Everyone: this is great advertising for Hilton! Hilton: whoa not so fast, we suck actually

Hope this was a heroic staffer and not an accident.

I’d like to see the “NATO (except US)” signal chat rn

My summary of this whole controversy over the past three weeks and two meetings is “This could have been an email.”

can’t be said enough how self deluding it is to think of this is as far fetched or as some kind of a joke. this is the most humorless man on the planet and he’s an agenda setter.

Actual exchange from court today: Me: I can't do January 20 for the hearing, your honor, because I'm having surgery, but I can do [dates in February] Judge: Ordinarily I'd accommodate medical issues, but not for people like you. Attend from the hospital if you have to.

meanwhile, here in Illinois…

I was hoping when large media covered Mobile Fortify, the ICE facial app we revealed in June, it would add substantial information. Instead this front page WSJ piece rehashes our reporting, presents it as new attributed to officials, and forgets to capitalize M in 404 Media bsky.app/profile/cori...

On the other side of this, afaik every hotel ICE/CBP was confirmed to have stayed at in the Chicago area was a Marriott property.

Minneapolis:

“You know, a lot of Cubans were killed yesterday,” U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew Sunday night from Florida back to Washington. “There was a lot of death on the other side. No death on our side.”

Everyone is talking about the headlines in the Maduro indictment. Very few are talking about the legal gymnastics inside it—especially flight allegations, terrorism designations, and immunity workaround. I read the whole thing. Here’s what DOJ is actually doing. open.substack.com/pub/objectio...

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Imagine having your parents brutally murdered and then having to do this because the fucking President of the United States is so disgusting.

lol this team is so fun even if it gives me a stroke

No matter how dumb things seem, they can apparently always be dumber: "Mr. Maduro's regular public dancing and other displays of nonchalance in recent weeks helped persuade some on the Trump team that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and trying to call what he believed to be a bluff"

NYT is reporting at least 80 Venezuelan’s dead after this American attack. No breakdown on how many were civilians. That’s in addition to the 115 people the US military has recently killed in boats.

just one more law to stop the man above the law

WELKER: Is the Cuban government the Trump administration's next target? MARCO RUBIO: Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem. Yeah. WELKER: Is that a yes? RUBIO: I think they're in a lot of trouble, yes

A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview: "If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."

Holding stories like this is a longstanding practice and also completely antithetical to the entire purpose of journalism. RIP Gawker.

just realized this is only six months away

Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.

(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops .. @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

The Chicago protest against the U.S. attack on Venezuela has stepped off to march through the downtown area. Hundreds have joined the march.

March is heading up toward Trump Tower now. Organizers stopped briefly in the intersection to call attention to common threads between Israeli occupation of Gaza and U.S. military intervention in Latin America. People inside the shops on Michigan Avenue and lined up for the Nutella store look on.

Sorry for limited skeets; frozen fingers! Large Chicago crowd has hit the streets in protest of the U.S. bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro.

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."

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Trump now literally plagiarizing from the neocon playbook on Iraq:

A lot of people have learned literally nothing in my whole lifetime

they have literally never gotten over the Obama situation room photo for the bin Laden raid

there is no constituency that needs you to fall all over yourself to call Maduro illegitimate before you dare criticize Trump. Voters have been down this road before. No one thought Saddam Hussein was a nice guy. Criticism of Maduro at this stage correctly reads as a defense of Trump to most people.

Lol

probably napping, dreaming about repealing Section 230 before retirement

Rodriguez: "We are ready to defend Venezuela. We are ready to defend our natural resources, which should aid our national development" Rodriguez does not sound like she's willing to be a US puppet, which is what Trump suggested earlier today.

“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”

Chicago!

I also remember when we couldn't ask El Salvador to put a guy we illegally deported there back on a plane to the US because that would violate their national sovereignty

“the new government will be predicated on welcoming foreign direct investment from day one.”

oh my god he posted so many action shots from the makeshift mar a lago situation room and they were just looking at tweets together on a gigantic screen

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin's statement on why he voted to confirm Marco Rubio for Secretary of State:

JFC.

Everything is infuriating and the people in charge are irrevocably evil.

has anyone asked how many people US troops killed today?

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

He's doing foreign policy like a private equity firm.

rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target