The US is at war with Venezuela. No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity. US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

I want to talk about how junk science ruins innocent lives. The criminal legal system is overwhelmed by junk science. IT IS AN OUTRAGE. If you're not deeply disturbed by what's going on, I need you to pay close attention. Let me explain. 🧵/x

This is one of my favorite paintings, from any painter, ever. Not only is she crushing Mein Kampf, but the arc of her rivet gun's cable also evokes a serpent being crushed under her heel - even while the rivet gun herself is laid on her apron like Christ on the lap of the Virgin Mary.

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

Friendly reminder that Trump only cares about himself, so he would only care about bulletproof glass if he thought the next inauguration will be for him…

Yeah guys, Alex Karp of Palantir is a totally normal guy who just happens to quote several minutes’ worth of a Nazi speech, before doing random tai chi and leaving Karp is a dangerous, completely unhinged lunatic and it’s made worse by the fact that he’s obviously on coke too

The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

If you haven't been reading A. R. Moxon this year, here are twelve great places to start.

I like many of you have met, including in alleged intellectual contexts, people who say we owe everything we have to imperialism and when I say why don’t u say the same about slavery, I have yet to hear anyone who has a real answer

"an internet witch hunt" Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official. This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.

President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR

I hope one thing we take out of all this when it is someday over is that the billionaire-owned media as an institution has a persistent right-wing, pro-fascist bias, and all the screaming to the contrary is because it isn't explicitly and always pro-fascist.

Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal

It's time we get back to the needing of the season: having literally everyone sing a song about how much one miserable fucker sucks.

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

To be fair, billionaires hate people. A lot.

Asking questions is not hate, although I can see how you might interpret it that way. No one challenges you on X. Here we do. That must be so hard for someone who has never really been questioned.

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Trump traveled on Epstein's jet multiple times, including with underage girls. Expect this too to be retroactively censored in violation of the law. At least they are ham handed in their lawbreaking

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.

Suggestion regarding Trump-Epstein: Don't focus on finding a smoking gun. There's already so much smoke. Most unconvinced by already-public evidence are cultists who'll deny forever (or like it). The goals should be truth, justice for victims, and an appalled scandal drumbeat that never goes away.

Try this one:

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

THIS IS HOW TO DO IT! Just got this thank you email from @katmabu.bsky.social for donating to her campaign - and she asks folks to donate to donate to mutual aid groups in the area! THIS is what I've been saying for years that political campaigns should be doing! Actually HELP people RIGHT NOW!

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

"... not having [an understanding of the illusions LLMs offer] front of mind when using an LLM at all, ever, for any purpose, is absolute malpractice"

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

People raising that Epstein files show Trump met a 14 year old victim of Epstein’s. Actually this was known from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. But corporate media barely covered it. At least nbc news covered it years ago

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

The DOGE death count is going to be enormous. This headline hits like a truck.

“It was violent. There’s blood all over the house. It’s insane,” the homeowner, who is a U.S. citizen, told me. “It’s complete lawlessness. How does the government have impunity to jump into my home without a warrant?” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-w...

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back with a flamethrower

Trump has called for at least three of these senators to be thrown in prison. And they’re still voting for his agenda.

Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.

i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--

This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it. They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.

Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.

I would love to have someone in that room call this the explicit partisanship it is. The premise that you only use power for petty partisan point-scoring. Yes, you should examine those. You should have at the time! You should perform oversight!

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them