“US citizens should leave Venezuela immediately” … Checking in on the country President Trump executed a coup against a week ago

I know there’s a lot of chatter about “Furious Minds” as a read to help understand the MAGA Male toxicity, but I’d like to recommend “Mediocre” as well. The former describes to result of the latter. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ijeom...

NEW 🚨 @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social: “If the greatest lie the devil ever told was to convince us that he wasn’t real, the greatest lie the oil industry ever told us is that they don’t want oil.”

We need to stop believing that there will be a return to “normal”. This IS normal, America. It became normal when 70M Americans voted for Trump again. Now, though, WHITE people have something to fear from the “cops”. #Minneapolis #ICERaids #ACAB

Folks, this is now NORMAL. It became normal when 70M American voted for the 2nd Trump administration.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

The government’s top administrator of Medicaid and CHIP funds has no prior experience in public office — but he did run a health care technology firm. levernews.com/medicaids-ch...

Spot on 🎯

Closer view of Trump's pin of himself that he was wearing today (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty)

“I dropped an f-bomb. They killed somebody,” Frey responded. “Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with ‘the killing somebody.’” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

"'He started really engaged with a lot of young undocumented people, inviting them to his home and elevating their stories, to now supporting an administration that is anti-democratic, anti-immigrant and holds white nationalist values.'"

The "lung float" test is being used to charge women with murder. Many experts say it's unreliable. “There’s no way you can determine live birth versus stillbirth with this test," said one doctor, who called the test “an outrageous breach of science.” (Pub. Oct. 2023)

Amazing — asked to fact-check our post sharing that article exposing the lie that Grok’s parent company xAI created good jobs for MEMPHIANS, Grok… confirmed it. 😬 @mayorpaulyoung @MemphisChamber @SenBrentTaylor Here it is again: open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

📽️ NEW: No one understands the Supreme Court better than @dahlialithwick.bsky.social. This week, she brings her expertise to Democracy Docket to unpack one of the most dangerous, yet overlooked forces shaping American law today: the Court’s shadow docket. https://bit.ly/451sYHf

#GOP is a terrorist enterprise.

US may subsidize oil companies to rebuild Venezuela's energy infrastructure, Trump says - www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Fuck you Hilton for cowardice Another company making it easier to know who to boycott. san.com/cc/hilton-in...

I often talk to folks who never call or write the people they voted for. Just because you helped vote someone into an office doesn't mean they represent you. It means you agreed with them enough to vote for them. But, they have no idea if they agree with you, unless you tell them what you think.

Both @ryangrim & @RepThomasMassie point to right-wing pro-Israel billionaire Paul Singer’s recent purchase of CITGO as motivation for their takeover of Venezuelan oil, as he stands to make billions on a distressed asset a judge forced into his hands. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

AIPAC Megadonor Pail Singer prepared ro capitalize on US war crime www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

EVERY accusation a confession? In this economy?!?!

looks like George Santos is volunteering to “run Venezuela”

Demand your Member of Congress do everything in their power to stop Trump’s escalating attacks against Venezuela. act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-tr...

Donald Trump has made all US citizens war criminals. #Venezuela #TrumpAdmin #WarCriminals

We Bombed a Country, Took Its President, and the Corporate Media Calls It 'Capture' | The word for this isn’t justice. The word for this isn’t capture. The words are “illegal kidnapping” and “declaration of war.”

Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan. Now, refugees across the U.S. are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE. trib.al/OU3gRDF

JUST IN: The House Judiciary Committee released the complete video of Jack Smith deposition. youtu.be/lR-bhPzQYUE

House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

I WROTE SOMETHING NICE www.wonkette.com/p/who-are-th...

DO NOT GET DISTRACTED!!

I love the GOP senators squirming about their culpability for sedition. #JackSmithTestimony

Q: “To the extent members of Congress are up in arms this happened to them, who should be held accountable?” JACK SMITH: “Trump. He directed his co-conspirators to call them to delay the proceedings.” As @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty try to take millions from taxpayers. 🤔

Mark Zuckerberg earned just $1 at Meta in 2024. Elon Musk made $0 at Tesla. They're not alone. A tax law professor explains how the ultrawealthy legally avoid income taxes while their wealth grows by billions annually.

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

2025 has been a terrible year of grieving for me. Here’s how I’m saying goodbye to it…

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MTG is trash. She is beyond vile and has done so much damage for the past 5 years. Leave it to mainstream media, establishment hacks, and "moderate" liberals to embrace and elevate her.

and Tax Returns and Insurance Claims.

Thank you to Chuck Redd, The Cookers, Doug Varone and Dancers, Rhiannon Giddens, and Kristy Lee for boycotting the Kennedy Center renaming and canceling their performances.

Who agrees? ✋

I keep hearing people say “this is not who we are” in reference to ICE abductions and general Trump admin fvckery. Maybe we need to BELIEVE THE EVIDENCE OF OUR OWN EYES, instead of wishcasting about our aspirations.

Here is a reminder that Marjorie Taylor Green is a performative troll whose persona is based solely on self aggrandizement. www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)