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What fresh Hell is this?

Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee

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A reminder. outsidethebeltway.com/right-in-fro...

Remember who you are, American. Part of a nation that proudly went to war against the kind of fascists who embrace stupid white supremacist slogans like "one homeland, one people, one heritage"

Worth a read.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Thinking about why all this Greenland talk concerns me. outsidethebeltway.com/greenland-is...

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Here’s where we are: Following a plebiscite, a vulgarian autocrat has directed a secret police force to conduct an ethnic cleansing. Our deeply ingrained exceptionalism prevents us from saying or even seeing this. As Orwell said, to see what’s in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.

If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.

Read one (1) book about the history of the United States. I'll wait.

Good Lord.

To my Republican colleagues, the Vice President is spitting in your face and openly flouting your constitutional authority. Time to decide if you came here to be a Member of Congress or a cheerleader for whatever Trump wants.

if trump thought he had a winning hand here he would be the first person in front of the press. they know it’s bad so they send their little pig man out to gobble up the slop

Holy fuck they actually did it

President Trump plans to build his controversial ballroom as tall as the White House’s main mansion itself — a significant change of plans that adds up to 15 feet, making the structure 70 feet at its tallest. See the latest renderings here:

Another example of the authoritarian nature of the regime: violence against a citizen and nothing but blatant lies from the administration. ICE Kills, Noem and Trump Lie – Outside the Beltway outsidethebeltway.com/ice-kills-no...

Damn where have I heard that phrasing before?

"You get to keep your life" is a completely intolerable state of affairs

AT ODDS

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

In case you were wondering. What is the Monroe Doctrine? – Outside the Beltway outsidethebeltway.com/what-is-the-...

The countries you liberate always enjoy donating their natural resources to American companies. That’s just science

You do not gotta hand it to the people violating international law

A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism

Specifically, a protest song about how the sons of the rich were able to avoid fighting, like fighting-age Donald Trump who got four deferments for being in college and another for bone spurs.

Donald Trump authorized a military attack on a foreign country, kidnapped the head of state, and claimed that he and his cronies now have the right to run that country as they see fit. All in less than 24 hours. All without congressional authorization. All illegally and unconstitutionally.

Trump's willingness to call the Republican Party's abject, humiliating failure in Iraq exactly what it was rocketed him to the GOP nomination in 2016. Here he is doing the same thing, only somehow even dumber

Trump on the cost of running Venezuela: “It won’t cost us anything. We’ve heard that before.

Rubio on Cuba: “It’s run by incompetent, senile old men”. Projection much, Marco?

Trump's ramblings about crime in a major address ostensibly about an invasion of another country makes CNN's speculation about whatever serious reason Trump was late look like exactly what it was: pointless, lazy, sane-washing.

"We are going to run the country."--Trump. So we are going to occupy Venezuela?

They are "analyzing" Maduro's sweat pants on CNN right now. Ugh.

Just because you can make an analogy doesn’t mean it’s a good one…

CNN seems more focused on how well the operation went, rather than the legality or wisdom of it, including little to no mention that Congress was not involved. Not to mention that the consequences of this action aren't seamless and easy. Cable "news" is mostly just filling time.

News: Gang of Eight in Congress were only notified about Trump's Venezuela operation after it began, source familiar tells me. That means the heads of the Intelligence Committees in Senate and House were *not* consulted. Just crazy.

Just a few weeks ago, these guys said jurisdiction was so powerful that the US could not recall its own detainees from CECOT in El Salvador… #theyllsayanything

It is bizarre and totally on-brand that he calls into Fox and Friends before addressing the American people. And his obsession with the "speed and violence" of this event as a "television show" is grotesque.

JD Vance 12/20: "In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore." CBS News 1/2: "We love America and make no apologies for saying so." Who, in these people's aggrieved little minds, is demanding all these apologies? And who has the power to forgive?

This this this this THIS!

Prof Eliot Jacobson: And it's a wrap. The year 2025 came in at 1.47°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it the 3rd warmest year on record behind 2023 (1.48°C) and 2024 (1.60°C), and likely the 3rd warmest in the last 120,000 years.

Anyone out there choosing their next surgeon based on their MCAT score instead of, you know, their actual resume? One of the Dumbest Things I Have Read in a While – Outside the Beltway outsidethebeltway.com/one-of-the-d...

Fake Journalist who has all but walked away from her Fake University has thoughts on academics. This stuff, by the way, is <exactly> why James Carville & Brian Schatz & their “faculty lounge” bullsh*t need to be banished from the Democratic Party forever.

They keep telling us who they are. Anti-Immigrant Ideology from DHS – Outside the Beltway outsidethebeltway.com/anti-immigra...

ICE cited our Border Update in an ad that apparently aired during some of today's football games. More context: fentanyl seizures started declining *in mid-2023, in the middle of the Biden administration*, at the U.S.-Mexico border.