So now we are just the Western Hemisphere Russia. Fuck you Trump voters

So how much did the VP of Venezuela pay Trump?

Seizing control of a foreign country without even informing, let alone getting authorization from, Congress is one of the gravest offenses against the Constitution. Maduro was a horrific dictator. It’s irrelevant. Our own dictator claims power to levy taxes, spend funds, and wage war single-handed.

This country is governed by people who manufacture crises, lie to justify violence, and then tell us it’s for our own good. They wreck lives abroad while people here can’t afford to live. This isn’t strength or strategy and it doesn't make us safer. The opposite. It’s incompetence, cruelty, and rot.

Waking up to the news that the US has bombed Venezuela, kidnapped its president, and will now seek to decide its fate (i.e. “liberate” its natural resources). We don’t have money for basic infrastructure in our local communities, but we can always start new wars? Absolutely sickening.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

What? No mention of defending heritage?

“…they send in the special police To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace.” This song has aged exceptionally well since I first heard it at age 23… 25 years later the song could have been written yesterday…

White House and RFK Jr. have CDC redefine definition of “blink”

Posting from the afterlife…

Don’t you mean corruption?

Fireworks and San Francisco just don’t play nice with each other

This is galactically stupid

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Republicans wouldn't let Jack Smith testify in public. Instead they did it behind closed doors and released a transcript and video on New Year's Eve, hoping few people would notice. They think it’s smart politics, but I think it’s one more attempt to cover up treason. History will agree with me.

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

Emperor Drumpty and the White House try to sow outrage by posting photo of bald eagle killed by American windmill. Except it's a dead falcon. In a photo taken in Israel. Eight years ago. What a chud.

About 18 seconds into this news story the reporter says the police AI report writing software erroneously wrote that someone turned into a frog. Yet this is the headline they’re going with.

Republicans are pro-crime. Don’t ever let them forget

I really can’t put into words what I think when I keep reading denying people’s rights, their very humanity, as just political views or political differences. What’s worse is that they keep getting a pass on this.

What exactly is “complex” about the Trump Administration violating a Law and Constitution to dismantle an agency tasked with making sure that big GOP donors don’t rip off Americans?

Hysterical. Thanks South Park team. trump-kennedycenter.org

GOP canon for 50 years has been economic lies in the service of the wealthy, racism and bigotry. This is a fact. What exactly are we suppose to trust other than that they support one or more of those?

I agree with Never Trumpers on a lot, but split hard on this: I do not think the Democratic Party needs to convince swing voters that Democratic candidates aren't too liberal. I think the party needs to convince swing voters that they themselves are actually quite liberal. They just won't admit it.

Louis Brandeis warned us, and then Ronald Reagan got us to ignore the warning.

Any group that thinks Reagan wasn’t a bigot and tool of greedy elites isn’t to be trusted

Irony dies a brutal death at the Washington Post

Shocker.

Alexis Ohanian argues against property tax on your home

Via Richard Tofel‬: "What it’s like getting comments these days from the regime in Washington." "Comments" in this context means giving the people involved in a news story the chance to respond before publication. link.propublica.net/view/5f0a0ac... Here's a case I found particularly creepy:

What exactly is the point of this strawman? Only the right thinks church charity is a preferred substitute for a working social safety net and investment in the common good. Mutual aid on the other hand is private action to address the failures of unpopular policy forced upon us by the GOP

My child and I were annoyed at having to choose between male and female on the FAFSA today. Didn’t change who they are

1. End Citizens United 2. Tax the rich 3. Prosecute wage theft 4. Pass Medicare for All 5. Vote out bought, corrupt politicians

Frankly, I have always wondered why more campaigns didn't do this. Constituent services are such an important part of good politics.

It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).

Project 2026.

The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting

All Americans Should Be Outraged By This….

"omnidirectional incoherence" captures Trumpism perfectly

Today on Volts: you've probably heard that Australia has cheap rooftop solar power. You've probably also heard some rumors & myths about it. (Is it destabilizing the grid?) I called my favorite Australian energy expert to clear it all up. This is a fun one! www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...

For-profit healthcare insurance as the gatekeeper to medical care is a market fail.

I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.

Every accusation…

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Yeah but does it work if the stoplights go out?

Wait…. They are competing to see who can do more?

Some say Yglesias Thought has never been tried, but Labour has actually tried quite hard to chase the polling rather than shape it. And just look at how well that’s turned out for them