He's literally set himself up as Ruler of Venezuela. George Bush at least got a congressional resolution and an attempt at a UN resolution before invading and occupying Iraq. Trump didn't even consult with the Gang of 8 in Congress and now declares himself the ruler. Sheesh.

Dying old man inflicts terror on the world.

THIS. Exactly this. Right now, Trump and cronies are blustering around, further shredding the remnants of Great Power status. Future doesn’t exist but something like ‘Spain in the late 17C’ may be where the US ends up in a few years.

the American opioid crisis is almost entirely the work of Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler family of murderous profiteers, but because Americans can't imagine anything being their fault, we've invaded Venezuela over it

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

trump is being asked by reporters how he plans to run venezuela and there is clearly no plan.

all these fucks are like bro you don't understand how precise this operation was bro no one's ever done this bro it was epic, expecting us to be like oh well in that case

Pete Hegseth steps up to the podium "Thank you Mr President: finally a commander in chief that the world respects" I assure you that's not what's happening this morning

When people say Trump is honest, this is what they mean. He lies every day but he tells the truth about what we're actually doing: going to war for oil

I'M SURE THIS WON'T GO LIKE VIETNAM OR AFGHANISTAN OR IRAQ OR OTHER COUNTRIES WE'VE DESTABILIZED AND VIOLATED AND **LOST**

"We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition" OH COOL SO WE'RE DOING REGIME CHANGE AGAIN I'M SURE THIS TIME IT'LL WORK OUT WELL

Trump has just violated the sovereignty of a foreign nation without approval from Congress in defiance of natural law and all he can talk about is how cool it was to watch the killing and also how much better he is at killing than former presidents

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.

Sleepy Joe Trump-en

So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago

The House Armed Services Committee also was not briefed, I've confirmed.

The Times Editorial Board's piece is quite strident and un-blobby, fwiw www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Not that crazy IMO ➡️ The Republican-run Supreme Court has ruled the President can't be prosecuted for doing crimes in office ➡️ The Republican-run Congress has decided Trump's the boss and they are mere spectators Historically, tell a guy he's a god-king with no consequences and this is the result

It’d be cool if Congress still existed

my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?

In hindsight it was a bad idea to put a child molester with dementia in charge of everything. That’s our bad. That one’s on us

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

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.

"Effective secretaries empower senior military leaders to provide candid advice. They expect disagreement. They understand that professional tension is not insubordination." Sure would be nice to have one right now.

they’re going to want to kill him for this but he’s so right, individualism as an ideology needs to end

how can we exist in a world ran by people who don’t think this shit is a problem

Comical, @wsj.com.

i am rooting as much as is appropriate for mamdani to be an effective mayor because if he manages it, he will be an important model and national leader for american progressives — one part fiorello la guardia, one part robert la folette

And just like that, millions of Americans are now uninsured because Republicans don’t care.

Again, the man who’s next in line for the presidency after this walking corpse has said he’s deeply influenced by this outright Nazi, so maybe we could get a little more attention on that?

Yeah, man, socialists aren’t allowed to buy things, everyone knows this

What are we doing?

"we're here to inspect your daycare center"

No way Drumpf would EVER understand this.

ICYMI — Here’s what Jeff Bezos is doing while his newspaper @washingtonpost tries to keep us all from having health care. #MedicareForAllNOW

one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers

CNN: “Surely you don’t think a daycare should be unlocked.” SHIRLEY: “There should be a reception area.” CNN: “No, every day care is locked.” SHIRLEY: “Fair point.” 🤔 He shows up to a day care with masked men and wonders why they don’t let him in.

i do find it a fascinating assumption rightwingers are making that they should be able to walk into any daycare center and observe random peoples children whenever they want

ICYMI: The deposition transcript of Former Special Counsel, Jack Smith, has been released by the House Judiciary Committee. (I’ll share my thoughts and observations after I’ve had the chance to review it.) judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

New: Going into the Oval Office in August, Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston didn't back redistricting & had heard the chatter about whether his daughter Liz, an assistant White House press secretary, would be used as leverage in the plot to redraw America. How it went down in the Oval:

the thing is, “differing political views” used to be about what percentage to tax high earners and not whether brown people are humans

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

This is obviously distressing but also who the fuck are they going to hire?? They’re already recruiting guys who weren’t qualified enough to be mall cops. Where are these 14k people coming from?