Mr. Showtime
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Nothing but blue skies from now on.
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free-range imperialism
BREAKING: The U.S. won’t govern Venezuela, but will press changes through an oil blockade, Rubio says, after Trump claims of running the country.
Venezuela live updates: Uncertainty and legal questions remain after US captures Maduro
The Trump administration’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and claims that it will “run” the country are raising stark new questions about the legality of the U.S. actions and its future operations in the South American nation.
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January 4, 2026 at 10:14 PM
free-range imperialism
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It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.
January 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.
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To compound the stupidity, it's important to understand that Venezuela's oil is not economically viable.
It's a lower grade than oil found elsewhere, and it requires special machinery. Venezuela had that, but it's fallen into disrepair.
The cost of transporting it elsewhere to refine is pyrrhic.
It's a lower grade than oil found elsewhere, and it requires special machinery. Venezuela had that, but it's fallen into disrepair.
The cost of transporting it elsewhere to refine is pyrrhic.
January 4, 2026 at 10:38 PM
To compound the stupidity, it's important to understand that Venezuela's oil is not economically viable.
It's a lower grade than oil found elsewhere, and it requires special machinery. Venezuela had that, but it's fallen into disrepair.
The cost of transporting it elsewhere to refine is pyrrhic.
It's a lower grade than oil found elsewhere, and it requires special machinery. Venezuela had that, but it's fallen into disrepair.
The cost of transporting it elsewhere to refine is pyrrhic.
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Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.
NBC's sources said that "the potential mission in Mexico is not designed to undermine the Mexican government." But that's what it will do if the US is doing CIA drone strikes on Mexican soil over the objections of the president.
January 4, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people.
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“I do not defend Maduro. I point at him.
But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries.”
But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries.”
January 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM
“I do not defend Maduro. I point at him.
But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries.”
But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries.”
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This article spends THIRTY THREE PARAGRAPHS quoting mostly reactionaries and genocide activists before conceding, in the thirty fourth paragraph, that Jews and Jewish organizations that helped get Mamdani into office support this decision
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
January 4, 2026 at 7:53 PM
This article spends THIRTY THREE PARAGRAPHS quoting mostly reactionaries and genocide activists before conceding, in the thirty fourth paragraph, that Jews and Jewish organizations that helped get Mamdani into office support this decision
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
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Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
January 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment.
Impeach. Convict. Remove.
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“Before we haul out the trucks and hoses, we’ve sent a formal request to the fire that it rethink its policy of spreading.”
January 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
“Before we haul out the trucks and hoses, we’ve sent a formal request to the fire that it rethink its policy of spreading.”
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See, it’s not hard to denounce this and toe it into the larger pattern of criminality.
Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."
January 4, 2026 at 4:11 PM
See, it’s not hard to denounce this and toe it into the larger pattern of criminality.
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Dana Bash: "Since we saw footage of people clapping, is it not good our mobster pedophile leader kidnaps foreign leaders?"
BASH: There's no question that Maduro was a destabilizing force in the region. People are celebrating in the streets all over. Is it fair to say there's some benefit in him not being in power?
CHRIS MURPHY: What changes? You just heard Sen. Cotton not be able to explain who's running the country
CHRIS MURPHY: What changes? You just heard Sen. Cotton not be able to explain who's running the country
January 4, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Dana Bash: "Since we saw footage of people clapping, is it not good our mobster pedophile leader kidnaps foreign leaders?"
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This is surreal to see with the feeble old president falling asleep behind him
January 4, 2026 at 7:05 PM
This is surreal to see with the feeble old president falling asleep behind him
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Americans call a bad cold "the flu" and then think that is what the flu is
“this is not just the flu” is incorrect, this is what the flu has always been and it is why i am annoying about getting the flu shot. get your kids the flu shot. anyone able to get the flu shot! this is devastating!
January 4, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Americans call a bad cold "the flu" and then think that is what the flu is
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the first question congratulated the administration
A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview:
"If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."
"If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."
January 4, 2026 at 1:59 AM
the first question congratulated the administration
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My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption.
Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort.
Performative public investigations matter.
Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort.
Performative public investigations matter.
Why push for impeachment?
Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate.
The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention.
Performative public investigations matter
Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate.
The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention.
Performative public investigations matter
January 4, 2026 at 9:14 PM
My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption.
Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort.
Performative public investigations matter.
Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort.
Performative public investigations matter.
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I strongly think that next Dem President will have to sit down with the members of the free world, give them tons of weapons, including nukes, with all the seriousness of someone bitten by a zombie and about to turn.
“I…strongly urge the United States to cease its threats against a historically close ally, and against another country and another people who have stated very clearly that they are not for sale.”
Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark, on Trump’s Greenland threats.
Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark, on Trump’s Greenland threats.
