lmao Mad Magazine has still got it

nytimes flashback quiz is trolling the white house again

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

@apnews.com: Finnish Children Learn Media Literacy at 3 years old. It’s Protection Against Russian Propaganda

imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse

I'm happy to announce I've got a son who deals with his collapse-of-American-democracy angst by baking. (grapefruit-curd tart) (delicious)

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

so it turns out you can find yourself in The Bad Place without even dying first

What (and I can’t stress this enough) THE FUCK.

This is the best thing I've read in ages: edge-of-your-seat thrilling, sadly (unfortunately) hilarious, and littered with a dark who's-who of publishing industry cameos—

tuning out for the night — would love to say that I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings, but

Demonstrators set US flag on fire on Place de la République in Paris during the rally against the American military intervention in Venezuela.

I have some questions for today's @nytimes.com Flashback Quiz—

Once again, I feel the need to explain that the proper surname of someone from a Latin country is the FIRST one, not the second. Kilmar Agrego Garcia is Mr Abrego, not Mr Garcia. Maria Corina Machado is Ms Corina, not Ms Machado. I'm begging folks to get this right.

<< furiously following every academic I can find with experience on latin america, war & peace studies, regime change, presidential kidnappings, oil-hungry fascists >>

THIS

How many people were killed in Venezuela last night by the U.S. military? We need to know.

Trump going on national television and essentially saying that we just annexed Venezuela and are going to steal its most precious natural resource and will kidnap any Venezuelan leader who disagrees may be the craziest presidential address of my lifetime

Now would actually be a pretty good time to have a functioning State Department.

Anyway, it's hard to see how this makes the US more secure. And I can't help looking at the pictures of this massive naval deployment and thinking about how much it cost relative to giving Ukraine what it needs to defend itself. 10/10

Okay, who's drafting the articles?

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

The kid just woke and is all, wha's up? And I'm all, we invaded Venezuela and kidnapped their president, wish I were kidding about that.

What the actual fuck, America

it’s really fucking cool to see people working outside the system to expose the hacks running all of our crumbling institutions

lol when a rich, powerful white man begs for higher taxes, you know that vibes are about to shift towards eating the rich:

For those of you wondering what land  Venezuela stole from the U.S., I was alive in the ‘70s and remember when Venezuela stole Caracas from us, robbing Mississippi of its largest city.

Looks like it’s time for somebody to get another MRI.

If you're looking for a great example of Rob Reiner loudly (and beautifully) opposing evil fucks, I highly recommend GOD & COUNTRY, the 2024 documentary he made with my friend Dan Partland.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Brown, Bondi Beach, Rob Reiner. My heart is aching right out of my chest.

A beautuful thread about Rob Reiner.

A 9-0 GOP gerrymander goes down in flames.

Popping champagne here in Indianapolis tonight. Finally Indiana does the right thing. #NoOnRedistricting

Weird quick of how the Indiana Senate votes: If the gerrymandering roll call is 25-25 today, the YES wins because the LG breaks the tie, & gets it to 26-25. But if it ends something like 25-23 for the yes... then it fails! LG cannot vote since there's no tie, & it doesn't get the 26 it needs.

"Winfrey expressed remorse over the fateful night years ago when she created the TV host at Harpo Studios, telling reporters it was a hubristic desire to play the Queen of All Media that compelled her to bring Dr. Phil to life."

U.S. journalists at this point should do trainings with LatAm counterparts to better understand how to cover Ruling Families totally enmeshed in the government and corporate uni-state

We live in a country where people are afraid to leave their homes. We live in a country where people are afraid to leave their homes. WE LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES.

Really sad to hear about Frank Gehry's death, but oddly thrilled that the NYTimes ran a pic of him from 1972 looking like my uncle Morris.

what constitution?

refreshing my submittable tab to see if I won the fifa peace prize

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.

There is literally no reason for the military to be in D.C.

This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.

BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Donald Trump says the House Oversight Committee should get all files it is "legally entitled to." That phrase is critical. I suspect he will use that phrase to block most of the files not already release now that he has re-opened an investigation into Jeffry Epstein.