Kinda surprised Bezos let this one out the door!
#USpol

“The number of Amazon workers relying on the federal programs for the poor nearly tripled between February 2020 and September 2025, according to the report published Wednesday. And for the first time, ride-hailing and app-based food delivery companies — Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Grubhub and Instacart — collectively ranked among the top three employers with workers receiving aid.” - The Washington Post

https://apple.news/AUx7y6nMHSM-nDxueNZDZlg

Featured story: What changed? How did Christianity become the political weapon we see today?

A new book from historian Joseph L. Locke investigates how "militant" Christian nationalism became the state religion. https://www.texasobserver.org/one-state-under-god-book-review/

#books #religion #Texas #politics #USpol #culture #history #bookstodon

I've accused #DOGE of terminating #NEH grants (and other grants) by using dumb keyword searches to look for prohibited words. It turns out that DOGE used dumb #ChatGPT prompts instead. Like this one (quoting verbatim): “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/humanities-endowment-doge-trump.html

#Censorship #DefendResearch #DEI #Funding #Humanities #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Update. Here's a #DOGE bro testifying in the lawsuit about terminating #DEI-related #NEH grants. He's being asked: What is DEI? If that's too complicated, what is your understanding of DEI?
https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mgpkttntsk2t

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

"How #DOGE Gutted the #NEH in 22 Days."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2026/03/11/how-doge-gutted-neh-22-days

"[A newly released] trove of documents—including depositions with top NEH administrators and DOGE staff, as well as emails, spreadsheets and text messages—suggest rushed, chaotic funding termination decisions and reveal the extent of DOGE’s influence in terminating 97 percent of the agency’s grants."

Example: DOGE terminated an NEH grant to replace the HVAC system at a museum, acting on this #ChatGPT rationale: "Improving HVAC systems enhances preservation conditions for collections, aligning with the goal of providing greater access to diverse audiences."

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

Update. "Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 to screen for projects that ran afoul of the Trump administration’s priorities. It’s an admission that lawyers for the research professors say is proof that the agencies illegally cancelled nearly $2 billion in grants. And that’s a major development in a lawsuit filed by UC researchers against the Trump administration to permanently get their grants back."
https://apnews.com/article/california-research-grants-terminated-keywords-lawsuit-a0ddb01413ecb68d9668490a20be6207

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

Presumably the word "PEADOPHILE" wasn't on the list

#Trump #EpsteinFiles #USPol #USPolitics

Alt...

Majority of Americans agree on one word to describe Trump: Dangerous Americans called Trump ‘dangerous, ‘corrupt’ and ‘out-of-touch’ in a new poll

U.S. trade chief Jamieson Greer does the gaslighting dance in Congress today that tariffs are not paid by consumers.

Apparently, more tariffs are on the way, SCOTUS ruling be damned.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jul/22/us-politics-trump-arizona-primary-andy-biggs-hegseth-mamdani-netanyahu-latest-news-updates
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/trump-trade-tariffs-greer-section-301.html
#UsPol
1/n

Alt...

Tweet by Aaron Rupar @atrupar WARREN: Have Trump's tariffs increased prices for American families? GREER: No WARREN: So are you saying your own Treasury Department and CBO just don't know what they're talking about? GREER: What numbers are you talking about? WARREN: They've been widely distributed. Trump's tariffs mean that families have paid on average $1,700 last year. With video clip

Where is Mitch McConnell? Is he past or present?

#USPol

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116964603708503737

Fresh War from the Peado...

#Trump #USPol #USPolitics #Mali

@EricBono @JustaJason007 @LoganFive Sounds about Republican to me. So incredibly sad that they have managed to harness racism to such a degree that they’re in such control. #VOTE like your life depends on it and like you give a damn for your fellow man. #USPol

Aged like fine wine #USPol

Alt...

- Cenk Uygur: Will Trump help Israel with the war it's starting with Iran? Will he finance it? Will he send the US military to help Israel fight the war? - Stephen Miller: I don't know how to be more clear. Trump will end and prevent war in the Middle East. He wants peace. Harris and her neocon cabinet want war, war and more war. October 22nd, 2024

RE: https://flipboard.com/@michelh57/%F0%9F%92%ACtop-of-mind-gssuo9l2z/-/a-nBl3LrkQQV2pz68g_19zaA%3Aa%3A18032281-%2F0

Masked death squads roam the USA's streets....

#ICE #ICEMUSTBEDESTROYED #FuckICE #USPol #USPolitics

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

"The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for a reason. He should be arrested and stand trial.

My administration examined every legal avenue available to determine whether New York City could execute that warrant. The law is clear: we do not have that authority. The federal government does.

So we are calling on the United States to uphold international law, cooperate with the ICC, apprehend Benjamin Netanyahu and transfer him to The Hague to face justice.

We cannot end this genocide on our own. But we can use every tool available to defend humanity and uphold justice.

That is the responsibility of this city. And it is my commitment as mayor."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZuV5L0QL04

#NYC #USpol #Palestine #Genocide #Israel

@heidilifeldman If people in #Arizona don’t learn what #StrategicVoting is, and #PrimaryFromTheCenter , they really *will* find themselves living in #Arizonistan.

#MATH #USpol

The only election fraud in the US is the fact there is a criminal dictator on the ballot that should be in jail

#US #Trump #USPol

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 .

An excellent editorial from the Globe & Mail:

> But Mr. Trump does not behave according to any rational calculus.
>
> It isn’t just that he has no understanding of policy, nor any knowledge of history to guide him;
> or that he conforms to none of the norms of custom, morality or law. It is that, even understood
> as a wholly self-involved, self-serving bundle of id, one whose only motive is self-aggrandizement
> and self-enrichment, Mr. Trump is incomprehensible. His actions make no sense even in terms
> of rational self-interest. It’s all just random impulses, fleeting grudges, synaptic burps, based
> on who spoke to him last, what he saw on TV or what he had for breakfast, for all I know.

It's about how Canada shouldn't even try to appease him, because it doesn't matter - no matter what concessions we make, he's gonna do whatever he wants. And I've been saying that since he got back into the office and eliminated all the adults in the room that kept his first administration within spitting distance of normality.

Worth a read. Imagine any major US paper printing this.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-there-is-no-appeasing-donald-trump-or-deterring-him/

#USPol #CanPol #Trump #MangoMussolini #DipshitDonnie #MarkCarney #appeasement #OrangeUtan #CanadaStrong #NoSurrender

I'll stop saying it when it stops being true: if it wasn't for double standards these bastards would have no standards at all. - The Voice Of Reason
#USpol

Alt...

Nicholas J. Stelzner @stelzner_n1150 I'm happy Erika Kirk is taking over TPUSA. I think she's awesome. Charlie's legacy will live on. 12:34 PM • Sep 18, 2025 @THISS_YOUU Nicholas J. Stelzner @stelzner_n1150 If you think Erika Kirk should be the CEO of Turning Point instead of at home raising her children you aren't conservative. 4:10 PM • Apr 17, 2026

Wonder how that happened

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/21/800072795/cartoon/wonder-how-that-happened/

@politicalcartoons

#uspol #PoliticalCartoons #PedroMolina

Alt...

Political cartoon set in a bathroom. A rolled-up newspaper with the headline "CYCLOSPORIASIS OUTBREAK" sits on a shelf over a toilet. Next to it, a toilet paper roll with only a few sheets remaining is labeled "PUBLIC HEALTH AFTER CUTS." The sparse, nearly depleted toilet paper roll visually parallels how budget cuts have left the public health system unequipped to respond to a disease outbreak.

I love you and I am French Canadian so here is how I show it, some truths you have to swallow neighbours: #uspol

- you cannot vote your way out of fascism
- no one in the world has ever thought 🇺🇸 was the greatest country
- American exceptionalism is a mental illness
- Trump is a Nazi
- you have to get off your ass to remove him
- you deserve healthcare as a basic human right
- racism is an intellectual disability
- your Democratic party is useless
- socialism would solve 99.8% of your problems

After this shit is over, prison terms for the criminals will do more for the nation's international standing than any amount of apologies will ever do.

If we actually want to earn back the world's respect, our foreign policies will have to change drastically. In Canada and Mexico in particular, but across the Americas most certainly. Europe Asia and Africa deserve better too, but our behavior in this hemisphere must change.

#USpol #AfterFascists

Are you fucking shitting me? This is how a never served day one in the military, draft dodging pile of shit who does shit like smile and give a thumbs up at the grave of a U.S. Marine buried in Arlington’s Section 60 behaves. Especially when the war is one HE started. And by the FOTUS including Venezuela here just shows the stupid motherfucker expected the Iran op to be like the Venezuela op. I am fucking seething here.
#USpol
#OneIsTooMany

Never forget; in the FOTUS’s military, with all the anti-DEI campaigning to do things like trying to erase the contributions troops other than those who aren’t or weren’t male, aren’t or weren’t white, 19 year-old Isabella Gonzalez will disappear from any Pentagon website. God DAMN Kegsbreath, the FOTUS and all his fucking goons to fucking hell. This just … never should have happened. Can’t tell I’m pissed, can ya?
#USpol
#VeteransAgainsttRump

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/us-military-identifies-2-soldiers-killed-in-iranian-attack-on-jordan-as-from-texas-and-hawaii/4051665/?amp=1

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116959935237626758

Ocasio-Cortez is infamous for one itty bitty detail:

the woman ENJOYS reading legislation bills.

i believe this is the main reason the democrats’ gerontocracy AND the GOP both hate her.

#nyc #USpol #votingRights #fascism

troy_friz_zell boosted

Democracy Matters » 🌐 2026-07-21 / 2026-07-21
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social

"Republicans are trying to pull a trick this week," wrote Ocasio-Cortez. "They say we are voting on an 'insider trading' bill, but have snuck in massive SAVE Act-style voter suppression measures to it. This is a GOP effort to sabotage national mail-in voting, disguised as a trading ban."

#RepublicansSuckAss

#Trump KILLS PEOPLE:💔slowly & quickly, globally: Trump admin’s:🚨cuts to the largest global #HIV program last year resulted in sharp drops in prev efforts & trt for the ppl most at risk.

To comply with the admin’s policies -new survey found:🚨3/4 of the orgs STOPPED PROVIDED SVCS TO THOSE AT HIGHEST RISK... Results: scheduled to be presented next week at a large INTL AIDS conf.

A 2nd study found that the💔cuts had DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED #CHILDREN with HIV:⬇️14%‼️
#USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/health/hiv-trump-cuts-pepfar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zVA.BMv7.npcS_LsGNjUl&smid=url-share

Innocent ppl🚨are being KILLED BY THE FED GOVT at an unfathomable rate, likely unprecedented, in the streets, abusive #detention #DeathCamps, from #deportations... by #DHS' #ICE:
"...Direct result of the FEAR THAT ICE HAS GENERATED IN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES.

A man here legally with no reason (on paper) to worry about ICE took off running when they showed up at a gas station, &💔was hit by a passing trk. Just a tragic situation all around."
-A R-Melnick
Against➡️#CONSTITUTION
#RacialProfiling #USPol

Alt...

HL: Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With A Ticket Home.

He was pulled over by #ICE, scared, he fled: 🚨”A three week vacation ended when🚨ICE pulled his car over in Florida. He was two days away from getting on a plane back to his family.

He ran.🚨He was a Spanish-speaking citizen of Mexico & ICE has this nasty habit of disappearing folks w/o checking their documentation.

His💔wife learned about it watching the news.

Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran💔is the 3rd ICE-related #death in a single week. #AbolishICE”
-Schadenfreud
#RacialProfiling #DHS #USPol

Alt...

Pic of 28 year-old, father, Juan, who was a tourist in Florida.

Hegseth looked really sweaty and uncomfortable in that Senate Hearing, was his T count low? /s

#WhiskeyPete #Hegseth #USPol #USPolitics

#NewYork artist #SergioFurnari spent $100k creating a life-sized statue of #TPUSA founder #CharlieKirk thinking that it would raise over $1 million from his followers. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/artist-is-mad-most-people-want-to-do-1-gross-thing-to-his-life-size-100k-charlie-kirk-statue_n_6a5f9cc0e4b031de2c57de74

But nobody is interested in buying it. However, there is great interest in being allowed to pee on it! Maybe he can recoup his expenses, and more, by selling tickets?! 🤔

#Resist #fascism in #USpol ‘artfully’!

Troy Jackson favorably impresses me more and more every day. I hope it continues. #Politics #Democrats #Democracy #Maine #Senate #US #USpol #Midterms https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/us/politics/troy-jackson-schumer-maine-senate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zVA.HfZ_._MZhwSrPbdvH&smid=url-share

Where's McConnell Now?

#trump #maga #mitchmcconnell #mitchdead #mcconnell #mitch #uspol #politics #usa #america #photoshop

Alt...

Where's Waldo Now - Children's puzzle book cover. Photoshop edit Mitch McConnell's face over the protagonist, WALDO's face.

#Lawsuit:🚨It appeared➡️IMM agents were seeking to box them in -"Panicked: women locked their car doors & rolled up: wdws. Agents got out of their cars, approached her car, & began yelling...
"The women claim:🚨"terrified by the behavior of these uniformed, masked, & armed" men. So, Reisini "maneuvered her car away from the scene."

"Eventually➡️the🚨IMM agent broke most of the driver's side door wdw, sending shards of glass onto Reisini's clothing & exposed skin."
#DHS #USPol
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/youre-a-stellar-mom-women-sue-trump-admin-after-being-arrested-by-immigration-agents-for-honking-their-horn-to-alert-community-members-about-raids/

Alt...

The image features a split view. On the left, there are two women standing next to a parked vehicle, with a man dressed in tactical gear nearby. On the right, there is an interior view of a car with a shattered window, containing personal…

Americans are literally shitting themselves so Trump can profit and remove pesky safeguards for his donors.

#TaylorFarms #BruceTaylor #Cyclosporiasis #CDC #FoodSafety #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #Diarrhea #USPol

Alt...

Taylor Farms logo.

The Mexican man who was struck and killed while fleeing ICE agents in Florida this month was in the United States on a valid tourist visa while on vacation, one advocacy group said.

Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, 28, had a valid tourist visa when he was killed on July 14, Orlando-based nonprofit Colectivo Árbol told the Miami Herald on Tuesday. The Department of Homeland Security has not publicly released Duran’s identity.

#AbolishICE #USPol

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cnn/health-and-wellness-en01ek58z/-/a-IuIEL405QYmf4euwZPzsUg%3Aa%3A132361178-%2F0

Brought to you by Leatherface and MAHA...

#USPol #USPolitics #RFKJr #MAHA #Cyclosporiasis

"‘Not about improving elections’: Oregon secretary of state slams new Trump election threats"

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/21/oregon-election-threats-trump-tobias-read/

"Secretary of State Tobias Read urged Oregonians to turn their ballots in at dropboxes if they live more than 50 miles from the Portland area."

Dropboxes are "an even safer, more reliable way because we don’t have to worry about the post office… That’ll go directly to the elections office."

#USPol #Oregon #Elections #Voting #VoteByMail #Resist

Yesterday, I was glued to a streaming video of a scaffolding being constructed, along with around 100,000 other people. Just as we were expecting to finally see the graffiti removed from the front of the center, a tarp was draped. We were all cheated of the satisfaction of watching those letters taken down.

So, today's #inkyDays drawing is a little different. Marking the removal of his name, even though we didn't get to see it happen.

#USpol #ink #drawing #art

Alt...

Hand drawn generative/procedural art in ink on an open page of my sketchbook. The abstract pattern is inspired by and kinda looks like a giant tarp over a scaffolding.

"Lawyer and historian Philip Zelikow says that Trump's new tariff toy - Sec 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 -🚨is defunct ("effectively repealed and superseded by section 252 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962").

Let the🚨litigation/chaos begin!"
-S Lincicome

The bully-in-chief is losing many court cases, including at #SCOTUS, the once robust #economy➡️under Biden, #voters of every party, #IranWar, allies (before: #Trump)...
#Loser #Tariffs #Trade #Inflation #Uprising #USPol
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/03/does-the-smoot-hawley-act-justify-the-trump-tariffs-no-says-philip-zelikow/

Alt...

Excerpt on the Tariff Act of 1930.

A stable US pres would see this obvious trap & starve it -recognize:🚨enemies➡️conspiring & exploiting their ego, & would decline, publicly & repeatedly, to be baited -now, he's preparing to double down again.

#Iran🚨will drag the US into an expanded air campaign. Regime will deploy more proxies to harass shipping & Am bases at a tempo calibrated to just the next sortie w/o ever forcing a dec -will keep the war too hot to leave & too cold to win.

Meanwhile:🚨China...
#USPol
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/worked-with-trump-easily-goaded-forever-war-4658343?utm_campaign=PNIm7ZKobtc3izm&ito=gifted_article&data-target=gifted_article&utm_source=XJPLeh5koSHChZEU

GOP MOC:➡️#corruption:🚨Tillis asked if Blanche would commit to working with senators to “develop leg lang that'd eliminate the Anti-Weaponization Fund,” Blanche: “Yes.”

Ultimately, the gen consensus is:🚨Tillis will end up voting in favor of Blanche: Tillis, we think, is squared away,” said 1 per granted anon... SJ Chair Grassley indicated Mon he believed he was coming around...

Cornyn:🚨currently discussing with the Trump admin 2 main compons of that settl Blanche.
#USPol
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/20/cornyn-tillis-blanche-confirmation-undecided-01005794

Alt...

Pic of Tillis and 2 men, text: Cornyn and Tillis in discussions with WH…

The North Carolina State Board of Elections approved a measure to disqualify certain absentee ballots ahead of the 2026 midterms.