January 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I strongly think that next Dem President will have to sit down with the members of the free world, give them tons of weapons, including nukes, with all the seriousness of someone bitten by a zombie and about to turn.
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Someone has to get a class action lawsuit going for this industrial scale revenge and child porn generator
Truly evil stuff with widespread, immediate, and ongoing harm
Truly evil stuff with widespread, immediate, and ongoing harm
I haven't been on X in years.. went into grok's replies. Almost INSTANTLY I see this.
There are THOUSANDS of non-consensual fucking porn images being made of what looks like just scraped instagram photos. This is fucking horrific! What the fuck!!
There are THOUSANDS of non-consensual fucking porn images being made of what looks like just scraped instagram photos. This is fucking horrific! What the fuck!!
January 4, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Someone has to get a class action lawsuit going for this industrial scale revenge and child porn generator
Truly evil stuff with widespread, immediate, and ongoing harm
Truly evil stuff with widespread, immediate, and ongoing harm
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how the fuck can any journalist remain on this fucking website.
January 4, 2026 at 7:37 PM
how the fuck can any journalist remain on this fucking website.
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June 5, 2025: Trump is in the Epstein files!
Jan. 4, 2026: It was great having dinner with that guy from the Epstein files!
Jan. 4, 2026: It was great having dinner with that guy from the Epstein files!
January 4, 2026 at 9:07 PM
June 5, 2025: Trump is in the Epstein files!
Jan. 4, 2026: It was great having dinner with that guy from the Epstein files!
Jan. 4, 2026: It was great having dinner with that guy from the Epstein files!
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"Trump's greatest sin was failing to inform the special little guys in the Senate" is not the genius politics they imagine
In both undergrad (at an evangelical school!) and later in grad school, admittedly 15-20+ years ago now, just war theory (and deep grappling with other thoughtfully held positions such as pacifism) was a big thing. Congress seems primarily concerned about procedures not being followed. Shameless.
January 4, 2026 at 9:13 PM
"Trump's greatest sin was failing to inform the special little guys in the Senate" is not the genius politics they imagine
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I know this is extremely tangential to the LIST OF REASONS WHY PEOPLE SHOULD NOT USE SUBSTACK
But one of them is that even when you use your own domain with them, when someone shares a link from the Substack app, it points to Substack instead of your name/brand
They don’t respect you, the user!!
But one of them is that even when you use your own domain with them, when someone shares a link from the Substack app, it points to Substack instead of your name/brand
They don’t respect you, the user!!
January 4, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I know this is extremely tangential to the LIST OF REASONS WHY PEOPLE SHOULD NOT USE SUBSTACK
But one of them is that even when you use your own domain with them, when someone shares a link from the Substack app, it points to Substack instead of your name/brand
They don’t respect you, the user!!
But one of them is that even when you use your own domain with them, when someone shares a link from the Substack app, it points to Substack instead of your name/brand
They don’t respect you, the user!!
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It's time to retire @schumer.senate.gov and put him out to pasture. He's outlived his usefulness. At the very least, he's outlived the time when his spineless passivity wasn't actively harmful.
Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"
January 4, 2026 at 9:10 PM
It's time to retire @schumer.senate.gov and put him out to pasture. He's outlived his usefulness. At the very least, he's outlived the time when his spineless passivity wasn't actively harmful.
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The Democratic Party should be rejected and dismantled and a workers party should rise in its place. We’ll never get out of this hellscape until the collaborationists are outrightly refused by the masses.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz called Maduro's capture "welcome news" but criticized Trump for "apparently failing to notify Congress beforehand".
This is the neoliberal position in a nutshell: Substantively fine with regime change and imperial power projection, just mad about process.
This is the neoliberal position in a nutshell: Substantively fine with regime change and imperial power projection, just mad about process.
House Democrat calls Trump's Maduro capture 'welcome news' as left labels it 'illegal'
Most Democrats are blasting the Trump administration after the U.S. conducted an operation to capture Venezuela's leader, Nicolás Maduro.
www.foxnews.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
The Democratic Party should be rejected and dismantled and a workers party should rise in its place. We’ll never get out of this hellscape until the collaborationists are outrightly refused by the masses.
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"The United States has the right to defend herself against Greenland" - keir starmer, soon
January 4, 2026 at 8:48 PM
"The United States has the right to defend herself against Greenland" - keir starmer, soon
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I said this during the last term: "If he mentions it more than three times, he means it"
i’ve still seen people not take trump seriously on greenland but i’ve never been more certain he really does want to colonize it
January 4, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I said this during the last term: "If he mentions it more than three times, he means it"
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Written by @annienocenti.bsky.social in Daredevil 283, 1990, "The American Nightmare."
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Written by @annienocenti.bsky.social in Daredevil 283, 1990, "The American Nightmare."