"why aren't people watching cable news?" cable news:

"Defunded by Congress and fearing the Trump administration might pervert the organization to further undermine free media, the board members agreed it was better to salt the earth than leave behind a place for Trump to plant his poisonous, choking weeds." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Trump doesn't care what the Christian right thinks, and they don't care what he does. In fact, the more vocally we point out how he manifests everything Jesus warned against, the more determined they are not to witness it. Starting to believe if we shut up about him, they would finally get mad.

Lebensraum

This sign wins

“The three most important days in American history since the Civil War have been: Dec 7, 1941. Sept. 11. And Jan. 6. We don’t use years for the last two. They aren’t dates on a calendar; they are scar tissue.” Spot on, Rep. Swalwell. Eric hits this one on the nose. www.ms.now/opinion/jan6...

One of the most significant features of this current moment in Republican Party history is that it’s the ideological weirdos on the right edge of the party who’ve been the most willing to stand up to Trump. The supposedly principled moderates have been mostly spineless.

There are so many people making a fortune on being insufferably stupid and I really feel like I'm missing out on a golden opportunity.

Iran teeters, but major US media have no space to report about it

The death of the consensus that the January 6 insurrection was a terrible event brought about by Trump's lies, in increasingly depressing headlines from my pieces over the last five years. The Fox News coup www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Trump now floating the possibility that oil companies will be reimbursed by the US government for building the infrastructure that will allow them to pillage Venezuelan oil. You can’t even make this up.

Oh? Duplicative documents brought to light by the FBI NY Field Office? Reminds me of the duplicative Clinton emails “unearthed” by Rudy’s pals that caused Comey to re-open the probe into Hillary a week before the election.

This is 1930s Germany foreign policy. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

Journalists often talk about how the media's business model is broken, but I would gladly pay the first news organization that starts profiling the individual ICE and CBP agents involved in terrorizing people

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

They lost their parents. Their parents were assassinated. And they actually are forced to go to the trouble of publicly asking the President of the United States to stop spreading lies & conspiracies about who killed their parents. He’s despicable. Trump is evil.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

I do not agree with the statement that we aren't seeing mass mobilization in the US against Trump's actions in Venezuela. There is mass mobilization in every city where ICE and CBP are operating. Do not confuse mobilization with marching and protests. Not everything is designed for spectacle.

Okay, I’m weirdly going to bring this up again…The Orders Project that I learned about from an episode of Amicus Brief with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social helps service members sort out the legality of orders www.ordersproject.com

Rep Adam Smith, highest ranking Dem on Armed Services Committee: The consultants keep telling me to talk about kitchen-table issues, but the rule of law is being utterly destroyed in America by Donald Trump.

I think the Greenland threat is a troll. I think. But it would sure be nice for some senators and GOP house members to speak up now and make it clear that an attack on a nato ally would lead to removal from office

Captain Mark Kelly earned his rank. Now his decades of service are being attacked by a drunk and a draft dodger. All because he reminded our military to stay true to their oath, his right as both a veteran and an American.

(watching Gallagher smash watermelons with a big mallet) this guy cannot be serious

My law firm is representing clients intervening to fight DOJ's effort to obtain sensitive voter data. DOJ originally opposed our intervention. After they lost the first few, they switch positions. So far we've been granted intervention in: Maine Oregon California Michigan New Mexico New Hampshire

PAXIS tells us: No badge, no warrant, no uniform = no lawful authority. ICE agents cannot lawfully detain you on the street without probable cause. Administrative warrants (I-200, I-205) do not authorize searches, arrests, or detentions in public space. Donate to build PAXIS: gofund.me/e3468a5d7

No one should bemoan the end of Maduro's reign. But Trump's illegal operation is about more than just Venezuela. It's about a President believing he has no limit to his power as Commander in Chief. Congress must say no to this abuse of force.

Mark Kelly is a patriot. Pete Hegseth is a piece of shit. Pass it on.

I extremely hate the policies and personality of Donald Trump to an insane degree but I’d be offended if China sent in team to kill a bunch of our civilians and military personnel and kidnap our leader and his wife and then declare that they now “ran” the United States, this isn’t hard

Who the hell knows? Seems like Trump just loves the idea of using the US military as his plaything.

The oil companies are a co-equal branch of government. So are the tech bros. Congress isn't.

The media need to stop beating their chests about how powerful our military is. It's a point of pride when your country has a strong military that keeps the peace. It's a source of shame when politicians turn your strong military into an international armed robbery gang.

And St. Clair is the mother of one of his children.

Perfect. There is no belief system here.

There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.

We must also marvel at the titanic idiocy of our new "Donroe Doctrine" for it turns America from a global power into a regional one by choice. I still can't really believe they are going through with this for it is so batshit f-ing crazy, and does so much lasting harm to our interests.

The list of this administration's non-compliance/law-breaking of court orders and any rule of law should be posted and reposted every day, so we can't forget. A chart that shows the growth in criminal actions should appear in the corner of every newscast, substack, YouTube, etc. Every day.

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The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

As the picture of what happened yesterday comes into focus, I think the proper analogy is a country bombing us, whisking Trump and Melania away for trial elsewhere, declaring that the Democrats have no hope of governing, and leaving Vance in charge as the guy they believe they can work with.

Props to @repdangoldman.bsky.social for stating this plainly: "This violation of the United States Constitution is an impeachable offense."

If ever there were a time you might want a separate but equal branch of the United States government to run a check on the president, it would be now ….

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.

Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.

A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview: "If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."

Our elected officials need to hear from us. Urge them to do everything in their power to stand up to the regime and prevent war with Venezuela. Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Call your representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or email your Members of Congress. 👇

The closest thing to 9/11 under Trump that would parallel bringing Bin Laden to justice one way or another would require Donald Trump to take out Donald Trump.

This really isn’t unusual: The government is the largest consumer of open source intel on the planet OSINT analysis is part of every major mission in a connected nation, in both planning and execution phases Robust collection capability is no substitute for eyes on the ground

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.