The Official Narrative vs. The Uncomfortable Truth the surface, the events of Saturday, January 3, 2026, play out like a Hollywood script tailored for a prime-time victory lap. In a daring, middle-of-the-night operation codenamed

The constitutional analysis does not change based on which triggers a state selects, because the underlying mechanism remains the same: the state is declining to volunteer its resources for immoral purposes, which it has always had the right to do.

Certainly, the overthrow of our constitutional order could have been stopped by minimally responsible House and Senate Republican majorities. But we cannot ignore the Supreme Court’s responsibility for wrecking the Constitution.

Meanwhile, the Trump regime is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism, both in Venezuela and elsewhere in Latin America. Asked tonight whether the United States would conduct an operation against Colombia, Trump said, cy.

Here’s the part that should genuinely alarm anyone who understands precedent: once the United States normalizes the grabbing of foreign leaders, it hands every strongman on earth a permission slip.

Trump also surely hoped that abducting Maduro would help him politically. The abduction pushed the Epstein files out of the headlines for a few days. And Trump is definitely trying to wag the dog,

Yesterday, as the Venezuela story unfolded in real time, two assertions from Donald Trump caused immediate consternation and confusion. First, Trump said the United States intended to “run” Venezuela for a period of time.

Why two hours is a very long time In modern special operations doctrine, forced takedowns are measured in minutes, not hours. If a target is hostile and defended, speed and violence of action are decisive. Dwell time is minimized.

Not long ago, people were joking about regime change like it was some relic of the Cold War: a word you only saw in dusty history books about the Bay of Pigs and Iraq. That was before January 3, 2026-the day Donald Trump did it again,

Our Founders never envisaged a future where an entire political party would be captured by a small group of oligarchs politically led by a demagogue, who would then abandon the ideals expressed in the Declaration and the Constitution.

From a purely tactical standpoint, it’s extraordinary. Brilliant. Extracting a heavily guarded head of state from a hostile capital without conventional ground forces is the kind of operation military planners study for decades. This wasn’t brute force. It was mastery.

The freakout didn’t stop at the Qurans. It escalated when Mamdani did something the right wing finds far more offensive than symbolism. One of his first moves was scrapping a set of executive orders about Israel that most New Yorkers didn’t even know existed because

Debunking Shirley’s “reporting” The problematic nature of Shirley’s videos has been covered by many in the past few days, including by local news affiliates, so I’ll just briefly note the issues here, as excellently summarized by Adam Mockler.

John Roberts leads a Court that includes two members who are credibly accused of accepting expensive vacations and other tributes from wealthy men with an interest in the outcome of cases that come before the Court they sit on.

It is all a farce. Why? Because Bob Iger and Paramount’s Shari Redstone have bent when they should have stood. They cracked like an egg and capitulated to government power by settling absurdist lawsuits, which were actually open air extortion.

A Death Scene, Carefully Staged On December 27, reports began circulating that Kapustin had been killed during a combat mission in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The reports emerged through Telegram channels connected

Most people think Donald Trump is unraveling because of external pressure. The indictments. The courts. The media.

Expanded reports of helicopters and possible ground activity Meanwhile, in the past hour, multiple reporters and eyewitness accounts have described sustained helicopter activity over Caracas, beyond the low-flying fixed-wing aircraft reported earlier.

As I said in my speech on 9/2, our members come from all over the nation, with our own experiences, beliefs and communities. We want different things out of our government sometimes. We see the world differently, we love differently and we are all beautifully imperfect in our own way.

Hidden within the executive order on the structure of the Mayor’s office is a significant though subtle shift in the hierarchy of the NYPD. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, the symbol of national security astride a city that is

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 18, 2025, by a near unanimous vote. One day later, the United States Senate passed it unanimously. The law was clear. The deadline was not ambiguous.

Chronic venous insufficiency doesn’t show up overnight, it develops over years, it is common in older, obese, sedentary men with poor cardiovascular health, in other words, Donald Trump’s biography. We’ve all seen the signs stacking up, the

The Grotesque Irony Here’s the real slap: Trump’s inner circle doesn’t just tolerate delusion. They celebrate it. They dance amid a glittering mirage while the American dream is being auctioned off to the highest bidder,

We’re paying a neurochemical tax that the other side never pays. And some of us have been paying it for years. Being right early often means being alone. The recognition doesn’t come when you make the call; it comes later, if at all.

In January 2025, days before Trump’s second inauguration, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would end its third-party fact-checking program in the United States, citing the political environment and a desire to return to “free

That’s why they’ve already successfully passed previously-unthinkable major voter suppression laws in 18 states and have them pending in many more. They’ve changed the law in

Mamdani’s speech was a declaration of a new kind of modern politics that focuses on “freedom to” rather than “freedom from.” For decades, the Republican Party has called for dismantling the government, arguing that regulations and taxes were destroying Americans’ freedom from constraints.

Over and over again, Jack Smith returns to the same foundational point, one that detonates years of talking points. He did not charge Donald Trump because Democrats wanted him to. He charged him because, in his professional

But let me be clear—we are not in any kind of clear yet. While today is a big win to start 2026, there are also dangerous forces of disinformation working hard to divide us, to convince us to wage culture wars against one another, and to prevent a change to the status quo.

The Minnesota Somali Context (That Often Goes Unmentioned) Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the United States, concentrated primarily in Minneapolis–St. Paul. The roots of this community go back to the 1990s, when the

And 2025 is not the end of the Trump efforts to overturn American democracy and to greatly reduce its non-white population. Instead of focusing on governing to meet America’s needs, the White Christian Nationalists in the administration say

Because fear…pure…paralyzing fear…has always been the accelerant of authoritarian movements. It makes good people freeze. It convinces them they’re already beaten. It keeps them passive…while a loud minority pretends inevitability.

Pressing forward The fact that Trump and this regime have been blocked or stymied in myriad ways this year does not mean they will be in 2026. Nor does it erase the pain that they have caused for so many.

If you look at this decision psychologically…not nutritionally…something else becomes obvious very quickly: This policy is not about improving health. It’s about how power thinks about poor people. Moral Judgment, Rebranded as Medicine

That love will be our guide as we pursue our agenda. Here, where the language of the New Deal was born, we will return the vast resources of this city to the workers who call it home.

Affordability There’s a lot of good news about New York, which offers a remarkably good quality of life these days — if you can afford a place to live. Which is, of course, the city’s biggest problem. Last summer the West Side Rag ran an article titled

The deposition also quietly demolished the most persistent lie still floating through polite media spaces: that Trump’s actions were merely speech. Smith drew a bright line between protected expression and a coordinated scheme built on

This Wasn’t About Drama. It Was About Permanence. Jack Smith didn’t show up to perform. He showed up to freeze the narrative in place. That’s the part Trumpworld either doesn’t understand…or is pretending not to understand for the cameras.

So, what can you do? Here are the 10 most important actions you can take in 2026: 1. Protect vulnerable immigrant communities. 2. Protect LGBTQ+ members of your community.

My 2026 New Year’s resolution is simple and it is non negotiable. I am doubling down. Doubling down on calling out criminals in positions of power.

None of these tools will transfer. A Democratic president attempting to invoke the immunity ruling, the removal power, or the elimination of nationwide injunctions would discover new limits, new doctrines, new procedural barriers.

The judge also addressed statements by Donald Trump and Kristi Noem in which people under TPS were broadly portrayed as violent criminals. Such statements, Thompson wrote, support the suspicion of racist motives.

Any project that aims to be truly transformative cannot be left or right. It has to be for working-class people. Working-class people aren’t a monolith. They come from every walk of life, every race, every background, nationality, gender, and identity.

According to a bombshell report from *The Wall Street Journal* released today, the relationship between Mar-a-Lago and Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just social; it was operational. For years, the club didn't just tolerate Epstein; it served as a procurement center.

One hundred and eighty-four days from now the United States of America will celebrate 250 years of independence with bread and circuses on the White House grounds. A combat arena will be built next to the obliterated East Wing to accommodate a UFC cage match broadcast on the Ellison

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