We must also marvel at the titanic idiocy of our new "Donroe Doctrine" for it turns America from a global power into a regional one by choice. I still can't really believe they are going through with this for it is so batshit f-ing crazy, and does so much lasting harm to our interests.

From the newspaper owned by the second richest person on the planet.

Now listen, I know everyone who follows me and @standupforscience.bsky.social hasn’t signed to endorse the articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. yet. So, go do that: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr It helps us amp up attention on this as Congress comes back from holiday.

Everything is for the show.

It's also wild that this hasn't ended Trump's presidency immediately. We used to be a serious country, where things mattered. Or maybe we never were, & it's just the mask being fully ripped off. Hard to tell, frankly. Observationally equivalent. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Can’t forget the international crime of piracy (seizing the Venezuelan oil tanker) as well as the unconstitutional, illegal coup of kidnapping the president of a foreign nation and overtaking its government to run it ourselves to steal its natural resource.

Gotta tell you... @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social is a national treasure.

As I heard @kaine.senate.gov say in the autumn... The 250th may be a requiem for the republic.

We want a better future for the people of Vietnam. We want a better future for the people of Afghanistan. We want a better future for the people of Iraq. Go ahead, Marco... Finish it up for the class...

Reminder: Tom Cotton is an ignorant nazi.

Jordan is an empty suit and a prototypical lackey.

Weird for the world to fixate on a statement by the American president that has deep international importance

George was born one year after me. This is unequivocally on point.

Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics). "The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. … We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."

I can practically hear him narrate this passage below.

These people are out of their minds. They are endangering the whole world. This has to stop. This is the wife of the man who is currently running foreign policy for the United States:

They told media before Congress. As you already know from the last 11 months, we have no functioning Congress. Just a majority of cowards, lackeys, and enablers.

"CBS is lost"

Bring these up. One by one. Get them in the news cycle.

A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview: "If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."

We put Wittman’s statement on Venezuela through an AI engine and this is what it produced. 🤷

This is how it's done. If incumbent Democrats won't do the job, their primary challengers can and will use this to make sure someone else does

My brother in Christ, the Constitution empowers *you* to make this determination! What do you mean it’s “likely” constitutional? Rediscover your backbone and fulfill the duties of your office.

The Republican representative I’m challenging commended Trump’s unjust attack on Venezuela. If Wittman truly cared about narcoterrorism, he’d have spoken out against Trump pardoning former Honduran President, one of the biggest narcoterrorists. Our responses are side by side for comparison.

Hope is not a strategy.

Excellent distillation.

8 part thread. But part 5 is the key.

Perfect summation.

If there's one thing America's Fake Christians love, it's illegal wars on countries that haven't attacked us based 100% on lies that kill nonwhite people and steal oil. 20 years of re-branding, and here we are.

war as spectacle, as reality tv. a deeply american moment.

It's time... to spend some time... with the BBC. www.bbc.com/news

Repeat after me: Impeach. Convict. Remove.

Special elections still ongoing around RVA and South of the James.

74 to 11. Those 11 probably believe in Bigfoot and chemtrails.

Again I say to you, The modern GOP is an organized crime syndicate and should be treated as such.

"Let them eat cake"

Good morning. You are waking up to the irony of a convicted felon president, who spent years avoiding his own criminal trials, capturing the president of a sovereign nation and holding him captive for criminal trials.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Annual reminder: Earth is a little bit closer to the sun in January than it is in July. Our orbit around the sun is not a perfect circle. The tilt of Earth on its axis is the reason for the seasons.

The doctors chosen by a criminal fraud who knowingly surrounded himself with criminals willing to lie, commit crimes, and fall on a grenade for him said he's in good mental health, so that should totally be "okay" for everyone to believe. Right.

Domestic media continues to fail us. Gotta see how it looks from across the pond.

"CBS is lost"

McGuire is a traitor to the Constitution, his office, and the faith he likes to parade around.

Kevin is here to make your weekend. Roll on...

Microsoft slop.

This means Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg... the tech bros.

as if the onus for improving quality and usefulness is somehow on the critics or the consumer

The Bari Weissification of CBS News is going exactly as expected: Censoring honest journalism, pointless virtue signaling as ‘reasonable moderates’ (read: insanely reactionary), and making pro-pedophile propaganda

Wealthy people created corporations to insulate themselves from having to face personal legal or financial consequences for the risks they took with their businesses. And in the process, they made so much money that they can now insulate their businesses from having to face accountability for harm.

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