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Imagine.

“We’ve got a guy in the service at the moment who’s 87 – it’s madness,” she said. “We never used to see the number of pensioners we’re seeing now.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

It's bad out there for a lot of people. youtube.com/watch?v=Rk6P...

My godfather's primary source of news is CBS. He had no idea about the Ellisons, Bari Weiss, Tony Dokoupil, & the making of the new state media. He was skeptical of my take at first, but he watched Tony's debut as CBS Evening News anchor & called his show the "Pete Hegseth Show with Tony Dokoupil."

I’ll be surprised if it’s something besides “We hope our republican colleagues will work with us, otherwise we’ll be forced to write a strongly worded resolution opposing this.”

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”

A company is pioneering forest regeneration using the "superpowers" of fungi, developing specially-made mushroom pellets. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

The vaccine is not as effective as we hoped, but get vaccinated anyway. youtube.com/watch?v=UoM0...

“It is just common sense that in order to have the best science, we need the broadest, most inclusive environment for scientists.”

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“Trump’s Attack in Venezuela Is Unlawful – and Latin America Will Fight Back” Trump seems to subscribe to the view that might makes right, that the US is unstoppable. But it is difficult to see the region going back willingly to “backyard” status without a fight, writes Alonso Gurmendi for Zeteo:

Well, that's a relief. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

An important read for every concerned American. Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ov...

It's not about drugs. It's not about oil. It's oil adjacent, but not about "taking" oil. This is Little Marco settling a score and protecting petrodollars. Above it all, it's the most illegal U.S. action since Kissinger bombed Cambodia. Here's what you need to know about what we just did and why.

The U.S. bombed Caracas, kidnapped Venezuela's president, and is flying him to Manhattan for trial. Mainstream media wants you focused on whether Maduro's a "bad guy." That's the distraction. This is the most illegal thing we've done in a long time. Watch the full video: youtu.be/bY5f_VQhy84

Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”

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 thinks he is Congress and until Republican sycophants stand up for the Constitution and prove him wrong, this insanity will continue to grow and metastasize.

Trump is really fighting to keep his eyes open while Caine goes on and on

Dying old man inflicts terror on the world.

Trump: "They took all of our property. It was our property. We built it. And we never had a president that decided to do anything about it. Instead, they fought wars that were 10,000 miles away."

Last night's op bears all the hallmarks of a classic Joint Special Operations Command mission. To know more about JSOC, read our own @seandnaylor.bsky.social's "Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command." Amazon Associates link: amzn.to/3N4WUfk (You buy: we get a cut)

In the final chapter, @seandnaylor.bsky.social writes that during the War on Terror, JSOC commanders "built the perfect hammer for the National Command Authority. The risk was that, as a result, successive administrations would continue to view too many national security problems as a nail."

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.

Heather Cox Richardson on Trump and Venezuela, January 3, 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JXQ...

Countries Trump Has Threatened With Additional Illegal Aggression in the Last 24 Hours 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇮🇷 Iran 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇨🇺 Cuba He’s out of control. He’s deranged. This is the opposite of what he promised America when he ran for president. He said he’d focus on *us*.

Using Trump's reasoning Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum could invade the US and seize Trump. I wouldn't stand in her way.

Mexico: "The Mexican government strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally in recent hours by the armed forces of the U.S. against targets in the territory of the Republic of Venezuela, in clear violation of Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations."

“We are going to run the country.” Ah, so we’ve skipped the legal fig leaves entirely now. Not democracy. Not justice. Not liberation. Just occupation of a sovereign country. Gotcha. Greenland must be looking at this very carefully.

So, when are we seizing Greenland? Because you know that's next.

The drug is not considered a cure, but results from clinical trials point to major advancement for a devastating cancer usually caught in late stages.

Secrets of the auto industry that you need to know. youtube.com/watch?v=MGvk...

Global wars are coming

“Russian commentators have frequently suggested that Latin America lies in America’s domain just as Ukraine was under the Russian shadow. Vladimir Putin thinks the same of much of eastern Europe. Xi Jinping will draw his own conclusions.”

The United States is Russia now, and Venezuela is Ukraine.

Check out genetically engineered terminator seeds that grow for one generation and produce sterile seeds in the next. This ensures that farmers have to buy new seeds from the company each year. Manufacturing plants that can't reproduce at the heart of the food supply. What could possibly go wrong?

Trump is destroying the US dollar, and America along with it.

Illegal. Extrajudicial. Criminal. War Crime. These as the descriptors that should appear in any reporting on the U.S. coup in Venezuela. What I've heard from state media instead today: "Brave men and women in uniform" "elite forces" "stealth" "bold" "astonishing" "brilliant" "successful."

He did this on a Saturday to give the stock market time to absorb the news.

Russia issued a statement saying we shouldn't have done that to a neighboring country. Because we live in the upside down now.

'Kentucky woman arrested for abortion' is a headline you'd expect 100 years ago, but it's today's Republican nightmare. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

USA isn't an international tribunal: no right to bomb another country or arrest its leader to put him on trial. It signals that Russia's invading Ukraine is okay, Israel tasking Palestine too & that China can invade Taiwan. Common link is that these countries have autocrats/dictators, US included.

The US capture of Maduro is illegal. It also makes us look even more spectacularly incompetent.

two notable reactions from congress (before maduro capture)

wild to see every news outlet use the term "capture" to describe what happened. we're not at war with venezuela! this is *objectively* an illegal kidnapping of a sovereign country's leader

"Maduro was bad, but" shut the fuck up, you people will never learn.

Trump pardoned a right wing drug dealer president who vowed to flood America with drugs, then arrests a left wing president of a country that doesn't supply many drugs to the US.

The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system. We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump. We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.