Ricardo

nice of you to lurk

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote.

“I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’”

“I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

[InspiringPhilosophy - Michael Jones @InspiringPhilos]

Let’s answer this appropriately. Yes, the Father is the only true God, but Jesus didn’t say, “only the Father is the true God.”

Where you place the word “only” in a sentence matters. If I said, “2+2 only equals 4,” that is true. But if I said, “only 2+2 equals 4,” that is false, because 3+1 equals 4.

So we can say the Father is the only true God. The Son is the only true God. The Holy Spirit is the only true God. In fact, John said in 1 John 5:20 that the Son is true God. In John 17:3 eternal life is knowing Jesus and the Father, meaning eternal life comes from both of them, making them both God. The Gospel of John even opens by says Jesus is God (John 1:1). So this was never a problem for the sacred doctrine of the Trinity

[IRI Embassy in Armenia @iraninyerevan]

Congratulations to you. Children are innocent and lovable. Those 168 children that your boss killed in the school in Minab, and you justified, were also children. When you kiss your baby, think of the mothers of those children.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Literally not how the FDA approval process should work.

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Trump says Israel is now "prohibited by the USA" from bombing Lebanon

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

Yay. The Strait that was open before we began bombing Iran open, is open again.

Everybody pretend this is a huge victory for Trump so he'll end this catastrophe.

[Pape Léon XIV @Pontifex_fr]

Malheur à ceux qui détournent les religions et le nom même de Dieu à leurs propres fins militaires, économiques et politiques, en traînant ce qui est saint dans ce qu’il y a de plus sale et de plus ténébreux! #VoyageApostolique #Cameroun https://t.co/f7o5fKLdIV

[Variety @Variety]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tried to evoke Holy Scripture but instead quoted Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" during a Pentagon worship service.

Hagseth read the altered version of Ezekiel 25:17 quoted by Samuel L. Jackson’s character in the movie just before he shoots a man to death.

https://t.co/uqW3oMXMbV

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

[Redeemed Zoomer @redeemed_zoomer]

Whatever your politics - this is blasphemy of the highest order. There can be no defending this from any true Christian

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I never thought Donald Trump and Stephen Miller would be the ones to finally force me into being a defender of the 2nd Amendment.

[Ricardo @Ricky_Rincon_]

@InspiringPhilos @kangminlee /sarcasm

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

NBA Player Kyrie Irving wore a shirt honoring Saleh Al-Jafarawi

It helps support his family

[Myron Gaines @MyronGainesX]

I have no personal stake in Maduro or Venezuela.

This analysis is strictly factual:

The January 3, 2026, U.S. operation resulting in Nicolás Maduro’s arrest was not primarily a counter narcotics or humanitarian mission to liberate Venezuela from an "evil dictator".

It was a strategic application of the Monroe Doctrine to achieve regime change and secure access to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves from a government resistant to American regional hegemony.

Maduro’s critical error was refusing to align with U.S. interests.

Key timeline:
• Indicted by the U.S. in 2020 (Trump administration)—no action taken.

• 2025: Trump administration designates Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist organization, reclassifying Maduro from narcotics trafficker to enemy combatant. This designation authorized full-spectrum military and intelligence involvement.

Notably absent: Similar terrorist designations for far larger drug-trafficking networks in Mexico and Colombia, which dominate global cocaine and fentanyl flows.

The operation, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, involving kinetic strikes, and ground forces, was framed as a routine “law enforcement” action to execute a federal arrest warrant.

This characterization is unprecedented.

For context: Routine DEA/HSI extraditions or domestic arrests require extensive bureaucratic coordination and modest funding.

Mobilizing large-scale military assets for a single warrant defies standard law-enforcement logic.

The true objective: Install a U.S.-aligned proxy (María Corina Machado) to facilitate unobstructed resource extraction.

This was geopolitical resource acquisition via force, not narcotics enforcement.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If this action were constitutionally sound, the Attorney General wouldn’t be tweeting that they’ve arrested the President of a sovereign country and his wife for possessing guns in violation of a 1934 U.S. firearm law.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.

[Ricardo @Ricky_Rincon_]

@bassem_youssef9 Another Oil War ladies and gentlemen

[Bassem Youssef Commentary @bassem_youssef9]

They told you in the media that Venezuela has drugs, no, my friend, Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. When it is stolen, the US will be able to ignite other wars in the ME regardless to the pressure of Arab or Iranian oil.
Not for America, but always for Israel.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie is going NUCLEAR on Trump’s regime change war in Venezuela.

“How did it work out in Cuba, Libya, Iraq, or Syria?”

“Do we want another Afghanistan in the Western Hemisphere?”

“This is about oil and regime change.”

“Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs, weapons of mass destruction, that did not exist.”

“Now it’s the same playbook, except we���re told that drugs are the WMDs.”

“James Madison warned us that in no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war and peace to the legislature—not the executive.”

“The framers understood a simple truth: to the extent that war-making power devolves to one person, liberty dissolves.”

“By escalating toward war, we would predictably create countless refugees.”

“Are we prepared to receive swarms of the 25 million Venezuelans who will likely become refugees?”

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY