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There are fully legitimate reasons to be feeling a lot of anger, rage and despair right now. But I think you have a responsibility to yourself and others to prevent yourself from being ruled by these things, and avoid spreading them to other people as far as you can

This line reading. Incredible. No notes.

Polymarket ripping off the losers who bet that the US would invade Venezuela is both bald-faced, bizarre, and sort of amusing.

Well also there is no stop fascism button, once you're on the slope you keep sliding. Which is exactly what we all kept trying to tell people was going to happen.

If everyone just lets this go, that's the ballgame. Anytime they want to kill someone they'll just say the FBI is handling it.

THIS. It's one of fascism's own myths about itself: that it is coherent, efficient, etc. No. History shows us that fascist regimes are contradictory, chaotic, etc. Fascism is not a coherent ideology but a ragbag of scraps held together with aesthetics. Fascist governments are gangs of cranks.

Millions of Americans watched a middle-aged US citizen get shot in the face and killed by an ICE officer today. That's a level of national trauma that deserves a more respectful response from this administration than falsely claiming she's a domestic terrorist. We have lost our moral compass.

BREAKING: ICE killed a Minnesota woman in broad daylight & there must be accountability. But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down. They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.

Trump’s got a real knack for instigating horrible political violence in the first week of January, and we’ve got some really ugly politically staked Januaries coming up.

People are calling Walz a collaborator for not immediately forcing the national guard into the conflict. Give a guy a bit of time before making him commit to either losing a jurisdictional battle that solidifies all federal power or possibly instigating a civil war.

I would like today to have gone less insane, not way fucking more.

The part that I’m maddest about is that it is so clear that they wanted shit Ike this to happen.

there is an argument to be made for the US to have a real ministry of the interior (one that is honestly not that great) but we do not have one as such presently

Rest in power, Renee Good. 💔

this is a sign of weakness rather than strength, but this year will be far more volatile than last. Trump's polling is in the dirt. Any pretense at a legislative or governance agenda is dead. The only thing that remains is coercion, at home and abroad.

The new phase we're in is one where the administration's only options remaining for pulling levers involve executive monopoly over coercive powers.

I just have this fucking Lynchian Dune vision of Greg Bovino as Trump's Beast Rabban, just pointed at Minnesota and told to squeeze.

My God I'm still livid about that Noem press conference. She made it extremely clear that she considers the state of Minnesota an oppositional enemy and unequivocally blamed the victim. This feels like a soft civil war starting to harden up.

It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.

While a tiny part of me is fuck yeah about fucking time if we actually do get the jurisdictional national guard vs federal officers fight but most of me is like that sounds like a very very bad thing to happen historically

I really don’t like our country being this tested about the absolutely horrible shit we just might collectively end up tolerating.

I feel like it’s going to be a real test to the propagandists to see if they try to run with his version of the events

I wish I was more surprised that this is where we’re at. A Kent State style event was inevitable.

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in—like, his midriff was on her bumper—and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” [the witness] said. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Put dirt in your own mouth, lady.

Do not do a twitter search for the name of any child actor, it’s fucking horrible

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Trump was handed a fairly pristine in-and-out hoo-rah Epstein-distracting operation on a dubious Latin American dictator that is getting cautious support from a lot of Americans and is about to squander it by invading a non threatening country that no average American has any desire to see annexed.

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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.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

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.

Pete: This is the biggest engagement for the US military. Reporter: I thought you weren't putting boots on the ground. Pete: I meant my posts. They're fucking doing numbers, bro.

Someone talked about this being the first twitter gimmick war operation and it’s pretty clear that that’s the situation room priority

We did it our American ninjas got a dictator who ignored elections and his own constitution and we only had to bomb a civilian airport in the middle of holiday travel season to do it

They seem to be aware of some need to make up a bullshit reason, but they don't know why and (correctly) figure that it doesn't actually matter much anyway. It's this weird shriveled little vestigial limb still waving at the vanished concept of a rules-based international order

I personally think it's not great the president is unilaterally invading sovereign nations and kidnapping it's leaders and their families in the middle of the night.

maaaaaaaan

The members who did the "don't follow illegal orders" video absolutely need to immediately do a "hey these were the illegal orders we were talking about and participating in them can expect to face consequences to the fullest extent of the law" video

I’m going to feel so much fucking “he didn’t bomb major population centers without warning” anger at all the “Here’s why Maduro is a bad guy” justifications we’re going to see, I’m already horrified at the thought.

Un fucking believable

Was there civilian holiday traffic operating out of Higuerote? My gut is so fucking clenched. Are they going to claim that an entire airport was somehow narco-terrorism?

Jesus fucking Christ I’m so angry about this. I guess the fucking US military loves blowing shit up way more than they hate Donald Trump.

I know a lot of us have already been feeling profound shame of our country for at least a year now for a variety of reasons both foreign and domestic. But speaking just for myself, I'm hitting some new heights of shame tonight.

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