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McDaragh
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"Somebody will surely stop this" says society based on sloughing off responsibility and accountability at any opportunity.
There was literally fucking video of the entire incident from multiple angles.
An ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Local and federal officials were immediately divided on how the shooting unfolded.
Here's what to know.
Here's what to know.
What We Know About the Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Officials in Minnesota have disputed federal accounts of the shooting that killed a 37-year-old woman on Wednesday.
nyti.ms
January 8, 2026 at 11:26 AM
There was literally fucking video of the entire incident from multiple angles.
A reminder that when folks like @radiofreetom.bsky.social say this isn't a fascist regime they mean it isn't fascist for people like them
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
A reminder that when folks like @radiofreetom.bsky.social say this isn't a fascist regime they mean it isn't fascist for people like them
Every person who contributed to making this should be ruthlessly punished when circumstances allow.
January 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Every person who contributed to making this should be ruthlessly punished when circumstances allow.
Glad that Dave Weigela is calling this straightforward lie a lie. It would be better if Semafor did a column about how Fox News lies to it's audience and why this is a Problem
The insistence of Fox hosts in pushing the "Maduro sending fentanyl" lie is remarkable. When the DOJ doesn't argue that in the trial, will they just pretend it did?
Not crazy to say there was a much clearer criminal case against MBS, who ordered the murder of an American newspaper columnist, than there is against Maduro.
January 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Glad that Dave Weigela is calling this straightforward lie a lie. It would be better if Semafor did a column about how Fox News lies to it's audience and why this is a Problem
A reminder that all congressional Republicans are by definition profoundly terrible human beings and we only really need to be concerned with how many of them are present and voting
January 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
A reminder that all congressional Republicans are by definition profoundly terrible human beings and we only really need to be concerned with how many of them are present and voting
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Look, things are bad and, given the direction of travel the last ~20 years, Europe definitely should have been more ready to decouple from America. Still, the fact that Europe isn’t prepared for a war with the US isn’t some grand failing.
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Look, things are bad and, given the direction of travel the last ~20 years, Europe definitely should have been more ready to decouple from America. Still, the fact that Europe isn’t prepared for a war with the US isn’t some grand failing.
Nah - reinstate him to uniform then court martial him for murder, treason and any other capital crime you can nail him on.
I want whatever Democrat is next in office to have Hegseth publicly cashiered.
This is a slap on the wrist.
January 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Nah - reinstate him to uniform then court martial him for murder, treason and any other capital crime you can nail him on.
Just profoundly economically illiterate horseshit.
A very long and important THREAD -
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
January 4, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Just profoundly economically illiterate horseshit.
Corbyn literally appeared on a platform recognising Crimea as Russian prior to the start of the war and had less than nothing to say about it's intervention in Syria. His line about Venezuela is a sick joke given Maduro blatantly rigged the elections. This is farcical horseshit.
Corbyn, whatever his other faults, is a consistent anti-imperialist, which is why his stance was the same re Latin American, Diego Garcia and Palestine. As he put it, "only Venezuelans have the right to decide their own destiny". Accusing him of being a Chavez-lover (or a Putin-lover) is just lazy.
January 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Corbyn literally appeared on a platform recognising Crimea as Russian prior to the start of the war and had less than nothing to say about it's intervention in Syria. His line about Venezuela is a sick joke given Maduro blatantly rigged the elections. This is farcical horseshit.
Apparently the UK defence secretary gave the order to invade Ukraine now.
I myself didn’t think the Russians would invade, not because I think they’re a great bunch of lads, but because it was insanely destructive and disastrous *even if you are a Russian nationalist wingnut*. But! I am not the defence secretary, and it was The Sensibles who were in charge all these years
January 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Apparently the UK defence secretary gave the order to invade Ukraine now.
The problem is that Corbyn and his cohort thought Chavismo was great and Maduro should be defended on the merits, whereas the problem opponents of Trump have at the moment of that getting rid of him in the abstract is very popular.
January 4, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The problem is that Corbyn and his cohort thought Chavismo was great and Maduro should be defended on the merits, whereas the problem opponents of Trump have at the moment of that getting rid of him in the abstract is very popular.
I'm 90% certain that "lock down Florida electorally" was a big part of why yesterday happened, and it would be incredibly funny if it ended up creating a massive electoral backlash
"Venezuelans at celebration parties in Miami could not believe it, insisting that Trump had misspoken. His plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations."
Donald Trump wants to run Venezuela, and dominate the western hemisphere
Snatching Nicolás Maduro and attempting to take control of Venezuela and its oil is an extraordinary display of the new “Donroe doctrine”
www.economist.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:12 PM
I'm 90% certain that "lock down Florida electorally" was a big part of why yesterday happened, and it would be incredibly funny if it ended up creating a massive electoral backlash
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personally I think if a story about an illegal war and kidnapping leaks to you should publish it.
NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
January 4, 2026 at 6:07 AM
personally I think if a story about an illegal war and kidnapping leaks to you should publish it.
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"The Republican party is an outright enemy of democratic interests around the world" is an objectively true statement and something that I don't know if the current crop of Dem pols are gonna be able to fully embrace
January 3, 2026 at 11:20 PM
"The Republican party is an outright enemy of democratic interests around the world" is an objectively true statement and something that I don't know if the current crop of Dem pols are gonna be able to fully embrace
Can't wait for the Ben Garrison cartoon TBH.
January 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Can't wait for the Ben Garrison cartoon TBH.
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Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.
January 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.
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Funniest outcome here would be Maduro being acquitted by a US court because the Trump administration didn't think through the case and puts one of their idiot TV pundit prosecutors on it... and then countersuing.
January 3, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Funniest outcome here would be Maduro being acquitted by a US court because the Trump administration didn't think through the case and puts one of their idiot TV pundit prosecutors on it... and then countersuing.
Her "ridiculously bad campaign" outperformed fundamentals across all the swing states. Less of this.
January 3, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Her "ridiculously bad campaign" outperformed fundamentals across all the swing states. Less of this.
Correction - Trump isn't consistent but he is very predictable. People were screaming about military adventurism in LatAm during the campaign it just didn't get traction.
Trump isn’t predictable or consistent, but this particular action *would* be consistent with the emergence of a G2+1 order where Washington and Beijing, with Moscow as a junior partner, give each other free rein in their purported spheres of influence.
This will go down well in Moscow and Beijing. Goodbye, international order.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
January 3, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Correction - Trump isn't consistent but he is very predictable. People were screaming about military adventurism in LatAm during the campaign it just didn't get traction.
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4. Former opposition networks, Chavistas that want a fresh start, civil society can't stop a multi-sided civil war as Trump posts racist memes and Vance does a podcast, violence spreads across borders forcing Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil, Colombia and the Netherlands thru Curacao into difficult choices
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
4. Former opposition networks, Chavistas that want a fresh start, civil society can't stop a multi-sided civil war as Trump posts racist memes and Vance does a podcast, violence spreads across borders forcing Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil, Colombia and the Netherlands thru Curacao into difficult choices
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3. Returning Venezuelan exiles and opposition networks find themselves without promised US support, army factions, militias, narco-gangs, illegal mining paramilitaries, Colombian insurgents like ELN pick sides and a country with 6 million weapons in circulation plunges into escalating conflict
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
3. Returning Venezuelan exiles and opposition networks find themselves without promised US support, army factions, militias, narco-gangs, illegal mining paramilitaries, Colombian insurgents like ELN pick sides and a country with 6 million weapons in circulation plunges into escalating conflict
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2. Decapitation strikes hit Venezuela, prove successful, Trump declares victory and then gets bored and walks away.
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
2. Decapitation strikes hit Venezuela, prove successful, Trump declares victory and then gets bored and walks away.
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Plausible worst case scenario with Venezuela in four steps:
1. Rubio and Venezuelan exiles sell the idea of decapitation strikes against Maduro to Trump as the one big thing that solves Venezuela, cartels and Cuba for the US.
1. Rubio and Venezuelan exiles sell the idea of decapitation strikes against Maduro to Trump as the one big thing that solves Venezuela, cartels and Cuba for the US.
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Plausible worst case scenario with Venezuela in four steps:
1. Rubio and Venezuelan exiles sell the idea of decapitation strikes against Maduro to Trump as the one big thing that solves Venezuela, cartels and Cuba for the US.
1. Rubio and Venezuelan exiles sell the idea of decapitation strikes against Maduro to Trump as the one big thing that solves Venezuela, cartels and Cuba for the US.
Yes but John Roberts and his cohort said the president is immune from the law so there's nothing to be done.
Trump doesn’t appear to have any congressional approval for a declaration of war, and doesn’t seem to have notified the Gang of Eight about any of this.
Before we talk international law, there seems to be some *extreme* disregard for US law here, too.
Before we talk international law, there seems to be some *extreme* disregard for US law here, too.
Rules-based international order has had a rough couple of decades, but this pretty much ends it entirely. Both the strikes and the capture of Maduro are also blatant violations of US domestic law too, of course.
January 3, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Yes but John Roberts and his cohort said the president is immune from the law so there's nothing to be done.
Once again the power of extreme cynicism to result in extreme credulity.
It’s at least refreshing that they don’t bother to bullshit us about freedom and justice any more. Yes, we are getting rid of the Palestinians so we can build hotels on their land. Yes, we are collapsing this government so our companies can loot their resources. This is what it always was, mask off.
The Venezuelan government has been saying for decades it’s the victim of American aggression and sabotage because the US wants to steal its natural resources, so it’s clarifying that the US is now bombing the country while the President and senior officials say they are going to steal it’s resources
January 3, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Once again the power of extreme cynicism to result in extreme credulity.