Last year, Trump promised American oil executives “a great deal” if they donated $1 billion to his campaign. Today, he gave them Venezuela — home to the largest oil reserves in the world. This new war is not only illegal and reckless; it is deeply corrupt.

if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly

Democratic opposition should make clear that oil corporations and their executives will be held accountable if they aid and abet war crimes

“Yes, your honor, I did shoot at the police as they tried to stop my kidnapping operation. But that was just self defense”

Caine, in what happened when the military invaded Maduro’s compound: “On arrival into the target area, the helicopters came under fire, and they replied to that fire with overwhelming force in self-defense.” We’re going to be reading that sentence for years.

Marco Rubio was confirmed 99-0 by the US Senate one year ago this month.

Hegseth: “This is America First, this is peace through strength.” In essence, war is peace. Where have I heard this before?

Just a jaw-dropping statement from a Democrat. Wasserman Schultz calls Trump's military action in Venezuela "welcome news" that "offers beleaguered Venezuelans a chance to seat their true, democratically elected president." They're not even bothering with sternly-worded letters.

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No more killing! Well, except for the terrorist attack, of course.

Trump: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition."

This would explain a lot about Tim Pool’s beanie

Charlie Becker just continues to amaze

Bama after that performance/TD

Cuellar has voted with the Republicans on everything and it is an absolute embarrassment to the Democratic Party that they restored him to his leadership role

Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."

What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.

I just tuned in—has he been talking this fast without pausing the whole time? It’s like one big run on sentence

Trevor Zegras on Rasmus Ristolainen's play in his return to the Flyers lineup: "Phenomenal. Double Nickels. He’s an absolute moose out there."

I have been saying I still believe Jo can & will have a 40 point game this year. Not quite yet, but he’s close!!

The President has gotten very comfortable admitting that his policies are dictated by the powerful companies that stand to benefit.

Trump said the quiet part loud in his press conference on CAFE standards: He's rolling back regulations because industry asked him to. Our @kjboyle.bsky.social writes about a quiet but powerful player in these lobbying efforts: the National Automobile Dealers Association.

BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight. Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall. This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.

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This is what happens to your brain after a lifetime of private flights

Very annoyed at this. Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start. Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people

The Eagles have a unique ability to find a new, more embarrassing way to lose each week

Morris gets picked off on a trick play, Duke wins the ACC football championship

“O..S…fuck U” - Charlie Becker 🗣️

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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

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How many working class Hispanic men and women have been detained or deported by ICE with the help of Palantir tech?

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

The Flyers are the only enjoyable Philadelphia sports team right now

bush administration spent 18 months carefully building a false case for war and they could've just done this

tonight is for jfk

Travis Konecny vs. wide open nets: an emerging, fierce rivalry

Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people. This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.

SANNY ENDS IT IN STYLE. #PHIvsSTL | @fwwebb

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Flyers twitter will be coming for Konecny’s head for that one if they lose

He led the Republicans in stealing a presidential election; his cruel and heartless war mongering killed million in a needless war based on lies. But none of that matters for these Democrats who want to restore their cocoon of bipartisanship bubble of elites in DC.

i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws. Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired. They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.

"I am SO sorry for asking Epstein for dating advice regarding my mentees ... anyway see me at office hours if you have any questions"

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Meanwhile, we’re still getting weekly op-eds scolding Democrats for being too mean to tech.

If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void.