Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Congress, this is YOUR job! You swore an oath to the Constitution not to some senile old dementia patient. What he is doing is against the law, you can stop him or lawyer up yourselves because I PROMISE you are going to need it! Don't believe me, ask all the DISBARRED lawyers who didn't listen to me

ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join. NYPD arriving with barricades.

2 #Russia "shadow fleet" tankers "critically damaged" by Sea Baby naval drones in international waters of Black Sea near #Turkey 's Bosphorus Strait #Ukraine official: "This will deal a significant blow to the transportation of Russian oil" #UkraineWar

Oh, CONGRESS is on it? Was Barney Fife not available?

There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home. They are lawless bestial scum.

Epstein: Too important to ignore. Yet it’s the perfect distraction, to keep much of the country’s political energy on the scandal, so that the “government,” with corporations and the wealthy class, can continue to screw the American people over in the later stages of capitalism.

Hey folks, y'all know the drill, call your reps and senators and let them know you want the lush tossed. Time to keep battering the fools that approved him.

I can't wait until this chest-beating imbecile is brought up on murder charges.

Consumer confidence has hit a record low because his policies are a proven failure. www.alternet.org/wol... 2/2

An economist just eviscerated Trump's core economic claims. His tariff math is pure nonsense, confusing millions with trillions, and the U.S. stock market is actually underperforming most major countries. 1/2

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Watching Trump play president is like watching a little girl host an imaginary tea party with invisible friends who she hates.

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies." www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Don Jr.‘s wishlist 🧂

Anyways I guess I hope airline pilots are all on truth social so they can be kept up to date on to where they might get shot down. But I also kinda hope there are no airline pilots on truth social so that they're not racist idiots. I guess it's pretty nuanced.

Trump may be dead from his diseases soon, but we’ll still have plenty of his supporters and enablers around to ensure we get some form of justice.

Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.

A🧵 This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds. The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful. THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die. 1/n

RT @h4ckedreality Trump bombs boats off Venezuela — 83 dead, no fentanyl, no cocaine, nothing. Meanwhile he’s pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández — a trafficker who pushed 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. and got 45 years. Call it a drug war if you want — the receipts say it’s a sham.

Trump is just Putin’s useful idiot www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

How about we help each other out, because I am really struggling too. linkedin.com/in/kimcrawley A lot of prominent tech industry people follow me on that awful social media platform. You're a professional writer too. So write something that's a couple of hundred words about your career for...

To all conservatives, Republicans, Trump officials, and MAGA, please consider YOUR PROTECTION UNDER THE US CONSTITUTION TO BE SEVERED IN ITS ENTIRETY! Thank you for your attention to this matter. LAW-ABIDING AMERICAN

As two men clung to the wreckage of a burning boat in the Caribbean, Pete Hegseth gave the order: “Kill them all.” SEAL Team 6 followed it. No questions. No survivors. This is the Trump Doctrine now. And if you’re not sick to your stomach, you’re not paying attention.

The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false. Lots of people are going to die.

Instead of Tomahawk missiles, Trump’s envoy Witkoff told Ukraine to ask for a 10-year tariff exemption. “What good is a handful of missiles?” he said. The real plan: turn postwar Ukraine into a business deal, with U.S. firms cashing in and Putin’s terms quietly accepted.

Pete Hegseth committed murder. He is a war criminal. These are facts: youtube.com/shorts/G_Df_...

South Park speaks truth: Hegseth is a douche

It’s beyond disturbing that 1/3 of our fellow citizens went face down-ass up for a dementia ridden, greed diseased, megalomaniacal narcopath with a cruelty kink who trafficked and raped little kids and are happily willing to die on that hill because they mistakenly think they’re “owning the libs”

Russia is pure evil. Georgia, Ukraine, always destroying places and people. Europe needs to take the money instead of obsessing about it. Take it out of Trumps hands

Dear Pedo in Chief, please consider you are an unhinged kid raping lunatic who should resign. Release the Epstein files! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Morning Y'all. The obit didn't have the right person in it again. Damn. RELEASE THE FULL GODDAMN EPSTEIN FILES NOW ALREADY.

www.nbcnews.com/news/educati... Well, when there are no nurses at the station to answer his botton call then HE DOESN’T NEED THEM.

When did littering become acceptable? It didn't.

"...and unvetted Afghans..." Fuck this asshole This entire regime is nothing but vindictive children who offed their own parents before they could be taught how not to be the absolute worst human scum ever to live I have never wanted to commit so much violence against so many people in my life

This is what a hot gruel of credulity, cult sickness and ignorance looks like. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Is anyone else experiencing this? I've been followed & tagged ~15 times in the past 3 days by 10 DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS claiming to represent an individual named "Mahmoud from Gaza:" each account follows me, likes some random posts & then solicits donations. I block each one, then another crops up.

"Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions.” www.wsj.com/world/russia...

In Feb 1991, POTUS George H W Bush broadcast to Iraqis that there was a way to avoid a US-led invasion. "That is for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands, to force Saddam Hussein to step aside," he warned. Venezuela’s turn now. GOP wars over oil never end.

Trump wants the US to replay the rise of Russian kleptocracy in the 90s, complete with obscene enrichment of himself & his oligarchs while immiserating the rest of us. In the ~35yrs since the USSR fell, RU has become the most economically unequal society on earth:20+% of HH lacking indoor plumbing.

All frauds and con artists play on *your perception of yourself*--they convince you that only by giving them money or gifts can you be the person you aspire to be. Best book on the psychology of people who get scammed, from the perspective of con artists, published 1940 by linguist Doc Maurer:

3. Look out especially for anyone trying to evoke the following reactions in you, because all of these make you stop thinking clearly: * "I can get rich quick!" (greed) * "I'm gonna die!" (fear) * "I must save him/her/them!" (savior complex) * "hubba hubba, I must bed him/her/them!" (honeypot)

2. Look out for anyone trying to *time-pressure* you: they're trying to get you to act without thinking This is the same scam tactic used when old people get targeted by calls from their grandchildren, claiming to be stranded or in jail or in the hospital, urgently needing money. Assume fakery.

Seems like Americans need a crash course in Scam Avoidance, so here's what I've learned from 15 years of sociological research, publishing & teaching on fraud: 1. Beware of anyone stating or implying "we will die if you don't send $"--that's an attempt to shortcut your critical thinking via panic

cc: The Hague

Sad that, as usual, it takes Trump’s repulsive, repugnant behavior to personally impact him before he speaks out. When Trump was bashing others — immigrants, LGBTQ, etc. — he towed the party line. But I guess we have to start somewhere.

This is what we need from more of them.