A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

mood boost!

It's gonna get crazier because it's still not working.

No events on Trump's calendar today. He's recalibrating. This is happening with greater frequency now. It's a sign of his advancing decline. They're extending his ability to remain upright and semi-lucid for as long as it's both possible and passable. This is crazy dangerous.

Before we succumb to the amnesia of Trump’s Upside Down World, let’s take a moment to remember what happened five years ago. Because the shame of that day endures, and its consequences are all around us. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Dems, release another batch of the Epstein Files on Monday. Don't let Trump and Republicans distract. Keep him cornered.

40 innocent venezuelans who were minding their own business are dead - and for what.

If Trump's actions occurred at the local neighbourhood level. #USA #Venezuela

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

Barbara McQuade posted: "It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence."

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

You know the Epstein Files are bad when the orange felon bombs Venezuela, murders their citizens and kidnaps their leader all to distract from his sex crimes with children. This is what happens when you give a deranged criminal full power instead of sending him to prison.

I wanted to add an observation, that this sure is one whopper of a distraction from Epstein, Jack Smith, and bad polling, and one colossal infusion of narcissistic energy for a weakened and diminished old man who has been embarrassed by advancing ill health and progressive cognitive decline.

WHAT A FALL FROM GRACE!!!! Edward R Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Harry Reasoner Katie Couric, Connie Chung numerous others… I’ve put parental controls on CBS, my TV won’t air it nor will I see their advertisers.

My daughter’s cat hates our other cat, and will sometimes sit watching him sleep from behind my office door

Really going to utilize #booksky more. Yes, some of it will be for personal reasons, but its just a cool part of the internet. One that makes me happy. Read more books. Write more books. Books.

Let's move on from "Release the Epstein Files" to "Call Out Their Names".

Is the press never going to ask Melania about her participation in those Epstein parties?! She was in the files too.

Bernie Sanders publicly swears in Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor

Video from October 2025 - New Guinness World Record in Liu Yang HuNan in China for The Next Level of Drone Fireworks Shows

If you're trying to cut back on exposing yourself to the Misery Machine, but still want to stay informed--a thing you could do is sign up for AP's Morning Wire. I'll post that sign up in the next skeet, but here is AP behind the scenes on some good stories from 2025: apnews.com/article/good...

It’s 25F in NYC and crowds are waiting in line to get to see Mayor Mamdani get sworn in

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

It's going to be a great year for defending democracy. Let's go!

It was an exhausting one. Hopefully I made it a funny one.

We need some fucking accountability in 2026.

. And I'm going to post this cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social so the world never forget what Trump did on #January6th . . . ... nearly 5 years ago, but still unbelievable ! 💠 👊 💠

Also, the man who literally destroyed the White House, is giving $1,000,000,000,000 of your money to billionaires who support him, funding it all by taxing you through tariffs and taking away your healthcare is trying to make you believe your life is worse not because of him but Somalis.

This is how I felt when I discovered tRump would be president again on November 5, 2024 and I have alternated between fury and fear for my children’s future. After these elections, tonight is the first time I’ve felt like this country may survive tRump. #Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #RESIST

Maria Farmer v US: Lawsuit filed May 2025 alleges that the FBI, Justice Dept, and US Attorney's offices failed to act on her reports of sexual assault and sex trafficking by Epstein Maxwell in 1996, allowing his abuse to continue for decades and harming countless victims. @annabower.bsky.social

I found this video this morning. From what I’ve gathered, he was the limo (and stepfather) driver for tRump when tRump raped the girl that was murdered in Oklahoma after giving birth on the boat in Michigan. It was too long to post here, so it’s in three parts. PART ONE #Pinks #ProudBlue #Epstein

You can't tell me this is not true. 😳

“Is he dead yet?” should be the first question asked at every White House press conference. “OK, but it’s happening soon, right?” should be the second. And then maybe “how fucked are you all once he’s dead and can’t pardon you anymore?” if they’re still at the lectern

Remember this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.

There’s a reason the political right wants to keep people dumb.

Seems there is yet another app using the ICEBlock logo and charging people for access. It’s called ICEBlocker and it is not us. DO NOT DOWNLOAD or pay. Best we can tell is it’s Russian. We would never ask for money.

A watercolour painting I did from a watercolour teaching book. The Ponte Moro Bridge in Venice. #art #watercolour #painting

How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

Day 24 of my #AdventCalendar [sound up]

a small painting from a while back that i still get lost in, gratefully 🤍🕊️ . . #ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractArt #AbstractExpressionism #Painter #Art #Artist #WomensArtBlueSky #AbstractArtist #BlueSkyArt  #OregonArtist #Oregon

Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

UPDATE: CNN confirms that "the envelope [holding the Epstein-Nassar Note] was sent from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City [where Epstein was being held] to Nassar"—*and* got vetted by federal officials. Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).