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Trump threatening to annex Greenland and dissolve NATO isn't about US National Security.

It's about Russia's.
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Krugman: Trump’s belief that Venezuela’s oil fields are a lucrative prize would be an unrealistic fantasy even if he really were in control of a nation that is still controlled by the same thugs who controlled it before Maduro was abducted.
January 7, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Trumpfile.org: "Since 2017, Putin has pushed the idea of a trade with the US. Trump would take control over Venezuela, a Russian military and energy partner, and disengage the U.S. from Ukraine, allowing Russia to take it."
The Life & Crimes of Donald Trump - TrumpFile.org
Documenting the disinformation, chaos, and criminality of Donald Trump, his administration, and his allies.
Trumpfile.org
January 7, 2026 at 6:21 AM
No comment.
January 7, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Lev Parnas:
With all the division in this country — left versus right, Democrat versus Republican, MAGA versus anti-MAGA — there is one issue where there is no division. One issue where Americans agree. One issue that terrifies Donald Trump and the people protecting him: Epstein.
January 6, 2026 at 1:20 PM
A powerful message from Heather Cox Richardson on the anniversary of the Jan 6 insurrection.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 5, 2026 (Monday)
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Can't wait to hear Mike Johnson explain how he hasn't been watching the news or social media, and he didn't even know about Venezuela.
January 4, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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here's today's post: "here’s what it looks like when a mob boss takes over your country" — ‘fuck you, pay me.’
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here’s what it looks like when a mob boss takes over your country
‘fuck you, pay me.’
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January 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
January 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Maduro should have hitched a ride on Epstein's Lolita Express.

He'd still be a free man.
January 4, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Simon Rosenberg:
“We must also marvel at the titanic idiocy of our new ‘Donroe Doctrine’ for it turns America from a global power into a regional one by choice. It is so batsh*t f-ing crazy, and does so much lasting harm to our interests.”
January 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM
January 2, 2026 at 11:43 PM
January 2, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Way to go, Gavin!
January 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
After a tumultuous 2025, may the angel heralds proclaim that 2026 be kind to all of us!

Detail of the facade of the Kirche am Steinhof, 1904-1908, Vienna, Architect Otto Wagner. Angel figures by Secessionist metal sculptor Othmar Schimkowitz.
January 1, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Krugman: "Claims about crimes perpetrated by immigrants are just an excuse to inflict a reign of terror on mostly brown-skinned immigrants that has nothing to do with the stated justifications. I call this IDS – Immigrant Derangement Syndrome."
December 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
OMG. Every last wealthy scumbag is connected to Epstein. We cannot let up until they are all investigated.
open.substack.com/pub/kaitjust...
The Woman Nobody Asks About Is the Person Connecting Every Thread of the Epstein Network
Lynn Forester de Rothschild connects the Clintons, British royalty, the legal protection apparatus, banking infrastructure, and the physical transportation network. She has never been questioned
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
You have to be on Substack. This story was referenced in last week's Epstein files drop.
open.substack.com/pub/trumpfil...
Did Trump r*** and murder Dusti Rhea Duke?
Dan Ferree told the FBI that Dusti Rhea was murdered after reporting Trump to the police. We reviewed videos and social media posts to piece his story together.
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder:
“Horrible as the facts at hand are (in the Epstein files), there must be something else, something verging on the unimaginable that further incriminates Trump,"
December 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM