THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

Man, Trump really bus tossed the Nobel Peace Prize winning Maria Corina Machado. This sounds less “nation-building-ly” and more “plantation-ly”.

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.

Man, Fox Sports is working overtime to convince everyone the Holiday Bowl between Arizona and SMU matters. Weeks of drip marketing but repetition does not create importance. When a game needs this much oxygen, it tells you exactly where it sits in the hierarchy.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

Seeing lots of people post clips from Sinatra in "The House I Live In" as a response to Stephen Miller being a racist about Sinatra. Just a random reminder that "The House I Live In" is in the public domain. Every once in a while it's good to remember the public domain is good...

QTP with a gif from one of your favorite comfort shows 📺

Symbolic air strikes, whether in Syria or Nigeria, will not defeat ISIS. Many of Trump’s other actions, from cutting foreign aid to trying to eliminate online moderation, are actually undermining the struggle against ISIS and other terrorist groups. As i just wrote: wapo.st/4qrV8U5

Tell me again why billionaires deserve corporate welfare to support their companies and organizations. nypost.com/2025/12/25/u...

Esports has argued that engagement with Saudi Arabia would lead to change. This year brought a record number of executions instead. Hope requires action. Start with one. Free Manahel al-Otaibi. I wrote this as a Christmas message to the #esports community. #humanrights medium.com/@ohagan/a-ch...

We are told there is no money for feeding students, followed immediately by a very detailed explanation of how to subsidize sweetheart football stadiums for billionaires. This shows our priorities as a society are hot garbage.

It's pronounced: "Jifts"

The Kansas City Chiefs are relocating from Missouri to Kansas and getting a new $3 billion stadium. 60 percent of it will be publicly funded — despite the owners boasting a nearly $25 billion net worth. This isn't the first stadium scam we've seen recently...

The world of esports could have spoken out, leveraged their platform, heck, even just asked the Saudis to free one prisoner, but the money was too good, I guess. How’s that lie about playing in the Kingdom will start a dialogue and change sitting with you now? www.bbc.com/news/article...

In case you haven’t seen the spiked 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, here you go… archive.org/details/60mi...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Are they priced a piece, or do you have to get the whole set? What if you want to go Total Recall and get three?

when u see a book about a penguin with two dads

In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture. On the back of the photograph she wrote: “‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says. ‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.” The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.

me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight

Universal Design for Learning shifts the conversation. When learning environments offer flexible pathways for every student, no one needs to perform a deficit to receive support. Accommodations become access, not advantage, and students receive what they need without suspicion or stigma.

Facial recognition technology = mass human rights violations. Again and again, this technology has been proven to be discriminatory against racialised communities. Make no mistake: this is a decision to further entrench racism within policing.

Check this out @danbernstein.bsky.social www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...

But he doesn't remember several of the people he pardoned.

I named my fists Salt and Fat because you are about to learn what real flavor means.

Hey @danbernstein.bsky.social can Nahshon Wright get a game ball NOW?! Right?!

There’s a reason Caesar was forbidden to cross the Rubicon and return to Rome with his army. It’s what separates a relatively free society from a fascist one.

I bet the @mkeadmirals.bsky.social and Wild players are talking about Shoresy Season 5 coming soon. #MKEHockey

Looking over OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teachers and in creating a shared workspace, I clicked the Student Data Privacy Agreement to read through it. Annnnnnd the link is broken.

It has not gotten better for a long time... medium.com/chalkdust-si...

The "Future of Education" everyone... medium.com/chalkdust-si...

If this is the direction the industry rewards, why should any public school treat AI as a trustworthy partner? #edtech #AI #education

WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

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Appalled to hear that instead of releasing #Saudi human rights defender Mohammed al-Bejadi at the end of his term in arbitrary detention he was sentenced again, now to 25 years in prison, on so-far unknown charges in an unfair trial & in blatant contradiction with international human rights law

It is clearly deeply annoying for a sociopath when a human collapses nearby and distracts attention from him.

Sudan's army has lost its last foothold of el-Fasher, in Darfur, to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Now warnings are mounting of a second genocide as mass killings unfold before the world.

This is my “Don’t Make Me Tap the Sign” youtu.be/SDpZ7w9uNuc?...

Wow. Looks like Bill Burr really made a difference when he completely sold out. /s alqst.org/posts/1133

This Is It Top Gun Trump thought Kenny Loggins would say "I'm alright" having "Danger Zone" playing in a video where he turns a peaceful protest into Pooh Corner. That's what a fool believes, Donald. Kenny may have a footloose, but he doesn't have a screw loose. by Maureen Dowd

For those of you who paid attention in your high school English class, the part of “Emmanuel Goldstein” is being played by George Soros these days. The exact same playbook from the novel.

The voting for The 10th Annual Esports Awards just opened up, and it seems they left out some important categories this year. Such a missed opportunity. So I fixed it. Presenting: The Bill Burr–Hosted, Turki Alalshikh–Produced Esports Awards That Should Actually Exist. #esports esportsawards.com

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Trump didn’t win the peace prize. Be ready for a full weekend of tantrum. And we all suffer for it.

Trump ran a great campaign for Machado’s Peace Prize.

Mutual admiration: Anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass and his connections to Daniel O’Connell and Ireland

What’s a true shithole country? One that zip-ties children’s hands and puts them in cages. One that sends people to a mega prison in El Salvador without due process. One where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wear face masks to conceal their identities. And so on...

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