January 5, 2026

This explains so much. People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity. If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oil refiners like Citgo are set to cash in after the Venezuela attack. And look who owns Citgo these days. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

dude. i said this two days ago.

Lawyers for Maduro are expected to contest the legality of his arrest, arguing that he is immune from prosecution as a sovereign head of foreign state, which is a bedrock principle of international and U.S. law. https://to.pbs.org/4pqmiJU

the drunk v the decorated and accomplished patriot. this is just asinine. unjust. petty. malevolent. corrupt.

The previous modern standard for murdering people en masse while effecting an arrest warrant involved members of a Waco religious cult (76), or group home occupants (11) in West Philadelphia or the Chicago abode of some Blank Panthers (2 dead, more wounded). Trump now holds the record.

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

i don’t remember there being an RSV vaccine available for my kids, and they both needed nebulizers when they were sick when they were little. and trips to the ER. and i remember when i had the HepB shots for work, i wondered ‘why doesn’t everyone get these?’ such terrible backward steps.

If the attack on Venezuela and the abduction of its president were part of a "law enforcement operation," not a war, how come the U.S. still has a huge armada offshore? When cops nab a suspect, do they often set up a camp with hundreds of officers near the scene of the arrest?

omg. i had no idea.

In 1847, James Y. Simpson became the 1st surgeon to use chloroform as an anaesthetic during childbirth. Indeed, the 1st baby born under the drug’s influence was nicknamed Anaesthesia! Duncan Flockhart & Co. Ltd were the 1st British manufacturers of chloroform. #histmed #medicalhistory #skystorians

From the other place.

The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area

i started SQL classes today. they are super fun and i didn’t want to stop, but i didn’t want my brain to get full, so i decided to sleep process it before tackling more. this type of logic is totally my jam.

The fact that the Canadian government's official statement on the president of the United States illegally invading a foreign country does not include the words "President," "United States," "illegal," or "invade" really tells you all you need to know about where we stand, tbh

real post

Maduro Requests Lindsay Halligan to Prosecute Him

metropolitan. detention. center. the president of venezuela. mrs venezuela. if i worked there (and i probably *could* since they’re so understaffed) i would quit immediately. that building is about to be broken into and damaged twenty ways to sunday. oh, no, wait…. luigi’s not still there is he?

My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.

All of them should be "apprehended" by the Venezuelan military and put on trial. Apparently, there's precedent for that.

Time to make a new plan.

This uhh lady down there who Marco had a really nice phone chat with is gonna do it for us. Won’t cost a thing.

…. just… wut?! uh-huh. yeah. we forgot about it.

wow. this single screenshot gave me three separate strokes.

these guys pulled up a big right-wing account on Twitter so they could watch their insane crime spree get discovered in real time

We had a good run

when you order your war room time from temu

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

mrs goebbels said what?

Trump says immigrants are absolute scum who are ruining this country, but he allows in a foreign propagandist who literally hates America, democracy, and free elections. Do an op-ed against Israel & they will kick you out of the country But if you run a Russian influence scheme, you get a visa

All this stuff just happening totally in the open.

compared to the Sleaford Mods? i’m in!

wall too wall "helping poor people is where all the U.S. fraud is" coverage, which was the entire goal these outlets will never adapt, it's pathetic, give your money to independent journalists and worker-owned media in 2026

www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n... Trumpism in full bloom

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December 30, 2025

Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

Normal service has resumed on the Green Line, and the Yellow Line now extends to Greenbelt! 🚇

LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for Months “while she was under his authority”

"First of all, asking people why they are masking is invasive behavior. No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid."

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Here's the link without the ":5037" portion of the URL (dunno why Science Direct is including this unusual port # in their URLs): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Catching COVID is very bad for our immune systems.

The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities. Lawfare's Domestic Deployments tracker and map, updated by Loren Voss, shows we know—and don’t know—about certain domestic military deployments.