Holy shit

#DeSantis admits that the #WorkerShortages created by anti-#immigrant laws need to be eased by putting teenagers to work by relaxing #ChildLabor protection standards.

#USpol #law #immigration #economy #Trump

miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…

👀 CNN: Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/fl…

#Politics #USpol

Of course.

npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-53398…

via @npr

#USpol #infosec #hegseth

Nobody home this morning at the United States Institute of Peace web site.

Sabotage masquerading as patriotism.

Exhibit #12,273,493

#uspol #usip #democracy #authoritarianism

Just ICYMI

#TulsiGabbard was also outside of the #UnitedStates while she took part in the #signal group chat.

“Later in the hearing, #Gabbard also said she was overseas during the time the group chat discussions were underway, but [refused] to say whether she participated using her personal phone.”

#USpol #Trump #Signal #SignalGate #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #JDVance #Hegseth #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
thehill.com/policy/national-se…

😉

#USpol #ElongatedMuskrat

What shows in the Signal leaks, aside form glaring stupidity, is a deep disdain for the European project and its values. The EU should take note and prepare for an ugly divorce.

#uspol

#SignalGate #USpol #Infosec

I'd like to reply to that with the following quote from #PeteHegseth himself:

mastodon.social/@flexghost/114…

flexghost.

2025-03-25 12:59:57

Remember when Pete Hegseth said anyone reckless with sensitive government information should be fired on the spot and criminally prosecuted?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

#ButHerEmails

Trump is destroying the economy to privatize the fed govt.

"The Conf Board's consumer confidence index dropped in Mar to -lowest level since Jan 2021. Trump's pres.: Americans as pessimistic as they were during: Covid crisis. Consumer inflation expectations⬆️6.2% in Mar.

Before Trump took office, the US economy was surging ahead of Europe’s. Trump’s managed to reverse that trend."
-S Ratnner

#Economy➡️weakens at the same time inflation rises➡️#stagflation #recession: soon.
#Privatization #USPol

WH ready to knife Mike Waltz in the back.

“F—King Idiot”: Trump Team Considers Fall Guy for War Plans Group Chat
newrepublic.com/post/193122/tr…

#MikeWaltz #SignalLeak #PeteHegseth #Reckless #Trumpkakistocracy #GOPIdiot #FoxNews #GOPRapist #GOPDrunkard #WhiteSupremacist #Racist #NoRepublicansEverAgain #TrumpDidThis #USPol

“F—king Idiot”: Trump Team Considers Fall Guy for War Plans Group Chat

White House officials are ready to blame one man in the administration for that grave texting error.

^{The New Republic}

#Gabbard was asked if she knew the percent of fentanyl in the #US that came from #Canada. Clearly concerned that she was about to contradict #Trump, he asked if she could get back to the cmte on that. Senator Heinrich told her, “it’s less that 1%.”

#USpol #geopolitics

The #Senate Select Cmte on #Intelligence hearing is a regular briefing intelligence ofcls provide #Congress on worldwide threats & was scheduled before #JeffGoldberg’s report from The Atlantic.

But the controversy is likely to dominate the session.

Testifying:

#DNI Tulsi Gabbard

#CIA Dir John Ratcliffe

Timothy D. Haugh, #NSA

#Defense Intelligence Agency dir Jeffrey A. Kruse

#FBI director Kash Patel

#NationalSecurity #USpol #geopolitics
c-span.org/event/senate-commit…

The endless buffoonery ceases to mitigate the fact that these jackasses are in charge and half the idiots in the US voted for this. It's broken my brain and I'm still in shock. They've got Buttegieg dropping F-bombs

youtube.com/watch?v=VGp1ZsuCtS…

#USPOL
#Trump
#Musk

Sensitive content Reveal/hide

I don't know whether this is a thing in US Politics, but in the UK when the Administration says they have the "utmost confidence" in a minister involved in a scandal it actually means they do not actually have confidence in the individual.

#USPOL #MichaelWaltz

The Trump administration wants to eliminate FEMA and make every state handle their own disasters.

Yeah, that’s very efficient! Not to mention that if a state is underwater, they might have enough other shit going on.

#KristiNoem #FEMA #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

There should be accountability at the very top!

Hegseth needs to resign.

#Hegseth #PeteHegseth #Trump #USPol #Politics #USA #Scandal #YemenWar #WhiteHouse #WhiteHouseLeak #TextHeardAroundTheWorld #JosephGedeon #HouthiOperation #Houthi

So I guess the winning has started? Yes?

IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/i…

#IRS #Taxes #Revenue #EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

The Post reports today that the IRS’s internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have…

^{Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

The #DOGE cuts so far aren't enough to make a dent in the nat debt or offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts for the wealthy. Nor do they make govt more efficient, which'd require a thoughtful assessment. No evidence of “fraud waste & abuse.”

But as a means to push the nation closer to mass privatization of services? Now the cuts make sense -little need of a robust NWS if forecasting is going to be farmed out to private companies. Ditto for the USPS...
Even Bloomberg...
#USPol
deccanherald.com/opinion/doges…

DOGE's real goal is privatising government

The DOGE cuts so far are not enough to make a dent in the national debt or offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts for the wealthy. Nor do they make government more efficient, which would require a thoughtful assessment.

^{Bloomberg Opinion (Deccan Herald)}

Federal Judge Deborah L. Boardman has blocked #DOGE / #OPM from accessing large swathes of data at the Depts of #Education & #Treasury, ruling that DOGE has no right under the #Privacy Act to unjustified access to large-scale amounts of personal identifying information.

#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #InfoSec
storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

December 2023: US District Attorney Jessica Aber indicts 4 Russians for war crimes in #Ukraine

September 2024: US District Attorney Jessica Aber indicts Russian cryptocurrency money launderer / cybercriminal #SergeyIvanov

November 2024: US District Attorney Jessica Aber accuses Virginia based companies of running "three different schemes to illegally transship sensitive American technology to Russia," including sending equipment to a Russian telecommunications company linked to the #Kremlin and Russia's notorious #FSB security agency.

March 2025: Former US District Attorney Jessica Aber found dead at age 43

More: newsweek.com/jessica-aber-deat…

#Putin #VladimirPutin #JessicaAber #Russia #UkraineWar #Virginia #Vapol #crime #alexandria #TrueCrime #uspol #eupol #eu #AsifRahman #infosec #ransomware #cybersecurity

U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog

"If it continues like this, democracy [there] will not last another six months."

cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democr…

v-dem.net

#US #USpol

Elon and the board want to cash out on the backs of their employees. #DumpTeslaNow

Elon Begs Tesla Employees Not To Sell, Even As Board Dumps Stock
crooksandliars.com/2025/03/elo…

#BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #TeslaTakedown #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol

Elon Begs Tesla Employees Not To Sell, Even As Board Dumps Stock

Tesla board members and executives have been dumping their Tesla stocks over the last 3 months.

^{Ed Scarce (Crooks and Liars)}

Sue him for what?!?!?!

Elon Musk said that’s he’s “had enough” and that a lawsuit is “inbound” after former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) called him a “thief” and a “Nazi” on live television this week, Mediaite reports.

Said Bowman: “He’s incompetent, he’s a thief, he’s a Nazi, and people don’t trust him, period.”

#BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #TeslaTakedown #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol

A #rant about how I am SHOCKED at how prejudice #maga supporters are against young people with #disability

They think if you aren't missing your legs or something you should JUST GET A JOB and stop being a "grifter".

I want to know who the hell would grift 1200 a month. I can think of easier to do (I applied like seven times and needed a lawyer in the end) and more profitable ways to grift.

Someone with no legs could work better than me lately.

scoopzapp.com/n/0zt4XFNo?ctype…

#uspol #mentalhealth

#LifeDrama The Amount of Prejudice I Get for Being Young and Disabled from MAGA Supporters is JUST SHOCKING! You Can be Disabled and NOT LOOK Disabled!

^{scoopzapp.com}

When someone uses "Social Justice Warrior" as an insult, are they anti-social or anti-justice?

#SJW #Libtards #USPolitics #uspol #media #socialmedia #rwnjs #TheCons #Fascist #Clowns #buffoons #DogeBags #RightWingWackos #FascistTakeover #MAGA

More from the same article:

"Who doesn't want to have a world where Russia and the US are doing collaboratively good things together, thinking about how to integrate their energy polices in the Arctic, share sea lines maybe, send LNG gas into Europe together, maybe collaborate on AI together?"

🤮
#UsPol #UkraineWar #Witkoff

#UsPol #Trump #UkraineWar
Direct citation from Steve Witkoff, the special envoy of Trump leading the US ceasefire negotiations with both Russia and Ukraine:

"I don't regard Putin as a bad guy," he said. "He's super smart."

"In an interview with pro-Trump journalist Tucker Carlson, Witkoff praised Vladimir Putin, saying he "liked" the Russian president."

"he was unable to name the five regions of Ukraine either annexed or partially occupied by Russian forces."

And a lot more lies from him reported in this article: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zm4…

Why is an ignorant puppet of Putin like this leading these negotiations from the US side?? Clearly he should be on the Russian side?

#BBCNews

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff dismisses Starmer plan for Ukraine

Steve Witkoff says the UK plans for an international force to support a ceasefire are a "posture".

^{James Landale (BBC News)}

You've got one shot, USA.

Put Sanders and AOC in the Whitehouse and those criminal fuckwits in jail or we're breaking up.

Hell, we might even invade you.

- Planet Earth

#uspol

Tesla Likely Finished In Germany As 94% Surveyed Say They’d Never Buy Musk’s EVs
forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/202…

#BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #TeslaTakedown #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol

Tesla Likely Finished In Germany As 94% Surveyed Say They’d Never Buy Musk’s EVs

In a new T-Online poll in Germany, 94% of respondents said they would not buy a Tesla car in response to Musk's actions.

^Forbes

Lazy fucking piece of shit.

CNN Host Says Trump Doesn’t ‘Really Do Much’ Before Noon
thedailybeast.com/kaitlan-coll…

#EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

CNN Host Says Trump Doesn’t ‘Really Do Much’ Before Noon

The president has called anchor Kaitlan Collins a “nasty person” for pushing back on his claims about the Jan. 6 insurrection, voter fraud, and the FBI’s investigation of him.

^{Kenneal Patterson (The Daily Beast)}

😱 Depuis quand un gouvernement peut-il décider de ce que les scientifiques peuvent ou ne peuvent pas publier??

Since when can governments decide what should be published or not by scientists??

Resist the censorship!!
#UsPol #Science #ScientificPublication

This week's comic: Zero dimensional chess

#cartoon #comic #uspol #media #journalism #authoritarianism #democracy

Has anyone called it the Department Of Government Enshittification yet?

#DOGE #USpol

Imagine if Biden had tried to do that

#UsPol

Crazy. Dictator. Shit.

#EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Saw a report that Sarah McBride had called for a Democratic Party that had a broad range of views on trans rights.

Pickme pickme pickme pickme pickme

Too many Democrats and I'm looking at you Schumer, are surrendering without even a token political fight.

In the UK, we have a nominally left-wing Party that's pro-Brexit, anti-immigration, authoritarian, anti-protest, transphobic, market-worshipping, austerity for the poor and tax breaks for the rich, ableist, genocide-supporting and economically incompetent. They won because the electorate decided they were the surest way of punishing the Blue Tories and that's all. Next time around, the far right be they Conservative or Reform will win as a consequence. The moral is you don't ultimately win by becoming the enemy.

Democrats, if you don't fight everything tooth and nail now in the political arena, you're going to end up with a weapon in your hands fighting off the New Gestapo when they come for you. It might be too late already.

#uspol #ukpol

Analysis: "An unapologetically elitist AI tutor" and Musk online schools launched

"Meet the Educational Entrepreneurs Who Want to Teach a New Generation of Elon Musks"

"Astra Nova School and Synthesis Tutor are two non-traditional, online educational programs that... began with their creators’ admiration for Elon Musk.

"First step,” said one, “stop teachers from teaching.”

motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

#MuskOnlineSchools #elitism #uspol #AI #Musk #education #privatisededucation .

Meet the educational entrepreneurs who want to teach a new generation of Elon Musks

The billionaire's admirers and ex-employees have launched online schools and an “unapologetically elitist” AI tutor.

^{Mother Jones}

Yesterday I was trying to explain to someone who was convinced #TrumpVoters were in the midst of a rude awakening because suddenly their grandmas weren’t getting social security benefits, that they were still all in; somehow rationalizing it, like, “yeah it sucks about grandma, but most people getting those benefits are Welfare Queens or dead.”

Salon:

"I don't regret the vote": Why most #Trump voters stand by him, even as he ruins their lives

#USpol #idiocracy
salon.com/2025/03/21/i-dont-re…

"FAFO" dreams will never be fulfilled: Why Trump voters have no regrets

It's not totally hopeless: Some swing voters who backed Trump may learn their lesson

^Salon.com