THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Millions are losing health care and premiums are rising. What are we hearing from Mar-a-Lago… Caviar anyone?

He's been running around provoking everyone like a child begging "Fight me! Fight me!" and he wasn't getting the response he wanted. This isn't going to stop until Congress or McDonald's stops him. Frankly, I have more faith in McDonald's. #venezuela #pedocolonialism

Just awful: David Sanger, an experienced and knowledgeable correspondent for the NYT, is forthrightly describing this as an "American occupation." Done without any Congressional authorization or even any consultation with our key elected representatives.

I just can't listen to Trump. Always 10 seconds in I'm saying, "OMG you're so fucking stupid" and have to move on.

Wtaf!

Trump very openly saying the US will be governing Venezuela with the support of US oil companies

I seriously doubt American oil companies are anxious to send their people into what will now become a war zone.

Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"

WAKE UP! This has NOTHING to do with human rights. It has EVERYTHING to do with Trump stealing oil it in order to maintain power. It is impeachable.

A U.S. official openly admits the goal in Venezuela is its oil: “American companies will have a field day — a trillion-dollar opportunity.” Lives of millions are at stake but it is just an opportunity for US

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Trump Posts Photograph of Captured, Blindfolded, Disheveled Nicolás Maduro Aboard U.S. Helicopter Post-Kidnapping; Per Prior Trump Order, Maduro Is a Prisoner of War, Making the Photo a Violation of Geneva Convention (Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention)

So our criminal President sells a pardon to one criminal President while kidnapping another for essentially the same crimes? What exactly do we stand for?

www.theatlantic.com/internationa... This may be a good time for Congress to show up and actually do something.

For over two thousand years Christians have been warning us about the antichrist. When he finally shows up, they vote him into office. Twice. 🤦🏻‍♂️

“This is about plunder and power.”

Maduro's advisors are now closely studying the precedent of Juan Orlando Hernández, the Honduran president and lead cocaine dealer who was pardoned by Trump, to ascertain the amount of crypto they need and the path for paying it.

They’re strip-searching children at school

WHILE EVERYONE IS NOW FOCUSING ON THE VENEZUELA DIVERSION, PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THAT JANUARY 6TH, THE ANNIVERSARY OF THIS PRESIDENTS ORGANIZED ATTACK ON WASHINGTON DC, IS ONLY THREE DAYS AWAY!!!

Quite an undisclosed conflict of interest: Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5m water-rights contract between her husband & the developers of a Nevada mine approved by Interior, Lisa Friedman reports in the @nytimes.com.

we live in hell amongst depraved ghouls — please read this whole thread

Watch this from 2027 and tell me Venezuela isn’t about oil. Trump has always viewed other countries as resources to be taken, not sovereign nations. “We should have kept the oil.” His plan is to steal resources from other countries, and today it’s in action.

Christofascism on the move

THAT’S MY MAYOR (I live in another state)

Here is the database that TheresasDaughter refers to in the clip below. As of 9:45pm Jan 2, 2026 there are 2119 actions they have recorded. This will be so important to have this all recorded. Thanks @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks for sharing this! www.trumpactiontracker.info?

Chris Rufo decides what will get the MAGAverse outraged, usually something explicitly racist, the influencers all jump in with both feet...and next thing you know...funding for kids all across the country gets frozen Great work a**holes Kudos @atrupar.com www.publicnotice.co/p/shirley-vi...

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Idahoans United for Women and Families' petition has received more than 50,000 of the 71,000 signatures needed to put abortion access on the November 3, 2026, ballot. If I'm not mistaken, their website is iduwf.org which leads to a petition at www.backtoidaho.com/sign #USDemocracy #MomSky

The big data and increased computing power that enable artificial intelligence are emboldening Republicans to deploy more sophisticated techniques to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat next November. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

Now he’s the hunter? Like a predator?

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🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a new front in its ongoing campaign for voter data held by states Friday, demanding Minnesota turn over records related to same-day registrations. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Why would we admire a bunch of selfish a**holes who are happy to kill people or ruin their lives for profit?

Fair warning: If you don’t want to see a LOT of get out the vote content this year, I’m probably not a good person to follow. My goal for 2026 is to help hand the GOP the largest midterm loss in history. We’re going to make 2018 look like a small trickle.

Fahrenheit 45-47.

Trump golfed 1/4 of the days he was president in 2025. Costing US taxpayers to pay his Golf clubs $110,600,000.

“If Humphrey’s Executor falls, Federal Reserve, the FTC, the SEC, the NLRB, and every other independent agency comes under direct presidential control. A president could fire, Fed chair for refusing to cut interest rates before an election. He could purge every agency of anyone who might resist.”

Amid whitewashing of history of Capitol siege, new transcript of House interview w/ Jack Smith highlights police injuries: "Cracked ribs, traumatic brain injuries, smashed spinal disks & heart attacks as rioters used bats, flagpoles, chemical sprays, stolen police shields & batons"

Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired overnight, cementing higher health costs for millions of Americans at the start of the new year. https://to.pbs.org/45mIjlI

Trump hand-outs to Israel now approach $40 BILLION.

Final broadcast of ABC News Tonight for 2025. I hope every rep and senator saw it. Millions are being forced to cancel health insurance because it’s unaffordable. That pressure doesn’t stop with them; it spreads. When people drop coverage, everyone’s rates go up. Call your Rep and Senators.

You literally cannot turn on a news show without hearing another story proving how reprehensible this regime is. They held a meeting of small farmers, but a black farmer from Virginia was denied an invite because “they don’t wanna deal with DEI.”

Yes, it's good that The Times collates Trump's tangled grifts but, again, the #BrokenTimes fails to take the next step: Labeling it corruption to enable explanation of emoluments and illegality. Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Pay attention. Believe that they are planning the worst.

Earlier this year, Senior Opinion Writer Richard Warnica travelled to the 'epicentre of Trump’s new America.' In his words, what he saw was unlike anything he's ever covered before. #TorontoStar2025

NEW: Jack Smith's team interviewed Giuliani, and when asked whether Rudy believed his own lies about election fraud, Jack Smith said he did not, and that neither did Donald Trump.

Trump was Epstein's supplier. #EpsteinFiles

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Even President Trump’s most egregious efforts to stifle dissent “seem to quickly fade from public consciousness, and in that way, they’re clearly meant to overwhelm us and make us think twice about exercising our rights,” Nora Benavidez writes.

ICE has drawn up a $100 million “wartime recruitment” plan that uses targeted ads and influencers to recruit Fox News viewers, UFC fans, and gun nuts into its ranks, according to a report.