a mob descending
from hot words to trigger pull
how thin is the line
uspol
New today: The Texas Observer has identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that regularly share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content on X. Three of the operators appear to live or have claimed to own property in Texas.
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
#extremism #politics #USpol #SocialMedia #Texas #ElonMusk #news #racism
Of course it’s a coup
#USPol
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
A couple dozen young men go from government office to government office, dressed in civilian clothes and armed only with zip drives. Using technical jargon and vague references to orders from on high, they gain access to the basic computer systems of the federal government. Having done so, they proceed to grant their Supreme Leader access to information and the power to start and stop all government payments.
That coup is, in fact, happening. And if we do not recognize it for what it is, it could succeed.
#USPol
A template for WHOMEVER needs it.....
-- Edit: fixed some formality language, because yeah it definitely matters! --
Dear (Associate, Chief) Justice (Roberts is Chief, all others are Associate Justices')
No on should be above the law. Reverse Blanket Immunity for the president. He is not fulfilling his oath of office, he is defying Supreme court orders and also not abiding by the US Constitution.
{I always sign, put my home town, state and USA}
Address to send card to;
Associate Justice Alito (or whichever judge the card is for, Chief Justice for Roberts)
Supreme Court
1 First Street NE
Washington DC, 20543
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We've been publishing stories all year related to our 70th anniversary, but today marks the actual date that the Texas Observer published its first issue in 1954, with the top story dedicated to a retail workers' #strike in Port Arthur: https://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1954/12/13#page=1
#journalism #history #media #nonprofit #news #Texas #politics #USpol
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"The intention of the Tesla Takedown movement is to make a strong public stand against the tech oligarchy behind the Trump administration’s cruel and illegal actions, and to encourage Americans to sell their Teslas and dump the company’s stock. Protests like these – peaceful, locally organized, and spreading across the world – are at the heart of free speech in a democracy and a cornerstone of US political traditions. So it’s telling that the response from so-called “free speech absolutist” Musk has been to single out individuals – and spread lies about us and our movement. The harassment that has followed his post has been frightening."
"Musk’s false accusations against me won’t stop this movement, because he is inflicting real harm on the American public and people around the world. In fact, Musk and Trump are the ones committing crimes. Just this week they have announced their intentions to slash social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance and food stamps. They are gutting public institutions, stripping environmental protections, destabilizing the economy and people’s lives. Musk is openly and gleefully firing federal workers en masse and dismantling programs that serve millions at home and across the globe. They’ve ignored multiple judicial orders, and refused to restart payments that they were ordered to. The unofficial agency Musk leads, the “department of government efficiency”, is digging into systems and pushing out public servants, when its own staff hasn’t received so much as a background check. Musk’s conflicts of interest are piling up without any disclosures. All of the programs this administration is destroying are paid for by people like you and me through our taxes. Tesla – a billion-dollar company – shelled out zero income tax last year. Justice through government processes will be slow, if it comes at all."
"If we can’t show our opposition to what the government is doing, we are living in a dictatorship. If we are criminalized for calling out the rich and powerful for their illegal actions, that is a dictatorship. I don’t want to live in a dictatorship."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/13/elon-musk-tesla-takedown-protest
It’s been 123 days since 47’s inaugural (1337 to go).
Look at the destruction he’s already caused, and consider what’s to come in his Big Bad Budget Bill.
Most of the analyses by pundits & experts focus on the billions wiped from services funded by taxpayers & used by taxpayers. The HUMAN cost is rarely mentioned, but it’s the impact to HUMAN LIVES that really counts.
Immigrants, elders, the hungry, the sick, disabled, infants & kids, at-risk youth, queer & trans, working families losing insurance, losing jobs, losing heart.
All this HUMAN misery to keep the morbidly rich happy. Fuck that!
In the errors & take-backs so far we’ve seen that PUSHBACK WORKS!
He’s only getting started — SO ARE WE!
🚨CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY! 202-224-3121
#StopTrumpNow
#uspol
Dear G-d:
When I said that I wondered what watching a dictatorship form would be like, I didn't mean it *this* way!
🎉We're honored to announce the winner and finalists of the 2025 MOLLY National Journalism Prize. This annual contest celebrates the best in impactful accountability reporting and narrative storytelling.
🧵(1/5)
Edited 88d ago
The latest from cartoonist Ben Sargent, in our magazine.
Read more from the May / June 2025 issue: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/may-june-2025/
#education #religion #schools #politics #USpol #Texas #TXlege #comics
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Calling your senator may not change them, but it will change you
Be defiant
Call your senators and tell them to vote against the MAGA Murder Budget
Negotiating is not an option
Their job is to protect and expand fundamental rights to food, health, and due process
Here's the switchboard:
202-224-3121(voice) 202-224-3091 (TTY)
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Of Tech Bros And Trumpers
The reason so many Silicon Valley billionaires suddenly decided to back #DonaldTrump is not the mystery the media is making it out to be.
tl;dr The billionaires backing #Trump are crypto bros and they want to continue profiting from committing various kinds of crimes.
This is a "follow the money" deep dive into how some of these bros profit by investing in companies like #Uniswap that create excellent tools for #NorthKorea to launder stolen money with a passing explanation of how #Coinbase facilitates the overall system.
