Here is a clear, child-friendly way to explain the difference between collectivism and communism, using simple language and familiar ideas: 🧵

This is unconstitutional and egregious regardless of which population is targeted for extermination. In case liberals feel safe, authoritarian regimes never merely target “Commies”; they apply vilified labels to anyone they wish to eliminate. And they routinely call Democrats “leftists.”

🇨🇺🇻🇪Breaking: U.S. forces killed at least 56 Venezuelan & Cuban military & security personnel during the operation to kidnap President Nicolás Maduro, according to official tolls released by Tue. evening by authorities in Caracas & Havana. Venezuela’s armed forces said 24 of their service members...

WaPo reports a DC source explaining that if Machado had *given* her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump instead of merely dedicating it to him, “she’d be the president of Venezuela today.” Yes, it’s that petty when too many fragile egos rule the world.

So not only did Trump say he talked to the oil companies before Congress, which would be bad enough — they’re also telling us he lied about that. After lying that it was about drugs. No matter how you feel about Maduro, lying us into wars of choice is never justified.

Why does it matter that Nicolás #Maduro told a US judge he’s still president of #Venezuela? International law prohibits prosecution of a sitting head of state in another country’s courts. @keitnerlaw.com explains head of state immunity and the Maduro case: www.justsecurity.org/128073/head-...

What the UK party leaders said about Venezuela so far: 🔶 Lib Dems: "Maduro was bad but this is beyond the pale" 🌍 Greens: "They'll lock you up for graffiti but not this?" 🌳 Tories: "Well it was morally right wasn't it?" ➡️ Reform: "Yeah we know it was illegal but who cares?" 🌹 Labour: [404 error]

Caracas takes to the streets to denounce American aggression today: Video: BreakThrough News via X @BTnewsroom)

5 Stanford University students go on trial this week on felony charges tied to a June 2024 pro-Palestinian protest, making it the harshest criminal case to emerge from last year’s nationwide campus demonstrations against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, The Guardian reports. The students are accused...

Let this sink in—RFK Jr’s own self appointed vaccine committee gave too many roadblocks that RFK Jr bypassed his own ACIP committee to force his anti-vax agenda through. And he snuck it through without a Senate confirmed CDC Director either. drericding.substack.com/p/the-cdc-ju...

NEW: Two weeks after the DOJ was supposed to release all of the Epstein files, only 0.6% of the documents have come to light. From suddenly removing images of Trump to rejecting accusations against him in the files, it’s clear the DOJ is playing defense for the president. https://bit.ly/3LzdHGW

Thanks to @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @jonshaffer.bsky.social for their post on RFK Jr and #vaccines: www.bmj.com/content/392/... Well said!

🚨CDC estimates that there have been at least 11M cases, 120K hospitalizations, 5K deaths (including 9 kids) from flu this season. ⚠️Get a flu shot. Avoid crowds. Wear a tight fitting N95. Stay home when having symptoms. Taking precautions protects each other! #MaskTogetherAmerica ‼️ #12DaysOfMasks

WSJ: Trump tipped off oil execs a month before the US kidnapped Maduro, while neglecting to inform Congress Top Trump donor billionaire Paul Singer whose investment firm purchased Citgo is set to profit immensely The Venezuelan government estimates Citgo’s value at $18 billion

UN Security Council condemns US attack on Venezuela for violations of national sovereignty, political independence & territorial integrity, warning US has set a “dangerous precedent” for the world order Several nations condemned US violations of the UN Charter Venezuelan ambassadors to UN said:

Protesters Worldwide Condemn U.S. Assault on Venezuela

Secretary of State Rubio Warns Cuban Government After U.S. Attack on Venezuela

Right. There is no reason to believe that this will be contained to the population exploited as test subjects. There is every reason to believe it is a new modality of authoritarian governance, to deploy over any population these regimes want to control.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations tells the world why the U.S. has kidnapped the Venezuelan President: “You cannot continue to have the largest oil reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States.”

