Congratulations to @democrats.senate.gov under @schumer.senate.gov for all those *Yeas* on the confirmation of their buddy Marco Rubio He's doing a helluva job!!!

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.

man i do not give a shit about the future of this conflict and its chances of successful regime change. my government is waging an unlawful war without congressional authorization. i do not give a shit that maduro sucks. are we fucking tadpoles

just gonna reshare this post (and thread) because I think it's really important that people understand how we all use social media differently. some simply want to chat, some want to joke, or offload, or muse. These are not all opportunities for debate

A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.

sorry what the fuck

The War President begins 2026 as he means to carry on.

Learn to hold two thoughts in your heads peoples. It's not that hard. My army can be criminally incompetent and the americans just criminal. They're not mutually exclusive concepts. Unless you're an idiot.

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General reminder that if you mute the current US president's surname on here, you will miss absolutely zero important news. Even right now. But your timeline will do way less stacking damage to your mental health.

(Couched in waiting for confirmation of the facts here) Presenter: “Is this legal?” Me: “No.”

"The Constitution vests the power of declaring War with Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject, and authorised such a measure." George Washington

Every time I leave the country something insane happens so really this is my fault

Also the fact that everyone complied with the most obviously illegal order I've seen since they murdered those fishermen is a sign of how absolutely out of control the army is Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I need to become less online because you shouldn’t find out about an illegal invasion because someone posted that it wasn’t very FIFA Global Peace Prizey of Trump to do that.

Btw, the big story overhanging all of this is that US government is deadly serious in its stated plans to dominate and control the western hemisphere. Take the threats against Greenland very seriously indeed.

ben franklin once said “justice is strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. a highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and the nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.” a country of banditti, nothing more

British voters want to be part of the EU more than the French and Italians, new poll reveals Campaigners said Labour had to ‘catch up with public opinion’ as PM faces calls for closer ties to the EU after Brexit www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

So the whole "separation of powers" thing has a failure state that we didn't really learn about in civics class: Everyone is a sycophant who wants the leader of the executive branch to be a god-king even as his faculties are visibly decaying

Any Representative or Senator not filing articles of impeachment over this circus as soon as they get into the office is unworthy of their station and unfit for the job Open, shut That fucking simple

“But it won’t pass while the GOP has a majority” don’t care Don’t even slightly fucking care We have laws or we don’t, make the barest effort to attempt enforcing them as is your job or go the fuck home

Believe it or not, independent journalists can get our own frontline sources.

It's 2026. We have friends in Gaza and Caracas sending us live updates and videos as it happens.

The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”

I am never going to get tired of hearing this NPR news segment where they incredulously quote him on megadosing aspirin because "thick blood"

"i've got eight slugs in me, one's lead and the rest are bourbon" is one of the all-time greatest noir lines in history

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

A picture is worth 1000 words... This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK. Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect. Chapeau!

Factory fabrication of steel-reinforced concrete pillars The final step of the process involves an autoclave, which utilizes high-temperature steam and pressure to cure and harden the concrete.

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

I keep this screenshot handy when someone's replies start to cross the Nicholson Line.

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

“Kids today don’t know how to” tell me how much butter you can churn or show me a chair you built from a tree you cut down before you complain about atrophied generational skills

I just saw a video talking about the Tesla door safety problem and the number of comments that are like, "well you should read the manual" are...shocking. No, cars should be intuitively safe. Passengers are not reading the manual. Are you doing a safety briefing every time you give someone a ride?

every time i read about the insane perverts attempting to gain access to daycare centers by force I think about this review for a dojo that I read ages ago. no, you are not entitled to places just because you want to go there. grow up

These days you can’t even use your column in one of the UK’s preeminent left liberal newspapers to demand rightwing border solutions, without somebody comparing you to Dracula. So much for the tolerant left 😔

Mamdani really did just describe exactly a guy like him and his job and they can’t process it like Rumpelstiltskin being told his name no issue

"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

2 things: 1) Joel is right here in that AI is a "restorative" nostalgia (from Svetlana Boym) machine, in that it produces a past that never existed & tries to drag it into the present 2) the crusade imagery is violent white supremacy (see next post)

Why does this not surprise me? Not only the costs in time and money of grant applications, but also the bureaucratic stifling of research creativity. I'd like to see a 'basic income' approach for research - give researchers a sum they choose how to spend, including pooling it with collaborators.

Climate fatalism isn’t just bad messaging. It’s also wrong. There’s no such thing as “game over for the climate.” There’s only better or worse, and better is better than worse.

BREAKING: Tesla loses its crown as the world's bestselling electric vehicle maker to Chinese rival BYD as sales fall for a second year in a row.

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.