Because Venezuelan opposition leader Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for democracy, sore loser Donald Trump refuses to work with her party to bring positive regime change. He doesn't want what's best for Venezuela. He wants Venezuela's oil. And he's stealing it.

Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social : "Is anyone going to just stop for a second and be honest? This is insane. What the hell are we doing? We've got a lot of problems in America today, and invading, occupying, running Venezuela does not solve any of them."

Disaster response costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela.

Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, called President Trump on Saturday to personally object to strikes the U.S. had conducted in Venezuela and to the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. Mamdani accused Trump of violating international law.

(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops .. @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

Japan’s Ministry of Defence says North Korea has launched a ballistic missile into the East Sea.

President Zelensky reacts to Maduro’s capture, suggesting Putin should be next: If it is possible to deal with dictators like that, just like that, then the United States of America knows what to do next.

It’s the United States that needs regime change.

Donald Trump is now reposting videos on Truth Social suggesting that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had Melissa Hortman assassinated. This is objectively evil, and calling it out should not be political.

The great isolationist ‘America First’ GOP President Donald Trump has in less than a year in office declared himself the ‘owner’ of Gaza and the ‘ruler’ of Venezuela.

These are disturbed people

As the Trump administration lobs distraction after distraction at the American people, I can’t help but recalling a chilling line from a horror movie I watched a long time ago: “The call is coming from inside the house..”

"Unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and international law." Not shying away one fucking bit, Zohran Mamdani calls out Trump's imperialist pipe dream of attacking, occupying, plundering and pillaging Venezuela of its oil and resources.

Countries that Donald Trump, the dangerous fool who thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, has illegally bombed: Iran. Nigeria. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Pakistan. Somalia. Syria. Yemen. Venezuela.

It’s darkly humorous he can’t even muster the ability to give some lip service to democracy or allowing the Venezuelan people to choose their leader.

May 19, 2024 Trump: Give me a billion dollars, you can afford it, and, when I'm president, you can have whatever changes you want

US Military Vet Mark Wayne to current service members attacking Venezuela: "The American people are not behind you."

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 his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

As a military Mom....this is what keeps me up at night....

REMINDER: Recent Quinnipiac poll found nearly 2/3's of Americans oppose military action against Venezuela. What percentage support military action? ONLY 25%. That means even a big chunk of MAGA opposes it. But Trump doesn't care. This war is to help his oil oligarchs who bankrolled his campaign!

How can the US government be a legitimate mediator in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine when it holds that superpowers have the right to invade other countries and pluck out their president for no good reason?

Venezuela: This operation has been coming for months. We’ve seen the buildup in real time, and Trump couldn’t stop talking about it. It was ready to go on Christmas, but they decided to bomb Nigeria instead. I’m thankful no US forces were killed, but this likely isn’t over.

Those Epstein files must be insane … juss say’n 💁‍♀️

The Trump regime is accusing Maduro of doing the same drug trafficking crimes that former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández did before Trump pardoned him.

Does Congress have any red line where they constrain Trump? He just unilaterally went to war against Venezuela. (Spare me any technicalities; we literally attacked them and kidnapped their president. That is effectively a declaration of war and he doesn’t have to put it on a scroll of parchment)

Do they think this is sustainable for three more years? Even from a place of pure self interest do they not realize this is bad for them too? Are they all just cowards or are they too stupid to understand that the consequences are dire and maybe permanent?

Has every Republican in Congress just decided that they’re going to let a dementia addled narcissist who has no regard for the public interest do whatever the fuck he wants no matter how destructive and dangerous?

Senator Gallego was a Marine and combat veteran in Iraq. He's seen illegal wars for oil sold to the American people with lies. Don't forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

If "narco terrorism" is a reason to remove a head of state, what is it called when a head of state executes more than 100 fishermen at sea, strikes a foreign nation, and kidnaps their president?

Russia can now roll into the Baltic states. North Korea can cite Trump in taking South Korean land. Expect China to invade Taiwan. India might reclaim Pakistan. You can't put this toothpaste back in the tube. If the US can do it, anyone can.

Trump: "They emptied out, if you think about it, they emptied out all of their mental institutions into our country." (Trump doesn't understand the difference between insane asylums and political asylum claims.)

I'm old enough to remember Pres Obama coming out and speaking to Americans after having killed Osama Bin Laden. tRump instead simply called into Faux News and spoke by telephone about having kidnapped Maduro. It's almost like he doesn't want America to observe how badly his body is decomposing.

Trump on Sheinbaum: "The cartels are running Mexico. She's not running Mexico. We could be politically correct & nice and say, 'Oh, yes, she is.' No no. And I've asked her number times, 'Would you like us to take out the cartels?' ... something is gonna have to be done with Mexico."

World leaders denounce U.S. operation to capture Maduro

ugh....

Jesus Christ, I just saw that Trump even ordered the bombing of the dead body of Hugo Chavez in his mausoleum. You may recall that Trump subscribes to the insane conspiracy theory that Chavez rigged the 2020 presidential election from the grave. That’s how deranged all this is.

The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.

Republicans love to start wars based on LIES especially when OIL is involved!

Now Pete Hegseth has the Coast Guard spending days looking for the people he didn't manage to kill.

Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erica Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag Mediaite

My mini pinscher left us today (not the dog in my avatar) and my bedspread took a hit during his illness...I was looking on amazon...yeah I know my bad...and they recommended this one. I don't know if I should laugh or be creeped out from the spying on me. The min pin would agree I should buy it.

Bragging that you just passed your 3rd dementia test is a great way of telling us they've made you take 3 dementia tests

Don’t let this go unnoticed just because it’s the holidays!

Ban gerrymandering nationwide.

Dr. Jonathan Reiner on CNN ticks through all the evidence we have that something has changed for the worse with Trump's health since October that the White House is covering up

New Years Day surprise: the DOJ isn't simply in possession of 'just' 1 million Epstein documents (revealed recently on Dec. 24th) – but now there are now (at least) 5.2 million documents in the Epstein Files yet to be released.

Totally normal. Nothing to see here 😡