Machado giving the Nobel Peace Prize to him makes me absolutely sick to my stomach.

there’s a sort of sociopathic detachment where these pols think they can just go in front of a camera for and say “fuck” instead of actually using the powers of congress or the federal agencies to hold murders accountable

Dear Congress: Is he going to actually have to nuke someone for you to get rid of him? If that interview isn't enough for you all to impeach or 25th, I guess that's what it's going to take.

Serious question: Is this what "great" is supposed to look like?

That NYT interview is NUTS. If the world is beholden to ([his] own morality), the world is indeed fucked. And he's got nukes.

If any other body — a gang, for instance — was invading schools like this, local police would be all over them, and rightly so. This is government-sanctioined domestic terror.

What ever happened to: 1: Proportional force, and 2: Due process? You know, just for starters . . .

Swalwell: "Here's what we can do, bc we're not helpless. We can strip them of their immunity. I'm working on doing that in Congress. We can make sure we don't fund masks and them being unidentified. We also can make sur local prosecutors and attorneys general use their law enforcement authorities."

Seriously, America is so far apart at this point philosophically — maybe we blue folks should split off.

Then his "training" is utter bullsh*t.

Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...

Is there a MAHA frathouse? Because it seems to me that all the MAHA guidelines were written by a bunch of fratbros: red meat and alcohol.

While I'm thinking about it, anyone got eyes on that $50 million reward for Maduro's capture that 47 said he deserved?

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

💯!

I am shocked . . . shocked, I tell you!!

Hey, can @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social cancel those casino contracts?

I concur. If you read one thread this week, let it be this one.

Honestly, at this point, I don't want to hear a damn word from any GOP members of Congress if they aren't going to stop him. They are letting him destroy the country and the world — and that will be their legacy.

Earlier today I did a thread here at Bsky. The attached is a fuller version of the points I was making. I hope you'll give it a read. substack.com/home/post/p-...

People need to wake the fuck up and understand what's happening here. Trump & his regime are behaving no differently than Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Khan. From @djrothkopf.bsky.social:

The whole 🧵, folks

YES.

Stephen Miller is Trump’s most important and influential aide because he channels and shares the president’s worldview. His cold-blooded assessment that might makes right is the one immutable law of history and is now the guiding concept behind US foreign policy…

Never forget. Gifted.

Rapists gonna rape.

Oh, @nymag.com, once again you frustrate me so by paywalling Julieanne Smolinski's exquisite piece of writing on leaving LA — it so, so deserves to be shared. Sigh.

Somali Medicaid fraud: BAD Rick Scott Medicaid fraud: GOOD

"The real world is governed by force" Quite the doctrine to wake up to.

Who is he talking to with this languaging? Who is his audience here?

They're cutting it *really* close, as we are counting down from six months till the 250th anniversary of the country on July 4, and if anyone thinks that they're not going to completely take over during that whole shebang . . . they've got a second think coming.

Has anyone seen anything good written on the links between this "hemisphere" stuff and the tech weirdos wanting to build their own cities-without-governance? Sure seems it would be easier for the tech bros if only 3 guys own the entire world . . .

I know which hotel chain I'll be staying at when I travel . . .

I keep thinking that, surely, one day, he's going to be too insane for even Putin, who will bring our long national nightmare to an end. Oh, what a day that would be.

It is truly insane to me that our system has the means to end this insanity but the people who can effect it refuse to…even though we are now at a point where in cannot possibly be in their own interest to keep supporting this shitshow

Would it help if we all collectively went outside minute and smudged the entire country at the same time? (Come to think of it, that would be more helpful than anything Congress is doing . . .)

Somebody give him the flu.

He's going to name us "The United States of T****," is't he?

As a longtime documentary producer whose work has been funded by and broadcast on PBS, all I can say about his and his cronies at this point is: F*ck him with the white-hot heat of a thousand — make that ten thousand — suns.

The English teacher in me loves this cartoon… From Benjamin Slyngstad.

Yes, and . . . why is it that folks who knowingly and willingly produce CSAM are allowed to have bank accounts — but weed businesses are not?

Well, on the good news front, I can still pull up my compression leggings after all the weight I gained over the holidays — so I can get back to the elliptical this morning!

In other words, our foreign policy has dementia.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

1: Who pays for all these invasions/occupations? 2: Who pays for the US to "run" these countries after we've invaded/occupied?

Not doing any resolutions this year except to put myself first. Part of putting myself first is to separate myself from those relationships that are only extractive, that take up so much time and energy and mental space that I don't have time for the relationships in my life that add value.

Randy Rainbow really needs to do a parody of this whole thing based on "I am the very model of a modern Major General"

She *does* have inside info . . . . . . but oh yes, congressional Dems can't be trusted not to leak and will therefore not be worthy of reading in.

On this day, we are literally six months away from the 250th birthday of the United States of America. That is not a very long time to right the ship that is this country.