U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

Trump really doesn’t want the world to know what is the truth behind the #Epstein #CoverUp #Venezuela

Welcome to America, where we’ll arrest YOUR president for crimes but not OURS

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It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump is facing sharp criticism for bypassing Congress and conducting an overnight military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, the authoritarian leader of Venezuela, and bring him to the United States to stand trial. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I told you their goal was to bring resource extraction colonialism back. 👇 Trump: we’re gonna run Venezuela

This asshole who promotes himself as the "Peace President" sure likes to bomb HELLA lot of countries.

It isn't about fentanyl. If so, he would've attacked Mexico and China. It isn't about drug trafficking. If so, he wouldn't have pardoned the President of Honduras. It isn't about election integrity. If so, he wouldn't have tried to steal an election here. It's. About. The. Oil.

😭 No doubts

This is about plunder and power. PeePeePower PedoPlunderPower

FIFA wants its Piss Prize back.

So the the FIFA Peace Prize truly was meaningless after all?

🚨 #GVerse via @calltoactivism.bsky.social Marco Rubio says Maduro will face justice in U.S. courts. So in other words, foreign presidents can be held accountable for crimes in our country. But our own presidents cannot.

More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”

The GOP appears to be preoccupied with personal financial gain, resulting in a lack of action on pressing issues.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

I just listened to the video that Heather Cox Richardson made this morning. As usual, it was informative, uplifting and spurred me to action. I am sending emails today to my two senators asking them to hold Trump accountable for this military incursion.

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Release the Trump and Epstein Pedo files!!

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Trump addresses the nation from Mar A Lardo to justify his invasion of Venezuela.

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Only 3 years left

DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Oh, this will definitely get him that Nobel Peace Prize he's craving so much...

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Michael Jordan...by me.

Let me go ahead and make my first "controversial" statement of 2026: White, ultra-conservative, evangelical "Christian" men are the whiniest, "most victimized" snowflake beyotches on the planet. Happy New Year!

All statements like this that Trump makes about ANYONE, he is PROJECTING. That is, Donald Trump is unconsciously talking about himself.

Another cognitive test aced.

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Don’t worry, no matter how many Americans are sent to die in the Middle East, Netanyahu’s son will still be partying in Miami Beach.

California residents!

Social Security is our money that we put aside for retirement. It does not belong to Congress.

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Nearly 40 scientists are aboard the Araon, an icebreaker heading for Antarctica’s fastest-melting glaciers. Our journalists are traveling with them for a two-month expedition that could unearth crucial data about rising sea levels. Here’s a tour of the ship. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/cl...

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