Moon setting over the Jura this morning #Geneva

Another Carpathian sunrise. 1/

So a lot of the charges against Maduro are either cocaine importation, which Trump pardoned Hernandez for, or owning machine guns, which is a constitutionally protected right in the US

Ironic that our celebration of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence will be led by a mad king.

I’ve seen the continued repeating of Trump’s claim that the US is reclaiming its stolen oil and no questions on that framing and no explanation of whether that claim is true or not.

As a graduate of HKS last year, I saw my fellow students stop engaging in anything political because of fear of doxing or being rounded up by ICE. I never saw students fearful of disagreeing with a professor on a controversial issue. I usually saw faculty bend over backwards to appear neutral.

This is absolutely correct because a lot of my drumming at church was HEAVILY influenced by bands like Creed, DMB, Pearl Jam, Audioslave (i can do this all day lol)

wait the cubans were directly in Maduro's security detail? that's wild

‼️How incredibly dangerous These are kids covered by Medicaid/CHIP—disadvantaged kids If we don’t have data on vaccine coverage, we can’t identify communities most at risk of harm or death from outbreaks 💀RFK Jr’s anti-vaxx MAHA movement is a death cult Great reporting by @lizszabo.bsky.social👏

Mexico didn't pay for the wall. Tariffs are not paid by China. The invasion of Venezuela is not going to be paid with oil. These are just the promises of a scammer, a grifter made president who knows what a gullible public wants to hear.

10s across the board!!!!!

Literally the only true thing the White House has said about this war.

Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:

This is my deepest take if you want to cut the NYT cooking cord.

Ie: Show me a person who believes that "terra nullius" ("nobody's land"; "a land without a people") exists, and I will show you a colonialist. Such a landscape is found *nowhere* on earth. 5/

My weekly email to my Congressman…

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Another gem: “We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with."

Historians of the Spanish empire: I'm pretty sure that is not what a viceroy does 🤔

Trump is again threatening Denmark and Greenland. The Danish PM Mette Frederiksen had to respond firmly to the White House. Apparently there's no one in the American government who dares to tell Trump that he's totally out of line, so I'm glad our PM does. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The US invades a sovereign nation and kidnaps its president and first lady and a story about it doesn't make the front pages of the four largest newspapers in NC. I know print is increasingly irrelevant but this feels like front page news, and some of the smaller "local" papers know it.

lol as someone who made a similar decision in 2001, and have successfully made the military change my discharge status from code 3 to 1 after being kicked out for refusing to follow orders I am telling you that this is not an informed take you can literally fight legally… you still have rights 😭

It's a recorded "pen pal letter" kinda thing (not a read-out-loud letter, just a ramble conversation-type recording) with music from a kid named Donald in Waukegan, Illinois.

I went by a few of my area’s standing protests and talked with folks. The information lacuna is huge.

Ironically, they’re called “the fighting Irish” because in 1927 Notre Dame students beat the shit out of a bunch of masked Klan fascists who came to South Bend to harass Catholics. www.indianapolismonthly.com/arts-and-cul...

If the Republican Party was an institution suited to hold power in a religiously and culturally pluralistic democracy, it would not allow (let alone encourage) its rising youth to gleefully Hitler post. FWIW, they have now deleted that post with no apology or explanation.

Hitler alleged all sorts of things against the government and leadership of Czechoslovakia. I would advise the "Maduro's no angel" crowd to just stop. Whatever his personal sins and the government's failings, it just isn't the point.

First snake of the year was my lifer Degenhardt's Scorpion-eating Snake (Stenorrhina degenhardtii) found yesterday during my first hike of the year near Cali, Colombia! This is a decently rare species since they spend a lot of time underground, so I'm lucky to have crossed paths with one. #herps 🐍

If a Latin American head of state can be kidnapped, the same can happen to the head of government of a NATO country.

Lewiston? grudging?

Insane how much these people hate their own country

I'm seeing some comments saying stuff like "No US President has ever done anything like the kidnapping of Maduro before" and altho I relate to the outrage behind such a comment, I encourage you to look up the history of United States presidents before you post this

It is precisely because of how ignorant Americans are of our own history that we elected Trump, not once but twice. Absent an empowered congress and principalled SCOTUS, the president is king and there's little you can do about it in the robust police state we've erected the last 23 years.

One cannot help but wonder if the attack on Venezuela is an attempt to distract from this devastating testimony about Trump’s culpability for 1/6 as well as a reminder about his ability to act with apparent impunity.

What Indians thought MAGA wanted them, just because they voted for Trump and pushed BS conspiracies... Sir, you and every other self-hating minority got PLAYED. PLAYED. MAGA is a White Christofascist Organization, y'all are just the help and entertainment. They didn't want you either. 🤣🤣🤣

I put down the phone for seven hours and I thought I misread the bbc news alert when I picked it up. It was always in Trump do something exactly this reckless, lawless, and imperial, but it’s still shocking

wild to see every news outlet use the term "capture" to describe what happened. we're not at war with venezuela! this is *objectively* an illegal kidnapping of a sovereign country's leader

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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

this is a war of aggression. it is illegal under international law, and he has no right to launch it. you might fairly argue that it none of that has constrained him, but laws matter when powerful actors insist they do, and there are powerful actors who could start insisting they do.

Artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping who police stop, how reports are written, where officers patrol and how evidence is analyzed www.axios.com/2026/01/02/a... #ai #crime

How cool and rare is it to catch truly #GoodLight in a bird pic? Every time I do - I name the photo with "good light" or "great light" in it. Did make it easy to quickly find a pic for #BirdOfTheDay #birds #becurious 🪶 Named this "Steller's great light" in my folder. No lies detected.

“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”

"we assume sentience is speech".

The whole thing is amazing

An entire wing of a major American political party bought into a wild conspiracy theory about child sex trafficking in pizza parlors and online furniture warehouses. Meanwhile, the world's wealthiest person is building a sexual abuse device, and politicians do nothing.

Thanks so much to @davidforbes.bsky.social and the team at @transnews.network for giving me the opportunity to speak about my experiences at the nyt, whose work has had such a profoundly negative effect on the lives of all queer ppl.

It was me🤷🏼‍♀️