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WELKER: Is the Cuban government the Trump administration's next target? MARCO RUBIO: Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem. Yeah. WELKER: Is that a yes? RUBIO: I think they're in a lot of trouble, yes

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The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area

i've watched 'one battle after another' multiple times over the holidays (it's on hbo, etc.) and the more i see it, the more i like benicio's role/performance. it's the soul of the movie. he's so good.

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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

living in this country is like being awake on the table

The Mayor of New York City @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has released a statement:

ExxonMobil and Chevron are about to bestow Donald Trump with a Peace Prize momentarily.

Look at the US interventions. ugh

The Venezuelans will greet us as liberators.

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it's a brutal indictment of Congress & establishment Dems in Washington that i'm sitting here waiting for the mayor of NYC to make a statement about this nightmare bullshit in Venezuela

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

So many people over decades have been called conspiracy theorists for suggesting that U.S. intervention is driven by capitalist interests, and the interests of the oil industry in particular. Now the president just says it outright in press conferences and interviews.

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago 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

Remove him from power immediately. If this isn’t evidenced of insanity, I don’t know what would be.

Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.

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In Trumpworld you don’t leak to the press, you leak to your brother in law who will bet for you on polymarket

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

The Hague, all of them

Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

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.

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

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Somewhere out there in the Great American Night, there is a woman at a New Year’s Eve party who can’t stop talking about the podcast.

spent much of my afternoon in front of a roaring fire, watching the cheez-it citrus bowl

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i know i’m probably damning myself to irrelevance, but i’m not a fan of video podcasts and i think it’s weird to watch a podcast. i stopped doing video because i like to listen and i think conversations are better when people aren’t on camera. everything is tv now and it feels bad to me.

i watched the entire first season of ‘Dept Q’ — enjoyable. i think i like british (scottish) crime dramas. what are some other good ones?

just said ‘good morning’ to someone as i walked my dog (it’s 9pm)

I’m tired of the scene in movies, oft-repeated, wherein someone who hasn’t eaten in days is presented w food and they start ‘greedily stuffing their face as if in a panic’

Today on the program, Part 2 of my annual round-up of the 10 most-listened-to episodes of the year. Big thanks to all & all good wishes in the year ahead! cc: @katiekitamura.bsky.social @blacktopkid.bsky.social @csittenfeld.bsky.social @fonografeditions.bsky.social

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