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America is a parody of a parody of a parody of itself

in all seriousness people are aggro’ing over increasingly stupid and bad things because they feel useless in the current moment which, to be serious, means you should log off and do more things instead of just screaming at someone

Local news interviewed a local Venezuelan family with blue eyed no sabe kids that were celebrating the coup in Venezuela with near perfect republican talking points lol

Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Heard NPR’s correspondent, who is not in Venezuela, explain that people in Venezuela woke up to this news. Yet everyone I’ve heard from was up all night. Intense observation on what the U.S. state is and isn’t doing requires critical attention to what the U.S. press is and isn’t doing, too.

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

it's kind of crazy that there's even any question that democrats are going to do anything about this

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Thread of Chicago-area House and Senste responses (candidates and sitting members) to Trump’s attack on Venezuela. Duckworth’s Chicago office still lets you leave a voicemail, unlike Durbin’s: 312-886-3506

I'm surprised the Venezuelan government will allow them to enter the country

It’s not a distraction they’re just fascist Hitler didn’t invade Poland to distract people, he invaded Poland because he wanted to occupy Poland Begging even good Democrats to call a spade a goddamn spade

The rogue fascist administration MUST lie to us in the correct order as soon as possible this week (no worries if not)

Oh my fucking god Dems stop calling the invasion and toppling of a foreign government by our fascist president a DISTRACTION!

“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.” Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.

We’re in a different time. If you’re not calling for Trump’s impeachment or are waiting for a poll or being pressured into it with milquetoast statements, your time has passed.

"We've always been at war with Eurasia"

One of the best threads today summarizing the responses of Illinois Reps, Senators, and candidates for office.

And @julianastratton.bsky.social calls for him to be held accountable but stops short of saying the things that would do that…..like impeachment. Again, you want me to vote for you to become Senator? Where is your fight?

Democratic leadership needs to compose a firm letter ASAP!!

Sorry! It's been busy.

Check out Kyle’s thread of statements by Illinois politicians. Helps keep track of who to pressure and who to thank.

you must. MUST. watch this

Co-signed

Reading this is psyching myself up to go hard on door-knocking

"I've got Andres Serrano's attorney on line two..."

Co-signed

Further proof that this all started with Obama Derangement Syndrome, ever since Obama won the Peace Prize.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

I finally blocked this Canadian, who is lecturing USAians about things she does not understand, and worse, isn't willing to understand. It's depressing that over 20k are following her. My apologies if my block is making it hard to follow the replies if you were trying to help

Waves glowsticks at this point because I really need certain fanclubs to freaking grasp it.

One of the many reasons we're at where we are is because of decades of "how dare you criticize democrats you must want republicans to win"

Because people seem to need to be reminded: just because you curse a crappy elected Democrat, doesn't mean you're advocating either staying home, or letting the Republican win. And if you don't vote in Democratic primary elections, you should start.

I've had to explain this twice. Which I guess isn't really that much. yay

“Marco Rubio as a teenager made extra cash working for his late brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia. The business imported and sold exotic animals as a front for moving nearly a half million pounds of cocaine and marijuana.”

republicans had 70 some votes to repeal obamacare knowing he’d never sign the bill if it passed and they still did it because it showed the base they were doing something aside from asking for money and carrying on about how powerless they were.

I usually think that a lot of "here's why they're REALLY doing this" is misguided, because they're just fuckin' idiots, perhaps esp. RFKjr. However to break my own rule I think the Venezuela war is basically Rubio deciding he wants this and selling it to the rest of them based on what they'll accept

Thread about why "impeachment is pointless" is a bad take

This is a fair point and IMO the bigger risk is that Congress gives up the impeachment power and fails to even try to assert its authority over an out of control executive. Taking a pass on impeachment is conceding that the Constitution is a dead letter. bsky.app/profile/hell...

After the first impeachment, Democrats won a trifecta at the federal level. After the second (and failed prosecutions), he defeated a last-minute replacement candidate. I think the track record is either doesn't-matter-so-do-it-anyway to neutral to Good, Actually. bsky.app/profile/mano...

“Oh but if Democrats did that Republicans would just vote it down, wouldn’t convict and would rally their base to defend Trump’s crimes.” Yeah, okay, make them do that then.

Meanwhile, on Elon's site...

We’re no longer even asking if the US should be the world’s cop, the question is now “should one sundowning pedophile mobster be the world’s cop” and Dick Durbin still can’t muster anything but a Yes Sir Absolutely Sir Let Me Manufacture Consent For The Glorious Interventionism Machine Sir

Your fait accompli must be explained to me in detail before I will reflexively retroactively approve it

Timeline cleanse

Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please. Script.

Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important. Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.