The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price. Here we are again. We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...

Yes, we are all Belén. 😢 The movie Belén is Argentina’s International Feature Film entry for the upcoming Oscars. The true story follows Belén (a pseudonym), who is falsely imprisoned for having an abortion when she really had a miscarriage.

"Grindset" no longer belongs to men who do day trading. It is now the name of the aesthetic genre that encapsulates and is inspired by Jet Set Radio (Japan, Global) / Jet Grind Radio (US)

DEC 16: Russia Escalates Demands, Kyiv Near Blackout, Hague Launches Claims Commission, Global Tensions Rise From Belarus to Gaza onest.substack.com/p/dec-16-rus...

All those fines and court fees and making you pay for your own jail and whatnot must be making cities and counties and states a fortune, right? Actually, the costs of collecting that money may take it from a revenue source...to a revenue suck budgetandpolicy.org/schmudget/gu...

Expect the talking point to be that they're not blockading #Venezuela, per se...they're only blockading sanctioned tankers, which, technically, isn't an act of war Also expect trump to step on his own dick by saying something that contradicts his own talking point

1. A blockade is an act of war 2. The idea that Venezuela has stolen land from the United States is so laughably stupid on its face that even some of his base is like 🤨 3. It’s always about oil.

That’s an easy answer: FUCK YES.

Super Mario Brothers 3 was already twenty five years ago, if you can believe it. How the time flies!

It seems that Friday we will be at war, to keep the EPSTEIN files hidden.

Was DeJoy too far down the line of succession to get the memo?

Hilarious. The WH had all the Cabinet members simultaneously put out statements supporting Susie Wiles after the Vanity Fair article came out.

Beginning to think the president might be, y’know, deranged.

Fox news (Commies who finance the fascism) had zero stories on the Susie Wiles releases today. But they did report on family pets getting eaten and Mexican politicians having hair pulling fights.

Mark Carney provides them with weapons for a genocide, Canadian charities and Synagogues send them buckets of money each year, domestic policing is practically being shaped around them and they won’t answer the door. You can’t make this up #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Could be worse Ford…

Looks like I now have what will be a collector's item in my driveway www.npr.org/2025/12/15/n...

Artoffact Records has a collection of 14 -- that's right, 14 -- free samplers that you can download from their Bandcamp site; when asked to "Name your price", choose 0 and follow the directions from there artoffactrecords.bandcamp.com/album/artoff...

Hello. I would like to celebrate the lost art of the compilation album as an eye and ear opening path into pleasures previously unknown. It might be a sampler, it might be a mix album but it's a person's singular vision of a particular genre or theme. Thread below of some favourites

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On Canadian tv if Trump does a press conference they run about 30 seconds then cut away adding “he’s just repeating things he’s been saying for years” that’s what US tv needs to do. Shut him off. He just rambles.

So there were a bunch of police cars at the local grocery store for unclear reasons, lights rolling on all of them. When we were leaving, they had pulled two units nose to nose and so I said “Look, the cruisers are kissing!” and it turns out there’s at least one Tennessee cop with a sense of humor.

[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela? AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.

Trump may be vile and addled but there are smart people in the administration who are sticking to a plan and it ain't all Project 2025 either. #TotalSurveillanceState

How hard can it be to do this?

It's been nearly a month and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

WHO AMONG US hasn't sat down 11 times with a journalist and a tape recorder only to be shocked that they'd publish stuff we talked about?

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

A U-turn on diesel and petrol phase-outs creates uncertainty, stifles innovation, and weakens Europe. It pollutes our air and allows China to take the lead. europeangreens.eu/news/europea...

Super proud of this one - sometimes in museums we get to do the right thing & correct a historical wrong. Honoured to have played a part in returning Preben Holger Larsen's remains to Denmark, and I hope sharing our methods helps other museums follow difficult research threads. bit.ly/4iZXCpX

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

If wishing Trump an eternity of suffering in hell is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

Feverishly working on this

Seems like we go through this drama with Snowflake Dan every other week.

70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish! There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Over three decades, Norway invested heavily in bridge-building measures aimed at neighbouring Russian regions. It failed. The government in Oslo is now preparing a plan for blowing up bridges in case of a Russian attack

This brilliant, kind, endlessly effective, just unstoppable, truly great man could still be in the White House effecting positive transformations for us. But a few too many moronic cultists felt that a lazy, unbelievably stupid, assassination-faking, child-raping, murderous monster would be best.

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...

As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.

Just did a search and typed in "Porno" and I'm sure Google immediately began a big ol' prefetch process, trying to anticipate my every need...and then I typed in "for Pyros" and I can just see the prefetch service saying to itself: "Well, that was a waste of effort"

* WHAT?...Very cold wind chills as low as 34 below zero. Severe Weather Alert ⚠️ Alberta Clipper is arriving a bit early this year…🌬 Thanks, Canada 🇨🇦 🙂 I'm fine…

🔬⚗️👩‍🔬 Science just found rare, medicinal compounds in cannabis. Most cannabis growers discard the plant’s leaves after harvest but new research suggests they might be throwing away chemical gold that might hold powerful therapeutic potential. www.cannabissciencetech.com/view/phenoli...

I like how my brain will ignore important stuff but suddenly remember a song from ‘97 perfect.

Brooklyn, Portland, OR #pdx #murals #graffiti #formline #streetart