"Russian commentators have frequently suggested that Latin America lies in America’s domain just as Ukraine was under the Russian shadow. Vladimir Putin thinks the same of much of eastern Europe. Xi Jinping will draw his own conclusions." Apparently this attack was originally planned for Christmas.

Hey folks— A few words about what happened this morning in Venezuela—from the airport. www.youtube.com/live/dZDJbwu...

"One study found that private equity–owned nursing homes had a mortality rate 10% higher than non-PE counterparts; another noted that patients at PE-owned hospitals are 25% more likely to suffer an unrelated injury while admitted, whether a fall or an infection." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Arrests" is lame, even with a US indictment in hand - abducted, kidnapped...more on point

One of America’s biggest for-profit hospital operators is bankrupt, broken, and responsible for countless mistreated patients—thanks to its private equity overlords.

FCNL strongly condemns the U.S. government’s illegal attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Congress must reassert its war authority and stop the Trump administration’s reckless war-making. #WarIsNotTheAnswer

Maduro was a brutal ruler, it’s true. So is Putin—who Trump supports. So was Bolsonaro, who Trump supports. So was the drug-trafficking former head of Honduras, who Trump just pardoned. So is Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. MBS. Bibi. Stop pretending Trump cares about illegitimacy or brutality.

More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Deranged Trump Now Threatening Mexico Following Illegal Attack on Venezuela

Just because you can make an analogy doesn’t mean it’s a good one…

So blowing up the dead body of the man Trump deliriously claims stole the 2020 presidential election from him was part of a *law enforcement operation* targeting an entirely different leader? Pull the other leg now.

BREAKING: The U.S. has conducted a "large scale strike” on Caracas, Venezuela. Trump says he ordered an illegal invasion and attack on Venezuela, has captured its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country. The “pro peace” President just started another war for oil.

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

UPDATE: *peace president* Trump bombs Venezuela… (after pardoning an ex president of Honduras for drug trafficking) This is about oil (+ distracting from Epstein), not drugs. “international condemnation followed US military strikes on Venezuela”: www.trtworld.com/article/ab57...

I'm losing track of how many countries a man livid he wasn't given the Nobel Peace Prize has illegally bombed. Iran. Venezuela. Nigeria. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Pakistan. Somalia. Syria. Yemen. Not to mention threatening to annex Greenland and Canada and invade Panama.

Worth a read! amyhappens.substack.com/p/the-matria...

He should have been sentenced to something... More permanent

#ResistanceUnited A Tale of Two Companies or Why Low Wages and Cutthroat Practices Are Policy Choices www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

This is why they want us talking about day care centers and $500 boots.

Bragging that you just passed your 3rd dementia test is a great way of telling us they've made you take 3 dementia tests

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

Zohran Mamdani's best ad yet.

Way to go, Cincinnati! Protesters “welcomed” JD Vance back to Ohio. Demonstrators lined the route of Vance’s motorcade. Signs reading “Yes, It’s Cold. We Won’t Stop,” “Stop the Cover-Up,” and “JD Protects Pedophiles.”

🔥NYT: “Trump is the Jan. 6th president… It was a turning point toward an even more lawless version of Trump… people who violently attacked Congress & beat officers escaped w/o lasting consequence… Tragically, 🇺🇸 is still living in that political era…” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

Five million pages. Hundreds of lawyers. Endless “newly discovered” files. This isn’t transparency. It’s a slow-motion cover-up. The Epstein case isn’t going away—and neither is Trump’s role in it. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Guess what? If you supported the alcoholic Fox News pundit to become Sec of Defense, the anti-vaccine sexual abuser to become Sec of HHS, the PDFile protector to become AG & the WWE actor Sec of Education, you get to have 0 opinions on anyone Zohran Mamdani has appointed to his Mayoral cabinet.

Relevant 'in spirit' Buddhist quote. Can't point to its scriptural origin, though - anyone?

Weird House Press Holiday Special! The signed hardcover edition of my novel, I Scream, You Scream, is only $30.00 -- and you get 20% off your entire order for one more day! “This book is better and scarier than Goosebumps!” – Horrorlander. Link in the first comment!

If you got $1 million, you can pretty much commit any crime you want and Trump will pardon you. I would recommend Pam Bondi’s brother for representation. He seems to get the best results, for some reason.

A clip that has not lost its relevance

I still have free download codes for three copies of this collection. Just looking for reviews.

“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” Timothy W. Ryback wrote in January. Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/tDjQcNW9

Insurers don’t take your data by force. They ask nicely, dress it up as a discount, and wait for consent. Next thing you know, your rates have doubled. Romeo Chicco had to learn this the hard way. Learn more here.

JACK SMITH: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election, prevent the peaceful transfer of power, retained classified docs, obstructed justice… I’d charge an ex president again regardless of party.”

Not Somali.

Pardoned by Trump. After the pardon, arrested for Sexual Assault and Kidnapping.

Keep speaking up, and fighting back. "Ordinary people have chosen to speak up in countless ways, ...supporting their neighbors under attack in many small and personal ways that sometimes do but often don't get recorded." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-still...

"What amidst all that is breaking wants to be born that I can attend to?" www.npr.org/2025/12/05/n...

Planning to do more of that this year

As we bid goodbye to 2025 — and all the thuggery, corruption, squalor, and cruelty it spewed — I want to thank you for standing up to it. Some thoughts on the year that was... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/thank-you

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

"Don’t ask what’s going to happen; be what happens." ~ Rebecca Solnit / @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

We're increasingly giving kids exactly one way to socialize and experience the wider world, and it's through screens. That's on us as a society, not on them.

How the paper that exposed Watergate investigates dirt in 2026

Local CBS Minnesota story proves America’s been duped by right wing propagandist Nick Shirley & his “fraud” story about ABC Learning Center. I’m sure MAGAs will still find a way to deny the facts, because they don’t care about justice, they care about white supremacy. youtube.com/shorts/1bAzC...

WASH POST: “ICE to spend $100 million to recruit gun rights supporters and military enthusiasts… a ‘wartime recruitment’ strategy…” If you’re not alarmed about Trump recruiting this goon squad with payer funds you’re not paying attention. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

POLITICO: “House Republicans decided to publicly release the transcript of special counsel Jack Smith’s Dec. 17 closed-door deposition on New Year’s Eve — while most of Washington was tuned out for the holiday…” www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Ughhh

Pushing back works