Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with: -No casus belli -No authorization from Congress -No allies or international support -No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela -No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

Once again: the House GOP has not passed a full appropriations package since Kevin McCarthy became speaker (and Biden was POTUS). Their failure to fulfill the basic functions of Congress didn't start with Trump. He just weaponized their inherent meekness.

Lisa McClain refuses to unequivocally condemn threats of violence against Democratic members of Congress who Trump said should be put to death, and says, "there are consequences. You can have freedom of speech, but freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences."

👀 NEW CBS poll: Seven in 10 Americans (including over half of Republicans!) say they would oppose the US taking military action inside Venezuela. These numbers couldn’t be more emphatic against Trump and Rubio’a dumb and dangerous adventure around Venezuela: www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-ve...

I’m a big fan of Liberal Currents, whose work I’ve found particularly invigorating over this last year.

sick of bitching about the atlantic? put your money where your poast is:

Minimum for anyone running for congress imo

Milling around awkwardly on a sidewalk somewhere, which is mostly what we've seen, isn't so manifestly unlawful it can't be left to the courts and lawyers to sort out. An unlawful order to use force, to injure or kill people, is the core case where immediate on-the-spot refusal is your legal duty.

She has it exactly backwards. The domestic deployments to date are a much weaker case for being so manifestly illegal as to justify refusal; that's a high bar. The boat strikes are outright unambiguous murder, everyone in that chain down to the one pulling the trigger has had a clear duty to refuse.

Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress in 2021 worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later worth around $25,000,000. 😳 Congress is just a giant insider-trading scheme.

President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.

Don Bacon endorsed and voted for Donald Trump 3 straight times. He can try and change his legacy now, but his legacy will always be tied to insurrection and surrender.

For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.

"One high-profile government official" and "one high-profile former politician" is language he's used before and it's reasonably obvious that means Trump and Clinton, or at least Massie doesn't mind that being the strong implication.

We had so much fun playing a packed house at Inner Sanctum Friday night. Thank you to everyone who came out! This one by Ernest Tubb is one of my favorites. It's called Thanks A Lot 😉

Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.

Your periodic reminder that @radiofreetom.bsky.social who many of you like to follow, and who writes for the Atlantic, was pushing the great replacement theory before Trump and has never apologized for it. He's part of what got us here.

Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!

I handed out neighbor-printed whistles in Flatbush tonight and it was lovely. New Yorkers in motion do not EVER stop to chat but for this, they did. One church lady in a fancy hat gleefully took a whistle and told me she’d “blow they icy asses outta her town,” then apologized skyward for swearing.

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

We did it on the Epstein petition, and we can do it again for healthcare:

thank you so much for coming out!

you know what? good advice.

A reminder that the power of the purse is the ultimate war power. moulton.house.gov/news/press-r...

just a normal day in america where my first story filed is about the president calling for the execution of multiple members of congress

America 2025.

CNN: If a sailor in the Caribbean is given an order they think possibly could be illegal, what are they to do? HOULAHAN: If you receive an order you're not sure of, you have a duty to question your commander, the person next in your chain of command. You have a duty to go up the chain of command

My name is Kate Sills, and I'm running for Congress for my brother. He's in the Navy & our military is being asked to kill civilians. These are unlawful orders. Now Trump has called for people like me, who are standing up for our military, to be hanged. Can you help me? www.katesills.com

Houlahan: "I'm just continually stunned by the fact the commander in chief, the president, has called for my death. And that's something that should be chilling for everybody, and everybody should be worried about their safety in this nation when the president can yield that sort of statement."

wasn't kidding turns out

WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.” Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Democrats are responsible for every intemperate comment from every random anonymous internet communist. But the Republican president who is at the center of a cult of personality that has consumed the entire GOP can call for mass executions, and somehow this isn’t laid at the feet of Republicans.

if youre a congressional leader and you wont publicly criticize trump out of fear, please step down and give your seat to someone who will do it. because this is the job. this is the fucking job.

In another example of testimony that wasn't backed up by evidence, the head of ICE ERO's Chicago Field Office testified that a protestor had "ripped a beard off an agent's face" and broken part of ICE's building. When questioned, he admitted he had no evidence of this at all.

President of the United States: my political opponents should be put to death Paper of record:

Crow: "What he's trying to do is use fear and intimidation and threats to silence opposition. And if he's successful in doing that, we are all lost. I'm not going to allow him to do it. I'm going to stand up and I'm going to lead, and I'm going to do what's necessary to uphold the Constitution."

Last night my wife and I went to a talk by Sanna Marin, who became Prime Minister of Finland at 34. She was very impressive, particularly for her indomitable opposition to Putin and her clear call for opposition to Russian aggression.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

Keep telling folks ICE / CBP absolutely are having the time of their lives shooting, gassing, beating, arresting, and kidnapping people. Here’s a bit in their own words.

This is blatantly, undeniably true and has been for a long time, and it is cooking people's brains to hang out there and think it's not true. Regardless of if you like this place as an alternative or not. Musk puts his thumb heavily on the scale because your feed there is his personal plaything.

Perjury should be a crime maybe

The district courtroom really is one of the last spaces left in American public life where there’s a serious possibility that a strategy built on the denial of reality just won‘t fly.

Like clockwork. ⏰ asia.nikkei.com/politics/int...

Gee, I wonder who suggested that there was an issue with the grand jury process! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dang - how bad was the Border Patrol invasion in North Carolina? None other than Thom Tillis himself is blasting DHS for gross overreach, and demanding lists of those detained, property damage caused by CBP agents, and their plan for restitution. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

The federal government just dismissed charges against this woman who it had accused of deliberately attacking its agents and trying to kill them. Instead, it now appears they tried to murder her. Will Chicago or Illinois police prosecute?

Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait. It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

lol Bovino never stop being a dumbass www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...