Sometimes the information coming from anonymous sources in the White House is so incredibly weird it's hard to decide whether it's a troll or if it's true...because at this point, nothing is too fantabulous to dismiss.

HCR notes the actions of the Trump administration following their foray into Venezuela in her latest newsletter...

January 5, 1923: A two day rampage by a white vigilante mob in Rosewood, Florida ends, leaving the predominantly black town burned to the ground.

Good morning and welcome to Monday... source: www.flickr.com/photos/seren...

Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep... 💤

Trader Joe’s totes are being carried around the world but because there are no Trader Joe’s stores abroad, the bags are being resold for up to $10,000. You'll never look at a Trader Joe's tote the same way again. MSN link gets you around the WSJ paywall: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

January 4, 1967: Letter to the editor of the Fort Lauderdale News describes how some South Florida residents enjoy the local painted buntings. 🪶

911 love... #Porsche via @vividcloudofwar.bsky.social X

Our NRA World: Road rager shoots two people on an Arizona highway. Liberty!

"Trying to present a regime-change plan as a mere law enforcement operation, aimed at bringing a suspect before US courts, can only satisfy those utterly indifferent to US law. That is clearly the case for Secretary of State Marco Rubio..."

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

Apparently 2026 saw its shadow and there will be six more weeks of 2025.

"President Donald Trump issued a not-so-veiled threat against the new Venezuelan leader, Delcy Rodríguez, saying that 'if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.'" Does he really mean what I think he means?

It was nice for awhile when we thought there was a slim chance that the military would push back on blatantly illegal orders.

Based upon the last 36 hours, I'm pretty sure that a majority of Americans have never heard the saying "the ends don't justify the means" let alone know what it means or, if they have, like seemingly everything else these days, it doesn't matter.

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela... a turnaround after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier that the U.S. would be running Venezuela..." Such a friggin' 🤡 show...

Your #CraftBeer Name Of The Day... Cerebral Brewing Burner Phone [Aurora, Colorado] 🍻

"We leave you this Sunday Morning along the frozen shores of Lake Champlain in upper New York State. Videographer: Jamie McDonald." via CBS Sunday Morning

"'Gossip shows talk about her every day, about her outfits, about her stylist, about her appearances,' he said, a reference to Ms. Guilfoyle’s embrace of the Trump style for women — Rapunzel hair, false eyelashes, plumped lips, figure-hugging sheath dresses and high heels." Classy. 🎁🔗

The Indictment Against Nicolás Maduro...

"Since Mr. Trump’s re-election, Ms. Machado has gone out of her way to please him, calling him a 'champion of freedom,' mimicking his talking points on election fraud in the United States and even dedicating her Peace Prize to him. It was in vain." *sad trombone* 🎁🔗

Classic... 1965 Buick Electra via mecum www.mecum.com/lots/1157461...

Donald the Dove

Our NRA World: Florida gunslinger shoots and kills his wife and wounds his stepdaughter then kills himself because...an argument over Monday Night Football.

It's truly impressive how the Florida GOP is always inventing new ways to feed the strenuous conservative grifting industry.

"Venezuelans want change in their quality of life; they want to regain more control over their futures and not be beholden to corrupt networks of power. They want a state with the capacity to honor its obligations, whose power is balanced and limited." 🎁🔗

"Saturday marked the formal debut of an imperial America, led by a president who recognizes no law, save that of the jungle." Our Canadian friends understand the threat that Trump poses to the hemisphere and to the world. 🎁🔗

"A 16-year-old Ohio girl has died from the flu, marking the state’s first pediatric flu death this year..." "Ryleigh did not receive a flu shot this year." Would she still be alive if she had received a flu shot? We'll never know. And that's a tragic shame.

Hey, a statement with actual substance.

"...Trump informed the American people of what had happened in Caracas by calling in to Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel from Mar-a-Lago to describe the strikes and the extraction of Maduro and Flores." HCR describes yesterday's White House circus acts in her latest...

South Florida Sunday Front Pages... 🗞️

January 4, 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers the State of The Union address in which he lays out his "Great Society" initiative that urged the power of the federal government be used to "enrich and elevate our national life" by ending poverty and racial injustice.

Good morning and welcome to Sunday... source: www.tumblr.com/captvreme/71...

Enjoy your evening... source: coffee-and-cusswords.tumblr.com/post/8025951...

It strikes me as odd that these DEA agents don't feel the need to mask up as they are photographed escorting a supposed notorious narco-terrorist yet agents arresting a mother on immigration charges at a Walmart are so frightened of retribution they have nothing but their eyes showing. 🤔

Rubio during the press conference today... "This was not the kind of mission that you can do congressional notification on. It was a trigger-based mission..." But they *did* have the time to notify the @washingtonpost.com and @nytimes.com. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On January 3, 1977, Miami News columnist Howard Kleinberg pens a wonderful essay for the Miami News about how you can impress out of town visitors with a drive down to Key West while, at the same time, dream about the day that you never make the return trip back to Miami.

Stetson Law should be embarrassed by the conduct and ignorance of one of their alumni, AG Pamela Jo Bondi. "Justice in the American system is supposed to be blind and impartial. By contrast, Bondi’s vow of wrathful punishment is profoundly illiberal, suggesting a lust for criminal vengeance."

January 3, 2000: The final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.

"But other reasons for older people to be vaccinated are also emerging. They are known, in doctor-speak, as off-target benefits, meaning that the shots do good things beyond preventing the diseases they were designed to avert." There are more good reasons for the elderly to get vaccinated... 🎁🔗

911 love... #Porsche via www.tumblr.com/zipsinaz/804...

The Moon!

Four minute video from @adamkinzinger.substack.com with some interesting analysis about Venezuela...

"...Operation Southern Spear may ultimately be remembered not as the liberation of Venezuela, but as the moment the United States openly abandoned the constraints that once distinguished it from the very regimes it opposes." Excellent, excellent analysis from @avindman.bsky.social...

Our NRA World: 30yo Utah gunslinger fires a shot at another vehicle while road raging on New Year's Eve. Freedom!

Cannot stress enough how regime change in Cuba is the sole animating issue for Rubio, he views every other horror as justified if it comes in service of that goal

Some ring-necked ducks stopped by the SFDB lake for a quick visit this afternoon. I managed to get a couple shots before they headed out. 🪶

The Venezuelans will greet us as liberators.

”We could have on an expert in global affairs and conflict, but that would be elitist. So we’re here at an Autozone in Grand Rapids to ask Larry, Chet, Pablo and JD what they think about invading Venezuela and does this make Trump look super cool, while my boss Bari glares from the coolant aisle”

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