⚡️Zohran Mamdani Has More Jewish Support Than You Think While attention is on the new mayor’s revocation of pro-Israel executive orders, analysis reveals age & income shaped the Jewish vote more than ethnicity... New from @MichaelLangeNYC (X) for Drop Site News www.dropsitenews.com/p/zohran-mam...

And the rest of these man, Jay Bhattacharya at NIH, Marty Makary at FDA, Mehmet Oz at CMS and Donald J. Trump share this responsibility, this culpability for the coming waves of suffering, sickness and death of children.

Take it from a real vaccine expert, @pauloffit.bsky.social, this move is baseless and dangerous. pauloffit.substack.com/p/on-being-d...

The driver of this policy is a charlatan and fraud. Remember her name: Tracy Beth Hoeg. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

There is no limit to what this mindset will justify so long as it is aligned with the power structure that upholds it. It is indeed a cult.

None of us can afford homes, but we can bet on the prices that landlords and the big private equity companies gobbling up all our real estate will be paying for them

⚠️ Graphic BREAKING: Israeli forces have shot a child in the head in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, close to the yellow line that separates Israeli controlled areas from rest of Gaza where the vast majority of the population lives. Since the ceasefire in Oct, Israel has shot hundreds of Palestinians...

DPH statement on the changes to the US vaccine schedule - its a tragic mistake. Read more 👉https://www.defendpublichealth.org/press-release/denmarks-vaccine-schedule-makes-no-sense-us-defend-public-health-says

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

Liz Truss and the Dark Enlightenment From UK Prime Minister to radical right podcaster interviewing anti- democratic individuals like Bannon and Yarvin open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

Every video I come across on YouTube these days is so obviously scripted. More and more creators are just fully reading ChatGPT generated scripts to the camera 24/7 and it's total garbage I hate it!

The sad thing is that those who championed these men never have had to answer for their collaboration, grave mistake. Search for their names. They're still enjoying professional prestige and power on the backs of others' suffering. It is so repulsive.

We’ll never know, but it’s very plausible that Kennedy and MAHA, were the keys to Trump gaining power again. That’s why I will never be able to overlook anyone who fluffed these doctors or mocked those of us who desperately tried to sound the alarm bells about them.

"Putin’s world has just become more harmonious [...]because these two autocrats really do view the world in the same way. We have a saying for this in Russian: Two boots make a pair." @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

This is a violation of the public trust.

🚨Trump claims the US is now in control of Venezuela, declaring, “we’re going to run the country” & repeating that the US would govern “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.” He said US forces are “there now until a proper transition can take place,” and announced,,,

Because the regime is unconcerned with whether their lies are believed. Why would an authoritarian regime that got away with incitement of insurrection domestically care about its actions, let alone its messaging, especially in a world in which “plausible genocide” largely continues with impunity?

Iranian-American writer & commentator says the current unrest hasn’t reached the threshold needed to overthrow the government. Protests remain smaller and less intense than past waves, life largely continues, & security forces aren’t overwhelmed. Regime-collapse scenarios are premature, though...👇🏼

🇸🇩 Since the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) retook Khartoum in March, forensic teams under Khartoum State authorities have exhumed more than 15,000 bodies, Le Monde reports in a long-form ground investigation from the capital. Bodies are being reburied in formal cemeteries, often with bones removed...

Well, it looks like another illegal oil war from a flailing, unpopular, and incompetent president. Has anyone checked on “anti-war”Tulsi Gabbard?

Every time there’s an uprising in Iran, the monarchist propaganda—an arm of western imperialism—immediately tries to usurp it as a demand for the return of monarchy, completely ignoring widespread, vehement chants against dictatorship of any kind, specifically including monarchy and theocracy alike.

Another one of Gaza’s roughly 12,000 estimated cancer patients, including more than 1,000 children, has died waiting for care. Most are dying slowly & quietly in tents, even as a petition is now circulating to evacuate Gaza’s cancer patients, especially children, to hospitals in Jerusalem that....

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