File this away somewhere for future reference, or to impress your friends. Based on a polar view, Denmark isn't any further away from Greenland than the US is. Yet one more reason why the US doesn't have a superior claim.

Local News at 11 on the ABC owned-and-operated station in NYC is covering vigils and protests against ICE from Minneapolis to Chester, NY and NYC.

Mary L. Trump sends our her newsletter by email. This issue seems more weighty than usual. You might want to to share this with some friends: www.marytrump.org/p/gradually-...

Download and save this article (or print to .PDF). You'll want it for when Trump's DO(in)J indicts Jerome Powell with some bullshit nonsense regarding the renovations of the Federal Reserve HQ. This is a Bloomberg article "gift link" that expires in 7 days. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Belated congrats to @maryltrump.bsky.social !! According to an email she just sent, someone made an honest woman out of her, the love of her life! Why she's kept it under wraps for months is no one's business but hers, but I thank her for now sharing her happiness with us! Best wishes!!

What kind of UTTER BULLSHIT has the WaPo turned into? Journalism is dead there. The headline should AT LEAST be, "Republicans Rally Around Alleged Murderous ICE Agent."

Some day, all this will be an opera.

@foolme1ns.bsky.social Greatly appreciate your handle. It serves timely as a double-entendre, too. Not only did Trump MURDER Renee Nicole Good, he's murdered America's GOOD itself. Invading, kidnapping, bombing. Back-stabbing allies. We're not supposed to be the bad guy. Yet, here we are.

Excellent point! After all these years of ethnic cleansing, genocide, treaty violation, and expropriation, an American President finally admits we had no right to the land!

Sadly, dynastic wealth is the ONLY reason we now all have to suffer Donald Trump. Inherited wealth is no different from inherited monarchy. We are effectively ruled by the deceased. (Even more so, here in the uk) 🤔

If there's any date we want to celebrate to mark America's 250th birthday, maybe it's tomorrow, January 10, the date the IDEA of a free, democratic America rejecting royalty, heritage, and dynastic wealth, and one based on individual liberty and meritocracy was first published!

A poem by Amanda Gorman For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE on January 7th, 2026

Interesting geopolitical analysis of how US move against Venezuela exposed Russia's weakening ability to pursue international influence and ambitions outside of Ukraine. archive.ph/OBGex ← Archived article link.

Stephen Colbert is now the conscience of a nation. The first couple minutes of this is intentionally no joking matter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu5B...

Take stock of where we are, and what that means to you, and to the nation.

OMFG. Colbert is KILLING IT!! His monologue about ICE murders and Administration PERFIDY is smart, patriotic, and shockingly activist. A national treasure!

This is pretty bold by The Economist. They may regret this. Machine guns? Where? Venezuela? So, what? "Narco-terrorism?" That's not a statute, exactly, and you have to prove both ends of it, the narco and the terrorism and that it affects the US. Frankly I don't think we even have standing.

Trump demanding an initial 50 million bbls from Venezuela is in no way legal. We're ransacking a poor country?

Well, I just discovered how MicroCenter can get away with charging $300 to install a new drive in your laptop and clone the old one to it. The average Muggle can never do it themselves! I'm pretty competent, but had to learn new tricks myself. Success! Here's how: 1/2

This is straight-up colonialism, imperialism, or piracy. Choose one.

Doug LaMalfa, Republican Congressman from a deeply rural district has died in a medical facility in his district following failed emergency surgery. Republican dismantling of ACA will further decimate rural medical facilities. As those districts are primarily Republican, will they take notice?

Senator Kelly will have a 100% successful suit vs. DoD if they do that. The bogus "sedition" claim is completely unsupportable, and hence the "punishment" is as well. And, as Hegseth's action is not only without legal basis, but slanderous, Kelly has a personal suit against Hegseth if he wants one.

Ha! Beat my own record of 21 seconds. (Yes, there are better things I should be doing, but I find this distraction oddly relaxing. In small doses.)

