darthgrimace.bsky.social
@darthgrimace.bsky.social
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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
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VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now.

Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet.

Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"
January 3, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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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
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You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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In fairness Roman senators were more involved in running the empire deep into the reigns of the caesars than our Congress currently is
January 3, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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Not every Chotiner interview is him making some blowhard look foolish. Sometimes he has experts explaining complex situations in clear terms.

Also good discussion of the comparison to Noriega, which was my first question this morning about all this...
January 3, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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“Recoiling from the crudity of global politics-as-property-development while pining for the “rules-based international order”—the reflex of the very centrist international elites that primed the world for Trump and his ilk—is an exercise in futility”
Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explored how the ideology of real estate finds geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a turn to unmediated accumulation, exemplified by the egregious “Gaza development plan.”

proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine
In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...
proteanmag.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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Unconstitutional force. Civilians dead. Congress bypassed. Oil interests front and center.

We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.
January 3, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Not that crazy IMO

➡️ The Republican-run Supreme Court has ruled the President can't be prosecuted for doing crimes in office

➡️ The Republican-run Congress has decided Trump's the boss and they are mere spectators

Historically, tell a guy he's a god-king with no consequences and this is the result
News: Gang of Eight in Congress were only notified about Trump's Venezuela operation after it began, source familiar tells me. That means the heads of the Intelligence Committees in Senate and House were *not* consulted. Just crazy.
January 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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January 4, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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January 3, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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I always assumed this was the case
May 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Imagine someone illegally abducting your nation’s leader and taking them away. Must be nice.
January 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Compare this to Biden leaving Afghanistan & think about what the incentives are for every American politician
everyone on the tv wants you to know that this is good actually
January 4, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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How come when MY clients have paranoid fixations on Satan, computer intelligences that are watching them, and the king-god nature of the president they’re “under arrest” and “incompetent to stand trial” and “suffering methamphetamine psychosis” but when these fuckers do it they get VC money
It is likely that the tech industry has an active and growing methamphetamine problem, which is actually totally fucking obvious if you read anything coming out of the tech industry right now
“Nicotine pouches, which have grown in popularity in recent years, including among Wall Street bankers, have become a go-to stimulant for a subset of tech workers who claim the products help them focus and get through the workday, despite health hazards.”
January 3, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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It feels like certain types of guys are unable to take in information in solitude. It has to be a conversation, explanations tailored to their thought patterns, with someone they perceive as servile to them. They can’t read an email: someone has to tell them what it says, even if it’s incorrect.
If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
January 3, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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I think it's important to keep reminding ourselves that congressional inertia is not normal
Just a reminder: here is all that it took to get president Andrew Johnson impeached.

They introduced this and voted on it. They came up with the exact articles to send to the senate later.
January 3, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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So many people over decades have been called conspiracy theorists for suggesting that U.S. intervention is driven by capitalist interests, and the interests of the oil industry in particular. Now the president just says it outright in press conferences and interviews.
Q: China, Russia, and Iran have interests in Venezuela. How does this operation affect your relationships with them?

TRUMP: In terms of other countries that want oil, we're in the oil business. We're gonna sell it to them. We'll be selling oil.
January 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM