Just posted by Senator Mike Lee (R) Utah

Sure, but this follows the pattern across the Middle East: suborn every government that you can, prop up any friendly ones who need it and collapse the fuck out of any who refuse to play ball, turning their countries into disastrous hellzones that can’t be governed, let alone defend themselves.

Some updates: CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.

I'm sure the press conference from Mar-a-largo will be somber, well prepared and will answer all the obvious questions and put everyone's minds back at ease.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Believe it or not, independent journalists can get our own frontline sources.

THERE'S A 5 STAR HOTEL NEXT DOOR TO WHERE I LIVE AND A -LOT- OF BLACK TRUCKS JUST CAME BACK WITH OFFICIAL LOOKING PEOPLE TO PICK UP A LOT OF CHINESE SPEAKING CIVILIANS IN A RUSH

This is true. Sadaam Hussein was a monster who gassed his own people, but that didn’t give us the right to invade Iraq. Same here. Also the same if, as I very much hope, this is not an invasion but one of those limited military actions we inexplicably think we have the right to engage in.

IT IS A MYSTERY

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

Inexcusable shit.

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

libshit wikipedia editors are trying to neutral voice the current illegal aggression against venezuela only to get told by a venezuelan editor that he is literally being bombed right now. un-fucking real

always knew the burrito taxi industry was scummy but this is the most unfathomably evil, cartoon villain shit I’ve read in a while. jfc

How come when MY clients have paranoid fixations on Satan, computer intelligences that are watching them, and the king-god nature of the president they’re “under arrest” and “incompetent to stand trial” and “suffering methamphetamine psychosis” but when these fuckers do it they get VC money

"engage your core" what am I, a nuclear power plant? The earth? Do I look like an apple to you?

Good for Reuters for changing their headline. Pressure works. Grok did not do this. Elon Musk did.

Woke 2 baby

If Jade Helm happened now, half the country would name their next daughter after it.

It’s been a real tough day for CBS News overall, but I’ll still give them credit for this sequence of paragraphs. www.cbsnews.com/news/bear-un...

The corporate media continues to minimize elite complicity in this administration’s cruel policies. This is not a nameless Ninja Turtle. This is Michaelangelo. Name and shame these guys!

There are two Singapores. One requires a reservation and a small emotional loan. The other wears a black T-shirt, eats breakfast for under five dollars, and knows exactly where the good curry puffs are. I am increasingly loyal to the second one. #Singapore #culture medium.com/@spurious-ma...

Microslop Slopdows Slopfessional. Ask Stella Artois how this worked out for them

I also love America and believe in its stated values. And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.

grok didn't say shit. Grok is not sentient. This is you helping musk escape accountability for this shit. Journalism fail.

Mayor Zohran Mandami’s crime reduction strategy notches early win.

Sweeny makes a really insightful suggestion here that I haven't previously considered: that anti-trans stories were a bone being thrown to right wingers that wouldn't scare off most liberals. I saw local far right fascists do the same thing in the antivax groups they ran during the pandemic.

we're just gonna have years of "the mayor of new york city claims to be a socialist and yet does not dress in an old timey barrel hung from suspenders"

My man looks like he brings his own mayonnaise to fancy restaurants

day one in mamdani’s new york

Lmao that is an exceptional way to get around all the little executive order land mines they Adams tried to plant

Elon Musk is literally a ‘foreigner’ who’s had about 12 kids in the U.S so far. it’s not hard to crack the code as to what that term or ‘native born’ actually means here.

You can tell that right wing criticisms of the media are legit because every politician and politically influential billionaire who palls around with Yarvin, or gets photographed with him one time, or attends some function he speaks at gets cancelled

I am once again reminding everyone that Hitler wasn't a genius. Hitler led his country to utter ruin. He killed himself in a bunker while his city was demolished by Russian tanks. His corpse was incinerated in a ditch like the garbage it was.

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

Out: the weave In: the blink

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored

Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works

They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

The Telegraph's big book of woke things reaches Zulu (1964)

While we're mourning MTV's exit from you know... music television, let's pour one out for all the women and minority film-makers who made music videos because the film studios weren't exactly kicking their doors down. Like this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=c184...

/GWAR has entered the chat

KLF were always pretty off the chain to begin with.