uspol

Hey my anti-fascist friends, let's help the Americans. Post your entirely legal, yet extremely annoying solutions for creative non-compliance using the hashtag #creativeNonCompliance

#usPol #fascism

There are some counterprotesters at my local #TeslaTakedown event but they’re like, 3 guys in a pickup with some flags, vs. hundreds of protesters.

We are not engaging with them except to say “yay for the First Amendment!” when they pass by.

One of the cops here (there are a couple of police cars) went to talk to them, he did not look very happy.

#USPol #USPolitics

I went out on my usual walk earlier tonight, but instead of taking photos or listening to an audiobook or podcast I just looked around and thought about things. More or less like this.

#writing #uspol #wilderness

https://buttondown.com/talking-to-myself/archive/rewilding-in-the-uspol/

New today: It’s a different camp, different year, different creek, but the same story. This story—the one where the Hill Country experiences devastating and unexpected flash #floods following an intense period of extended drought—is a familiar one for those of us who grew up in the area. https://www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/

#Kerrville #KerrCounty #Texas #CentralTexas #flooding #history #environment #weather #politics #USpol #news #ClimateChange

70 dias de Trump

https://gmgall.net/blog/70-dias-de-trump/

#blog #blogging #Politics #uspol #usa #fascism

Afghan pilots who fought in 20-year war against Taliban in limbo after Trump blocks US resettlement plans
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/28/asia/afghanistan-war-pilots-limbo-us-resettlement-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

;_(
#uspol

Make
America
Great
(Depression)
Again

(sorry)

#MAGA #USPol #economics #StockMarket #Trump #tariffs

When you've lost Joe Rogan...

Joe Rogan breaks with Trump, calling Venezuelan deportations ‘horrific’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/trump-joe-rogan-deportations

#PresidentBystander #Signalgate #WhiskeyLeaks #EndTrump #EndMusk #AgentKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #DOGE #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Jeff Bezos threats to buy Conde Nast should absolutely be taken seriously.

It would give him control over a number of media outlets that are strong voices in opposition of fascism (like Wired and Teen Vogue)

Under the oligarchs control they would be forced to become right wing propaganda.

Now more than ever we must support independent journalists… many of whom are speaking truth to power despite the personal risk.

If you can boycott Amazon, please do it. Send a strong message with your wallet that you don’t support fascism or the billionaire class.

If you can’t boycott, please don’t feel guilty. Many disabled people and those in poverty may be reliant on Amazon for supplies they can’t get elsewhere.

Trust that your community is boycotting on your behalf.

We’ve got you, and you need to take care of yourself in order to survive.

No guilt. We all resist in whatever way we can.

#uspol #bezos #amazon #fascism #authoritarianism

Fox News has removed the stock market data from the chyron.

#FoxNews #MAGA #fascism #uspol #stockmarket #DOW #Nasdaq

Speaking of weak Democrats, you have no idea how much trouble I've had getting Democrats in #Maine to introduce or otherwise advocate for gun reform legislation. I've written multiple times to the chair of the Democratic Senate Committee, the Executive Director of the Maine Democratic Party, Senate President Mattie Daughtry (my state senator), the Maine Gun Safety Coalition, and more. All of them refuse to answer me. What cowardice. #Politics #Democrats #Guns #GunReform #Democracy #US #USpol

New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/

This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.

#surveillance #tech #SocialMedia #GregAbbott #police #border #privacy #security #USpol #politics #news

Every 4th of July, I'm the event photographer for celebrations in Monterey, CA where I work promoting small business. Nicknamed locally as the "Language Capital of the World" its remarkable diversity is always on display at its annual 4th of July parade and other celebrations.

Well, that's in a normal year. Unfortunately the mood in Northern California as it has elsewhere in the United States has descended into a pall of fear and anxiety. It was shocking to see the proudly diverse city of Monterey have the whitest and straightest celebration that I never thought I'd see anywhere in my home state much less in my own backyard.

Uh wait... hold on... (Continued)

🧵 1/5

#uspol #photography #resist

"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

— Howard Zinn

https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/

#HowardZinn #Resist #Protest #USPol #Democracy #Trump #Musk #DOGE #GOP #ICE

"Power, Progress, and Patient-Led Change"

An overiew of Advocacy Week 2025 from Solve ME:

https://solvecfs.org/advocacy-week-2025-power-progress-and-patient-led-change/

"In a single week, the Solve M.E. community took part in 187 congressional meetings—sharing powerful personal stories, urgent data, and clear policy goals with Senate and House offices."

@mecfs @longcovid

1/n

#USPol #MEcfs #LongCovid #POTS #Congress #Senate #Advocacy #SolveME

Am wondering if this will change by end of the year. Supreme Court seems to keep kicking the can down the road.

#uspol

I think it's wild that cryptocurrencies are also crashing along with the US stock market. I mean, I feel like they're doomed to crash generally but there legitimately seemed to be enthusiasm in that industry that Trump would make the line go up.

#TrumpRecession #TrumpCrash #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #USEconomy #USPol

Regarding what follows, I have no standing in economics but I do know a bit about it, I can do math, and I've read the opinions of a few experts I trust. As far as I can tell this document I link below is word salad. Among many head scratchers in it, one of the considerations proposed for choosing a tariff rate is "Do the nation’s leaders grandstand against the United States in the international theater?" This is not economics, it's petty grievance disguised as policy. Words are cheap. What matters is what these nations' leaders do. The framing this document takes, that the US is somehow cheated by the current global trade arrangement and world order, is false on its face. Again, this is grievance disguised as policy. Anyway, here goes:

As an analyst at Hudson Bay Capital, Stephen Miran authored the blueprint for the tariff strategy the Trump administration is now using:

Tariffs provide revenue, and if offset by currency adjustments, present minimal inflationary or otherwise adverse side effects, consistent with the experience in 2018-2019. While currency offset can inhibit adjustments to trade flows, it suggests that tariffs are ultimately financed by the tariffed nation, whose real purchasing power and wealth decline, and that the revenue raised improves burden sharing for reserve asset provision. Tariffs will likely be implemented in a manner deeply intertwined with national security concerns, and I discuss a variety of possible implementation schemes. I also discuss optimal tariff rates in the context of the rest of the U.S. taxation system.

(emphasis mine)

From https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf

Miran became the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, appointed by Trump, in March 2025. He seems to be a conservative think tank creature too.

#USPol #USEconomics #TrumpTariffs #TrumpRecession #TrumpCrash

Is what's happening at home now the same as what we've been doing to others out in the world?

https://drb.ie/articles/the-monad-unchained/

#Politics #uspol

Rage, rage against the lying orange shite. #USpol

I hope there are journalists digging into who sold and who bought stocks and cryptocurrencies, which ones and when, leading up to Apr 2 and in the next few weeks.

The low-effort generative AI looking tariff rates is a tell. The fact bitcoin moved the same way as US stock indices has a bad smell about it too.

#TrumpAndDump #PumpAndDump #tariff #USPol #USEconomy #con

I just saw Mark Elias' tariff theory. It is a far darker idea than tariffs as sales tax to replace income tax.

His idea is that it is just a Grand Corruption Machine. It is designed such that leaders from business, US states and other countries have to go to Trump and beg for relief from the tariffs that apply to them. The begging involves making Trump richer.

The idea that trillions of dollars are being wiped from the stock exchanges, a severe recession seems imminent, inflation is spiking and the entire world order is being upset so that Trump can play at being king of the world and get some kickbacks does seem like a very Trumpian plan.

#uspol

I plan to keep tooting about my current situation of my SSDI check not showing up this month.

I do have people around me to help me out, potentially temporary housing, and access to food...

I might lose my internet, I never know.

My future is uncertain.

When policitcs fuck with lives, I cant just ignore the political articles.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-goons-cause-major-crash-to-social-security-site/

#USpol
#MySSCheckIsMissing

In all the talk of US trade deficits forcing Trump et al. to erect tariff barriers to "rebalance trade", we've lost or ignored the fact that the US has an enormous digital trade surplus. See, for instance, this paper Estimating digital product trade through corporate revenue data. The US's main conventional export is currently petroleum, but it exports over twice as much in digital advertising. The US's overall "digital exports" are larger than the total exports of France, which is the world's 7th leading exporter. However, these numbers are not typically included in reports about trade deficits or surpluses.

#Trump #tariffs #USPol #USEconomy #GlobalTrade #trade