Those who voted to make this happen will never be forgiven.
Just another illegal invasion of another country.
What has happened in Venezuela is about OIL
OIL
OIL
O-I-L
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Ted
@TedPillows
This is insane.Venezuela holds 303B barrels of oil.
At ~$57/barrel, that’s $17.3T in reserves.
Even at half price, that’s $8.7T.
In hours, the US claimed control over oil worth more than every country’s GDP except the US and China.
That’s 4× Japan’s GDP.
Most people don’t realize how big this is.
https://x.com/TedPillows/status/2007516926000697715?s=20
Kamala Harris
@KamalaHarris
Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela do not make America safer, stronger, or more affordable.That Maduro is a brutal, illegitimate dictator does not change the fact that this action was both unlawful and unwise. We’ve seen this movie before. Wars for regime change or oil that are sold as strength but turn into chaos, and American families pay the price.
The American people do not want this, and they are tired of being lied to.
This is not about drugs or democracy. It is about oil and Donald Trump’s desire to play the regional strongman. If he cared about either, he wouldn’t pardon a convicted drug trafficker or sideline Venezuela’s legitimate opposition while pursuing deals with Maduro’s cronies.
The President is putting troops at risk, spending billions, destabilizing a region, and offering no legal authority, no exit plan, and no benefit at home.
America needs leadership whose priorities are lowering costs for working families, enforcing the rule of law, strengthening alliances, and — most importantly — putting the American people first.
7:05 PM · Jan 3, 2026
https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/2007619471893045662?s=20
Celia Mendoza
@CELIAMENDOZA25
It is very important, especially for a U.S. audience that may not be familiar with all the details, to clarify that in 2024 Edmundo González—now exiled in Spain—was elected president after María Corina Machado was barred from running. Machado remains the leader of the opposition, but González is the elected figure who would assume the presidency.I see this as the plan currently being pushed by members of the international community. President Macron has already alluded to this after speaking with María Corina Machado. With the UN Security Council scheduled to meet on Monday at 10:00 a.m., it is likely that discussions are underway with the UK and possibly even unlikely P5 actors such as China and Russia, aimed at advancing this option—one that avoids direct U.S. control while transferring authority back to Venezuelans.
5:03 PM · Jan 3, 2026
https://x.com/CELIAMENDOZA25/status/2007588772121067699?s=20
Josh Rogin
@joshrogin
Trump throws Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado under the bus. Says he hasn’t talked to her. “It will be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support inside the country or the respect. Shes a very nice woman.”
11:32 AM · Jan 3, 2026
https://x.com/joshrogin/status/2007505483805143097?s=20
Olga Nesterova
@onestpress
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.”
3:23 PM · Jan 3, 2026
https://x.com/onestpress/status/2007563374733689314?s=20
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
The White House released photos of Trump watching the operation live from a makeshift “war room” at Mar-a-Lago.Trump went on Fox News this morning and said he watched it like “a television show,” praising the “speed” and “violence” as “an amazing thing.”
Trump enjoying war as a spectacle is very familiar. Remember Trump watching the January 6 violence live like it was a spectator sport?
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2007565158458220695?s=20
First Thoughts on Trump’s Excellent Venezuela Adventure
by Josh Marshall
01.03.26 | 4:11 pm
Let me share a few thoughts about the U.S. action overnight in Venezuela. I say “action” because it’s not clear to me that the U.S. itself (as in the people calling the shots in Washington) know what this was, or have decided. I woke up in the middle of the night and saw the news of some major U.S. attack. That only registered a few WTFs in my mind. Then I woke up again at maybe 4 a.m. and saw at the least the claim that U.S. forces had captured and exfiltrated Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Then my WTFs escalated to 11.
When I woke up this morning I had a sense that this was essentially a raid, in the sense that we attacked and blew up a lot of things but with the central goal the capture of the head of state. That’s a raid and one that would keep the existing state in place, with perhaps the assumption that it would quickly crumble and be replaced by a friendlier government. But now the U.S. president is saying that the U.S. will “run” Venezuela for some undetermined period of time. At least to the best of my knowledge it’s not clear whether the U.S. has any military presence in Venezuela at all or that there’s been any effort to dismantle the current sovereign authorities beyond capturing the head of state. So back to the WTFs …
……………………..
A couple other thoughts.
