This bizarre, taxpayer-financed White House account of what occurred on Jan. 6, 2021, is Soviet-level propaganda. It's history through the looking glass after a couple hits on the opium pipe. I point it out so you can grasp how much the Republicans are trying to destroy the very concept of truth.

"Being an asshole is a fundamental human right of anyone—and being shown to be an asshole. The question is, freedom of speech versus freedom of reach," Imran Ahmed says. "That's something that Elon's acknowledged when he bought Twitter...that's not what's happened in practice."

Will "non-interventionist" MAGA go along? Yup. A new WaPo poll finds only 40% overall approve of the Maduro capture and only 37% say this was appropriate without Congress. But 80% of Trump voters support the capture and 78% are fine with not going to Congress. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/2049...

"The blame here lies in large part with the supine Congress, which keeps letting him get away with it, but also with the Supreme Court majority." Is any of that going to change in 2026? Don't bet on it.

Third time lucky.

Today's reminder: Nigel Farage is a traitor to our nation. He has accepted money from foreign governments and organisations that are enemies of our government and must face justice. #FarageOut

ICE is no longer arresting immigrants only. They are arresting anyone who films or speaks out. Sending them to concentration camps. I have been criticized for my analogy to 1930’s Germany. That is what we are witnessing.

Jared Kushner has somehow found a place at Coalition of the Willing press conference with Scholz, Zelensky, Macron, Starmer and Witkoff. Kushner has no official position in the US government.

My thoughts today are with the security people and police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 and have been treated with such distain since by the GOP. For them and the Democratic leadership who lived through such chaos and no doubt continue to carry the scars within. We will not forget.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Take Voldemort out. #RemoveTrumpNOW

This tumor represents 340 million people. The mad king of Mar-A-Lago.

Denmark’s PM offered the U.S. an expanded military presence in Greenland. Like Venezuela, this is not about security. Venezuela was about oil and money. Greenland is about rare earth minerals and money. Different map, same motive. #MAGAGreed

We failed to hold the right-wing oligarchs accountable for the coup on January 6th, Russian interference, the subprime housing crisis, the WMD lie, Iran Contra, Watergate, and the confederacy. Elect people who will.

14 Judges now have sided with Trump on his immigration policy. Pretty impressive, until you find out 311 have decided AGAINST him.

Links: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... www.reuters.com/world/us/pen... www.kasu.org/politics/202... www.wral.com/news/ap/0ecd...

Over time, what was once unthinkable becomes routine. Calling this Stalinism isn’t hyperbole, it’s recognizing a historical pattern as it repeats itself, with consequences that won’t be easy to undo once the damage is done.

This is how authoritarian systems take hold. Not all at once, not with a single dramatic moment, but through erosion. Norms are weakened, then discarded. Safeguards are treated as obstacles.

Survival depends on saying the right things and aligning with the right people. That atmosphere doesn’t just degrade leadership, it poisons the institution from the inside.

The real damage isn’t just who gets pushed out or promoted today. It’s the message sent to everyone else. Keep your head down. Don’t question. Don’t think independently.

That line is now being blurred. When officers are pressured to prove loyalty, when neutrality is treated as suspicion, and when dissent is framed as betrayal, the military stops being a professional force and starts becoming a political instrument.

The U.S. military has long been different. It has operated on the idea that it answers to the Constitution, not to a president’s ego or a political movement.

Independent thinking became dangerous. Advancement depended on political alignment, not judgment or skill. The result was a hollowed-out institution that looked strong on paper but was dangerously weakened in reality.

Stalinism wasn’t only about secret police and show trials. At its core, it was about loyalty replacing competence. The military was purged of experienced leaders who were seen as insufficiently obedient, not ineffective.

War caricature sense, but in the way power is being tightened and institutions are being bent to serve one man and one ideology. The effort by Donald Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, to politicize the upper ranks of the U.S. military fits that pattern almost point for point.

Resistance members are being targeted this week. It appears to be the return of Stalinism. What’s happening right now looks uncomfortably familiar. It feels like the return of Stalinism, not in the old, Cold

George Conway launches congressional bid with one goal: Taking on Trump Conway, a former Republican once married to Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, says his decision to run as a Democrat in New York is no laughing matter. tinyurl.com/SohX7n

Never forget.

Good morning and happy Jan. 6 to everyone who will never forget what Fat Satan and his thugs did five years ago today. He should have been taken out of the White House in handcuffs on that very day. #TrumpSmellsLikeAss

Joint statement from Spain, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay rejecting the illegal US aggression in Venezuela and warn against the theft of natural resources by the US.

Five years ago today, the United States Capitol was attacked in a violent insurrection incited by the President of the United States for one purpose: to overturn a free and fair election and cling to power in clear violation of the Constitution.

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"How Trump Incited an Insurrection: A Jan. 6 Timeline" Five years later, as the president attempts to rewrite what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, Zeteo has a detailed hour-by-hour guide to what Trump said and did that fateful and violent day.

Absolutely true, and somehow not-discussed point: The US **ALREADY** has all the strategic advantages it could gain by "owning" Greenland. Through treaties and (until now) close NATO cooperation w Denmark The US has a naval base & 'space force' base there. You see USAF planes at Grndlnd airports

On January 6th, 2021, when Trump incited an insurrection, America's corporate leaders rushed to distance themselves from him. Today, as Trump destroys our democracy at home and stages more coups abroad, they're sucking up to him to pad their own bottom lines. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0v...

A moving tribute.

I have a general rule that any presentation based on words starting with the same letter is bollocks. I once asked a famous CEO who gave a presentation on the "10 Cs of business" what the chances were of the ten most important things all starting with a C. He wasn't pleased.

What a disgrace.

Anne Applebaum on the Trump regime’s criminally short-sighted, might is right foreign policy. substack.com/@anneappleba...

77 million Americans DID NOT CARE

January 6, 2021 the day the pedophile tried to steal an election he legitimately lost. #NeverForgetJan6

This is what an insurrection is. It was fomented by that Orange fuck job. These are VIOLENT THUGS.

At this point, because there aren't MILLIONS in the streets, I'd say we deserve what the fuck is coming. 😡😡😡😡

Maduro will get a pardon as soon as he coughs up the pardon buckos...

I mean they do lose when their polls go down. Belief and nerve aren't much use in winning elections if no one votes for you.

This needs to be posted Every. Fucking. Day.

Farage's close aide George Cottrell was convicted of multiple fraud offences relating to a scheme he offered to launder drug money. NB: Trump pardoned former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández, who facilitated the trafficking of over 400 tonnes of cocaine to the US.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today: