The march is now parked in front of Trump Tower. Still very taken aback by the number of people out tonight, given it's below freezing, dark and the last weekend of the Christmas season.

Watch this. Watch again. "This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."

JFC.

Kim felt left out in all of today’s drama.

Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”

So, this should finally put to rest any delusions that there are decent people left in the US military who will stand up to illegal orders and protect democracy. The US military is now more likely to kill US citizens rather than help them. They are not our friends.

More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”

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How the World Is Reacting to the U.S. Capture of Nicolas Maduro? Fake saber rattling or rolling over & letting a sociopath play world president time.com/7342925/vene...

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

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

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

Insane flex apnews.com/article/zohr...

Also, and yes it's trivial, I think it's bad that the President is making a public address on an act of war on another state from his private club rather than from the White House.

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*she doesn't have MY respect. That's what he's really saying.

Everything is infuriating and the people in charge are irrevocably evil.

Donald Trump’s unconstitutional military action in Venezuela is putting our troops in harm's way with no long-term strategy. The American people deserve a President focused on making their lives more affordable.

Trump: "We're going to stay [in Venezuela] until such time as the proper transition can take place…We're going to run it, essentially, until such time."

They should be seated in the same order at the war crimes trials. Trump is the most dangerous he's ever been. He knows he won't live long enough to be held accountable. He doesn't give a flying flick if he starts WWIII.

A functioning Congress will have articles of impeachment drafted by the end of the day. Our Congress will just go to social media to basically say “We don’t like this, but what are you gonna do?”

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.

“Why is it ok for America to militarily invade, bomb, and arrest a foreign leader but Russia is evil for invading Ukraine and China is bad for aggression against Taiwan? Is it only ok if we do it?” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, surprisingly.

This is fucking insanity

Unclear 1) how many casualties tonight's attack caused and 2) under what legal ground the US is citing to capture and extradited Maduro (if he is captured, Venezuela isnt saying just yet). Cartel de Los Soles almost certainly doesnt exist as an organization

BREAKING NEWS: Trump says Nicolás Maduro and his wife are aboard a U.S. warship and will face prosecution in New York. Follow AP's live updates.

Tobacco use is leading cause of preventable disease, disability, & death in USA. Why did admin fire CDC's tobacco prevention & control experts? Illegal RIFs didn’t just eliminate jobs, they have silenced science. Critical data on tobacco use & its harms are NOT being published through MMWR. 1/2 🧵

Trump is posting more photos of dead birds and wind turbines today. In one photo he captioned “Eagles going down!”, it’s actually a photo of a red kite from 2010 in Spain. The other photo is from 2006 in Taiwan.

I’m a municipal fire inspector and by ordinance, we don’t ever make appointments, with the one exception of day care centers. We would never want the precedent set that it’s ok to open the door for someone dressed as a city inspector. We feel that is a tactic that a criminal would employ.

My resolutions look like this: read more books; try new fruits with the kids; try a new cooking recipe; listen to new music; go on more family walks. Stop confusing resolutions with advertisements from life coaches. Make a resolution that will bring you joy.

what’s happening with grok and nudity spam requests should be a global wake up call about AI image gen and instead very few media outlets have even covered it yet

Yep…

340,000,000+ Americans. Take a look at your family and acknowledge that 1 in 3 will disappear if they get their way. Roughly 11 million people who don't have birth documents and are working through or under the system. And they want to eject them plus 90 million more. Wake up.

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

Hopefully everyone here is committed to ending the GOP hegemony which controls our government Some folks on BlueSky blocked me for posting about politics. That’s unfortunate. But it won’t stop me from continuing to call out the hypocrisy, misogyny, racism and inequity that I see in our body politic

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

Wartime recruitment? More like a desperate attempt to rally the MAGA cult for their oppressive agenda. Let's not fall for this nonsense! #blueresistance

Hearing a lot of disappointment from people in attendance. One couple commenting “there’s more police then people here, this is lame” and others commenting how low effort and energy this all feels.

Still real early but here’s a view of Chicago’s New Years Eve celebration. The crowds maybe a few hundred strong across the two blocks closed off on Wacker Drive.

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A group of people walk by a shuttered business in The Loop, while carrying a bag full merchandise, and New Years balloons, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

In fairness, Trump I closed dozens of agency libraries back in 2019, too, including all of the regional EPA library collections

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

Large law firms are siding with Trump over their clients and employees. Let me give you one statistic to exemplify this: DOJ is suing 22 states for access to sensitive voter data. My firm of 60 lawyers is fighting in all 22. Not a single big law firm is fighting along side us in any case.

We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children. Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

‘On Xmas day, the biographer of Bobby Sands, Denis O’Hearn, wrote an open letter to the British government, pleading with them to meet the solicitors of the hunger strikers. O’Hearn noted how ‘even in the case of the Irish hunger strikes of ‘80 and ‘81, where the prisoners were considered at war…’

I think about this a lot

I praise the Lord that I believe gave me free will that I am free to choose and worship Him in this country. I also believe other people deserve the same right my Lord gave me, and that they deserve to live in peace even if they make a different choice.

Here's my year in review