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I get what you're saying. I do think it is a new level of disdain for international law and affect how other nations perceive the US military as well as their willingness to work with us. And it will certainly make for some great anti-American segments on the news in places like Russia and China!
Countdown to the next Supreme Betrayal....
This kind of thing will do long-term reputational harm to the US military.
Would not be the first time. They bombed migrants in Yemen too.
That host is fucking meathead
Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."
That was definitely not written by AI.
Right. Don't put it near NORAD. Put it in a swamp instead. Brilliant. That'll show 'em.
"Why, Richard! You're shaking!" My favorite line.
And what a job! Apparently all he has to do is say "Not today, John." Every single day.
the plot is fascinating with lots of dramatic irony
Trump's contempt for the "hearts and minds" concerns that developed out of American failures in Viet Nam and elsewhere and have been doctrinal features of American military and diplomatic policy for at least 50 years is clear, from moves like this, the treatment of Afghan & Iraqi allies, USAID....
but they need to be racist to get the base energized. see the problem?
They're calling the Venezuelan government a terrorist drug gang and preparing to go to war while treating ordinary Venezuelans like absolute shit. No hearts or minds in this Administration. Should work out great I am sure.
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
whoa
I got a super lame campaign text from him the other day bashing Cuomo and Mamdani. My response was to tell him to resign.
That would make four losses in a row for the Trump full court press. Plus three grand juries returned no bill on their DC prosecutions.
This is an idiotic statement. Putin jumps the shark.
Narrator's voice: "They took it."
So despite no Authorization for Use of Military Force and no possible invocation of the War Powers Act, the U.S. military is now going to be drone striking people alleged to be committing a crime? Again, on what legal authority?
Depressing.
Xi wants to be more like Kim Jung Un but North Korean parades are more impressive. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/w...
Mobsters' Confab chat
ha ha ha was thinking the same
He's finally realizing he's never going to be a member of their club?
Anybody tell the Texas National Guard what Chicago is like in the winter?
hmmm...sounds like cultural marxism to me
This is great and I'm glad he got away but 100% they'll go after his family. That's the way China works. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
Thanks!
This map alone shows this Administration doesn't care about high crime areas. Texas National Guard would have to pass through two states with higher murder rates than Illinois just to get there. But those are red states. And that is the point. This is Trump trying to start a red vs. blue civil war.
I’m not even sure what he’s doing at this point, but one state cannot invade another and that is what this would be if he’s using 502(f). That would be Texas invading Illinois.
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
i am seeing the disappearance of many favorites from my budget's reach
oh that's right we killed it. for reasons.
Why are they screaming in 3 out of 4 pics?
Can i exchange for ammo?
First chapter of your next book!
I thought he was from Brooklyn
I don’t blame them with all the crap this administration is pulling.
So he’s not resigning then
Beautiful September day in downtown NYC. #photography #worldtradecenter #wtc
Michael Wolff is a weirdo but i give him credit for saying what no one else seems to want to admit: RFK Jr’s voice is fucked up because he was a crack smoker. He has a crackhead voice. Thats what he did in college: smoke crack. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Every CDC director going back to the Carter Administration signed this www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Welp… www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
I actually “do” want to miss this kind of garbage and it’s one more reason I don’t need X in my life
“and this is a bad thing.”🤦🏻♂️
It is unbelievable to me that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren do not realize this is not socialism but Trump acting like a mob boss and using the Presidency to give himself, personally, as much power as possible over this country www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Maybe this is why Trump is having a sad? They left him out. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
A handshake steeped in Ukrainian blood.
Totalitarians Unite!
Why hasn't anyone in the press called out to him and asked, "What's going on with that bruise on your hand, sir?" Simple question. It looks like something you would get if you were being treated intravenously. What is he being treated for? They could at least ask.
This is the weirdest story. He was going south, stopped to help the woman, waited for police, continued south to the next exit and then re-entered the highway going north, and was rear-ended while passing the scene of the "domestic" incident? Rubbernecking? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
X is not "the commons". It's more like a billionaire's yacht where you have to pay to be on the deck and ingratiate yourself with the owner in order to stay there.
