So many bad hot takes on Venezuela.
03.01.2026 13:23
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So many bad hot takes on Venezuela.
There are already 8m Venezuelan refugees. This will draw many Venezuelans back home to rebuild what Chavez and Maduro destroyed.
2003 called and wants its plan for healthcare costs back.
The trouble is the official parties have a lock on access to power. There’s no room in the party? Too bad you’re stuck. And so are we.
I have a hypothesis: the two party system is currently collapsing in ways that will only seem obvious in retrospect.
There is not a place in Congress for Cori Bush, or Jared Golden or MTG—but they collectively represent more voters than the Democrats or Republicans.
Yes! Maybe set up online marketplaces for people to buy insurance (give them a cool name like “exchanges”). And make rules about what the insurance has to cover, including pre-existing conditions so it’s fair.
I don’t know, maybe that’s crazy talk.
there is clearly some consultant telling them to do this because after indicting the former FBI Director because the president demanded it and illegally ordering troops to occupy another U.S. city my own member of Congress sent a text out about protecting our healthcare
Extremism is the enemy, and our politics is steeped in it.
Every one of us has a role to play to fight for a higher purpose and a commitment to civic duty. I don't care what political affiliation you have - we all have to do this.
the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.
"The leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea are not good men... But they are, nevertheless, serious men, and they know an unserious man when they see one. ... they have taken Donald Trump’s measure, and reached a conclusion: The president of the United States is not worthy of their respect."
YEP
US foreign policy update: friends alienated, enemies united, armed forces spreading mulch in DC. MAGA
He must have been absent the day they taught the history of war in school.
One of the greatest quotes in a truly great film.
He’s there with Zelenskyy. All he wants is borders, too, so he can have a country.
Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.
If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is
(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
Dems want to talk about everything but why people vote the way they do.
Look at NYC. Mamdani is lying his ass off about what he can do. And it's working. He tells people what they want to hear. Just like trump
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
Here to tell you from experience— these things don’t work.
My letter on why third parties don’t work!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
Theo Von had Thomas Massie on his podcast. Nonstop criticism of US support for Israel, AIPAC. Quote: "America is just a shell company, an LLC for Israel"
Nobody calling them antisemitic or threatening to cancel or arrest them. Complete right-left asymmetry on this.
www.mediaite.com/media/podcas...
LDAD board member and law professor Gary Simson was quoted in the @ajc.com, expressing hope that the protests this weekend will remind Congress of its Constitutional obligations.
Nice!
As a party, we are prisoners being held hostage by people who simply refuse to accept that their time has passed and won’t accept that others more capable right now. Stay in the Senate, but step down from leadership. It’s time for a new approach, a new face, & a new voice.
“It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research,” Gov. Pritzker said. “Time to stop thinking we can reason or negotiate with a madman.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
www.ajc.com/politics/tru...
John Sebastian releases his “Welcome Back” LP this wknd in 1976
Asked to write a theme for a TV show called “Kotter”, he thought, ‘I could hit this outta the park!’
“I came back with this song 'Welcome Back’. Their reaction was to change the name of the show from ‘Kotter’ to Welcome Back, Kotter.”
An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning:
“Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”
If tariffs are paid by foreign governments…..why do we need to exempt popular consumer products like iPhones from them?
"You know what can’t be bullied, deceived, or manipulated? The bond market. The bond market does not believe the danger is past. The bond market is not like the Supreme Court, or Paul Weiss, or any other institution Trump has conquered, co-opted, or corrupted."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fina...
