Portland Police Press conference on the shooting of 2 Portlanders: -DHS said the victims had been involved with a shooting. Nope! -But they were def part of Tren de Aragua -actually no -But TdA is real and active in Portland -We can't name single crime TdA has been involved with in this city

Trump could easily make the case that global warming is allowing more mining to occur in Greenland, when none was possible before. But this undermines his case that Global warming is something to deal with. So he personalizes it and preys his retweeters don't pay attention. They don't

I can't stress this enough... the officer seems like he shoots the driver because he wants to shoot her partner, who is filming him in a standoff of him filming her. Whose he saying "fucking bitch" to -- its not the dead person, he doesn't interact with her at all.

Really, people are going to be led to believe that a mother with stuffed animals in her car and her last words being "I'm not mad at you" before dying is a... terrorist? The credibility never existed but this even defies plausibility. There's not even a "she's on drugs!" defense to find.

...The market learned that A) the jobs report for december was terrible and B) the tariffs, which are causing the numbers to be bad because profit is down, won't be getting rescinded by the supreme court. Wtf is it rallying over? I'm confused.

Gonna rewatch Star Trek Discovery and Strange New Worlds cause I want to be off this fuck ass planet so bad. Revoke my human membership.

A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

If ever there was a story to watch, it’s this one. This is why you dont kidnap world leaders.

People are not thinking it through. He’s defining the oil wealth of Venezuela as his to give to big companies. And expects the tax payer to pay when civil unrest occurs. And it’s going to occur because Venezuela is full of FARC rebels who’d love to do some terrorism for money.

Saying Maduro is a “brutal dictator” is a moot point when Trump is deporting innocents to be tortured in El Salvador. Come on.

A way to think about Trump doing this with Venezuela is Rhodesia or King Leopolds Congo. He thinks it’s a big piece of land where he can carte Blanche make money off the oil trade.

The whole point of Venzuelas opposition was to cozy up to the US and… cut a better deal for the locals. Trump dgaf about any of that. In this way this is a possible extinction event for both parties.

Everyone thought 2025 was bad. So now we get some definitive answers for how we could think 2026 could be made worse than that.

Trump justified his illegal war in Venezuela by saying that Venezuela was not producing enough oil. Venezuela was not producing enough oil because of sanctions and blockades Trump orchestrated. JFC—paging Orwell. We are so lost as a nation, as a people. We live under a madman.

The problem was that the discovery took too long in that case. And Biden wanted a public image of being fair to Trump. Merrick Garland and Jack Smith didn’t contradict him.

What stops a Serbian from killing an Austrian leader.

I agree. And we see it by Trumps insistence that he’s going to sell Venezuelan oil to China. He’s probably planning to take the canal to tax China further. He’s entirely about greed. That’s all he believes in.

I don’t think so, you think Trump, who just said oil companies will run Venezuela, isn’t cutting MBS and Putin in on that deal? He literally just said he wants to sell Venezuelan oil to China.

JFC.

I saw someone making the point that ICE and Border Patrol are likely to step up the hunting of Venezuelans here on temporary statuses etc... saying that their cases for seeking asylum are now moot.

“Steal the money and let it die” is how he bankrupted casinos.

This is a huge disaster that will become a humanitarian crisis. Paradoxically this is going to create a fuck ton of people migrating. To the US and elsewhere.

It is so obvious here that Trump thinks government should operate solely on the motive of greed.

Anyone installed by the US will have no legitimacy. An average Venezuelans live is more likely to be entangled in cocaine and human smuggling than oil. Power vacuum? Civil war between narco traffickers is imminent. This will spill over to Colombia.

Add in… confirmation the US is torturing innocent people, the Epstein Files, an attempt at making a pogrom against Somali-Americans, people losing health insurance… “Bleak” is too weak of a word.

it's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy

The entire economy is built around the idea of “can I make money in the next 5 minutes” and that’s it. Trumps vision is “do I have more money now”

it is so fucking funny that *after investing a significant part of R&D ourselves*, just as it's time to get returns on that investment, we decide to totally fuck ourselves over because doing so would be gay and soy

with all of the stories about the rise of solar energy we’ve seen in the last few months it kind of feels like America is doing regime change in order to secure the rights to billions of dollars in blockbuster gift cards

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.

In 2024 it wasn’t even debated if the US would go to war with Venezuela. This war is so out of left field.

It is this simple, the whole party needs to come to work Monday and pledge it out loud.

Trump: “No childcare. Your insurance bill is more expensive. I’m also a child rapist if not a murder, possibly both. And now we’re going to war and yeah, no one voted for this”

I’m sorry, why are we at war with Venezuela? Who voted for this?

…yeah I’m sure making a bunch of parents and children go hungry in cold Minnesota because he saw a video and it justified his case for being a racist country is going to do wonders for the ol’ approval numbers.

This is such a salient point considering we now see billionaires who are high on drugs and also spewing incoherent nonsense about Christianity everywhere now.

In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one! More ... 👇

Those opining that it could be fake are missing the point. It was in Epstein's effects. If it's fake, it was planted by Trump officials in a way tending to obscure cause of death. If it's real, it is one of the most damning deathbed allegations ever made in American history. Either is historic.

Porsche reportedly created their new ad without using any AI.

The president is fighting allegations that he’s a pedophile… while attempting to start a war in Venezuela… and his government is being exposed as being willing to torture innocent people en masse. What the hell.

Clinton calling for the full release of the Epstein files is a masterstroke.

By the way, PBS SoCal lost all of its federal funding this year. There's TONS of really amazing programming and you can get unlimited streaming on the PBS app on any Roku/Apple/etc device for literally $5/month. I've been binge-watching Frontline over the holiday. pbssocal.org/give sign up here

The Chinese would never.

The advance of streamers is one of the surest and most obvious ways to explain we live in the apocalypse.

A common reason for migrants to come to the US was a feeling of “well if the US is going to exploit people badly, might as well join them”

US companies sell the world bananas and coffee still. Bananas and coffee by and large don’t grow in the US. How?

...Did you just say you made all the visuals for this event with AI with your full chest? Because, boy does that make what I just saw look cheap. Come on.

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish