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J. Otis
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Tulsa Attorney ⚖️• Tiefling Sorcerer 😈• Mi Cocina Superfan 🌮• Public Defender Vibes 🦸‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 *Opinions are my own and I never asked for yours*
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Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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It’s all so so so stupid
January 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Democrats are still busy trying to figure out how strongly to word a letter
January 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I woke up before my husband and I straight up stared at him until he woke up and checked his phone.
NGL, it's kind of fun watching the folks in time zones behind you wake up to the news.
January 3, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Let’s say I wake up this morning in Greenland…how nervous am I? A bunch nervous?
January 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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thinkin abt that 99-0 senate confirmation vote on rubio as one does
January 3, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Girl..........
Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado: "We are ready to take over government" in Venezuela. -Bloomberg
January 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”

zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...
Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
zeteo.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Whether you voted for him or not, we are all responsible for this. We, collectively, did not rise to the moment. We were complicit.
January 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Where’s this smut book?
January 3, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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you cannot blockade a country and bomb its capital cities and capture its leader without being at war with it, is the thing
Are we at war with Venezuela?!?

I don't know. You don't know either.

It sure would be nice to have a legitimate Pentagon press corps right about now.
January 3, 2026 at 10:23 AM
We are the bad guys.
President Trump said on Saturday that the U.S. had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 3, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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I can't believe the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do this.
January 3, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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Colombia mobilizes its armed forces amid concern about a potential "massive influx" of refugees fleeing Venezuela after the US attacks. President Gustavo Petro is calling for an emergency session of the UN security council to discuss this"aggression against the sovereignty of Venezuela."
January 3, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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We have to impeach him.
January 3, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”
January 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Under a new California law, all official reports by state law enforcement agencies prepared with the help of AI now require a statement explicitly saying so—and require an audit trail.
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa... cc: @profferguson.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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As tribes struggle to protect their heritage, the nation’s leading state archaeologist says she lacks the authority to stop development projects.

buff.ly/UXqX92d
Washington approves over 99% of archaeological permits, records show - High Country News
As tribes struggle to protect their heritage, the nation’s leading state archaeologist says she lacks the authority to stop development projects.
www.hcn.org
January 2, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Is the “counter-majoritarian check” in the room with us now, John?
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 3d
Chief Justice John Roberts touted the independence of the federal judiciary as a “counter-majoritarian check” and urged Americans rattled by partisan politics to keep faith with the Constitution. https://cnn.it/3LsloyF
January 1, 2026 at 3:11 PM
It’s a good day to watch Trump lose and/or give up on multiple legal battles. 🫡
December 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Fuck you, 2025
December 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Husband: I’m gonna watch Heated Rivalry

Me: the gay hockey smut show? I’ll pass.

Also me:
December 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Hey you know what this year fucking sucked.
December 31, 2025 at 4:19 AM