Republican Rep. Andy Ogles admits it: "We are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere."

Rick Scott: "This is the start of changing Venezuela, then we're gonna fix Cuba, Nicaragua will get fixed, next year we'll get a new president in Colombia. Democracy is coming back to this hemisphere."

Five years ago, this great moment was captured on video:

Just vile. “Anyone who has posted a picture of themselves on the internet, regardless of age or gender, is one message to Grok away from being shown wearing a swastika bikini and performing a fascist salute.” It could be you…or me. Is this the “culture” we should permit as a country?

@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @sanders.senate.gov This should be the message of every Dem everyday and part of a daily pushback on every attack he’s making on this country

Personally, I’d like to see less focus on Trump’s “desires” and more about the legal and moral constraints on his actions and proposals.

This is from one month ago.

Hilariously awful that Texas A&M is too scared to allow its professors to teach Plato's Symposium, a brilliant and foundational work of Western literature that was required reading for me over three decades ago and which, it is not hyperbole to say, influenced the course of my life,

“Teach western civ” “So the Ancient Greek philosophers thought…” “No not like that”

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

“Grok is generating at least one non-consensual sexual image every minute”

The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.

NEW: Orwell noted that authoritarian regimes need to control memory and rely upon mass forgetting. That's what's happened with January 6, as I write about in my OUR LAND newsletter. link.motherjones.com/public/43368... Sign up for a FREE trial subscription to OUR LAND at davidcorn.com.

I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

"Marco Rubio, we salute you!" A real thing that was said by the CBS Evening News anchor tonight.

We ain't never seeing that CECOT story.

The Montana Supreme Court sided with Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s previous rejection of a proposed ballot initiative that aims to end corporate spending in political campaigns. The court said the initiative violated Montana’s Constitution.

Trump is a stupid liar. No, Obama does not get royalties for the Affordable Care Act, referred to as "Obamacare." So very stupid.

Today, I joined my colleagues on the Senate steps to mark five years since the horrific January 6th attack on the United States Capitol. We remember the violence, honor the bravery of the Capitol Police, and renew our duty to protect democracy and our Constitution.

Tonight on the CBS Evening News, the 5-year anniversary of January 6 got 15 seconds of coverage 25 minutes into the show. The only pictures shown: Pardoned “defendants” marching through DC as Dokoupil said Trump accused Dems of “failing to prevent” J6 while “Jeffries accused Trump of “whitewashing.”

If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this. It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.

Grammy Award-winning bluegrass performer Béla Fleck canceled an upcoming performance at the Kennedy Center, saying the venue has become too politically charged after a series of recent changes at the storied venue championed by President Donald Trump.

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

‼️ "The exercise is basically designed to show the Americans that Denmark looks after Greenland and does so with the help of other major NATO countries," Michaelsen said. @lbc.co.uk #LBC www.reuters.com/business/aer... 👇

Will "non-interventionist" MAGA go along? Yup. A new WaPo poll finds only 40% overall approve of the Maduro capture and only 37% say this was appropriate without Congress. But 80% of Trump voters support the capture and 78% are fine with not going to Congress. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/2049...

Are you fucking kidding me. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

Pretty wild how fast MAGA went from “no new wars!” to “Invade Venezuela, bomb Iran, bomb Nigeria, destabilize Cuba, attack Colombia, threaten Mexico, and annex Greenland!!”

Parents of cisgender kids, you need to preemptively pull your kids out in solidarity for trans kids AND to protect your daughters. Small town sports are a big deal, especially football, so your boys need to walk off too. Shut them down!

MTG's split from Trump certainly has been interesting to watch, but obviously it doesn't erase her extensive record of extremism and toxic politics. E.g., the time when she endorsed political violence in support of Trump, a story I broke around the 2020 election www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I think the Greenland threat is a troll. I think. But it would sure be nice for some senators and GOP house members to speak up now and make it clear that an attack on a nato ally would lead to removal from office

My friend @charlotteclymer.bsky.social has written about Mark Kelly’s distinguished military career. This is not to be missed. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

Here's Virginia Giuffre stating the places where she had sex with Alan Dershowitz including on Epstein's island. It started when she was underage. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C... 👀⚖️♀️

Oh just fuck off, Hegseth. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

Crazy picture. But I guess it was odds on likely that the invasion would damage a Bolivar portrait. www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

This insanity has to stop.

The Prime Minister of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen to the United States: “Enough is enough.”

Europe’s generals are warning people to prepare for war www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Don't worry, they're considering putting Stephen Miller in charge.... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

If Trump attacks Greenland, does Article 5 kick in?

An attack on Greenland would trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty requiring them to respond to US aggression.

We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.

Minnesotans: Next I need to report not on the probable harms of the Optum AI prepayment screening, but actual harms. So if your provider is closing or firing people, if you are losing your job, if you are a client who can't get services, etc.,contact me. I can protect your ID. lollardfish at gmail.

Wonderful.

The notion that everything Trump does is about envy/anger towards Obama/Biden just got another big piece of evidence

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.

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