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Venezuela: Our criminal president's latest crime scene - Salon.com
A blatantly corrupt, anti-democratic and illegitimate president stages a criminal coup. He's not named Maduro
www.salon.com
>"we can skip the part where we pretend to be surprised that America has been revealed as a brain-damaged rogue state, > and the part where we emerge from our cocoons and ask each other, is this is really who we are. If we haven’t figured that out by now, we never will"
www.salon.com/2026/01/03/v...
www.salon.com/2026/01/03/v...
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We have to be clear about what the Trump Administration is doing: They are taking basic American virtues and freedoms — the ability to speak truth to power and freely — and turning them into crimes. We must see through this.
January 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
We have to be clear about what the Trump Administration is doing: They are taking basic American virtues and freedoms — the ability to speak truth to power and freely — and turning them into crimes. We must see through this.
We do have the power.
We are paying for everything. Not metaphorically but factually. Every dime in the pockets of any business, fascist oligarch or politician really comes from us. Every use of the military or paramilitary forces is paid by us.
Never forget that we have the power to stop it all.
We are paying for everything. Not metaphorically but factually. Every dime in the pockets of any business, fascist oligarch or politician really comes from us. Every use of the military or paramilitary forces is paid by us.
Never forget that we have the power to stop it all.
January 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM
We do have the power.
We are paying for everything. Not metaphorically but factually. Every dime in the pockets of any business, fascist oligarch or politician really comes from us. Every use of the military or paramilitary forces is paid by us.
Never forget that we have the power to stop it all.
We are paying for everything. Not metaphorically but factually. Every dime in the pockets of any business, fascist oligarch or politician really comes from us. Every use of the military or paramilitary forces is paid by us.
Never forget that we have the power to stop it all.
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Being good requires you to not only feel empathy and guilt but act on it too. It’s hard work in a world designed to reward impulse, indolence, greed, and pride. You must actively be good or drown in the cesspool of evil.
January 9, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Being good requires you to not only feel empathy and guilt but act on it too. It’s hard work in a world designed to reward impulse, indolence, greed, and pride. You must actively be good or drown in the cesspool of evil.
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Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota.
This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.
This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.
January 8, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota.
This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.
This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.
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The Trump administration is excusing murder by ICE using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s regime. These lies are part of the logic of death squads. Govt controls the story & the next murder is easier. And suddenly this is normal and people simply disappear.
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
Maduro in Minneapolis
Murderous Lies
snyder.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
The Trump administration is excusing murder by ICE using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s regime. These lies are part of the logic of death squads. Govt controls the story & the next murder is easier. And suddenly this is normal and people simply disappear.
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
I have to agree with this 100%
It is on us as a country and always has been.
It is on us as a country and always has been.
January 6, 2026 at 9:32 AM
I have to agree with this 100%
It is on us as a country and always has been.
It is on us as a country and always has been.
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Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so.
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
Venezuela: The Precedents
And America: The Future
snyder.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so.
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
>"we can skip the part where we pretend to be surprised that America has been revealed as a brain-damaged rogue state, > and the part where we emerge from our cocoons and ask each other, is this is really who we are. If we haven’t figured that out by now, we never will"
www.salon.com/2026/01/03/v...
www.salon.com/2026/01/03/v...
Venezuela: Our criminal president's latest crime scene - Salon.com
A blatantly corrupt, anti-democratic and illegitimate president stages a criminal coup. He's not named Maduro
www.salon.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:02 AM
>"we can skip the part where we pretend to be surprised that America has been revealed as a brain-damaged rogue state, > and the part where we emerge from our cocoons and ask each other, is this is really who we are. If we haven’t figured that out by now, we never will"
www.salon.com/2026/01/03/v...
www.salon.com/2026/01/03/v...
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.”
~ Edmund Burke
The only thing wrong with this quote is that if you do nothing you are not good people.
~ Edmund Burke
The only thing wrong with this quote is that if you do nothing you are not good people.
December 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.”
~ Edmund Burke
The only thing wrong with this quote is that if you do nothing you are not good people.
~ Edmund Burke
The only thing wrong with this quote is that if you do nothing you are not good people.
1/. It’s not like The US has not done illegal wars before.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then any post-war American president would have been hanged.
Reagan pretty clearly started what we see today.
