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Great Zeidler's Ghost!
@zeidler.bsky.social
If I'm not rambling socialist musing to my students, I'm with family, friends, and/or sitting on a bike saddle turning that crank.

Father, husband, MPS teacher, cyclist, unionist, socialist, Christian atheist, retro gamer.
MAGA: Lovers of democracy.
January 5, 2026 at 9:20 PM
The fact they're flaunting that the US is taking the oil, coupled with the fact that oil's value is on a steady decline tells me that this isn't simply about oil extraction.

If the US thinks maximizing production is lucrative, their understanding of econ isn't even at a high school level.
January 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM
"Social media or podcasts"

🤔
January 5, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Most the Democrats I've seen say, "glad this happened, but I'm outraged Congress wasn't included!"

They don't care about morality, they only care about sustaining the immoral institutions.
January 5, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Maybe we'll get some PS5 games after all.
January 5, 2026 at 9:03 PM
They were literally kidnapped, forced into slavery,forced to convert to Christianity and generated incalculable wealth.
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
So much for this being a "law enforcement mission".
January 5, 2026 at 7:04 PM
January 5, 2026 at 6:57 PM
When the story was that it was only liberals...
Or when they believe Congress would never vote to release the files...

That's when it was okay to be concerned.
January 5, 2026 at 6:56 PM
12:19 AM ;)
January 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Uh huh....
January 5, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Miller is one of those people who thinks they know what neoliberalism is, and uses it to try to sound smarter. What he seems to loathe is social liberalism.
January 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I feel like it's a euphemism for words people would rather not accurately define. Propaganda, opinion pieces, thought injections, manufacturing consent, etc.
January 5, 2026 at 5:25 PM
The fact that his "war room" prioritized monitoring Twitter is telling.

Posing for pics with Maduro... all I could think was "we did it for the clicks".
January 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Flooding the market when it's already $50 a barrel in the hopes of profiting... Either they're really THAT dumb, or this isn't the goal.
January 4, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I love how the false pretext of "drugs are bad" has instantly vanished as our fascist media beats the drum for the state.
January 4, 2026 at 2:44 PM
LOL
January 4, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Can we finally admit, liberalism and their leaders are inept or complicit? All of this feeds capital. The thing that both Trumpism and liberalism are aligned with.

I'm old enough to remember Juan Guaidó and how most US politicians decided he was President. Democrats want this too.
January 4, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Posting a Charlie Kirk quote will get you fired.
January 4, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Abundance liberals: "Let's fix the problems that neoliberalism created with more, higher-tech neoliberalism. Surely we can consume our way out of this!"
January 4, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Oil prices are dropping, so the US decides to go to war when it's only $50/barrel? (It was $120 less than 4 years ago.)

My theory is this is what they'd like us to think, whereas I wonder if they don't want to oil itself. They want control over an OPEC country to manipulate oil prices themselves.
January 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Obama did this to Lybia.
January 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
This is what they wanted as well, they'll just pretend to be upset that he didn't go to Congress first.

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz already posted this exact sentiment while she calls for more involvement and violence.

wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documen...
Wasserman Schultz on Maduro’s Capture
The capture of the brutal, illegitimate ruler of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, who oppressed Venezuela's people is welcome news for my friends and neighbors who fled his violent, lawless, and disastrous ...
wassermanschultz.house.gov
January 3, 2026 at 2:51 PM