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https://theonion.com/jd-vance-asks-national-guard-member-if-he-can-touch-gun/
JD Vance Asks National Guard Member If He Can Touch Gun
WASHINGTON—Approaching cautiously after waiting for an opportune moment to pose his question, Vice President JD Vance reportedly asked a National Guardsman patrolling the nation’s capital Monday if he could touch the man’s service rifle.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Minority federal representatives can’t do much in the US, but Democrat state governors have been busy both legally challenging executive orders and preparing contingencies for the worst. This is a reassuring read in this troubled period.
#USpol
An ironic twist on states rights. Great read and worth your time."The legal foundation for soft secession was written by conservative justices who never imagined blue states would use it.”
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-for-americans-to-start-talking
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.Chris Armitage (The Existential Republic)
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/sarah-palin-no-longer-dumbest-person
Sarah Palin No Longer Dumbest Person to Set Foot in Alaska
“I had a good run," the former governor said.Andy Borowitz (The Borowitz Report)
"Another tough pill to swallow? Violence works. For them.
Fascists use violence while claiming to be victims.
They create chaos that “requires” their authoritarian solution. Then they purge anyone who opposes them.
Meanwhile, democrats keep insisting on following rules that fascists completely ignore. They file lawsuits. They write editorials. They vote on resolutions.
And fascists just laugh and keep consolidating power."
I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism in history.
I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism in history. the success rate after fascists were elected was 0%. Once they win elections, it’s already too late. In 1933, German conservatives …Chris Armitage (Medium)
I need to wrap my head around the fact that private donors, sports' sponsors and students paying tens of thousands of dollars a year is not enough for universities to be financially sound.
I'd really like to see audits of these universities.
Somehow I don't think teachers' pay is the biggest expense.
#university #education #usa #uspol #budget #taxtherich #capitalism
With federal funds frozen, wealthy U.S. universities capitulate to Washington
As the universities first targeted succumb to financial pressure and agree to settlements, new institutions are being placed in the crosshairs.The Japan Times
And car makers know they're polluting the planet.
And health insurance know they're killing people.
And cigarette/pesticide/plastic/teflon companies know they're selling highly cancerous products...
The only "conspiracy" in this world is capitalism ready to kill people for money.
https://www.thetrace.org/2025/07/gun-rights-concealed-carry-fear-nssf/
#capitalism #gun #gunviolence #usa #uspol #lobby
Concealed Gun Carry Produces Fear Across the Political Spectrum
The gun industry is pushing Congress to loosen restrictions on carrying, even though routine carrying makes even its customers feel less safe.Mike Spies (The Trace)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/undaunted-search-for-the-truth
Undaunted Search for the Truth
Julie Brown’s essential reporting on Jeffrey Epstein must be commendedJennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)
![The image shows a screenshot of a Twitter conversation. The first tweet is from Rep. Melanie Stansbury ([@]Rep_Sta...), who claims that a Congressman dumped stock in a Medicaid provider company right before a bill came to the Floor. The second tweet is from Quiver Quantitative ([@]QuiverQu...), which provides an update that Representative Robert Bresnahan sold Centene stock. Centene provides healthcare exchanges for Medicaid, and the stock has fallen 43% since his sale. The tweet includes a stock chart showing the price change since the trade, with a significant drop after the sale. The chart is labeled "Robert Bresnahan sold $CNC on May 15, 2025." The image also includes a photo of Representative Bresnahan in front of an American flag. The Twitter interface shows engagement metrics, including likes, retweets, and comments.](https://fika.grin.hu/photo/link/14113 "The image shows a screenshot of a Twitter conversation. The first tweet is from Rep. Melanie Stansbury ([@]Rep_Sta...), who claims that a Congressman dumped stock in a Medicaid provider company right before a bill came to the Floor. The second tweet is from Quiver Quantitative ([@]QuiverQu...), which provides an update that Representative Robert Bresnahan sold Centene stock. Centene provides healthcare exchanges for Medicaid, and the stock has fallen 43% since his sale. The tweet includes a stock chart showing the price change since the trade, with a significant drop after the sale. The chart is labeled \"Robert Bresnahan sold $CNC on May 15, 2025.\" The image also includes a photo of Representative Bresnahan in front of an American flag. The Twitter interface shows engagement metrics, including likes, retweets, and comments.")
For Trumpsters who think only fraudsters will loose healthcare.
"Because of a statutory requirement to automatically impose budget cuts when legislation increases the deficit, the Big Beautiful Bill would require automatic cuts across the board."
"Medicare is one of the programs that will face the axe, starting in the next fiscal year that begins in October."
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-03-republicans-cutting-medicare-not-only-medicaid/
#republican #trump #healthcare #usa #uspol #politics #health #economy
Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.
Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.David Dayen (The American Prospect)
Read Clay Bennett on GoComics
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Ooops, forgot the USPOL tag, should filter correct now
Is there a game for like, guessing new Wikipedia pages?
Cause I'm feeling pretty good about Black Friday (disambiguation) and Black Friday (2025) existing in a couple hours
🎈 US Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal
—noyb.eu
｢ This deal was always built on sand, but the EU business lobby and the European Commission wanted it anyways. Instead of stable legal limitations, the EU agreed to executive promises that can be overturned in seconds. Now that the first Trump waves hit this deal, it quickly throws many EU businesses into a legal limbo ｣
https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal
#uspol #eu #privacy #surveillance #tadpf
US Cloud soon illegal? Trump punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal
Trump paralysed the "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" (PCLOB), a key element of the EU-US data transfer deal that allows EU-US data flows.noyb.eu
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government.
[via @adzebill.bsky.social]
[Follow IA on BS if you wish: @eotarchive.org]
#internetarchive #archives #uspol #USPolitics
https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/
I am kind of struck by how much like the Trump regime acts like a corporate raider, basically asset stripping the US government by flying in a bunch of interim managers who are loyal only to their billionaire boss, Elon Musk.
It's a hostile takeover, in more ways than one, and, once stripped, all that remains will be the carcass, with the workers who thought their eggs would get cheaper left holding the bag.
This really is the worst timeline, sigh.
For all the terrible things that are happening right now, you can be a force for positive change.
Here are a couple links to connect locally and nationally for political action:
#uspol #usa #politics #BLM #action #activism
Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Mobilize
Create change in your community. Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, and fundraisers in your local area, organized by charities, campaigns, political organizations, grassroots groups, and other volunteers! Together, we'll help make the w…Mobilize
"We should now be imposing the same boycotts on Musk’s hideous fascist US that we once did on apartheid South Africa."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/19/information-dark-age-elon-musk-donald-trump-jeff-bezos
An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off
As Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos attempt to reshape our reality, my advice is to avoid their toxic platforms and wait it outStewart Lee (The Guardian)
This really should be front page news in the U.S., but I'm guessing it won't be. Musk has endorsed AfD here in Germany, just as the Parliament has been dissolved and the country is headed into elections. Very disturbing that one person has the financial power to potentially hand entire governments over to fascists. Every country should agree on a billionaire tax, to protect sovereignty. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/28/elon-musk-germany-afd-party
Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party
Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justify his wading into German politicsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
I'd like a reporter to ask JD #Vance what he & his wife use for contraception. He can't say 'nothing' because he doesn't have a shit ton of kids. She's still of childbearing age at 38. She should be able to produce a baby every year.
If Vance refuses to answer & says it's personal, then ask him why he thinks he has the right to control the personal decisions of other men & women.
Reporters are failing. Make these men answer questions about the things they want to control in others.
#USPOL
It’s finally time to release my newest project: https://www.followthecrypto.org/
This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #elections #USpol #lobbying
Follow the Crypto
Follow the cryptocurrency industry’s influence on 2024 elections in the United States.Follow the Crypto
Passports
Find out how to obtain a passport with the correct gender.National Center for Transgender Equality
God made me instantly forget what he's running for as soon as he said he wanted to stamp out immorality, etc.
Plus, God told me I will win the election by a miracle -- and I'm not running for anything! 😇
#indiana #gop #uspol #narcissim
He has a monogrammed yarmulke....
#uspol #Florida #DeSantis #rondesantis
A study on internet trolling among Australian teenagers says high levels of psychopathic traits are behind the behaviour.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-22/young-men-more-likely-to-internet-troll-study-finds/102246048
Original study
"High psychopathy, high sadism, low self-esteem, low cognitive empathy, low affective empathy, & high negative social potency" predict more trolling
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284378
#AusPol #UKPol #USPol #CdnPol
Young men, trolling victims more likely to become trolls themselves, study finds
Young men and trolling victims are most likely to engage in the behaviour, according to a researcher from a Queensland university.David Chen (ABC News)
But if you click and listen to NPR's executive editor, Terry Samuel, this may be the closest we get to NPR conceding that its Trump coverage 2016 to now didn't work because it tried to use normal tools and assumptions. To me that's significant, and it almost never happens.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/03/1167856064/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-of-nprs-coverage-of-trumps-indictment
#uspol #journalism #npr
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #florida #uspol #Floridaman
THE PROBLEM WITH CONSERVATIVE THINKING
Neuroscience shows conservative thinkers typically:
are driven by an overactive limbic (fear) system, seeing threat in neutral situations;
seek "strong" leaders that share their fears & prejudices & promise to eradicate "enemies";
are afraid of the unfamilar, poor at analysis &, hence, evidence resistant.
#ConservativeThinking is ok as long as it's not running things. Education can help.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/right-and-left-the-choice-between-dumb-and-dumber,15130
#USPol #CdnPoli #UKPol #AusPol
Right and Left: The choice between dumb and dumber
When it comes to thinking, progressives do it better than conservatives do.Independent Australia
#news #religion #hategroups #ChristianTaliban #cult #uspol
https://religiondispatches.org/behind-the-inclusive-sounding-ads-of-the-100-million-pr-blitz-for-jesus-its-the-same-old-white-conservative-fantasy/?rss=1
Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it's the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy
This month, a $100 million advertising campaign and website have been launched nationwide to help a particular figure rebrand.Religion Dispatches
Report also faults social-media platforms for encouraging the spread of violent and antigovernment content
#news #uspol #usa #politics #FBI #DHS
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/senate-report-concludes-fbi-and-dhs-are-not-adequately-focused-on-domestic-extremists-01668821006