This GOP moronic authoritarian thing is not new, but a continuation and a vulgarian escalation.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then any post-war American president would have been hanged.
Reagan pretty clearly started what we see today.
This GOP moronic authoritarian thing is not new, but a continuation and a vulgarian escalation.
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
1/. It’s not like The US has not done illegal wars before.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then any post-war American president would have been hanged.
Reagan pretty clearly started what we see today.
This GOP moronic authoritarian thing is not new, but a continuation and a vulgarian escalation.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then any post-war American president would have been hanged.
Reagan pretty clearly started what we see today.
This GOP moronic authoritarian thing is not new, but a continuation and a vulgarian escalation.
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Reposting this because the crimes against humanity by this fascist regime are mounting up on the daily!
If you agree like many others, please repost as well!
If you agree like many others, please repost as well!
October 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Reposting this because the crimes against humanity by this fascist regime are mounting up on the daily!
If you agree like many others, please repost as well!
If you agree like many others, please repost as well!
Loving your country means showing up says Tim Snyder:
snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...
snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...
No Kings — Freedom (video)
Why protest is patriotic
snyder.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Loving your country means showing up says Tim Snyder:
snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...
snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...
What the dingbat demented crime syndicate is really saying when they say they are going after Antifa? They are going after the broad center of American civil society:
snyder.substack.com/p/when-anti-...
snyder.substack.com/p/when-anti-...
When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video)
Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"
snyder.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What the dingbat demented crime syndicate is really saying when they say they are going after Antifa? They are going after the broad center of American civil society:
snyder.substack.com/p/when-anti-...
snyder.substack.com/p/when-anti-...
It seems to me that most Americans do not get how bad this will be. Listen to people who have seen their country fall into authoritarian rule. They know.
Watching an empire crumble is frightening, yet hopeful.
When I was young, Spain, Greece and Portugal were all fascist states. But not today.
Watching an empire crumble is frightening, yet hopeful.
When I was young, Spain, Greece and Portugal were all fascist states. But not today.
August 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It seems to me that most Americans do not get how bad this will be. Listen to people who have seen their country fall into authoritarian rule. They know.
Watching an empire crumble is frightening, yet hopeful.
When I was young, Spain, Greece and Portugal were all fascist states. But not today.
Watching an empire crumble is frightening, yet hopeful.
When I was young, Spain, Greece and Portugal were all fascist states. But not today.
1. This can only be understood if we can try face that it was all there, all along. No shining city on the hill.
It is odd for people who have not been oppressed before to see this quick US descent into depravity.
The lack of talent, or rather sheer insanity of the leadership.
It is odd for people who have not been oppressed before to see this quick US descent into depravity.
The lack of talent, or rather sheer insanity of the leadership.
July 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
1. This can only be understood if we can try face that it was all there, all along. No shining city on the hill.
It is odd for people who have not been oppressed before to see this quick US descent into depravity.
The lack of talent, or rather sheer insanity of the leadership.
It is odd for people who have not been oppressed before to see this quick US descent into depravity.
The lack of talent, or rather sheer insanity of the leadership.
When I am losing faith in America I need stuff like this to pull me back. Grateful for all the American music, without which all would be lost. music.apple.com/se/album/wil...
Wild and Clear and Blue by I'm With Her on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 11 Songs
music.apple.com
May 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
When I am losing faith in America I need stuff like this to pull me back. Grateful for all the American music, without which all would be lost. music.apple.com/se/album/wil...
One of the insulting things about this whole coup thing is the idiocy and sheer lack of talent in this crime syndicate.
Then I am reminded that Hitler did not get to Moscow because they forgot winter gear.
This batch of untalented demented morons may at least get to Moscow, if in a different way.
Then I am reminded that Hitler did not get to Moscow because they forgot winter gear.
This batch of untalented demented morons may at least get to Moscow, if in a different way.
April 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
One of the insulting things about this whole coup thing is the idiocy and sheer lack of talent in this crime syndicate.
Then I am reminded that Hitler did not get to Moscow because they forgot winter gear.
This batch of untalented demented morons may at least get to Moscow, if in a different way.
Then I am reminded that Hitler did not get to Moscow because they forgot winter gear.
This batch of untalented demented morons may at least get to Moscow, if in a different way.
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