Venezuela open to oil deal, says Rodríguez, as Vance claims US ‘controls’ country’s resources

These two images are the party affiliations of elected officials who were guests on Fox News vs. PBS. In some cases I included lawmakers who were interviewed by a Fox News correspondent too. No kidding this is what they look like. PBS was almost perfectly 50/50.

Make it viral.

This breaks my heart.

Read it again. Trump and Russia are bargaining, using other countries as chips. apnews.com/article/russ...

A second term Republican President in clear cognitive decline running an offshore slush fund for covert activities in Latin America that'll end up bolstering the same drug-running dictators he was supposedly against? Love these very precedented times!

🔴Inside the Dystopian Silicon Valley Plot to Annex Venezuela for Oil That America Can’t Afford Trump’s Venezuelan assault opens the door to his Big Tech oligarch supporters’ dreams of creating an anti-democratic ‘Network State’ in the country, reports Nafeez Ahmed bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/i...

Just imagine if rather than flushing a billion dollars down the toilet every four years on ineffectual TV ads in Pennsylvania, Democratic donors put that money into creating a durable information infrastructure the way Republicans have

Trump’s madcap escapades in Venezuela and at Greenland won’t change the increases coming at Americans in health care costs and electric bill costs and grocery costs — for which Republicans are directly responsible.

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

Marco Rubio, we salute you? What a an abomination. CBS News is done.

She warned us during the immunity arguments. And John Roberts took the predetermined opinion for himself.

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.

Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is gonna prosecute me under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for saying something that is in the Uniform Code of Military Justice — It’s nonsense — What I said in November is the exact same thing Pete Hegseth said in 2016. This is about stifling people’s speech”

The United States is behaving like a rogue state. The President has carried out an illegal act of war, kidnapped a foreign head of state, and is now threatening military action against NATO allies. This is a constitutional crisis. Impeachment must be on the table.

Jared Kushner has somehow found a place at Coalition of the Willing press conference with Scholz, Zelensky, Macron, Starmer and Witkoff. Kushner has no official position in the US government.

We failed to hold the right-wing oligarchs accountable for the coup on January 6th, Russian interference, the subprime housing crisis, the WMD lie, Iran Contra, Watergate, and the confederacy. Elect people who will.

🚨BREAKING: More than two weeks past its statutory deadline, the DOJ has released less than 1% of its Epstein documents and it will continue to be in violation of the law for the foreseeable future. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Walz: "If they have emails showing that I have committed fraud, you should get those! Why aren't they putting them out there? Why aren't they turning them over to prosecutors? Right now they're hiding behind a veil of innuendo. They're protecting the biggest fraudster in the White House."

Trump’s former Russia adviser says Russia offered U.S. free rein in Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

Paul Singer, whose firm owns the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, spent millions in 2024 to re-elect Trump. Now, after Trump's invasion of Venezuela on behalf of Big Oil, he's set to cash in on his investment. A government of, by, and for the billionaires.

Now that Trump is trying to hand Venezuela to US oil companies, that incentivizes execs to give big donations to his PAC and WH ballroom in a "vicious circle" of corruption, @normeisen.bsky.social says. MTG gets how this betrays MAGA. On the pod Norm lays it all out: newrepublic.com/article/2048...

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"Trump’s new world order is now very much a reality. It has no obvious rules, no real allies, celebrates the jungle and is almost always about money. There is a lot of wealth under Venezuela’s soil. Trump is now committed to extracting it." My column. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/08b22b7a-4...

Thanks to Trump, Russia makes biggest battleground gains in 2025 since first year of war, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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😡🤦‍♀️unbelievable

Look at this 1930 map. See the bottom? That's Venezuela. See the top? That's Greenland. Know who drew the map? Joshua Haldeman - Elon Musk's Grandfather. Elon, and other Silicon Valley leaders have convinced Trump/Vance to annex independent nations. It's about OIL and TERRITORY.

Trump is shopping for marble as millions of Americans' health insurance premiums double and triple.

Ukraine Warns Russia Is Preparing a Mass-Casualty False-Flag Attack Ahead of Orthodox Christmas

Trump Extends Palm Beach Getaway, Shops for Ballroom Trump visited his golf club 13 times so far during his 16 day trip meidasnews.com/news/trump-e...

It’s 2026. A convicted felon is still the President. He continues to break laws, disregard the Constitution, & lie. He will do anything to protect himself & the other pedophiles listed in the Epstein files. The Republican Congress is allowing the procrastination to continue.

And this is why we are NEVER going to see one smidgen of justice for the Epstein victims.

We now have additional reporting that 47 definitely knew about Epstein raping his own Mar-a-Lago employees, but he never reported it to law enforcement.

Here’s what caught my eye this week: The CIA loses a nuke on a mountain. Putin successful recruitment of Steve Witkoff. And how the arguments for Venezuela sound eerily like the arguments for the Iraq War—up to and including “weapons of mass destruction.” open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...

In a master piece of reporting, the Times’s Adam Entous demonstrates the lasting truth of Eisenhower’s observation that “a good process does not guarantee a good outcome, but a bad process virtually guarantees a bad outcome. newsletter.ivodaalder.com/p/no-process...

The President of the United States is a criminal. Thank you for your service, Jack Smith.

The "parasite class" is a perfect description of Trump and his billionaire backers.

TEAM ORCA: From Jeff Bezos to Michael Jordan, these are the billionaire superyacht owners currently anchored in St. Barts and the surrounding Caribbean islands for New Year’s Eve. www.forbes.com/sites/jimdob...

From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favor.

I had missed this whole interview, but damn. Respect to Clooney

"Even the most egregious cases seem to quickly fade from public consciousness, and in that way, they’re clearly meant to overwhelm us and make us think twice about exercising our rights." - @attorneynora.bsky.social

I’m trying to think what would have happened if, during the Mississippi welfare fraud scandal between 2020 and 2023, the Biden administration had halted *all* federal welfare funding to Mississippi. The right would have lost it; Fox & GOP would have called for an armed revolt.

Trump’s war on wind power has one very big exception: The president’s sons are using scarce clean energy to mine for bitcoins.

LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for Months “while she was under his authority”

This is not only devastating to everyone about to lose the ability to afford insurance, it will devastate hospitals as uncompensated care explodes, ERs will be the default and costs will be pushed back onto everyone else. This is how you break a health care system on purpose while screaming fraud.