The next Democratic administration will have much to clean up, but the notion that US law allows the President to disregard the UN Charter's prohibition on the use of force because a thinly reasoned OLC opinion from Bill Barr in 1989 says so is preposterous. CYA memos should not have that power.

another example of how the fault line in today's dem party is not left-right but capitulate-fight

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

For nonlawyers, it’s worth noting that statements like this have—as a formal matter—important legal effects as a matter of international law. If such statements are *not* made, and in volume, future arguments that Trump’s invasion sets a legal precedent will stand on much firmer legal ground.

Venezuela hasn’t paid the billions tribunals have awarded to oil companies whose concessions were expropriated by Hugo Chavez in the Noughties. My field of investor-state arbitration is accused of being anti-sovereignty. But invasion isn’t a proper means of judgment enforcement even in our world.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are so pathetically out of their depth

lol Schumer's response is literally to say this is a distraction from grocery prices. Beyond parody man.

When @sanders.senate.gov points out that this attack "recalls the darkest chapters of U.S. interventions in Latin America, which have left a terrible legacy," he is talking about a huge, central focus of American foreign policy that most Americans never learn about in school, to our detriment.

this is the cartoon version of American imperialism - we’re going and kidnapping foreign leaders because we want the oil and saying that out loud on the television - and if you can’t just flat out oppose that without qualifications get out of the way

… Elizabeth Warren official statement: “… unconstitutional and threatens to drag the U.S. into further conflicts in the region….”

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism

I don’t love you and I’m not holding your hand: call your Senator and tell them that the must shut down the government on January 30th until this ends, a thing that Democrats have the hard power to do at this very moment.

I just think she should’ve been more specific about which countries she was planning to invade

@paleofuture.bsky.social see this isn’t strongly worded at all, so unambiguously I think it belongs in my category 4

Who are the Venezuela experts (who post in English) on here?

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

It’s hard to keep track of the political whiplash but Trump has ousted a president who denied the results of a fair election and stayed in power. On Tues, it’s 5 yrs since 1/6, the culmination of Trump’s effort to remain in power despite losing the election. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

This Time Is Different

I know where this is going SCOTUS using this as vehicle to enact 2A right to machine gun possession

Honduras is another matter

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Looking forward to tonight’s Tony Dokoupil segment on constitutional issues relating to the new war, featuring analysis from - Tony’s dry cleaner - Jack from State Farm - Candace Owens - Aaron Rodgers and of course - Big Balls

While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.

A real dent in Susie Wiles credibility

Maduro may have enough cash to buy a pardon.

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

A new precedent of seizing foreign leaders who are accused of crimes could get very complicated very quick when you consider some current leaders around the world facing such charges

They told me if I voted for Kamala Harris we would be involved in more foreign wars, and they were right.

Hard to believe a FIFA Peace Prize laureate would do this.

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.

I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.

you cannot blockade a country and bomb its capital cities and capture its leader without being at war with it, is the thing

Jan 1. Jan 3.

Good for Reuters for changing their headline. Pressure works. Grok did not do this. Elon Musk did.

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

Really sorry I spent two minutes of my life watching this

CBS News laid off 100 people to fund Bari Weiss’s armed-guard, private-jet tour of American cities. I was once moderately optimistic that I could keep finding valuable CBS content, but no more. John Dickerson is gone; Margaret Brennan should go. Removing CBS from the dial, sadly.

A13. In case you're wondering how newsy it is to have the President dead to rights.

Truly the Everything App

That's it, i'm no longer doing any of my banking on X

Making America Hurt Again was not and is not a good idea.

CBS proving that it loves liberty & the rule of law by <checks notes> spiking a story on the torture of men sent to a foreign prison without legal process.

I was on the fence about Grok's earnestness until I saw the last line in the screenshot

They say the memory of when you took the cognitive exam is the first thing to go

It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.

taxpayer money going to a kiddie porn generator should be a gigantic scandal, like one of the biggest scandals of our lifetimes

I feel for the people who post their selfies and discover, instantly, weirdos using grok to pornify them. Had a hunch where this was going in 2021 and stopped posting pics of myself/any pics/details about family. But if you're, say, a cosplayer who can benefit from a big audience, you're screwed.