I’ve covered or followed up on a lot of cases of alleged excessive force or shootings by law enforcement, and I find them terribly sad, and the ‘truth’ often very slow and difficult to discern. This one is replaying all the worst aspects, in heightened ways. It’s all too depressing.

Am I confused, or does the Free Press have the facts wrong here in its editorial calling for caution in jumping to conclusions

Stent Hoyer, 86, announces he’s not running for re-election, adding to the departure of the 13 remaining pre-Boomer members of the House of Representatives.

The RNC’s “RNC Research” (oppo info) X account has tweeted about the Minneapolis ICE incident more than three dozen times in the past 24 hours, repeatedly describing the deceased as a “radical violent lunatic” and insulting Democrats who question the shooting.

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

I’m heading out tonight to go to a benefit concert for the victims of the fires that destroyed the community just a couple blocks to my north, so I’d appreciate if we could call a lid on further tragic news for the day, I have no bandwidth for more

Boy oh boy do MAGA influencers on social media hate the dead woman

Wacko news day

Uhm…

I wrote about the attack on Venezuela at the newsletter today; please take a look if you can, thanks! open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

AP reporting that the US is withdraw from 65+ international organizations. I have no details yet.

New joint statement from 11 of Minneapolis’s 13 city councilors demands that ICE leave the city

Megyn Kelly will be Tucker Carlson’s interview guest at 6:00pm et, talking about Venezuela. So, there’s that.

Trump posts on Truth Social that he wants to increase the US military budget to $1.5 trillion (from current just under $1 trillion). Claims that thanks to tariff revenues we can afford to do that and pay down debt and give “a substantial dividend” to taxpayers.

Per reports there is currently drama in the Rules Committee, with Rs trying to advance minibus to debate and a handful of hard-line Rs holding out for concessions

Candidate for Governor of Alabama:

??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.

Sen. Smith: Tensions are high, let’s de-escalate Stephen Miller: DOMESTIC TERRORIST SAYS WHAT?

Speaker Mike Johnson tells PBS that he does not believe Trump would need congressional approval to use military force in Greenland. (But does not believe Trump will do so.)

DHS spox, apparently able to gather and analyze info at lightning speed, has already determined that the person shot in Minnesota was committing “an act of domestic terrorism,” and that “sanctuary politicians” are to blame.

Fetterman issues support for buying Greenland

Loomer says the US President should have the title most associated with Kim Jong Un, Ali Khamenei, and Snoke

re the Klobuchar ‘what about the price of eggs’ post, this has been a consistent theme of Dem messaging on Venezuela, as I’ve pointed out.

Note how DefSec tosses in “as determined by the U.S.” to make clear that we’ll do whatever we damn well please. All your oils belong to us.

Yeah, I wrote that. (Thx for the link!) My new one ponders how one can believe the Venezuela attack was legit.

I haven’t seen any of the new Pentagon press corps reporting on the Venezuela operation today, but I have seen a bunch of them tweeting about J6

POTUS: All your oils belong to me

Federalist dude celebrates America by rejecting FDR’s Four Freedoms and calling the nonpartisan America250 org a bunch of commies

Oh Tommy

Silence broken! DNI Gabbard finally says something about the Venezuela attack.

It’s often hard to believe that regimes got away with blatant truth-erasing propaganda—Soviet leaders altering photos, etc—or that a government could get away with it in today’s infotech world. But here it is, in the US, 2026. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

Sen Foreign Relations Ranking Member Shaheen is not impressed with the “what now” portion of the administration’s intel briefing on Venezuela. …

Fox. News obtained this new letter from the House Freedom Caucus to Speaker Johnson listing legislative priorities for 2026. “Secure American Elections” is #1; “Ban Stock Trading for Members of Congress” is #11, just ahead of “Ban Sharia Law.” static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/...

lol Speaker Mike Johnson tells CNN that what we did in Venezuela was not regime change.

This is not, in fact, the definition of who is in charge

If this is the end of the Republic in Revenge of the Sith, which cabinet member gets the job of massacring the younglings? Would they draw straws?

POTUS once again giving bad medical advice in all caps

This is quite interesting, and also the sort of intelligence that probably shouldn’t leak so quickly, while the transition is still in process. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Venezuela’s UN representative listening to US’s Mike Waltz today is kinda my 2026 vibe tbh

Konrad, a member of the new Pentagon Press Corps, seems to have an interesting notion of “off the record”

Reports: Sen Maj Leader John Thune says he’s ok with lack of prior congressional notification, including Gang of Eight, given sensitivity of Venezuela operation.

The Big Papi version was better

Whoo boy here we go

7:30 this am et, guy posts on X that he was screwed by DEI. Another guy tags in DOJ Civil Rights Division. #2 at Division QTs it. Before 10:00 Dhillon tweets that she’s “on it.” Ta-da!

DefSec Hegseth posts on X that he is taking “administrative action” against Sen. Mark Kelly for that video—going after his military pension it looks like.

BTW Trump went on an absolutely insane re-posting spree on Truth Social last night, I can’t even begin to describe it. Here are a couple of doozies from “RealRobert,” just for a small taste

Notable to me that fed-up leaders of Greenland and Denmark are not only telling Trump to stop his threats, but also suggesting that their NATO/EU compadres should speak up against the bluster as well. I’ve seen messages of support from Finland, Norway & Sweden today.

Statement put out by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, with support from 26 of the 27 member states. (My interpretation: we’d prefer the US not trash international law, but we’re not willing to make a stink about it for this.)

Ballsy to cross-post this thread here I suppose. Dive in.

New joint statement out from DoJ FBI DEA on the “complex law-enforcement mission to bring Nicolás Maduro into U.S. custody to face justice.”