Is it not fair to say that if the Republicans don't impeach a remove Trump after he launched a war of aggression, without Congressional authority, that we are effectively now a dictatorship? We are - cartoonishly obviously - no longer living under the rule of law.

We are very explicitly not! He rejected the very idea of it when asked. To the degree you can parse anything out of his mush-brained ramblings, his notion of it is Maduro's VP now sticks around to head some kind of puppet government under US occupation. An occupation which does not actually exist.

The fatal flaw in American foreign policy is not understanding that other nations also have a sense of national pride and have no wish to be US vassal states.

Congratulations to 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado for convincing the United States to back her violent overthrow of her government.

📣⚖️👀 Screams into the void: “Only the U.S. Congress has the power to declare war according to the Constitution!”

insider sports betting on regime change What a future

I think I am starting to believe that members of the Trump administration (and military servicemembers who commit war crimes) are going to have to be handed over to The Hague We simply do not have the rule of law capacity to try and punish them in the United States. What are the arguments against?

December 12, 2022: Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover: Why the Biden White House isn’t worried. Semafor

Can we get the media to interview all the Trump supporters who promoted him based on “no new wars”? Isn’t that a very obvious thing to do right now? Do they care that they were (obviously) lied to?

Seriously. It is unacceptably unprofessional to put such information into the public sphere. Contemptuous of any duty to accurately inform people.

Is this a Constitutional Crisis yet? Should we equivocate on some more podcasts? Don’t want to sound alarmist.

Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

This image is real btw. It looks like a photoshopped joke but it’s real.

Murc’s Law is the dominant force in American politics (after structural issues). Most people, left, right and center, automatically criticize the Democrats when anything bad happens. It’s habit and culture. We’ll never defeat fascism until we stop attacking fascism opponents for no reason.

Chairman JCOS: “Months of planning…” soooo not an imminent threat justifying self-defense

Child exploitation content on X/Twitter sharply increased under Musk, who not only abruptly disbanded the group of volunteer experts advising the platform on child safety, image exploitation, and other abuses in 2022, but tried to blame them for the company's CSAM problem www.npr.org/2022/12/12/1...

Happy Public Domain Day!

Wow! One of the Blue Skyers said they were going to do this and I didn’t believe them, but here it is! They are going to use the labeling system to attempt to moderate politeness, not just TOS violations. I’m not against it, but OH MY GOD that is hard to get right and will cause endless trouble.

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

I forget that Zohran is Muslim. Or maybe I never knew that? Because I don't care. I can't tell you how much I don't care.

#HappyNewYear from #BillNye and #StarTrek #TheDoctor EMH guy. Stardate 01152026 : #StarfleetAcademy on #paramountplus

my one plea as we ring in the new year with Zohran being sworn in as mayor is to take some fucking wins he’s not going to be perfect, there will be setbacks and disappointments, but take some joy and some pride in the good that comes out of this good things are more durable when we celebrate them

He got sworn in at the City Hall subway stop. Haha. Cool. Good luck New York! Remember, de Blasio's warning: it's not so easy to find a mayor who doesn't suck shit.

Oh, Republican racists made stuff up about topics they don't know even basic stuff about in order to foment more racism against people of color in America? I'm shocked. /s

Jack Smith: “Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.” Trump also had a “pattern” of rejecting information that didn’t fit his false narrative.

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

most of the 'wins' of the past year depended on people fighting for what's right. protest, litigate, organize, speak, write, argue, persuade. 2026 will be better than 2025 the more we do these things. happy new year everyone. 🥂

Worth noting that this reporting (& the other recent CBS fact checks on the daycare story) are from local news reporters at WCCO in Minneapolis-St Paul, a long-time news powerhouse. Also: WCCO & other local news outlets in the twin cities have been on this fraud story for years. Not days but years.

I'm with this guy. Conspiracy theorists are overwhelmingly stupid people who don't have enough ego to want to prevent other people from controlling their minds.

They should pass a law that says the IRS can hire as many agents as it wants until the amount of additional revenue created per agent is less than the cost of an additional agent. Simple.

What a relief to see 2025 in the rear-view mirror. Count me among those optimistic that 2026, America’s 250th anniversary year, will be the opportunity to prove that most Americans won’t let a depraved and malignant despot destroy our beloved country and end our democratic project. Happy New Year!

The rumors about daycare centers are extremely "fit" for virality: having both novelty & familiarity (drawing on anti-immigrant tropes of criminality & exploitation); making emotional/identity appeals; are *participatory* in that ppl can create their own “evidence” by investigating local centers.

Reposting this as the exception that makes the rule that, in general, nobody knows how to evaluate people. We pretend we can. Our organizations and systems pretend we can. But we can't. And it's so consequential that we deceive ourselves about this vital issue. Here's a rare exception:

My best gifts to myself usually involve the joy of reading. This year the theme was an extra appreciation for science & unshakable truth-telling in the face of big lies. Thanks to authors like @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @brittlestar.com @caulfieldtim.bsky.social etc.

the naked, gleeful racism of this, combined with the specter of countless wannabe influencers traumatizing kids nationwide, makes it bleak even for the second Trump administration

I think it’s maybe a year ago on @bobknorpp.bsky.social’s The Beancast that I said there was no way this wasn’t a part of the eventual business model. And I’m not alone - iPullRank (an SEO firm I’ve collab’d with) is now emphasizing “relevance engineering” specifically for AI.

"Dear President Trump – Of all the wrong ideas you hold in your heart...perhaps the most gobsmacking is your cherished notion that people respect you when they kiss your ass." www.thebulwark.com/p/somebody-n...

NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...

“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

If you think there aren't a lot of racists in the US, read the comments on this YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJOa... Note that journalists have already debunked the claims of the rightwing podcaster who claimed that a bunch of Somali businesses were frauds. See the Republican racists.

The forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement | I discussed my book w/ @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, with @ethanelkind.bsky.social of @npr.org / @kalwradio.bsky.social #YourCall radio: www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

same thing with the repeated attempts to hire a MAGA columnist. “well we must have one to be Balanced, but it can’t be some uncouth lunatic” THERE ARE NO SUCH PEOPLE

Yet another reason to cancel that NYT subscription: mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

"Guy in a diner" story, Dec 2025 edition. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u... Somehow I've missed the profiles of people in Nashville / Austin / Houston / Kansas City MO / Charlotte / etc who have been gerrymandered out of "fair" representation.

probably not a great sign that Trump's assistant AG for civil rights uses a slur for people with disabilities

I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

This year, Grok was reprogrammed to say Elon Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc. www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...