The Trump regime repeatedly lied to Congress about their intention to pursue regime change in Venezuela. They didn’t get Congressional approval for regime change, but did it anyway. Demanding a briefing in response is both pathetic and nonsensical. Calling for impeachment is the obvious response.

These online right wing freaks don't just hate their own country in the abstract. If you are reading this here, they hate *you* specifically. I don't know what our future holds for living with these people, but people should remember that toleration in Europe started behind a sword and a shield.

No discussion of democracy. No discussion of elections. Plenty of talk by Trump about running the country and taking the oil. Let’s not forget to thank John Roberts for his role in immunizing this international criminal.

I will similarly oppose any war in Venezuela. I refuse to put the lives of servicemembers at further risk, and I refuse to saddle our children with yet another costly war for no good reason. My full statement ⬇️

It is outrageous for a President who is tanking our economy here at home to suggest that the American taxpayer spend a fortune to “run” another country while doing nothing to make life better in America. I opposed the war in Iraq from the outset—and the parallels here are glaring.

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

Without exaggeration this is a huge part of how we surrendered the country to the worst humans of all time - the left-of-center’s conviction that you can’t be disrespectful to stupid people to has robbed us of the social censure that forces stupid people to stop being stupid

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

they're LARPing. This is America not CAUSING Cargo Cults in less developed parts of the world, this is America WORSHIPPING ITSELF AS A CARGO CULT.

and not, say, on the companies with untold billions of dollars who are uniformly and non-transparently dictating all the contours and applications of AI in a country with no working regulators and a congress too corrupt to function

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration. Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

Happy New Year. On our nation’s 250th birthday, let’s take it back.

What are we doing?

I’ve seen a million media stories about how sad Republican voters in CA are about losing their Republican representatives. But I don’t think I’ve seen a single one talking about Demoratic voters in Texas, or North Carolina, or Missouri losing their representatives.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

My end of year message: Now is the time to act. Not to calculate whether you have the right subject position to speak up. Not to wait for threat level midnight. Point at evil. Call it evil. Do what's right.

Leave, binch, and take your white supremacy bullshit with you

Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.

even if the Supreme Court says we can never touch Trump for any of this shit, the next admin should go after everyone involved in buying and selling pardons and they should do it loudly and aggressively

“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

the thing is if the phenom was actually happening you wouldn’t need half a dozen op eds every two days arguing that its happening because it would be obvious. this is clearly a mostly astroturfed movement that is honestly arguing for a resegregated predominantly white work force.

Ok how much did the military lose. The USPS is not a business

You omitted a key word, "legally". They can, and are, ignoring the laws and constitution. They will continue to violate the law UNTIL THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES.

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

The one note of caution I’d have is he had similarly dismal numbers in 2017. But hopefully this go-round Dems won’t decide to pivot to kitchen-table issues. The entire MAGA movement must be crushed into dust and the earth where it grew salted. No hesitation this time.

This is still live. youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc

It's gone. This story is being memory holed as we speak.

now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.

This week, a bill to stop Trump from launching strikes against Venezuela fell 2 votes short in the House. Last month, our similar effort in the Senate came up 2 votes short. 4 more Republicans. That's all we need to stop this administration from potentially dragging America into war.

Trump is no longer making any pretense of sanctioning firms supplying the Russian military. He is shifting the US position steadily to a pro-Russian position, including support for Russian military operations in Ukraine.

I have never once felt like anyone anywhere expected me to apologize for being white. What he really means is he no longer has to apologize for being an a** hole because 🍊🤡 has normalized it.

One thing worth remembering as all of this Epstein stuff roils is that we know of multiple occasions in which women were paid to keep them from talking about having sex with Trump.

What they called the ’Trump vibe shift‘ was ‘Racist extremists who have been creeping into power since Reconstruction managed to get enough power to gain full control of the US government. Most billionaires went mask off far right extremist. The media then followed.’ It was not an organic change.

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

NEW: Abrego’s lawyers have proof of Todd Blanche’s direct involvement in his prosecution - after lying to the court about it for months. substack.com/@muellershew...

These dumb motherfuckers. THIS is what will get them. OBSTRUCTION. Did they think we were all too stupid to notice? That the photo of Clinton in the pool was from a hotel in Brunei, not the island? Or that the redactions in the photo of MJ and Clinton and Ross were MJ's kids?

It's because the President of the United States is a pedophile and a rapist.

Dear Getty Images, You aren't going to let the get away with that, are you? This isn't parody. It doesn't fall into fair use. Sincerely, Everyone.

For sure. I think the difference between DeSantis and Trump 2 is the sheer volume of Nazi shit. It's both too many stories to properly cover and sometimes almost too controversial. I don't think anyone picked this story up besides me and Mother Jones, for instance:

shame we replaced all the Hunter S Thompsons with brunchlords, ivy league nepobabies, and half-cooked AI, some real fangs would come in handy right about now

There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.

If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now