Maduro Requests Lindsay Halligan to Prosecute Him

“Trump declared ‘Donroe Doctrine,’ another moment that will stand for ages as an embarrassment to the U.S. and raises the question yet again of whether the commander in chief is cognitively stable enough to be ordering the invasion of other nations” {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

CBS News Exclusive | Did Nicolas Maduro fund the pro-Palestinian protests of 2023 and 2024? Bill Ackman and Miriam Adelson have their suspicions.

Oh look he put his little big man jacket on

I’m old enough to remember when there used to be a Congress that knows it’s a separate branch of government with actual responsibilities articulated by the Constitution.

By the by - Trump just tanked the stock market. Retirement accounts are being eviscerated.

Every European democracy needs to unite in opposition to Trump's dictatorship & wanton criminality. With force if needed. Otherwise they will be next.

EVERY U.S. oil company must reject any attempt to 'run' petroleum operations in Venezuela. DON'T enable the criminality of this vile, insane lump of hate.

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice https://theonion.com/letter-to-congress/

christ, what the fuck are we even doing here

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

I hope that someday, we will hold trials for Trump and MAGA. Just like they did at Nuremberg. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...

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

WTF Mike Pompeo — are you trying to delegitimize the protests in Iran?

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published November)

Mockler: I disagree that the government shutdown aspect didn't work. I can just speak for from a personal lens. One of my close friends, mom, didn't understand that she was reliant on these ACA subsidies until the government shutdown hit…

Knowles: The man barely ever sleeps… Mockler: Trump has repeatedly fallen asleep in cabinet meetings

As the article points out, IPv6 has made the iOT and mobile networking possible. www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/i...

Bari Weiss’ rebrand of CBS News as “Fox News but way less successful!” is coming along apace.

When was the last federal government budget surplus? You might be surprised.

ALERT: Convicted Capitol riot defendants return to Capitol Tuesday Meanwhile, Dem legislators try to combat “whitewashing” of Jan 6.

we call this the Trump

ICE plans to descend on Phoenix, per reporting from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-ice-...

(My credentials on this include leaving a good job at a media outlet whose owner was similarly attempting to curry favor and whose leaders pronounced that one priority would be to show love for America.)

I also love America and believe in its stated values. And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." TS Eliot, 1948

Although Minnesota requires teachers, clergy, doctors and day care providers to promptly report child abuse, those charged with violating the law are rarely held accountable. In the past 15 years, only six out of 28 people charged were convicted. With @startribune.com

Now ICE is tagging a 23-year-old sensationalist YouTuber in an unrelated arrest of a Somali man in Boston

Reading a book on the demographics of Montreal, strikingly modern moment during the smallpox outbreak where a paper has to go “you guys are making us look like morons in front of the English for opposing these vaccines!”

We love frosting and make no apologies

I was curious, so I looked it up. Trump's three cognitive exams were on 1/12/18, 9/13/23 and 4/11/25 — not, as he suggested today, recently. www.pbump.net/o/when-were-...

Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor. One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”

we need legislation that if new year’s falls on a thursday, friday is also a holiday. new year’s day part ii.

A very thoroughly researched report giving the lie to DOGE in every regard. Musk should pay the federal govt what he falsely claimed he saved us all to somehow undo the destruction done. Of course, he cannot resurrect the helpless who died because USAID was trashed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Don't go mad with those #newyearresolutions ... @privateeyenews.bsky.social #gym #fitness #weightloss #accident #cartoon #originalart #dippenandink #watercolour Available here: www.chrisbeetles.com/artist/537/j...

A compelling graphic look at all the ways that Trump and his family and friends have been monetizing the White House in his second term to enrich themselves more than any presidential clan has ever done before. @lazarogamio.bsky.social Amy Schoenfeld Walker www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Pope Leo is quietly mounting a long-term, moral confrontation with American authoritarianism — and history suggests he knows exactly what he’s doing. Here’s how he can defeat Trump’s dictatorship of relativism once and for all.

The Chinese Communist Party has officially turned the island province of Hainan into a free trade port, one of the government's most ambitious economic experiments to date.

It’s ironic that Trump takes an enormous daily dose of aspirin while giving the rest of the world a ginormous fucking headache

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Ukrainian forces are under growing pressure in the south of the country, where less well-equipped units are vastly outnumbered by Russian brigades that have taken hundreds of square kilometers of territory in recent weeks.

(1/X) The most popular thing leaders in either parties could do is throw an oligarch in jail. Srsly, would you blame someone for voting for Trump because Trump threw Zuck in the clink? And they all belong there, not just morally (they deserve far worse than a few years in jail morally), but...

In particular, every school shooting should come with a chorus of us talking about Scalia, Thomas, and Gorsuch’s ties to gun-loving billionaires and hanging the gun violence epidemic around their necks. As a parent who deals with shooting drills: parents are looking for people to blame.

That’s my little resolution/advice/commitment for the new year /end

At what point does it become Zohran Mamdani's Turkish bribery scandal?