I’ve heard a lot of people talking about not consulting with Congress or not receiving an authorization to U.S. force from Congress. I think this is far, far beyond what are essentially sub-constitutional technicalities. The U.S. president just went to war with another country and now will apparently occupy it for essentially no reason, with no warning and with public opinion overwhelming against all of it. Someone quipped on BlueSky last night that Trump hadn’t even taken the proper constitutional steps to lie the country into this war. This was more than just a funny line. Even lying the country into a war gives some due to the idea that the country is supposed to have some idea what the president is doing, why and some opportunity at least to register an opinion about it. Nor can any of this be separated from the broader domestic and global fabric of Trumpism, the casual illegality, the impetuousness and more than anything else the simple but always visible premise that Trump owns the United States, its military, its people, its wealth, everything. Someone told me earlier that this was like Trump taking his ICE raids global. And yeah, it pretty much is. Trump does what he wants, like one does with things one owns. You don’t ask your table what room it wants to be in and most employers don’t ask employees what tasks they want to do. In Trump’s mind he owns the country and its power. He won it fair and square in the 2024 election. Everything that stands in the way of that basic premise is an obstacle to be overturned.
Occupy Democrats
@OccupyDemocrats
BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi unveils the “indictments” against Venezuelan President President Nicolás Maduro and they’re even more insane than experts predicted.You really can’t make this sh*t up…
“Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted in the Southern District of New York. Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States,” Bondi wrote on X.
“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” she continued. “On behalf of the entire U.S. DOJ, I would like to thank President Trump for having the courage to demand accountability on behalf of the American People, and a huge thank you to our brave military who conducted the incredible and highly successful mission to capture these two alleged international narco traffickers.”
To point out the incredibly obvious: it’s not illegal for Maduro to possess a machine gun. He’s the president of a sovereign nation with a standing military. Him having a weapon on Venezuelan territory is not a violation of U.S. nor Venezuelan law.
And of course, the American special forces operators who captured Maduro were carrying machine guns. Apparently, that’s totally fine and legal according to the upside down fascist logic of this White House. Laws only apply to political enemies of MAGA, never to enforcers of the regime.
The absurdity of the machine gun charges underlines just what a farce this entire operation is. The allegations that Maduro was running a narco-trafficking
Really American 🇺🇸
@ReallyAmerican1
BREAKING: In a stunning display of subservience, Maria Corina Machado says she wants to hand her Nobel Peace Prize to trump, “to share it” with him.
If that happens, the committee got it wrong.
https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/2008425668263227532?s=20
Candidly Tiff
@tify330
Sorry to say but she gives me bad vibes everytime I hear her talk. Anyone kissing Trump’s ass like this is not to be trusted. It’s weird and gives pick me energy.
The Intellectualist
@highbrow_nobrow
President Donald Trump is moving to block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports, reversing consumer protections and keeping millions burdened by bills they can’t afford.
http://open.substack.com/pub/theintel…
https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/2008418337265434965?s=20
Anonymous
@YourAnonNews
When the pendulum swings left, MAGA is going to the gulag. ICE agents will be hunted down and the Trump family’s name will be a joke. Trump and MAGA did this to themselves. There will be consequences. There will be revenge. Revenge is coming.
6:34 PM · Jan 5, 2026
https://x.com/YourAnonNews/status/2008336335812051386?s=20
The United States versus Elon R. Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
I’d like to think so, but the history of white people themselves suggests otherwise
America fought an entire civil war against similar-minded white conservatives, but then took great pains to see them as “tragically wayward brothers” & let them exercise Jim Crow on Black people
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2008514211140583646?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨 BREAKING: European leaders just drew a hard line on Greenland.
In a rare joint statement, leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the UK, and Denmark made it explicit: Greenland belongs to its people, and only Greenland and Denmark get a say in its future.
They reaffirmed sovereignty, territorial integrity, NATO principles, and rejected outside threats or coercion.
This is Europe saying no, clearly, publicly, and on the record.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2008535143862911114?s=20
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough on his call with Trump: It’s all about the oil.
“The president’s response, ‘Joe, the difference between Iraq and this is that Bush didn’t keep the oil. We’re going to keep the oil.’
“And to underline his point, Trump said his comments were no longer on background and said, ‘In 2016, I said we should have kept the oil. It caused a lot of controversy. Well, we should have kept the oil,’ the president said. ‘And we’re going to rebuild their broken-down oil facilities, and this time we’re going to keep the oil.'”
8:20 AM · Jan 6, 2026
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2008544233641128169?s=20
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
TODAY’S DOCKET
⚖️ A New York court will hear a pro-voting lawsuit arguing the state’s 2024 congressional map dilutes the voting power of Staten Island’s Black and Latino voters, who constitute 30% of the population yet have gone unaccounted for.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2008561758214979898?s=20
Lord Bebo
@MyLordBebo
🇺🇸🇻🇪‼️🚨 DIRTY TRICK:
The US pulled a dirty trick to be able to grab Maduro without getting congress involved, I’d guess it’s Rubio’s plan.
That’s how this worked:
1) USA invents a new bad cartel, “Cartel de Los Soles”
2) US declares Maduro as a head of the drug trafficking “Cartel de los Soles”
3) US designates “Cartel de los Soles” as a terrorist organization
4) Maduro is now a terrorist, with $50 million bounty on his head
5) The military can act against terrorists without congressional approval!
6) Maduro gets grabbed by the military quickly
7) For the actual trial, the US drops the whole “Cartel de Los Soles” act and admits it does not even exist
8) This allowed them to get Maduro without asking confess for approval.
That’s pretty dirty if you think about it, they invented a cartel to seize Maduro.
1/
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2008466483458756939?s=20
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere to be found.
Republicans are refusing to install it, even though Congress passed a law requiring it. You can bet this decision to break the law is about appeasing Trump and erasing the truth.
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2008543410370867396?s=20
Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney
NEW: Donald Trump’s escape from accountability for Jan. 6 has been the animating force in his second term — a president willing to test and cross constitutional lines knowing the institutions meant to check or punish him…can’t or won’t.
Five years later, Jan. 6 is every day. https://politico.com/news/2026/01/06/january-6-anniversary-donald-trump-00711324
https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/2008506577871868279?s=20
Tammy Duckworth
@SenDuckworth
It doesn’t get more wicked than this.
Donald Trump is cutting $10 billion for child care and social services in Illinois and 4 other blue states.
Playing politics and coming after kids because they happen to live in states that voted against him is anything but America first.
https://x.com/SenDuckworth/status/2008552082077610007?s=20
Sam Waldo
@wlodawskicodes
I knew when they did it in Minnesota it was just a pre-text to start doing it elsewhere. Now I hope that the MAGAts in those states understand their children are getting screwed too. Trump sees it as a blue state, but I guarantee you have his supporters in those blue states and I hope they enjoy getting fucked over. God knows they deserve it for bringing all this shit on us.
10:16 AM · Jan 6, 2026
https://x.com/wlodawskicodes/status/2008573402575982659?s=20
Biff turned out to be real
@solarjedimaster
Because of allegations. Not because of verified fraud, but because of allegations of fraud. This is how Trump operates. “Just announce fraud, or an investigation and leave the rest to us.”
9:02 AM · Jan 6, 2026
https://x.com/solarjedimaster/status/2008554770399981977?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨 BREAKING: Kristi Noem has just arrived in Minneapolis as thousands of federal agents surge into the region.
This is a major escalation.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2008562731717456014?s=20
Tim Hogan 浩勤
@TimInHonolulu
The reporting that Mike Johnson is caving to demands made by the GOP caucus on the ACA may mean that at least 9 members of his caucus made him an offer he can’t refuse. Give us what we want or on the 8th we vote to remove you as speaker.
8:14 AM · Jan 6, 2026
https://x.com/TimInHonolulu/status/2008542714489692468?s=20
Judd Legum
@JuddLegum
The DOJ was required to release all Epstein files, with limited exceptions, by December 19.
According to a court filing last night, the DOJ has released only 12,285 documents.
More than 2 MILLION documents remain unreleased.
https://x.com/JuddLegum/status/2008542979498131550?s=20
The Tennessee Holler
@TheTNHoller
Meanwhile here in Tennessee,
@GovBillLee
is letting kids go hungry😳
“Despite the urging of county mayors, child advocates, clergy & educators, Gov. Lee has declined to secure millions of dollars in federal funding to provide food to low-income kids” https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/06/gov-bill-lee-declines-to-secure-millions-in-federal-funds-to-feed-tennessee-kids-during-summer/
https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/2008524924059873708?s=20
The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that Fed staffers believe federal data could be overstating job creation by up to 60,000 jobs a month—which suggests the jobs market might be shrinking
https://x.com/WSJ/status/1999032105645285810?s=20
Chris Murphy 🟧
@ChrisMurphyCT
This feels like a big story that isn’t being told. The underlying issues here are complicated, but remember that Trump fired the person who oversees jobs numbers and replaced her because he wanted fudged data.
https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/2008543390666023271?s=20
Magdi Jacobs
@magi_jay
Democrats,
We are fully poised for an epic midterm blowout & there’s really only 2 things that could go wrong:
1) Failure to neutralize the DSA & other “Leftist” saboteurs
2) Endless infighting among Democrats over meaningless bullsh*t
Republicans are the target. Republicans.
11:13 AM · Jan 5, 2026
https://x.com/magi_jay/status/2008225398681669639?s=20
Austin Kocher, PhD
@ackocher
TPS is ending for 600,000 Venezuelans. DHS now says they can “seek asylum” instead, a process that is slower, discretionary, and far less protective than TPS ever was.
https://x.com/ackocher/status/2008162318669037997?s=20
FactPost
@factpostnews
Billionaire Paul Singer’s acquisition of Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-run oil company, was green-lit by a judge in November 2025.
Singer donated at least $5 million to Trump and $37 million to GOP congressional races in 2024.
https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2008226284103430600?s=20
Owen Jones
@owenjonesjourno
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/2008166331552514466?s=20
THEE ENTIRE PHUCK!!
Prem Thakker
@prem_thakker
What a distillation of the Trump-Vance-Rubio legacy. Young woman in Michigan says “this is not just a foreign issue, it’s our tax dollars being used to commit these war crimes,” referring to Venezuela. …Then police arrest her, on camera, for “obstructing” & “failure to obey.”
https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/2008255966454956166?s=20
Well, this is how to make lemonade out of lemons. For those wondering how Klobuchar running for Governor could affect the Minnesota political landscape.
Jeremy Munson
@jeremymunson
Very important to note that
@amyklobuchar
is a very likely candidate because she is not up for re-election this year, and even if she loses the Governor’s race, she remains a US Senator as if nothing happened. If she wins the Governor’s race, she gets to appoint her replacement *cough*, which could be *cough* *cough* US Senator
@Tim_Walz
. 🤬
https://x.com/jeremymunson/status/2008048420536172836?s=20
Etan Thomas
@etanthomas36
“I don’t doubt that Maduro is a criminal but so is Trump. I don’t doubt that Maduro rigged the elections, but so did Trump. I don’t doubt that Maduro weaponized the justice system but so has Trump” ~Rev Kevin Johnson of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem
https://x.com/etanthomas36/status/2008184691699192104?s=20
Senator Mark Kelly
@SenMarkKelly
Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.
My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.
Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.
If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.
10:33 AM · Jan 5, 2026
https://x.com/SenMarkKelly/status/2008215189275963870?s=20
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Walz announces he’s changed his mind and will no longer run for reelection next year
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2008223766493499411?s=20
John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
the most dire pre-election warnings about how Trump would damage America and the world, dismissed as hysterical at the time, were in fact understated
5:02 PM · Jan 3, 2026
https://x.com/JohnJHarwood/status/2007588400581242937?s=20
Alex Burns
@alexanderburns
Trump admin “officials have told oil executives in recent weeks that if they want compensation for…seized property, then they must be prepared to go back into Venezuela now”
On Trump prodding US oil giants into Venezuela – Lefebvre/
@zcolman
/
@jamepdx
https://x.com/alexanderburns/status/2007554496575263006?s=20
Secular Talk (KyleKulinskiShow@bsky.social)
@KyleKulinski
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein’s list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil.”
https://x.com/KyleKulinski/status/2007593101205119218?s=20
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said the US is going to ‘run Venezuela.’ Under what legal authority?
RUBIO: We want a better future for the people of Venezuela
STEPHANOPOULOS: I’ll ask again — what is the legal authority?
RUBIO: We have court orders
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2007849595234099697?s=20
Acyn
@Acyn
Stephanopoulos: He said, you cannot credibly argue that drug trafficking charges demand invasion in one case while issuing a pardon in another. What’s your response?
Rubio: In the case of Maduro, look, it’s very simple. This guy was indicted.
Stephanopoulos: Hernandez was convicted by a jury.
Rubio: I can’t just comment on it because I just wasn’t involved in those deliberations.
Stephanopoulos: Do you support it?
Rubio: I wasn’t involved in those deliberations. I haven’t looked at the case file. I haven’t looked at the arguments made by—I’ve got a bunch of other things going on
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2007851511150452745?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨 HOLY HELL: Marco Rubio just said the quiet part out loud.
Asked by Kristen Welker why the U.S. needs Venezuelan oil, Rubio didn’t cite law, trade, or consent.
He said:
“Why does China need their oil? Russia? Iran? This is the West. This is where we live.”
Russia, China, and Iran must “get out,” Rubio said — because the Western Hemisphere is ours, and no one from “outside our hemisphere” is allowed in America’s backyard.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2007863850326958325?s=20
Dan Eggen
@DanEggenWPost
Trump says Venezuela stole U.S. oil, land and assets. But U.S. companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela and officials didn’t kick them out of the country. Here’s the real history of oil and Venezuela:
https://x.com/DanEggenWPost/status/2007653523501265277?s=20
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
FOX NEWS: There’s tremendous concern among the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are here in the US legally through TPS. Are you gonna force them to return to Venezuela even as their govt is in complete flux?
KRISTI NOEM: Venezuela is more free than it was yesterday, and it’s gonna continue to be that way as long as President Trump is in the White House
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2007868078864916734?s=20
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
Whoa!
🚨 BREAKING: The Atlantic is reporting that Trump just threatened the VP of Venezuela.
TRUMP: “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she’s going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”
So if she doesn’t go along with the get-along and give the US their oil, he’s coming for her too.
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2007886255728758874?s=20
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Himes: “I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the administration. I’ve had zero outreach and no Democrat that I’m aware of has had any outreach whatsoever. So apparently we’re now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2007855777801707931?s=20
Manu Raju
@mkraju
Elliott Abrams, Trump’s former Venezuela envoy: “The United States cannot run Venezuela…It’s just not going to work.”
Says “the worst point” of Trump’s presser was “the insult” of Machado, the opposition leader
Is it legal for US to take VZ oil?
“No…It’s not our oil.”
https://x.com/mkraju/status/2007834947386777983?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
BRENNAN: You’re describing the regime as still intact.
Why arrest only Maduro when the police chief and defense minister — both indicted narco-terrorists with multimillion-dollar bounties — are still in power?
RUBIO: You’re confused? I don’t know why that’s confusing. We’re not going to go scoop up five people. They’re already complaining about this one operation.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2007861790525338067?s=20
Acyn
@Acyn
Rubio: Read the indictment. This guy used the levers of their security apparatus to facilitate the trafficking of drugs
Welker Yet, the president pardoned the former president of Honduras who was starting a 45-year sentence for trafficking more than 500 tons of cocaine.
Rubio: I don’t do the pardon file. I can’t speak to the dynamics that led the president to make the decision he made.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2007835631641378819?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
Chris Murphy isn’t hedging words on Venezuela:
“Clearly this is wildly illegal… a president operating illegally since day one — stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, and now dragging America into a war overseas. Donald Trump’s entire foreign policy is corrupt.”
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2007860294337335474?s=20
MM
@adgirlMM
Here’s a list of people I blame for where we are today.
1. Merrick Garland
2. Mitch McConnell
3. The Senators who voted not to “impeach and convict”
4. Fox News
5. The people who “sat it out” in 2016
6. The 147 Republicans who voted not to certify the election even after Jan 6th
7. The Roberts Court, especially Alito and Thomas
8. Judge Cannon
9. The owner of this app
Who am I missing?
10:38 PM · Jan 3, 2026
https://x.com/adgirlMM/status/2007673047478665524?s=20
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
ICE “agents” dressed in plain clothes violently detain woman—walking into immigration support center.
3 unidentified men then left her stranded in unmarked car to go “hunt” for more to “kidnap.”
“A minute before I could have helped her, let her in the door,” man filming cries.
“These people are animals… they were waiting for someone to grab when they come to check in.”
The incident occurred in the parking lot of a USCIS Application Support Center off Gunn Highway in Tampa, Florida. #DemsUnited
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2007864613224743381?s=20
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
NYT Editorial Board: Trump Is the Jan. 6 President.
“Again and again, Mr. Trump dares the system to stop him. He does so knowing that the same system that failed to hold him to account for Jan. 6 is unlikely to do so now.”
“In Mr. Trump’s second term, he has governed as if Jan. 6 never ended. The damage to the nation is severe.”
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2007908729803460996?s=20
Brian Krassenstein
@krassenstein
BREAKING: This is genuinely scary as shit
Trump has suggested that Venezuela would not be the last target of American intervention, stating plainly, “We do need Greenland, absolutely.”
Trump warned Venezuela’s interim president that “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”
2:07 PM · Jan 4, 2026
https://x.com/krassenstein/status/2007906645448298693?s=20
Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson
UPDATED LIST of countries the Trump administration has threatened to invade, annex, or otherwise attack in the 85 hours of 2026 so far:
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇬🇱 Greenland
🇮🇷 Iran
🇨🇦 Canada
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇲🇽 Mexico
Insane.
12:09 PM · Jan 4, 2026
https://x.com/SethAbramson/status/2007877179099738467?s=20
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
The DOJ is demanding access to Minnesota’s same-day voter registration records, specifically the state’s voter vouching system, which allows voters to verify each other’s current addresses as part of the registration process.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2007880462732054697?s=20
The Bulwark
@BulwarkOnline
Q: “Trump…said the U.S. is going to run Venezuela. Under what legal authority?”
Rubio: *doesn’t answer*
Q: “ Let me ask the question again, what is the legal authority for the United States to be running Venezuela?”
Rubio: *doesn’t answer*
https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/2007846421282906188?s=20
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
WELKER: Is the Cuban government the Trump administration’s next target?
MARCO RUBIO: Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem. Yeah.
WELKER: Is that a yes?
RUBIO: I think they’re in a lot of trouble, yes
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2007836775360745944?s=20
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
BRENNAN: But you’re describing the regime as still in place. I’m confused why the Trump administration only arrested Maduro. The chief thug who controls the police and has a $25m price on his head is still in place.
RUBIO: You’re confused? I don’t know why that’s confusing to you
BRENNAN: They are still in power
RUBIO: You’re gonna go in and suck up 5 people? They’re already complaining about this one operation
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2007840281756934519?s=20
Orla Joelsen
@OJoelsen
Statement from the Prime Minister of Denmark 🇩🇰:
“I must say this very clearly to the United States:
It makes absolutely no sense to speak of any necessity for the United States to take over Greenland. The United States has no legal basis to annex one of the three countries of the Kingdom of Denmark.
The Kingdom of Denmark — and thus Greenland — is a member of NATO and is therefore covered by the Alliance’s collective security guarantee. We already have a defence agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States that grants the U.S. broad access to Greenland. In addition, the Kingdom has made significant investments in security in the Arctic.
I therefore strongly urge the United States to cease its threats against a historically close ally, and against another country and another people who have stated very clearly that they are not for sale.”
Mette Frederiksen
Prime Minister of Denmark
2:00 PM · Jan 4, 2026
https://x.com/OJoelsen/status/2007904928379850999?s=20
S.L. Kanthan
@Kanthan2030
72 years ago, the CIA orchestrated a coup d’état in Latin America… not for oil… but for BANANAS.
This was in Guatemala in 1954 to protect the profits of United Fruit Company (now Chiquita).
Jacobo Arbenz was a democratically elected popular leader who distributed unused lands to farmers, raised minimum wage, legalized labor unions, and provided free and compulsory education.
Of course, all these reforms were bad news for US agricultural firms, who depended for slave labor.
And guess who was the law firm that represented United Fruit Company in Central America? The law firm of John Foster Dulles – the Sec. of State and brother of Allen Dulles, the CIA Director.
The brothers also recruited Edward Bernays, the propaganda guru, to demonize Arbenz as a communist, to drum up support for regime change in Guatemala.
Thus, the CIA operation to overthrow Jacobo Árbenz, code-named Operation PBSuccess, was authorized by President Eisenhower in August 1953.
In 1954, banana company Chiquita once again became the ruler of Guatemala.
https://x.com/Kanthan2030/status/2007573529085218864?s=20
Dicapito
@dicapito
Blaming Democrats when they have no control in any branches of government is either ignorance or you’re trying to rage bait for engagement. Likely both.
Too many are way too grown to be this stupid. If Democrats have no majorities in any branches then they can only do so much
3:15 PM · Jan 4, 2026
https://x.com/dicapito/status/2007923907693834450?s=20
Tim
@trouble_man90
Trump has the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court AND the media on his side. He can do whatever he wants, however he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants. And honestly what did you expect?? Why did you think we tried so hard to stop him? And more importantly why didn’t you help?
6:04 PM · Jan 4, 2026
https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/2007966506924322979?s=20
Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney
JUST IN: DOJ tells Judge Boasberg that due to the Maduro operation, it needs more time to determine how to provide due process to Venezuelans deported under the Alien Enemies Act.
https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/2007986930282283411?s=20
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
How does an entire administration not understand this basic reality? Venezuelan oil is not a quick payday or profitable.
Heavy crude takes years to extract profitably. It requires massive upfront investment, specialized infrastructure, refineries configured for heavy oil, long timelines, and political stability. None of that exists right now. None of it comes cheap. And none of it pays off fast.
So if this administration thinks invading, occupying, and “stabilizing” Venezuela is going to fund itself through oil anytime soon, they’re on a fool’s errand.
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2007942975763202538?s=20
Acyn
@Acyn
Reporter: Who’s in charge of Venezuela right now? Have you spoken to the newly sworn in President?
