IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.

This would be highly significant in a democracy

Motherfucker grew up in LA. There is NO rich white person in LA whose life would be anything like what it is without immigrant labor. They would literally not have food to eat.

I had to check to see if this was real. What a joke.

And to count in Spanish. And sing a song about being caliente outside. I felt very impressed with myself at 5 years old and also wondered why the other kids at school did not know how to count to ten in Spanish.

Agreed. The oil companies control the US.

IMO "war for oil" frame risks glossing over A) deeper history & politics around the US in LatAm, & B) the fact that the US doesn't actually control its oil companies—we're one of the few major oil producers on the planet where the state doesn't exercise much decision-making power over that industry

Like the Iraq War, I think it's wrong to understand this as a "war for oil," but it's not NOT (on some level) *about* oil—just not, seemingly, the actual interests of the US oil industry

It's an illegal, evil coup, which it seems like Trump probably thinks he's doing, on some level, to benefit the US oil industry. But the long-running trend in Trump 2.0 is that he consistently does things "for" the industry that they really, really hating bc he can't grasp basic market dynamics

The US produces >13 mn barrels of oil per day. Venezuela produces <1 million bpd There's a global oil glut i.e. lower prices. That's bad for US producers, who need higher prices to break even. Hard to imagine they're eager to make big new investments in an unstable place w/ decrepit infrastructure

geopoliticsunplugged.substack.com/p/will-the-u... It is entirely possible Venezuelan oil reserves aren't worth anything. Clue: They have the world's largest reserves, but produce 1M bbl/day to our 13.5 Their breakeven price sucks and their crappy oil trades at a discount.

It cannot be underestimated how much Trump & co. are trying to win the 1990’s.

The Los Angeles fire in January, Korean wildfires in March, England's June heatwave, the July Texas flood, Hurricane Melissa in October, and the five-year drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran show our warming planet #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/six-...

Has a court ruled on whether, under Section 230, a web site’s AI generating content based on a user prompt is treated as the web site’s speech? Seems to me it should be, just as if the site operator published speech answering someone’s question. BWEPRA

25 cdn received. That’s around 20 USD. Thanks for the donation. 780 USD left to go. I’ll be sending it along as it’s received and cover the fees. Can anyone match before I send?

Seems a real Decision to make it so we're completely entwined with the rest of the world in every possible material and cultural way and then declare we're gonna fight them and win.

MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want? M: *yells*

If Joe Biden, Barack Obama, or Bill Clinton had openly threatened to seize the territory of our NATO allies, Jake Tapper & every other CNN anchor would do nothing but point out how wildly illegal this is, how massively it endangers US national security, & how it is grounds for immediate impeachment.

you know I'm actually going to send a note to the UChicago IRB - nothing in the consent information for this study describes the risks associated my intellectual product being provided wholesale to a third-party LLM. that's really not OK

for comparison: as part of this paper I ran a survey of a bunch of scientists and music profs. the music profs HATED it. that's OK, not everybody likes all research — but the profs had to OPT IN TO PARTICIPATE as is the norm in 1000% of human subjects research, with a consent form, compensation etc

to be clear about this: people should do AI research if they want to! that's fine! the issue here is that this is a HUMAN SUBJECTS experiment where data associated with a subject has been pre-analyzed, without their consent. that's called 'harm'

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply

France at the UN Security Council: "The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force? MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO T: So force is on the table? M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland

I really think Erica could’ve taken Vecna. #strangerthings

"It said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on ‌January 5 and ‌6 in ⁠honour of those killed and said ‌funeral arrangements would be announced." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

This simultaneously hurts my heart and makes me FURIOUS. 😭😡

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

OK - now at US v. Nicolas Maduro presentment in SDNY, in Venezuela narco case 1st indicted in 2011, Maduro added in 2020, wife Cilia Flores added last week. Inner City Press has covered it all, including in UN until banned, and will live-skeet, thread below

Judge: Anything you say may be used against you. I see you have counsel, Mr. Pollack, here. If you cannot afford one the government will provide a lawyer free of charge. Did you know of these rights? Maduro: I did not know of these rights, until now

Imagine being so based even your AI girlfriend breaks up with you over it

Firing a good coach like Stefanski because the idiots in the front office felt like Deshaun Watson of all fucks was the one to lead the team is peak Browns behavior.

So here’s the thing - in Normal Times, yeah, being the unnamed source is useful and can help head off problems. We’re not in Normal Times. Either sign your name to your resistance against the fascist regime, or back it up with sabotage receipts, otherwise you’re just clout chasing.

The military is as porous as sponge under Hegseth. It's not the media's job to do his. It's their job to expose him as a corrupt, continuous screw-up so our military can be protected by not having a chatty white supremacist drunk who is chummy with Russia in charge.

Name these people so we can primary them.

Wtf

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.

My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption. Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort. Performative public investigations matter.

A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

WHAT

BREAKING: An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

Tommy Togiai gets a thicc six when the Colts pitchy pitchy woo woo goes horribly wrong

Fine, here's Tom Brady using the phrase "piss missile" again

ESPN managed almost one entire minute of analyzing the first half of the DIII Championship game they are airing and we're right off to analyzing the FBS playoffs. This shit sucks, man.