Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.

Taps sign.... Anyone surprised by Trump and the Rubio/Miller administration's lunge towards hemispheric imperialism wasn't paying attention

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It’s because with Greenland the USA becomes the second largest country in the world, and he can say “I did that”.

But the administration’s claim is that the country isn’t at war with Venezuela, which hardly helps them meet the requirements of the Alien Enemies Act. Unless they will try and point to the CAAF, which then only gives them 60 days. It just doesn’t really stack up.

Cuba admitted that 32 of their officers were killed. This reported by AP. „The Cuban military and police officers were on a mission the Caribbean country’s military was carrying out at the request of Venezuela’s government, according to a statement read on Cuban state TV on Sunday night.“

Venezuelan GDP has shrunk by almost 80% since 2013 when Maduro took over. From this helpful profile of him from @jprathbone.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/689b...

I certainly can see no problems with giving half a million teenage boys in El Salvador access at school to generative A.I. that produces pornographic images of real people. As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/t...

Like I said: the whole admin runs on tactics and ego.

It makes sense if it is about Cuba

Main evening BBC News reporting that the USA “needs more of Venezuela’s heavy crude oil”. Is this true @sky.skymarchini.net ?

Yesterday, we focused on Miller’s wife’s post about Greenland (myself included), instead of sharing this ⬇️

But it wasn’t the oil industry that ordered the operation: it was a dementing narcissist who formed his political opinions in 1974.

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."

Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."

I want to remind everyone that the US has sanctioned members of the International Criminal Court for going through a formal legal process to identify international leaders who engaged in war crimes, making them vulnerable to arrest.

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

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That must partially explain the success of @drcastelino.bsky.social in the classroom.

As I was saying, nobody serious thinks there’s quick money to be made on Venezuelan oil. And even in the most optimistic scenarios, it would take years to increase oil production there.

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

Facebook mums are a group that isn’t identified as vulnerable in the same way as teen boys etc. we need a Netflix show called “middle age” where it shows the right wing harm being pumped into homes via parenting bloggers etc. Teen boys don’t just find these ideas online, they hear them at home

4. And while British imperial power in the 19thC was geared towards broader strategic purposes, what makes the Trump incarnation so dangerous is that for him personally it is all tactics and ego, not much more sophisticated than: “what is the point in me having all this power if I can’t use it?”

Things it is important to remember: 1. Trump is dumb, with ideas formed in the 70s and 80s that haven’t evolved. 2. He is surrounded by natcons whose conception of the state & power are the pre-1914 version. 3. Expect Trump admin fully to behave more akin to 🇬🇧 in the 19th century than 🇺🇸 in the 20th.

The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

Now there’s a couple different variants of cracking processes (steam, hydro, cat), but ultimately they all need the same input: natural gas. A fuckton of natural gas. And that stuff is getting pricier, making light oils more attractive (as they require less cracking).

Hegseth got to kill some people, so he's happy. Rubio thinks he can take out Cuba now, so he's happy. Miller thinks he can get this to escalate so he can do internment camps but for (checks notes, I guess...all hispanics?) so he's happy. Trump thinks he's gonna get some oil. It's all very dumb.

Anglophone BlueSky is like “this is a lawless and unprecedented U.S. administration” and Spanish-language media is just “The Gringos are at it again”.

Exactly one month ago.

Expect someone in the administration may have dusted off this 1989 OLC opinion. www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/...

Seeing a lot of people forget what happened with Manuel Noriega. I would be shocked if Trump did not rely on that as precedent. Added bonus: after the US was done with Noriega, we sent him to France for more criminal prosecution. One of the alleged shipments Maduro was involved in went to Paris

Invading Venezuela might be President Trump's first entirely orthodox US foreign policy action

Going out on a limb here, I don't think today's US news means anything whatsoever for other global affairs, whether Greenland, Ukraine, or Taiwan. See it as a rare example of continuity in US politics.

While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.

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.

Anglophone BlueSky is like “this is a lawless and unprecedented U.S. administration” and Spanish-language media is just “The Gringos are at it again”.

Obviously bad. Equally... not unprecedented for the US.

I hate to break it to you, but what Trump has done in Venezuela is very much precedented in U.S. history in the hemisphere.

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

Also, remember this is connected to the political culture that sees European governments resisting the rise of the far right as illegitimate, too.

Something I don't think folks have fully clocked is the degree to which just about everyone under the age of 45 in any natsecs adjacent space to the left of groypers is flatly saying "this is illegal as shit, that's all there is to it"

WTF. Obama had to spend 2 years distancing himself from SAUL ALINSKY.

The funniest thing could happen in 2026. Bless the day.

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

The idea that we need to deport 100 million people - almost one out of every three Americans! - was, a year ago, a deranged claim you’d hear from neo-Nazis to give themselves permission for limitless mass violence. Now it’s coming directly from this horrific agency’s horrific press office

I have officially arrived at middle age, as I have genuinely all day been looking forward to the Hootenany.

Elon Musk is the Enron of people lol

Coincidentally 100 million is the number of people in America who are of Hispanic or Asian background.

What is Starmerism, they ask? It is the unique political ability to piss off absolutely everybody at once.