open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. is about to launch a dangerously unethical experiment in West Africa.

My interview with Texas Public Radio www.tpr.org/bioscience-m...

im genuinely curious if this resonates with voters. this naked appeal to imperialism from a shrieking, shrill man

While vaccines for diseases that no longer carry a universal recommendation will still be covered by federal health insurance programs, RFK Jr’s schedule change will increase confusion and distrust in vaccines, lower vaccination rates, and increase disease and death.

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It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis. This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.

The US is going to take control of Greenland, one way or another. They'll try bribery, and Astroturf political movements. They'll use "little green men" and promises of vast wealth. They'll lean on Denmark and Greenland economically, politically, and diplomatically. Then, they will invade.

Today was a banger for stupid crap RFK jr vs childhood vaccines Trump administration vs nato Tomorrow could at least theoretically be worse

Trump is simultaneously protecting his friends in the Epstein files and enriching his friends by invading Venezuela. The two highest priorities of the current administration.

From Maduro to Stephen Miller. People in Venezuela can’t catch a break.

Trump did it because of drugs, except Trump pardoned drug traffickers. Trump did it because of authoritarianism, except Trump loves most authoritarians. He did it for regime change, except they left most of the regime in place. Was it simply dementia?

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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

The pardon for Hernandez makes an obvious & absolute mockery of each & every attempt to rationalise, or even justify, Trump's treatment of Maduro. I'm not sure this single, simple point can be stressed enough. Once again, he proves his critics right & reduces his supporters to epic moral corruption.

Good lord

Trump is a tough guy who’s never been in a fight himself.

I've been busy with my own life, but here are my initial thoughts on Venezuela. The practical upshot: Greenland, Canada, NATO, and the EU should all be extremely worried, and take immediate action to ensure Trump doesn't continue a policy of Anschluss and Lebensraum. newrepublic.com/article/2048...

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

The hemisphere is “in play”?!

Trump is already threatening Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, saying that “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro” Way to pour more gasoline on the fire you started. 🙄

Dem bigwigs are inclined to ignore this stuff from Trump, which they correctly see as provocation slop. But this instinct to turn the other cheek has failed us again and again. It has created a norm in which he can act like this. Force Republicans to talk about it. Make it uncomfortable for them.

Vile

FIFA Peace Prize Winner displaces Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

Jesus Christ

If it was because of narcotrafficking, why has Trump pardoned narcotraffickers? If it was because Maduro is an authoritarian (he is), why is Trump in love with Putin, nevermind Kim Jong-Un and Viktor Orban?

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago

He's literally set himself up as Ruler of Venezuela. George Bush at least got a congressional resolution and an attempt at a UN resolution before invading and occupying Iraq. Trump didn't even consult with the Gang of 8 in Congress and now declares himself the ruler. Sheesh.

I’m sorry what

Reporter: Who would run Venezuela? Trump: It is largely going to be the people standing right behind me. We are going to be running it

Q: Is it possible that the US ends up administering Venezuela for years? TRUMP: Well, you know, it won't cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is very substantial

Trump on the US running Venezuela: It will not cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is substantial. We’re going to take back the oil.

Was the clue when he said we were going to occupy Venezuela for years to make sure we took their oil

Q: You said that Maduro is responsible for drug trafficking. You recently pardoned the former president of Honduras who was convicted of drug trafficking. How are these situations different? TRUMP: This was a man who was persecuted very unfairly by Biden. Obviously the people liked what I did

It’s possible to hold both views at once: that Maduro was a tin-pot dictator who deserved to be removed from power, and that unauthorised military action to depose a foreign head of state is a troubling development. Especially given Trump’s rhetoric towards other nations.

try to make sense of it

So like…now what? Is there a plan here exactly for what happens when you decapitate a government overnight? Or is this just the “Jesus take the wheel” school of military planning?

1. Maduro is not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination. 2. But capturing him through an extra-legal action that violates international law undermines any US credibility with Russia in Ukraine and China with Taiwan. 3. We have a terrible history with topping leaders without a post-war plan.

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.

Breaking: President Donald Trump announced early Saturday that the United States has captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a “large scale strike” against the South American nation, a stunning move conducted without congressional approval. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/03/r...

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

Can someone make it culturally legible that a top Republican voice in the country thinks it’s very fun that he runs a non-consensual porn bot platform? Are most republicans just unaware of this?

Trump is shopping for marble as millions of Americans' health insurance premiums double and triple.

grandpa is posting AI slop again

People like to say “this is who they always were,“ but it wasn’t. Even the racists didn’t talk like this.

The guy overdoses on aspirin and eats the recommended daily allowance of saturated fat for a small elephant in one sitting. No wonder he’s swollen and can’t stay awake.