👉 Members voted 3-2 along party lines.

https://ncnewsline.com/briefs/nc-elections-board-vote-makes-it-easier-to-throw-out-mail-in-ballots/

#USpol #NCpol #NorthCarolina #Vote

“Buy-cott’ boosts Memphis pizza shop after owner refuses to serve national guard”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/21/trumps-memphis-taskforce-sparks-backlash

#trump #donaldtrump #maga #gop #republicans #usa #us #uspol #uspolitics #washington #washingtondc #congress #corruption #dishonesty #incompetence #farright #trumpswar #iranWar #israel #epstein #epsteinfiles #elections #washington #washingtondc #politics #fascism #fascists #fascist #racism #ice #police #nationalguard #buycott #boycott #rebellion #opposition #policestate #civilrights

Don't give #Trump any ideas...

#Nicaragua’s president says country will not hold any more elections

#DanielOrtega, the 80-year-old #authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ against the opposition

Tiago Rogero, 20 Jul 2026

Except: "Last year, Ortega pushed through a series of constitutional reforms that included extending the presidential term from five to six years and promoting his wife, then vice-president, to the position of 'co-president'. The US refers to their administration as the '#MurilloOrtega dictatorship'."

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/20/nicaraguas-president-says-country-will-not-hold-any-more-elections

#USPol #WorldPol #Fascism

GOP voters aren't rejecting Concentration Camps, they're just rejecting the ones near where they live.

#USPol #USPolitics #GOP #Fascists #NIMBYs #ConcentrationCamps #ICE

The Threat on #Oodham Lands

By Ophelia Rivas, Censored News, July 12, 2026

O’odham VOICE Against the WALL

"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security threatens to construct the Metal Wall on 62 miles of #TohonoOodham Nations lands adjacent the United States and Mexico International border.

"The O’odham Way of Life is dismissed in waiving national protective laws, as was done with the 2006 Secure Fence Act Vehicle Barrier and the 2014 Arizona Border Surveillance Technology Plan.

"The Integrated Fixed Towers were constructed, destroying and removing ancient human remains and burial property, and blowing up hills and mountains of great cultural significance to the O’odham.

"Along the 62 miles of O’odham lands the #BorderPatrol has been using military fear tactics on the people, and all their activities are unmonitored.

"Because he spoke out about border patrol and tribal police corruption, unarmed hereditary ceremony leader #RaymondMattia Sr was shot and killed by United States military called the border patrol along with a non-American Indian Tohono O’odham Nation Police Officer.

"Thirty-eight (38) bullets were shot at Ray, eleven (11) bullets hit his body as Ray stood unarmed in front of his house. Their brutal Excessive Force attack on a dying man is recorded in the Tucson Medical Examiners Report as blunt force trauma, his body marked by rifle butts, with cuts on his head, his nose and face, broken 12th rib and broken right arm.

"The border patrol officers, Scott Whitehouse, Dan Sifuentes and Ivan Torralva, and Tohono O’odham tribal police Cedric Randle, were not charged for killing Ray."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-threat-on-oodham-lands-by-ophelia.html

#NoWall #NoBorders #SurveillanceState #JusticeForRay #JusticeForRaymondMattia #MurderPatrol #ProtectTheSacred #DefundCBP #USPol #NativeAmericans

RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/116958206847346564

Pretty soon the USA is going to run out of people to pick the food to feed them, I guess that's when the chain gangs for "communists" come into play....

#USPol #USPolitics #Fascism #ForcedLabour #Slavery

Roknrol boosted

ProPublica » 🌐 2026-07-21
@ProPublica@newsie.social

NEW: ProPublica journalist Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers.

It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers?
https://projects.propublica.org/blueberries-farmworker-mistreatment/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Food #Farm #Agriculture #Ethics #Labor #Groceries #Immigrant #Workers

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116956938090778731

The American President is a Paedophile.
Millions of Americans are fine with that.
Sadly the ones that aren't are terrible shots or are waiting for 'the system' to stop the Paedo...

#USPol #USPolitics #EpsteinFiles #Trump #Rapists

Roknrol boosted

Randahl Fink » 🌐 2026-07-21
@randahl@mastodon.social

Podcaster Allison Gill succeeds in obtaining proof that Trump's FBI employees were video trained in redacting Trump's name from The Epstein Files.

This means, Democrats can now obtain those training videos and prove that Trump was behind an illegal cover up.

https://newrepublic.com/post/212994/fbi-reveal-redacted-epstein-files-foia