New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.

Lot of people yelling recently "but we don't have the votes!" True! That doesn't mean "immediately quit." (Also not what propter is saying here, to be clear.) It means create a spectacle, make things cause celebres, make the Republican position untenable. Create bargaining position and force votes.

IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.

Stephen Miller talks like a guy who's never been punched in the face

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

This would be highly significant in a democracy

No one should be hungry. No one should be experiencing lifelong physical and psychological echoes of hunger.

very hard to find a silver lining when a would-be autocrat kidnaps an autocrat

The non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting was formed 58 years ago. 5/1/69 Fred Rogers testified before Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding proposed for the newly formed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7...

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

Whomst could have predicted

I hate the way he talks to/about grown ass leaders of sovereign countries as though they are small children. So gross and paternalistic.

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

excuse me yes the fuck it is

New: Trump admin officials tell Zeteo that Trump is “very interested” in secret plans drawn up last year to send US Special Forces into Mexico. One official even says Trump recently asked for updates on preparations for a possible operation.

Orban's "...governmental actors have gained control of universities, galleries and popular media outlets. The national cultural fund, chaired by the culture and innovation minister, has redirected money from independent unions and periodicals to pro-government journalists and writers."

It's why he is threatening Colombia + Mexico. Why he bought elections in Argentina + Honduras. And interfered in Brazil's courts. Latin America's democratic left bloc is the most principled opposition to Trump in the world, defending international law while richer + more powerful nations cower. 2/3

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

It's quite incredible how this poor and inaccurate tool has been prioritised and integrated *so* effectively that I regularly have people tell me something they've 'looked up' and I have to say 'you're not just reading the AI overview are you' and they are. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Take it from a Filipino, even if you despise the current rulers of your country, you will live to regret the day the United States comes in to remove them

Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Giuliani & Erik Prince travelled to Venezuela and attempted to reach a secret deal with Maduro during the first Trump presidency, the deal was not on behalf of the United States and would financially benefit Trump and his cohorts. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

I did a thread about my calls to Tuberville today! I promise I'm not fancy, but my goal is not to win but to just continue to annoy the shit out of them. bsky.app/profile/most...

Democracy is when the U.S. government assembles your governing structure.

As I was saying. Here’s a post from the de facto social media voice of the OR GOP who did a ride along with Benny Johnson and Kristi Noem when they came to Portland recently. The “communists” he’s referring to are otherwise known as elected Democratic officials in Oregon.

Democracy only works when voters take their job seriously. White people have proven to be profoundly unserious about political support and who they put in power. Simply electing bullies and sociopaths that promise them whiter communities.

Politicians don’t have to say it’s a distraction they can merely point out that the president cares more about enriching oil CEOs and protecting pedophiles than he cares about whether you can afford to buy groceries or go to the doctor

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”

Trump regime awfully lenticular about this operation. Was it a military operation or was it law enforcement? Because those are not the same and they are not fused.

Stick a pin in this for the next time legacy media figures throw themselves a self-pity party as public trust in the media swirls ever further down the toilet.

so to put a finer point on it, and knowing this may sound melodramatic because time makes fools of us all: i think we're living in a different world today than we were yesterday. an appreciably different, and worse, world. and i think that this will be clear — soon.

“Please,” cried Frog, “please go away!” But no one went away.

“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.” Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Time to reup the real National Security Strategy:

Life all over the world still regularly gets disrupted from unexploded ordnance from the LAST world war and these fucks wanna start a new one

Meanwhile: "The Foreign Intelligence Service said that it predicts with 'high probability' that Russian special services may be planning armed provocation, expected to take place on the eve or on the day of Christmas according to the Julian calendar, Jan. 7."

NOW it's giving Hungary

Using private dollars to fund the military and circumvent Congress during a shutdown sure smells like trying to buy loyalty, or at least floating a trial balloon to test boundaries/efficacy Gee I wonder why a coup-curious commander in chief building himself a gilded ballroom would wanna do that

Mexico =\ Venezuela Mexico has a popular, democratically elected president. There is no organized dissident movement in Mexico. Mexico has 5 times the population of Venezuela. Leave the predictions to the Latin America scholars and experts.

Western countries, in particular, have a choice to make: will they help the US tear the system apart the international system they claim is so important, or will they ally with the wider world to protect it? disconnect.blog/the-united-s...

he's just gonna keep doing illegal shit as long as everyone keeps letting him

Who's going to store and power all this biometric data? Who will they sell it to?

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

51st state behavior smh

Chuck Schumer being eaten by an alligator: "I asked the alligator: Are you planning to eat me? Are you intent on eating all of me?" And the alligator has assured me it is not pursuing those things. I therefore---” *Alligator swallows*

Chilly night in Chicago, but protesters have shown up to confront Trump’s illegal war.

what's the over/under that Trump had her kidnapped just to ask how he can get Melania to do that

Also if drug trafficking is a reasonable justification, then wholly domestic drug dealers become foot soldiers in a war against the United States in which they never enlisted, and in which the the US asserts the right to use preemptive lethal violence à la Duterte.

the poasting/content presidency, it's not a joke

Claudia, Gustavo, and Lula are not stupid, and they are not squishes. I just—