Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Vance’s use of quotes is deliberate, not illiterate like Trump’s. Here, it signifies that legality itself is a dubious or frivolous concept as applied to the actions of the regime. It conveys not just that it’s wrong to say the acts were illegal, but ridiculous to use law as a metric at all.

This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.

Over on the zombie platform known as TikTok US, @reeltakes.bsky.social (one of my favorite media critics of late) serves up some hot and spicy schadenfreude regarding the connections between the G-side in Gaza and “regime change” in Venezuela. Worth a watch if you’re on there still.

It must be alarming to every head of state to learn that possessing machine guns in their own countries is reportedly now one of the grounds for the US to invade kidnap and imprison them.

Chairman JCOS: “Months of planning…” soooo not an imminent threat justifying self-defense

A functioning Congress will have articles of impeachment drafted by the end of the day. Our Congress will just go to social media to basically say “We don’t like this, but what are you gonna do?”

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

I aspire to be the Cat Whisperer of Syros.

Three weeks ago. 🤡 @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/12/16/p...

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Why does it feel like the US is gunning to get into a nasty, uncontainable regional war with a host of South American countries?

reps.fyi Light ‘em up, folks. Demand Trump’s immediate removal. Over and over and over. DGAF if they’re Republicans. Put them on notice.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Support independent media.

Please put the US under sanctions. Cancel the LA Olympics. No international conferences.

Can’t wait to see how CBS covers this without any experts. #Venezuela

IMPEACHMENT NOW

FOLKS NEED TO REALIZE HOW HUGE THIS IS For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot. That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social getting called out on day one is a flex. Let’s see how this one ages.

Off to a good start

Shirley has made a habit of visiting cities and countries that are settings for right-wing, anti-immigrant conspiracies, such as Aurora, Colorado, amid the manufactured crisis around the Tren de Aragua gang.

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

This is very, very good, and I'm not just saying that because @billiejsweeney.bsky.social writes and helps out with editing for Assigned.

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

We need a link indicator in the @bsky.app UI that clearly denotes when a subscription is required to view shared reporting etc. like “Gift Article” only reverse. So many folks have dumped their media subs due to… (gestures widely). TL;DR - Automatic link attribution feature for paywalled content

Again, the man who’s next in line for the presidency after this walking corpse has said he’s deeply influenced by this outright Nazi, so maybe we could get a little more attention on that?

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

If the next Democratic president doesn’t abolish ICE then the Dems deserve to lose forever

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So, the frog stopped the National Guard from coming to Portland, along with astute lawsuits by Oregon. Only part of what's happening, but hard to understate how fundamentally the Portland Frog changed perceptions and helped morale. Humor, imagination, courage, savvy.

Because of a conspiracy theory-based stunt by a January 6 insurrectionist who was trying to intimidate children and daycare workers, Trump is now freezing ALL childcare payments across the country. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

Earlier this year, French and EU authorities began investigating Elon Musk and X over concerns of election interference. The investigation is ongoing, and if corroborated France could seize Elon's assets and jail him. This is now one of my top hopes for the New Year… Viva la France! 🇫🇷

Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.

Without a doubt.

Border czar Tom Homan didn't receive a normal background check for his role while his bribery probe was still ongoing: Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered. It remains unclear how Homan was eventually granted clearance.

Let's hope @rbreich.bsky.social is right and that the US will finally take a long, hard, look in the mirror. The "American Dream" they've been sold since Reaganomics is actually a dystopian nightmare.

Our 8th most-read piece of 2025 perfectly crystallizes the internet in 520 words. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/did...

The American people deserve to know the details and the legal justification when their military blows up things in foreign countries. But that transparency isn't happening because the dictator Trump sees the military as his, not ours.

Will’s arc has been one of the most satisfying of this season and not just because he figured out his powers. His coming out was a lovely moment of community amongst the layered plotting and narrative drive as this beast drives to the finish line.

Over 100 GB of data from a collection of white supremacist websites is now being hosted by @ddosecrets.com. Data is from the dating website WhiteDate, the ancestry website WhiteChild & the job website WhiteDeal. ddosecrets.com/article/whit...

This is what I've been saying. You have to fight this by destroying his legacy. And doing it with prejudice. There needs to be spectacle made of the destruction.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

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This is MTG'w bill. She personally authored. It's happening now, not in the past. Spare me her redemption arc.

AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"

Tired: Pizzagate Wired: Somaligate Shirley is a deeply unserious loon who is threatening childcare workers and by proxy children. They always target the children.