Big Oil spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024. Now Trump is returning the favor, giving them advance notice of his Venezuela attack and inviting them to the White House to discuss how they will divvy up control of the country's oil. Oligarchy in action.

Week 1. We invaded Venezuela. We killed the ACA subsidies. We destroyed the Kennedy Center. We murdered a woman in cold blood over deportations. We threatened Greenland, now we are offering them $100,000 per person to allow us to take over their country. First 7 days. Can we survive a year of this?

I want to be frank with you all: this is a *very* tough read. But it is fully factual, fully sourced, and full of necessary truths about where we are and what is about to happen in America.

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social: "We have an ICE agent who should have been trained not to be in front of a vehicle and never to shoot into a moving vehicle, and yet this happened on [Kristi Noem's] watch. The whole POINT of Homeland Security is to make this country more stable and safe."

“Can we check her pulse?” “No! Back up! Now!” “I’m a physician.” “I don’t care.”

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

We have a central planned economy now Trump orders ‘my representatives’ to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds to lower rates www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/b...

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

First, they lied about what we saw on video when ICE killed Renee Good. Now, they're politicizing the investigation by freezing out Minnesota authorities, so the full truth may never see the light of day. They are breaking our country. We must continue demanding accountability.

This entire regime consists of depraved sociopaths.

An ICE agent saying "I don't care" and preventing an innocent woman who's been shot from receiving medical care are not the words or actions of officers lawfully protecting themselves and the community. These are the words of sociopaths happy with murder.

ICE agents killing people in the streets. The naked extortion of a sovereign state. The National Guard unleashed in American cities. The Justice Department weaponized to prosecute political opponents. The tyranny is on full display — and it's waking America up.

Clarity, @aoc.bsky.social speaks with clarity

Representative Ted Lieu just drew a crystal clear red line: “If any military member, from the generals on down, participates in using force against Greenland without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders.” www.reddit.com/r/UnderRepor...

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.

House Oversight Democrats are demanding Oversight Republicans hold a hearing with Pam Bondi to examine the DOJ's "botched release" of the Epstein files. "Let's be clear: Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice are breaking the law every single day the Epstein files are kept from the public."

JUST IN: Reps. Massie and Khanna say "DOJ cannot be trusted" to release all of the Epstein files, urge a federal judge to appoint an independent overseer to make it happen. khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

Attention book club afficionados! Several book clubs are reading Secrets of the Killing State this spring, and have online conversations that you could join.

Good thing it's just the flu and only killing thousands.....mostly the antivax crowd.. www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/h...

Can you imagine a Republican in today’s age resigning for literally anything? No. Republicans have literally covered up other republicans dementia just to keep power. Kay Granger. Donald is no different.

Hard to be passionate about Democrat politicians even when you support their policies. When current democrats are so helpless they can only complain like the rest of us while horrible things happen and people are hurting. Republicans even when a minority are disruptive and effective. Need better.

Tim Walz: "I don't want to mince words here. Donald Trump and his allies in Washington and in St Paul and online want to make our state a colder, meaner place. They won't to poison our people against each other by attacking our neighbors."

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which helped fund NPR, PBS and many local radio and TV stations — is officially shutting down, months after Congress passed spending cuts that stripped the organization of more than $1 billion in funding.

James Talarico: “The biggest divide in this country is not left vs right, it’s top vs bottom — this new war is just the latest example of how billionaires run this country, run this economy, run this goverment, & now run our foreign policy”

France at the UN Security Council: "The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."

Donald Trump & Republicans let the ACA tax credits expire despite having bipartisan support to extend them. Now, premiums are skyrocketing for working families while billionaires cash in on new tax breaks. This is what happens when the President calls affordability a hoax.

Trump said today: "MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too." If your toddler spoke to you like this, you'd be concerned. Most powerful man in the world, ladies and gents. Still hard to believe, I know.

U.S. is unrecognizable these days, our loss… Across U.S. someone is missing. One year into Trump’s immigration crackdown, construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters. Hospitals in West Virginia have lost doctors & nurses coming from overseas. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

“Trump’s invasion of Venezuela to capture its president cannot be squared with Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter, which bars member nations from deploying “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” Impeach Trump before he does it again

Christopher Strickland was charged with murdering his daughter based on a diagnosis of "Shaken Baby Syndrome." The charges were just dropped after forensic pathologists and a pediatric geneticist determined she died from disease & genetic factors: www.wdsu.com/article/new-...

After an attack on Venezuela, Trump’s threats to annex Greenland have European leaders on edge.

“Researcher Wipes White Supremacist Dating Sites, Leaks Data on okstupid.lol: Security researcher in “Martha Root” in Pink Power Ranger deletes white supremacist dating sites live onstage, leaks 8,000 profiles and 100GB of data at Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) 2025” hackread.com/white-suprem...

Celebrating Our Authors' Media Wins!  MONA'S EYES hit #14 on the NYT Bestseller list! 🎉 @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social (SECRETS OF THE KILLING STATE) featured in NonDoc! @gretchensisson.bsky.social (RELINQUISHED) discussed adoption on KCUR Up to Date & Adoption Uncovered podcast!

Some fun stats for ya’ll about my incredible adventure on the Secrets of the Killing State Fall 2025 book tour!

The EPA has scrubbed most of its website of any mention that human activity is driving climate change.

And now (queue drum roll) the final leg of the tour—Arkansas and Oklahoma! We did 3 events in Arkansas, every one of them so special.

It’s the final recap of the 2025 SKS tour—I can’t believe this adventure of a lifetime is over! This last leg was jam-packed, so here’s Part 1–Tennessee!

Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The guy's race and nationality are less relevant than the fact a CIA contractor shot two National Guard soldiers

SECRETS OF THE KILLING STATE author @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social interviewed on KUAR-FM/Little Rock Public Radio!  Congratulations to all!  #WeeklyWins #Forbes #Booklist #ArtBooks #RadioInterview #BookSky

Unbelievable it’s come to this! I hope Ukraine & Europe have an actionable plan B… www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-sen...

This is deeply concerning

X's new location transparency feature shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., and also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.

„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences. It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.

Accidentally? “Seeing all of these MAGA accounts get exposed as foreign actors trying to destroy the United States is a complete vindication of Democrats, like myself and many on here, who have been warning about this”. www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...

The failing financial policies of this regime are running up the national debt at an alarming rate, destroying our economy as quickly as they can…

Less than a year from the midterm elections, state and local voting officials from both major political parties are actively preparing for the possibility of interference by the Trump administration.