Joanne in Boston
@vtgal.bsky.social
Secular Humanist/Environmentalist/Liberal 🌎🇺🇦💙
Compassion & Empathy
🚫Toxic religiosity
Can humanity save itself?
“There’s some good in this world Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for”
Love my husband, my coffee and a good bourbon Manhattan.
Compassion & Empathy
🚫Toxic religiosity
Can humanity save itself?
“There’s some good in this world Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for”
Love my husband, my coffee and a good bourbon Manhattan.
Pinned
Joanne in Boston
@vtgal.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Dark thoughts this morning…how must it feel to be Europe right now with Russian aggression ascending and Trump back in power. There will be no USA to storm the beaches this time…they will stand with the enemy. What has America done?
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tRump will never understand that the Nobel Peace Prize is not a contest; it’s an award. He would never be eligible for it based on his numerous bad acts. If he ever received it, it would be the end for that prize.
#Resist #Venezuela
#Pinks #ProudBlue #FucktRump
#Resist #Venezuela
#Pinks #ProudBlue #FucktRump
Trump said he would try again for the Nobel Peace Prize this year so he began the year with… an illegal war of regime change in Venezuela, after spending Christmas Day bombing Nigeria.
January 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
tRump will never understand that the Nobel Peace Prize is not a contest; it’s an award. He would never be eligible for it based on his numerous bad acts. If he ever received it, it would be the end for that prize.
#Resist #Venezuela
#Pinks #ProudBlue #FucktRump
#Resist #Venezuela
#Pinks #ProudBlue #FucktRump
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Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
1
They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
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Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.
President Trump said on Saturday that the U.S. had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.
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The Trump voters did this — the bloodthirsty, racist, bigoted assholes wanted to punish anyone not like them and now look
No new wars my ass.
No new wars my ass.
January 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
The Trump voters did this — the bloodthirsty, racist, bigoted assholes wanted to punish anyone not like them and now look
No new wars my ass.
No new wars my ass.
We are living under a dictatorship now.
The old rules no longer apply.
The old rules no longer apply.
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
January 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM
We are living under a dictatorship now.
The old rules no longer apply.
The old rules no longer apply.
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Sounds about right.
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 8:25 PM
Sounds about right.
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Lots of money to pay back to the Oil Companies for their contributions to his Campaign.
bsky.app/profile/osbo...
bsky.app/profile/osbo...
And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela
Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, according to Charles Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Globa...
www.wsj.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Lots of money to pay back to the Oil Companies for their contributions to his Campaign.
bsky.app/profile/osbo...
bsky.app/profile/osbo...
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Mexico President "Claudia Sheinbaum calls on the United Nations to step in to stop Trump.
She says Trump broke article 2 of the charter of the United Nations.
I stand with Mexico!"
She says Trump broke article 2 of the charter of the United Nations.
I stand with Mexico!"
January 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Mexico President "Claudia Sheinbaum calls on the United Nations to step in to stop Trump.
She says Trump broke article 2 of the charter of the United Nations.
I stand with Mexico!"
She says Trump broke article 2 of the charter of the United Nations.
I stand with Mexico!"
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The thing about Venezuela is that we need to see the Epstein Files.
January 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The thing about Venezuela is that we need to see the Epstein Files.
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Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”
January 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”
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Trump pardoned two of history's biggest drug traffickers last year.
This is absolutely farcical.
How about an investigation into the story that Trump used to send his underage Mag-a-Lago locker room/massage parlor "attendants" to Epstein's house?
This is absolutely farcical.
How about an investigation into the story that Trump used to send his underage Mag-a-Lago locker room/massage parlor "attendants" to Epstein's house?
January 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Trump pardoned two of history's biggest drug traffickers last year.
This is absolutely farcical.
How about an investigation into the story that Trump used to send his underage Mag-a-Lago locker room/massage parlor "attendants" to Epstein's house?
This is absolutely farcical.
How about an investigation into the story that Trump used to send his underage Mag-a-Lago locker room/massage parlor "attendants" to Epstein's house?
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It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.
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Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America into war. He is unaccountable to America. He is lawless. He only seeks conflict to cover up for his failures. Congress must step up and reassert its power. No more forever wars.
January 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America into war. He is unaccountable to America. He is lawless. He only seeks conflict to cover up for his failures. Congress must step up and reassert its power. No more forever wars.
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Impeach them all!!
Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world.
This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Impeach them all!!
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Next time you look at your greatly increased monthly bill for healthcare, remember that Republicans chose to use the money set aside for supplements to defray your costs to, instead, invade Venezuela to make ExxonMobil even richer.
Thank them with your votes.
Thank them with your votes.
January 3, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Next time you look at your greatly increased monthly bill for healthcare, remember that Republicans chose to use the money set aside for supplements to defray your costs to, instead, invade Venezuela to make ExxonMobil even richer.
Thank them with your votes.
Thank them with your votes.
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"[W]hite nationalist rhetoric."
"Trump administration provoked horror with the suggestion that the United States could be turned into a paradise if over a quarter of the people in the country were deported."
"[C]all by the US regime for ethnic cleansing."
#USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"Trump administration provoked horror with the suggestion that the United States could be turned into a paradise if over a quarter of the people in the country were deported."
"[C]all by the US regime for ethnic cleansing."
#USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
Trump DHS Post Calling for '100 Million Deportations' Suggests Intent to Kick Out Nonwhite Citizens
One journalist called it "absolutely insane Nazi propaganda, posted by the US government."
www.commondreams.org
January 3, 2026 at 2:30 PM
"[W]hite nationalist rhetoric."
"Trump administration provoked horror with the suggestion that the United States could be turned into a paradise if over a quarter of the people in the country were deported."
"[C]all by the US regime for ethnic cleansing."
#USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"Trump administration provoked horror with the suggestion that the United States could be turned into a paradise if over a quarter of the people in the country were deported."
"[C]all by the US regime for ethnic cleansing."
#USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
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One of my followers who is a military mom has a 23 year old kid who was a part of the raid and kidnapping in Venezuela.
She says that the pressure on the kids to carry out orders that they knew were wrong was overwhelming.
She says that the pressure on the kids to carry out orders that they knew were wrong was overwhelming.
January 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
One of my followers who is a military mom has a 23 year old kid who was a part of the raid and kidnapping in Venezuela.
She says that the pressure on the kids to carry out orders that they knew were wrong was overwhelming.
She says that the pressure on the kids to carry out orders that they knew were wrong was overwhelming.
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything
January 3, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything
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Sadly, this 👇🎯
Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.
January 3, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Sadly, this 👇🎯
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Maduro's advisors are now closely studying the precedent of Juan Orlando Hernández, the Honduran president and lead cocaine dealer who was pardoned by Trump, to ascertain the amount of crypto they need and the path for paying it.
January 3, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Maduro's advisors are now closely studying the precedent of Juan Orlando Hernández, the Honduran president and lead cocaine dealer who was pardoned by Trump, to ascertain the amount of crypto they need and the path for paying it.
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A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms
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The Global Mob Wars of the 21st Century:
A big mob boss just took out a small mob boss
January 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
The Global Mob Wars of the 21st Century: