🚨 "Canada, for several months now, has been developing a military strategy for how they will respond if there is an incursion over their southern border...that is now a real thing that the Canadian military is thinking about. Didn't use to be." – @economist.com's Hal Hodson (Sorry, no 🎁🔗 avail.)

"The oil and gas industry spent $249 million during the 2024 election cycle that brought in the current U.S. government, according to an analysis by OpenSecrets."

New: "Oil And Gas Industry Spent $250 Million On Elections That Produced The Current U.S. Government—And A Potential Venezuela Windfall" 88% of that $250M went to Republicans. me, for @forbes.com with @opensecrets.org's analysis www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

I don't know why patriot Charlie Kirk deleted this patriotic tweet about patriotic buses busing patriots to DC on Jan 6th, but the Internet never forgets. web.archive.org/web/20210107...

Whoops

Flashback to 2020— On December 19, Trump tweeted, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” Almost overnight, the cheapest room in his D.C. hotel on that January evening surged from $476 to $1,999. Read more on "How Trump’s D.C. Hotel Cashed In On The Jan. 6 Riot"

Just updated to include WH comments.

ffs WashPo — succeeding at what exactly?

somehow, Defence Scheme No. 1 returned

🚨 "Canada, for several months now, has been developing a military strategy for how they will respond if there is an incursion over their southern border...that is now a real thing that the Canadian military is thinking about. Didn't use to be." – @economist.com's Hal Hodson (Sorry, no 🎁🔗 avail.)

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Tell me you've missed the past 10 years of US politics without telling me you've missed the past 10 years of politics—

These people are so far removed from ethics and professionalism that they don’t even know when they are revealing how unethical and unprofessional they truly are.

Just updated to include WH comments.

LA county public health isn’t mincing words here on changes to vaccine schedule. Having lived in Denmark once, I can confirm that their healthcare system is fundamentally different than ours!

Not dunking on propter here, because it's true that legislatively the Senate is locked out without creating a movement behind an issue. But part of being a good politician is creating that movement. Zohran reframed "affordability" until even Trump had to admit shit costs too much. Good leaders lead.

ICYMI: We and our fellow independent supporters groups stand with the players.

ICYMI

There fireworks in DC this evening Apparently part of "Freedom 250" but probably for Trump to celebrate 5th anniversary of his coup attempt

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Tonight is the fifth anniversary of the Freedom Plaza rally that preceded the attack on Congress the next day. Here’s a story I wrote on Roger Stone’s role in that event and prior Stop the Steal stuff. (He missed January 6 because he got mad he wasn’t speaking.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Did not expect my Risk strategy to become US policy.

New: "Oil And Gas Industry Spent $250 Million On Elections That Produced The Current U.S. Government—And A Potential Venezuela Windfall" 88% of that $250M went to Republicans. me, for @forbes.com with @opensecrets.org's analysis www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

As usual, @838carlisle.bsky.social succinctly and powerfully drives home just how wrong the NWSL league office has gotten it over the last year.

If Grok can recognize that this is adult content, then it can recognize it should not be posting it

wrote about the nwsl’s odd business decision to stop caring about soccer btvc.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-... #nwsl #woso

“The league has a choice to make,” Burke told me. “They either need to cater to and protect teams unwilling to grow, or unlock potential. They can’t do both.” www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

Huh... "Gold, Oil Stocks Rally After U.S. Captures Venezuela’s Maduro" @siladitya.bsky.social, Ty Roush for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

How a Wall Street analyst started a $4B obesity drug company. My latest @forbes.com profile looks at Viking Therapeutics $VKTX www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

In the latest Current Climate newsletter: ☀️ Solar power’s relentless rise 💰Elon Musk’s year of big blunders and payday bonanzas 💧Progress for green hydrogen #solar #hydrogen www.forbes.com/sites/curren...

Huh... "Gold, Oil Stocks Rally After U.S. Captures Venezuela’s Maduro" @siladitya.bsky.social, Ty Roush for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

wrote about Trinity Rodman and the NWSL at a crossroads www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!

Telling oil companies before you tell congress and the press lmao can you make it more obvious what this is about

"The White House is weighing giving Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy White House chief of staff and homeland security adviser, a more elevated role in overseeing post-Maduro operations in Venezuela..." Gift link: wapo.st/4qD4Gf1

🎶Don’t go back.🎶

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

Any lawyers care to weigh in on 18 U.S. Code § 1201 - Kidnapping?

“Thus, the plight of the German minority in Czechoslovakia was for Hitler merely a pretext, as Danzig was to be a year later in regard to Poland, for cooking up a stew in a land he coveted, undermining it, confusing and misleading its friends and concealing his real purpose.” -Shirer, p. 589

“As [Sudeten German politician Konrad] Henlein himself summarized the Fuehrer’s views, ‘We must always demand so much that we can never be satisfied.’” -Shirer. The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich. p. 589

Not Somali. Not Venezuelan. Worked for Charlie Kirk.

Wicky won 12 of 52 games in 2 seasons with the Chicago Fire.

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.

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit—they're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.” - Elon Musk, The Joe Rogan Experience, February 2025

Remember, the next time Hegseth says we aren’t able to interdict or arrest the people on the tiny little boats so we just have to kill them… …that we infiltrated a heavily-guarded home in the middle of the night to make an arrest. They're murdering people because they can.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), run by Oz and his boss, RFK Jr., will no longer require physicians to report vaccination rates. Instead, they plan to start having doctors report if they’ve discussed “alternative” vaccine schedules.

This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro. But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.

I assume people will tire eventually of modifying photos in AI, but at the point the damage will be done that photographs will never again be seen as mementos of lived lives.