this is why it’s so important to listen to locals when someone’s mayor goes viral for saying one correct thing that they will immediately contradict with their subsequent actions

What is he trying to tell us??

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Take note that this is the national news story they chose to run this morning

They will keep doing it until somebody stops them. The entire MAGA view is that you can do whatever you want as long as nobody actually prevents you from doing it. If ICE can kill people with impunity, they will. If Trump can take countries' oil, he will. They have no morality.

It was a matter of time until this happened. If you give government officials guns, complete impunity, and a sense of complete self-righteousness, and then send them out into Americans' neighborhoods, they are going to kill Americans.

never want to hear again about how abolishing ICE isn't "realistic"

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Looking forward to the probably inevitable news brief on the Venezuela stuff, but in the meantime, @citationspod.bsky.social recently did a great episode on the way US meddling gets talked about in the mainstream media and it's worth a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Michael "suspect[s] the decision has already been made but for the purposes of discussion" self-nominates for mayor. He gets no seconds. No discussion. Our primary public mouthpiece stays conservative despite Council's new, ostensibly more "progressive" majority. www.youtube.com/live/PYrupVG...

On average how long does it normally take for actual criminals to stand trial in the U.S.?

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Lmfao I can’t believe he actually said it

Great to see protestors on a bridge near Fauquier waving 🇵🇸 and holding "No Blood for Oil" signs on the way home today.

Insane poll. Where is the “what are you even talking about” option?

You don’t say

it’s going to be weird going back to work and people talking like everything is normal. like in a final fantasy game when someone’s summoned a meteor from hell to destroy the planet and the villagers still only talk about the big chocobo pageant coming up

UNLOCKED 🚨 @granadosceja.bsky.social joins us to discuss the monroe doctrine 2.0 and the US's new Cold War, the role that Venezuela plays as a counter hegemonic state, Mexico and other Latin American states' orientation towards China vs USA, and much more

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

my next favorite thing useless elected officials say now is if he just asked for congressional approval then it would he completely fine to overthrow other countries and steal resources

Let me put it another way: Today, how many people would say "Yea, we shouldn't've invaded Iraq, but at least Saddam got got because he was a bad dude!" No! Iraq cannot be justified! "Imperialism is wrong even though I know Maduro is bad" statements invite the SAME future bullshit justifications!

Genuine question: For whom do people think that labeling the war "illegal" moves the needle? Bc imo, the adjective cheapens the real issue. It's not because it's illegal that war is bad; that the military slaying fishermen is bad; etc. Who's the target? Whose morality hinges on legality here?

For real, strongly suggest that your book club pause the current selection for two weeks so everyone can read and discuss Lenin’s “Imperialism”.

99-0 confirmed Rubio, in case you forgot.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

A lot of people are going to preface tu-tutting tweets with variants on the theme of "Maduro was no angel" and it's very important to have the moral clarity to understand that these people are the lowest form of coward imaginable

Liberals constantly say they’ll vote for 99% Hitler as a “lesser evil” yet in a situation where Maduro is a “lesser evil” to the alternative they prefer the 100% Hitler option

This $10 book is a quick 100-or-so pages and probably should be your first read of 2026. www.thriftbooks.com/w/imperialis...

If you have any inclination to “but Maduro” this moment, kindly ask yourself: “Do I actually know fuck all about Venezuela or am I parroting imperialist propaganda?”

Ask them if imperialism is bad. If they say “yes but”, ask them again as a second chance. No one who uses a qualifier in this line of questioning actually believes that imperialism is bad. In fact, they are pro-imperialist, given history. And they should be told that to their face.

COVID has scrambled people’s ability to understand that, yes, drivers who are making left on green do, in fact, have to yield to you, a driver going straight on green.

Back in my day the only pop-ups on the Internet came from viruses!

so much of what’s happening is party movers & shakers attempting to ensure their control of that more conservative party. they believe they will win regardless in ‘26 & ‘28. the promotion of spanberger, the welcome to greene, the whole abundance con is the real political fight right now.

Mamdani will be sworn in in the station that inspired the Turtles lair in TMNT 2: The Secret Of The Ooze

K, so maybe don't start to watch One Battle After Another over Christmas at your parents' house.

If we can’t collectively dispel our gravitation towards “One Bad Man” Theory, we will not come out of this historical moment any better than we went into it. (this episode focuses on Netanyahu but applies heavily to most sentiments I see and hear towards Trump)

If you're hanging here on Christmas Eve, give yourself the gift of tuning into my pal Justin's annual solo piano Christmas hang. He'll be playing until he feels like stopping, so click through even if it's an odd hour :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM_w...

There are holidays AND a special staff member to celebrate: Lewis Reining! Lewis was recently promoted to WTJU's Assistant General Manager! AND his birthday is on Dec 25. We congratulate Lewis & wish him a very happy Birthday. Check out Lewis' thoughtful responses to a Q&A:

A few weeks ago we played "Holidays with The Hard Modes"—a set of music from snow/ice levels—at @wtjuradio.bsky.social 's Friday night live concert series, Offbeat Roadhouse. Just listened back and am super happy with the show. Some details about the set in thread. www.youtube.com/live/oPbr8OH...

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but this is a good indicator that it's time for salarymen to look into seizing the means.

"The kids are alright" has always been a bourgeois way of thought—the older generation absolving themselves of the need to come to terms with the failures of liberalism and evolve beyond their old biases in their advanced age because the kids will handle things and right their wrongs or whatever.

I did the thing

Rank ass grease trap smell Relentless, clinging tightly Plumbing nevermore

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Some of our bourgeois statesmen will give lip service as if they care, but ultimately, they are capitalists. We, fellow prole, are not of their class. The mask is off yet again. Will you once more help them put it back on? Or this time, will you snatch it and forever see them for what they are?

resurfacing the dark academia fantasy novelette i published earlier this year, about identity, assimilation & pursuit in a colonial institution ❤️ reactormag.com/the-name-ziy...

Praise the sun

Had a blast throwing together a last-minute show for the @wtjuradio.bsky.social Classical Marathon and co-hosting with the one and only @thetallnathan.bsky.social. "Digital Goes Analog" features orchestrated (and de-orchestrated!) versions of video game music. www.wtju.net/recent-shows...

"312 imperialists—including 115 imperialists wearing blue—just voted to do imperialism harder."