U.S. Southern Command chief General Laura Richardson said the quiet part out loud

Said on Glenn Greenwald’s show lol

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.

“So whereas it was once high social treason to make such claims about the Gulf or Iraq wars, Trump made it plain: this is in large part a war for oil. “We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars and start making money for the country.” TOLDJA

This, this, a gazillion times this. Those of us who watched those hearings were radicalized forever. Those who didn’t keep thinking that all of this is happening for the first time.

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

Last month, President Trump had this to say about Venezeula. "They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."

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.

it's time to play America's favorite new game, 'what the fuck am I waking up to now'

none of this is legal. none of this is normal. feel free to tell anyone who says otherwise to fuck off.

Reup: Trump's Selective Drug Enforcement in Latin America One nifty thing abt Maduro's known 2020 indictment is it cited trafficking drugs THROUGH Honduras, whence Juan Orlando Hernández was just pardoned so he could help Peter Thiel destroy government. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/03/t...

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

After a year in which Trump has bombed ... - Venezuela - Nigeria - Iran - Yemen - Syria - Somalia - and civilian boats in international waters ... I’m thinking about the voters who convinced themselves that Trump was the candidate of foreign policy restraint.

I can’t believe I have to do this. But okay, for everyone wondering why Susie Wiles said all that shit… It was all a smokescreen for this ONE statement. Everything else she said was designed to make you say “oh… look… she’s being honest”… just so you’d believe this one thing.

Of course he did.

A Japanese artist made the print DHS lifted to spread anti-immigrant hate. Can't make this up.

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Change socks, beat fascism: Woody's New Years Rulin's are forever. #happy2026 conservationworks.substack.com/p/wake-up-an...

I am tired of political elites telling workers all the things that are not possible. As some member leaders said recently about all the status quo candidates seeking our endorsement, “We don’t just need more friends in office, we need fighters.”

the 2000s and 2010s were full of people in the entertainment world being rightly fired for saying things that pale in comparison to what comes from prominent Republicans today and the main difference is that major national news media have accepted "Republicans are racist" as no longer newsworthy

Freight trains. Box cars. Stuff them full. And then a quick selection when they arrive at the detention facility to identify those capable of good, hard work. For additional profit, also check for gold in their teeth and smuggled currency.

Corn products like tortillas are poor sources of folate known to cause deficiency, & people who consume diets high in corn flour products have increased adverse effects from folate deficiency, like neural tube defects. This health disparity is easily treated. RFK is just ignorant, eugenicist trash.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply. Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social

Tonight in the Hudson Valley we don’t have to imagine and it would be a very short conversation.

I say his gently, but… There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry. Not because its government doesn’t fix it — but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost. That’s the part that sits wrong.

IMO, Gerald LK Smith is a figure who it was behoove us to know far more about than most Americans do. During his lifetime he was widely regarded as a fringe kook, but he had a mailing list of ~3 million people. He mastered the art of fascist American messaging. rightlandia.ghost.io/in-1946-a-wi...

According to FBI agents involved in the raid, Attorney General William Barr was on the scene and he personally took custody of many items seized, a step they thought highly unusual.

Guess what Nigeria has. Correct.

This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

That everyone treats the Nassar-Epstein letter as breaking news—when the AP reported it in 2023—shows you how well the strategy of “flooding the zone” has worked for Trump. According to Jack Smith, Trump sold nuclear secrets to foreign entities three times. That has news has yet to break through.

So much for “civility” in travel. 🤡

White men are 30% of the population. They are also: - 98% of presidents - 90% of CEOs - 90% of billionaires - 80% of Congress Forever oppressed.

WHY do they all know each other? What is this underground network of disgusting people who appear to only be connected through one thing?

Visit wclivestream.com/act to #SaveNCAR!

Admittedly, we should've seen ICE Santa coming when they introduced the Elf on the Shelf.

Thread of stories run by Bari Weiss's group blog that did not ask the targets of (frequently uncorroborated) accusations for comment, let alone give them a preemptive veto over the story:

Because Seuss hated merchandising, and strictly limited it. His widow turned on the firehose two years after he died.

The FELON in the WH ordered state prosecutors to file death penalty cases against some of the people whose sentences had been commuted by President Joe Biden. “South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida have either filed new state charges or promised to do so against at least four of the men“

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

if bari weiss hadn't pulled that 60 Minutes piece it likely would've gotten very little attention, but now she's been revealed as the bowdlerizing incompetent she is. i love this journey for her.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

This is a good quality upload: archive.org/details/ceco...

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Simpler times

Goddam why does 1918 go so hard