Potato and Tomato

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[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

This post is my attempt to track what’s going on with US politics. This post is constantly being updated so if you see this on your dash, check my blog (this post will be pinned) to see the latest version. If there’s anything I miss that you think should be included on this list, please let me know.

2025, January-February 2026

March 2026

Three US service members killed amid Iran operation [x]

Trump says Iran operations likely to last 4 to 5 weeks, but he’s prepared ‘to go far longer’ [x]

Supreme Court blocks law against schools outing transgender students to their parents in California [x]

DOJ shelves Biden autopen probe, failing to identify a relevant statute [x]

Trump fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary [x]

Republican-led House declines to constrain Trump's war in Iran [x]

Trump says he wants Iran's leadership structure gone and has preferences for a 'good leader' [x]

Trump tells CNN Cuba is soon going to fall [x]

Trump says he’s not worried whether Iran become a democratic state [x]

Trump says Iran war will end 'soon' but also issues threats that could prolong the conflict [x]

Trump says Iran is ready to negotiate a ceasefire but he's not ready to make a deal [x]

Intel chief Gabbard declines to say if Iran posed an 'imminent threat' to U.S. [x]

US Mint can begin producing Trump commemorative gold coin after arts commission approves design [x]

FCC greenlights Nexstar's $6.2B merger with rival TV station owner Tegna [x]

Trump administration sues Harvard, saying it violated civil rights law [x]

Trump weighing several options for U.S. troops inside Iran [x]

US removes sanctions on 140 million barrels of Iranian oil as Trump seeks to lower gas prices [x]

Trump threatens to “hit and obliterate” Iran's power plants if Strait of Hormuz not opened in 48 hours [x]

ICE officers set to deploy to airports [x]

Trump says he's postponing strikes on Iran power plants , citing 'productive' talks to end war [x]

Trump extends deadline for Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz as Iran denies negotiations with US [x]

Pentagon spokesman says it will issue new press credentials but remove media offices [x]

[danandphilupdates]

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18/3/26

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[audley-and-cherry]

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

[sleepyowlet]

Field studies have been conducted in several countries now, and the result is always the same - people will just flop about for a couple of months to recover from the burnout most people who have a job live with, and then they look for something to do. Some get a job with reduced hours, and some start doing charitable stuff like volunteering in soup kitchens and teaching others to do whatever their particular skill is. They socialize more, they are happier, and on average, people will work more, not less.

But the thing is, employers suddenly have to think about how to make their jobs appealing enough for someone to come and do them! It's hard to find someone to work for you for long hours under horrible conditions, if they can just choose not to; which shows you how voluntary our current system actually is.

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶People won't stop working! If so, fuck it!🎵

[whitepeopletwitter]

[quantummindclassicalheart]

To clarify, they are bisexual, not lesbians:

https://twitter.com/fancy_foxtrot/status/1205747696813756416

[slumberinggirl-deactivated20210]

Still iconic

[lynati]

WHEN DO WE GET THE COMIC SERIES AND/OR MOVIE?

[dirtydirtychai]

It keeps getting better:

Bonus:

[bubblybumblebee1]

I LOVE BISEXUALS OF THE BLADE

Best freaking title

[ahhvernin]

Would 100% watch this ROM COM

[chloepilgrim]

I want to see more pictures of them slaying men so they can run away together

[eddyheck]

Can we do more of these?

Pansexuals with Polearms

Gays with Guns

Lesbians with Lasers

Aces with Atomic Arsenals

[edwordsmyth]

"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:

ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.

ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.

ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.

They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.

They are smashing windows in cars and homes.

ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.

They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.) I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later. But the community is fighting back.

Protests are happening every day.

Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.

Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.

Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.

Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.

Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.

Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.

Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.

Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.

Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed. THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.” -Grant Boulanger

[bloodmoonlich]

Here's an AP news brief with a little more info. It's limited in the way major news outlets are right now but provides context that supports the personal account shared.

[shencomix]

[insomnova]

1.5 hours left. michael wheeler you need to lock the fuck in i'm being so serious rn

[obriy]

[fxlthyangxl-deactivated20240122]

website

[hesbythecampfire]

StopNCII.org is operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline which is part of SWGfL, a charity that believes that everyone should benefit from technology, free from harm. Founded in 2000, SWGfL works with a number of partners and stakeholders around the world to protect everyone online

Sounds legit

[songue85]

StopNCII.org is operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline which is part of SWGfL, a charity that believes that all should benefit from technolog

[eulers-babe]

for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!

don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!

[libraryogre]

Remember, when you're on the jury, a good "that cop's story didn't add up" will sway a lot more Chads and Karens than "fuck the police."

[damnfool-of-a-took]

Had jury duty, can confirm!

An innocent man is home with his family instead of spending his kids' whole childhoods in jail for "resisting arrest" when none of the cops could agree on why he was being arrested in the first place. (But it definitely had nothing to do with him being a Black man in a nice car, honest! 🙄)

And it still took like two hours of delibration after we'd heard all the evidence because one lady was so gung ho about believing everything the cops said, even when not a single goddamn one could agree with their own testimony, let alone their colleagues'.

Pointing out all the inconsistencies and admitted misconduct and letting people slowly come to their own conclusions as the trial played out was fucking hard, I won't lie. I can be patient, but it doesn't come naturally to me.

But. Yelling about how this was obviously a bs case would have shut everyone down and made them stop listening. Asking questions and letting people discuss how the cops tried to make xyz sound suspicious but it was totally normal, or about how if things played out the way the cops said then logically events should have proceeded in a totally different direction, and positing different theories that actually lined up with the evidence presented?

That got people thinking, and everyone realized that for a variety of reasons we all had reasonable doubts that the defendent had committed any of the crimes of which he was accused.

Being able to raise reasonable doubt among a jury of one's peers saves lives. If you get the chance, take it.

[genderkoolaid]

"Jury Room / The Holdout" (1959) by Norman Rockwell. One of my favorites of his. Particularly the gendered dynamic he depicts here.

[transcyberism]

Called for Jury Duty?

You've received a jury summons in the mail? GREAT! This is your chance to serve conscientiously as a fully informed juror. Here's a brief ru

Read this if you get a jury summons!!

[onegiantmeep]

glad to see emily clocking porter as a villain right off the bat is still thoroughly haunting brennan

[onegiantmeep]

well this felt personal

[racingbarakarts]

[akiraita]

[randomslasher]

I just laughed really hard at this and then thought about how I’d try to explain this kind of absurd collaborative humor to my grandma and realized we have absolutely developed a new language online. 

[gaphic]

watching the leftism leaving peoples bodies when you point out the sex offender registry is a grotesque violation of human rights

[gaphic]

the only reason the registry exists is because we culturally view sexual crimes as inherently more evil and unforgivable than any other kind of violence. people are more willing to believe that a murder can grow and change than a flasher. if you’re woke enough to believe that ‘innocence’ is a fascist concept and sex is just another thing the body can do, then you should believe the corollary: hurting someone with your genitals is no different from hurting them with your fists

and yet, murderers and other violent offenders do not have their full names, faces, and addresses put on a public database for the rest of their lives. there is no such thing. they are not legally barred from watching movies containing violence, or owning imagery containing violence

in my state, sex offender probation means you can be searched, at any time, without a warrant, and owning a copy of playboy is a violation. it means you’ll be arrested if a family member comes to stay with you and you don’t register their vehicle with the sheriff. the dehumanization is beyond the pale

[seven-predatory-lesbians-deacti]

not to mention how the registry is used against otherwise oppressed groups. homeless and pissing in public cuz theres nowhere else to piss? sex offender registry. i had a gf one time who's mom met me and then immediately went and checked the registry purely cuz im a trans woman.

[6irlpet]

not enough people know that sex workers can be and have been mandatory registered when convicted for solicitation, which increases the likelihood of poverty and employment discrimination, which increases the likelihood of trapping the most vulnerable people in society in a cycle of survival sex work

What Options Does The Sex Offender Registry Leave Us, If Not Sex Work?

[upandoutcomic]

a lil moment of reflection at the spa earlier this year 😌💜

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[imanutcase-10]

Then bring me luck

[thirddeadlysin]

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

[sonarthebat]

Apparently Tumblr blessings actually work, so shooting my shot.

[threaded-in-feelings]

I'm just going to follow the crowd on this one 🤷🏾‍♀️

[magical-maybee]

Just saying..,it’s been about a year since i reblogged this and life has been falling in place in unexpected potato-like ways… I’m not gonna say for sure this works but I’d advise you to reblog it…also I’ll reblog again…not because I’m greedy but to support!