Virtually flawless, unnamed officials said.

Stories built on "U.S. officials," especially ones published just hours after an action, are rarely the actual inside story. And papers shouldn't be playing like they are.

Man, *everyone* is coming to Brooklyn.

Trump and his team “monitored X on a large screen for any mention of the word ‘Venezuela.’” What exactly were they hoping to glean from Venezuela’s [googles it] 5th ranking social platform?

Also dept of dodgy sourcing: Those explosions you saw, they were really no big deal, according to ONE UNNAMED OFFICIAL. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...

The operation was “virtually flawless,” according to an UNKNOWN NUMBER OF UNNAMED OFFICIALS. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...

A dozen paragraphs in: At least 40 Venezuelans killed, and a half-dozen American soldiers injured. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...

The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

Former top Bush lawyer says invasion breaks international law not domestic law: Bc we’ve long let presidents bomb and invade without limit. “Congress has given them a gargantuan force with few constraints and is AWOL in overseeing what the president does with it. Courts won’t get involved...

From Trump's perspective, Venezuelans' rights, interests, and agency are absolutely irrelevant. We--the US--"need to be surrounded by safe countries" and we--the US--"also need the energy out of the ground." This is "when you're a star, they let you do it" but as foreign policy.

They’ve got Twitter up on the big screens in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago makeshift “situation room.” Photos from Trump’s Truth Social account.

At least we’ll always have this…

When officials in first Trump admin war-gamed the ousting Maduro, they predicted "chaos for a sustained period of time with no possibility of ending it.' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Maduro on New Year’s Eve.: “If they want oil, Venezuela is ready for U.S. investment, like with Chevron, whenever they want it, wherever they want it and however they want it.”

Seems like a democratic process.

Btw, you know what else has been largely smoke and mirrors so far? Trump’s tarrifs. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...

Some personal news 👇 (Which I forgot to post for over a year.)

It should really bother all of us that the United States government left an unknown number of people floating in an ocean more than 2 days ago, and this seems to be the only information available about the search. x.com/Southcom/sta...

as a former reporter who had to lobby hard to be allowed to use the name "Pussy Riot" in news coverage, I feel this deeply for a while we kept calling them something like "the punk protest group whose name cannot be printed in a family newspaper" simpler times!!

Extraordinary footage: the crowd sends police stumbling back.

This ICE post is a reference to a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster ("Be A Man Among Men") that's very popular with white supremacists.

Just say it.... www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

The admin said its first boat-strike killed 11 “terrorists.” Except, experts and insiders say drug smugglers wouldn’t waste fuel carrying so many people. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...

Washington Post editorial: “States clearly need to do better jobs of vetting welfare beneficiaries.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The Chicago Tribune counted 106 cases of immigration agents arresting citizens & protestors in Chicago The admin called them "rioters" and "agitators" who would face the full force of the law The reality: The 106 arrests have resulted in....9 felony charges www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/30/c...

Dude who developed “trial gassing” got 5 years.

The actual story: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

NIH Director boosts post from Andrew Kaczynski thanking people for helping him raise $200,000 for childhood cancer research. Kaczynski’s daughter Francesca died from pediatric brain cancer in 2020. In March, the National Cancer Institute will stop funding the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium.

“The boat smelled like burned meat.” -fisherman who found it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

Feds seem to be tough on imaginary crime, and somewhat less tough on the real thing. So the ICE agent who shot guy below for no good reason, *and* hit a U.S. Marshall too? No charges. Mistakes happen.

A few months ago, ICE agents shot a TikToker. The govt then charged him, alleging he tried to ram agents Well guess what? Body-cam footage -- which the gov't delayed disclosing -- shows that's BS. The agent shot by mistake. And a judge just dismissed charges. www.latimes.com/california/s...

A few months ago, ICE agents shot a TikToker. The govt then charged him, alleging he tried to ram agents Well guess what? Body-cam footage -- which the gov't delayed disclosing -- shows that's BS. The agent shot by mistake. And a judge just dismissed charges. www.latimes.com/california/s...

NGOs designed a $60 toilet that could save countless lives. Then Trump killed it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

ICE is making four-times as many untargeted, street detentions as it did during the first Trump admin. And Stephen Miller is demanding many, many times that. Already, most of those arrested have no criminal record. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Love this story of selflessness: Almost every morning for the last 7 years (including Christmases & New Year’s Days), Darren Genson, a Maryland insurance agent, volunteers for 2 hours walking the most challenging dogs at his local animal shelter. “I think the dogs deserve it,” he said.

Somehow *this* was the *less crazy* plan. (And Stephen Miller rejected it.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

Just a reminder that we’re bombing people based on, well, THEY WONT SAY. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

I’m occasionally puzzled by Trump admin conduct — as in below — then I remember: For the Trump admin, no matter the issue, the goals doesn’t seem to be any particular outcome, the goal is the spectacle. Then it all makes sense.

After the U.S. blew up one of those boats, it handed Ecuador a surviving countryman — who’a a well-known trafficker. Except it gave the Ecuadoreans no evidence. No video, no gps, no drugs, no nothing. So Ecuador immediately let him go. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

These billionaires are so serious about leaving California that they're speaking through [squints] all anonymous people. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...

I wanna a continuously updated list of all that Trump has named after himself. And I want it to be called the Turkmenbashi Tracker. www.theguardian.com/world/2006/d...

Trump says we just bombed a Nigerian town to go after Islamic State terrorists “who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.” Here's what a guy in the town saw. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/w...

These billionaires are so serious about leaving California that they're speaking through [squints] all anonymous people. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...

“More than 80 percent of buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, the United Nations estimates.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The Washington Post goes all-in against…“the dark reality of single-payer health care.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

My dog does this thing… Murray.

Canceling my conversion.

Look how cramped and worn down.

Two of the four signers of this letter to CBS News staff — Weiss and Rubenstein — are conservative oped writers who have done little, if any, actual news reporting in their careers. It’d be like having a sophomore biology major telling a cardiologist how to do a heart transplant.