Trump: We’re dealing with the people who just got sworn in. Don’t ask me who is in charge because I’ll give you an answer and it will be very controversial.
Reporter: What does that mean?
Trump: We’re in charge.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2007977504666173697?s=20
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
Texas man impersonating ICE agent stops driver—illegally detains the Black man and searches his truck.
Attempted kidnapping only thwarted when community volunteers stopped to film the suspicious “arrest.”
“He looked at their IDs, he shined a flashlight in their face,” witness said. “He was doing everything a normal officer does.”
“But then the fact that he wouldn’t give me his name or his badge number was a big red flag.”
Joshua Warner was arrested with a fake law enforcement ID card and badge—his vehicle was also seized because it was disguised like an unmarked police vehicle.
Police are searching for additional victims—please contact the Galveston Police Department. #DemsUnited
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2007973871543025856?s=20
Bark
@barkmeta
🚨 BREAKING: UNITED STATES SEIZES VENEZUELA’S $1 TRILLION IN PRECIOUS METALS
Less than 24 hours after the invasion of Venezuela, the US government quietly secured a MASSIVE smelter deal to process Venezuela’s $1 TRILLION worth of precious metals.
Cost of the new facility? $8 Billion.
The Financier? J.P. Morgan…
Connect the Dots:
1. J.P. Morgan is underwater on massive physical silver short position.
2. Venezuela sits on the “Arco Minero” (Trillions in unmined gold/silver).
3. The US Military removes the one guy standing in the way of the mines.
Coincidence?
This wasn’t a drug bust. It was a Hostile Takeover of a sovereign nation’s resource sheet.
They built the smelter facility before they even invaded. They knew… 🪙📈🏗️
https://x.com/barkmeta/status/2007910796312146418?s=20
melissa
@ArtistAffame
This is a good explainer from a teacher about Venezuela they actually posted this last month
https://x.com/ArtistAffame/status/2007702812218769520?s=20
Acyn
@Acyn
Goldman: Trump promised oil executives that if they gave him $1 billion for his campaign, that he would do right by them. And they gave about 500 million. And this is a massive gift that is in violation of international law and is essentially just co-opting an entire country’s natural resources for the benefit of U.S. Companies.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2007666406851240106?s=20
Tim
@trouble_man90
People don’t realize that they inadvertently gave trump a level of power that no other US President has ever had, they simply don’t get it. The mainstream media is rooting for him and covering for him; the Supreme Court gave him complete and total immunity. They don’t get it.
https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/2007999597390745990?s=20
Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur
Trump tells reporters on Air Force One:
—“We’re in charge” of Venezuela. “We’re gonna run it. Fix it. We’ll have elections at the right time.”
—“If they don’t behave we’ll do a second strike.”
—“Venezuela, it’s very sick. Columbia is very sick too.”
—On Iran protests: “If they start killing people like they have in the past, I think they’re gonna get hit very hard by the U.S.”
—“We need Greenland from a national security situation… To boost up security in Greenland, they [Denmark] added one more dog sled.”
—“Cuba is ready to fall.”
8:07 PM · Jan 4, 2026
https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/2007997403379732554?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨 WOW: Donald Trump just went scorched earth:
“We are not going to pay Minnesota. We’re not going to pay California. We’re not going to pay Illinois — the big slob of a governor they have.”
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2008011697089663165?s=20
Amene
@Ange_Amene
Everyone is expecting the Democratic Party to have some magic power and solution to stop what Republicans are doing without giving them power to do so. Constantly complaining about the power they didn’t give them.
10:35 PM · Jan 3, 2026
https://x.com/Ange_Amene/status/2007672287957545043?s=20
Pentagon Moves To Cut Mark Kelly’s Retirement Pay
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that the Pentagon is moving to cut Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Arizona) retirement grade and pay in response to a video he recorded last year warning the military not to follow illegal orders.
Hegseth claimed Kelly’s video, which was recorded alongside 5 other congressional Democrats who served in the military, was “reckless and seditious” and that it “clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline.”
“Captain Kelly’s status as a sitting United States Senator does not exempt him from accountability, and further violations could result in further action,” Hegseth said in a post online.
“These actions are based on Captain Kelly’s public statements from June through December 2025 in which he characterized lawful military operations as illegal and counseled members of the Armed Forces to refuse lawful orders,” he said.
Monday’s announcement and the administration’s criticism of Kelly come after Hegseth made a similar point that U.S. troops ought to ignore illegal orders from President Donald Trump in 2016.
Melanie D’Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Trump’s billionaire allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets.
They control the AI you’re asking for answers, the algorithms feeding you content, your personal data you’ve given up for access, and the devices you rely on.
The news and your privacy are now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
This is all by design.
https://x.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/2007993670339883256?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
HOLY CRAP.
House Republicans are quietly slipping Section 453 into the spending bill — a provision that would give pesticide companies immunity from lawsuits for the harm they cause.
Brett Cooper is calling it out: this could shield tens of thousands of chemicals, many linked to cancer, Parkinson’s, and infertility.
MAHA is DEAD!
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2008020749278220723?s=20
UH HUH
UH HUH
Tim
@trouble_man90
Leftists hate being told ‘I told you so’ because *they* wanted to be the ones saying it. Their whole ideology is not based on having power, it’s based on being right, and they can’t handle the fact that they are in the wrong *and* have no power.
https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/2007969767186162140?s=20
Maile
@MaileOnX
I just don’t understand why everyone is letting Nick Shirley get away with posting incorrect facts and sometimes straight up lies.
He’s failed to disclose a relationship with Polymarket as required by FTC law, and yesterday completely lied about the location of a group of celebrating Venezuelans.
Is this being honest with his fellow man?
Aren’t LDS mormons supposed to serve others and be honest?
How is any of this serving anyone?
https://x.com/MaileOnX/status/2007904294020796528?s=20
LIPS SO PURSED
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨UNBELIEVABLE: The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump withheld support for María Corina Machado because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump’s explanation, per the report:
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today.”
11:44 PM · Jan 4, 2026
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2008052061854675256?s=20
Caroline Cummings
@CaroRCummings
Statements from Colin and Sophie Hortman, children of Mark and Melissa Hortman, after President Trump reposted false claims about their parents’ death.
“I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced,” Sophie said, asking him to remove it.
https://x.com/CaroRCummings/status/2007960023134298228?s=20
Tim
@trouble_man90
Never forget that leftists purposely gave trump this power in exchange for him beating Hillary and Kamala on their behalf. Their outrage is fake; they are perfectly okay with everything that’s happened.
9:37 PM · Jan 3, 2026
https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/2007657536917565564?s=20
Amene
@Ange_Amene
Hey listen everyone
I know you all feel like you have valid points to make to be anti-Democrats or anti-Democratic party.
You don’t. None of you are valid or have valid reasons.
Republicans literally don’t support HUMAN/CIVIL rights. And they GOVERN that way.
Democrats don’t.
https://x.com/Ange_Amene/status/2007881502626087301?s=20
MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸
@MAGACult2
There’s good trouble, there is great trouble, and then there is Martha. Remind me never to cross this woman’s path.
She built a dating website for white supremacists and used chat bots to get them to admit their darkest secrets and then posted it all!!! http://okaystupid.lol
https://x.com/MAGACult2/status/2007695919836475669?s=20
Terry Lee Watkins Jr. 王瑞民💜💙
@TerryWatkinsJr1
Anyone blaming Dems for what Trump is doing now is merely trying to obscure their guilt for getting Trump into office to begin with.
This is what happens when you sit out.
This is what happens when you attack dems more than help.
You have yet to learn.
More must be lost.
11:28 PM · Jan 4, 2026
https://x.com/TerryWatkinsJr1/status/2008047998849487196?s=20
Tim Hogan 浩勤
@TimInHonolulu
1. The reason Trump grabbed Maduro is likely because his chief of staff encouraged him, betting it would move the news cycles away from Epstein and a US economy showing serious signs of a recession.
10:53 PM · Jan 4, 2026
https://x.com/TimInHonolulu/status/2008039090508464515?s=20
ProPublica
@propublica
Revisit one of our most-read stories of 2025:
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate became the DHS official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
https://x.com/propublica/status/2007995482971218057?s=20
Kappa Alpha Psi® Fraternity, Inc.
@kapsi1911
On January 5, 1911, ten Black college men at Indiana University came together with a bold idea…They built a fraternity rooted in high ideals and committed to ACHIEVEMENT. One hundred fifteen years later, their vision continues to endure, inspire, and elevate generations.
https://x.com/kapsi1911/status/2008059627364323495?s=20
United States versus Elon R. Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
Blue-state America, especially those of you who’ve never lived in a red state, now you know how red states are run: a corrupt cabal of insiders, pedophiles, Libertarians, Evangelicals & Reaganites all get together to enrich themselves and keep their state forever backward.
6:44 AM · Jan 4, 2026
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2007795365777699045?s=20
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