I've started Tai Chi classes as a way to help me cope and maintain sanity. Possibly even find some inner peace and hope. What have you done for your peace of mind lately? If you're not sure, I'm asking you to give it some thought.

Kangaroo paw flower. (Today's photos brought to you by Brisbane Botanic Gardens.)

Everlasting paper daisy. (At least that's what we called them going up.)

Grevillea flower.

A Butcher bird in song. Sound up.

NATO Ambassador Whitaker on Greenland: "As the ice recedes and we do have some thawing and passageways open up in the arctic, obviously the approaches to the US in North America are more dangerous." (So global warming isn't a hoax apparently ... )

Trump admitted in a new interview that he expects his imperialist experiment in Venezuela to last for years. Trump said he plans to sell the oil and personally “control” the $, which he will hold in offshore bank accounts outside the Treasury. PBS NewsHour www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-...

#CancelAUKUS #BoycottUSA @albomp.bsky.social  @australianlabor.bsky.social

Hey @albomp.bsky.social, any plan to support our ally, Denmark? If not, why not? #CancelAUKUS #BoycottUSA

France at the UN Security Council: "The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

Stephen Miller, who wants the U.S. to steal Greenland and shake down Latin America, says: ”We live in a world … that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” That‘s a criminal pretending that a civilized world is impossible.

@jimchalmers.bsky.social I state my horror at USA’s invasion of Venezuela. I demand Australia distance itself from the rogue, imperialist belligerent US. Call in US officials & tell them to we won’t accept invasion of sovereign nations or the overthrow of their governments. This hegemony must end.

Absolutely insane to see so many posts today claiming Trump’s decision to grab Maduro in Venezuela will somehow embolden Putin to do likewise in Ukraine. NEWSFLASH: Putin has already been trying to kill Zelenskyy since the very start of the invasion and has utter contempt for international law

Now that 'we' are 'running' Venezuela, what’s actually being done for the people? Over half the country lives in extreme poverty and needs immediate help. Millions are without shelter, healthcare, or protection from violence. Is anyone actually going to 'run' towards helping them?

More satire for today's events:

With this regime anything is possible…

WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING?! HE MUST BE IMPEACHED!!! NOW!!!

The US is committing so many illegal acts that the Australian government might have to engage a Special Envoy To Combat Antiamericanism

The US invasion of Venezuela is against international law and it is against US law. It represents a monumental breakdown of rules-based order. Failure to condemn it in the strongest terms possible – and failure to impeach and convict Trump is to be complicit with his barbarism and despotism.

Innovation of the oil industry in the United States. #generalstrike

The US is likely to have violated the terms of the UN charter, signed in 1945. A central provision of this agreement – known as article 2(4) – rules that states must refrain from using military force against other countries and must respect their sovereignty. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Watch this. Watch again. "This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."

Insider trading on war crimes seems like peak criminality.

Why cancervatives hate public school history classes. U.S. companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven reserves of crude, and officials didn’t kick them out of the country. crooksandliars.com/2026/01/trum...

@albomp.bsky.social Nothing to fear from your enemies when you have allies like the USA and Israel. If the world at large fails to condemn the attack on Venezuela Trump will be emboldened. Panama, Columbia, Cuba, Iran, Greenland. We need immediate unequivocal and ubiquitous condemnation.

What the United States did in Venezuela is prohibited under international law, which bars the use of force as an instrument of national policy.

Isn't it odd that the United States has enough money to suddenly run Venezuela, but not enough to run our own country? There is always cash in the piggy bank for bombs to kill people, but never for healthcare to keep them alive.

Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?

As clear-eyed an analysis as you'll read today ... www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Unconstitutional force. Civilians dead. Congress bypassed. Oil interests front and center. We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.

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We are living in an era of rogue criminals masquerading as world leaders. 😳👇

Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide: "International law is universal and binding for all states. The American intervention in Venezuela is not in accordance with international law."

He had put us on a very dangerous trajectory. This is not what his voters voted for. He must be removed before he gets us all killed…

So it’s ok for a country to invade another country and kidnap its president? I hope that the rest of the world is paying attention. I have a president . . .

Gotta say, the moderate position here is impeachment and removal and the moderates seem like they're on board.

JFC

Hey yeah people in the US? Your President bombing a country is an act of war. War requires congress’ approval, which he do not get. He’s acting on his own whims. You have a constitution designed to stop this from happening. Use it. Quickly. Before more innocents are killed.

It’s time for the world to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the U.S Avoid the Olympics, World Cup and other sporting events. There’s no reason to celebrate the 250 birthday of this fallen nation

www.rawstory.com/venezuela-26... Another war for the oil

Laura Tingle with a bit of Australian understatement: “It’s not really legal to nick someone else’s head of state.”