Josey
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Writer, gamer, dog mom. Lurker rather than poster. She/her
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Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.
January 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.
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Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
"But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?"
"But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?"
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
January 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
"But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?"
"But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?"
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Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again
Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints
Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints
January 3, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again
Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints
Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints
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"Tell me it's not doing exactly the same thing!"
Ali Miraj sees similarities between America's actions in Venezuela and Russia's in Ukraine.
Ali Miraj sees similarities between America's actions in Venezuela and Russia's in Ukraine.
January 3, 2026 at 1:52 PM
"Tell me it's not doing exactly the same thing!"
Ali Miraj sees similarities between America's actions in Venezuela and Russia's in Ukraine.
Ali Miraj sees similarities between America's actions in Venezuela and Russia's in Ukraine.
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Venezuela.
Which legitimizes:
Ukraine.
Taiwan.
Will we see a soft (or hard) takeover of Greenland next?
Maybe Canada? Cuba?
Paving the way for Putin in:
Georgia? Moldova?
Estonia? Latvia? Lithuania?
Poland….?
Which legitimizes:
Ukraine.
Taiwan.
Will we see a soft (or hard) takeover of Greenland next?
Maybe Canada? Cuba?
Paving the way for Putin in:
Georgia? Moldova?
Estonia? Latvia? Lithuania?
Poland….?
January 3, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Venezuela.
Which legitimizes:
Ukraine.
Taiwan.
Will we see a soft (or hard) takeover of Greenland next?
Maybe Canada? Cuba?
Paving the way for Putin in:
Georgia? Moldova?
Estonia? Latvia? Lithuania?
Poland….?
Which legitimizes:
Ukraine.
Taiwan.
Will we see a soft (or hard) takeover of Greenland next?
Maybe Canada? Cuba?
Paving the way for Putin in:
Georgia? Moldova?
Estonia? Latvia? Lithuania?
Poland….?
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Something seriously wrong with people trying to deny fact Maduro was a ruthless dictator, as though acknowledging that helps Trump. You can't fight the MAGA cult by becoming a cult yourselves. Facts, truth matter, and so does international law. That's the crisis here. Trump is lawless, like Putin.
January 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Something seriously wrong with people trying to deny fact Maduro was a ruthless dictator, as though acknowledging that helps Trump. You can't fight the MAGA cult by becoming a cult yourselves. Facts, truth matter, and so does international law. That's the crisis here. Trump is lawless, like Putin.
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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Great that Maduro is gone but what’s next? This may not be the end of a regime that’s lasted through both Chavez/Maduro/their henchmen.
Also what do China/ Russia conclude from this for their regions?
What’s clear:
*The ends can’t justify the means.
*You cannot break the law to enforce the law.
Also what do China/ Russia conclude from this for their regions?
What’s clear:
*The ends can’t justify the means.
*You cannot break the law to enforce the law.
January 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Great that Maduro is gone but what’s next? This may not be the end of a regime that’s lasted through both Chavez/Maduro/their henchmen.
Also what do China/ Russia conclude from this for their regions?
What’s clear:
*The ends can’t justify the means.
*You cannot break the law to enforce the law.
Also what do China/ Russia conclude from this for their regions?
What’s clear:
*The ends can’t justify the means.
*You cannot break the law to enforce the law.
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Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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Welcome to 2026. Where the world order as we knew it seems to be over. What next? Taiwan? Greenland? Balkans?
The U.K. must double down on its relationship with the EU. For it is Europe alone that is now leader of the free world.
The U.K. must double down on its relationship with the EU. For it is Europe alone that is now leader of the free world.
January 3, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Welcome to 2026. Where the world order as we knew it seems to be over. What next? Taiwan? Greenland? Balkans?
The U.K. must double down on its relationship with the EU. For it is Europe alone that is now leader of the free world.
The U.K. must double down on its relationship with the EU. For it is Europe alone that is now leader of the free world.
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A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. has captured Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country.
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 AM
A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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Let 2026 be the year when the terrorist empire russia finally collapses.
January 1, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Let 2026 be the year when the terrorist empire russia finally collapses.
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From Geebeebies, no less.
If 90% of Deform UK's online support is Russian Bots, how about extrapolating that to online polling numbers?
If 90% of Deform UK's online support is Russian Bots, how about extrapolating that to online polling numbers?
December 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
From Geebeebies, no less.
If 90% of Deform UK's online support is Russian Bots, how about extrapolating that to online polling numbers?
If 90% of Deform UK's online support is Russian Bots, how about extrapolating that to online polling numbers?
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More convincing than anything we've offered.
December 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
More convincing than anything we've offered.
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By this day in 2002 all Russian soldiers in Moldova and Georgia were promised to be removed.
They were not. But please believe us when we negotiate now about our soldiers in Ukraine.
They were not. But please believe us when we negotiate now about our soldiers in Ukraine.
December 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
By this day in 2002 all Russian soldiers in Moldova and Georgia were promised to be removed.
They were not. But please believe us when we negotiate now about our soldiers in Ukraine.
They were not. But please believe us when we negotiate now about our soldiers in Ukraine.
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If the person is a minor, the assailant did not "sleep with" the victim. The assailant raped the victim.
Do not side with the criminals by softening the words.
Do not side with the criminals by softening the words.
December 31, 2025 at 6:40 AM
If the person is a minor, the assailant did not "sleep with" the victim. The assailant raped the victim.
Do not side with the criminals by softening the words.
Do not side with the criminals by softening the words.
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🗣️ LET’S MAKE CURIOSITY COOL IN 2026
December 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
🗣️ LET’S MAKE CURIOSITY COOL IN 2026
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Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.
December 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.
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Not sure people are getting the real importance of the Russians fooling Trump about the Ukrainians attacking Putin's house. It was to demonstrate just how much they control his thinking--how much he is in their pocket. And it worked.
December 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Not sure people are getting the real importance of the Russians fooling Trump about the Ukrainians attacking Putin's house. It was to demonstrate just how much they control his thinking--how much he is in their pocket. And it worked.
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Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% — a 1% that now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
December 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% — a 1% that now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists.
We need a wealth tax.
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December 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM