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.

But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?

Fair warning: If you don’t want to see a LOT of get out the vote content this year, I’m probably not a good person to follow. My goal for 2026 is to help hand the GOP the largest midterm loss in history. We’re going to make 2018 look like a small trickle.

1/x...In my mind, I am always seven to eight hours ahead of my actual physical location on New Year's eve. It's the biggest holiday of the year in Russia and Ukraine, and I am always celebrating in my mind with my dear friends and colleagues hours before fireworks hit the east coast here in NYC...

17/17 Бажаю всім у Новому році визволення, справедливості, миру та можливості бути повністю людьми-Желаю всем Нового года освобождения, справедливости, мира и возможности быть полностью людьми. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

16/x I miss & love my friends all very much & I fear every day for their & their families' safety. I hold them all in my hearts & wish for all a New Year of freedom, justice, peace, & the ability to be fully human...

15/x ...instead 2 things: 1) the unique qualities and experiences, always quirky, esoteric, surprising, that make them each an individual, distinct, special, beloved; & 2) deploying that individuality every day to be fully human & do all they could to make space for others to be.

14/x My Russian & Ukrainian friends all taught me that what was important about each of them wasn't whether their passport said "Russian" or "Ukrainian" or even "Jewish," wasn't which language they preferred to speak, wasn't where they were born, who their parents were, or where they lived but...

13/x ...To wind a center into the whirlwind, to make an order where previously there was none, to root humanity into the soil of that earth, so the earth may sustain human minds and bodies, instead of power operating meatgrinders to fertilize the physical earth with those minds & bodies...

12/x ......the numbers of people who we KNOW could know better but instead choose the whirlwind. Yeats wrote of that "widening gyre" that "the centre cannot hold." But Ukrainians and those who support them are engaged in a counterfactual experiment to Yeats' vision:

11/x In other words: nothing to defend and no one to defend it. No one to defend and no one to defend them/us. This permanent disorientation is consuming us here in the U.S.-we sink ever deeper into prolonged, all-consuming Soviet-style nonsense, the scariest & most befuddling aspect of which is...

10/x "Nothing is true and everything is possible" a fantastic book by Peter Pomerantsev & an apt description of a deliberate and central state policy: to ensure the population is always off balance, with nothing to hold on to, fall back on, no center as a point of orientation or departure...

9/x ...without facing physical or other punishment or destruction as a consequence. But we are now living through the Russification/Sovietization of this country: Soviet and post-Soviet power has always specialized in nonsense.

8/x ...Respect human life & dignity. Make room for all of us - especially our children - to have a safe, independent existence, where independence at its core simply means exercising autonomy over one's self & having means to act on structures that exercise power over us...

7/x ...Ukraine has evolved into a society that has decided - through protest, practice, poetry, and so many other pathways over the last 20 years in particular - that they are also determined to be human. That there are moral absolutes, most of which are very simple: do not hurt others...

6/x ...Ukraine, a country with a similarly complicated, often ugly (especially antisemitic - more Jews died there than any country during the Holocaust, including dozens of my family members) but certainly less imperialistic history than Russia's...

5/x ...human life has no value beyond the spoils it brings to the powerful. Being unable even to comprehend, let alone accept this foundational principle is a commonality my Russian friends (an appallingly small minority) have with the incredibly brave people of Ukraine, also including dear friends.

4/x The reason for this danger is simply that, post-USSR, these, my friends, were constitutionally incapable of accepting anything less than being fully human. The ugly, criminal, terroristic practices of Russia's regime are of an absolute piece with centuries of history in Russia and its empires:

3/x ...almost complete on Feb. 24, 2022. At that point, my friends who didn't leave the country altogether have disappeared virtually since that date. I'm writing this here, in this way, because I literally can't find some of them. I don't try too hard to do so for fear of exacerbating any risk...

2/x Many of these are friends I haven't seen in more than a decade, and not by either of our choice. With each year of New Years' phone calls, my Russian friends have spoken in broader and broader generalities, as the government has sucked more oxygen out of society until the suffocation became...

1/x...In my mind, I am always seven to eight hours ahead of my actual physical location on New Year's eve. It's the biggest holiday of the year in Russia and Ukraine, and I am always celebrating in my mind with my dear friends and colleagues hours before fireworks hit the east coast here in NYC...

“The Court got a very big one right—in ways that will almost certainly make it more difficult, as it should be, for the Trump administration to attempt to militarize domestic law enforcement based on dubious factual predicates.” Me in today’s “One First” on four takeaways from Trump v. Illinois:

The violence & repression we're experiencing in the US are not the only threats to our future. Petty corruption leads to systemic rot: against it ALL Ukraine battles now on all our behalf. З новим роком, слава Україні ✊🏻🙏🏼🫶🏼 www.netflix.com/watch/801193...

An absolute gut punch!! Why, God, why?!?!? 🤬🤯😭

So much that is so fantastic here, but key word for me? JOY. www.nyc.gov/site/media/s...

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

Witness statements are in for tomorrow's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on "Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable." Will Chamberlain: georgetown.box.com/s/w60foecfro... Rob Luther: georgetown.box.com/s/21ugst1e58... Me: georgetown.box.com/s/4tmr2fhnj3... Show starts at 2:30 ET:

THIS.

We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago begins in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering. snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...

russia’s Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) has published a 70-page manual for invaders to use against children in temporarily occupied territories, specifically targeting those from the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions👇

Observation about bsky v the bad place (X) - there is still way too little info about Ukraine HERE...pls pay attention & amplify legit sources b/c it's a critical moment for the world. And if you don't know - time to learn! @timothysnyder.bsky.social is a great place to start...слава Україні!!! 🇺🇦

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

Grandma Pearl shouting “it’s about time” from the election party in the sky.

Amid lots of good news tonight, psyched to see my Mom's hometown getting its first woman Mayor! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Did you know in 1890 manufacturing employees worked on average 100 hours a week? It would be decades before the eight-hour workday became real. It took labor activists and labor unions to turn the cry for change into policy and practice. www.americaamerica.news/p/a-labor-da...

Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!

This is the way

Hey @thedailyshow.com - MORE LESLIE JONES PLEASE!!! 💥💥💥 youtube.com/watch?v=V16R...

The Onion will be available in almost every Barnes & Noble in the country starting this month! “RFK Jr. Fires Piss Czar” will be a visible headline sitting directly next to Bon Appetit and Guns & Ammo.

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.

It’s hard to overstate how badly America needs the infectious energy of performers and artists right now. That particularly includes the exuberant Jon Baptiste and his joyful music. www.americaamerica.news/p/america-wh...

ICE is targeting delivery drivers in DC, and MPD is helping them. 📌 ICE is not police 📌 DC law requires uniformed officers to show their badge and nameplate while on duty And Uber needs to do better by its drivers!

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning. Please take care when watching.

Taken literally, the nation’s top intelligence official announced — on a right-wing podcast — that my decision to stop posting on Twitter is evidence that I am not “innocent” and am therefore being reviewed by the DOJ, with the aim of holding me “accountable.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/im-n...

It's disturbing that the story has hardly been told, so people hardly grasp how profoundly different (as in better) the possibilities are than they were not long ago. And that California, among other places, is realizing those possibilities. @billmckibben.bsky.social did a great piece on that: