Congressional Democrats said they were still being kept in the dark on Sunday, with no information provided to them by the Trump administration about the military action to capture President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela a day earlier, despite their demands for classified briefings.

🔥WATCH — @debunktionjunction : “So let me get this straight… @joerogan is staring at a chart where the data ends before Trump is even elected, but is somehow trying to tie the reduction in drug overdose deaths (under BIDEN) to the Venezuelan boat strikes??”

You know what’s weak & stupid? Dragging us into another costly endless war that puts our troops & innocent civilians in harm’s way. Strong leaders have moral clarity & use power responsibly. Weak men like Trump make other peoples’ kids fight in their unnecessary, illegal wars.

China strongly condemned the overnight U.S. strike on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, which came just hours after a Chinese special envoy met with the Venezuelan leader to reaffirm Beijing’s support for the imperiled regime.

DNC chair somehow capable of a more full throated statement than any Democratic leader in congress

LITERALLY NO VENEZUELAN ASKED for President Nicolás Maduro to be removed and opposition leader María Corina Machado ("very nice woman” who lacks “support” and “respect”) sidelined so the Trump administration could "run" Venezuela through Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro's vice president wapo.st/44Tce4Q

Laura Tingle with a bit of Australian understatement: “It’s not really legal to nick someone else’s head of state.”

Stephen Miller has not been jailed for those lies. But two different judges ruled that Trump was lying abt Kilmar Abgrego. And that’s just for starters.

Rep. Dean: “It was never about drugs. It’s about oil.”

“Chevron extensively lobbied both the Biden and Trump administrations to hold on to its singular position as the only U.S. oil company operating in Venezuela.” www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

“Point blank lies.”

The Republican Congress has chosen to give away its authority and power and now we are being told Trump plans to occupy Venezuela. We don't cry for Maduro. We demand the following of our laws and Constitution. He is already threatening Mexico and Cuba will be next. Ann Wagner is silent.

Trump is framing this as a law enforcement operation so he doesn’t need congressional authorization. He’s not defending our country. He’s defending his grip on power with endless wars. “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”

Kidnapping a foreign leader invites other countries to do the same. The Trump administration just handed China and Russia permission on a silver platter, risking global stability and putting American lives in jeopardy.

According to the flight-tracking site FlightAware, more than 700 flights traveling through U.S. airports had been canceled by noon Saturday. Puerto Rico’s main airport canceled nearly half its flights Saturday. https://wapo.st/4jIe9Q5

There is only one motive: to seize more money. There is only one pathway: to destroy the lives of anyone standing in the way. There is only one narrative: shame & blame some "other" to keep people from joining together & taking on the billionaires.

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.

We should be all extremely concerned that Gaza and the West Bank has fallen off the news agenda. Since the so called ceasefire Israel has killed 1000 Palestinians and banned over 30 well respected humanitarian orgs. Gaza is also grappling with flooding, high winds & extreme cold.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

"Which brings us to another great irony: The man who the government believed committed one of the greatest crimes in our nation’s history now has the ability to seek revenge against those who tried to hold him accountable."

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

After a year in which Trump has bombed ... - Venezuela - Nigeria - Iran - Yemen - Syria - Somalia - and civilian boats in international waters ... I’m thinking about the voters who convinced themselves that Trump was the candidate of foreign policy restraint.

Chatbot serially creates child porn yet is not immediately shut down, and the chatbot owner faces no serious legal or market peril due to being the largest political funder of the regime

High-level, pardoned Capitol rioters will return to Capitol on Tuesday youtube.com/shorts/yKCrP...

ALERT: Convicted Capitol riot defendants return to Capitol Tuesday Meanwhile, Dem legislators try to combat “whitewashing” of Jan 6.

Breaking and entering, death threats, kidnapping ...

Future historians will pay a lot more attention to Rubio's “enemigos de la humanidad” speech than we did.

Exactly this.

“Trump had every reason to know before 2003 that Epstein was sexually mistreating Mar-a-Lago employees, some of whom were under the age of consent. The 2003 letter from the beautician created a problem for Trump. His break with Epstein was entirely opportunistic.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The very same "president" that asked his generals if they could just shoot the American protesters in Washington D.C. during his first term.

What say ye now, Tulsi?

Even if Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro somehow led to a positive impact on Venezuela’s future, it would not make these actions by the United States legal, moral or wise. Normalising and legitimising this behaviour endangers all countries - democracies and dictatorships alike.

ICE jailed a father whose only “crime” is caring for his disabled son who nearly died without him. This is not immigration enforcement. It’s state-sanctioned cruelty.

This piece on wealth inequality was the first time I remember hearing Tony Dokoupil’s name. What a shame he’s joined the Bari Weiss cabal. Still worth watching 👇https://youtu.be/DANUXO-GQwU

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

The US is now responsible for the governance of Venezuela. Toppling the regime of a smaller country is always the easy part. The hard part is what comes after. Neo-cons always expect a pro-US nirvana. It rarely works out. But I suppose the oil companies can seize some assets.

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.

Not Somali.

This AFTER remains of a 30 ft boat washed ashore, with burned bodies inside & packages (small) of what residue tests establish was nothing more than Marijuana; which is legal for recreational use in several states. It's just murder. apnews.com/article/boat...

Thinking this is wrong is not radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

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Every American should be demanding answers as to why the Trump Department of Justice was monitoring a journalist investigating Jeffrey Epstein.

#Trump It's become a country (government) I don't even recognize. He, and his insanely poisonous regime, cannot be gone fast enough.

Cutting trillions in taxes for 900 billionaires but garnishing wages for 45 million working people with crushing student debt is the modern version of let them eat cake.

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

The DOJ is so incompetent that it is allowing us to *quantify* its cover-up of the Epstein files.

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