Reporter: She called it a kidnapping of Maduro Trump: That’s not a bad term

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Le Monde gets it www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Seb Kennedy is a great gas market analyst. And he has lived and worked in Venezuela. His take on things is definitely worth your time.

Trump “reaffirmed to me that Venezuela may not be the last country subject to American intervention. ‘We do need Greenland, absolutely,’ he said ..” @michaelscherer.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

this is really good www.unpopularfront.news/p/crude-ideo...

"You don't sound like you're speaking for an important country, you sound like you're speaking on behalf of a supplicant country who’s afraid of a bigger country.’ @Lewis_Goodall tears Labour’s Darren Jones apart on the UK's utter spinelessness on Venezuela.

Portland city councilor Mitch Green, a veteran, speaks at the rally, which is about to march through Portland. He says this is a local issue, because city can’t fix potholes when the U.S. instead spends money invading other countries for oil.

For other countries it is unfortunately seriously worth thinking about how in two successive cases in a row the United States seemingly has used negotiations as a feint from the very beginning while preparing devastating and senseless bombing campaigns which they execute no matter what

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

From the wife of the White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Europe, don't say you weren't warned.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Wall Street eyes Venezuela 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors will travel there in March “There is a huge amount of interest in Venezuela reconstruction opportunities." www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

I just finished Dave's book on how Europe has essentially become a US vassal state, and how centrist European leaders continue to submit to Trump. Vividly on display in 2025, and especially today theownedcontinent.eu

Demonstrators set US flag on fire on Place de la République in Paris during the rally against the American military intervention in Venezuela.

Fossilocrats conducting petro-imperialism is so Y2K, while the other superpower will turn Belt-and-Road into a super grid.

Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.

Chevron CEO last month on Bloomberg TV: "The Venezuelan oil is sought after by US refiners...we're in discussions with the administration to ensure that we stay in compliance, that they understand the value that our presence [in Venezuela] brings to America" www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

Trump on the president of Colombia: "He does have to watch his ass"

Trump: "I think Cuba is gonna be something we'll end up talking about, because Cuba is a failing nation. It's very similar"

"We're in the oil business" - Trump

The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro

"cutting off the head of the snake is fruitless if it just regrows" Florida Democrat wants more thorough regime change 🤡

Marine Le Pen goes even further than Bardella in condemning the US invasion of Venezuela. As usual, the French far right is being much more politically smart here than Europe's centrist leaders.

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

Yes, this is a war for oil, Exxon & other U.S. oil corps are direct beneficiaries. Like all wars for oil, there are other objectives as well, with regime change in Cuba certainly high on the Trump administration's list, accomplished via cutting off oil flows (and the money from their sales) from VZ.

Trump says "something is gonna have to be done" about Mexico and President Claudia Sheinbaum in response to a question about whether the Venezuelan strike was a "message" to her government.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

Mamdani: "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy ... I will govern as a Democratic Socialist"

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

Good morning. How about 2000 words about the state of the US oil industry? "Hamm admitted the Bakken is 'tapped out.' The reason he is buying shale assets in other countries is because the reality is that the U.S. oil industry is tapped out."

U.S. dials up pressure on EU Methane Regulation The Trump administration wants a “full repeal” of Europe’s Methane Regulation, or at least a delay until 2035. The gas industry on both continents is also lobbying for a weakening of the rules. gasoutlook.com/analysis/u-s...

Bootlegging samizdat VPN’s Pravda state media Secret prison camps Welcome America to life under authoritarianism

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Russia’s economy keeps driving its war, but it could break in 2026 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Bloomberg Analysis: 15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open Note: Tesla said on a new safety page on its website last week that when a serious collision is detected, "doors will automatically unlock for emergency access." GIFT LINK: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

He's a YIMBY abundance guy

Just like anyone who toadies up to Trump, Hochul gets humiliated. Now we get the super polluting pipeline that she approved, which also raises utility bills, AND Trump continues to attack the big NY offshore wind projects, which she was nominally trying to protect. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

U.S. Lake Charles LNG project suspended amid global supply glut gasoutlook.com/news/u-s-lak...

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

worth reading in full

Bari Weiss spiked a major story at CBS, reporters say it's 'political' www.wsj.com/business/med...

Rick Steves the GOAT

A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...

data, folks.

thorough rebuttal of a crap op-ed

Bill Clinton in a hot tub with a redacted individual

Too many factual inaccuracies to count. Pass on this