Subtract me motherfucker!😂😂😂
Proud to be in Nate Silver's loser's column! Woohoo!💪
Gotta admit It's got a great beat And easy lyrics
When I first saw this little dinosaur I thought it was part of the ironwork, a marvelous if a bit impractical artistic flourish. Then I realized it was just a plastic kids’ toy, and I wondered if it had been lost, or if the kid, like me, was impressed with how it blended in, and just left it there.
there was that one this morning getting into the limo
But Democrats in Congress are working to restore UNRWA funding. And you're out here bashing Biden. Congrats.
It's not a joke. People were let go from UNRWA because of their Hamas associations. It's not something UNRWA is proud of. www.npr.org/2024/08/06/n...
Are you standing up for Palestinians? Here is a list of the members of Congress who have sponsored a bill to restore funding to UNRWA. Note which party they belong to. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
That's your assumption. You have no proof of that. If they all slavishly follow Biden's lead why have some of those countries now said they would recognize Palestine as a state? Each country suspended aid pending their own investigation. Each restored aid when they found their concerns addressed.
i feel like a little bug on the sidewalk
If your point is there is no difference for the Palestinians between a Trump Administration and the Biden Administration you're simply wrong & the last six months have borne that out. It is equally true for Palestinians in America as it is for those in Gaza or the West Bank. Trump is worse. Period.
It wasn't just the US that suspended support in 2024. Many other European countries did as well, as did Japan. They were able to quickly restore aid because they didn't have a divided government. Netanyahu hates Biden and he has never concealed that fact. But he absolutely loves Trump. Why is that?
Labor Day Weekend at Bernie’s.
Trump cut off UNRWA in 2018. Biden RESTORED UNRWA funding and sent over a billion dollars until pausing support after a report listed many employees of UNRWA as being Hamas members. When this report was found to be exaggerated, he explored ways of restoring its funding, by then blocked by Congress.
I said what I said. She also wouldn’t have closed USAID which has led to many thousands more dying all over the world, including the Sudan where there is a genocide against black Africans taking place right now funded by the UAE. But go on.
A lie followed by another lie. Zero evidence either statement is true. Gaslighting designed to divide, like everything else he says and does.
She wouldn’t have turned the aid operation over to a bunch of Christian nationalist mercenaries. That alone has led to at least 800 unnecessary deaths. But go on.
Because he “called” 911?
😂🤷🏻♂️
Rice Crispies?
Healthiest Man Alive™️
I can't get excited about American Labor Day. Labor Day is May 1 everywhere else in the world. Our Labor Day is in September specifically to separate American workers from their brothers and sisters abroad, and to deny the role socialists have played in defending workers. I can't support that.
"Hundreds of hospitals and health care centers have been forced to shut down since the Trump administration suspended U.S. foreign aid earlier this year." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Did you guys know master documentarian Errol Morris is here?
I've found a dozen or so new follows this week that are really high quality accounts (unlike mine lol). It makes me happy that good people keep migrating here. Thank you to everyone who has! #bluesky
SUnset from my roof tonight www.instagram.com/p/DOCdSekDXAx/
Nice.
Until we get further details, here’s my cat trying to make sense of the latest Rudy Giuliani episode:
So the guy who crashed into him after he "rendered assistance" was the husband or the father?
Purple Heart at least!
"Mr. Mayor! Mr. Mayor!" she called out. "Will you pass by a woman in distress without offering assistance of any kind?" And to her great wonder, the limousine slowed, the emergency lights came on, and out of the rear door tumbled a completely inebriated Rudy Giuliani.... 😂
"...nursing her bruises, she gazed up at the freeway and saw the familiar limousine of Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani passing by."
If the Lisa Cooks of the world have to take private sector jobs, that will only benefit those companies that hire them. Smart companies should not emulate the mediocrity of the Trump Administration if they want to last long. Those who follow Donnie's racist gang into the gutter will not.
Only in America (but especially in Texas)
anybody got butter?
"When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. He that is not with me is against me...." Luke 11: 20-21
I agree but not my favorite metaphor ever
So many colors in my little guy’s black fur! 🐈⬛🥰 #catsofbluesky
