We can't afford subsidies for American healthcare, but we can afford to "run" Venezuela? America First or whatever.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

It’s the United States that needs regime change.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

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.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

Of course, the rules for foreign presidents doesn’t apply to the handlers of Trump, like Putin, Netanyahu, MBS, etc.

If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up. But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

Isn't it odd that the United States has enough money to suddenly run Venezuela, but not enough to run our own country? There is always cash in the piggy bank for bombs to kill people, but never for healthcare to keep them alive.

MAGA to English translation: to "run" a country = empty a country's wealth directly into the pockets of Trump and his co-conspirators at all costs (to others)

Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?

People get mad at the democrats for the same reason people got mad at the Uvalde cops

This thread perfectly captures my feelings about Liberal and NDP politicians in Canada. If you scream about how bad right-wingers to get yourselves elected, but then do nothing to fight them during the interim, it doesn’t take long for me to figure out that you are full of it and can’t be trusted.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

He can’t even run the country he was maybe (?) elected to run, how the hell can he run another country at the same time?

Statement on Trump’s military actions in Venezuela.

And the kicker is, it’s always the kids who oppose the latest war of choice that the adults admit years later was a bad idea.

War has always been a failure of diplomacy.

It's also very profitable which is why the thieves who are rich enough to make their robbery legal are all-in and making their propaganda outlets clear the way.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Trump likes to pardon former Central American presidential drug dealers. Perhaps Maduro can apply for a pardon.

With this regime anything is possible…

Trump has now endangered every man, woman, and child in this nation by his insane and illegal personal war against Venezuela. He must be impeached and removed from office immediately.

Venezuelan friends telling me stuff's blowing up in Caracas and power is out in parts of the city. Fuck this war criminal administration. Send them to hell.

The US is bombing Venezuela because it can’t hold its pedophilic president accountable. Such deep evil.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

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The Occupy Wall Street concept of 1% vs. 99% wealth inequality never left. Nor the fundamental immorality of billionaires.

Seems like there's a line to be drawn from Occupy Wall Street to Bernie as national figure to AOC to Mamdani. Many other factors, of course! But maybe messy, beautiful 2011, crushed so brutally by Bloomberg & countless other mayors, forgotten in the Trump years since, was a turning point after all.

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Kevin Van Valkenburg on Trump ending Nat'l Links Trust's 50 yr lease on DC golf courses: "[W]hat this admin is essentially doing is taking over a nat'l park for invented reasons so that the Trump Org can run it & profit from it. Imagine if Yellowstone suddenly cost $1k but mostly served lobbyists."

Interesting piece on "conversational literacy" - the decline in face-to-face communication skills among young people. As we integrate more AI into social interactions, we need to consider how digital mediation shapes fundamental social competencies. #sociology #AcademicSky theconversation.com/sc...

And this was with DEI initiatives in place.

It would be laughable but these people are serious and want to be a victim for absolutely no sane reason!

This just highlights how little is "acceptable" to them. 30 people out of 361 is too many. 30 out of 361 is an unacceptable number. Because the only acceptable number is 0.

The Inequality in Hollywood is SHAMEFUL.

But that one white guy couldn’t get a job in Hollywood because woke!!!!

Without a doubt. He will make a good faith effort to enact all his policy ideas. He will succeed on some and fail on others. And that’s fine. That is how change works. Also his promises are all feasible.

while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now. happy new year everyone!

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Punk’s Not Dead! Funny Snow Sculptures (10 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/01/02/f...

This has been the autocrat’s playbook for a decade or two: have friendly oligarchs buy up independent media and then they impose government-friendly editorial policies so the autocrat doesn’t have to get their hand directly dirty killing the free press.

Talking with people at a holiday gathering here in Toronto last night, and when it came up, most of us nodded that we likely won’t ever visit the United States again. It’s a weird feeling, and weird to acknowledge in a group.

Sir Idris Elba!

Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!

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.

Night’s swathed in dense fog and the stillness that brings. May well be asleep when 2026 rings in, dreaming of Polly Crisis and her band Jackpot, so here’s wishing you all the best from Vancouver!