Iran was a secular democracy, one of the oldest sovereign governments in the entire world, until we nationalized our oil, which was mostly controlled by the British. The US overthrew our democratically elected leader and replaced him with the Shah, who tortured and murdered thousands.

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

In hindsight it was a bad idea to put a child molester with dementia in charge of everything. That’s our bad. That one’s on us

Et tu, Reute?

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Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

My fellow Americans, ours is a rogue state.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

A functioning Congress will have articles of impeachment drafted by the end of the day. Our Congress will just go to social media to basically say “We don’t like this, but what are you gonna do?”

Please put the US under sanctions. Cancel the LA Olympics. No international conferences.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Welcome to 2003.

No you left a voice mail on your reps phone line that ended in, "we don't need war, we need health insurance what the fuck is happening"

crazy how this country would rather go to war than arrest one pedophile

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind

So far, reports are that Trump didn‘t tell Congress or the Senate armed services committee about his attack on Venezuela. But, he did announce it on social media! I‘d love to know if any message reached Congress before Trump started posting.

I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.

every single democrat has got to be calling for this to fucking end get off of vacation and get to a camera

The U.S. constitution is not in effect

A Mad King has usurped the power of Congress—which represents the American people. That is, he has seized power that belongs to you and me collectively. He has declared war without consultation with or approval from Congress. And with no imminent threat. This is a profound betrayal of the republic.

The U.S. just kidnapped a foreign leader and his wife. Venezuela doesn’t produce Fentanyl, but they do have the world’s largest oil reserves. This is the war the $23 million Big Oil gave to Trump bought.

Next up: USA lands on Greenland and sets up an illegal base in an unpopulated area as a foothold to support territorial claims. What does Europe do? #Venezuela

Wtf. Impeach this president!

“My children have no memories of the winter I grew up with.” “I can handle it being hot. But when you can’t get water, that’s something else completely.” “We can’t plant in the fall like we used to. The plants dry up and die.” “I do feel a sense of loss...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sometimes I think I should quit this site. And then there is a random bit of genius in the skyline and I know I’ll never leave.

It means that for too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Feasting on beauty like my life depends on it (it does).

As I am always saying, I want to be a blue whale in my next life.

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

"I, for one, would no sooner think of consulting your average moral philosopher over a genuine moral problem than of consulting a philosopher of perception about an eye complaint."

Ban it. And leave Twitter.

New year, new nap?

Name a non-LotR character who could resist the One Ring.

Man, if I were running for one of the 100 most powerful positions on earth and trying to put a Nazi tattoo behind me, I wouldn’t wear a stormtrooper sweater amidst rising fascism. I would try to signal that I have basic media literacy. But wtf do I know?

What’s better than the ocean? That’s right. Nothing.

Extra appropriate in light of the Post story about Rama Duwaji's boots. Socialists fight not just for mere subsistence but human flourishing, which includes comfort, sensuous pleasures, and beautiful things bsky.app/profile/apoc...

"For too long those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." - Mayor Mamdani.

Quelle chance on a, dans toute cette douleur, de recevoir tant d'amour.

What book would you swear on? I have a signed copy of Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex so it would have to be that.

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I am the newest member of the Alliance Française du Maine. I don’t know if I can achieve real conversational fluency in 2026, but I’m sure gonna try!

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

Happy New Year! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEwi...

Happy New Year 🎉 🎉 🎉

Happy Zohran Mamdani mayoralty

Always. One of my earliest memories is listening to this in the car with my mom. (Still my fave version.) youtu.be/6FaPrhFR2Ak?...