“Objective of US mission has shifted from fighting drug traffickers to regime change” (Financial Times)
This is EXTREMELY dangerous. Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves & Trump never met a hydrocarbon he didn’t covet. Here’s why it won’t be easy to install a govt & take the oil. 1/

Can I ask, what did the No Kings protest actually accomplish? I mean, in real terms, what have these protests materially changed? I can't help but feel these one off protests are merely a heatsink for energy and anger rather than a path for meaningful change and disruption of the system.

There’s a similar issue with depictions of vampires, right?

It's hard to tell if Clay Higgins earnestly believes in the reptilian conspiracy theory (that powerful people are actually giant reptiles wearing human suits) or if this is just petty trolling, but it's so fucking weird that this is where we're at as a country

A model of President Trump's proposed triumphal arch to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary was seen on the Resolute Desk as the president held a press conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

When asked on Wednesday who the arc is for, Trump told CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe: “Me.”

This makes me sick.
That’s our House, our history.

The fact that it happened today stinks of retribution for Saturday.

A clumpy galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GEMS survey.

It is at redshift 0.96 (lookback time 7.78 billion years) with coordinates (53.20088, -27.67349).

119 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...