A page from Dumbass! #1, my one-person anthology

Hey everyone here is a quick update from Tess. I figured it would be easier to read this way than a bunch of posts.

The fact that anyone still takes him seriously is a WILD reflection on them

The Great Masturbator speaks! I'll save you four minutes: He thinks the judge is too old. Not an original take, but then, I haven't taken Toobin seriously since the New Yorker incident and I don't see why the @nytimes does. Surely there's a smarter, less creepy pundit they could call.

Paul Singer, whose firm owns the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, spent millions in 2024 to re-elect Trump. Now, after Trump's invasion of Venezuela on behalf of Big Oil, he's set to cash in on his investment. A government of, by, and for the billionaires.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

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OK - now at US v. Nicolas Maduro presentment in SDNY, in Venezuela narco case 1st indicted in 2011, Maduro added in 2020, wife Cilia Flores added last week. Inner City Press has covered it all, including in UN until banned, and will live-skeet, thread below

This is how I feel this morning.

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.

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

The ruling party of the United States has declared a vendetta on an ethnic minority because of this stupid dick

*This* is your story, journalists. Erik Prince? Kirill Dmitriev? Eduardo Bolsonaro? I promise you, the answer to this mystery is horrifying. Someone worked behind the scenes to betray the Venezuelan people and ensure that Venezuela remained a dictatorship. And Trump acquiesced.

Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

This is definitely not a SCIF and, among many other things, this alone is a major national security breach. Random third rate intelligence agencies would have known about this attack before Congressional leaders did.

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Well said, Gene!

I don't think you should be able to bet on war crimes. That's just my opinion.

Anyone who plans to profit from this illegal war must be stopped. And if they encouraged it, they must be prosecuted. Congress must stop this war, impeach Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio, and pass legislation to prevent oil barons and other profiteers from making money from this outrageous act.

This is an illegal intervention in a country that poses no threat to the United States. Trump is trying to distract from the fact that he tanked our economy and kicked millions off their health care. Congressional Republicans need to rein Trump in before he gets American troops killed.

Resign. Today

I wish Congress would finally realize it can impeach officials below the President, which would be an excellent way of tying an Administration in knots.

Everyone involved who cleared this should be prosecuted and if they are elected impeached out of office for it.

Impeach Trump, Hegseth & Rubio.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

theyre going to destroy every country that ever dared to fight their way out from under the thumb of the united states and all you mealy mouthed fucking losers are gonna stare at your shoes saying “I don’t like how they went about it but these guys were no angels”

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

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

We actually glossed over this too quickly. Someone made half a million dollars insider trading on a coup. This is a fucking problem, folks.

jeffries needs to be the fuck out of office

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

What. No. Don't use their language, @newyorker.com that is not even a real word. What the hell is wrong with "flee" or like. "Flee this godforsaken country"

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

RIP Dick Cheney, you would have finally found something to like about the Trump presidency (illegally overthrowing a government for oil)

If only Congress were alive to see this.

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like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

NEW: Jack Smith's team interviewed Giuliani, and when asked whether Rudy believed his own lies about election fraud, Jack Smith said he did not, and that neither did Donald Trump.

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Donald John Trump & James David Vance may refuse to celebrate or acknowledge Kwanzaa, but the International African American Museum here in South Carolina is.

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I should have checked before I posted - my recipe does use two eggs. And once again, it turned out beautifully: A

Starting the Christmas festivities off right by reading and discussing the comments on the NYT Yorkshire Pudding recipe with the husband. BTW their recipe does have too many eggs - I use 1 egg, 1 c milk, 1 c flour, and a dash of salt: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...

I'd be most grateful if anyone in possession of a field guide to British birds from the 1950s/1960s could provide me with a photo of the relevant page featuring the turtle dove, along with the bibliographical reference. In return, I'm happy to make a Christmas donation to a charity of your choice.