🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
@user91317.bsky.social
International Econ enjoyer
Progressive democrat
Progressive democrat
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
So they knew before congress and decided not to leak it but they're totally down with leaking incredibly sensitive information about partner countries like Ukrainian GBAD magazine depth?
(Semafor) - 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 ..
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
January 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM
So they knew before congress and decided not to leak it but they're totally down with leaking incredibly sensitive information about partner countries like Ukrainian GBAD magazine depth?
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
<fascist commits fascist act fascistly>
“wow, this is like if he read a left wing description of fascism and decided to do exactly that. the left wing description of fascism is still wrong tho btw”
“wow, this is like if he read a left wing description of fascism and decided to do exactly that. the left wing description of fascism is still wrong tho btw”
January 4, 2026 at 2:26 AM
<fascist commits fascist act fascistly>
“wow, this is like if he read a left wing description of fascism and decided to do exactly that. the left wing description of fascism is still wrong tho btw”
“wow, this is like if he read a left wing description of fascism and decided to do exactly that. the left wing description of fascism is still wrong tho btw”
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
I was wondering how this might all turn out to have been my fault
January 4, 2026 at 1:59 AM
I was wondering how this might all turn out to have been my fault
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
in a weird way I’m sort of heartened by the day 1 reaction to this? I mean, I know it’s pretty bad from the media and some Dems but I also remember the absolute across the board cheerleading when we went into Iraq and there is genuinely orders of magnitude more pushback today
January 4, 2026 at 4:17 AM
in a weird way I’m sort of heartened by the day 1 reaction to this? I mean, I know it’s pretty bad from the media and some Dems but I also remember the absolute across the board cheerleading when we went into Iraq and there is genuinely orders of magnitude more pushback today
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
Even in the sense that it *is* about the oil, it's not about the oil. Trump doesn't want to build up US oil reserves or counter the Russians or even simply to make money off it. He wants the oil because to him oil is exciting, & vital, & American—our birthright!—the most tangible prize on offer.
January 4, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Even in the sense that it *is* about the oil, it's not about the oil. Trump doesn't want to build up US oil reserves or counter the Russians or even simply to make money off it. He wants the oil because to him oil is exciting, & vital, & American—our birthright!—the most tangible prize on offer.
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
can i be real here? i simply do not believe this happened actually
January 4, 2026 at 4:40 AM
can i be real here? i simply do not believe this happened actually
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
Inside Mamdani’s Decision to Revoke Executive Orders That Backed Israel
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
WELKER: If the purpose of the operation was to capture Maduro and bring him to justice, why does the US need to take over the Venezuela oil industry?
RUBIO: Well, we don't *need* to. We have plenty of oil in the US. We want to see the oil proceeds of the country benefit the people of Venezuela.
RUBIO: Well, we don't *need* to. We have plenty of oil in the US. We want to see the oil proceeds of the country benefit the people of Venezuela.
January 4, 2026 at 3:21 PM
WELKER: If the purpose of the operation was to capture Maduro and bring him to justice, why does the US need to take over the Venezuela oil industry?
RUBIO: Well, we don't *need* to. We have plenty of oil in the US. We want to see the oil proceeds of the country benefit the people of Venezuela.
RUBIO: Well, we don't *need* to. We have plenty of oil in the US. We want to see the oil proceeds of the country benefit the people of Venezuela.
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
okay so they literally expect to run another country by truth social post, I can’t see any way this could possibly go wrong
A former staffer said that U.S. officials would not be performing a formal occupation like in Iraq. “We’re going to tell them: ‘Hey, this is what you have to do in order for there not to be another strike. That’s what [Trump] sees as running the country.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio takes on most challenging role yet: Viceroy of Venezuela
The top U.S. diplomat has pushed for regime change for over a decade. Now the hard part begins.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:22 PM
okay so they literally expect to run another country by truth social post, I can’t see any way this could possibly go wrong
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
“I think it’s wonderful that Mayor Mamdani took measures on day one to reinforce our rights to free speech, which included our right to criticize and oppose Israeli apartheid and genocide,” said YL Al-Sheikh, a Palestinian-American writer
Palestine advocates praise NYC’s Mamdani for revoking pro-Israel decrees
Israeli government hits out at newly sworn-in New York City mayor, falsely calling him a 'Muslim Brotherhood Islamist'.
www.aljazeera.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:30 PM
“I think it’s wonderful that Mayor Mamdani took measures on day one to reinforce our rights to free speech, which included our right to criticize and oppose Israeli apartheid and genocide,” said YL Al-Sheikh, a Palestinian-American writer
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
Ultimately, I refuse to privilege the incarceration status of American (or Israeli) soldiers over the life and humanity of Palestinians, Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, Yemenis, Nigeriens, Syrians, Lebanese, Libyans, Somalis, Pakistanis, or Venezuelans
We all Stan that one Taylor Swift Stan account on Twitter that spent time in jail rather than join the IDF but we can't ask the same of American kids? At least in Israel joining up is mandatory! You literally volunteered for this! You were born as the Iraq war was starting, what did you expect!
