Balls. Love him. #NoFear

Gabbard is out of the loop because Trump didn’t like her testimony to Congress in March. She testified the intelligence community didn’t believe Iran was building a nuclear weapon. She sought diplomacy but was sidelined from discussions regarding Israel/Iran. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now. Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet. Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"

Correct. Nothing happens without pressure. Case in point: as soon as there was an outcry over the murder of two boat strike survivors, protocol was changed for strike survivors, there were House hearings and everyone responsible passed the buck. With addtl pressure, might have impeached Hegseth.

Not far from the bathroom, bedroom, storage room, office, and ballroom where he once kept classified intelligence documents, President Trump and his Defense Sec who once disclosed war plans for Yemen in a chat, watched the illegal invasion of Venezuela in an insecure, makeshift situation room.

This is an AI-manipulated version of a real video of the US military operation in Venezuela. While the real clip does appear to be genuine, this specific version has been manipulated using Grok to add dramatic explosions and strikes.

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.

Thread of statements and responses from Congress members.

Probably impressive prior to the internet and digital age but not in an era of state surveillance of its own citizens.

For reference, the announcement by President Obama that we got bin Laden lasted a mere ten minutes. And that operation was actually monumental.

Trump's promise to "run" Venezuela suggests a huge task for the State Department — which he + Rubio have decimated. Personnel at State, particularly the key Western Hemisphere Affairs bureau, are already stunned, anxious and saying they are badly under-prepared, a former State official tells me.

Thank you to the reporter who just asked Trump this question: “Why is running Venezuela America First?” His answer, of course, was about oil.

Trump talking about leaking a mere week after disclosing a covert CIA op. 🙃

Thinking about this today. apnews.com/article/dhs-...

This Gen. Caine report would be really impressive had we been in an actual, justified, morally sound war. But none of those things apply. It’s bragging about the capabilities of the U.S. Air Force being used to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its President and wife.

People often ask why the Wehrmacht, among the most powerful and competent militaries ever, willingly followed Hitler. People in the future will ask that same question about the US military and Trump. /3

36 years to the day after U.S. forces captured Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega

Two law-enforcement members said the FBI’s hostage rescue team were embedded with US military special operators in the operation to capture Maduro.-MS Now

Also Mike Lee is the chair of senate energy and isn't even on foreign relations, armed services, or intelligence

Trump's DOJ appears to be closely following the precedent used by the Bush DOJ in seizing and charging Manuel Noriega in 1989-90. Indeed, many of the claims made against Maduro appear to be lifted from he Noriega indictment. This works under US but not international law.

“It is not clear how the C.I.A. recruited the Venezuelan source who informed the Americans of Mr. Maduro’s location. But former officials said the agency was clearly aided by the $50M reward the U.S. govt offered for information leading to Mr. Maduro’s capture.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

Decades of building your image as protectors of freedom destroyed in the space of a year

BREAKING: The Coast Guard just announced it suspended its search for an unspecified number of survivors from the Dec. 30 strike. It's unclear how many people are now considered lost at sea. www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releas...

The Audacity of Hope.

Khizr Khan’s pocket size constitution.

Of all the names…

Fourth most expensive ad campaign ever. Microsoft Windows 95 launch $300M Avengers Endgame (2019) $200M McDonald’s (1996) $150-$200M ICE $100M No. 5 The Film (2004) $33M

“In addition to Vermont, Campaign Legal Center and the Brennan Center are working together against the Justice Department’s lawsuits seeking voter files from Maine,New York, and Oregon.

“Dumbest person ever to sit in the United States Senate.” - Stephen Colbert, June 2022

OCCRP investigative reporter Jonny Wrate features on NPR’s Morning Edition to discuss our latest investigation into the sale of U.S. planes used in the global illicit drug trade. Take a listen here: buff.ly/vLN0508

For years, lax FAA regulations have enabled the sale of airplanes to unknown buyers and shell companies leaving an opportunity for criminal networks and drug traffickers. Three months into his second term Trump’s Treasury Sec. gutted the Transparency Act for vetting. www.occrp.org/en/project/n...

Sharing operational details of an attack beforehand with a random journalist on a group chat is for rookies. Casually disclosing covert action while calling into a radio show is the real deal.

This is the framing required to resonate with Americans unfamiliar with the UN Charter: “This is an act of war.”

That CIA drone strike on the port reportedly happened “earlier this month.”

Exclusive: The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility in Venezuela, sources told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country. This is the attack Trump has repeatedly alluded to in recent days. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

“One of the sources said the strike was successful in that it destroyed the facility and its boats, but described it as largely symbolic… It also appeared to attract little to no attention, even inside the country, in real time.”

“When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.” - Timothy Snyder

Smells like voter suppression.

The wartime President who dodged the draft, was a Russian asset, handed Afghanistan to the Taliban, betrayed Ukraine and Europe, funded a genocide and committed war crimes in Latin America.

Like 6’8 James Comey blending into the curtains in the Oval Office.

To pay off stadium bonds, Chiefs-related new spending would need to be $2.7B a year — for a team whose total revenue is less than a quarter of that. Each and every Chiefs fan would need to spend an extra $4,000 per game for Kansas to break even.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

“No doubt it will be Hakeem Jeffries?” Pelosi: “None.” Just great. The robot whose political instincts are nill and misses the mark at every opportunity.

They should have had Rick Scott making this statement.

Now leading HuffPost— My deep dive on a warning sign for foreign policy-making under Trump + Rubio: lawyers at the State Dept now fear unprecedented retaliation if they provide honest legal advice about big, damaging policies from boat strikes to mass deportations www.huffpost.com/entry/state-...

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Have a call to action to yield results. Change your theme to: The King’s Enablers Apply pressure to individuals responsible for enabling a King & his cabinet to destroy our democracy.

Oregon protestors who mocked federal agents Chicago protestors who fought for their neighbors, even in pajamas Clergy who put their bodies on the line Mamdani for his courage to never stray from his convictions those suing the admin and upholding our judicial system Chris Van Hollen

I like this portion: “America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘we.’ ‘We The People.’ ‘We Shall Overcome.’ ‘Yes We Can.’ That word is owned by no one. It belongs to everyone.”

ICE to get new technology to track everyone. www.newsweek.com/ice-new-tech...

Four men missing since being deported from the U.S. in March are located in El Salvador prisons. CECOT: Brandon Bladimir Sigarán Cruz The Industrial Center for Fulfillment of Sentences & Rehabilitation: José Osmín Santos Robles William Alexander Martínez Ruano Irving Geovani Quintanilla García