I’m usually deeply conflicted about my service, but very pumped it got me a Lifetime National Parks Pass that doesn’t have this losers face on it.

I see the mistake belief that “I am an expert in one thing, so therefore I must be an expert in everything,” is once again appearing on this site.

The fact that this man has kept his job is an indictment of every sitting Democratic Senator.

We can hold compassion for the range of emotions Venezuelans may be experiencing — including positive emotions — and also be clear that regime change by a fascist superpower is dangerous, destabilizing, and sets precedents that will not stop at Venezuela. Those aren’t contradictory positions.

Takes that are basically a variation of “give up” or “we are powerless to stop any of this” will be ignored. @lawdorknews.bsky.social with a good recap on why you shouldn’t participate in that sort of doom and gloom.

Gonna just observe that “other presidents have illegally attacked sovereign nations” may be an important observation, but not letting ourselves be boiled like proverbial frogs into normalizing this shit is an important *skill* Impeach them and assemble war crimes tribunals should be the demand

I think the key to this version of US imperialism is the interaction of 1 and 2 here

No Blood for Oil

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.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

I’m not an expert and this wouldn’t make it more legal, but in the morning shouldn’t we expect the admin to try and just jam this action under the existing AUMF? Like I was pretty confident some version of this was the big fear with letting the AUMF just exist for decades?

The reason you go scorched-earth on this is the same reason we should have gone scorched-earth on impoundment; you can't stop it from happening, but you absolutely need to stop it from becoming a normal part of politics. You have to draw a line.

Repeal the Hague Invasion Act and send every member of the Trump administration

Anyone who can speak about possible US operations in Caracas, Venezuela, please reach out to me @taskandpurpose.com . Signal is nslayton.12

At this point, if a Democratic presidential candidate wants my vote, their platform has to - at bare minimum - include some version of "I am going to put all these freaks in prison for their crimes." Full stop. No compromise. I am now a single issue voter for the dark woke prison camps.

All these motherfuckers deserve an all expenses paid one-way trip to The Hague.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

New York friends, this is accomplishable, but you are going to have to do battle with your governor and legislature. Please stay in the fight! You’re lighting the way for the rest of us.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I hope Chuck Schumer is up on this stage knowingly watching the end of his cowardly incompetent careerism. I hope he sees the wave of enthusiasm for a politics that is ambitious and hopeful over his status quo politics of telling people what cannot be accomplished.

This is very good. “The fact that this woman called her outlet The Free Press is a cynical joke. All it does is model obsequiousness to the reactionary sensibilities of highly censorious elites.” www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...

"Caitlin Flanagan, Chris Cilizza—these are not people who produce investigative journalism. These are take-merchants and mouthpieces who publish what powerful people tell them over text and DM as if it's a transgressive secret and not a comms strategy." Good Lord, this is savage, lol

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

IUPAT President @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social is right: Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection. America’s unions will keep fighting for them.

In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications. ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.

This is why no one intelligent should back newsom. His actions are being used as a cudgel to ban trans care

Greg Bovino of the U.S. Border Patrol showed up at the picket line of Teamsters Local 705 in Chicago today. The workers have been on strike against manufacturer Mauser since June. When workers are intimidated by federal agents, it chills worker organizing! inthesetimes.com/article/maus...

I am deadly serious when I say that any liberal Project 2028 people should be taking names of the civil servants who go way past their authority to do stuff like this. That is very much not me saying that normal employees following bad orders should be fired. But there’s a line. This crosses it.

This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.

I’ll second this and add that the vast majority of comparable cases I’ve dealt with have settled out. The public nature of this offense makes it even more impossible to win when arbitrators often give some weight to the reputational harm to the employer.

Opposition leaders must call for prosecutions or they’re entirely not worth uplifting.

I’m trying to navigate the immense cognitive dissonance between what I believed and took seriously as a twenty something in my commissioning program/as a junior officer and the actions of senior military leaders today.

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

This is nuts! I don’t think this is legal in CA public sector labor: “By “they”, Williams said the city manager was referring to the Vallejo Police Officers’ Association (VPAO), which serves as the bargaining unit for all ranks of police officer except the chief in its negotiations with the city.”

Successful democracy movements in the modern era basically require student movements to be successful. Liberal institutions like universities and newspapers, as well as the Dem Party itself, have to learn from this

Good morning! It’s day FOUR of Starbucks workers’ national ULP strike. And day four of us joining the strike with our wallets. No contract, NO STARBUCKS! www.nocontractnocoffee.org

Just finished Ancillary Justice (loved it) and then I learn the author also has great labor opinions. Hell yeah.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

feels relevant today

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract *** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY*** Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.

Sheldon remind me when did Chuck Schumer fight united with the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York

“We must win,” says guy on team that can’t even suit up to play.