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Rob Bluebird
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Stop project 2025
Liberal/Progressive
Retired 22yr Corrective & Therapeutic Massage and Deep-Muscle Therapist. Intersectional Activism. Advocate. Grounded. Healthy. Holistic. Cats @35 yr
Sobriety since 1981
TBI Survivor . Resilience
Truth Seeker in SoCal
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I just read a great reminder from mariaressa.bsky.social :

Don't swim in the sewer of social media.

Point is: Do Not Lose HOPE

I needed this
Bluesky
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Hilton Hotels doubles-down on their support for the American Gestapo.

When looking for a hotel, there are *plenty* of other choices ..
Hilton Hotels doubles-down on their support for the American Gestapo.

When looking for a hotel, there are *plenty* of other choices.
January 7, 2026 at 12:32 AM
White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot’s 5th Anniversary

A new web page on the official White House site blames the Capitol Police and Democrats for the pro-Trump mob riot, absolving the president of responsibility and calling participants “innocent.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...
White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot’s 5th Anniversary
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Western residents furious after federal officials auction off 17,000 acres

- drilling risks adding planet-warming gases & disrupting wildlife habitats
- major policy shift favors oil profits at the expense of clean air, water & local livelihoods ..

www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...
Western residents furious after federal officials auction off 17,000 acres: 'Tip of the iceberg'
Federal land managers last week leased over 17,000 acres of Utah's public lands for oil and gas drilling, sparking outrage from local communities and recreation groups.
www.thecooldown.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Trump threatens multiple countries after Maduro’s capture

- issued a series of stark warnings & threats targeting governments across Latin America & beyond, including Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, Mexico, & Iran.

www.livemint.com/news/us-news...
Trump threatens multiple countries after Maduro’s capture: Warns Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, Mexico and Iran | Today News
Less than 48 hours after US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump issued warnings to multiple countries. He threatened Colombia’s president over alleged drug traf...
www.livemint.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Trump Reveals He Gave US Oil Companies a Heads Up ‘Before and After’ Maduro Raid

He continued:
“Before and after. They want to go in and they’re going to do a great job for the people of Venezuela and they’re going to represent us.”

www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
Trump Reveals He Gave US Oil Companies a Heads Up ‘Before and After’ Maduro Raid
Trump revealed that American oil companies were informed in advance of the raid on Venezuela that led to the capture of the country’s president.
www.mediaite.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Trump wants worst person ever (Steven Miller) to help run Venezuela

Trump has seized the country’s oil reserves—the largest in the world—and told reporters he intends to “run” Venezuela ..

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
MSN
www.msn.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:15 AM
47 things Trump would rather talk about than Epstein

- long practitioner of distraction tactics during unflattering news
- his flood-the-zone approach with endless posts has taken the familiar deflection playbook to a new extreme ..

www.politico.com/interactives...
Tracking Trump's flood-the-zone approach to distracting from Epstein
Tracking Trump's flood-the-zone approach to distracting from Epstein
www.politico.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group

- experts in Latin American crime & narcotics issues have said it is actually a slang term, invented by the Venezuelan media in the 1990s, for officials corrupted by drug money ..

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire

The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
- in November 2025, Singer acquired Citgo, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-run oil company ..

popular.info/p/venezuela-...
Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire
The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
popular.info
January 5, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Minneapolis Hilton cancels ICE agents’ hotel reservations

- DHS reservations: they were not allowing any ICE agents to stay at the property
Move sparks praise but chain says hotel independently operated and cancellations ‘not reflective of Hilton values’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Minneapolis Hilton cancels ICE agents’ hotel reservations
Move sparks praise but chain says hotel independently operated and cancellations ‘not reflective of Hilton values’
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Reminder:
Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

- lower on empathy and compassion
- published in the Journal of Research in Personality

www.psypost.org/trump-suppor...
Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism
Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lo...
www.psypost.org
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Snopes verified:
January 5, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Mark Kelly - retirement pay cut by Pentagon over ‘illegal orders video Hegseth announces

Kelly & 5 others released a reckless & seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine order & military discipline

- troops “can and must refuse illegal orders”

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Mark Kelly has retirement pay cut by Pentagon over ‘illegal orders video,’
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the Arizona Democrat is ‘still accountable to military justice’
www.the-independent.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Organizer arrested in Grand Rapids following protest in response to U.S. attack in Venezuela

A GR Police officer can be heard telling the woman she's being arrested for "obstructing a roadway" and "failure to obey a lawful command from a police officer."

www.wzzm13.com/video/news/l...
Organizer arrested in Grand Rapids following protest in response to U.S. attack in Venezuela
An officer can be heard telling the woman she's being arrested for "obstructing a roadway" and "failure to obey a lawful command from a police officer."
www.wzzm13.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Hundreds of judges reject Trump’s mandatory detention policy, with no end in sight

- ordered immigrants release or the opportunity for bond hearings in more than 1,600 cases
-expansion of decades-old policies that courts have rejected as illegal or unconstitutional

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Hundreds of judges reject Trump’s mandatory detention policy, with no end in sight
Judges have ruled against the administration in more than 1,600 cases.
www.politico.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women

That a social media-infused chatbot could so readily transform into a nonconsensual porn machine to create unwanted and even violent images of real women at scale is, on its face, deeply unsettling ..

futurism.com/future-socie...
Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.
futurism.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Kaine Statement on Trump Administration’s Unauthorized Military Attack on Venezuela

- a sickening return to a day when the United States asserted the right to dominate the internal political affairs of all nations in the Western Hemisphere.

www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releas...
Kaine Statement on Trump Administration’s Unauthorized Military Attack on Venezuela | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and a...
www.kaine.senate.gov
January 5, 2026 at 5:28 AM
The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War

- none of these acts of brazen aggression, violence, and violations of international law have, in any sustained or meaningful way, been referred to as acts of war, a coup, or invasion ..

theintercept.com/2026/01/04/t...
The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War
By framing the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.
theintercept.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Trump’s embrace of pot has Republicans in Congress fuming

- moving to reduce marijuana regs, he has defied the party’s old guard law-and-order wing of the GOP and embrace the new, more diverse coalition that reelected him, including Kennedy & his supporters ..

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump’s embrace of pot has Republicans in Congress fuming
In moving to reduce marijuana regulation, the president has defied the party’s old guard.
www.politico.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society.

- And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Trump Has Started Carving Up the World. Now It’s Putin and Xi’s Turn

Trump and the GOP have laid bare their desires for hegemony, colonialism, and empire, and the dangerous global consequences of America pursuing these cannot be understated ..

newrepublic.com/article/2048...
Trump Has Started Carving Up the World. Now It’s Putin and Xi’s Turn.
Fiona Hill warned in 2019 of a “strange swap agreement” involving Venezuela and Ukraine. Seven years later, here we are.
newrepublic.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:49 PM
This Is the Real SNAP Fraud

Scammers steal billions of dollars in food stamps from needy people every year. Why isn’t Congress doing anything to stop them?

- a SNAP beneficiary is likelier to be the victim of a crime rather than its perpetrator ..

newrepublic.com/article/2042...
This Is the Real SNAP Fraud
Scammers steal billions of dollars in food stamps from needy people every year. Why isn’t Congress doing anything to stop them?
newrepublic.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:44 PM
They Say They’re Protesters. The DOJ Says They’re Terrorists

The feds rounded up 18 activists tied to an anti-ICE protest in Texas, claiming they were part of an antifa cell. The case is the first big test of Trump’s crackdown on left-wing groups and free speech ..

newrepublic.com/article/2041...
They Say They’re Protesters. The DOJ Says They’re Terrorists.
The federal government rounded up 18 activists tied to an anti-ICE protest in Texas, claiming they were part of an antifa cell. The case is the first big test of Trump’s crackdown on left-wing groups ...
newrepublic.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:37 PM
‘Daddy’ Gavin Newsom kicks off 2026 with savage trolling of Republicans

To combat Republican messaging, Newsom’s office has flooded social media timelines with insults, memes, jokes and mockery of the president ..

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
‘Daddy’ Gavin Newsom kicks off 2026 with savage trolling of Republicans
To combat Republican messaging, Newsom’s office has flooded social media timelines with insults, memes, jokes and mockery of the president
www.the-independent.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:29 PM
The Right-Wing Justices Know Their Favorite Legal Theory Is Bunk

Now that the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc is putting the unitary executive theory to the test, its cracks are beginning to show—and its proponents are flailing ..

newrepublic.com/article/2047...
The Right-Wing Justices Know Their Favorite Legal Theory Is Bunk
Now that the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc is putting the unitary executive theory to the test, its cracks are beginning to show—and its proponents are flailing.
newrepublic.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:12 PM