Ω👇Ω
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers
#a16z #MarcAndreessen #SequoiaCapital #BenHorowitz #crypto #COIN #Cryptocurrency #AndreessenHorowitz #ethereum #Sunswap #SwftSwap #LazarusGroup #moneylaundering #FinReg #FinCEN #sanctions #CryptoLobby #USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #politics #CraftVentures #GOP #TheNerdReich
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re: #InfluencerGate
even if tim pool and benny johnson were just morons who had no idea they had become #russian assets (doubtful) the indictment is pretty clear that lauren chen is 100% a russian asset.
she's appeared on a who's who of right wing media: Fox News, BlazeTV, RT, OANN, #Newsmax, The Daily Wire, Rebel Media, #PragerU and The Rubin Report.
an interesting twist is that recently #LaurenChen had kind of gone batshit anti-trump. she also had a big "repeal the 19th amendment" phase. some folks are claiming that means she was a plant to damage the right. all i can think of is that KGB quote "our brand is chaos".
worth at least seeing Chen's anti-trump tweets: https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1831453510438998498
(screenshots from: https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1831433336293880183)
#Russia #Russian #propaganda #uspol #freespeech #Uspolitics #Election2024 #2024Election #Republicans #TenetMedia #BennyJohnson #Ukraine #TimPool #LaurenSouthern #DaveRubin #FoxNews #OANN #RT #Newsmax #RebelMedia #LaurenChen #TenetMedia
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Trump's Transition Team Is Tethered To Thievery (And Worse)
How is it that money managed by the chair of Trump's transition team keeps showing up in the hands of drug cartels, terrorists, and fraudsters?
This is a "follow the money" deep dive into how Howard Lutnick manages roughly $100 billion for #Tether. Together they've created an offshore legal fiction by which neither bears any responsibility if that money ends up in the hands of sanctioned countries like #Iran or #NorthKorea or international criminal organizations like #PigButchering frauds and weapons markets.
Which is exactly where it ends up pretty much constantly.
For bonus points $40 billion of those dollars came from Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX.
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https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #TenetMedia #Election2024 #2024Election #cantorfitzgerald #HowardLutnick #USDT #Terrorism #fraud #scams #Russia #Theft #cartels #DonaldTrump #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin
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In two months, will Ghislaine Maxwell be dead or pardoned and tight-lipped?
The House panel issued the subpoena requesting a meeting with Maxwell at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee on Aug. 11, committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced.
The subpoena comes just one day after the committee voted in favor of the subpoena despite calls from Trump to drop the story
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/07/23/republicans-subpoena-maxwell-without-trust/
Edited 23d ago
Leaked Files from Putin’s Troll Factory: How Russia Manipulated European Elections
https://vsquare.org/leaked-files-putin-troll-factory-russia-european-elections-factory-of-fakes/
#Russia #Putin #VladimirPutin #Europe #EU #Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #TenetMedia #Germany #AfD #Deutschland #Italy #France #ViktorOrbán #Orban #Ukraine #UkraineWar
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My first podcast! Okay, the primary brain behind this is actually my old friend and occasional partner in crime Ratha Lai of Critical Impact Consulting. In the first episode of "Spin Doctors" we look at #debate preparation and strategy through the lens of the recent #Harris-#Trump cataclysm. Watch for future episodes in the coming weeks! #media #communications #USPol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfG6Cq-FGEQ
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Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive movement in Texas and beyond, died of complications of dementia at a hospice center in Austin on May 27. He was 95. https://www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugger-1930-2025/
#politics #USpol #journalism #RIP #Texas #media #history #news
New: Our Editor-in-Chief @gusbova welcomes readers to our January / February 2025 issue with a bit of hope as we enter a difficult time.
https://www.texasobserver.org/editors-letter-january-february-2025/
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From our magazine: Over 72 hours, Austin police reported more than 70 overdose calls. Records from Travis County, which includes most of Austin, and neighboring Williamson County indicate that as many as 12 may have died. The culprit: a bad batch of crack cocaine. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-war-on-drug-users-austin-overdose-disaster/
#WarOnDrugs #drugs #politics #USpol #news #Texas #law #CriminalJustice #health #addiction
NYU Law professor Noah Rosenblum posted on Bluesky yesterday that “[t]here has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short) professional life between how lay folks and law profs are talking about what is happening in government right now. So much of what Trump is doing is just blatantly illegal — often in several ways at once.”
It seems obvious that Trump and Musk are running the basic play we’ve seen before from Musk and other Silicon Valley billionaires–move fast, break things (with “things” very much including the law), and then dare folks to try and do something about it.
The Democrats "gotcha! lol" approach to politics is negligent. There's no mystery here about what to do nor what needs to be done--they're simply not doing it. They prefer tweeting and fundraising to doing their jobs, it
seems. The entire party needs to be fired.
#USPol
"I just want to stop the killing”
That is a sentence, Trump has repeated again and again throughout 2025. But is it true?
Watch my latest analysis of the #Ukraine peace deal that failed, and find out Trump's real reason for helping Vladimir Putin:
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Continuing my efforts to put my money where my mouth is - I just donated to @ProPublica for their amazing work doing actual journalism.
If you haven't been donating to organizations helping American democracy, and have the resources to do so, do it.
You'll be amazed at how good it feels!