Checks out.

1/7/2026- Infamy www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/ja...

Five years ago.

Sickening — the White House has put up a site about 1/6 painting himself as a hero and Pelosi, The Capitol Police, and Mike Pence as the villains. An attempt to rewrite history before our eyes. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

Reformed January 6th participant (who refused a pardon): “You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent.”

On this day, remember. Jack Smith, special prosecutor: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

It's been 5 years since the attack on the U.S. Capitol anntelnaes.substack.com/p/its-been-5...

Today is the fifth anniversary of one of the darkest days in U.S. history, an attempt to use brute force to block the lawful transfer of presidential power. We are a nation of laws, not violence.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

This new war in Venezuela is deeply corrupt. I will never vote to send someone’s son or daughter to war to make oil executives richer.

"Five years ago, almost to the day, Trump launched an assault on our Capitol ... Maduro’s regime isn’t the first government Trump has tried to topple in our hemisphere. It’s the second." Which Countries Will Trump Invade Next? He’s Given Us a Guide. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

We’re old enough to remember when Congress existed

FYI: According to the federal DEA, China is the primary source of fentanyl in the United States. We haven’t bombed China nor arrested its leader. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

Anything is possible with these people. Not worth trying to figure out. Better to figure out how to thwart them. Trump seems more unhinged by the minute.

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"An 80-year-old woman, Rosa González, was killed when a U.S. bomb slammed into her three-story apartment complex in a coastal neighborhood near the Caracas airport.... one of about 40 Venezuelans, both soldiers and civilians, killed Saturday ... America’s latest and maybe its strangest yet" war.

We need to be honest with ourselves and our leaders about Venezuela We are a rogue state, a global pariah Trump is ruling as a dictator, period An axis of evil wants to carve up small, resource-rich nations The message for 2026 is clear: No kings! My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Happening now: several hundred people are pouring into Chicago's downtown Federal Plaza. It's 25 degrees outside. Organizers are leading the crowd in a chant of, "no boots on the ground, no bombs in the air!" Two protesters hold a large banner reading, "no war for Venezuela oil."

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

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Venezuela Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

Oil and distraction Trump attacks Venezuela anntelnaes.substack.com/p/oil-and-di...

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

FOX NEWS: What are your expectations when you get briefings from senior Trump administration officials in the coming days? GALLEGO: Well, they're just gonna lie

After listening to Trump talking about running Venezuela... (cartoon from 2003)

"Yet Trump is best suited to military operations that are quick and discrete ... as they do not require sustained focus or resolve. He is most ill-suited, I think, to a regime change war against a country with lucrative natural resources. "

The point is that if Maduro is really gone, Gonzalez and Machado are the leaders, not some general

Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.

I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.

A Mad King has usurped the power of Congress—which represents the American people. That is, he has seized power that belongs to you and me collectively. He has declared war without consultation with or approval from Congress. And with no imminent threat. This is a profound betrayal of the republic.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

Wait, they're going to charge Maduro, who is a Venezuelan citizen, with Possession of Machineguns in an American court? Why are they even bothering with courts if they're going to be that silly?

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

3) Yet because rich and powerful people have invested in it, it’s being forced on us as if our lives depended on it. I suppose if their enthusiasm has created a bubble that will burst, in some ways, our lives do depend on it. But that says nothing about the value and efficacy of the product itself.

Mamdani is showing the next Democratic president what to do in 2029

This is brilliant! Check out the website: www.trumpkennedycenter.org "A national cultural center dedicated to legacy, loyalty, and the careful presentation of history... What is remembered matters. What is omitted matters more." ... gift article from The NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/u...

Reagan, 1981: “In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Clinton, 1996: “I say again, the era of big government is over. But we cannot go back to the era of fending for yourself.” Mamdani, 2026:

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Off to a good start

I’m always stunned to read passages like this. The human cost of not extending Obamacare subsidies becomes meaningful to a Congressperson only when she learns that “her two adult daughters“ will be affected.

Good riddance to 2025 Good riddance to: Petulence instead of governance Cruelty rather than empathy Disinformation in lieu to honesty

Low numbers like you wouldn’t believe! www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

12/31/2025- The Resolution www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/de...

Happy 79th Birthday to Patti Smith.

Very sad news. She was my daughter‘s high school classmate. An exemplary young woman. May she rest in peace.