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

Re: Rubio's Venezuela "law enforcement" interview (where the US had no law enforcement powers): If Trump (god forbid) is assassinated, and I'm on the assassin's jury, who claims it was just their own ad-hoc law enforcement mission, I can now buy that now, right?

No byline on this story clipping, but whoever wrote it really highlighted everything wrong and corrupt with our justice system, not to mention what a predator Epstein, and perhaps by extension, his lawyers are. (Hi, Dersh!)

Long, sickening thread. But read it until you can't take anymore. It's the Russian influence operation in 2024. This is how they subverted America!

The next President will be whoever is first to buy a billion dollars of $TRUMP crypto, promise Trump 3 blocks of downtown Caracas, and to change the name of the country to Trumpezuela.

On the one hand, Trump announced Maduro's VP would be partnering with the US in running Venezuela, leaving Maduro's (illegitimate?) government in place. On the other hand, that VP soundly denounced Trump, the US, and any chance of Venezuela's submission to outside rule!

@bandroll.bsky.social Thank you for liking my posts! You have an enormous following compared to mine. Would it be rude of me to ask you to repost them? This stupid Venezuela situation is out of control. People need to be reminded what we did, why we did it, and what Iraq cost us!

Is Caracas under attack by US military???

Well, I would "affirm" rather than swear. That said, this nutsy thing is inscrutable fun:

If you can't remember the name of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, does that mean you suffer from it? (I just had to ask Google to remind me.) Or is it something worse?

My city has a new mayor, and new hope. This was the private, midnight official ceremony. The public ceremony and "block party" celebration is 1 pm, later today at City Hall (the building, not the subway station of the same name) and City Hall Park. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaih...

Watching The Naked Gun (2025), and I have this comparison to the original (1988): Liam Neeson and Leslie Nielsen have the same initials.

Here's a valuable editorial (gift link!) on the plight not only of the Western Alliance, but the very continued EXISTENCE of "the West." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I wonder what sort of advertising psychologists work up these emails to keep inciting and milking Trump's sheep? It's shamelessly scurrilous. BTW, "mid-month?" The time stamp on this email is Dec 30, 2025, 8:45 PM

Back in the day, physical or mental defects would land a kid in a state institution. For life. So, people didn't see them, and families were ashamed and didn't talk about it.

I don't think calling the Trump Administration a "Regime" is hyperbole. In fact, it understates the dictatorial nature our government has reached. Between masked goon squads violating civil rights every way possible, and State and Justice seeking to censor and prosecute factual reporting, oh boy.

Sigh, indeed...

How is this not treason? It's an intentional violation by officers of the Executive Branch of the first clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States! This is an overthrow of our secular government!

Is this is, or is this ain't, a HIGH CRIME?

Merry Christmas! Peace! Our United Earth pizza! Masarepa (Venezuelan corn meal) crust Shrimp from Ecuador Spam Gochujang (Korean pepper paste flavored) Onion (origin: C. Asia) Broccoli & Herbs (origin: Italy) Parmesan, Romano, & Mozzarella Tomato (origin: the Andes) Olive Oil from Greece

Channel 4 in the UK apparently has an annual tradition of "An Alternative Christmas Message." I'm guessing this is often counterpoint to the Monarch's traditional message. This year, they invited our own Jimmy Kimmel. All the right-wing propaganda sites are furiously panning it. What do you think?

Thin-skinned scumbag says what? This is what a dumb mug with a 70 IQ sounds like when he's trying to sound like a smart tough guy. Colbert is getting under his skin and Trump is too fucking stupid to at least pretend like he isn't. What. A. Pathetic. LOSER!!!

Just in case anyone needs anything else to worry about, a gift article. Merry Christmas. China's military buildup is said to threaten Continental US. And Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are still dangerous idiots (that's my comment, not the article's). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump is sounding exactly like the kind of dictator who ends up being slaughtered by an angry mob after he loses control of his government. (cf: Mussolini's corpse hanging upside down from a gantry at a Shell station)

The three who would give Trump a green light to invade Illinois despite a lower court ruling preventing it were, of course, Alito and Thomas, but also Gorsuch. Chris Geidner at LawDork has the story: