Awesome

The wizard sleeps deeply. The little cat appears to be reading a tome in the library.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

For once an honest Trump voter.

What makes Trump's bombing of Venezuela especially cruel is we already know how his administration treats Venezuelans who are displaced. Here in Chicago, masked federal agents have been kidnapping them from the streets, abducting them from barbershops, hiring sites, their homes.

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

The Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen to the United States: “The Kingdom of Denmark, and thus Greenland, is a member of NATO and is therefore covered by the Alliance’s collective security guarantee.” I “strongly urge the United States to cease its threats.”

June 5, 2025: Trump is in the Epstein files! Jan. 4, 2026: It was great having dinner with that guy from the Epstein files!

They know that if they go full Fox News you'll tune out, so they throw you a bone every once in a while to keep you hooked. They're still going to keep melting your brain for Trump the rest of the time.

The same administration that invades bombs destabilizes and slaughters civilians in one country will now complain endlessly as more immigrants from that country flood the US

I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.

In authoritarian regimes, underlings signal loyalty to the ruler by publicly attesting to obviously false claims

Tankies and fascists often like to unite and have each other’s backs. Glenn Greenwald promoting Trump and lying about him being anti-war in 2023 and 2024 is a great example of this

If Trump launches illegal wars of conquest against Denmark (Greenland) or Canada, inflicting death and violence upon their people, their leaders, and their soldiers, is the US press going to withhold information to help make sure the criminal invasions succeed?

OpenAI has raised sixty billion dollars on the promise of creating the first intelligent computers, but adoption is so lackluster and competition so fierce that they have to spend that money advertising their product for a laughably frivolous use case.

"As with so many things, Trump didn’t invent a bloated, power-grabbing presidency, but he has brought it to its inevitable conclusion, the very thing most feared by the Founders: A madman able to plunge the country into war on a whim."

This is an extreme act of journalistic activism, and the cause being protected was an illegal act of mass violence and killing. I never want to hear "journalists can't be activists" ever again

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

Trump's plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations. It's a scheme worthy of a mob boss. www.economist.com/the-americas...

Could one of the "journalism must be an objective view-from-nowhere, without fear or favor or 'activism' for one side or the other" losers explain to me the logic of deliberately withholding information from the public to protect the soldiers of a specific country?

A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview: "If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."

An evergreen post it would seem

I was wondering how this might all turn out to have been my fault

40 people (at least) died. It's the official policy of these newsrooms that Latin American lives aren't worth anything. Again, if you still pay for an NYT subscription I think you're trash.

This right here: “Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.”

Despicable.

Come on, a “narco-terrorist” isn’t a thing. You’ve just combined the word “narco,” meaning drug smuggler, with the word “terrorist,” a threatening individual who many believe may need to be dealt with violently. You have done this so you can justify violence against people who aren’t terrorists.

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

an annoying thing about realists insisting they're the no-nonsense reality-based group is that few of their predictions have been based in reality

This matters bc as @hcrichardson.bsky.social mentions today in her video statement on this act, by ignoring Congress, only informing certain Republicans, zero Dems, etc., he's effectively pronouncing himself the leader of a one-party dictatorship, flouting int'l rules-based order & US constitution.

No discussion of democracy. No discussion of elections. Plenty of talk by Trump about running the country and taking the oil. Let’s not forget to thank John Roberts for his role in immunizing this international criminal.

Chairman JCOS: “Months of planning…” soooo not an imminent threat justifying self-defense

Trump in 2023 publicly claimed that if he had won in 2020 that the US would have taken over Venezuela and "gotten all that oil".

but this is why stuff like him rattling sabers about greenland is not a joke

Absolutely loathsome, albeit predictable, that the "I'm right wing, Hitler was left wing" crowd has moved onto "I'm right wing, and this marginalized ethnic group is the one destroying our great nation from within". Despicable

😂

Reposting this Yglesias quote again as Trumpworld becomes increasingly consumed with anti-Somali ethnic hatred.

We are witnessing the most concerted attempt yet by Trumpists to normalize ethnic hatred. It's horrifying and vile.

Just rank, repulsive bigotry from Lyman Stone here

Pardoned by Trump. After the pardon, arrested for Sexual Assault and Kidnapping.

He's charming to other bullies.

Please say “ethnic cleansing” when posting this stuff because that’s what they’re broadcasting. They’re broadcasting plans to engage in ethnic cleansing.

They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

Ok, a billionaire hot take: it's misleading to call Elon Musk a billionaire. He has literally too much money for that label to be appropriate. At a net worth of ~$750 billion, he's a centibillionaire. Calling him a billionaire is almost as silly as calling a $1 billion billionaire a millionaire.

The NYT is a Trumpist paper! The "liberal media" is a right wing myth.

Me, unable to post a good joke for days: I am shadow banned

"At random" is such a brutal tell. Miller knows that there are plenty of individual CECOT victims who had no criminal record and were no threat to anybody. He doesn't realize he's telling on himself because he's a racist thug who doesn't think of Hispanic people as individual humans