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House Democrat calls Trump's Maduro capture 'welcome news' as left labels it 'illegal' Most Democrats are blasting the Trump administration after the U.S. conducted an operation to capture Venezuela's leader, NicolΓ‘s Maduro.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz called Maduro's capture "welcome news" but criticized Trump for "apparently failing to notify Congress beforehand".

This is the neoliberal position in a nutshell: Substantively fine with regime change and imperial power projection, just mad about process.

04.01.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 502 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 51

IMPORTANT: Congress could do this tomorrow. Trump could be unemployed by Monday.

03.01.2026 07:58 πŸ‘ 469 πŸ” 184 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5

Not once.

03.01.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

03.01.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 7837 πŸ” 1699 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 17

The effect of this sort of rhetoric is going to be that an entire generation, on both left and right, thinks antisemitism is not a legitimate issue but simply a cudgel to wield in political arguments against one's opponents. This sort of rhetoric makes Diaspora Jews less safe.

02.01.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 432 πŸ” 153 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 7

Some Democrats are far too willing to keep ice around given everything that's happened.

To quote a something awful poster

"if both parties support the death camp you have to vote for the candidate that has a better policy on pell grant recipients living in a neighborhood < 150% of the FPL"

02.01.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Oof. I’m not even sure how that can happen. Here’s to hoping that things only get better!

01.01.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the worst pro-capitalist lines of attacks is that you can’t be in favor of income equality unless you’re wearing a burlap sack for clothes and Kleenex boxes on your feet

01.01.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I briefly hung out with Woody Harrelson while he was on mushrooms. He wanted to climb the Golden Gate Bridge and I told him that was a bad idea.

30.12.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Breaking Dune

29.12.2025 20:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In Canada they don’t have Santa Claus, they have Beautiful Eric, who drizzles maple syrup on your face while you sleep and carries a hunting knife

29.12.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

I can’t get over the NYT’s unwillingness to acknowledge that this is not a β€œfight over bigotry” in the GOP! It’s a fight over whether there should be any veneer or β€œpolite” pretexts at all.

Similar to NYT couching corruption as potential ethical concerns (though the fake bigotry fight is 10x worse)

22.12.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Have to highlight the absurdity in a public discourse that holds the idea of systemic racism out as exotic and academic while also reporting that one of the two major parties in the country is making racism an explicit central pillar of their party identity.

22.12.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 454 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, at least it’s a predictable chaos. ….sort of πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

21.12.2025 18:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Between the fact that his heart was two sizes too small and he seemed obsessed with the noise coming from Who-Ville, it's possible the Grinch was simply suffering from migraines caused by his untreated vascular issues.

25.12.2023 01:42 πŸ‘ 218 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

That’s straight up what it looks like. He didn’t look gassed at all and wasn’t even sweating as much as you would expect.

20.12.2025 23:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. β€œwouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked

reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. β€œwouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

19.12.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 15955 πŸ” 3991 πŸ’¬ 314 πŸ“Œ 355

Do you mind if I turn that into a song?

19.12.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚

19.12.2025 16:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Leg-lengthening surgery gains popularity among men seeking to be taller A 26-year-old man who had the procedure to increase his height from 5'7" to 5'10"explains what it was like.

whats wrong with these delusional men??

they should love the bodies they're in!!

how many therapists have to approve a request for leg lengthening surgery??

i hope its dozens because this is SO irresponsible think of our children!!

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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What they’re doing at CBS is the equivalent of my aspiration to open a coffee shop/wine bar/book shop/record store it’s a business idea based on what EYE like rather than what customers may demand.

16.12.2025 22:30 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

It’s wild with Government by Trump is basically this Simpson’s meme over and over again every single day.

15.12.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

Absolute stupidity on a scale that is incomprehensible.

www.404media.co/power-compan...

14.11.2025 17:42 πŸ‘ 721 πŸ” 178 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 81

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

10.11.2025 02:31 πŸ‘ 15184 πŸ” 4090 πŸ’¬ 258 πŸ“Œ 202

Although my dad pirated cable on my seventh birthday so that we could watch Star Wars and that blew my little mind.

β€œWatching a movie on TV?!β€œ

I had no idea how such a thing was possible lol

08.11.2025 22:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And for some reason, it was difficult getting Disney movies in the 80s. Like, they weren’t as readily available on VHS. At least that’s my memory of it.

08.11.2025 21:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed! That was a super, super exciting weekend!

08.11.2025 19:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You love to see it.

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