Reports have it that about 80 people were killed by Trump's lawless raid in Venezuela

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

The Trump administration is a thugocracy

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

As Eric Hoffer noted in his book The True Believer, mass movements don't need a god, but they cannot exist without a scapegoat. This is why RWng points are more anti-Dem than pro-GOP.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was dissolved today after 58 years of service. CPB board members said the combination of Trump/GOPers stripping its federal funding + sustained political attacks “made it impossible” for it to continue operating. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

What X is allowing Grok to do is unlawful or regulatory-illegal in multiple jurisdictions, creates clear DSA violations, and continues despite regulator scrutiny. The images do not need to be pornographic, non-consensual sexualised or intimate depictions are enough.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Noting the egregious hypocrisy, not as a gotcha—you can't shame them by showing that they're acting against stated principles, because they don't have any principles—but as a reminder that this movement is post-truth, using words merely as tools to cheer their "team" or to get something they want.

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

Maduro Requests Lindsay Halligan to Prosecute Him

Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.

Venezuela's Supreme Court Constitutional Chamber announces that Vice President Delcy Rodríguez shall assume and exercise, in the capacity of an interim official, all the powers, duties, and faculties inherent to the office of president of the republic. www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve/t...

JFC. He understands nothing

Sounds legit

More messages than usual from international friends this morning

Reading about it

"51% of the vote in one election does not empower you to destroy a city or culture or society" -- Mark Levin after Mamdani won 50.8% of the popular vote "We have rejected, completely, utterly, undeniably, the Democrat Party" -- Mark Levin after Trump won 49.8% of the popular vote

Tony Dokoupil, the new CBS “anchor.” As in, “someone who'd sink to the bottom unless someone else hauled him to the top.”

Send the weapons and money to Ukraine now, or send ten times the weapons and money to Europe later

2026 will require us to level up our insult game

Jack Smith's deposition video:

Read it all here, Jack Smith's transcript from his Judiciary Committee testimony, courtesy of @annabower.bsky.social

The left says that oligarchs have bought our democracy. They're wrong—oligarchs have bought our republic.

Turns out the DOGE script kiddies weren't so great at coding or at checking their work. I'm amazed anyone tried to tell us that, despite their total lack of training in handling federal datasets, our personal data were somehow secure in the hands of these young men because they were hotshots

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — US government says ICE doesn't plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as judge's order banning it stands.

The Trump administration openly sides with one of the most evil countries on earth and I hope I live to see justice come for any of them

More out of touch rhetoric coming out of the White House. My health insurance premium just went up over $1000 per month. A one time refund of $1K-$2K is not “gignatic”.

Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

These a**holes Two months ago, they were calling the same decline in crime "fake news," and now they are taking credit for it...which is ludicrous They are total clowns

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

States run their elections, not the federal government. This would be wrong even if you concocted a good faith reason for it, and this is the worst faith administration in history. This is very bad stateline.org/2025/12/18/t...

I'm sure I put those million documents around here somewhere. Such an easy thing to miss

Major heads up:

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to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself. Example: “They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”

Grateful to Timothy Burke for posting this. As you watch it, keep tonight's timely news in mind: Judge Boasberg ruled in favor of those deported! He found they were not given due process and ordered their return (or that such process be given) by Jan 5! Link for this next tweet... 1/2

Free link to the WSJ piece about Trump's battleships fancy, courtesy of Robin K

To repeat... “President Trump will announce on Monday a new type of large warship he is calling ‛battleships,' marking a step toward achieving the president’s vision for a new ‛Golden Fleet.'”

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

“When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

12-yo: He's such an iPad kid Me: What's an iPad kid? 12-yo: A kid who fried all his dopamine receptors on his iPad when he was 5 years old and no longer responds to stimuli Me: ...

Huh

Thread

DOJ's Epstein excuses on Xitter and the responding community notes are turning into Matryoshka dolls.

I trust major news organizations, members of Congress, and public interest groups are publicizing their secure tip lines so DOJ and FBI employees with knowledge of political interference in the Epstein files review process, can explain safely and confidentially what they saw.

“The tens of thousands of pages made public omitt[ed] some of the most closely watched materials, including FBI interviews with victims and internal Justice Department memos on charging decisions.” apnews.com/article/epst...

Yes, it’s a coverup by Pam Bondi. But it’s really a coverup by Donald Trump. Bondi is his agent.

Deleted a tweet about the 16 missing files because it might have been a glitch