Another round of “bombing people into freedom”

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.

Danish PM tells Trump to stop 'threats' against Greenland www.bbc.com/news/article...

After campaigning during the local elections criticising councils for raising Council Tax, Reform UK In Worcestershire are planning to raise it by 10%. Liars and hypocrites.

I know I won't get my results from my MRI today but my neck feels like it's going to snap at this rate

"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.

What if floods left your home unsellable? That’s the reality facing more and more people in Britain. #climate www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hey isn't it weird that Chevron, who has diminishing oil supplies in California, also happens to own refineries in California more or less tailor-made for this particular type of shitty oil? And they are threatening to close the refineries and cause the price of gas to skyrocket? Haha, weird!

Resisting the urge to use the overly-cute term "Oil-igarchy" gets more difficult every day.

This is both the playbook of fascism (pick one unliked target to brutalize, then move up the ladder) and Trump (he does something terrible, no one pushes back, its his new favorite hammer for everything he doesn't like, like tariffs). Every nation/politico that hemmed over Venezuela agreed to this.

Reminder that almost a quarter century ago, Schumer voted for the Hague Invasion Act, declaring that the US would militarily invade the Hague were it ever to be prosecuted by ICC for war crimes. Biden did too, it was an overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement to be unaccountable to international law.

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

Please donate and share if you can. We still need our eyes on Gaza like we need them on Venezuela.

“The dangerous thing here is the idea that a President can just decide that a leader is not legitimate & then invade the country… If that were the case, that’s the end of international law, that’s the end of the UN charter, that’s the end of any kind of legal limits on the use of force.” So scary.

Civilians.

Starmer is writing in the Times again where he compares calls to leave the ECHR with calls to tax billionaires. Both are 'wrong and dangerous'. I don't think anyone is saying 'tax billionaires and that will fix everything' but it will certainly go a long way to helping fix things.

When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.

I love reading about what the left is up to in the papers written by the extremely right wing upper class great replacement fascists.

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.” Edward Said’s words are as relevant today as they were a few decades ago.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

palestinians protested for george floyd while being genocided. koreans protested for gaza under the threat of martial law. i promise you we can go harder.

"I'm not scared of Israel. I'm scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity. Greta thunberg

hi, can we plz at least get this to $100? [qt]

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.

If you think Trump's comments about capturing oil in V aren't sincere because the country has bad, old and inefficient fossil infrastructure, I regret to inform you that all fossil fuel infrastructure is bad, old and inefficient and none of these people actually care about the process or product

It's about oil: "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of [oil fuelled] capitalism" World's largest oil reserve of >300 billion barrels is now valued at ~$18,000,000,000,000. The US national debt is >2x the market value of Venezuela's oil reserve! 🤯

Caring for a sick toddler is already an exhausting and harrowing experience, but Sama'a and her husband have to do it in a warzone and in freezing weather. Please give whatever you can to help. Tinyurl.com/samaasfamily

"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.

Can't type at the moment, but you know what it is. Six families & a camp of fifteen more, most in tents, no protection from the winter storms. Priority needs: emergency medicine & care; winter blankets & clothes; newborn supplies. Click "weekly" on a five. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.

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"We weren't involved with this but just to be clear it's very good"

Removing a nation's leader through military force is famously successful in ushering in democracy and peace, and definitely won't lead to more violence and authoritarianism.

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ICYMI: Today, the United States of America, under the direction of a mentally unstable president, attacked Venezuela, a sovereign nation, kidnapped its leader and his wife, and declared they are now running the country. It’s exactly as insane as it sounds.

"Why is Starmer so hated?"

NO WAR. FULL STOP. Trump has already launched an unconstitutional war for oil. We’re organizing now. Join us TODAY for a protest sign–making party at campaign HQ as we prepare for the larger Emergency Day of Action downtown opposing war on Venezuela. 🕝 2:30–3:30 PM 📍 7016 N Clark St, Rogers Park

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This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.

Also relevant

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty