Also just have some moral courage. Nothing in the world is certain. Sometimes you get betrayed. You can’t orient your priorities around a pathological fear of betrayal. You have to have the self-trust that you can cope with an adversarial situation to be able to undertake bold action.

Denmark is a NATO member state.
Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela (and Cuba, formally) are OAS member states.

You can have democracy or you can have a military that fixes the mistakes of the electorate. You can’t have both.

The Washington Post “Audacious Maduro raid relied on months of preparation, surprise strike” Under cover of darkness, highly trained Delta Force troops arrived by helicopter and descended into a compound to grab the Venezuelan president and his wife. January 3 at 8:04 PM 2026 Smoke billows over Caracas, Venezuela, after explosions on Saturday. (Jose Abreu/AFP/Getty Images)

Democracy dies when the press uncritically lauds the most ethically and Constitutionally perilous military action of our lifetimes.

You want civilian control of the military in a democracy. Well, this is it. Elect better civilians.

You want the military to be part of the checks and balances? That’s a praetorian guard.

Every Italian in the 1400s was actually Albanian

❗️62% of 🇺🇸Americans want 🇺🇦Ukraine to win the war against 🇷🇺Russia, and 64% support the supply of weapons from the US — Reagan Institute poll.

Support has grown in both parties: 59% of Republicans and 75% of Democrats.

Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

Sean Duffy: "I can't guarantee safety"

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

The Irish front runner for pres is wrong for peace in Europe. Ru can't be stopped diplomatically. Trump nearly ended mil aid; 9mo of talks got nothing. Ru refuses a ceasefire. Calling Ru's war illegal is useless w/o helping Ukr. If Connolly gets her way, Europe wld be helping Ru win through inaction

An engraved eagle from a recruit poster for the Union army aimed at Philadelphia area German speakers. The eagle flies downward witha radiant pattern behind him, as well as an American flag on a pole topped with a Phrygian cap. In its mouth, a German language inscription in Fraktur font, translated as "Union and Freedom forever! 👉 Death to the Traitors!"

"please don't go forty-eighter mode in front of my parents"

me:

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t

Newsom: "People ask, 'Are you being hyperbolic?' Bullshit we're being hyperbolic. If you're Black or brown, it's here in this country. And so I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation's first bill to address masking ... these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian govt"

Every time Dems cooperate with this regime they lose more respect and credibility. I want to see the Dems repeating Mitch McConnell’s stonewalling of President Obama, where they refuse to work with their political opponents on ANYTHING unless it directly benefits the middle class (and lower) people.

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

I feel like the left in the US polarized itself into willful ignorance on military policy and entirely ceded the foreign policy of it to the right because the military was viewed as de facto a right-wing tool and all use of military force as imperialistic

This is why Defence is and should be a left-wing priority

Rayando45: Did dems also have this idea to facilitate mass deportations? Your anger or blame is misplaced here. Ruth: ...are you stupid? Do you know how many people Biden and Obama deported? Instead of shrinking ICE both Obama and Biden expanded and funded LE

Obama and Biden deported more people because they were specifically targeting criminals; Trump's "all of the above" approach has sent a lot of people into hiding, making them harder to find and deport.

No, it's actually Donald Trump and Republicans doing these mass deportations, not Democrats.

The firmest basis for peace between adversaries is mutual fear. The Russians might not have started a war if they feared the west might take advantage of their weakness.

Rather than asking, "How do we fight and win a war on an industrial scale?" the question has seemingly become, "How do we make our small force smaller and more deadly?” That might work…for a few weeks…

Inspiring.

“‘America is the greatest democracy in the world, and I believe in those values that we share. I have faith in the American system of justice,’ Öztürk said... ‘This has been very difficult time for me, for my community… but I’m so grateful for all the support, kindness, and care.’”

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

If former President Biden should’ve stopped Russia from invading Ukraine, does that mean President Trump should’ve stopped India from attacking Pakistan?

He's gonna try to force Russia back in 🙃

In a major war, all of the battle space will be contested which means SOF will play a secondary role while battles are fought at the Corps/Division level. SOF, if anything are gonna act as glorified LRSTs. Unfortunately we'll have to relearn this in blood ala Kasserine Pass