January 4, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Ultimately, I refuse to privilege the incarceration status of American (or Israeli) soldiers over the life and humanity of Palestinians, Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, Yemenis, Nigeriens, Syrians, Lebanese, Libyans, Somalis, Pakistanis, or Venezuelans
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
The War Powers Resolution as Congress designed it requires withdrawal if both houses pass a concurrent resolution. SCOTUS gutted that with Chadha, so now it's subject to an inevitable veto. Instead of affirmative approval, presidents in effect only need at least one third in at least one house.
Schumer: "We have the War Powers Act ... if it's voted positively in both houses, then the president can't do another thing in Venezuela without the okay of Congress. Ww have to pass it."
January 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The War Powers Resolution as Congress designed it requires withdrawal if both houses pass a concurrent resolution. SCOTUS gutted that with Chadha, so now it's subject to an inevitable veto. Instead of affirmative approval, presidents in effect only need at least one third in at least one house.
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
Mamdani rescinded every executive order issued by Eric Adams after Adams's indictment, but still the "New York Times" is focusing exclusively on two of those orders that had to do with Israel.
There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.
There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.
January 4, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Mamdani rescinded every executive order issued by Eric Adams after Adams's indictment, but still the "New York Times" is focusing exclusively on two of those orders that had to do with Israel.
There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.
There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
If I were Trump I simply would have simply challenged him to a dance battle administered by a neutral 3rd party
January 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
If I were Trump I simply would have simply challenged him to a dance battle administered by a neutral 3rd party
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
People always seem to forget that hegemony, real, actual, serious hegemony requires discursive and normative buy-in from a critical mass of the populace under its nominal control.
January 4, 2026 at 8:03 PM
People always seem to forget that hegemony, real, actual, serious hegemony requires discursive and normative buy-in from a critical mass of the populace under its nominal control.
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
In the past week, the Trump-Vance admin:
–Bombed Nigeria
–Bombed Venezuela, abducted its leader
–Bombed more ships in the middle of the ocean
–Threatened military action in Iran, Colombia, and Cuba
–Accepted the “Israel Prize” & hosted Netanyahu in Mar-a-Lago (despite his soldiers killing Americans)
–Bombed Nigeria
–Bombed Venezuela, abducted its leader
–Bombed more ships in the middle of the ocean
–Threatened military action in Iran, Colombia, and Cuba
–Accepted the “Israel Prize” & hosted Netanyahu in Mar-a-Lago (despite his soldiers killing Americans)
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 PM
In the past week, the Trump-Vance admin:
–Bombed Nigeria
–Bombed Venezuela, abducted its leader
–Bombed more ships in the middle of the ocean
–Threatened military action in Iran, Colombia, and Cuba
–Accepted the “Israel Prize” & hosted Netanyahu in Mar-a-Lago (despite his soldiers killing Americans)
–Bombed Nigeria
–Bombed Venezuela, abducted its leader
–Bombed more ships in the middle of the ocean
–Threatened military action in Iran, Colombia, and Cuba
–Accepted the “Israel Prize” & hosted Netanyahu in Mar-a-Lago (despite his soldiers killing Americans)
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
The best to ever do it
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 3, 2026 at 9:01 PM
The best to ever do it
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
Also if drug trafficking is a reasonable justification, then wholly domestic drug dealers become foot soldiers in a war against the United States in which they never enlisted, and in which the the US asserts the right to use preemptive lethal violence à la Duterte.
This is really good. One point: as Hathaway says, “If drug trafficking is a reasonable justification, then a whole range of possible arguments can be made that basically mean that self-defense is no longer a real exception.” This is true, and there’s a great example to use in thinking it through.
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
January 3, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Also if drug trafficking is a reasonable justification, then wholly domestic drug dealers become foot soldiers in a war against the United States in which they never enlisted, and in which the the US asserts the right to use preemptive lethal violence à la Duterte.
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...
www.nature.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
The James Cameron blockbuster became one of only three Hollywood movies released in 2025 to gross over $1 billion at theaters worldwide.
‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Reaches $1 Billion Worldwide After Grossing $40 Million At Domestic Box Office
The James Cameron blockbuster became one of only three Hollywood movies released in 2025 to gross over $1 billion at theaters worldwide.
www.forbes.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
The James Cameron blockbuster became one of only three Hollywood movies released in 2025 to gross over $1 billion at theaters worldwide.
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
FARA enforcement on steroids won't be sufficient but it will be necessary
People should really look into the topics (and financial backers) of things like CPAC's foreign editions.
January 3, 2026 at 11:39 PM
FARA enforcement on steroids won't be sufficient but it will be necessary
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
By "some," we apparently mean two, who bravely spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"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 8:41 PM
By "some," we apparently mean two, who bravely spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Reposted by 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
"we can brute force our way past the ideal rocket equation with scale" - the smartest guy on the planet
January 4, 2026 at 8:41 PM
"we can brute force our way past the ideal rocket equation with scale" - the smartest guy on the planet