🧵Day 3 and we have a new meaning for "running Venezuela," courtesy of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, who is in charge of Venezuela as well as the National Archives. We're going to insist they do what's in the US national interest. Time for some principal-agent theory. 1/

I’m sure it’s a total coincidence that Musk is flooding the zone with sexual AI deepfakes right before the release of the Epstein files.

Insane how much these people hate their own country

If I was one of the most unpopular leaders on earth, I probably wouldn’t set the precedent that it’s legal to kidnap leaders. But what do I know?

It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.

ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland. (Published November)

You should all read this thread.

We already tax unrealized gains for working class people in this country: property taxes. It pays for schools, police, fire, etc. When we tax unrealized gains on the ultra-wealthy, it will help pay for healthcare, housing, childcare, education, etc. It will make America great.

Happy Boxing Day!

When the time comes - and it will - I will happily write a check to the relevant agency if they’ll use the money to prosecute these assholes.

I used to think Mr Potter was a good portrayal of the wealth class. But it turns out It’s A Wonderful Life actually needed a side plot involving sex trafficking, pedophilia, and witness tampering.

Remember when Rep Madison Cawthorn said that the GOP had coke fueled orgies? Well, here’s an FBI report that was filed two years before his statement.

The DOJ is now working full time as Trump’s personal firm.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

Saruman Refuses to Take Sides in Middle-Earth Fight Over Ring

Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women? Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them. Welker: So those women with Trump were victims? Blanche:

Someone should ask Blanche who his client is: the American people, or Trump. Because it’s clear the DOJ has become Trump’s defense firm.

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

So…did Chomsky write Manufacturing Consent before or after he started hanging out with Epstein?

Media: DOJ released a trove of Epstein files. The so called trove:

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Victim = Trump, Republicans, and wealthy GOP donors

Looking forward to the inevitable Trump stooge signing as the United States Attorney Eastern District of Penisylvania

Bad: Filling your administration with podcasters. Worse: When even the podcasters are running for the exit.

Remember when Darth Sidious used a blockade and a trade war in order to end democracy? And remember when we thought that was a poorly written and unrealistic plot line?

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

The admission that Trump has an alcoholic’s personality and is blowing up boats because he wants Maduro out of power seemed pretty straight forward… but if you have more context, by all means provide it, Sue.

Sometimes I imagine historic figures in a modern context as a thought experiment. For example, I’m pretty sure Rufus would have been in the Epstein flight logs whereas Curthose wouldn’t… and Henry would have been the guy who came up with the whole blackmailing scheme in the first place.

Dark City. I arrived late, and so I missed the opening monologue where Keifer Sutherland basically spoils the whole plot… and so, like Rufus Sewell, I was all “WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING?!” for most of the film.

Break out the mead, because we're launching into a new century, and that means we're going to quickly check in with some of the other civilizations on the planet.

Boomers vs [gestures at everything]

I dare you to find a more corrupt regime.

We’re about to find out if Texas is beyond redemption (aka 60% irredeemable).

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

1) This is pointless because one wants to go the US anymore, and 2) everyone hates the regime, so everyone is in good company.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Who has made this 🤣

Thurl Ravenscroft: You nauseate me, Mr Grinch. With a nauseous SUUUUPER NAUS! Me, last year: I feel like this diss track goes too far. … Me, today: You nauseate me, Mr. Anselm.

Anselm is at it again in the newest episode.

When I read that FIFA invented a peace prize just so they could give it to Trump, I genuinely thought it was an Onion article.

Rep Omar when The Thing finally happens.

Thomas Paine: [titles his pamphlet “American Crisis No. 1.”] Me, living through crisis No. 489: Thanks for cursing us, Tom!

New Episode is recorded. I'll edit and release it tomorrow. Title: Stealing a Wife From God

What fight? Make him explain who they were fighting and how they were doing it.

We might need a new psychological term for what the rich are doing. Suicide by mob?

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.