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January 5, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Another reminder that the assault on scientific funding was broadly unpopular, even within the President's own party
neurograce.bsky.social Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 8h
I'll take it 😎
Funding deal rejects Trump’s push for major science cuts Congressional appropriators released a “minibus” of three bipartisan spending bills today that would pare back the budgets of some science agencies but largely reject Trump’s request for steep cuts. The minibus consists of the Commerce-Justice-Science, Energy and Water Development, and Interior-Environment bills, which cover a substantial portion of federal research funding for fiscal year 2026. The package includes: $24.4 billion for NASA, a 1.6% cut (including $7.25 billion for NASA Science, a 1.1% cut); $8.75 billion for the National Science Foundation, a 3.4% cut; $8.4 billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, a 1.9% increase; $6.17 billion for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, roughly flat funding; $1.42 billion for the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.0% cut; and $1.18 billion to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a 2.3% increase
January 5, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Draw up the articles of impeachment.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Jeffries: "The Constitution isn't a matter of inconvenience. It is a requirement. George Washington in his farewell address to the nation made clear that the Constitution is sacredly obligatory upon all. That means everybody. There is no Trump exception."
January 5, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
How do you “press policy changes” if you don’t have a functioning government with clear and legitimate enforcement mechanisms?
But Rubio offered a more nuanced take, saying the U.S. would continue to enforce an oil quarantine that was already in place on sanctioned tankers before Maduro was removed from power early gaturday and using that leverage as a means to press policy changes in Venezuela._
January 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
It’s going to take a few primaries to change electeds behavior
lordgoogoo.bsky.social DaWeekendStreamr twitch.tv/lord_googoo @lordgoogoo.bsky.social · 9h
The most “vote blue no matter who” people in my life, the most Defend Democrats-minded people I know as recently as the end of 2024 are now exclusively out for blood and demanding Schumer’s resignation and for Dems in Congress to do total obstruction. Its crazy how far from the base the party is
ceej.online ceej @ceej.online · 10h
we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
January 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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carriemelago.bsky.social
40 years ago Peter Asan was convicted of a crime he says he didn't commit. Last week he received a pardon from NY Governor Kathy Hochul. Tomorrow is his next immigration check-in — and he doesn't know what to expect. documentedny.com/2026/01/05/p...
After Prison Time and a Pardon, One Immigrant's Future in the U.S. Still Hangs in the Balance - Documented
40 years ago Peter Asan was convicted of armed robbery. Last week he received a pardon from NY Governor Kathy Hochul. Tomorrow is his next immigration check-in — and he doesn't know what to expect.
documentedny.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
NEW: DOJ, Virginia A.G. manufacture lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants.

Virginia A.G. Jason Miyares is trying to harm undocumented students in his last days in office — but a nonprofit is pushing back.

Today, at Law Dork:
DOJ, Virginia A.G. manufacture lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
Virginia A.G. Jason Miyares is trying to harm undocumented students in his last days in office — but a nonprofit is pushing back. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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akivamcohen.bsky.social
Co-signing this. Grok is out there making CSAM on request from pictures posted to the internet.

And if you posted pictures of your kids to Twitter, you LICENSED Grok to do that. Take those pics down NOW
gamzehyaavor.bsky.social GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 9h
Parents, if you didn't have a problem until now of not posting pics of your kids on public social media, now might be a good time to start (and maybe scrub what's there already).
January 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
We are dealing with the world's most shameless & terrible people.

I'm perfectly fine using these terms to describe the Trump Administration and MAGA movement.

I don't think they are owed any civility or grace based on their actions and behavior.

How do you shame people without shame or decency?
January 5, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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cristianfarias.com
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21.

(Unlocked article below)
At Middlebury, She Hoped to Start Fresh. In Trump’s America, It Seemed Impossible.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.
January 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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normative.bsky.social
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13h
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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jessehawken.bsky.social
Amusing to see DHS ranting about how ICE goons are having their Hilton reservations cancelled, sounds like a First World Problem to me
January 5, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
The media need to stop beating their chests about how powerful our military is.
It's a point of pride when your country has a strong military that keeps the peace.
It's a source of shame when politicians turn your strong military into an international armed robbery gang.
January 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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billmccarthy.bsky.social
Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes www.bbc.com/news/article...
Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes
The BBC has seen several examples of it undressing women and putting them in sexual situations without their consent.
www.bbc.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: More than 300 judges — including 33 appointed by Trump himself — have now rebuffed the Trump administration’s bid to dramatically expand efforts to lock people up while they fight deportation.

www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/trump-administration-immigrants-mandatory-detention-00709494
January 5, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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amywestervelt.bsky.social
Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...
The U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana Oil Triangle
The U.S. interest in Venezuela isn’t just about the oil there, but also about the oil next door in Guyana, and the U.S. oil companies that have staked their future on it.
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January 5, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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bmaz.bsky.social
Pretty hard to square this with freezing the Gang of Eight out for "security".
January 5, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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nytimes.com
“Cuba looks like it is ready to fall.” After U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s leader, President Trump said that Cuba’s days were numbered and that his administration may turn its sights on the island nation next.
After Venezuela, Trump Says Cuba Is ‘Ready to Fall’
The capture of Nicolás Maduro is a devastating blow to the alliance between Venezuela and Cuba. Many wonder if the island nation will be targeted next.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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paulrosenberg.bsky.social
Decades of morally outraged "protect the children" rhetoric & now???
esghound.com Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 20h
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley Just saw a photo that Grok produced of a child no older than four years old in which it took off her dress, put her in a bikini + added what is intended to be semen. ChatGPT does not do this. Gemini does not do this. Another girl who appears to be just 11 or 12 with a brain tumor, Grok removed her shirt completely. Stating that the people producing the prompts are the only ones responsible puts an undue burden on victims, most of which have no idea this is happening. This problem + exploitation of children could be fixed in a matter of minutes by the MechaHitler team.
January 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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owillis.bsky.social
Unanimous Senate confirmation. Unanimous.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why wasn't congressional authorization necessary?

RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
January 5, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Reporter: Did you speak with the oil companies before the operation? Did you tip them off?

Trump: Before and after. They want to go in and they’re going to do a great job.
January 5, 2026 at 2:23 AM