Just pointing out that Venezuela is a party to the ICC. That means the ICC has jurisdiction over war crimes committed there, no matter who commits them. Trump and anyone else who started this war can be indicted. (They'll ignore it, of course ... but the next President could extradite them.)

The "illegal" part is starting an unprovoked war. Putting aside US law, Venezuela is a party to the ICC. The ICC has jurisdiction over all war crimes committed there, including the crime of aggression. Trump and anyone else who participated in the invasion can be indicted in The Hague.

Venezuela is a party to the Rome Statute. The ICC has jurisdiction over war crimes committed there, including the crime of aggression. They should investigate and prosecute Trump and anyone else who participated in this abomination.

The next administration can extradite anyone who's charged.

Fun fact: federal judges don't have life tenure, they have "good behavior" tenure. Art III §1 of the Constitution says they can be fired for misconduct, but it's not self-implementing. Congress needs to pass enabling legislation for the Good Behavior clause to define a judicial process to fire them.

There's a late-1990s manga called "Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President" about a Japanese-American senator's 2000 presidential campaign. It was a Japanese artist's view of USA politics, and it's pretty clear he did a LOT of research, but still didn't quite "get" the culture.

Dems could use this if they get control of Congress in '27. Send him big sweeping reform bills bundled with participation trophies and naming stuff after him. See how much he's willing to sign into law in exchange for treats.

(And yeah, impeach him too, but AFTER he's passed their whole agenda.)

American democracy is on life support right now. We'll lose it for good UNLESS your party is prepared to do the legislative equivalent of major surgery on all three branches of government as part of a sweeping program of anti-corruption reforms once you are back in power.

"Guarantee voters they will not have to wait more than 30 minutes in line"

Go to automatic mail-in voting like Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Hawaii, Utah, Nevada, and California have, and you guarantee no lines at all.

Personally, I'd like to see Congress strip the Supreme Court of most jurisdiction beyond the original jurisdiction required by the constitution, and abolish stare decisis in federal courts. That could make it possible to fix Citizens United plus a whole lot of other problems.

Fifth and Main, looking north? Nice work!

I just got rooftop solar in Oregon. Took around 7 months from first request for bids to interconnection. (In fairness, I had to replace the roof as well, so that added some time. But still...)

And that's the problem. State AGs and county DAs could put a lot of these guys in prison if they actually gave a damn about rule of law, but they just stand by and watch while federal goons openly commit felonies on camera in front of multiple witnesses.

Under Washington law, it's first degree robbery per RCW 9A.56.200. If Washington's AG was at all interested in enforcing the law, those thugs could face 20 years in prison. Their federal immunity protects them from state prosecution for making arrests, but not for robbing their victims.

Washington's AG should have those guys arrested and charged under state law for first degree robbery (RCW 9A.56.200). Class A felony, minimum 20 year sentence. Federal agents have limited immunity to state crimes for making arrests, but not for robbing someone of their property while doing so.

We actually had an "Emperor Georgiou's Tea Room" in Portland for a few years. Didn't last, though.

Oh, that's good!