Good things that have happened this past week in US politics, June 25 2025:
The Congressional parlimentarian struck out several items from Trump's budget reconciliation package, many of them because they had nothing to do with budget reconciliation.
Apparently/allegedly (I can't find an actual news source, only anecdotal evidence...but it's GOOD stuff!) some towing companies began towing improperly-parked ICE vehicles. This, people, is how you do malicious compliance. Get creative!!
New York City's Democratic Party voters have [chosen Zorhan Mamdani, a Muslim socialist, as its next mayoral candidate.
Delaware has, by governor's executive order, become a sanctuary state for gender-affirming care patients and providers.
#uspolitcs #GoodNews (for a change)
#USpolitcs
"The administration’s claims to monarchical power are a real threat to America’s constitutional order. But its executive orders and policy feints are so haphazard and poorly articulated that they amount to a kind of autocratic takeover written in smudge-able crayon: terrifying, cartoonish, and vulnerable to erasure, all at once.
This is not to say that Americans should ignore Trump’s efforts to make confetti of the Constitution. Rather, when evaluating any one Trump policy, one has to keep front of mind the possibility that it simply won’t exist by the end of the week. Despite an energetic effort by some right-wing intellectuals to make Trump out to be some kind of 14-dimensional-chess player, his approach doesn’t resemble chess so much as a denial-of-service attack on a functioning government."
#USPolitcs
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-self-destructive-agenda/683013/
Trumps MAGA in the US has inspired MEGA in Europe. Made Europe Get Along.
#eupolitics #eupol #uspol #uspolitcs #Trump #maga #mega #madeeuropegetalong
Have the Qatari grift aircraft fly into DC with a helicopter escort because that always works out so well
MAQA - Make America a Quatari Asset
CISA/DOGE Software Engineer's Login Credentials Appeared in Multiple Leaks From Info-Stealing Malware in Recent Years
https://m.slashdot.org/story/441927
#technology #tech #security #cybersecurity #datasecurity #infrastructuresecurity #doge #cisa #uspol #uspolitcs
Don’t be intimidated! Let the world know about the criminals’ secrets.
#POUTS #Trump #Epstein
#DonaldTrump #JeffreyEpstein
#USPolitcs #USMilitary #USIntellegence
NASA is now required to go full North Korea if the post is correct.
https://bsky.app/profile/nasawatch.bsky.social/post/3lo4p3noyas2w
#space #spaceexploration #astronomy #cosmology #astrophysics #astrobiology #nasa #usgovernment #usgov #uspol #uspolitcs
Lawmakers are skeptical of Zuckerberg’s commitment to free speech
https://www.theverge.com/news/646288/congress-zuckerberg-wynn-williams-careless-people
#technology #tech #socialmedia #meta #facebook #instagram #threads #whatsapp #uspol #uspolitcs #americanpolitics #usgovernment #usgov
AI Isn’t Going to Cut Government Bureaucracy — It’s Going to Vastly Worsen It
#technology #tech #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #government #uspol #uspolitcs #americanpolitics #usgovernment #usgov #surveillance #tracking #privacy
Today was indeed 'Liberation Day' for many. Many funds were liberated from my retirement account. Nice work, Dumbass.
The Atlantic has released the Signal chat. #uspolitcs #signalchat
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/
Schumer’s offices are: Albany: 518-431-4070 Binghamton: 607-772-6792 Buffalo: 716-846-4111 Melville: 631-753-0978 New York City: 212-486-4430 Peekskill: 914-734-1532 Rochester: 585-263-5866 Syracuse: 315-423-5471 DC: 202-224-6542 I bet he wants to know you want a no vote. #USpol #USPolitcs
I’m leaving voicemails on every office voicemail Senator Chuck Schumer has. Won’t you join me this morning? CR & its cloture vote must be no. And his offices are in the reply to this. #USpol #USPolitcs
I am leaving voicemails on every office voicemail Senator Chuck Schumer has because his staff is either not answering calls or overwhelmed. Won’t you join me this morning?
The CR and its cloture vote must be no.
And his offices are:
Albany: 518-431-4070
Binghamton: 607-772-6792
Buffalo: 716-846-4111
Melville: 631-753-0978
New York City: 212-486-4430
Peekskill: 914-734-1532
Rochester: 585-263-5866
Syracuse: 315-423-5471
DC: 202-224-6542
I bet he wants to hear from you.
The few #maga commenters left are definitely only the dumbest ones still hanging on.
They all fail to understand how the USA is not going to win a #tarriffs war with the entire world, and think the isolation will actually make the #usa better.
They are so afraid of the outside world they want this, and there is no helping those folks.
We should make it a requirement to be able to write an essay before you receive #goverment retirement.
Some Republicans appear to have a good idea about the agents of influence floating around the Trump administration. Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, said after Hegseth’s speech, “I don’t know who wrote the speech – it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool.”
The former Fox News talkshow host, now with his own podcast, has deep ties to the regimes of Putin and Orbán of Hungary. A fount of Russian disinformation, he is at the center of a circle that includes Donald Trump Jr and JD Vance, bonded as lost boys, abandoned in childhood, and who persuaded Trump to name Vance as his running mate.
Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard, a pro-Russian echo chamber, now the national director of intelligence, were brought into their orbit.
#USPolitcs
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/09/sycophancy-toadying-trump-self-aggrandizement
#maga #magats #maplemagats #resisttrump #redhats #uspol #uspolitcs
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