Meanwhile the deconstruction of our relationships with the rest of the world continues apace. The repercussions will be vast in scope. apnews.com/article/unit...

The picture tells the tale.

This would be a good moment for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that Trump has lost his mind and you don’t have to cover him like he’s normal anymore.

NARRATOR: President Trump is thermonuclear stupid.

Exactly none of what the putrid, festering pile of steaming dung posted in this "truth" happened. None of it.

It's hard to match the dizzying transformations made by Germany in just the last 112 years.

.@PabloReports: What do you make of the White House blaming the police for what happened on January 6th? Lieu: The White House’s statement is batshit crazy.

I just added 2025 to the domain-averaged ocean heat content climatology for several sectors in the tropical Atlantic (the averages now span 2013-2025) -- available at bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/ohc/ @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

I should have expected that they'd do this. Brace yourself; it is one Orwellian mind-fck of twisted and dangerous lies guaranteed to inflame the minds of the ignorant, the gullible, and the violence-prone. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

A reminder that the traitorous Republicans have been blocking the installation of this memorial plaque since 2023.

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

The Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba, much of what used to be northern Mexico, and a whole raft of Central American countries have entered the chat. Among others. See also "Send the Marines," by Tom Lehrer.

As Administration officials seem to be struggling with this, let us say it again: it is illegal to use the U.S. military to invade a foreign country without the authorization of Congress and is a violation of international law. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Project 2025 was the blueprint. I remember being told by a MAGA friend that the document was a "Dem hoax".

Heh, sort of

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned..." You know the rest.

The dystopian cartoon we find ourselves in is devolving rapidly.

This is some dangerous, absolutely insane shit.

🧵Please read this thread. 🙏 Let's talk about "distraction." The POTUS is involved in the largest child trafficking sex operation in the world's global elite club. The POTUS launched an unlawful attack on a country without the approval of Congress. Too, this is an *international war crime.* 1/

As of this week, millions of Americans are now paying thousands more for health insurance. If the President and Congressional GOP think Washington has the capacity to "run" Venezuela right now, why won't they fix the insurance cost crisis they've created here at home?

Thinking about "Build Back Better" and how it disproportionally helped Red States because they needed it and how Republicans refused to vote for it and now that its beneficial effects are being seen how they proclaim it as their own.

I have noticed something odd coming from the Right recently — a change in vocabulary. They are using the word “hemisphere” rather than America. They went from “Make America Great Again” to speaking about the Americas and the Western Hemisphere. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

So Stephen Miller appears to have been tapped to "run" Venezuela. Sorry but I can't help but think of SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich in Czechoslovakia. And what happened from there.

And Congress? Barely a pearl clutched. This is the Roman Senate of Caligula saluting the apocryphal horse Incitatus as it made its way into that formerly August chamber.

Overheard: "China is playing Monopoly, Russia is playing Risk, trump is playing Hungry Hungry Hippos."

So Trump told the press he was going to invade Venezuela, and he told the oil companies he was going to invade Venezuela, but he never bothered to ask CONGRESS if he COULD invade Venezuela. And congressional Republicans are just like… “meh”. Are you fucking kidding me?!!

"No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” ― Edward R. Murrow

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

"JD Vance argues Venezuela attack will help curb fentanyl crisis." Vance is LYING. Fentanyl as Vance knows does not come from Venezuela. Please don't underestimate the EVIL of Vance. He will kill your family and then make up lies to justify it. I'm being literal. Vance is very dangerous.

Make your call to congress. Today and everyday.

Don't believe LIES of GOP saying they support removing Maduro because it will bring democracy to Venezuela. Trump now installed as leader Maduro's VP who helped Maduro crush dissent. If Trump picked pro-democracy activist to run nation then the OIL would be for the people-NOT Trump's oil oligarchs!

Critical thought is rapidly becoming anathema in this nascent totalitarian pest hole.

Repost if you agree 🔄 Repost my pinned post too please 🙏

Stephen Miller's wife posted this yesterday. The fascists envision an imperial America, from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn.

Don't these fucking people realize all the rules are gone? We're off the constitutional landscape. This is Hitler/Stalin/Mao country.

There would appear to be very little difference in the manor, execution and legality between Putin's "Special Military Operation" against Ukraine and Trump's attack on Venezuela. Could Trump's appearance of supporting Putin against Ukraine, be about to be rewarded at the expense of Ukraine?

When I teach my seminar on coups we keep a running tab on how many regime changes were motivated at least in part by desire for oil or other valuable commodities...

Good advice, right? Right?

My main takeaway from the Jack Smith testimony: we should push our presidential candidate to make him Attorney General in 2029.

Done and done.

The fucking moron going on again about "STUPID" people. "Mandatorily forced"--brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department. George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" comes to mind. Again.

Seriously though.

A Sea-Change at Chick-fil-A Corporate? The wailing and gnashing of teeth from Right Wing Christian organizations who are, from their statements, utterly shocked and dismayed to find Chick-fil-A employing Christian precepts and values, is telling. www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/16/c...

Bots and Big Oil shills playing this game every day.

The demagogue ends the old year predictably with poisonous invectives and deeds. He's sure to start the new one with much worse.