Yet another reminder that the ruling party will aggressively seek your anti-socialist Venezuelan votes so that they can then try to kick as many of you out as possible as a thank you

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans beat Democrats over the head with the charge that Dems had turned the United States into a "pitiful helpless giant." Turns out they wanted that honor for themselves.

Our tax dollars at work

US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties

Everybody's getting Trump's idea all wrong. It's not a Peace Board It's a Piece Board, as in a board to hand out pieces of the world to himself and his buddies.

Called my congressman today to implore Democratic leadership to demand Trump's removal by any legal means. Sure, Trump won't be removed, but background noise matters.

Fellow Americans should get better acquainted with the real leader of the free world. It ain't our guy anymore www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Deliberate destruction of the US auto industry (and our climate) should be on any Top 10 list of examples of how Trump and his Republican fellow travelers are waging outright war on the American people.

The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the U.S. say that America’s “moral role in confronting evil around the world” is in question for the first time in decades. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

Great description of just how fervently Trump doesn't give a crap about health care, and why Republicans keep serving up delusional zombie policy ideas as a result open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Invoke the 25th Amendment.

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Not sure how many suburban House Republicans want to be on record embracing everything Noem, Hegseth, Gabbard, RFK Jr have done. In any case, put the screws to them! And get attention paid to the atrocities.

This is important & revealing. Gallego is from AZ. He ran to the right of Dems in 2024 on immigration. The fact he's saying this speaks volumes. He sees where the public is on ICE. Tear it down. Build another non-police-state-freak-show immigration enforcement agency.

jd vance would sell his *own* children for a percocet if he thought it would get him closer to the presidency

When will American republicans realize that Trump works for his family fortune (=corruption) & Putin (=treason) and not for them?

The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

COST: Home insurance costs are up 8.2% in one year as climate risk roils markets. That cascades into mortgage/real estate markets, so buckle up. CORRUPTION: The fossil fuel industry’s climate denial fraud has real costs to Americans, and Republicans going along with the fraud are accountable.

Exactly. We are way,way past the point at which Trump and his flunkies should be seen as fundamentally anti-American and actively attacking Americans, our economy, our national security, and our freedoms. Not too late to coalesce around this overarching message.

Needless to say the qualms of Thune, Cramer, Marshall and Murkowski ain't worth spit unless they make clear that they're willing to vote against any Trump nominee for chair of the Fed www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

If you don’t think the Democrats can take the Senate in November you are not paying attention. Huge recruiting win in Alaska with @marypeltola.com

Boston is showing up.... www.instagram.com/reel/DSWPlPH...

So so true.

Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka at the Natick MA Ice Out demonstration detailing the steps the Commonwealth has taken and plans to take to resist Trump's criminality

Governor I was not familiar with your game

Lifelong Catholic here: J.D. Vance became Catholic only 6 years ago. He is an immigrant to Catholicism.Yet he espouses hatred towards immigrants of color to the U.S. (approx 60% Catholic) that is heretical. He is the Catholic version of those "bad immigrants" to the U.S. he hates so much.

Exactly right. The ant-terrorism panic created many of the problems we are confronting today.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

Five years ago.

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

In 2025, “US equities underperformed the rest of the world by the largest margin since 2009.” @thedailyshot.bsky.social

Remember, the next time Hegseth says we aren’t able to interdict or arrest the people on the tiny little boats so we just have to kill them… …that we infiltrated a heavily-guarded home in the middle of the night to make an arrest. They're murdering people because they can.

A malignant narcissist is never satisfied. Tearing apart rule of law in America is not enough. Now he’s bent on destroying the world order that has provided relative peace & stability since WWII. No one has ever made him stop. Not John Roberts, not the voters. www.americaamerica.news/p/this-is-wh...

Credit Marco Rubio today for realizing he's the fall guy for the Trump Venezuela fiasco

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

“Venezuela stole our oil. Unilaterally seized and sold American oil.” No. The decent democratic pro-US governments of the 70s-80s-90s nationalized its oil industry, negotiating deals with foreign companies. The hateful Chavista regime, Trump-like, used its power to demand better and better deals.

Re-upping my alternative scenario in which Rubio is nominally in charge of this Venezuela fiasco because the only sandbox he's allowed to play in is the Spanish-speaking world sandbox. At the same time, Lil Marco is Trump's scapegoat-in-waiting for any foreign policy cockup anywhere in the world

There is no plan, gang

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

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

Sure Maduro has had Chinese support but if I were Beijing I'd be feeling pretty good this morning #Taiwan. But I'm feeling pretty good anyway because the president of the United States is an idiot

Trump's major foreign policy failures 2025: -Destroying US soft power tools -Irrational tariffs on allies -Ending aid to Ukraine -Playing chicken w/ Xi & backing down -Selling best chips to China -Tiptoeing into war w/ Venezuela -Alienating allies (Canada, Greenland) -Supporting Putin I could go on

Review of 200 novel human viruses over a century a reminder that pathogen emergence isn’t rare www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...

Remarkable how few people remember that these kinds of hate were directed at the ancestors of most of us when they came here.

He should give it a shot first bsky.app/profile/cnn....

Slam meet dunk.

Trump will continue his quest to betray Ukraine but he's determined to pursue it in whatever way proves most humiliating for America www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Many medical breakthroughs have come from iconoclasts who thought differently, but to reject the norm on principle is not good science. People like Makary and Oz are focused on the disruption as a brand, regardless of evidence.

Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine