This insane asshole has been doing nothing but crimes since the day he took office, you're the only branch of government with the power to remove him and you're not even going to try because it might not work? Why are you even there? To feel important and do insider trading?

you don't need to add caveats agreeing that the head of state abducted is a bad guy before opposing abduction of a head of state by military force. If the rule was any head of government is fair game then the entire world would be a series of decapitation strikes and show trials in foreign courts.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Apropos of nothing

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

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

U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee was not notified ahead of U.S. airstrikes on Venezuela, source tells CNN

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.

They actually kidnapped Maduro

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

BREAKING: Hearing reports of explosions in Caracas, Venezuela. Source with family on the ground says people advising each other to shelter in place.

I really wish I could see how Donald sees himself

No matter how closely I follow the directions, I will inevitably put something together backwards and have to start all over

A Black Woman who's been through one too many emergencies was hit with an Eviction notice. She has a job, but couldn't keep up with the bills last year, she's raising enough to keep a roof over her head, let's each give $1 to reach her goal. We've helped 217 people so far, let's keep going.

We need to move beyond calling him a CEO and call him a goomba

an annoying thing about realists insisting they're the no-nonsense reality-based group is that few of their predictions have been based in reality

"regarding tips, we're essentially doing Tip Theft 2.0. We don't "steal" them legally anymore because we got sued for that. Instead, we use predictive modeling to dynamically lower the base pay." www.reddit.com/r/confession...

occurs to me that the American Association of Retired Persons might boost its membership if it rebranded as the American Association of Old People Who Might Never Be Able to Retire So Let's Fucking Tax Billionaires Into Nonexistence Already

uh holy SHIT?

It is very interesting that the new, burgeoning frontier in anti-trans legislation is making it much easier to sue providers who provided trans healthcare, considering that in a lot of places the statute of limitations on all other medical malpractice claims is extremely small.

i was just thinking about this. when a fascist squeaks by, it’s a mandate. when a progressive wins by a landslide, he needs to be deferential. it’s such bullshit.

This is his chance to finally do something we all find very funny, which would be to get all of these campaigns completely dependent on his funding and then kill himself

You can make LLMs say almost anything. A news organization reporting "what grok said" is engaging in journalistic malpractice. It doesn't know. It just creates plausible sounding words in response to a prompt.

I like how you can immediately tell when an LLM was used for a graphic

If you call yourself a centrist/moderate and manage to get a platform, you have guaranteed employment, no matter how little you bring to the table

Many people have not been invited at all. I’ve talked to a substantial number of Black speakers who have seen bookings plummet, who have been virtually frozen out from engaging in public talks on college campuses.

Live video of Chamblis and GA defense

Trinidad Chambliss tonight:

My third annual Bluesky thread of my favorite pictures I took over the previous year

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)

So is this Chambliss guy actually any good, or is this just a random bowl game kind of thing

Trinidad Chambliss:

Re the Grok incident and apology - if you wonder how humans are reacting to these AI scenarios in reality - look no further, society isn't structured to deal yet: A Louisiana girl hit a boy who was sharing deepfake nude photos of her. She was expelled. www.nola.com/news/educati...

how can we exist in a world ran by people who don’t think this shit is a problem

What the fuck

what’s happening with grok and nudity spam requests should be a global wake up call about AI image gen and instead very few media outlets have even covered it yet

there’s even a community note on posts about this saying that grok’s statements aren’t reflective of the company … ??? we are just shrugging away what should be a global outrage

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

Haunting Soviet animation set in the faraway future of 2026 From: There Will Come Soft Rains (1984), dir. Nazim Tulyakhodjaev, Uzbekfilm

I’d 100% pay for a ticket to see the pillow fighting championship live

Man, I haven’t seen this book in years. Now I’m going to have to look for it the next time I’m at my mom’s house.

this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

I’m only watching this broadcast because a professional pillow fighting show is apparently coming on next