Pat
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Well at least that one lady's 23-year old child soldier didn't get sent to Leavenworth. That's what matters.
So we now appear to be up to at least 80 Venezuelans killed.
For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 4, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Well at least that one lady's 23-year old child soldier didn't get sent to Leavenworth. That's what matters.
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Your biggest mistake in reading the "War on Drugs" is assuming that the CIA is fighting against drugs. It's a war on brown people and for 60 years now the US Government has been fighting on the side of drugs.
A 2023 analysis of the effects of CIA-sponsored regime change in five Latin American countries found the interventions caused “large declines in democracy scores, rule of law, freedom of speech, and civil liberties.” interc.pt/4sinphB
January 4, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Your biggest mistake in reading the "War on Drugs" is assuming that the CIA is fighting against drugs. It's a war on brown people and for 60 years now the US Government has been fighting on the side of drugs.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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I feel like an underdiscussed aspect of this as a motivating factor is that this administration just fucking hates Latinos, just immensely hates Latinos for no goddamn reason.
January 4, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I feel like an underdiscussed aspect of this as a motivating factor is that this administration just fucking hates Latinos, just immensely hates Latinos for no goddamn reason.
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I feel like letting every president of my lifetime get away with Unlimited War Crimes was a serious mistake
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
I feel like letting every president of my lifetime get away with Unlimited War Crimes was a serious mistake
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![Twin peaks. Top image, Dale Cooper "what year is this"
Bottom image: Laura Palmer [screaming]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4leynpl63ctgmnkh55oittb2/bafkreiaggrfpz67zvmcavsjucfh3s7afvydmfykhgqsega4qn7v6eqytqy@jpeg)
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The most inept people alive. Replace the dems with the staff of a local water park and we'll see more progress.
Some Democrats hate that their party is largely positioning itself in opposition to the operation that resulted in Maduro's capture.
"Everything Trump touches must be bad according to the base," one House Dem told @axios.com
Said another: "It looks weak." www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
"Everything Trump touches must be bad according to the base," one House Dem told @axios.com
Said another: "It looks weak." www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
"It looks weak": Some Democrats want their party to shut up and clap for Maduro's capture
"Everything Trump touches must be bad according to the base," fumed one House Democrat.
www.axios.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
The most inept people alive. Replace the dems with the staff of a local water park and we'll see more progress.
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You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."
January 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty
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If you can stomach saying “even though this action was illegal it’s still good for Venezuela that he’s gone” you should be able to say something similar about Charlie Kirk
January 4, 2026 at 1:49 PM
If you can stomach saying “even though this action was illegal it’s still good for Venezuela that he’s gone” you should be able to say something similar about Charlie Kirk
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Thinking about this and the Polymarket stuff at the same time and frowning
🟡 NEW: The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Thinking about this and the Polymarket stuff at the same time and frowning
Been saying this for years! The only right anyone has in the eyes of the US gov't is the right to be killed
it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
January 4, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Been saying this for years! The only right anyone has in the eyes of the US gov't is the right to be killed
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"Old men fighting forever wars because they can't imagine a world without them in it" is basically the throughline of the MGS franchise. MGS3 has a boss fight with a man who is so old that one of the ways to defeat him is *letting him die of old age* www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy2c...
January 4, 2026 at 3:53 AM
"Old men fighting forever wars because they can't imagine a world without them in it" is basically the throughline of the MGS franchise. MGS3 has a boss fight with a man who is so old that one of the ways to defeat him is *letting him die of old age* www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy2c...
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Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
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now more than ever:
October 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
now more than ever:
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Asked if he supports Congress using its power of the purse to hold Trump accountable for Venezuela, Chuck Schumer replies: "Let's first get the facts."
January 4, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Asked if he supports Congress using its power of the purse to hold Trump accountable for Venezuela, Chuck Schumer replies: "Let's first get the facts."
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If Congress doesn't wish to be regarded as a body of impotent losers it's just going to have to get up and use its powers.
He's definitely counting on Jan. 6 ptsd to strike a lil paralytic fear. Time to find real some real courage.
He's definitely counting on Jan. 6 ptsd to strike a lil paralytic fear. Time to find real some real courage.
January 4, 2026 at 12:31 AM
If Congress doesn't wish to be regarded as a body of impotent losers it's just going to have to get up and use its powers.
He's definitely counting on Jan. 6 ptsd to strike a lil paralytic fear. Time to find real some real courage.
He's definitely counting on Jan. 6 ptsd to strike a lil paralytic fear. Time to find real some real courage.
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we are living through a real reminder of why Harris embracing the Cheneys was a bridge too far for a lot of Democrats who got very yelled at for looking a gift horse in the mouth
Dick Cheney must be jealous as hell from hell right now.
January 3, 2026 at 11:41 PM
we are living through a real reminder of why Harris embracing the Cheneys was a bridge too far for a lot of Democrats who got very yelled at for looking a gift horse in the mouth
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“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.