@colortexturedesign.bsky.social
American in London. She/her if it matters. Will never be fully bilingual in metric - feet and Fahrenheit forever.
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Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Is there actually a benefit to leaving a VM now vs getting a staffer on Monday? Can do both but just curious
January 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
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Trump's chief contribution to American politics is revealing that you don't need a respectable veneer for evil, corrupt behavior. You can rob the bank, say you did it because you like money and you'll do it again, and challenge anyone to stop you
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Trump's chief contribution to American politics is revealing that you don't need a respectable veneer for evil, corrupt behavior. You can rob the bank, say you did it because you like money and you'll do it again, and challenge anyone to stop you
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When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.
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So what is the plan, if any, for the “day after” Maduro’s downfall? To leave the Maduro regime in place with a new and more compliant leader?
That is hardly what Venezuelans, who voted for Edmundo González in the rigged 2024 presidential election, want. wapo.st/495KWuH
That is hardly what Venezuelans, who voted for Edmundo González in the rigged 2024 presidential election, want. wapo.st/495KWuH
Opinion | Trump claims the U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela. What’s the plan?
The raid to nab Maduro was brilliantly executed. The aftermath could get extremely messy.
wapo.st
January 3, 2026 at 9:17 PM
So what is the plan, if any, for the “day after” Maduro’s downfall? To leave the Maduro regime in place with a new and more compliant leader?
That is hardly what Venezuelans, who voted for Edmundo González in the rigged 2024 presidential election, want. wapo.st/495KWuH
That is hardly what Venezuelans, who voted for Edmundo González in the rigged 2024 presidential election, want. wapo.st/495KWuH
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We had a good run
2026 could be great. We simply don't know.
January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
We had a good run
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It's kind of funny that just yesterday CBS Evening News made a big show of how it would unapologetically promote the American state... and is today going to cover the government's war crimes while pretending to be some neutral news source.
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
It's kind of funny that just yesterday CBS Evening News made a big show of how it would unapologetically promote the American state... and is today going to cover the government's war crimes while pretending to be some neutral news source.
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I keep seeing people posting like “another capitalist war of imperialism“, and like, no, nobody wants to do this.
one of the dumbest parts of this is the idea that oil producers actually want their holdings in venezeula back, which they do not. it’s a war for oil no one really wants.
January 3, 2026 at 9:16 PM
I keep seeing people posting like “another capitalist war of imperialism“, and like, no, nobody wants to do this.
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i know this is the kind of thing people say you post for clout but i honestly think this makes the planning for the iraq war seem like a model of professionalism and responsibility.
January 3, 2026 at 9:16 PM
i know this is the kind of thing people say you post for clout but i honestly think this makes the planning for the iraq war seem like a model of professionalism and responsibility.
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I keep saying it but chopping down the Presidency’s unilateral powers needs to be the #1 priority of the next real Congress.
January 3, 2026 at 9:08 PM
I keep saying it but chopping down the Presidency’s unilateral powers needs to be the #1 priority of the next real Congress.
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Can it be any more goddamn obvious that this was done as part of a significant deal with major power players in Venezuelan government?
Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Can it be any more goddamn obvious that this was done as part of a significant deal with major power players in Venezuelan government?
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So if there’s oil there, and no Epstein files, our motto is “South America First.”
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
So if there’s oil there, and no Epstein files, our motto is “South America First.”
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When the 4th aspirin kicks in.
January 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
When the 4th aspirin kicks in.
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not a CIA stan in the slightest but I can certainly imagine and appreciate the frustration of those in the clandestine services at this guy, his coterie of bilious, brown-nosing buffoons, and the way they all make their jobs harder and more dangerous in the dumbest fucking ways
January 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
not a CIA stan in the slightest but I can certainly imagine and appreciate the frustration of those in the clandestine services at this guy, his coterie of bilious, brown-nosing buffoons, and the way they all make their jobs harder and more dangerous in the dumbest fucking ways
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Dems should try to impeach... Rubio and Hegseth. Make them sacrifices. Republicans won't touch the Precious but they probably don't care about the minions.
January 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Dems should try to impeach... Rubio and Hegseth. Make them sacrifices. Republicans won't touch the Precious but they probably don't care about the minions.
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IMO "war for oil" frame risks glossing over A) deeper history & politics around the US in LatAm, & B) the fact that the US doesn't actually control its oil companies—we're one of the few major oil producers on the planet where the state doesn't exercise much decision-making power over that industry
January 3, 2026 at 8:37 PM
IMO "war for oil" frame risks glossing over A) deeper history & politics around the US in LatAm, & B) the fact that the US doesn't actually control its oil companies—we're one of the few major oil producers on the planet where the state doesn't exercise much decision-making power over that industry
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the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams
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Folks like to say "twitter is not the real world" but the government is being run by people addicted to it, and who take actions based on how many twitter likes it will generate, and approving comments it will get from their favorite Twitter accounts
January 3, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Folks like to say "twitter is not the real world" but the government is being run by people addicted to it, and who take actions based on how many twitter likes it will generate, and approving comments it will get from their favorite Twitter accounts
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Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
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we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter
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Bukele should basically fear for his life if a Democrat wins the next election but let's be real no foreign leader is actually afraid of Democrats lol, its what makes the whole "Dems will start WW3" so insane as a rhetorical device yet we have an electorate so braindead they fall for it.
I don't have much hope of it actually happening even if/when Dems win back power, but is nice to see one Dem politician bring it up
January 3, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Bukele should basically fear for his life if a Democrat wins the next election but let's be real no foreign leader is actually afraid of Democrats lol, its what makes the whole "Dems will start WW3" so insane as a rhetorical device yet we have an electorate so braindead they fall for it.
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These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver.
This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.
This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.
January 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver.
This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.
This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.
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i don't think kamala harris would have kidnapped maduro in the middle of the night without informing congress
January 3, 2026 at 7:33 PM
i don't think kamala harris would have kidnapped maduro in the middle of the night without informing congress
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Little Marco:
"It's a country run by incompetent senile men."
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(He's talking about Cuba, but ... )
"It's a country run by incompetent senile men."
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(He's talking about Cuba, but ... )
January 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Little Marco:
"It's a country run by incompetent senile men."
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(He's talking about Cuba, but ... )
"It's a country run by incompetent senile men."
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(He's talking about Cuba, but ... )
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NO RULES. THE WORLD ENTERS A NEW ERA
Trumps actions today, kidnapping the leader of a sovereign nation, put on notice every leader everywhere. You no longer have protection in international law, you may simply be detained by any government at any time.The United States and other militarily superior
Trumps actions today, kidnapping the leader of a sovereign nation, put on notice every leader everywhere. You no longer have protection in international law, you may simply be detained by any government at any time.The United States and other militarily superior
January 3, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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