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🚨 EMERGENCY ACTION TOMORROW IN D.C.

Tomorrow, the Organization of American States will hold a special meeting on Venezuela.

We're mobilizing to demand an end to U.S. aggression and respect for Venezuelan self-determination!

🕤 9:30AM
📍 200 17th St NW
January 5, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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We must act fast to ensure Trump doesn’t run Venezuela. Join our emergency organizing call with @moveon.org, @workingfamilies.org, @publiccitizen.bsky.social, @winwithoutwar.bsky.social, and more special guests to discuss the immediate actions you can take to stop more endless war.
Mass Call: Healthcare Not Warfare · Healthcare Not Warfare
### We need to act fast to ensure that Trump doesn’t run Venezuela ** Join our emergency organizing call to find ways to mobilize to stop more endless war. ** Congress can act this week to end Trump...
www.mobilize.us
January 5, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries

TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?

M: *yells*
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Okay, I’m weirdly going to bring this up again…The Orders Project that I learned about from an episode of Amicus Brief with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social helps service members sort out the legality of orders

www.ordersproject.com
The Orders Project: Legal Guidance for Military Personnel
The Orders Project helps military personnel navigate legal orders with confidence. Understand your rights and options today.
www.ordersproject.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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Trump threatens to attack Iran to “protect human rights” while backing genocide, starvation, and siege in Gaza. If he cared about Iranians, he’d lift sanctions. If he cared about Palestinians, he’d stop Israel.
Hands off Iran. Free Palestine.
January 2, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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NOW: Trump says "We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition."

Translation: Trump kidnapped the democratically elected leader, bombed civilians, and has decided he is in control.

This is colonial rule.
January 3, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Deputy Chair @repilhan.bsky.social : “Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. He has no authority to deploy U.S. forces into foreign countries to bomb them, capture heads of state, and overthrow governments in regime-change wars.”
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Not looking forward to the 2044 controversy about whether a Dem president handled the withdrawal from Venezuela right
Veteran New York Times national security reporter David Sanger says what Trump is describing in Venezuela is an "American occupation."
January 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Stop illegal actions against Venezuela! Americans do NOT want more & forever war...Raise your voice, take action.... we say no!
USE YOUR POWER! Start calling Monday AM. Senator Roger Wicker is key (chair of Armed Services committee), as is Rep. Mike Rogers (chair of House Armed Services comm)
January 3, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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#WATCH | An heartbreaking footage, This is how displaced people in Gaza woke up this morning, flooded and soaked tents

(Dr. Mimi Syed)
December 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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A fantastic NYT report: Donors to Trump get pardons, jobs, & access - and benefited from regulatory decisions the Trump admin has made.

SUPER timely as SCOTUS is about to kill agency independence & give POTUS more control over agencies (likely to donors' benefit)

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Senators who voted for the $901 billion military bill accepted 3.5x as much money from military contractors as those opposed.

Helps explain why the Senate is so comfortable ignoring public opinion.
www.stephensemler.com/p/1-in-10-vo...
December 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Children in Gaza dying from cold, says medical group
<article data-history-node-id="432864" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/children-gaza-dying-cold-says-medical-group" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/children-gaza-dying-cold-says-medical-group" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Children in Gaza dying from cold, says medical group</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said children in Gaza are dying from the cold weather, urging Israel to allow more aid into the enclave.</p> <p>"A 29-day-old baby died at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, just two hours after arriving at the paediatric ward supported by MSF," the group said.</p> <p>"Despite all treatment efforts, the child could not be saved. He died from severe hypothermia."</p> <p>MSF added that "the harsh winter weather, coupled with already dire living conditions, is exacerbating health risks".</p> <p>It said it has recorded "high rates of respiratory infections, and these cases are expected to increase throughout the winter, posing a serious threat to children under five".</p> <p>"As Gaza is experiencing heavy rains and severe storms, the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in makeshift, dilapidated tents that are flooded continues."</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
December 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Thirteen Palestinian deaths in Gaza recorded over past day
<article data-history-node-id="432865" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/thirteen-palestinian-deaths-gaza-recorded-over-past-day" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/thirteen-palestinian-deaths-gaza-recorded-over-past-day" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Thirteen Palestinian deaths in Gaza recorded over past day</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>In the past 24 hours, 13 Palestinians in Gaza have been reported&nbsp;killed, including seven previously unrecorded victims, according to the health ministry.</p> <p>The fatalities include six deaths killed by Israeli shelling which targeted a school that had become a makeshift shelter for the displaced in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, on Friday.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
December 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Just so we’re clear, Schumer voted to give Trump $901 billion in military spending a day after Trump announced a blockade of Venezuela, an act of war.

Schumer also received the 7th-most arms industry cash last election cycle
www.stephensemler.com/p/senate-vot...
December 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Yesterday, Trump ordered a naval blockade of Venezuela, an act of war. Today, nearly 8 in 10 senators voted to authorize $901 billion in military spending, $8 billion more than Trump asked for.
December 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Total victory on this issue; members of Congress will again have the right to conduct surprise inspections of ICE detention centers.
December 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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It’s cold in Minnesota, but our communities are warm.

Even as ICE operates unlawfully, I'm proud of our neighbors who keep showing up for one another.
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Israeli de-registration of aid groups could collapse Gaza operations, UN says
<article data-history-node-id="432787" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-de-registration-aid-groups-could-collapse-gaza-operations-un" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-de-registration-aid-groups-could-collapse-gaza-operations-un" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli de-registration of aid groups could collapse Gaza operations, UN says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The United Nations and aid groups warned on Wednesday that humanitarian operations in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly Gaza, were at risk of collapse if Israel does not lift impediments that include a "vague, arbitrary, and highly politicized" registration process.</p> <p>Dozens of international aid groups face de-registration by 31 December, which means that they then have to close operations within 60 days, said the UN and more than 200 local and international aid groups in a joint statement.</p> <p>"The deregistration of INGOs (international aid groups) in Gaza will have a catastrophic impact on access to essential and basic services," the statement read.</p> <p>"INGOs run or support the majority of field hospitals, primary healthcare centers, emergency shelter responses, water and sanitation services, nutrition stabilization centers for children with acute malnutrition, and critical mine action activities," it said.</p> <p>- <em>Reporting by Reuters&nbsp;</em></p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
December 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Republicans own this war lock stock & barrel -- a strong contrast to previous forever wars
BREAKING: Congress has voted down the Venezuela War Powers resolution with a vote of 211 to 213.

Even with 70% of Americans opposing the war, lawmakers are allowing Trump's senseless, illegal aggression to continue unchecked.
December 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Drone Attacks Killed Over 100 Civilians in Sudan This Month
Drone Attacks Killed Over 100 Civilians in Sudan This Month
In news from Sudan, the UAE-backed paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has been attempting to cover up its mass killings of civilians in the city of El Fasher by burning and burying bodies. That’s accor...
www.democracynow.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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No war with Venezuela.
December 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM