🥹“I went to Walmart and got him a bottle of wine. And not the $3 kind,” Humphries said. “I bought him the $9 one.”

Five years ago, this great moment was captured on video:

everyone’s feeling it

Judge to Lindsey Halligan: Explain yourself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.

The harm this man caused not just to America, but to men who dared to dream of freedom and risked their lives to aid America cannot be measured. Good riddance.

This is the way

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.” Monstrously cruel.

“At least 33 pardoned insurrectionists have now been convicted of, charged with, or arrested for additional crimes since the violent attack on the Capitol,” says a new report from Rep. @raskin.house.gov and House Judiciary Democrats: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:

Q: You pulled the National Guard out of Portland-- TRUMP: We did. And do you know that Portland, we got it down to almost no crime? We're allowed to go back in, but we'll go back in when the crime starts. We may use the Insurrection Act

So we now appear to be up to at least 80 Venezuelans killed. For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Put a pin in this, I'm still trying to confirm 100% but it sounds like the assault force consisted of C Sqd and 3/75. OPE was indeed conducted under the AUMF. Total control of VZ comms. Recent defections helped the CIA greatly. Maduro recorded constantly to refute any future torture allegations.

I beg Americans to imagine an EU strike force -- stop laughing! -- abducts Trump only, and the next day Brussels is talking about how JD Vance will have to comply and an A350 full of CEOs from windmill, non-GMO cheese, and metric ruler firms is headed for Manhattan to discuss terms

Got some details about the intelligence preparation of the battlefield done during the run up to the Maduro op. thehighside.substack.com/p/bold-delta...

Reminder from a year ago www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Hegseth: "Ok now ask Grok where it's at on a map."

The looting will be unprecedented

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

What does Trump have to do to convince Republicans to turn against him, chuck a baby into an active volcano

Trump on Democrats: "They should say 'great job.' They shouldn't say, 'Oh gee, maybe it's not constitutional.' You know, the same old stuff that we've been hearing for years and years and years."

RIP International Law

The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.

try to make sense of it

Venezuelan media report that the United States also struck the Cuartel de la Montaña complex in Caracas, a former military museum that was converted into Hugo Chávez’s mausoleum after his death. The remains of the former Venezuelan leader are kept there.

Shut Polymarket down.

APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — FAA bans US commercial flights in #Venezuela airspace over "ongoing military activity" ahead of explosions in Caracas.

#BREAKING from me and Jennifer Jacobs - additional reporting on the strikes in Venezuela.

President Trump ordered strikes on sites inside Venezuela, including military facilities, U.S. officials told CBS News, as the administration early Saturday ratcheted up its campaign against the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

*All of this* insanity in-Country and Around-the-World is being done in our name.

I think this administration has vastly overestimated the rest of the world's willingness to put up with imperial oil war bullshit right now. I don't think this ends well. No war.

truly infuriating. in a just world, countries would rally against the lawlessness of the united states.

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

The destruction of knowledge and history is haphazard & breathtaking. NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts.

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Two trains taking tourists to Peru’s famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu crashed on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring around 30 passengers.

A US appeals court allowed President Trump's administration to enforce in 22 states a provision of his signature tax and domestic policy bill that deprives Planned Parenthood health centers of Medicaid funding if they perform abortions reut.rs/4soSv7m

Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.

By way of context the annual USAID budget was $23 billion.

Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”

Ukraine’s cause — freedom, democracy, sovereignty — is Canada’s cause. At this critical juncture, we are reinforcing our support with up to $2.5B in new loan guarantees and other mechanisms to help Ukraine secure a just and lasting peace, and to recover and rebuild. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

Solidarity.