent will be criminalized in the name of 'combating terrorism.' Democracy will be snuffed out in the name of protecting 'freedom'.”

https://scheerpost.com/2026/07/23/trumps-phantom-enemies/

#USPol #EUPol #Dictatorship #Democracy #CriminalisingDissent #news #Trump .

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Trump

For the first time in NATO's history, the Ukrainian Navy has earned the right to command Alliance forces, the Navy said in a statement.

During the Ukrainian-American Sea Breeze 2026 exercises, the headquarters of Ukraine's 1st Mine Countermeasures Division passed NATO Evaluation Level 2 and received the "Mission Capable" rating, certifying the unit to participate in combat operations under NATO standards.
#AureFreePress #News #UkraineWar #uspol #NATO

@fulelo En route from the Temple Prison in #Paris to the Place de la Révolution, Louis XVI said to Marie Antoinette “Enjoy the ride”, maybe.

#Resist #fascism in #USpol hilariously!

#TaxedOrAxed is it really a difficult choice? 🤔

In 2026 the USA has been defeated by Belgium, Iran, and diarrhea and July isn’t over.

#uspol

From Bill Jubran. And, unsurprisingly, it’s been crickets from die-hard MAGAts. You know, the motherfucking “patriotic” scumbags who love to be FOTUS bootlickers. In the meantime, the families of the four troops who died last weekend are seeing a whole new aspect to what I personally know is their eternal grief.
#USpol
#IranWar

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There have been 18 Americans who were killed in this senseless war (which really means a minimum of 18) and the last 4 were; Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 1st Lt. Tyler Feehan, Pvt. Isabella Gonzales and Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton. On Wednesday, the Pentagon's casualties website showed a total of 18 lives lost. Today, it shows only 14. They removed the last four because the Trump administration doesn't want to count them because they lost their lives after Trump declared a cease-fire in April. He even met their parents and he still booted them off to make his numbers look better. The level of evil from this cold hearted administration is unbelievable. R.I.P. soldiers. - Bill Jubran

A chilling commentary on the state of the States. It bewilders how easily the bodies charged with defending the country have buckled and meekly accepted, helped even, the current sociopathic administration.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/22/stephen-miller-marco-rubio-trump-speeches?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#USPol

https://youtu.be/rUEb-xYTa3U?si=liaVtNDO-IrTzO9A
#epstein #jeffreyepstein #maxwell #ghislainemaxwell #epsteinfiles #coconspiritors #maga #trump #pedoprotector #trumpsteinclass #authoritarian #pedophile #misogynist #fucktrump #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #epsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #donold #donnydipshit #donaldvonshitsinpants #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #crime #news #usnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #globalpolitics #history #ushistory #worldshitory

(fascinating, US media appears to be unwilling to cover the Iran war?)

France 24: Middle East live: US launches new strikes on Iran as oil prices skyrocket

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260724-middle-east-live-us-launches-new-strikes-on-iran-as-oil-prices-skyrocket

#journalism #uspol #iran #war

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France 24 live: US launches new strikes on Iran as oil prices skyrocket

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CNN top headlines, no mention of war

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NY Times: tariffs, stock markets

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WaPo, tariffs, NY times subpoenas, cuts to spy jobs

I do, of course, find it completely ironic that the latest #uspol Trump Tariffs are being imposed for not doing enough to stop "forced labour", when it's being done from a country where you don't really get healthcare unless you're working for a company, and it's perfectly OK to pay people $3 an hour.