So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

it’s the scariest of sundays because tomorrow we have to remember how to job

Accountability for people with more power is important and it should be driven by people who have been at the losing end of their grift!

“I do not defend Maduro. I point at him. But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries.”

Please tell me they will make a movie together. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I think this is why ableism is such an important analytic through which to understand politics in action.

They wanna conquer the Latin American continent and make it into colonies. Next or not, the end game will be the same. I have seen “Is Cuba next? Is Mexico next? Is Colombia next?” On multiple articles and can’t help think that misses the forest for the trees.”

Take it from a Filipino, even if you despise the current rulers of your country, you will live to regret the day the United States comes in to remove them

This is why I always tell people that power is a somatic experience. We ingest trash about power that is untrue and very harmful. But it makes us FEEL safe while jeopardizing the conditions that actually make you safe in reality.

Also: I think the observation that a lot of people leave conservative evangelism and try to produce that same evangelical experience with their leftist politics is true Sometimes the guiding political habits don’t come from their politics

I am genuinely so grief-stricken about Venezuela. My family was deeply impacted by the Guatemalan coup d’état in ‘54. Right down to the pulmonary issues all my elders have as a result of the United Fruit company setting up business in the jungle their village was near at the time.

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

I know *nothing* makes sense but I'm still stuck on "we're gonna run Venezuela" like... 1) mothafucka WHO? 2) mothafucka HOW?? and crucially, 3) mothafucka WHAT????

Other democratic senators and reps have weighed in. But silence from the House and Senate leaders.

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

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

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

“Irony” isn’t nearly a strong enough word

::sighs in Guatemalan::

This war will destabilize the entire region and set off a global shockwave of anti-Americanism vs. no it won’t

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

The reported capture of Venezuelan president evokes previous eras when other leaders were seized by US.

To that end, and more in line of what I can do, and likely have the relevant people following me: If anyone is aware of any congressional notification, please reach out. My Signal is crg.32 and I am awake and working — and hence available — as needed.

This is a stark reason—one of several—to be very cautious here. Others: Almost everyone involved is an unreliable narrator. It’s night. It’s the new year weekend and so still a holiday time for most journalism staffing operations. People are getting calls now, and getting to work, but be cautious.

Even the weather don’t like them

So much discourse on masks as a result of the Pod Bros and Jon Stewart making jokes at the expense of sick people. So I wanted to share what it looks like in your biomarkers when you need a mask and could benefit from other people masking. I will explain these numbers for you.

I love this because he’s gonna school the entire Democratic establishment on how you lead the press around being like “Check this shit out. Can you believe this? I’m stunned” and use that to build consensus for policy

I have a Grand Unified Theory of Love of the Game it’s extremely simple: the more Love of the Game you demonstrate consistently—whatever your game is the more people love you and the thing about Mamdani that makes him unstoppable is that he fucking LOVES. THE. GAME.

Beneath every element of capitalism is exploitation so hideous it's almost incomprehensible Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

ICE is gross. In a lawsuit over inhumane detention conditions on floor 6 of ICE building in San Francisco resulted in a preliminary injunction. So ICE moved detainees to floor 5, claiming that skirts the injunction. Judge says, no way. www.courthousenews.com/judge-rips-t...

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

I can agree that this might be true, and also that this isn’t the end of the world. But people don’t just use it for this, but also for wedding vows and eulogies and apologies. And I read this story in that context, and maybe I shouldn’t have, but honestly the point, in that context, still stands.

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

I see I’m not the only person who has noticed Penske Media has a … position on the film of the year www.instagram.com/reel/DS7a6R9...

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Yes and-ing this to say, I absolutely love that his speeches do not sound like he studied Barack Obama recordings as if they were the zapruder or game film. He talks good but does it in his own way.

I wrote about my alt text skyline shenanigans! 👀 "My commitment to Disability Justice means remaining open to improving so that I engage in cross-disability solidarity with folx whose disabilities are different from my own, like those who rely on screen readers for access." 🫂 bit.ly/CrossDisabil...

PSA for the unfamiliar.

Pay attention. Believe that they are planning the worst.

This year taught me so much. It had some of the most difficult and painful moments. I started the year running from a fire in a wind storm where a tree flew past me. I ripped to ligaments and two tendons. I had rifts with my family. My Long Covid got significantly worse. Crashes, hives, heart issues

They really stuck that landing.

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

Please say “ethnic cleansing” when posting this stuff because that’s what they’re broadcasting. They’re broadcasting plans to engage in ethnic cleansing.

I did not think adding a cast member in the last episode would work but she pulls it off.

Donald Trump’s lying again. He lost in court when Illinois stood up against his attempt to militarize American cities with the National Guard. Now Trump is forced to stand down.

The expectation that every facility public or private should accommodate themselves to policing by random white men.

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

Something that many (at least online) seem to forget it how high this man was flying in January and where he is now. Yes he is richer and still terrible but the Tesla protests pierced the sense that he was beyond reach. And that matters a lot. Thanks to everyone who joined those ongoing protests.

The key thing to understand in this story is not just that Katherine is the kind of leader we want to see more of, standing up on principle, but that when you do so, you will face as much opposition from your ostensible allies as from the fascists you’re fighting. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...