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Now that #Trump has made it crystal clear that #ableism is part of his overall brand, I’ll just say it the way I’ve been thinking it: people with disabilities still supporting him are no better than quislings. #USPol
#Trump #uspol #ableism

#USA #uspol #nyc #us #mamdani

Last week Trump called Tim Walz the ‘R slur’.

He then doubled down on it, and now his base have begun harassing the entire Walz family.

Memes are circulating on socials encouraging people to drive past their house and yell it at them.

I’ve been personally called that word more than 1,000 times in the last seven days.

We can’t allow this to happen. The disability community has fought far too hard for far too long to remove that word from the public vernacular.

This is ableism at it’s most ugly, and ableism feeds eugenics and eugenics feeds fascism.

Help us fight back. We are not expendable.

disabledginger.com/p/the-r-slu…

#uspol #trump #walz #fascism #discrimination #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness #disabilityjustice


The R Slur Must Never be Normalized

Last week Trump called Walz the 'R slur', and now his base is using it regularly. We must all speak out against this. It's a term that pushes a eugenicist agenda and feeds directly into fascism.
Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
#Trump #uspol #chronicillness #DisabilityJustice #discrimination #ableism #fascism #eugenics #walz

Pro life my ass

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A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth. The shots are widely considered to be a public health success for preventing thousands of illnesses. But U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s committee voted to recommend the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive or whose infection status is unknown.

#USpol

apnews.com/live/donald-trump-n…

#uspol

#fediverse #Trump #politics #News #socialmedia #uspol #breaking #breakingnews #GOP #uspolitics #press #aurefreepress #headline #trending

Tech companies are crying that Americans aren't buying new phones fast enough to keep the economy stimulated. Wages have been stagnant for, what, 44 years and you've got the gall to keep raising prices and cry we're not buying enough?

I don't think you should reward this shit with a click but, in case you must, I've got a barely tweaked URL to save you the trouble I already spent looking up the article.

source: cnbc DOT com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html

#Technology #USEcon #USPOL #Technically

The Bottom Line Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy Published Sun, Nov 23 202510:05 AM EST Updated Sun, Nov 23 20258:57 PM EST Kevin Williams Key Points Americans are hanging onto their smartphones for much longer than they did a decade ago, but new releases like Apple’s iPhone 17 can entice consumers to upgrade. Businesses tend to hang onto their devices even longer than individual consumers, especially overseas. While it may seem to be a smart money move, it can result in a costly productivity and innovation lag for the economy.
#technology #uspol #usecon #technically

New people are joining Mastodon. Here is my #mastohelp:

1. Write a meaningful bio text — no one follows the unknown.

2. A profile photo of yourself is helpful — again, no one follows the unknown.

3. Start replying to other people's posts. Eventually you will get noticed.

4. If you get stuck, ask questions — people are really helpful here.

5. Follow at least 200, so you get an interesting feed.

6. Search hashtags of topics you like. If you like politics, try #eupol or #uspol.

Welcome! 🐘

#uspol #eupol #mastohelp

BTW dunno if anyone said it: Once murder becomes the solution for anything, it's just a matter of time before it's the solution for everything.

The MAGA regime is using the fishing boat murders to set the scene.

#fascism #uspol

#uspol #fascism

More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years.

We hear of a few, but most barely make the news.

Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel.

He was in perfect health when ICE detained him.

He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.

ICE deported him anyways.

They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica.

Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own.

What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this?

He died a few weeks after deportation:

ICE enforcement may be a mass disabling event.

Disease is rampant in the camps.

Disabled people report having their medical needs ignored and their conditions drastically worsened.

The indiscriminate use of chemical weapons and violence causes harm.

Abolish ICE.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n…

#disability #uspol #fascism #ice #abolishice #eugenics


Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state

Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel’s family alleges negligence and inhumane treatment
Ramon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)
#uspol #Disability #fascism #ice #eugenics #abolishice

#politics #uspol #snap #uspolitics

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

#snap #fascism #uspol

#uspol #snap #fascism

Another way to support us is to sign up for my newsletter, Impure Leftist, as a paid subscriber. Anarchist Book Club, anyone?

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#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #helpfolkslive2025 #transmutualaid #queermutualaid #smallbusiness #writer #writers #writersofmastodon #writerscoffeeclub #bookclub #anarchism #bookstodon #antifa #uspol #fascism #trump #support


Nat (@nat@kind.social)

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Be More Kind
#Trump #uspol #MutualAid #writer #support #writers #bookstodon #MutualAidRequest #fascism #anarchism #transmutualaid #antifa #queermutualaid #writerscoffeeclub #writersofmastodon #smallbusiness #helpfolkslive2025 #bookclub

“Apple is now treating federal agents—who are public employees exercising government power—as if they’re a vulnerable minority group in need of protection from ‘discrimination.’ This isn’t just a misapplication of content policies; it’s a fundamental inversion of what those policies were designed to do.”

techdirt.com/2025/10/10/apple-…

#USpol #apple #censorship


Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…
Techdirt
#apple #censorship #uspol

#uspol

Starvation as a tool for genocide was always part of the invaders acts to crush and exterminate resistance of the natives.

#USpol #History #Starvation #Genocide

ashok kumar - @broseph_stalin In school I was shown this image. It was the white man killing all the buffalo to starve the Native Americans and force those who survived into reservations.Such cruelty was unimaginable to me. It all makes sense now.
#history #uspol #genocide #starvation

I personally believe that the age limit on being able to run for office should end at age 65, maybe 70 if pushing it, but nobody should be closer to 80, or 77 or whatever, closer to death at any point in those years and have political power. This isn't about #Republican or #Democrat, this is about people being able to live long enough to see how there laws affect other people who are younger, and people who are in there 80's who could die if the wind blows the wrong way shouldn't be allowed to hold power. If you can't stay for dinner, you shouldn't be invited to the table. #USPol
#uspol #republican #democrat

Chat Control is one of the most important issue for human rights and democracy in the West right now.

There is little time left to fight back!🚨

❓If you don't know what it is: read this article

🇪🇺 If you are in the EU: Contact your MEPs NOW

🇪🇺 If you already contacted your MEPs: Contact your local media TODAY to ask them to report and inform on the dangers of Chat Control.

🌎 If you are not European: Spread the word! Talk about it on social media. Contact your local media. Contact your representatives to share your concerns about similar proposals and the loss of privacy rights. This would affect you too!

This is an urgent matter. We cannot let the West slip in this authoritarian dystopia.
We must stop Chat Control ✊🛑

#ChatControl #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #DigitalRights #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #CanPoli


Chat Control Must Be Stopped, Act Now!

Chat Control is back to undermine everyone's privacy. There's an important deadline this Friday on September 12th. We must act now to stop it!
Privacy Guides
#privacy #HumanRights #democracy #uspol #chatcontrol #ukpol #digitalrights #canpoli #eupol

For residents of the U.S., health insurance open enrollment is beginning.

Good time for a reminder that, if you have the option of enrolling in a high deductible health plan, those policies come with Health Savings Accounts (HSA).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-ded…
"HSA contributions, unlike other tax-advantaged investment vehicles, offer a triple tax benefit – tax-deductible contributions, tax-free growth, and tax-free withdrawals for qualified medical expenses."

#USPol #insurance #HealthInsurance

health insurance plan with lower premiums and higher deductibles than a traditional health plan

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#uspol #insurance #healthinsurance

#Trump #uspol #Oregon #portland #PDX

How's all that self-interest working out for all the tech companies? Dictators are gonna dictate. It's not like he didn't tell you who he was. Project 2025 was the real goal. They don't want anyone but white people to have the privilege of getting jobs. Everything else is nothing but excess.

#tech #USPol #USPolitics

#tech #uspol #uspolitics

Is anyone making a list of companies that have fired people for quoting Charlie Kirk’s views?

Seems like a list of companies that support fascism and free speech only when it’s in support of fascism should be well known to all.

#uspol

#uspol

I know it’s just a social media post, but I stand with my colleagues and the students at America’s HBCUs.

It’s a short hop from radical anti-intellectualism to outright racism, and we’ve experienced these headwinds before.

But the work to build America’s pluralist democracy will not be halted by this kind of cowardice.

#uspol #democracy #highered
#academia

apnews.com/article/threat-hbcu…

#democracy #uspol #academia #highered

#uspol #elections #somerville #mapoli #mapol

#censorship #uspol #bannedbooks

#uspol #priorities

We should live in a world where selling out to corporate money or being completely spineless and ineffective in office is what threatens re-election.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

Republicans in Congress, White continued, would be horrified if any other president, particularly a Democratic one, was profiting from the office of the presidency in the way that Trump is, but they are so terrified of him that they haven’t said a word about it. And the crypto lobby and its hundreds of millions in campaign donations, has produced a truly shameful situation among Democrats who have either sold out to the crypto lobby, or who are so afraid of opposition when it comes time for re-election that they’re keeping their mouths shut. We should live in a world where selling out to corporate money or being completely spineless and ineffective in office is what threatens re-election.
#crypto #uspol #cryptocurrency #uspolitics

#crypto #uspol #cryptocurrency #uspolitics

#uspol #immigration #ice

From the Disability Visibility Project:

"Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights"

disabilityvisibilityproject.co…

"… a true commitment to justice for disabled people must recognize that many undocumented immigrants are themselves disabled and deserving of basic rights, not total erasure from the disability rights discourse."

#USPol #Disability #DisabilityRights #Ableism #Immigration #HumanRights


Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights

 Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights Joe Stramondo   In 2019, a White disability rights leader with a national reputation, Bruce Darling, had a spectacular fall from grace because of commen…
Disability Visibility Project
#HumanRights #uspol #Disability #disabilityrights #ableism #immigration

#uspol #republicansownthis #JeromePowell #federalreserve #trumpkillsamerica #trumpvoterschosethis

#lgbtqia #queer #uspol #LGBTQ #stonewall

#uspol #zohranmamdani

#Trump #uspol #activism #coup #federalgovernment #nationalparkservice #altnps

#uspol #project2025 #TrumpDidThis #republicansdidthis #norepublicanseveragain #bbb #bigfuglybill

You no longer have to wonder whether some of the masked men with guns in unmarked cars taking people off the streets might not be real law enforcement officers. We now know that 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

That includes a guy in NC who sexually assaulting a woman by threatening to deport her.

#ICE #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics


US sees spate of arrests of civilians impersonating Ice officers

Experts say trend of agents detaining people while masking and wearing plainclothes increases risk
José Olivares (The Guardian)
#Trump #uspol #uspolitics #ice #uslaw

#privacy #travel #comic #uspol #cartoon #firstamendment

Sen. Padilla's speech on being forced to the ground & handcuffed after asking a question:

youtube.com/watch?v=G-mKheWHHD…

"… we've seen masked federal agentsn in tactical gear, ordered into our communities. We've seen a disturbing pattern of increasingly extreme and cruel immigration enforcement operations targeting nonviolent people, at places of worship, at schools,
in courthouses, all to meet an arbitrary quota."

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#USPol #Padilla #Immigration #Democracy #Resist


WATCH: Sen. Padilla's full Senate floor speech recounting his removal from Noem's LA briefing

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#democracy #uspol #immigration #resist #padilla

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