Kindler
@kindler.bsky.social
After decades working in public policy on sustainability, gaining advanced degrees in Poli Sci & Environmental Policy, blogging on Virginia politics at Blue Virginia and more, I’ve launched my own journal on Substack (https://kindler.substack.com)
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This isn’t the Monroe Doctrine, this is the Karen Doctrine. Showing up to a place, acting like you own it, making a scene, being upset at anyone who isn’t white, and leaving it in shambles just because you can. It’s not colonization it’s Karenization.
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 2:16 AM
This isn’t the Monroe Doctrine, this is the Karen Doctrine. Showing up to a place, acting like you own it, making a scene, being upset at anyone who isn’t white, and leaving it in shambles just because you can. It’s not colonization it’s Karenization.
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I want to remind everyone that the US has sanctioned members of the International Criminal Court for going through a formal legal process to identify international leaders who engaged in war crimes, making them vulnerable to arrest.
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.
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
January 4, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I want to remind everyone that the US has sanctioned members of the International Criminal Court for going through a formal legal process to identify international leaders who engaged in war crimes, making them vulnerable to arrest.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Is the United States running Venezuela right now?
RUBIO: What we are running is the direction this is going to move moving forward.
Absolute soup
RUBIO: What we are running is the direction this is going to move moving forward.
Absolute soup
January 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
STEPHANOPOULOS: Is the United States running Venezuela right now?
RUBIO: What we are running is the direction this is going to move moving forward.
Absolute soup
RUBIO: What we are running is the direction this is going to move moving forward.
Absolute soup
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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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“The report makes clear that Mar-a-Lago was crucial to Epstein’s sexual predation, a fact that was well-known by Trump’s inner circle long before Epstein was charged with any crime.“ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Mar-a-Lago Was Key to Jeffrey Epstein’s Criminal Enterprise
New reporting shows that Trump’s split with his pedophile friend was opportunistic.
www.thenation.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:39 PM
“The report makes clear that Mar-a-Lago was crucial to Epstein’s sexual predation, a fact that was well-known by Trump’s inner circle long before Epstein was charged with any crime.“ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Yes, call your elected representatives in Washington, but also:
Show up to a community board meeting. Run for for school board. Organize your neighbors. There's a lot of manageable things you can do. Everything helps.
Show up to a community board meeting. Run for for school board. Organize your neighbors. There's a lot of manageable things you can do. Everything helps.
January 4, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Yes, call your elected representatives in Washington, but also:
Show up to a community board meeting. Run for for school board. Organize your neighbors. There's a lot of manageable things you can do. Everything helps.
Show up to a community board meeting. Run for for school board. Organize your neighbors. There's a lot of manageable things you can do. Everything helps.
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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Friendly reminder that W's Iraq invasion had 65% bipartisan approval when it started, even with debate about whether or not Saddam Hussein actually had WMDs. So the fact that this can't even crack 60% within the GOP is telling. 60% own-party support would typically kill a policy immediately.
Jan 3 poll of 1,902 U.S. adults (+/-2.8 points)
% who support | oppose the U.S. running Venezuela following the U.S. military's capture of President Nicolás Maduro
U.S. adults 34% | 41%
Democrats 16% | 64%
Independents 26% | 43%
Republicans 60% | 16%
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
% who support | oppose the U.S. running Venezuela following the U.S. military's capture of President Nicolás Maduro
U.S. adults 34% | 41%
Democrats 16% | 64%
Independents 26% | 43%
Republicans 60% | 16%
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
January 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Friendly reminder that W's Iraq invasion had 65% bipartisan approval when it started, even with debate about whether or not Saddam Hussein actually had WMDs. So the fact that this can't even crack 60% within the GOP is telling. 60% own-party support would typically kill a policy immediately.
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MY NEXT SONG IS, “I CAN’T RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES BECAUSE OF THE WAR IN VENEZUELA!”
January 4, 2026 at 2:48 AM
MY NEXT SONG IS, “I CAN’T RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES BECAUSE OF THE WAR IN VENEZUELA!”
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Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela
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Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.
January 4, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.
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What JD Vance really means by this is that Maduro is bound by US laws but Trump is not.
January 3, 2026 at 8:38 PM
What JD Vance really means by this is that Maduro is bound by US laws but Trump is not.
“Where will this go next? Will the President deploy our troops to protect Iranian protesters? To enforce the fragile ceasefire in Gaza? To battle terrorists in Nigeria? To seize Greenland or the Panama Canal? To suppress Americans peacefully assembling to protest his policies?“ @kaine.senate.gov
… Tim Kaine: “a sickening return to a day when the United States asserted the right to dominate the internal political affairs of all nations in the Western Hemisphere”
www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releas...
www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releas...
Kaine Statement on Trump Administration’s Unauthorized Military Attack on Venezuela | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and a...
www.kaine.senate.gov
January 3, 2026 at 8:38 PM
“Where will this go next? Will the President deploy our troops to protect Iranian protesters? To enforce the fragile ceasefire in Gaza? To battle terrorists in Nigeria? To seize Greenland or the Panama Canal? To suppress Americans peacefully assembling to protest his policies?“ @kaine.senate.gov
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Allow me to connect some dots for you:
Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more.
Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.
Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more.
Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.
January 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Allow me to connect some dots for you:
Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more.
Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.
Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more.
Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.
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… Ed Markey: “illegal act of war”
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
… Ed Markey: “illegal act of war”
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Sen. Foreign Rel. ranking member Shaheen condemns attack:
January 3, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Sen. Foreign Rel. ranking member Shaheen condemns attack:
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fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
January 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
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What I am saying here is every self-righteous Federalist Society type who is not loudly calling for the president’s impeachment is a bootlicking little bitch whose opinions about the law and the Constitution you never need to take seriously again
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
What I am saying here is every self-righteous Federalist Society type who is not loudly calling for the president’s impeachment is a bootlicking little bitch whose opinions about the law and the Constitution you never need to take seriously again
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Our country is run by oil billionaires who need more super yachts
January 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Our country is run by oil billionaires who need more super yachts
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So if you’re Venezuelan and in the U.S., we’re kidnapping you and flying you back to Venezuela.
And if you’re Venezuelan and in Venezuela, we’re kidnapping you and flying you to the U.S.
And if you’re Venezuelan and in Venezuela, we’re kidnapping you and flying you to the U.S.
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
So if you’re Venezuelan and in the U.S., we’re kidnapping you and flying you back to Venezuela.
And if you’re Venezuelan and in Venezuela, we’re kidnapping you and flying you to the U.S.
And if you’re Venezuelan and in Venezuela, we’re kidnapping you and flying you to the U.S.
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Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
January 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
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three days into 2026 and our authoritarian government has already launched a violent racist propaganda campaign against taxpayer funded childcare (with the help of our garbage press) and illegally invaded a foreign country (with the help of our garbage press)
January 3, 2026 at 2:45 PM
three days into 2026 and our authoritarian government has already launched a violent racist propaganda campaign against taxpayer funded childcare (with the help of our garbage press) and illegally invaded a foreign country (with the help of our garbage press)
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wild to see every news outlet use the term "capture" to describe what happened. we're not at war with venezuela! this is *objectively* an illegal kidnapping of a sovereign country's leader
January 3, 2026 at 2:25 PM
wild to see every news outlet use the term "capture" to describe what happened. we're not at war with venezuela! this is *objectively* an illegal kidnapping of a sovereign country's leader
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Meanwhile, as IR research since Iraq shows, regime change unleashes unpredictable forces with terrible consequences. What will this mean for the region, for migration, for Chinese interests in Latin America, and how mad is Xi? 5/ bsky.app/profile/did:...
A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
January 3, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Meanwhile, as IR research since Iraq shows, regime change unleashes unpredictable forces with terrible consequences. What will this mean for the region, for migration, for Chinese interests in Latin America, and how mad is Xi? 5/ bsky.app/profile/did:...