China, Russia, Iran ambassadors… seem to love the changes to Venezuela Kremlin might send another photo to frame.

A classified CIA assessment briefed to Trump concluded that "senior Maduro loyalists, including VP Delcy Rodriguez, were best positioned to maintain stability if the Venezuelan leader lost power", the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Since when did “law enforcement” involve snatching another country’s oil?

Nicolás Maduro's son, elected legislator, today at the National Assembly

This is sad.

@repdangoldman.bsky.social grills Ka$h. #ReleaseTheFiles. Survivors deserve justice. #WeThePeople deserve the truth.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

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ICE is furious because the Hilton cancelled their reservation because of ICE’s immigration enforcement activities.

"Hernández boasted that he would 'stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses' while trafficking more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. "Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Some new instant oil experts are incorrectly reporting that Amber Energy, an affiliate of Paul Singer's Elliott Investment Management, has acquired Venezuelan owned Citgo Petroleum's US subsidiaries As I recently reported a judge approved Amber's bid but deal has not closed and is being challenged

Venus now begins its long trek into the dusk sky. SOHO’s LASCO C2 coronagraph can also follow Venus right through superior conjunction:

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Our first TV ad just hit the airwaves! Together, we’re going to win this race and fight for working people in the U.S. Senate. Let’s get to work.

I predict that 2026 will be a big year for the “Hey Ed!” series.

At the UNSC, Russia demanded immediate release of the “elected president” Maduro, condemning US actions.

From Ofcom, the UK’s (generally toothless) communications watchdog:

Big Oil spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024. Now Trump is returning the favor, giving them advance notice of his Venezuela attack and sending their stocks skyrocketing by promising them control of the country's oil reserves. This is what oligarchy looks like.

One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen. - No reference to UN Charter legal justification - Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned) - Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal - Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989

Regardless of what Governor Walz decides to do in the future, I appreciate his service to the state and our nation. Looking forward to a certain someone announcing her bid for the office.

NEW: Sen. Mark Kelly RESPONDS to Pete Hegseth for censuring him, cutting his military pension, threatening to demote his rank, and warning of possible criminal prosecution for telling soldiers to obey their oath.

Bloomberg: Nicolás Maduro has hired Barry Pollack — the longtime lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — to defend him in a Manhattan federal criminal case.

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

NEW: More than 300 judges — including 33 appointed by Trump himself — have now rebuffed the Trump administration’s bid to dramatically expand efforts to lock people up while they fight deportation. www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/trump-administration-immigrants-mandatory-detention-00709494

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...

The Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 279. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

New Venezuela statement from all 26 EU member states:

How does an entire administration not understand this basic reality? Venezuelan oil is not profitable. Heavy crude takes years to extract profitably. It requires massive upfront investment, specialized infrastructure, refineries configured for heavy oil, long timelines, and political stability. 1/2

For those of us not in the cult, this is what we hear when anyone from the Trump administration speaks. For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…

Ukrainian drones have hit the Energia factory in Lipetsk Oblast which makes batteries for Iskander missiles. #explodey

When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

LIST of countries the Trump administration has threatened to invade, annex, or otherwise attack in 2026 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇬🇱 Greenland 🇮🇷 Iran 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇲🇽 Mexico All these countries need to get together and release the Trump Epstein Files

The quid pro quo takeover for oil.

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We may see efforts to indict the leaders of Cuba, Colombia, maybe even Mexico so that Rubio can say this again.

Then they were the only ones surprised.

"Brother Wensler has asked us to light sacred fires where we are and pray with him as he makes his walk to Phoenix this week. We invite you to join us."

"At 11am this morning, our friend and brother Wensler Nosie will leave his home at Oak Flat in Arizona to begin a sacred walk to the federal courthouse in Phoenix, Arizona. Despite the fact that this holy place is where the San Carlos Apache worship..." ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/a-sacred-j...

Save Oak Flat, AZ v China copper mine. San Carlos Apache nation Phoenix court hearings (AZ Reform Mining Coalition, ITCA, San Carlos Apache Tribe and Lopez/Kinsey(Burdette)cases vs. U.S.) which begin at 10 AM on January 7, 2026. Email from Arizona Poor People's Campaign www.apache-stronghold.com

Check out @coup53.com - first COUP by Dulles to get at the OIL and oil infrastructure installed by BP. That led to 1954 Guatemala and so many others after that. Talk about the "domino effect"...

"War is a Racket", profit machine. Merchants of Death. "Popular anxiety that a ruler may lead a nation into war for his own self-interests has a long history dating to the dawn of society." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchan...

Haliburton, Cheney, Bush #MerchantsOfDeath War is a Racket

Dan Bongino has departed FBI, per statement

80 years ago October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. While these grainy, black-and-white images might not look like much today, they were a huge deal at the time, because no one had ever seen Earth from space before. Source www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sykf...