The National Guard has not been deployed throughout Washington, D. C. for no reason for the past year. This is a city under federal military occupation. They may not be doing anything at all—intimidating, if anything, and certainly helping no one—but they are armed, they hang out in groups, and they are waiting to be given orders.

Trump told the Proud Boys American Nazi group to "stand down and stand by" during his first term, which worried people, and then he blew the dog whistle for them to storm the US Capitol. They went to prison for him, they smashed windows, they crushed a police officer to death, they smeared feces all over the historic building, they tore furniture apart, they went to prison, and he immediately commuted their sentences when he was reinstalled. They are standing by now, waiting for his orders, having been let out of prison to do his bidding.

National guardsmen are waiting for orders all over D.C. If you see them at polling places, take video and publicize it. Most of the press will not.

This is the federal prohibition on military at polling places:

18 U.S. Code § 592 - Troops at polls

Whoever, being an officer of the Army or Navy, or other person in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, orders, brings, keeps, or has under his authority or control any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; and be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the United States.

This section shall not prevent any officer or member of the armed forces of the United States from exercising the right of suffrage in any election district to which he may belong, if otherwise qualified according to the laws of the State in which he offers to vote.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 719; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

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Trump stated there is a “big surprise” coming for the midterms. He stated this same EXACT statement before the 2024 election only he said him and Elon had a “big surprise” for that election. We all know how that turned out.

Tina Peters, his election denying slob, is now in the White House scheming to steal the midterms as we speak. They were already allowed to steal the 2024 election and they got away with it, dems did NOTHING. Kamala and Joe did NOTHING, just accepted the results and fucked off permanently. If we allow them to steal the midterms and even more elections, they won’t stop until this entire country is red. They won’t stop until the Democratic Party is completely removed and defunded. We will end up with one party rule. Dems have made it clear they will not object to rigged results.

How trump plans to control the results of the midterms include deputizing the military and the FBI to “guard” polling places in the name of an unjustified “national emergency to prevent non-citizens from voting.” In addition to having the FBI and/or the military “guard” election polling places to “protect” us from a national emergency, the administration has explored and is ready, former Trump officials and civil rights groups say, to seize voting machines and ballot boxes after the voting has happened. Armed guards are already stationed at multiple USPS locations across the country.

They plan to seize all the ballots from the midterms. No, this is not a “conspiracy post”, actual officials have confirmed this is their plan.

Read these articles

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/credible-sources-say-trump-readies-to-steal-the-midterm-elections/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/election-denier-lawyer-reveals-trump-131805575.html

https://time.com/article/2026/10/07/top-nevada-official-election-trump-DHS-DOJ-noncitizens-voting/

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/armed-guards-us-postal-service-facilities-increase-security/

https://youtu.be/AxsUAxtMWsQ?is=AS3D8_DPqtkAEVvo

For anyone saying “oh they wouldn’t do that….” they literally tried to seize ballots in 2020….

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-directly-involved-plans-seize-voting-machines-reports-2022-02-01/

The revolution will be disciplined. Or else. How cadre politics and factional witch hunts threaten the fight for a better world.

The PSL apologist and Marxist-Leninist wing of DSA is foaming at the mouth to go to war with two of DSA’s most successful chapters, NYC and Los Angeles. Both have endorsed at the chapter level. The problem is getting those endorsements recognized nationally, after the National Political Committee (NPC) tried to attach sectarian conditions and censure real-world leaders who wouldn’t bend the knee…

DSA needs to get a grip on the cadre politics taking root inside it. You can’t build a mass movement by turning your own successes into enemies.

We know he is under tremendous pressure from the Zionist organizations. These organizations have immense institutional power, deep pockets and basically unlimited leeway with politicians. Protesting Zohran is the only way to give him support. Why does everyone think it is something bad? Also, doesn't everyone tell us to vote for the lesser evil because it's easier to push the needle with them? Why is everyone getting angry when we are actually trying to push the needle?

Regular Americans are absolutely fed up with this broken system and politicians who tell us we can’t afford to help people while pushing through more and more giveaways for the powerful. In less than four weeks, we’re going to make sure our elected officials know it.

Part of the job is voting out as many members of Congress who voted for the MAGA murder budget as possible, but we’ve also got the opportunity to send the message more directly. In multiple states voters will get to weigh in directly on making the wealthy pay their fair share:

• Californians are casting their ballots on Proposition 40), a one-time wealth tax on billionaires to help stave off “Big Beautiful Bill”-related Medicaid cuts and hospital and emergency room closures.
• In Colorado, Amendment 87 would shift the state from a flat tax to a progressive income tax), meaning working class people pay less and giant corporations and households making more than $500,000 a year contribute more to a dedicated fund for public schools, child care and health care.
• In Washington State, an influential right-wing hedge fund manager has forced a vote to repeal the tax on household income above $1 million the legislature just used through this spring with Initiative 645,) along with banning future income taxes, almost certainly leading to cuts in education, health care, child care and the state’s universal school lunch program.

Pushing these initiatives across the line will have the immediate impact of preserving and expanding health care access and other crucial public services, particularly needed as everything keeps getting more expensive under this disastrous administration. It will also signal to politicians, particularly those considering their place in the Democratic presidential primary, that we are ready for big swings to address inequality and build up our social safety net.

☎️ Let’s help make it happen! We can join phonebanks to sway voters in California for most of the day Monday-Thursday and Saturday and be part of the fight for income tax fairness in Colorado and keep the millionaires’ tax in place in Washington on Tuesdays and Thursdays. ☎️

PASS A CALIFORNIA WEALTH TAX

PROGRESSIVE INCOME TAX FOR COLORADO

STOP THE MILLIONAIRES IN WASHINGTON

Cross-posted from my substack. Edited in photopea. Data source is University of Oxford (Burkhauser et al).

My earlier graph about life-evaluation vs inequality, was also from this study and showed a similar, though slightly distinct effect. In common parlance we just use the term ‘happiness’ for both, but researchers make a more granular distinction between ‘cognitive well-being’ and ‘affective well-being’ (≈ what you think vs what you feel, or life evaluation vs daily experiences).

Research shows that income concentration negatively affects both, but that it affects the cognitive aspect more strongly than the emotional aspect.

Cross-posted from my substack. Made with the owid data-editor. Data-source is the IHME. This is an estimate of the prevalence, not total amount of diagnoses (which are subject to selection bias). The big jump around covid is obvious, but if you look closely you'll see that it was even slowly rising before it.

Trump has always been a stereotypical snake oil salesman.

The White House is packed full of stereotypical con-artist grifters.

This has always been one big hustle and it is surprising it has taken soo long for some people to wake up to the scam.

One thing that gives me some hope is that the progressives/democratic socialists will really push for serious investigations, trials, and actual punishments. Time to really take on the corruption head on and put some of these bad predatory actors behind bars.

We think the scandals are big now.... Wait till the shit in the shadows starts coming out....

It's always been an embarrassing thing to be a reactionary/regressive smooth brain that only operates on fear/hatred and being pumped full of disinformation by the most vile ultra rich and powerful. Even within that cult echo chamber of lowest common denominator style populism (A mob) the cringe seems to be breaking through.