This insane asshole has been doing nothing but crimes since the day he took office, you're the only branch of government with the power to remove him and you're not even going to try because it might not work? Why are you even there? To feel important and do insider trading?

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

i guess "everyone is 12 theory" also applies to "the united states has noble goals in mind for the venezuelan people" and "bombing a foreign country is a trumpian break from an otherwise just US foreign policy"

i know shit's bad right now, but I'm still about $200 off my goal for this latest article. that's 10 people tipping $20!

You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

"Congress" as described by civics classes, law professors, Democrats, and libertarians — an independent branch capable of executing designated responsibilities irrespective of the partisan balance of power — does not exist. It is a fiction. Every time these things happen, more Americans see that.

I think it's bad that neither political party in this country seems interested in democracy or rule of law. We've been sliding toward authoritarianism for decades with Republicans leading the way and most Democrats- at best!- shrugging

🚨 Thread collecting actionable steps to help civilians in Venezuela, Venezuelan refugees fleeing to neighboring countries, and Venezuelan immigrants in the US. 🚨 ✅️ Please post ideas / links, especially to local frontline groups. ❌️ Please avoid non-actions, and be cautious regarding sanctions. 👇

aintnoway. the chinese special envoy was in venezuela yesterday reaffirming strategic ties between beijing and caracas. today explosions are heard?

the bush administration never ended, going on his 7th term

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

People's homes are gone, their family members are wounded and dead, their lives are collapsing. They're waking up into their worst nightmare and it's not a distraction from "more important issues", it *is* the most important issue.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

Ladies and gentlemen, the opposition party!

Inexcusable shit.

i struggle to recall the last US president who didn't aid and abet the killing or violent displacement of millions. similarly, I struggle to remember the last US president who went to jail for it

Shots like this are a great example of how filming in black and white gives you access to certain styles of mood and effect lighting that don't translate the same once you're filming in color.

Still not the right time to impeach? Should we wait until he bombs California?

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets. Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.

One aspect I observed early about local governments was that "progressive" officials repeatedly hired hyper-conservative city/county managers and attorneys (and defended them, when people got angry) then threw up their hands and said they were powerless to do anything. I think about that a lot.

Do they know we don't live in a Christopher Nolan movie?

Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.

The US is the largest exporter of terrorism in the world

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Shimaa lost her husband to Israel's ongoing genocide, & was shot by an Israeli quadcopter trying to keep her little baby daughter alive. Please help them survive the winter rains, they're starving & homeless, & struggling with Bsky's constant, sadistic deletions:

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

US imperialism is an evil, existential threat to life itself. I try to avoid just piping in to tweet that something is bad unless I can offer something *actionable*, but as ways to help emerge I'm going to try to keep this thread updated with those ways. My heart is breaking for Venezuelans

Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.

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So, to clarify, spray-painting a plane is terrorism, holding a sign to support the organisation those that spray-painted the plane were members of is terrorism, but taking a foreign head of state hostage needs to wait for a press conference from the hostage taker for nuance?

There's studies suggesting that AI usage is causing cognitive decline, even when it's not causing psychosis and encouraging its users to harm themselves and others, just regular old usage is damaging. Far from a "cognitive amplifier" like this slop peddler suggests, it's a cognitive atrophier.

all the wrong people feel shame

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

You guys can't successfully make felony charges stick against people hitting federal agents with objects on camera! You think you're gonna get up and say "Your Honor, just give me this one!" and walk out with a W?

This is vile. To include "well we did say he lacks legitimacy" is a kind of victim blaming on an international scale. The united states is bombing a CIVILIAN CAPITAL you CRETIN I don't care if Maduro killed your dog!

didn't matter how quickly or easily one can make a bunch of slop it all falls apart if you need to print it onto paper and buy a spot in a physical space and convince people to actually buy it

It feels like certain types of guys are unable to take in information in solitude. It has to be a conversation, explanations tailored to their thought patterns, with someone they perceive as servile to them. They can’t read an email: someone has to tell them what it says, even if it’s incorrect.

they’re never going to air the CECOT segment

something that has been very strange to me growing up is realizing how much common wisdom is just bullshit. Like, for example, people go, "you can't just GIVE poor people money" when actually, no, doing that actually would just work.

Elon Musk's accomplishments over the last year include starving thousands of people to death (and laughing about it) and creating Hitler AI that undresses children (and laughing about it). Is it time to do something about billionaires yet?

When I say there is no democracy in this country, this is what I mean. We have no democratic control of *anything* no matter how consequential. We can’t stop a genocide, we can’t impeach a billionaire pedophile, we can’t stop an AI CSAM factory.These are all related.

Fun Fact: One of the reasons Square was pushed to improve its localization practices in the 2000s is because Alexander O. Smith showed them reviews proving that people *cared* about translation quality. (Link to the full interview: web.archive.org/web/20091113...)

uh holy SHIT?

I still maintain the single worst change Elon made in terms of pure user experience was updating replies to favor the people willing to pay for the blue checks instantly - overnight - reply sections changed from a font of creative riffing to a barren wasteland of the worst posts imaginable

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

Grok didn't have lapses in its safeguards; xAI failed to implement them. Grok isn't "working to fix it;" xAI engineers should be (and it's unclear if they even are, since no journalists are doing their goddamned job). Grok did not "issue an apology." The account posted an apology written by ???.