As of 40 mins ago ~6am ET, 3rd Jan, 26, The US has captured the 🇻🇪 President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and they are on a plane to the US right now. Vice President has requested proof of life with no response so far.

(👀Look up who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 and who Trump said he endorsed to win it.)

The US Forces are reportedly bombing Caracas, Venezuela. To any members of this community who are from or have loved ones in the area, I hope for your safety. ❤️

For those seeking to understand the complex backdrop of US foreign intervention, particularly involving left-leaning governments that have sought to nationalise natural resources (like oil or lithium) or were perceived as adversarial to US interests, I wanted to recommended the following books (since this is a club post!):

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

Please share your recommendations, too as I am looking to add more to my list.

[Edit #1: It is never a good thing when the US overthrows a democratically elected official and "takes over until there is peaceful transfer of power". The US are never on a mission of peace. They are there for their own interests and of course, the massive oil reserves that should belong to the people of 🇻🇪.

I support every country's right to self-determination.]

[Edit #2: Sharing a list created by @Yazii called We’re just here to “help”]

edit: sorry for doing this on new years day of all days. as i stated in the comments below, i wrote this while my adrenaline was high due to past experiences being verbally attacked irl and online for my preferences and ignorance many times. i clearly still have a lot of issues with attaching my self worth to numbers. but that doesn't excuse the fact i still chose to hit the post button, so that one's on me. it is entirely unfair of me to tell others to do the emotional labor of educating people about topics (like JKR) just because i am someone who is willing to do so. we all have different backgrounds and different circumstances in our lives, and in the moment became someone who forgot that. that one's also on me. at the end of the day there is no perfect solution and there is no perfect social media platform, but pagebound is still a hundred times better than the others out there. i still hope people can be more mindful and kind to each other online, but nobody is perfect as i have demonstrated via this very public crash out.

i just know this is going to be controversial, but i need to get this off my chest, because i've been attacked online for my views on smut of all things and it's driven me away from engaging in online communities for a period of time. JKR sucks and is actively a horrible person, and i think a majority of us are all on the same page about that. but can we at least be cordial to the people that aren't on the same page yet? someone made a (now deleted) post asking about whether there was a harry potter quest and immediately got downvoted and replies saying why there isn't an HP quest, but i think only one of those touched on why JKR sucks. my understanding of downvotes is that it's a moderation tool, where the community can moderate posts that don't belong in club and should be in a specific forum, or people using lists wrong, etc. i tried to be objective and just answer the question, and i also got downvoted. i guess i'm sorry for mentioning harry potter in my reply and not immediately disparaging JKR in the same sentence? i don't think that's how productive discussion occurs. this behavior isn't exactly going to explain to or educate people on why she sucks. like yeah she's sucked for a while but people might not know that. ignorance by itself isn't a sin and we shouldn't assume that everyone knows everything, and we shouldn't be attacking people for it (willful ignorance is another story imo). i'm not saying we should tolerate people that don't tolerate us (meaning minorities and marginalized communities), but can we at least be cordial? like don't be jumping down people's throats just for mentioning HP and/or JKR? anyway sorry if this doesn't make any sense i'm just kind of stunned by the community and this behavior. it just makes me feel less safe in the community. i know my freak pervert tendencies aren't the same as JKR and the terrible shit she's done, but it's the safety bit yknow? like how am i supposed to feel safe talking about what smut i like to read when i can't mention the HP words in a comment without having to make it clear that i hate JKR?