The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social investigation shows they were, in fact, the culmination of a coordinated, international recruiting effort by online extremists. (Published March 2025)

Thinking about our politics and what's preventing solidarity. The number of folks with a net worth over $1 mil has soared. Rich people protect their interests. Exceptions prove the rule (so don't come for me). We're seeing the repercussions from militarism to housing. thehustle.co/originals/th...

Democratic Oregon and Southwest Washington lawmakers moved swiftly to condemn President Donald Trump’s announcement early Saturday that the United States carried out a military strike in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

Because Polis is a neolib, a DINO who cannot be trusted anymore than Bennet & Hickenlooper - also neolib DINOs - can.

There is only one motive: to seize more money. There is only one pathway: to destroy the lives of anyone standing in the way. There is only one narrative: shame & blame some "other" to keep people from joining together & taking on the billionaires.

For years, I have posted this quote from 1984 to explain Trump Still accurate

I was watching this two days ago and musing to myself about what big distraction might land this weekend.

Don’t forget - just about two weeks ago - over two dozen Democrats voted to give $900 billion to Trump and Hegseth for their defense budget. Here are the Dems who voted to given that $900 billion.

Public Domain, an environmental news outlet, earlier reported some of the details of Mr. Falen’s financial relationship with Thacker Pass www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...

You cannot watch this clip today with Trump saying the US will run Venezuela now, and not see a mentally ill old man who thinks he is in the middle of a hostile business takeover. Rubio's face says it all. Trump is ill and should not be running the US. Full clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezYN...

Its abundantly clear that he doesn't know jack shit about any of this stuff. Someone else is making the decisions and he just goes along with whatever they say because he is gonna make money from it. When he goes off script, its just lie after lie after lie

"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set

My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds. I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are. My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.

NYT is reporting she appeared on Venezuelan TV, denounced the U.S. “invasion”, and insists that Maduro is still the country’s president.

Not that crazy IMO ➡️ The Republican-run Supreme Court has ruled the President can't be prosecuted for doing crimes in office ➡️ The Republican-run Congress has decided Trump's the boss and they are mere spectators Historically, tell a guy he's a god-king with no consequences and this is the result

Trump claimed Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, agreed to help the U.S. run the country. Looks like he was lying because she just went on TV to express support for Maduro and say "we will never again be slaves ... we will never again be a colony of any empire, whatever its nature.”

The only way the WA GOP succeeds with their shitty initiatives is when they have a millionaire sugar daddy pulling their puppet strings & using paid signature gatherers.

Law enforcement will say that they don't go after people like Bundy because he is "heavily armed" and it is "dangerous." Funny how they only say this about white guys.

Vote suppression by the WA GOP just failed. Flopped.

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

And once again: ALL OF THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF A TINY PERCENT MORE OF THE POPULATION HAD JUST FILLED IN A LITTLE OVAL NEXT TO THE BLACK LADY’S NAME. We ALL fucking warned EVERYONE, but too many didn’t listen or shrugged it off.

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.

I ignore the Bezos post these days.

This is an AI-manipulated version of a real video of the US military operation in Venezuela. While the real clip does appear to be genuine, this specific version has been manipulated using Grok to add dramatic explosions and strikes.

Every clip in this 2:38-minute video montage shows Iranian missile strikes on Israel in 2024 and 2025, none of clips are linked to US strikes on Venezuela this morning.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

I swear to god, a kid I went to high school with who was posting the “Harris will send me to war” memes reposted this with “we’re so back”

Nothing encapsulates Dems powerlessness or inability to operate beyond conventional tactics when they send out fundraising emails like AI powered bots in response to crisis. This predictable soulless email from DNC is a perfect ie of preoccupation w/ tactics w/o any coherent strategy.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

Donald Trump Jr. joined Polymarket's board of advisors in Aug 2025

Jerce Reyes fled the Maduro regime and sought asylum through legal channels in the United States. The Trump administration disappeared him to CECOT:

Former Politico reporter Rachael Bade is the poster child for the DC media disconnect. Grinning with a mimosa in her avatar while treating politics like a game.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms

picked entirely because they want to bully a visible blue state into submission but didn't do the math on how much force would be required

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Donald Trump’s unconstitutional military action in Venezuela is putting our troops in harm's way with no long-term strategy. The American people deserve a President focused on making their lives more affordable.

I just saw a video talking about the Tesla door safety problem and the number of comments that are like, "well you should read the manual" are...shocking. No, cars should be intuitively safe. Passengers are not reading the manual. Are you doing a safety briefing every time you give someone a ride?

IMO this is mainly a way for Trump to show how us that the military will in fact do whatever he wants.

the American opioid crisis is almost entirely the work of Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler family of murderous profiteers, but because Americans can't imagine anything being their fault, we've invaded Venezuela over it

When you more or less tell a man he has no consequences and can do whatever they want without question, they're going to do what they want without telling anyone. SCOTUS decision out front should have told ya

News: Gang of Eight in Congress were only notified about Trump's Venezuela operation after it began, source familiar tells me. That means the heads of the Intelligence Committees in Senate and House were *not* consulted. Just crazy.

"leaders"

Well, if you can't get Le Penn on board with this, you might have problems.

Ms. Abughazaleh is running for Congress. I'm waiting for every Democrat in the House and Senate to say this very thing. And even just one goddamned Republican.

He's doing foreign policy like a private equity firm.

Dave West, a retired Montgomery County schoolteacher, texted me that he's protesting again outside the renamed "Donald J Trump Institute for Peace" today. "I guess you're learning about peace through strength," West texts.

Since Trump won the FIFA peace prize and rebranded “the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace” a month ago, he has: • continued lethal strikes in the Caribbean • bombed ISIS targets in Nigeria • threatened Iran that U.S. is “locked and loaded” • struck Venezuela and captured its leader