Mark my words - Boston Dynamics, and other companies like them, will make superhuman robots that will be used by governments to suppress their citizens.

Your activism will be even more important this year. Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026

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I can’t help but wonder if this is already done and paid for and the rest is death theater.

I can’t help but wonder how much Trump will be able to extort from Maduro for the pardon.

DonOld doesn’t care about collateral damage. Look at Butler, PA

A deal with Trump obviously. And 40 people or more had to lose their lives to pull off the political theater. And the Venezuelan people get super screwed on top of everything.

Kinda makes the whole "CBS and 60 Minutes are just more tentacles of the Trump propaganda machine, proven when Bari Weiss pulled the expose segment about immigrants who were deported to CECOT" crisis seem almost quaint in comparison to kidnapping aa sovereign nation's leader, doesn't it?

And Trump got his fake situation room and to watch the real bombs he ordered drop onto innocent people.

Bingo..that’s what I thought, it was just too easy

It almost looks like the kidnapping was staged! Just saying!

Yeah, something isn’t sitting right… bsky.app/profile/mari...

We no longer have the ability to replenish our national reserve on the open market, for a variety of reasons that I won’t go into, so this was kind of the only desperation play I suspect that they felt they had.

If we hadn’t been pumping our national reserves down for the last six years now, we would’ve been paying eight to $10 a gallon for gas China was getting very close to closing a deal with Venezuela last week to come in and extract their oil

This doesn’t seem to be a guy who is bothered

Feels like Maduro is gonna be back on a plane to venezuela before we know it but only after getting dinner at the ruby tuesday in Times Square. Nothing seems to be adding up.

"America is an oil company with an army." —George Carlin

Trump: "Venezuela has Rare Earth but everybody has Rare Earth. Rare Earth is not rare. What's rare is the processing. We're doing processing plants all over. There's no such thing as Rare Earth. Rare Earth is everywhere. We have a lot of places going up right now."

And tragically, once a center like this is gone, it’s hard to imagine it popping up somewhere else in these NIMBY times. 🧵 4 of 9

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

TAX THEM, let them leave, they've had it too good here.

Ok Oregonians! Its time to mobilize against, reject, eject all Republican MAagA candidates statewide, stop ceding space for them. @oregondems.bsky.social need to start embracing @WorkingFamilies Party candidates where they don't have any viable candidates. Fight Phil Knight's maga money!

Australia is emerging as a quiet winner amid the Trump administration’s tariff campaign as surging gold and beef exports improve its trade balance with the US

NEW: Mr. Abrego's lawyers believe that the lies DOJ told in the civil case warrant immediate dismissal in his criminal case. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/more-evide...

The president had a record net worth of $7.3 billion in September.

Referring to the roughly 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists who attended the COP30 talks in Brazil, climate activist Harjeet Singh says "it's like inviting arsonists to tell us how to put out the fire."

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

Idaho takes more from its People than it gives back. Oregon believes in giving back more. youtu.be/XTaFVYbQk24?...

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Jeffries: "He's found time to demolish the East Wing in the most horrific way possible bc he wants to erect a ballroom so he can be celebrated like a king. He's found time for all of these different things, but somehow can't be bothered to find a dime to extend the ACA tax credits."

I would so love if everyone would share their memories and photos. Seems fitting to preserve history. #EastWingMemories

This right here. The motherfuckers want to erase everything that came before.

As soon as we rid ourselves of this criminal cabal we will rebuild the East Wing to its prior specs & majestic beauty. That house belongs to We the People. Fuck tRump & everyone who voted for him or support this racist fascist thug

As a daily worker in this building: I was in the Office of the First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Laura Bush. There were “dudes” who made fun of me. But they were in the OEOB. REAL staff always were so kind, gracious, and magnanimous. I wish I could have gone back, I wish the same for Americans…

East Wing Memories

They came masked, unmarked, armed by the state… snatched Nathan Plybon off Chicago streets. No charges. No call. No trace. This ain’t law enforcement… it’s a disappearance. #AbolishICE #EndStateViolence #4R

Y'all dropped this 🗣️

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When we predicted he would destroy the White House we meant it figuratively.

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If I were ever elected president, the first thing I’d do is take a sledgehammer to that ballroom.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

A free campaign ad for Mamdani.

A Washington construction company hired undocumented workers and when the job was finished they called ICE on the workers so they didnt have to pay.

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

'Fishing Otter' linocut and silkscreen print by Angela Harding, contemporary artist based in the UK #WomensArt