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The spillover effect will be massive—other countries in Latin America will universally oppose an invasion of Venezuela, and the countries with rightwing govts will be demolished in the elections that follow. Some center-left govts will become fully communist.
I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.
This is much very much a “cut of the head and 10 grow back” situation. You can kill Maduro but you’ll never kill Chavismo. Whatever gusano the US govt installs in Venezuela would be run out within a couple of years.
The Venezuelan people are perhaps the most “woke” (complimentary) people you will ever meet. Many are disillusioned with Maduro but realize that the rightwing alternatives are far worse. They have living memories of extreme poverty and are extraordinarily proud of what Chavismo accomplished.
Trump is gonna try to depose Maduro and, even if he “succeeds” at doing so, it will be a major own-goal. The people of VZ are viscerally committed to Chavismo, and this won’t be like coups in Honduras or Haiti or anywhere else in Latin America.
hes definitely incapacitated
“Pee is stored in the balls. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Bad answer
When you cold-call a student who accidentally walked into a class in which they aren't even enrolled...
Says everything you need to know about these cowardly motherfuckers. Being a journalist has come to mean the opposite of what it ought to mean – a pseudo-objectivity that treats both sides as equals has come to fully replace truth.
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Christopher Webb Online
Schatz and Schumer and the rest of their lot will never win another Dem primary. I don’t know much but i do know that.
This website has tens of millions of users (and growing). But @schatz.bsky.social, who has aspirations of being Senate Leader, hasn’t posted here in 2 months. Instead, he reads and posts on Elon’s Nazi website every day.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
This includes immigrants who were here *legally* www.huffpost.com/entry/12-mil...
Happy Labor Day m.youtube.com/watch?v=gj2i...
Some people are taking this post as a joke, but it’s literally true www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/06...
Happy Labor Day 🙂
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
Every recent pic of Trump his mouth is open
Once again looking sickly as hell. And not talking to the media.
Folks: the economy is in great shape, stop asking questions
Happy Labor Day www.pbs.org/video/the-re...
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
I've had "Justice for Herman Cain" in my backpocket for 5 years, ever since Trump killed him with covid.
Folks: the economy is in great shape, stop asking questions
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
POLL: Trump suffered: 1) a stroke 2) heart attack 3) testicular implosion 4) broken heart
Wtf
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
It's funny how much this is literally just "cancel culture"
not the first person to make this observation but its rules that the "i wont let my body temple be defiled by putting seed oils or processed food in it" people and the "let me go behind the gym to inject these steroids i bought from a guy i met here" people have merged into the same group.
Mine:
Are their leaders of Judaism? Apologies but forgot they existed because of their deafening silence.
Please post the gif or meme you plan to post when Trump dies
Your typical Jewish person in America has condemned Israel 10x louder than the leaders of Judaism. The internal fallout/reckoning from this is going to be on par with the Catholic sex abuse scandals.
Refreshing to hear a high-profile Jewish person acknowledge that committing a genocide under a flag with a Star of David increases antisemitism bsky.app/profile/crim...
Dont forget the children’s lawyers, who’ve been awake twice as long working twice as hard
Judge Sooknanan and her team have been working for almost 22 hours straight now. I imagine they will stay up till the last child has been returned (2 more hrs?). That puts them at 24 hours straight defending the rule of law & protecting the children. #DOJ #ICE
The loo? It’s down the hall, through the block buster room next to the friends door, it you hit the trapdoor foam pit you went too far:; oh and it takes 8.5 doors to get into
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
She was arrested on the morning of Feb. 20 at her home in Charlotte while caring for her three younger siblings — the youngest of whom has autism — while her mother was at work.
Unemployment for Black Americans has surged to 7.2%, the highest level since October 2021, when the job market was still recovering from the pandemic. The drop in employment is a warning sign. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
"NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE" said the man who hasn't allowed a White House press pool reporter within 20 yards of him for nearly a week
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
This is a bad example, because Georgia likely *will* comply with Trump’s demands and impose voter ID. As for other states, Johnson/Thune may refuse to seat Democrats who win based on any number of pretextual legal reasons
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
So Canada isnt much larger than the US—it just appears so much larger because of its latitude. I feel very dumb that im just learning this
Perspective.
Nationwide nurses strike until RFK is gone. Let’s do it. www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
the thing that was terrifying to them about FDR wasn't so much the policies themselves (which were, of course, far short of socialism or communism) but that they were incredibly popular and lead to electoral dominance until FDR's death (and even somewhat after)
The Epstein files are not in Venezuela
He knows he’ll be rewarded with a federal circuit court judgeship soon.
Correct. Also, the photos taken yesterday show his face bloated as hell. Something is definitely going on with Trump’s health. bsky.app/profile/jona...
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
An artist's rendering of what Rudy looked like while driving just before the accident
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
This is the way
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
More confirmation that Trump did not set foot on a golf course today. bsky.app/profile/paul...
Whats funny about this is that the post conspicuously fails to specify *when* Trump golfed with Gruden. So if/when he gets caught, Trump’s people will claim that the media is being hysterical, bc he never said he was golfing with Gruden *today* bsky.app/profile/pale...
trump didn’t actually golf! i fuckin knew it!!!!
More AI slop. Why do you feel the need to post this weird shit every day
So Trump def posted a week-old photo to try to claim he’s really golfing, didnt he
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
It's entirely possible that the photo is old. But it's also very likely that Gruden just golfs a lot and also has a favorite golf shirt.
I think it might be today for several reasons: 1. He wore a white hat today. 2. I did a reverse image search and that photo wasn’t online before today. 3. He typically takes photos standing next to his golf partners. I think he’s seated because his health is bad and doesn’t want visual scrutiny.
I’d bet Trump knows people are posting about how he’s on his deathbed.
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
Judge Sooknanan continues her monologue: And so, absent action and intervention by the court, all of those children would have been returned to Guatemala, potentially to extremely dangerous situations.
Judge Sooknanan: And I tried to reach the government. I have been up since then..and didn't reach anyone from the government until later this morning. And the imminence that the plaintiff claimed proved true, because, in fact, those planes *were* loaded. One actually took off and was returned.
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
The Epstein files are not in Venezuela
Donald the Dove flies again
I can
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has just signed an executive order to firmly oppose Trump's federal presence and actions in the city.
Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social
“It stops in Chicago” - Brandon Johnson. Very proud to have door knocked to help elect this mayor
The platypus is adorable. But also venomous. And it is a mammal. But it lays eggs. This is a not a real animal, sorry.
Beavers pause while chewing trees to listen for movements so that the tree doesn't fall on them.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
So far ive seen no one in mainstream media question why Trump was inexplicably missing for 2 days and suddenly reappears without speaking to the media and looking like his face gained 10 lbs.
Did anyone actually see Trump golf today? Being photographed at the Clubhouse, on a fairway, or by your cart, does not mean you are playing golf. ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-spotte...
Trump at his golf club today. He hid from the public for days and won’t let the press pool near him.
Yes yes yes, the “Trump is actually dead” rumor has gone mainstream
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
hmm seems like widely available vaccines might be a good idea
Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
Jerad Walker 
