#uspol

Forty minutes from my kitchen, a guard on nine dollars an hour was handed a policy nobody wrote down and sent to audit what women were wearing.

Two shirts said trans women don't belong in the game. One said trans kids do. All three were treated as a matched set, which is the part that should keep you up. The equivalence is not a mistake in the machine. It is the machine.

One shirt is a life. The other is an opinion about a life.

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#WNBA #TransRights #Trans #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Pride #Queer #AtlantaDream #USPol #Politics #Journalism #Solidarity #Basketball #Photography

TL;DR No!

Will Donald Trump’s new sanctions against Iran work? https://www.aljazeera.com/video/inside-story/2026/8/23/will-donald-trumps-new-sanctions-against-iran-work

#Iran #TrumpMustGo #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

The first time I watched Return of the Jedi, I wondered how we were supposed to believe that a gelatinous, slimy mound of evil who could barely move around and wholly depended on sycophants to cater to his every whim could have possibly amassed such a fortune that he would inspire fear and be running things.
I get it now. - Amanda Clarence
#USpol

The Senate half of today's issue is the part I couldn't fit — twenty points of GOP advantage gone in four weeks, and not one damn thing about it inevitable. That gets said out loud tonight at the length it deserves.

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What do you want me to actually chew on?

#Politics #uspol #Journalism #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Trans #Community #Solidarity #Elections #Democracy #Photography #Fediverse

Julia Curlee is a national hero.

'The Wrong Kind Of American': Trans CIA Official Speaks Out On Being Fired By Trump White House
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-white-house-fired-trans-cia-analyst-julia-curlee_n_6a84941be4b05886dff6dc67

#CIA #TrumpMustGo2024 #TrumpKillsAmerica #Iran #RepublicansDidThis #NoMoreRepublicans #USPol

Who the fuck is in charge?!?

Trump appears to repeatedly contradict his own top advisers on the Iran war
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-appears-repeatedly-contradict-top-advisers-iran-war-rcna593118

#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #Iran #USPol

Trump will run out the clock and leave Democrats to clean up the mess. Republican Rinse and Repeat.

‘There is no breaking point’: The problem with Trump’s plan to economically strangle Iran
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/18/there-no-breaking-point-problem-with-trumps-plan-teconomically-strangle-iran-01040781

#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #Iran #USPol

Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises w/#SouthKorea "based on the fact I have a very good relationship with Kim Jung Un."

BS. Based on the fact you've squandered our munitions bombing small boats & your illegal war of choice to distract from #Epsteim.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-orders-pentagon-to-scale-back-joint-exercises-with-south-korea

#USpol #Iran

Newsletter: Firms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the crypto industry–friendly Clarity Act market structure bill fails to reach a vote before August recess — likely dooming it.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-108/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

TRUMP'S PARANOIA GROWS

Trump Golfs Under Missile Defense as Security Around him Reaches Extraordinary Levels

Trump was photographed golfing at his Bedminster, New Jersey club with a U.S. Army AN/TWQ-1 Avenger short-range air-defense system positioned nearby, part of an unusually heavy security presence surrounding the president.

The White House confirmed the image is authentic.
#AureFreePress #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #golf

There are places and times where the ongoing approach of our deepest challenges are masked by the beauty around us. I suggest we take frequent refuge, that we heal our hope, that we recover our vitality, so we can return refreshed and ready to do the hard work of ensuring a more equitable future.

#SilentSunday #NotSoSilent #photography #LandscapePhotography #colorado #mountains #uspol

Netanyahu never wanted peace.

Netanyahu Rejects Trump’s 15-Point Peace Plan for Gaza
https://time.com/article/2026/08/09/netanyahu-says-israel-to-reject-trumps-plan-for-gaza/

#Iran #Israel #Gaza #NetanyahuWarCriminal #RepublicansDidThis #USPol

"Low keying it" for the FIVE YEARS it will take to replenish missles? LOL!

Trump to Axios: "We are low keying it" with Iran
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/09/trump-iran-interview

#Iran #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

This article is a great deep dive into some of the shady characters behind World Liberty Financial — Justin Sun among them, despite his recent efforts to distance himself from the project. (He likely hoped this interview would help, and it is a little friendly, but rightly points out his shadiness.)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/justin-sun-world-liberty-lawsuit-trump-crypto-herro.html

#JustinSun #WorldLibertyFinancial #USpol #USpolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency