Adding on to this I don’t think even the nakedly colonialist justification of oil is the actual purpose here. I think this is part imperialism as power projection but also a bigger testbed for the network state stuff from the nerd reich crowd. Also explains the Honduran pardon w/ Próspera.

This is a great idea if you want to see Americans hanging from bridges within our own borders.

We were doing this before to no avail sooooo… what exactly was the point of kidnapping Maduro?

Some people would consider this doomerism or a far left position but frankly I think it’s realism. I’m probably toward the center-left of the Bluesky population and even to me this seems like the moderate and necessary position at this point.

This is assuredly the high water mark

update: not worth it

not vaxxed

Who they trot out for the Sunday shows should be revealing

We’re going to see snuff videos of Maduro’s perp walk off of the plane just like we saw them from CECOT aren’t we?

“Mr Mamdani and Mr. Ackman both believe in markets”

They could have premised this whole thing around immigration and stabilizing these countries to prevent it and make them livable for folks to return to and it would have at least been a plausible pretense that is consistent with their stated worldview. They chose the dumber option of course.

They’re all posting their statements on the child porn platform? That’s a wild choice.

Are there any snap protests in LA today?

"I'm looking at 2026 as the year that dictators fall.” Immediately references Mussolini.

Schumer on a press call accuses the Trump administration of lying to him during briefings about Venezuela, then moments later calls for more briefings

We can do military adventurism across the globe except against the one dictator who actually deserves it and it actively destabilizing US (and European) national security.

Reminder that Anne Applebaum celebrated the Nobel Prize going to Machado despite her being a far right winger who loves Milei and openly advocated for this kind of illegal military overthrow as necessary.

I do not like doomerism one bit. I generally block people who engage in it. But we need to accept that the current crop of elected Dems are incapable of meeting this moment. They’ve had a year and have not shown it. We need to organize to primary more or less all of them with few exceptions.

When Ken Martin is giving better statements than people with actual electoral ambitions…

I do not appreciate being forced to notionally side with a repugnant dictator whom I would otherwise hope got brutally and painfully taken out by his own domestic opposition. Do not like it at all.

Director of the CIA is in the room but you have OSINTdefender's twitter page up on the screen

We killed and rendered Venezuelan civilians homeless so Donald Trump could post a Fortunate Son-backed fancam and feel happy about it.

I’m seeing a lot of commentators on the news saying “the Trump administration wants to reintroduce democracy to Venezuela” and very clearly that is not the goal! They’re trying to dismantle democracy here! They’re not trying to facilitate a return to democracy for brown people!

Currently, TNN operates on a yearly budget of just over $40,000. For comparison, some major media outlets have budgets that extend into the billions--tens of thousands times our budget. Despite the gap, yesterday's NYT piece was the #2 performing news article on Bluesky for the day (BlueReport)

“The meticulously planned art heist went off without a hitch”

This presser is an absolute disaster. Absolutely antithetical to America First and I don’t think this plays well. He was near Bush levels of disapproval before doing the things that actually dragged Bush down which he is now doing.

This is the speech a lot of people understood it was at the beginning of the Iraq invasion but he’s just saying it all out loud. Absolutely insane.

What the fuck are we even doing here?

So…Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth are going to be running Venezuela?

Marco Rubio: if you don’t know now you know

also should be loud and clear that any oil executive taking part in this will be prosecuted

*taps sign*

MFer is sleeping standing up during this press conference

“concerned” just like Susan Collins

go fuck yourself you spineless useless leech

drugs are finally kicking in…

Does anyone have a shot of his hands? It is absolutely insane that he oversaw this operation from MAL and couldn’t even fly back for the presser and I suspect it is because he is not well. This is about the time when he needs his regular injections and he clearly had to be juiced for 40min.

“We are going to run the country” EXCUSE ME!?!?

waited 40 minutes and the uppers still didn’t kick in

Actually, that exactly how JURISDICTION works unless you have an extradition treaty

Wait he couldn’t even fly back to the WH to give this address?

This “stolen oil” argument is about a fifty year old grievance, but does anyone know the breakeven barrel price for Venezuela? I can’t find it just on a quick search…

I did actually get back to sleep and I can report this is not a dream

Venezuela is 80% Catholic

Pretty sure I’m hearing an A10 in this Venezuela footage

Not for nothing but Mike Johnson only has two votes in the House and there are quite a number of members already upset at Trump and who are part of the America First wing rather than the MAGA wing

speaking of, now is probably a good time to ask…who is currently leading SOUTHCOM with Holsey out?

I hate the “imagine if Joe Biden” but… starting a war of aggression with no congressional approval from your vacation home where you are likely receiving treatment for some kind of serious health condition for which there is an active coverup and that isn’t even the top coverup in the news

The Nobel and FIFA Peace Prize winners walk into a bar…