These guys love "the strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must" but don't really want to discuss the Second Sicilian Expedition.

It's cyclocross season. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBjO...

Dunno if I'm a YIMBY but I would live above a library. IWLAL.

I'm probably not the first to say this but the "law enforcement" framing will flip at the first judicial hurdle or as soon as they can cook up a nonsense milcom for Maduro.

Goodness gracious

in 2025 my resolution was to kick as many google products as possible: browser, search, drive, and docs were a huge success! right now i use waterfox, DDG, local drives, and obsidian. i also managed to swap out microsoft office for office libre, and i got off spotify in favor of the radio & CDs!

Need a new labeler: "Posted the right amount today, which shows remarkable self-control after the past two days."

New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

gifted... www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The administration is too lazy to do proper state destruction in Venezuela (and that's good) but it proceeds apace here at home (and that's bad).

Okay, fine. But can we at least get *niche* celebrities on here instead of regular ones? Like 1990s road cycling sprinter Djamolidine Abdujaparov ("The Tashkent Terror") or the carpenter guy from that surprise home makeover show?

Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed

The flip side of these high ranking politics posters is that a couple dozen mutes can significantly change the site experience.

Some thoughts on DW News about what US actions in Venezuela mean for int. law & global security. Every state that cannot on its own stand up militarily to the US has an interest in not weakening the prohibition on invasion & head of state immunity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbvP...

Wonder if the ICRC has had access to the POW held in NYC yet.

If I were writing for Venezuela I would have started where he is now: how can the international community tolerate this kind of violation when it threatens them all. That was Ukraine’s extremely persuasive argument before every international body: that crimes against Ukraine were crimes against all

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Shocking scenes at the United Hemispheres Security Council this morning.

webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k... if you’re interested in this morning’s emergency security council meeting on Venezuela, it’ll start here at 10am. It was called by Colombia, and can help us get a sense of the public lines coming from a diverse group of countries

1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Rarely do you read news this positive these days. Other US cities should seriously consider implementing congestion pricing.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

holy fucking paragraph batman prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

Or alternatively a both-sides labeler that says "hey this person didn't even post 50 times yesterday."

I hope I didn't alienate too many people before my therapeutic stroll.

We're all prisoners of a 4 year old who didn't get his needs met, and who then - despite all the opportunities afforded to a rich man in the greatest city in the world - never faced the damage in 75 years.

Just back from a walk in the moonlight. 10/10 do recommend.

Josh Marshall on the mistaken assumption that there is “a” reason why we attacked Venezuela. I have an odd perspective on this, since I spent ages fixating on the analogous question about Iraq. It started when I noticed that none of the books about how we went to war in Iraq mentioned a DECISION.

The United States Congress has the Constitutional power and the patriotic duty to stop this insanity immediately, for the good of all Conservative and Liberal Americans’ future.

God I'm posting through it, aren't I? I don't even know what "it" is right now.

I wish I had words to describe how expensive it is to "run" other countries, and how much we absolutely suck at it.

“May your research be relevant” - ancient academic curse

Whether it's 30 days or 3 years, nothing is more occupier-coded than deciding when the country you're definitely not occupying can and should have new elections.

Lengthy statement on Venezuela from Senator Bennet, worth reading.

One think that's seared into my memory from working on torture ethics in the '00s and '10s is how a lot of key enablers were in fact squishy moderate liberals who made *catastrophically* wrong judgments about it.

F'ing hell. tired: preemptive war wired: spontaneous war with nothing to preempt inspired: omniwar

The coffee must have worked, because the family zoom was fabulous and we were even momentarily joined by my uncle who had brain surgery on Friday.

IMO the key reason to impeach Trump over Venezuela, *whatever the probability of success,* is to yank the chain before we're doing one of these a week with much tougher (soon to be former ally) opponents. Mexico, Canada, Greenland, Panama, etc.

Unsolicited advice to runners over 40: you can just build longer rest periods (3-5 days no running) into your training programs ever month or so to prevent injury and really recover.

In DealBook no less.

🎬 🍿 Starting a ‘Now watching’ thread. Pin 📍 or bookmark this post to follow along. First up, 2016 talk by Prof. Susan Haack, titled: “Science, Yes; Scientism, No” www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Be6... 1/🧵

It's remarkable that 15 years after the fight over trying KSM in New York, Maduro is appearing in front of a federal judge tomorrow. I guess the idea with KSM was they wanted to throw him in hole and never hear about the torture, while Maduro is going on display like WWE event.

It is absolutely embarrassing that these people ascend to such heights of the profession while ethical, hard working investigators get maligned as mere activists. “I left my sinecure to join a start up with Sean Spicer” should be a career death sentence in any functioning version of this country.

It's a sunny, breezy, beautiful, and utterly unnerving 66 degrees in Boulder today.

I see some folks doing probability-of-success arguments about impeachment and am growing convinced that we need to develop some sort of threshold consequentialism to counter the lack of principles in the moment.

Gosh you never know what pile you're going to step in when purveying mild witticisms on the internet just to get through a Sunday at 5% brain power.

I think Rubio might find it hard to "run things" in Venezuela if he has to send guys hoppin & poppin to kidnap every new president who doesn't do exactly what he wants.

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.