A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal." It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

You need to have something like this which is three words or less. Medicare For All, Black Lives Matter, Abolish Ice. The Russians even did it with Peace Land Bread.

The Liberal International Order folks

It’s January. I’m 18. My country just launched an invasion under a Republican President to control more oil. It’s January. I’m 53. My country just launched an invasion under a Republican President to control more oil. I am very tired.

When I posted this we had yet to invade Venezuela. And now I need somebody to read over my finished Service Statement. Any takers?

This article is a year old and I stand by it. newrepublic.com/article/1894...

OK that's good.

democrats have talked for years about how unacceptable maduro was and spent the better part of the biden administration propping up a joke anti-president in the hopes that “organic” change could occur in venezuela.

One major thing federal elected Democrats can do now is threaten to investigate and prosecute anyone involved in war crimes if / when they are back in the majority. Political chilling effects go both ways.

How it's going.

"WE WILL NEVER AGAIN BE SLAVES." Boy, you ****ed with the wrong one.

We had a good run

Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.

Rodriguez: "Together, the Venezuelan people will find a peaceful way forward. Those who use violence and violate international law are in the wrong (...) We call on other nations to stand united, because what happened today in Venezuela can happen anywhere"

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

Electeds should say any oil companies participating will be subject to sanctions and investigations

To be fair to Trump, Rubio, Hegseth etc they are not all just pedophiles but also clearly off their faces on cocaine

This is from eight hours ago, and I stand by this. What Trump did was illegal, and it has to be covered like that. The point is being lost right now.

Why are so many leaders acting like the entire Venezuelan government has been ousted? Maduro's VP took over.

My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds. I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are. My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.

Lord forgive me but it’s time to go back to tha old me *pulls American Idiot CD out of cold storage*

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Spain will not recognize US intervention in Venezuela, PM says reut.rs/4ppZOJb

the moderate position on prediction markets is that they need to be made illegal and the people responsible for them should be prosecuted, and i’m close to getting there on more ~traditional~ books as well

I know, I know, it's nigh impossible for me to look at a problem in and/or caused by the United States and not think 'if y'all would just take the Reconstruction Amendments serious....' .........but if y'all would just take the Reconstruction Amendments serious!!!

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

Awesome: "What the builders found, after breaking through a bricked-up basement wall, was a forgotten labyrinth – a vast network of beautifully crafted Victorian vaults hidden right beneath one of the city’s busiest districts." secretldn.com/london-museu...

none of this is legal. none of this is normal. feel free to tell anyone who says otherwise to fuck off.

This is the wild part about the whole Trump experience, even when he says politically disastrous things, reporters rush in to fill in the blanks and steelman his arguments. As soon as they cut away from him saying “we’ll run it,” they cut to someone saying “obviously he didn't mean that.”

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

It’s not clear to me they have meaningfully accomplished regime change at all. All the same people who helped Maduro remain in power despite losing an election are still there.

Sen. Foreign Rel. ranking member Shaheen condemns attack:

who's going to do "american apparel but it's a worker owned transgender collective"

We're living out Rubio's "ideological" project, which is basically that he and his funders want Cuba back to run it like a plantation.

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

After bombing Venezuela and kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in the middle of the night, President Trump has declared that he will “run the country” in the meantime. trib.al/SgMnGAt

They are putting Americans’ safety in danger while destabilizing the region to enrich themselves. Congress must act, and Trump must be impeached.

who gives a shit about power levers. if you don't even attempt to start the process of impeachment, the fuck is the point of anything. "step on me daddy. please rig the next election, daddy" bsky.app/profile/squo...

I don’t love you and I’m not holding your hand: call your Senator and tell them that the must shut down the government on January 30th until this ends, a thing that Democrats have the hard power to do at this very moment.

Uh *TRUMP SAYS US WILL 'RUN' VENEZUELA UNTIL TRANSITION POSSIBLE

kinda miss the times when people asked me why the study of colonialism / imperialism was relevant tbh

Who needs CBS when Reuters can do state propaganda just as well?

this was 2 months ago. The consolidation happened.

"Trump has not even a fig leaf of legal authority for his attacks on Venezuela." Yep. That this is illegal is the point. As with January 6, his sexual assaults, his frauds, and every other crime, the point is to demonstrate that he is above the law. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social