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It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

We like to imagine that it will be buff guys with guns that run ICE out of town, but the truth is, revolutions are won by housewives, grandmas, and 16 year old kids. The smaller, more vulnerable groups which understand that there is no benefit to being quiet in the face of oppression.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

What the fuck

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

If you dont think these morons are gonna "move on Cuba" or try to take Greenland from a NATO ally then you have not been paying fucking attention.

And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

"But Wiles conceded that attacking targets on Venezuela’s mainland would force Trump to get congressional approval. 'If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress.'" - WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Nov 2, 2025 interview www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Trump: "All the way back it dated to the Monroe Doctrines. And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal. But we've superseded it by a lot. By a real lot. They now call it the Donroe Document. I don't know. It's Monroe Doctrine. We sort of forgot about it."

But. Her. Emails.

Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

Something I don't think folks have fully clocked is the degree to which just about everyone under the age of 45 in any natsecs adjacent space to the left of groypers is flatly saying "this is illegal as shit, that's all there is to it"

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

Trump administration seizes Maduro

rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Please be true. This would be amazing for meme makers, and by “amazing” I mean it’s completely Trumpshit insane.

In retrospect this is probably one of the most cynical and brazen ratfucking attempts we've ever seen

This is some straight up Uber Alles shit

I'll take it.

If I was a right wing billionaire propagandist trying to game the press to divide and befuddle the electorate I'd be positively thrilled that the U.S. media (those that aren't complicit) learned absolutely jack-fucking-shit over the last decade

Tariff-ravaged farmers exhausted with Trump using them as 'pawns': report www.rawstory.com/trump-farmer...

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year

You are indentured into government service to avoid the calamitous fallout from affluent DC residents seeing Spamalot at a particular venue less often

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

Who agrees? ✋

Whose inauguration? What?

And the LGBTQ+ pick has 31 years as a veteran of the FDNY. Sheesh.

Mitch McConnell made the decision that he could gain more electorally by leaving a loaded gun on the table because he thought nobody was gonna pick it up. But *that* decision left the downstream ones to a fully captured SCOTUS, and that was the ballgame.

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

Trump is selling pardons because of course he is.

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/

How long are we going to let this go on? He needs to go. Even Republicans in Congress must understand this at some point. www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

Oh we are so cooked www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

Kushner and Witkoff are murder-inducing monsters. They drafted these plans way before the war in Gaza started. Just watch their 60 Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl below. They had this deal in place 2 years ago before Hamas even attacked Israel. That was not by chance.

Epstein record EFTA00025010 is an FBI intake report dated 08/03/2020, an unidentified woman / victim reports Epstein trafficked her at age 13 and that she was raped by Trump, who later witnessed her newborn daughter be murdered and be disposed of from a yacht. #OpDeathEaters

It's pretty fucking fearless to go back and do your goddamn oversight visit where they last framed you for assault.

every day I wake up and try not to sound like a conspiracy theorist and every day this world tests me harder

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

I can't wait until this vacuous Nazi dork wins the GOP nomination and gets destroyed in 2028

IMO, one of the hardest songs (ever) to cover Wonderful job here

They need more time to “both sides” a fucking concentration camp