i hate golf courses i hate data centers i hate health insurance companies i hate how everything is gambling i hate that we can’t each fresh veggies right now i hate how every game costs 70 dollars and it’s SO FUCKING HOT OUTSIDE
Screw-worm in the meat.
Cyclosporiasis in the produce.
During a food affordability crisis.
During a massive cut in SNAP & WIC.
Again, elections have consequences.
My binder was stolen at MagicCon Vegas. It contained about 15,000$ worth of cards, many important to me, artist proofs or alters alike. PLEASE be on the lookout and share this post around seeing it happened IMMEDIATELY before the convention ended (5:40 pm, a few photos below)
The US attack on Venezuela is part of a larger US imperialist assault on all of Latin America.
This is the US empire's plan. It was spelled out clearly in the Trump administration's 2025 National Security Strategy.
The US seeks to forcibly impose its hegemony in the entire western hemisphere, reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine (now known as the "Donroe Doctrine").
The plan is for US corporations to control all of the region's strategic natural resources, including critical minerals and rare earth elements. The US wants to create a new supply chain in the western hemisphere that cuts out China, to prepare for future conflict with Beijing.
Trump administration officials recognize that manufacturing jobs are not actually coming back to the US, so they admit in the National Security Strategy that they want to "near-shore manufacturing" to Latin America. US corporations hope to exploit low-paid Latin American workers to make their products, cutting out China.
This is also why a new US-dominated supply chain in the western hemisphere is needed: not only because the US military-industrial complex needs to remove China from the supply chain for the weapons that it is making to prepare for a potential future war with China; but also because Washington wants to economically decouple from China, and thinks Latin America can help it do that.
Moreover, the US empire seeks to control all of the strategic infrastructure in the region. So the Trump administration is going to brazenly threaten Latin American countries to force China to sell any investments it has in infrastructure projects.
Trump already forced Panama to pressure the Hong Kong company that owned ports surrounding the Panama Canal to sell them to Wall Street giant BlackRock.
It is likely that the US will also target Peru's Port of Chancay, one of the most important ports in the region, which was built by China. Washington could even blackmail Latin American governments to force them to impose restrictions on Chinese investment in the region.
The National Security Council shows how the Trump administration is obsessed with trying to force the countries of Latin America to cut off their ties with China. This is Cold War Two.
In his first trip abroad as secretary of state, Marco Rubio went to Panama, where he forced the country to withdraw from China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Trump administration is going to massively increase its pressure on other countries in the region to withdraw from the BRI.
Likewise, Trump blatantly meddled in Honduras' election in 2025 and backed an electoral coup d'etat. Honduras' new right-wing US puppet regime will likely formally break diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China.
The US also wants to use Honduras as a base of operations for attacks on the Sandinista government in neighboring Nicaragua.
After bombing and occupying Venezuela, Trump and Marco Rubio want to carry out similar imperialist regime-change wars on Nicaragua and Cuba. Rubio has dedicated his entire career to overthrowing their socialist revolutions. It is a political crusade for him.
The Trump administration's goal is simple: to impose right-wing US puppet regimes in every country in Latin America, which will obediently serve the interests of Washington and Wall Street, and sell off their assets to US investors.
Two important elections are coming up in 2026 in countries with left-wing governments: Brazil (in October) and Colombia (in May). It is guaranteed that the Trump administration is going to meddle in those elections to try to put in power obedient right-wing US puppets (like Javier Milei in Argentina).
Trump is also threatening to bomb Mexico, which has a very popular left-wing, independent government. Mexico has strongly opposed these US threats, saying they would be an attack on Mexico's sovereignty. But the US empire doesn't care a bit about sovereignty.
The superficial, puerile rhetoric about "democracy" that we hear from Western officials and pundits is ridiculous. It is impossible for the countries of Latin America (and the Global South as a whole) to practice democracy when the world's most powerful and deadliest empire is constantly interfering in their elections, attacking them, imposing sanctions on them, and sponsoring coups.
True democracy is impossible while imperialism exists.
New statement from Mark Kelly:
“When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents.
In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much.
Secretary Hegseth’s tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President’s posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death.
If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.”
‼️BREAKING: Black Student FOUND HANGING FROM TREE On Delta State University Campus – Officials RUSH To Say "NO FOUL PLAY" In MISSISSIPPI, Where LYNCHINGS Were The NORM!
📍Cleveland, Mississippi
21-Year-Old Demartravion "Trey" Reed DISCOVERED At 7AM Near Pickleball Courts – Body BEATEN, ARMS & NECK BROKEN and He was Taken For Autopsy, But Why So QUICK To RULE OUT MURDER? Is This ANOTHER COVER-UP In The DEEP SOUTH?
THOUGHTS??
Everyone saying ‘Political violence is not who we are as Americans’ after Charlie Kirk was shot…
Maybe clarify which political violence you mean, because this is coming from the sitting president of the United States.
They don’t want you to know this but being a cinephile is nothing to do with how many films you watch. The single qualifying factor to being a cinephile is passion for film.
We live in a country where people will go on camera and refuse to condemn the Nazi Holocaust while praising fascist dictators. We need to understand what we’re up against. It takes a lot to leave me speechless but…
A sitting Member of Congress calling for an American citizen to be stripped of his citizenship & deported, all because of that American citizen’s political views. This is fascism.👇