“the what lesson will Putin take from this?” pearl clutching Venezuela takes are demented. Like, if anything, the US is using Putin’s playbook.

Yanis Varoufakis loudly telling on himself again. A joy to see him being dunked on.

It really is incredible how many people treat being too stupid to hold the thought “two things can both be bad” in their head as some great badge of moral courage.

Stephen Millers wife posting their intentions for Greenland

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

I think I’m going with the @nytimes.com on this one, thanks.

Me, pantsless, to the employees of the Home Depot paint department

President Zelenskyy on Maduro: What can I say here? If this can be done to dictators, like that, then the United States of America know what they should do next.

Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns https://theonion.com/experts-point-to-long-glorious-history-of-successful-u-1819575498/

The case of the Twitter purchase shows the bad media strategy from Biden-era top Democrats. They were “indifferent” to a far-right billionaire oligarch buying a key element of our information infrastructure. www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

My understanding was that when you did regime change it was customary to change the regime.

Hickey reposting the Ayatollah threatening the Iranian people

there's just something morbidly funny about how he just throws everyone who sucks up to him under the bus.

Look, we can all appreciate the comedy of Machado begging Trump to invade, briefing the media that it was a negotiated exit and then having Trump turn round and announce that she is rubbish, has no popular support, and they won't be working with her.

What is the *funniest* Trump misread? To me, it is Ian Leslie writing that he has an "almost physical horror of violence". He wrote that this year!

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

putin is already pretty unconstrained in ukraine (the people saying "zelensky is next" seem unaware russia has tried to kill him many times). the bigger danger is it emboldens putin to step up sabotage and hybrid warfare in europe

To echo others, I think this does misunderstand what's happening. In the same way that you can't really understand the Iraq War without understanding the Bush family's hang ups over the first Gulf War you can't understand this without situating Rubio as part of the Florida Cuban diaspora.

A few folk here deliberately ignoring Maduro’s crimes. Telling

Chappell Roan must condemn

Dick Cheney would be loving this

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisted that “rioters must be put in their place” after a week of protests that have shaken the Islamic Republic, likely giving security forces a green light to aggressively put down the demonstrations.

the trolley problem from a European perspective

Iran, on the ground reporting: Plainclothes regime repression agents speaking Arabic … not Persian. This means the Islamic regime in Iran has recruited and dispatched Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi and Iraqi Shia mercenaries to assist in quashing the Iranian people’s uprising.

Let’s send military aid to an authoritarian regime that oppresses its people and kills protestors

Venezuela under Maduro has tried to annex Guyana the last few years - it’s not “anti-imperialist” in the slightest, as well as the government oppressing its own people

he announced that he black bagged the sitting president of a foreign country on the same website where he posted an AI generated image of jb pritzker holding a mcdouble

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.

Zelensky and his team are much better at politics than I ever imagined is my first thought out of all this

This is the first time in history that a County Clare hotelier has kidnapped the leader of another country

Worth noting the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has been encouraging Trump to do exactly this ever since she won the prize. Another one to add to the dismal record of that prize committee, too. bsky.app/profile/elio...

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.

Didn’t expect this from the man who won the FIFA Peace Prize

Seriously how does this not make us a rogue nation any serious country would immediately sanction at a bare minimum

Well this has majorly escalated

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

“Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them” - how is saying this helping Iranian protestors in any way

The commentator Irish media loves to get out to talk about American politics with this wild take

How likely is the Islamic Regime in Iran to finally fall after these protests?

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

The concept of juggling parts of one's life - is this term ever used in reference to men?

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. hope

This is true but it’s also important to state that Zohran Mamdani is himself hot and this is not distinct from him being a goofy nerd

This is weird af

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago