if you didn't immediately clock this as AI within 2 seconds of seeing it out of the corner of your eye you're ngmi

APNewsAlert: HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says 32 Cuban security officers were killed in U.S. attack on #Venezuela.

Honey, I Drilled the Kids

Denmark is a NATO member state. Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela (and Cuba, formally) are OAS member states.

Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened: -- a second strike against Venezuela -- Cuba -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Iran -- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)

Hakeem your comms team is absolutely stealing money from you. These are horrendous.

You should be calling for impeachment every day. Calling out the illegality of the Epstein files release every day. Screaming about Trump's actions in Venezuela. He has killed Venezuelan civilians and will kill many American soldiers. WAKE UP AND BE LOUD AND CLEAR. Do your job and oppose.

"Days before 16-year-old Kevin was expected to graduate from Francis T. Maloney HS in Meriden, federal officials detained him in Hartford & moved him to an ICE facility in TX. After 6 months in detention he returned home to a standing ovation from community members" www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-12...

We can’t afford a Democratic Party that’s divided between fighters and folders.

These guys still think Donald Trump is 1. interested in "learning lessons" and 2. capable of doing so. It's mind-boggling. They don't understand the guy's nature *at all*, even though it's as simple and obvious as could possibly be. And yet they absolutely dominate the discourse about him.

The year is 2026. Americans have elected a fascist as President. Climate change is on pace to unravel civilization. And this is the best image a major studio’s Marketing dept could come up with for the hottest actress in Hollywood:

We did regime change because Maduro disrespectfully danced at us

Trump has accomplished the feat of replicating 12 years of disastrous Reagan-Bush era foreign policy and tax + spending reforms in just 11 months. Truly impressive

Among giants.

I think the bigger question is this: why did Trump protect and pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker, while turning Maduro into a political trophy? And the answer probably has a lot less to do with justice and a lot more to do with who was useful to Donald Trump at the time.

RUBIO: Maduro was indicted. Nobody ever did anything about it. STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it? RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.

They question that drives the Trump regime right now is “How much will Donald Trump enjoy watching this on Fox News?” And when it comes to Venezuela and all the regimes he'd like to topple in the Western hemisphere, the executive producer of Trump's favorite show is Marco Rubio.

I hope Trump is the floor, the worst to which the degenerates in the republican party can sink, but I have been around too long to bet serious money on it

Murder is generally regarded as a worse crime than drug dealing.

The idea that we were merely executing a warrant - and in order to do so we had to massacre dozen of people who weren’t involved - is so ludicrously obscene.

Over 40 deaths are confirmed including civilians who were just sleeping in their homes when bombs started dropping on their city

i'm not picking on this person, so don't you, either, but congressional dems in both chambers have been shouting from the rafters about this for months, it's one of their most consistent messages, and if you're not hearing it, you need to take a look at how you're consuming information and from whom

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

Well put

If we can reach $200k, we'll be in a place where we have enough to invest in some of our up front costs (such as the print publishing component of The Reconstruction Papers) to also finally have one full time editor on staff. We just need 19% more than we've already raised gofund.me/98115b78b

Some people are just impervious to any lessons history or common sense can offer us.

For the rest of my life, I will be thinking about the Google trends on election day 2024 for "is Joe Biden running for president"

Made a new playlist

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

This mysterious process, which our politicians and journalists and consultants simply ignore, but which affects all of us, probably does more to explain politics than every campaign decision of the last 20 years put together. If I was a Democratic bigwig, I might consider investigating it somewhat.

Think about music, fashion, baby names. There are distinct trends that spread nationwide, that people somehow absorb through social osmosis, that appear everywhere all at once. People are obviously interacting with each other – otherwise there’d be no trend at all, just random static.

I am not trying to let Democrats off the hook here; it’s unreal that they refuse to think about mass consensus formation, and continue to treat public opinion as a product of individual values encountering individual candidate positions. This is clearly not how it works.

TFW when you have access to the most sophisticated military and intelligence in the history of the human race and you are... looking at Twitter

Weird for the world to fixate on a statement by the American president that has deep international importance

they’re trying to turn everyone into the joker reason.com/2025/12/31/d...

The ethical and legal damage will be with us forever but it’s the raging incompetence that will strike first, within the next few days.

remarkable how yet again, Donald Trump has found a way to betray *everyone* who is foolish enough to trust him.

Hitler alleged all sorts of things against the government and leadership of Czechoslovakia. I would advise the "Maduro's no angel" crowd to just stop. Whatever his personal sins and the government's failings, it just isn't the point.

A regime that accidentally shared military attack plans with a reporter says it can't follow the law and consult Congress because it's worried about leaks.

Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."

Discursively it is always weird to see people, whether it be politicians or just random commentators on here, hedge about the wrongfulness of kidnapping a president because Maduro was dictatorial. So are plenty of others, whom the USG actively loves. I don't see anyone clamoring about el Sisi.

Running multiple stories on the same subject - the type of "drumbeat" and "full court press" coverage that they do not give to lawbreaking by trump and republicans but did give to "biden is old." they know how to do it when they want to bsky.app/profile/shah...

Remember that interview Trump gave in February 2017 when he admiringly agreed that Putin was a killer, and suggested that was no different from how US Presidents should be? I think about that moment a lot. youtu.be/y7ErFCqCXcg?...

Trump/Hegseth/Rubio killed 40 Venezuelan civilians two days ago. They've been murdering random fishermen for weeks. Think about that. Really think about that. Think about shaking the hand of someone responsible for that. Think about writing a news article about them and not mentioning that.

This is billionaire-controlled media. They want to sleepwalk us into another forever war. We must break free.

The consent manufacturing has begun.

There’s no event too extraordinary for corporate media to change their approach.

People being like, "But Venezuelans are happy about Maduro being gone!" have the memories of goldfish. IN 2003, the narrative was that Iraqis celebrated the U.S. invasion and capture of Saddam. Whether they were happy or not, invading Iraq was still the wrong thing to do.

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, (1853-1890), Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy, 1889, oil on fabric, 61.6 x 45.7 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

How one mafia state threatens another