For over a decade (at least since Syria) Turkey has been articulating a desire to build a new international order while participating much more wholeheartedly in undermining the old one

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

this isn't some polemic i'm trying to put out there. these three principals are saying really different things. *maybe* that's their plan - it makes it harder for journalists to pin down what's actually happening. but it seems shambolic.

David is a must-follow in these times.

Venezuela's Supreme Court has ruled that Delcy Rodríguez, who has been serving as Maduro's VP, should assume the role of interim president. It says putting Rodríguez in the position is important "to guarantee administrative continuity and the comprehensive defense of the Nation", acc to Reuters.

Holding up even better today

The Globe and Mail (Canada’s sober, establishment, slightly centre-right paper): Trump plans to treat Canada as Athens treated Melos—“the strong do what they please; the weak suffer what they must”—and Canada must regard itself as in a “national emergency.” www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f9f7c04...

If we can reach $200k, we'll be in a place where we have enough to invest in some of our up front costs (such as the print publishing component of The Reconstruction Papers) to also finally have one full time editor on staff. We just need 19% more than we've already raised gofund.me/98115b78b

This is a hypothesis, but it's a plausible one

This is not a pivot guys

good rundown of how many democrats are, in fact, coming out against this shit www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/the-...

The significant part of it for Americans is going to be recognizing the role the republican party as currently constituted plays in the alliance of global antidemocratic forces

In conclusion, no one knows what the hell we're doing

The EU institutions (and the UK) seem to be focusing on Maduro's election theft, ignoring both a) the illegality of the means of his removal and b) (crucial to this argument on its own terms) the obvious point that Trump doesn't give a fuck about the election result there either.

So if there was cooperation from inside the Venezuelan military, it's a coup

Various folks have compared this to Putin's first tactic in Ukraine, but there he had a president-in-waiting ready to bring in. The US appears to have done even less planning of the political side

Counterpoint: bsky.app/profile/gian...

VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now. Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet. Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"

This was the second-biggest wtf moment of the presser (after announcing "we will run the country")

Trump just basically threw the Venezuelan opposition — the ones who evidence shows won the 2023 election — to the side.

Putting on the record my theory that where this is going is Marco Rubio, president of the United Federation of Cuba and Venezuela

Trump said Sec of State Rubio had spoken to VP Delcy Rodriguez and that she would be sworn in or was sworn in, after speaking to to Sec of State Marco Rubio, saying “she doesn’t have much choice.” He said Machado is “a nice lady… but she doesn’t have the support of [people] there.”

Trump says he will designate people to run Venezuela, and says the people standing behind him on stage will be "largely" running the country. That appears to be Secretaries Hegseth and Rubio and Gen. Caine.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoken with Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who has been sworn in as president of Venezuela, and the US expects she will be cooperative with the American takeover of the country, according to President Trump.

Looks like we can add GCIII, Article 13 to the legal issue spotter.

People kept saying Trump would never do this because he wouldn't want to get sucked into a war with Venezuela and I feel like this is exactly what they were all missing

The Global War on Terror helped normalize & standardize extraterritorial operations against opponents for countries with the capability; this precedent certainly amplifies and reinforces that trajectory

Excited to see China substantially increase long-arm transnational repression citing the actions of the US as a precedent

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

This is how I see it foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/24/t...

Weirdest thing about urban declinists is the lack of relevant urban decline, relative to the historical norm.

A US government that was serious about protecting Iranian people would not be deporting Iranians back to Iran against their will. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

As a real New Yorker I hate social democracy and immigration

This state of affairs is not sustainable, and though it may take a decade, something else will emerge because of it

uh holy SHIT?

We live in a world where some Kyrgyz pensioner who has never left the country is upset about Mamdani and the liberal/LGBTQ/Jewish lobby behind him because they got radicalized with brain rot content on social media

The best thing New York City can do for the climate: create more New Yorkers One of the best climate policy news of late: www.nbcnewyork.com/new-york-cit...

Never mind that Japan's lack of new citizens is a huge problem for Japan!

The rosetta stone here is they want Ukraine to lose

I feel like the most depressing thing I've learned is that no matter how bullshit your ideas are, if you're really consistent and vocal about them they will have an influence.

From the get-go, budget watchdogs questioned City Hall's health savings deal with labor unions that relied largely on moving money around. A decade later, Comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social delivers an autopsy. The City of NY is owed billions of dollars. What will @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social do?

Another step undermining the anti-transnational repression agenda

New: Trump administration removes three spyware-linked executives from sanctions list www.reuters.com/business/tru...

(This is true, but the underlying revolution is in the semiconductors, yes? Through the computer processing power that enabled us to squeeze more and more efficiency out of the solar power cells?)

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

I like this because the implication that there wouldn't be 4000 daycares in an area with a population of roughly 2 million people

I had an argument with friendly colleagues at work about a year ago in which we were discussing how to reach out to conservatives and I could not get across that the people on the other side want to destroy the New Deal

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

Jokic went out with a knee injury but before that he threw the most perfect pass I've ever seen