Gonna be real (personal) for a moment: there's another life path I wish I had gone down that both feels and is closed off at this point. A lot of regrets: about choices made, words said. Some sleepless nights this eats me up inside, and then I scold myself for feeling sorry for myself. 🧵

From Venezuela's president:

Republic of Korea Army Taekwondo team. Gets more impressive the longer you watch.

Sure, why not?

#AbolishICE because it's illegal, inhumane. #Felon47 is dying: better protest hard to let #JDVance know he's #Noking. PERIOD. #ImpeachTrump #ImpeachBondi #ImpeachRKJR #Dems. You. #MustFight. Hard. You. #DemsMustListen get out there. #listen

Motherfuker 34-count Felon47, rapist, pedo-protector, monster ... "Armed Conflict Location & Event Data or ACLED, the nonpartisan conflict monitor, told Al Jaz eera that the US had carried out – or been a partner to – 622 overseas bombings in all, using drones or aircraft, since January 20, 2025"

Marble caves in Chile

Enjoy a minute of this silly 🐿️

Whatever her history, whatever her current views, it's Delcy Rodriguez's right to defend her country's sovereignty as their acting president now. Because again, what we did was illegal and we had no right to do it, and anything else we do going forward to further meddle with Venezuela will also 🧵

This. All of this.

This Venezuela shit also has me thinking about Kamala Harris's time as VP down in Central America. While there, she tried to use her power and influence to help stabilize elections in those countries, so corruption didn't rule the day. That is a *much* harder task than showing up with guns 🧵

Interesting how the supposed Somali fraud stuff just dropped out of the news cycle once it was shown to be bunk and the WHITE lady who did the fraud was already investigated and charged years ago.

They can change the wording all they like, call it whatever they want. At the end of the day it was a kidnapping of a head of state. Whether the guy stole their election is none of our business, they are a sovereign nation who should be able to have their own self determination. Playing world 🧵

Because it's who he is, without substance or follow through on anything, I predict this kidnapping will play out like all of Trump's moves: chaotic, stupidly shortsighted, and being forced to walk back statements and actions, and will be messy as fuck, with everyone the worse for it.

She's right.

Was Gonzalez, the guy who actually won Venezuela's presidential election, put in power? No. Was Machado, who sung Trump's praises and bragged about opening up Venezuela for the Drill, Baby, Drill treatment, put in power? No. Most of Maduro's power structure remains, and no plan was actually 🧵

In the early days of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the folks in those countries had some positive reactions to America's presence, too. That perhaps they, too, would experience our democracy. This quickly soured as they realized we didn't have their best interests at heart. The Trump 🧵

Very true. Most people desire companionship, good company, but the world is full of opportunists and backstabbers, and you learn to be guarded with time and experiences. I've always prided myself on being patient and listening more than talking, and have had many shy 🌺 open up to me, knowing 🧵

Don't threaten us with a good time. Or maybe do... 🤔

Everything with the regime is like the shitty, stupid D rated version of actual professionals.

The world is terrible. Look at Katniss's toe beans all together, instead. Late #caturday

Reading at least 40 people, military and civilian, murdered in Caracas for last night's raid. So Trump has murdered folks in the triple digits at this point in that part of the world.

If against cocaine presidents and cartels, why pardon cocaine presidents and cartels?

I like my car. I like airplanes. I like a lot of the advances we've made since figuring out the combustion engine. It makes our world more interconnected in a way it's never been. But I despise what oil addiction does to nations. What they're willing to do to get it. And it's especially 🧵

This sounds incredibly appealing right now...

Not disconcerting at all...

Today is one of those kinda days where I'd be happy just disappearing into the wilderness, and just let the 🌎 do its thing without me. My posts feel pointless and stupid, this world feels pointless and stupid.

Kegbreath: America is back. Yeah? The imperial America the rest of the world despises? That America? Every history book or documentary I've read/watched SCREAMS forced regime change is always a bad idea. Venezuela is the two oldest excuses: drugs and oil. We've trotted out that line many 🧵

How do we know China won't kidnap Taiwan's president now? How do we know Russia won't kidnap Zelenskyy?

I don't like to post his ugly face on my timeline, but just to reiterate my point: EVERY SINGLE TIME WE HAVE DONE FORCED REGIME CHANGE, IT DIDN'T END WELL.

Another note: one of the reasons (because migration is a super complex issue and folks migrate for a variety of reasons) we've seen such an influx of central and S. Americans to the United States over the decades is *because* we pulled stunts like last night on their countries. It is beyond 🧵

The United States has a long and sordid history of forced regime change in S. America. Sadly, removing Maduro is nothing new to us. History has also shown when we do these stunts and install puppet leaders, in the long run it creates vacuums that are then filled with even worse elements, like 🧵

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

It's difficult to put into words just how insane it is that we have a president who requires constant cognitive tests as his mental state decays rapidly, who is now starting a new, unprovoked war. If there were *ever* a reason to 25th amendment one, this is fucking it.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

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We are no better than Russia. Truly. There was no justifiable reason to attack Venezuela. We're watching straight up war crimes.

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I'm so sorry, 🇻🇪Venezuela🇻🇪😢... So tired of living in a country run by the most evil, most selfish, most corrupt, most warmongering.

Sigh.

So he did it. He attacked Venezuela. Caracas, specifically. We knew this was coming. Here we are again, another forever war being started by a Republican president for 🛢️🛢️🛢️.

You've seen the giant stormy eye on Jupiter, but have you seen the 🐬? Look carefully.

Mind Flayer from Stranger Things on Vegas's giant eye. I love that thing. I initially thought it was tacky, but they do really cool things with it.

Just amazing.

This is a really cool fact.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=qDgr... Possibly my favorite YT video of all time. It gets funnier the longer you watch. It'll also forever ruin Lord of the Rings for you, you won't be able to watch them again without thinking about this video.

Again I ask, was it worth it to "own the libs?". When a majority of those on the ACA are Republicans, they will get screwed the hardest this year. They played themselves.

Almost as if @aoc.bsky.social was right the whole time with her Green New Deal. Still a dream worth pursuing.

30 seconds of pure zen.