Growing crowd here at 34th and Portland in south Minneapolis, where witnesses tell me an ICE agent shot an observer in her car. Witnesses said she was not responsive and was taken away. Bovino is on scene along with dozens of federal agents.

No US oil company should risk investing in Venezuela. Companies that take part in Trump's lawless takeover of Venezuela's resources should keep in mind that any American tax dollars they take to invest in a foreign country will be recovered by the next administration.

Might not be quite the walk in the park with zero casualties he imagines!

ICE in MPLS yesterday:

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I continue to be enraged by everything the secretary of health and human services is doing www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Please more candidates and ads like this

Murphy: "This is an insane plan. They are talking about stealing the Venezuelan oil at gun point for an undefined period of time as leverage to micromanage the country. The scope and insanity of that plan is absolutely stunning…This is going to be a very rough ride for the U.S."

RAJU: You say military action is not gonna happen against Greenland, so it is responsible for the White House to continue to raise the specter of military action? MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not gonna take 1,000 gotcha questions this morning trying to pit me against the White House.

Was the main reason for the attack on Venezuela to break the connection between use of the US military and public legitimacy? After all, Richard Cheney encouraged the use of torture for the same reason, to establish the "unitary executive" as having unlimited dictatorial powers.

I didn’t think you deserved to be smeared for eating salad with a hair comb—because, I mean, a girl has to eat—but you absolutely deserve the condemnation you’re receiving for this bullshit feckless messaging and the failure to do anything even to slow down Trump’s megalomaniacal global rampage.

Grok has put a bikini on one of the dead victims of the recent Swiss fire ! It's probably the most appalling thing I've seen... 🤬

New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.” This is Nick’s story.

Another ICE murder.

Dozens of feds, large MPD response, an observer saying he's a physician and had a gun pointed at him for checking the victim's pulse

Any Lucia López Belloza planned to surprise her Texas family for Thanksgiving. Instead, she was stopped at Logan and deported to Honduras within about 48 hours, despite an emergency federal stay issued after her arrest, her lawyer says. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/deported-i...

Says the man whose company agreed to pay the USA $631 million in civil penalties and damages arising from false claims the government alleged it submitted to Medicare and other federal health programs. www.justice.gov/archive/opa/... GTFOH Rick.

Surreal seeing Trump sweat over the possibility of impeachment, and implore Republicans to win/cheat in the midterms not for any legislative agenda but to avoid getting impeached, while leading Democrats go "oh no, not that" when asked about impeachment in the face egregiously impeachable offenses.

"That’s what infuriates longtime Danish political experts. If Mr. Trump wanted to beef up Greenland’s security right now, he could. But there has been no such official American request, said Jens Adser Sorensen, a former senior official in Denmark’s Parliament." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...

There should be a ton more skepticism about Trump's 50 billion barrel oil 'deal' -- who did he even negotiate this 'deal' with? The Rodriguez government that seems to be not at all cooperating with the U.S.? There's literally nothing besides Trump's insane post www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The Big Lie, again: "Vessel tracking data from MarineTraffic and LSEG show no presence of Chinese or Russian ships near Greenland." www.reuters.com/world/europe...

#WATCH | British MP Ellie Chowns urges the government to ban all trade with illegal Israeli settlements. "It is not enough for the government to simply condemn the establishment of more illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank; the UK must take concrete action."

Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated

With this victory, Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger will continue to have a Democratic trifecta when she is sworn in next week. Congrats, Senator-elect Jones!

In 1916, the United States signed a document stating that Greenland was Danish. Here is the document

WATCH: "The stuff we’re playing with here is kind of the core of what starts world wars. I don’t think that’s an overstatement," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Trump's push to acquire Greenland.

James Baldwin: "We know, everybody knows, no matter what the professions of my unhappy country may be, that we are not bombing people out of existence in the name of freedom"

This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.

The regime is trying to consolidate power and centralise control. Also, avoid Digital IDs... thats part of it. They want to track everything you do like in Gaza.

As everyone talks about Greenland, don't forget its actual global significance--a two mile thick sheet of ice that if melted would raise the sea level 23 feet (and long before that choke off the currents of the Atlantic) open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

See? It's not about stealing Venezuela's oil. It's about Donald Trump getting rich off that stolen oil.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

“Donald Trump has been quietly plotting the seizure of Greenland in some way, shape, or form for nearly eight years. We listened to his private rants about it in the first term, but we weren’t willing to carry out a takeover of an allied nation on his behalf.” www.defiance.news/p/why-i-warn...

"Wag the Dog" A political satire about a spin doctor (Robert De Niro) who hires a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) to create a fake war in Albania to distract voters from the president's sex scandal before the election—the film satirizes the manipulation of media & public opinion... #EpsteinWars

The US president used to loudly oppose regime change and nation-building but now he loves it - and we have the receipts in this video. Visit zeteo.com for more coverage and become a subscriber now!

Trump threatening to cancel the midterms because it's not fair that the president always loses them, and he doesn't want to get impeached again. www.rawstory.com/trump-electi...

Sadly, all too relevant today.

Officially speaking, nobody remains in solitary confinement in Massachusetts prisons. But as of mid-February 2024, the Massachusetts Department of Correction isolated roughly the same number of people as had been in restrictive housing in January 2020.

www.cbc.ca/news/health/... Excellent news. For Canadians, at least.

Estimates are that 20 million pages remain to be released (Meidas Touch estimate).

So America has overthrown a leader to nationalize Venezuelan oil for…Venezuela? These guys would take offense to the notion that we use America’s oil to benefit the American people.

Someone needs to tell JD that the oil companies were compensated when Venezuela nationalized its oil…

This right here ⬇️ I think there was an amazingly well-executed plan to capture Maduro. I think Trump jumped the gun—maybe due to panic over his crumbling coalition—and pulled the trigger before the rest of the plan was even discussed. Now everyone is just saying whatever pops into their head.

The US government is basically a street gang.

On this 5-year anniversary of January 6th, let’s all remember that we are not immune from coups and insurrections. We are not immune from authoritarianism. Preventing them from happening in the U.S. requires all of us pay attention and do something to protect democracy.

Trump debates declaring war on NATO.

Officials tell Zeteo that Trump remains ‘very interested’ in the idea of sending US Special Forces into Mexico. @premthakker.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social report on the actions of Trump as he threatens military action against Iran, Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico. Read: zeteo.com/p/trump-vene...