What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

As of this week, millions of Americans are now paying thousands more for health insurance. If the President and Congressional GOP think Washington has the capacity to "run" Venezuela right now, why won't they fix the insurance cost crisis they've created here at home?

When oil and tech CEOs are in the loop about his plans to invade a sovereign nation and Congress isn’t, that’s all you need to know about the legitimacy of his actions.

How quickly we forget what comes next.

Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

The sad thing is that those who championed these men never have had to answer for their collaboration, grave mistake. Search for their names. They're still enjoying professional prestige and power on the backs of others' suffering. It is so repulsive.

I'm in a phase right now where, a lot of the time, I just feel sad. Because a big part of it is looking at your life & being honest about. & most of my life has been very fucked up. I went from living in an abusive home to working in an often times abusive & predatory industry.

This is valuable insight and she gave me words. Thanks so much for this post @ec2121.bsky.social

Remember a few weeks ago when Mark Kelly & a few others released a video reminding troops, “Our laws are clear — you can refuse illegal orders,” & Trump/Republicans melted down & called him a traitor Turns out we didn’t have to wait long for another preview of future courts martial

Congratulations, 99% of y’all are still too dumb to wear a respirator mask at the airport.

BASH: There's no question that Maduro was a destabilizing force in the region. People are celebrating in the streets all over. Is it fair to say there's some benefit in him not being in power? CHRIS MURPHY: What changes? You just heard Sen. Cotton not be able to explain who's running the country

Just a quick reminder that Jack Smith had 86 witnesses lined up ready to convict Donald Trump, and every one of them were Republicans

Highlights from Jack Smith deposition.

The President of the United States is a criminal. Thank you for your service, Jack Smith.

Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

Two statements that we can consign to the dustbin of history. 1. The US has a system of checks and balances. 2. The US military take an oath to the country and to obey the constitution - not the president - and would never follow illegal orders.

Perp walk

AMERICA FIRST! 🇺🇸

On the plane! See you soon, AGDQ!

In a nutshell.

Please use @5calls.org to leave a voicemail. Put in your location and a script and phone numbers populate. Easy.

Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?

Same, but also as a gay man who survived the original HIV/AIDS epidemic—w/ a lot of luck, restraint, & bcs I was younger & knew the virus was out there before I became sexually active—I think I felt similarly in ‘22 when it hit me like a ton of bricks that our gov’t was going to pretend away COVID.

Cancer research and protection against & related support around airborne viruses like COVID: clean indoor air, Long Covid treatments, improved vaccines, free tests & N95s… But no, the government thought it’d be cheaper to claim it’s just a cold & leave it at that.

This is how you do it! 👏👏👏👏😷😷👏👏👏👏👏

Rep. Seth Moulton: "This is insane. What the hell are we doing? ... this is illegal."

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

The way that Covid was a factor that accelerated my own dad's death and people close to me are still mocking me and choosing to not understand why I take precautions

“This is about plunder and power.”

Compare and contrast—today’s “precision strike” and its rationale with this: www.wola.org/analysis/jua...

The emergence of Julian, experiencing the effect of a westerly wind on an east-bound rabbit:

Everyone is at risk from long covid. Of any age, regardless of how healthy you are!

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

This war and extra-judicial kidnapping is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Political leaders on both sides must condemn it. It’s not about whether Maduro is a tyrant but whether the US is still governed by laws and the Constitution. As if this morning, we are clearly not.

I'm losing track of how many countries a man livid he wasn't given the Nobel Peace Prize has illegally bombed. Iran. Venezuela. Nigeria. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Pakistan. Somalia. Syria. Yemen. Not to mention threatening to annex Greenland and Canada and invade Panama.

A conspiracy theory that just might not be a conspiracy or a theory.

The administration has argued that American courts can hold foreign presidents accountable for crimes, while the U.S. president remains immune from similar scrutiny.

I do not normally get involved in politics on this account, but I must formally state, for all my local, national, and international friends, that I 100% do not approve of the illegal war the United States just started with #Venezuela. Stay safe, if you can. 💔🔭🦛

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Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

I think people did not want to believe the obvious truth: that January 6th was an attempted coup that was abetted by the highest levels of the Republican Party. It would’ve meant arresting, trying, and possibly imprisoning many of America’s most powerful politicians.

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

"There is a cult of ignorance in the US. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Isaac Asimov, scientist (1920-1992)