William Easley
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Individual members have self- interest. But their individual interest is contrary to the interest of Congress as an institution. The less they do, the fewer stands they take, the more institutional power they abrogate and surrender to other branches, the more they can dodge accountability.
January 4, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Individual members have self- interest. But their individual interest is contrary to the interest of Congress as an institution. The less they do, the fewer stands they take, the more institutional power they abrogate and surrender to other branches, the more they can dodge accountability.
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“The only thing the elite Washington press corps likes more than a bipartisan commission on debt reduction is a stack of flag-draped coffins.” web.archive.org/web/20200103...
January 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM
“The only thing the elite Washington press corps likes more than a bipartisan commission on debt reduction is a stack of flag-draped coffins.” web.archive.org/web/20200103...
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Like, specifically, they DEPARTED from their role morality to help achieve this outcome
40 people (at least) died. It's the official policy of these newsrooms that Latin American lives aren't worth anything. Again, if you still pay for an NYT subscription I think you're trash.
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 3:31 AM
Like, specifically, they DEPARTED from their role morality to help achieve this outcome
Access stenographers
(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops ..
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January 4, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Access stenographers
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For other countries it is unfortunately seriously worth thinking about how in two successive cases in a row the United States seemingly has used negotiations as a feint from the very beginning while preparing devastating and senseless bombing campaigns which they execute no matter what
January 4, 2026 at 12:39 AM
For other countries it is unfortunately seriously worth thinking about how in two successive cases in a row the United States seemingly has used negotiations as a feint from the very beginning while preparing devastating and senseless bombing campaigns which they execute no matter what
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remembering that time Trump got convinced to leave US special forces in Syria "to protect the oil" (literally only Trump thought that's what they were doing)
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
remembering that time Trump got convinced to leave US special forces in Syria "to protect the oil" (literally only Trump thought that's what they were doing)
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together the u.s. and israel have completely upended the international order and decimated the rule of international and humanitarian law. they have thumbed their noses at the mutual agreements that protect us all, making everyone on earth less safe than they were 30 years ago.
January 3, 2026 at 7:28 PM
together the u.s. and israel have completely upended the international order and decimated the rule of international and humanitarian law. they have thumbed their noses at the mutual agreements that protect us all, making everyone on earth less safe than they were 30 years ago.
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The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
This is also why they captured instead of killed Maduro. Trump was asking questions about not seeing the body of Bin Laden. Trump thinks it is important to have the person and parade them around
I feel like Trump is jealous of Obama for taking out Bin Laden. He wants his own heavily publicized victory against a monstrous enemy of the people who killed huge numbers of U.S. citizens.
More than oil or anything else he wants the optics of quickly and (for us) painlessly taking out an "enemy".
More than oil or anything else he wants the optics of quickly and (for us) painlessly taking out an "enemy".
If Maduro is in custody my expectation is the admin will try to hold Dumb Nuremberg. They'll make it a judicial referendum on fentanyl and try to blame Maduro for the deaths from the opiate crisis.
January 3, 2026 at 6:29 PM
This is also why they captured instead of killed Maduro. Trump was asking questions about not seeing the body of Bin Laden. Trump thinks it is important to have the person and parade them around
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I’m sort of thinking that if they just wanted him dead they would have done it already. I think either Trump or Rubio want the body brought to American soil and that requires boots on the ground
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I’m sort of thinking that if they just wanted him dead they would have done it already. I think either Trump or Rubio want the body brought to American soil and that requires boots on the ground
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we should invent some sort of rules based international order
that would be really neat
that would be really neat
January 3, 2026 at 8:35 AM
we should invent some sort of rules based international order
that would be really neat
that would be really neat
Notice the bets are specifically on Maduro out. Leans more toward this being an attempt to just kill or capture Maduro
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
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January 3, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Notice the bets are specifically on Maduro out. Leans more toward this being an attempt to just kill or capture Maduro
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Any D who doesn't push for impeachment should get primaried. This is it. No excuses. No more.
January 3, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Any D who doesn't push for impeachment should get primaried. This is it. No excuses. No more.
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with the caveat that Maduro really does suck shit and he's not exactly a sympathetic victim here, man, I really don't care for Operation Just Because / Marco Rubio's Consolation Prize For Sitting in the Cuck Chair all 2025.
January 3, 2026 at 6:34 AM
with the caveat that Maduro really does suck shit and he's not exactly a sympathetic victim here, man, I really don't care for Operation Just Because / Marco Rubio's Consolation Prize For Sitting in the Cuck Chair all 2025.
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I think this administration has vastly overestimated the rest of the world's willingness to put up with imperial oil war bullshit right now. I don't think this ends well. No war.
January 3, 2026 at 6:38 AM
I think this administration has vastly overestimated the rest of the world's willingness to put up with imperial oil war bullshit right now. I don't think this ends well. No war.
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The biggest lesson of 2024 and after should be the Democratic voters are no longer willing to put up indefinitely with rhetoric designed to hide the positive impacts of Democratic policy proposals from easy attack
January 3, 2026 at 3:26 AM
The biggest lesson of 2024 and after should be the Democratic voters are no longer willing to put up indefinitely with rhetoric designed to hide the positive impacts of Democratic policy proposals from easy attack
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i just mentioned her elsewhere but had a further realization reading this: there's no way DNI Tulsi Gabbard wouldn't blow it by saying "this smells like CIA color-revolution imperialism" a week *before* it was supposed to happen, anyway
January 3, 2026 at 3:20 AM
i just mentioned her elsewhere but had a further realization reading this: there's no way DNI Tulsi Gabbard wouldn't blow it by saying "this smells like CIA color-revolution imperialism" a week *before* it was supposed to happen, anyway
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Imo the best way to limit the power of tech billionaires starts with getting rid of supervoters and dual-class and triple-class share structures in general
January 3, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Imo the best way to limit the power of tech billionaires starts with getting rid of supervoters and dual-class and triple-class share structures in general
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I've been saying since 2015 that the assault on the 14th Amendment wouldn't stop at birthright citizenship. it's about rolling back reconstruction and returning to gone with the wind the electric boogaloo
now hold on JUST A GODDAMNED MINUTE.
these people... are down here in my American south... forcing Black Americans to show their citizenship papers and accusing them of being undocumented immigrants... at the same time they're trying to cancel the 14th Amendment?
www.propublica.org/article/memp...
these people... are down here in my American south... forcing Black Americans to show their citizenship papers and accusing them of being undocumented immigrants... at the same time they're trying to cancel the 14th Amendment?
www.propublica.org/article/memp...
January 3, 2026 at 1:08 AM
I've been saying since 2015 that the assault on the 14th Amendment wouldn't stop at birthright citizenship. it's about rolling back reconstruction and returning to gone with the wind the electric boogaloo
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another secret Islamist
January 2, 2026 at 11:46 PM
another secret Islamist
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this is worth reading. a longtime NYT insider confirms that the paper's abrupt turn into seething anti-trans bigotry came directly from the top: AG Sulzberg and his 2 deputies, Joe Kahn and Carolyn Ryan transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 2, 2026 at 3:07 PM
this is worth reading. a longtime NYT insider confirms that the paper's abrupt turn into seething anti-trans bigotry came directly from the top: AG Sulzberg and his 2 deputies, Joe Kahn and Carolyn Ryan transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
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And it must be emphasized how much this riot itself was motivated by white supremacy because it was NYC‘s first black mayor, of all people, who pushed for it.
It must be further emphasized that an individual by the name of Rudolph Giuliani was instrumental in organizing and escalating the riot.
It must be further emphasized that an individual by the name of Rudolph Giuliani was instrumental in organizing and escalating the riot.
Too few people remember or know about what happened to Mayor David Dinkins when he pushed the very modest reform of a civilian review board. The NYPD certainly hasn't forgotten. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrolm...
January 1, 2026 at 11:03 PM
And it must be emphasized how much this riot itself was motivated by white supremacy because it was NYC‘s first black mayor, of all people, who pushed for it.
It must be further emphasized that an individual by the name of Rudolph Giuliani was instrumental in organizing and escalating the riot.
It must be further emphasized that an individual by the name of Rudolph Giuliani was instrumental in organizing and escalating the riot.