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<p>She was trying to leave.</p><p><a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/minneapolis/" rel="tag">#Minneapolis</a> <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>

<p>It&#x27;s 625am here, I&#x27;m on holiday, I&#x27;m pre-coffee, and I&#x27;ve already made my latest round of calls to all 3 of my reps in congress, demanding impeachment of Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio, and that they stop cooperating with this regime.</p><p>You a US citizen or resident? Doing this is the bare minimum.</p><p>➡️ <a href="https://reps.fyi/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>reps.fyi/</a></p><p>The calls get easier with practice, and I know legislative staffers: calls matter!</p><p>What else can we do NOW and over the long term? What leverage do we have? 🧵👇🏻 <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a></p>

<p>I handle my stress by making shitty memes</p><p>Jonathan Ross handles his stress by shooting you in the face</p><p><a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/minneapolis/" rel="tag">#Minneapolis</a> <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>

<p>&quot;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.&quot;</p><p>— Howard Zinn</p><p>Full text: <a href="https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.howardzinn.org/collection/</span><span class="invisible">a-marvelous-victory/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/howardzinn/" rel="tag">#HowardZinn</a> <a href="/tags/resist/" rel="tag">#Resist</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#Protest</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/antifa/" rel="tag">#Antifa</a> <a href="/tags/vote/" rel="tag">#Vote</a></p>

I was just watching a YouTube video with I presume auto-generated captions, and the speaker said &quot;the world doesn&#x27;t trust the US&quot; but the caption read &quot;the world doesn&#x27;t trust the AI&quot;.<br><br>Make of it what you will.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/usai/" rel="tag">#USAI</a><br>

<p>Let&#x27;s just rename it Schrodinger&#x27;s Strait at this point 😮‍💨</p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>

<p>Is anyone else glad that people are finally outraged at ICE, but also uncomfortable that it takes the murder of a blonde white woman to get some folks on board? </p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a></p>

<p>Out today from Gus Bova: Highlights of our newest issue include criminal justice reporting from Michelle Pitcher, exploring <a href="/tags/houston/" rel="tag">#Houston</a> culture with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://texasobserver.social/@josephinelee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>josephinelee</span></a></span>, the war over homelessness policy with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@stevanzetti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stevanzetti</span></a></span>, and much more. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/editors-letter-january-february-2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/editors-letter-january-february-2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/editors-</span><span class="invisible">letter-january-february-2026/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/gulfcoast/" rel="tag">#GulfCoast</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a></p>

I feel like most of Trump&#x27;s statements regarding the attack on Iran should be read as market manipulation.<br><br><a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a><br>

<p>Professor John Mearsheimer: From 1971 to 2021, the US murdered 38 million people.</p><p><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/geopolitics/" rel="tag">#geopolitics</a></p>

<p>Please <a href="/tags/report/" rel="tag">#Report</a> this sick <a href="/tags/gofundme/" rel="tag">#Gofundme</a> for the <a href="/tags/murderer/" rel="tag">#Murderer</a> of <a href="/tags/reneenicolegood/" rel="tag">#ReneeNicoleGood</a> &amp; share the info with your networks 👊<br><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/ice-offuver-jonathan-ross" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gofundme.com/f/ice-offuver-jonathan-ross"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gofundme.com/f/ice-offuver</span><span class="invisible">-jonathan-ross</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/fuckice/" rel="tag">#FuckICE</a> <a href="/tags/defundmurderers/" rel="tag">#DefundMurderers</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/domesticterrorist/" rel="tag">#DomesticTerrorist</a> <a href="/tags/murderer/" rel="tag">#Murderer</a></p>

<p>Every time I criticize Republicans, they call me liberal. Criticize Democrats, they call me MAGA. Politics isn’t red vs blue, it’s class. Both parties lie about immigration, wages, healthcare, and culture wars to keep us divided while the billionaires get richer. “Socialist” and “communist” are demonized so you never question the system. This isn’t a Democrat vs Republican fight. It’s a class struggle, and that’s why I’m a socialist. <a href="/tags/socialism/" rel="tag">#socialism</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a></p>

<p>Unity like we’ve never seen before. This Saturday, a day of action by the Democratic Socialists of America, Party for Socialism and Liberation, with some Communist Party USA chapters joining in. Truly unprecedented times. <a href="/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag">#venezuela</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/freemaduro/" rel="tag">#freemaduro</a> <a href="/tags/maduro/" rel="tag">#maduro</a> <a href="/tags/dsa/" rel="tag">#DSA</a></p>

<p>lol<br>Rubio’s speech was just like Vance’s but with a “human face.”<br><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/wsc26/" rel="tag">#wsc26</a></p>

<p>Very frightening. <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/jewish/" rel="tag">#Jewish</a> <a href="/tags/university/" rel="tag">#University</a> </p><p>UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’ | Pennsylvania | The Guardian</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/us-news/20</span><span class="invisible">26/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list</span></a></p>

<p>Thank you, Chairman Powell.<br><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/jpow/" rel="tag">#JPow</a> <a href="/tags/usfrb/" rel="tag">#USFRB</a></p>

<p>This week&#x27;s comic on the US government shutdown</p><p><a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a> <a href="/tags/comic/" rel="tag">#comic</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/aca/" rel="tag">#ACA</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a></p>

<p>This famous poster from the Holocaust Museum displays the early warning signs of <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a>. While still applicable, I want to make it clear that we are chest-deep in the <a href="/tags/fascist/" rel="tag">#fascist</a> <a href="/tags/cesspool/" rel="tag">#cesspool</a> and have been for *years*.</p><p>Pinning this to my profile in case you know someone who still has doubts. Send them this post.</p><p>History is repeating itself once again.</p><p><a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#uspolitics</a> <a href="/tags/antifascism/" rel="tag">#antifascism</a> <a href="/tags/warning/" rel="tag">#warning</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/resistandinsist/" rel="tag">#resistandinsist</a></p>

<p>Tad Stoermer Professor of the history of resistance</p><p>&quot;All meaningful change in America has come with a body count. The bodies of those who were the victims of abusive authority &amp; those who fought to end it. Because the awful truth about resistance is that abusive authority does not stop. When it gains control it uses it &amp; the more it uses, the more it wants. It&#x27;s a physical law. It will not stop unless it is stopped. It cannot be persuaded. (cont)</p><p><a href="/tags/resistance/" rel="tag">#Resistance</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPOL</a></p>

<p>The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed.<br></p>Truth and Politics, Hannah Arendt<br><br><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/truth/" rel="tag">#truth</a> <a href="/tags/lies/" rel="tag">#lies</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a><br>

<p>Get in. We&#x27;re messing up Melania&#x27;s Amazon search results</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/esist/comments/1qqqe05/get_in_were_messing_up_melanias_amazon_search/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reddit.com/r/esist/comments/1qqqe05/get_in_were_messing_up_melanias_amazon_search/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reddit.com/r/esist/comment</span><span class="invisible">s/1qqqe05/get_in_were_messing_up_melanias_amazon_search/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/melania/" rel="tag">#Melania</a> <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#MAGA</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#TRump</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/propaganda/" rel="tag">#Propaganda</a></p>

<p>Yo folks! I&#x27;ve partnered with a legal team who has asked me for assistance. Please share if you can </p><p>The US has implemented policies targeting non-citizens working in content moderation through deportations and visa denials. The org I&#x27;m working with is pursuing litigation to invalidate these policies.</p><p>We are looking for US-based, non-citizen Mastodon mods to be a (named or unnamed) plaintiff in the fight to protect the first amendment. Please dm me if interested!</p><p><a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#mastoadmin</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a><br>3/26/26 (13th day calling, I&#x27;ve been remiss some days but resuming my efforts)</p><p>I spoke to someone in the DC office &amp; left voice mails at the other offices of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R, NY), requesting that she impeaches Trump for starting an unprovoked war w/ Iran &amp; to use her power to stop the hostilities.</p><p>I post for accountability, to compound my emotional benefit, &amp; let my online neighbors see that I care.</p>

<p>So when the No Kings protest inevitably accomplishes nothing like they always do can we finally agree that protesting doesn’t work in the age of p3do authoritarianism and finally organize a nationwide <a href="/tags/generalstrike/" rel="tag">#GeneralStrike</a>? <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#UsPol</a></p>

<p>“There’s this veneer of respect for privacy that is painted over all of this data aggregation and consolidation.”</p><p>But beneath it all, <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> experts warn that smartphone-monitoring software &quot;Tangles&quot; is the latest in a law enforcement arsenal, from surveillance <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> to an army of drones, operating with little oversight. </p><p>Our latest from Francesca D&#x27;Annunzio is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/texas-po</span><span class="invisible">lice-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/</span></a> <br> <br><a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#police</a> <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>