New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.” This is Nick’s story.

What a f-ing second - the President will use money extorted from a foreign government to fund spending without any congressional approval? Forget the impact on Venezuela, this is full-blown dictatorship in the USA.

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

The future of propaganda studies is going to be lit. So much raw, primary source material to work with. Streams of it running directly out of the U.S. White House at the moment. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

Trump’s White House has a webpage about January 6, 2021. Its distorted narrative is filled with lies and falsely claims: “In truth, it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection by certifying a fraud-ridden election, ignoring widespread irregularities, and weaponizing federal agencies…”

Imagine looking at the period after WWII and especially after the Cold War as an era of American weakness. Unless, I suppose, if becoming the strongest, wealthiest country in history sounds bad to you because some brown people were a part oft, and you'd rather be weaker if it means being whiter.

Coincidentally, these are also States with governors who might be running for president in 2028. It's an attempt to clip their wings and deflate their chances.

So much of RFK Jr's MAGA anti-vaxx move deeply problematic. Science-free, arbitrary, nonsensical, & made without any real expert input. But the fearmorgering lies might do most damage. Reality: these vaccines safe, effective, studied, monitored, etc. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

SHE WARNED US: "The stakes this time are higher, in part because of the SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity. Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails."

We can't believe we have to say this so early in 2026, but here we go: VACCINES WORK. VACCINES SAVE LIVES.

Stephen Miller is Trump’s most important and influential aide because he channels and shares the president’s worldview. His cold-blooded assessment that might makes right is the one immutable law of history and is now the guiding concept behind US foreign policy…

OMG.

Ugh.

That statutory provision requires due process to be afforded to Senator Kelly

Here are some choice quotes from Jack Smith’s testimony about the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “..the evidence made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy.”

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

It is wildly inappropriate for the Trump Admin to go after its political critics like this—let alone heroes like Sen. Kelly. Kelly is a patriot who has always put our American democracy first and always supported our servicemembers and the rule of law. Something neither Trump or Hegseth can say.

Around 2am ET, the president posted ~100 times on Truth Social. Many things twice.

From Katie Miller on X Steven Goebbels Miller wife Her caption "soon" Response from the Ambassador from Denmark, Jasper Meller Serensen..has a word for Katie GREENLAND IS A PART OF NATO.... It is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark Founding member of the Alliance #Greenland

“The Tdap vaccine against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough) is recommended for adults every 10 years, with vaccination among older adults often prompted by the birth of a grandchild, who cannot be fully vaccinated for months. It was associated with a one-third decline in dementia.”

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), run by Oz and his boss, RFK Jr., will no longer require physicians to report vaccination rates. Instead, they plan to start having doctors report if they’ve discussed “alternative” vaccine schedules.

The paper that buried the leak about the Venezuela mission vs the publication that didn’t.

We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.

The War Crimes Act prohibits pillaging resources. Ask the fucking follow up question.

It seems increasingly clear that the President of the United States just made up a bunch of stuff about the future of Venezuela and the American role in its governance after he extracted Maduro and his wife, and now his cabinet secretaries are having to walk it all back.

Trump is threatening to steal Greenland. That’s what dictators and rogue heads of state do.

In an interview with @michaelscherer.bsky.social , Donald Trump threatened Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez, with a fate worse than Maduro’s; defended regime change in the country; and expressed renewed interest in the U.S. seizing Greenland.

This is the tip of the iceberg. As detailed in 2020 bestseller Proof of Corruption, Trump used Erik Prince, Rudy Giuliani and a megadonor to launch clandestine negotiations in Venezuela that would've effectuated some version of the deal. America is being lied to every which way.

I keep marveling at the construction of an overwhelmingly powerful unitary executive around someone who is almost entirely uninterested in the direction and priorities and welfare of the nation.

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

Insider trading on war crimes seems like peak criminality.

This is very good, for reasons that may strike many as irritating but I think are important. The admin is going to invoke a string of executive branch interpretations of law. It's useful to know what those are. This post describes w/out endorsing them or suggesting they make everything legal.

My quick take on the legality of the Venezuela invasion. open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

Oh www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

This is definitely not a SCIF and, among many other things, this alone is a major national security breach. Random third rate intelligence agencies would have known about this attack before Congressional leaders did.

Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America into war. He is unaccountable to America. He is lawless. He only seeks conflict to cover up for his failures. Congress must step up and reassert its power. No more forever wars.

Next Democratic president should nationalize Amazon as revenge

It was almost exactly six years ago that Trump told us he thirsted to destroy the important cultural sites of other nations just to desecrate them and was told in reply—unambiguously—that this was a war crime. Today he apparently bombed a culturally significant mausoleum. www.bbc.com/news/world-m...

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum condemns the US invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president out of fear that the US may also violate Mexican sovereignty & Trump then tells Fox News that “something is gonna have to be done” about the Mexican President too.

He needs to be impeached, removed, and extradited for war crimes prosecution.

I'm losing track of how many countries a man livid he wasn't given the Nobel Peace Prize has illegally bombed. Iran. Venezuela. Nigeria. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Pakistan. Somalia. Syria. Yemen. Not to mention threatening to annex Greenland and Canada and invade Panama.

Some updates: CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.

This is why they want us talking about day care centers and $500 boots.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Judge slams Noem over termination of temporary legal status for 60,000 immigrants missouriindependent.com/2026/01/02/r...

Trump (at 2am): If Iran 'shots' and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go.