I forgot about that time when Venezuela invaded the North Dakota oilfields

“Oil… oil… oil… oil… oil… oil…” TLDR: It was never about drugs

December 12, 2025

#ResistanceEarth Polar bears are hurtling toward extinction due to climate change. But a new study finds that the DNA in some polar bears is changing, making them more adaptable. If those polar bears survive and reproduce, there may be hope for the species. theconversation.com/polar-bears-...

The #SurveillanceState is here.

The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍

Warner Bros. Discovery's three-year track record shows what happens with consolidation in the media industry: canceled shows, gutted newsrooms and higher prices. An acquisition by Netflix or Paramount would lead to more of the same, according to a media studies professor. buff.ly/jTkb9n3

No surprise here. The #CatholicChurch has always been #Fascist - since the Council of Nicaea at least.

By extension, the ones who “made it” during this era will overwhelmingly be the ones who decided crude personal interest mattered more than intellectual or ethical integrity.

If the idea of Jeffrey Epstein hanging out with Woody Allen doesn't make your skin crawl, it's on too tight.

Labour must get behind Keir Starmer or risk gifting Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK new power bases at major elections in 2026, Lucy Powell has warned.

The leader sets the tone for everyone in an organization U.S. Military moves closer to becoming a right wing Christian army under SECDOD (NOT SECDOW) Pete Hegseth #Trump #PeteHegseth theintercept.com/2025/12/09/c...

🗞Spiegeldedicated the cover and the central article of the new issue to Putin and Trump's "Alliance of Villains" The German weekly Spiegel in its new issue featured the theme "Two villains, one goal. How Trump and Putin are attacking Europe" on its cover. 1/2

Representing oligarchs as working class heroes is a new low…even for us.

🔥 @repdeliaramirez to @KristiNoem: “Bottom Line: You lie with impunity. You reject checks & balances. You ignore Congress & the courts… you can either resign, Trump will fire you, or you’ll be impeached. You’re going to be held accountable. I’m going to make sure of that.”

Registration is open for my springtime food, wine, and culture retreat in Chinon! Spaces are limited! jamieschler.substack.com/p/spring-bre...

People just love planting trees, and sometimes there's no alternative. But planted trees will NEVER create anything like the sheer diversity of forms of wild, self-seeded trees. Only *nature* can do that.

President Trump says he's pardoning Tina Peters even though the law says he can't pardon state charges. Colorado's AG tells me Peters isn't getting out while the claim is litigated.

This scared girl needs a foster ASAP

HUGE appreciation for the local Indivisible groups in Indiana who have been working for weeks and weeks on this, meeting with legislators, testifying, protesting, calling, advocating. Pressure works!!!

"Unsurprisingly, the White House is trying to lie its way through it. The only explanation offered so far for Trump's mangled hand is a laughable one about 'frequent handshaking.' And president now says it's 'treasonous' to report on his health."

The dark money group Heritage Action says Trump threatened to strip all federal funding from Indiana if state senate rejects 9-0 gerrymandered map today. This is height of autocracy. Trump & his allies using political and economic terrorism to force state legislature to vote for rigged map

If ANY Republican in Congress says Mark Kelly committed “sedition” by telling troops to disobey unlawful orders, ask them if they voted yes on the most recent NDAA. Because if they did, they also told the troops to disobey unlawful orders by authorizing the latest UCMJ.

Growing concern? If this wasn’t your concern from day one, then you have way more faith in this DoJ than I do!

This is probably the clearest indication yet that the administration understands what they’re doing in the Caribbean is illegal. They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.

NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Common Power, my law firm has filed to intervene against DOJ’s lawsuit seeking to compel Washington to provide its complete voter registration lists. We are now defending voters in 10 states against DOJ scheme to access voter records. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Noem: "I have to actually leave this hearing early"

Rutte in Berlin: “Allied defence spending and production must rise rapidly. Our armed forces must have what they need to keep us safe. And Ukraine must have what it needs to defend itself.”

If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?

Judge Emil Bove, Trump's former personal lawyer who Trump then appointed to the federal bench, has been hit with an ethics complaint for attending Trump's rally last night. "[T]his was a highly charged, highly political event that no federal judge should have been within shouting distance of."

During the Eisenhower administration, 73% of Americans trusted their government. During the Kennedy administration, 75% of Americans trusted their government. Today, in Trump's second administration, just 17% of Americans trust the government.

Mike Johnson is big mad that we forced through a petition and forced a vote on releasing the Epstein files. So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:

NEW: Christopher Dawson won hundreds of millions in federal contracts, promising to help Native Hawaiians. Documents suggest he pocketed the profits to invest in a beachfront horse farm and luxury homes. With @civilbeat.bsky.social

Pioneer of Election Denial Tapped to Head FEMA "Phillips’ appointment...represents a significant escalation in the integration of election deniers into high-level posts across the government." What could go wrong? via @democracydocket.com www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The orange felon has officially ended President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan which will now drastically increase costs on millions of Americans. The cruelty has always been the point and it’s coming from the lifelong fraudster with a vendetta against the US.

Wait, do our radars detect "flirting"?

THE NEW AXIS OF EVIL 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇰🇵 🇸🇦 🇦🇪 🇺🇲 Now that America has endorsed the Russian invasion of Europe, declared tariff wars against all democratic nations, begun committing war crimes daily, and taken to the high seas in acts of contemptible piracy, we deserve this new status.

Trump lacks support or logistics for Venezuela ground invasion. The president told POLITICO on Monday that he wouldn’t rule out a ground invasion of the South American country. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Did You Know? The koala is a tree hugger …. #Australia #wildlife #mammals

The advantage to getting up at the crack of dawn is that you actually get to *see* the crack of dawn :)

This would be, without any doubt, a war crime committed by the United States. We prosecuted Germans and Japanese for doing this exact thing in WWII.

Reminder about Jan 6: it really happened It was a horror 140+ police were injured A range of violent weapons were used by attackers Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard There was a gallows and guns Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached

Roger Stone Ally Shane Trejo of Republicans for National Renewal “Pushes 3rd Trump Term at CPAC…Trejo once co-hosted a podcast called ‘Blood Soil & Liberty’“ [He proposes a constitutional amendment limiting a POTUS to two *consecutive* terms, allowing Trump but not Obama to serve again.] 2/21/25 1/

Expiring ACA tax credits will hit small businesses especially hard. Meanwhile, 74% of small business owners are worried that their business won’t survive due to Trump’s tariffs. Trump is crushing small businesses while doling out tax breaks to his big corporate donors. Priorities.

This story explains one of the primary reasons why most western public lands are in poor ecological condition -- chronic livestock grazing is allowed to continue irrespective of the damage being done and without any review. Private interests destroying public resources. 🌎

trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties

Trump, Hegseth, and the rest of them are so sure they're never going to be held accountable for their crimes, and I believe it's fundamentally important to this country that we prove some things still fucking matter.

Help! Man overboard!