🚨BREAKING: Minnesota state attorneys alleged in a court hearing that Donald Trump and the Department of Justice are attempting to force the state to surrender its sovereignty — in particular, its control over elections — through the massive federal immigration operation in the Twin Cities region.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

“Trump may have given the finger to one man, but that ‘f**k you’ followed by a middle finger is what he’s been saying every day since he returned to the White House.” www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...

“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.” ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

ICE’s aggressive and dangerous tactics do nothing to make our communities safer. Due process is not delivered with aggression and violence. I’m fighting to stop ICE from terrorizing our communities.

Not to be too hyperbolic but I feel like price discrimination at this granular a level, if done at scale, kinda takes a sledgehammer to some of the fundamentals of microeconomics. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

I couldn’t have said it better.

This sounds insane, but given who we’re talking about, it tracks. @milestaylor.bsky.social says Stephen Miller told him that “if Trump won reelection, it would be a shock and awe blitz…and one of those things he would look to do is invoke the insurrection act.” Watch all of this!

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot and injured as federal law enforcement attempted to arrest him during a “targeted traffic stop,” DHS said.

"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.

Insightful thread.....

So it increasingly appears Trump just made up the idea that he was in charge of Venezuela. Made it up. Confabulated it. Confirming he is not aware of what is happening around him, and should no longer be in this job. Can't walk this one back peeps.

He’s putting American lives at risk and billions of American taxpayer dollars to waste—fueling another illegal war for oil—a war from which allies of his regime will be seeking new ways to profit.

Relying on incompetent Defense Secretary Hegseth, Trump claims he’ll “run” Venezuela indefinitely. If only Trump could run America competently to deal with the very real struggles of our families instead of starting another war.

Translation: We found more pliable officials we can work with who won't ask too many questions about Venezuelan sovereignty

Zelenskyy runs the risk of an elite Russian force landing in Kyiv, kidnapping him and his wife and bringing him to Moscow The Greenlight has been telegraphed by the United States

Venezuela: Caracas residents stock up on groceries amid political uncertainty

The Venezuelan War is not helping working Americans pay their bills, buy food, pay for rent or medical insurance. But Republicans are OK with that.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

Republican math: Can afford: bombing and “running”Venezuela Can’t afford: universal healthcare, food stamps, and childcare.

Trump has already threatened Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia now. This is going to get worse.

Q: Is it possible that the US ends up administering Venezuela for years? TRUMP: Well, you know, it won't cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is very substantial

Trump says Venezuela's oil wealth "goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country"

What are the odds the Trump Org already has six LLCs set up to use to enrich themselves through Venezuelan oil operations.

Let’s not forget that over 77M Americans voted for this reckless, ignorant creature to retake the levers of power.

“We’ll be selling oil in large amounts to other countries,” Trump tells a reporter after kidnapping Maduro, announcing “we” will run Venezuela. This lawless thug and his criminal henchman have abandoned the international order. Yes, there is no bottom.

Q: You said that Maduro is responsible for drug trafficking. You recently pardoned the former president of Honduras who was convicted of drug trafficking. How are these situations different? TRUMP: This was a man who was persecuted very unfairly by Biden. Obviously the people liked what I did

Speaking with Vanity Fair in November, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles admitted that a military strike in Venezuela would require a congressional act of war. “If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress."

Some polling: Invading Venezuela - 19% approve, 60% disapprove OK to go w/o Congressional approval - 11% yes, 74% no 👇

Sorry can someone explain to me how the power to militarily extradite Maduro expanded into the power to directly administer the government of Venezuela as some kind of oil colony

There is no plan, gang

A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms

Donald Trump authorized a military attack on a foreign country, kidnapped the head of state, and claimed that he and his cronies now have the right to run that country as they see fit. All in less than 24 hours. All without congressional authorization. All illegally and unconstitutionally.

The “it’s too inconvenient to follow the Constitution” clause to the Constitution.

Cuba, "which took over Venezuela in some ways," is a disaster and run by "incompetent senile men" who should be concerned about their own fate, warns US Secretary of State Rubio.

Trump just ruled out María Corina Machado ("she's a nice woman, but..) Also "It [Venezuela] won't cost America anything ... the money's coming out of the ground [as oil]"

decided to go smell the rotten milk in the back of the Washington Post fridge... I don't even know what to say about this

WTF.

Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

He's literally going to try colonizing Venezuela. He has already "colonized" America by redefining who belongs.

What Trump is doing to Venezuela is what he did to America. Details differ, but goals, ideology, rhetoric -- all the same.

Welcome to our new forever war.

"WE'RE NOT AFRAID OF BOOTS ON THE GROUND"--Donald Trump

Trump says President Gustavo Petro of Colombia needs to "watch his ass."

cool, cool cool cool