I remember when I was looking up whether Trump’s Kennedy Center appointees were MAGAts and only the Hindustan Times had me, the GOATs.

Really the take from the last few years is that if the Europeans wanted to kowtow towards a rapidly democratic backsliding state with that dawg in it that would actually protect them from Russia instead of throwing them to the wolves they should have let Turkey into the EU.

If we can reach $200k, we'll be in a place where we have enough to invest in some of our up front costs (such as the print publishing component of The Reconstruction Papers) to also finally have one full time editor on staff. We just need 19% more than we've already raised gofund.me/98115b78b

It’s not even the Nazi bar analogy anymore, it’s like if the owner of the Nazi bar succeeded in murdering hundreds of thousands of people and now installed a machine that produces CSAM on demand. It’s insane that people are still on there.

look its not important where you go. bluesky, threads, substack notes, mastodon, instagram, your college buddy's house where he plays beer pong with raccoons, its not important x looks like such an insane place that you have to go

Americans when Reagan gets 200+ servicemen killed in Lebanon

NYT: The death toll for the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of security forces, and could rise further.

The Venezuela attack is about getting oil the same way that rape is about getting laid

Kansas City Metro Area peeps: It appears that the feds might be staging for a massive raid(s) in the coming days, be on alert and get plugged in (@bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social, @kansascitydsa.bsky.social, AIRR KC) for community resources to help report any activity and with the aftermath.

San Francisco billboard: please... use AI slop... Los Angeles billboard: please... watch TV slop... San Diego billboard: please... eat French fry burrito slop... The chad rural Tennessee billboard: JESUS says HELL is real and as HOT as the ADULT TOYS at the GENTLEMAN'S STORE on EXIT 186

George Bush Vs. Saddam Hussein suggests that the attempted assassination of the Israeli Ambassador to the UK by the Abu Nidal Organization was ordered by Saddam Hussein in the hopes of bringing about a ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq War with a common enemy.

rip buddy

Bush-Shamir tensions in the lead-up to Madrid, from the delightfully named book "George Bush Vs. Saddam Hussein: Military Success! Political Failure?

absolutely unbelievable

Roscoe Conkling once said that the Crittenden Compromise “would amount to a perpetual covenant of war against every people, tribe, and State owning a foot of land between here and Tierra del Fuego.” Thanks to the press’s compromise with the neo-Confederate administration, that is where we are now.

No evidence, but I suspect what's going on here is the Chavista functionaries in government struck some kind of deal where they remain in power, Venezuela opens up more to the United States, and Maduro is the sacrificial lamb both to show American power and to rally Venezuelans around the state.

he’s probably going to unfollow me for this but I don’t really care. Polis is the worst elected Dem in the country imo

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

”why didn’t the Russian people rise up against Putin‘s war?” hm. Look around you, maybe

Republicans were fine with and even supported authoritarian Latin American groups trafficking drugs to America when they sold them in black neighborhoods, but now rural West Virginia has a drug problem so the Constitution and UN Charter don’t matter anymore. What happened to just say no?

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

“America First” was always about a return to what Andrew Preston in his book Total Defense calls “free security”—the pre-WWI/WWII idea America’s unique position meant it could take for granted it would not be attacked. Notably, although this means opposing an international structure that might…

Either it was a limited operation merely to arrest Maduro and move on, or, it is an ongoing major regime change committment that will open up a transition including international and private sector partners. It really can't be both

We killed and rendered Venezuelan civilians homeless so Donald Trump could post a Fortunate Son-backed fancam and feel happy about it.

The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

Americans are sick and tired of endless war, regime change, and failed attempts to “run” foreign nations. I am demanding answers & accountability.

Every person in this photo can be executed by the next administration. We just need the will to power

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

"By taking the tools of liberal foreign policy off the table, the United States has also limited its abilities to meet its substantive foreign policy goals beyond mere regime change." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illibera...

Given the news, reposting this

I think the rapid capture of Maduro bodes very poorly for American democracy and the world. All questions of legality will be swept aside, and it will be treated as vindication for further military adventures If this was as quick and bloodless as it seems, why not solve all their problems this way?

The admin has shown it will back down from a fight. There need to be millions of people on the streets

If they captured Maduro, that probably dramatically changes the calculus of opposing this. I wonder who's gonna have the guts to call for his release.

yeah, it is outright gangsterism

ben franklin once said “justice is strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. a highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and the nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.” a country of banditti, nothing more

International bandit state carrying out the kidnapping of a foreign head of state it is not at war with because Rubio cries himself to sleep that his parents didn't come to America three years later.

If you've got friends or family in Venezuela, tell them to store away as much drinking water as they can. Food is important too, but a lack of water kills a lot faster. Do not use this water until it's necessary

as i said they’re generally counting on indifference, and the ritualized killing of random fishermen for months leading up to it is probably what gave them notion they could

what a stupid fucking criminal country america has turned out to be

“That weird address to the nation was an invasion announcement they walked back” theory is basically confirmed

Uniformed military are involved in this shambolic behavior and they all need to be held to account A primary goal of the discussion now on dragging dem pols to do the right thing has to be on widespread accountability and where appropriate prosecutions of significant numbers of servicemembers

Even if you didn’t vote for this, if you are an American this has been done in your name and you have a responsibility to do what you can to renounce and stop it. It’s not fair, but it is the duty that has been placed on us.