Sanho Tree
@sanho.bsky.social
Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, Ukraine, & such. Fighting culture wars since Pat Buchanan declared it in 1992. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool. Personal account.
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Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
I’ve been working full time to stop this war since last summer and the one scenario I feared the most is materializing — Trump is making a play for Venezuela’s oil. I’m not saying an insurgency will definitely form, but Trump’s ploy creates the perfect storm for an absolutely disastrous occupation.🧵
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Sky Marchini too? There are some bad citizens on this website.
January 6, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Sky Marchini too? There are some bad citizens on this website.
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Wait, Parker Molloy got bullied off Bluesky because she posted that putting boobs on a dog in Animal Crossing was weird? JFC what is wrong with people?
January 6, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Wait, Parker Molloy got bullied off Bluesky because she posted that putting boobs on a dog in Animal Crossing was weird? JFC what is wrong with people?
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It’s the end of legal rights. Everything is just plunder, now. You have the “rights” you can force others to permit you, and no more.
Here is the Trump Doctrine, as articulated by Stephen Miller in his truly frightening interview with Jake Tapper this afternoon. It is very much like the doctrine of the dictators we fought and defeated in World War II and of Putin today. It is un-American at its very core.
January 6, 2026 at 6:00 AM
It’s the end of legal rights. Everything is just plunder, now. You have the “rights” you can force others to permit you, and no more.
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility
January 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility
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"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money."
I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.
I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.
If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.
January 6, 2026 at 5:53 AM
"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money."
I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.
I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.
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I was on the BBC tonight talking about all the outrages <gestures broadly>
My BBC interview on the invasion of Venezuela and arrest of Maduro. January 5, 2026
YouTube video by SKT DCA
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January 6, 2026 at 5:34 AM
I was on the BBC tonight talking about all the outrages <gestures broadly>
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The Trump administration just conducted an illegal attack on Venezuela and has spoken about attacking Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, and Denmark.
These Democrats just voted to confirm Trump's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Defense:
Fetterman
Gallego
Kaine
King
Reed
Rosen
Shaheen
These Democrats just voted to confirm Trump's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Defense:
Fetterman
Gallego
Kaine
King
Reed
Rosen
Shaheen
January 6, 2026 at 4:09 AM
The Trump administration just conducted an illegal attack on Venezuela and has spoken about attacking Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, and Denmark.
These Democrats just voted to confirm Trump's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Defense:
Fetterman
Gallego
Kaine
King
Reed
Rosen
Shaheen
These Democrats just voted to confirm Trump's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Defense:
Fetterman
Gallego
Kaine
King
Reed
Rosen
Shaheen
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This is purpura fulminans, a severe complication of meningitis (which as of today is no longer on our universal vaccine schedule)
Micro clots & bleeding into the skin cause skin & tissue death. It’s more common in kids & associated with 20-70% mortality.
Those who survive often lose limbs.
Micro clots & bleeding into the skin cause skin & tissue death. It’s more common in kids & associated with 20-70% mortality.
Those who survive often lose limbs.
January 6, 2026 at 1:35 AM
This is purpura fulminans, a severe complication of meningitis (which as of today is no longer on our universal vaccine schedule)
Micro clots & bleeding into the skin cause skin & tissue death. It’s more common in kids & associated with 20-70% mortality.
Those who survive often lose limbs.
Micro clots & bleeding into the skin cause skin & tissue death. It’s more common in kids & associated with 20-70% mortality.
Those who survive often lose limbs.
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
He’s just not that into you. Trump is on Team Delcy.🙄
Hannity: Did you at any point offered to give him the Nobel peace prize?
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
January 6, 2026 at 5:54 AM
He’s just not that into you. Trump is on Team Delcy.🙄
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Here's the question all real journalists need to ask Republicans and Democrats (either at the state or federal level, including those running for office):
Why is it more important to reimburse oil companies to rebuild infrastructure in a foreign country but not help Americans pay for medical care?
Why is it more important to reimburse oil companies to rebuild infrastructure in a foreign country but not help Americans pay for medical care?
Oh, look. Once again oligarchs want to nationalize the risk and privatize the gains. Taxpayer resources must not be used for criminal enterprises.🙄
Trump says the U.S. may reimburse oil companies for rebuilding Venezuela's infrastructure
Big oil firms will either "get reimbursed by us or through revenue," Trump told NBC News in an exclusive interview.
www.nbcnews.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Here's the question all real journalists need to ask Republicans and Democrats (either at the state or federal level, including those running for office):
Why is it more important to reimburse oil companies to rebuild infrastructure in a foreign country but not help Americans pay for medical care?
Why is it more important to reimburse oil companies to rebuild infrastructure in a foreign country but not help Americans pay for medical care?
She has been released and she should sue the hell out of them.
Umm, what the fuck is going on in Grand Rapids, MI? Did this young woman just get arrested for speaking out about Venezuela? If this is legit we are now fast walking into fascism, we need to get a lot louder than we have been. It’s about to get ugly, y’all‼️
January 6, 2026 at 5:48 AM
She has been released and she should sue the hell out of them.
Rubio will be viceroy and Miller will be proconsul.🙄
COLLINS: Stephen, you're part of the group the president has said is running Venezuela. What are your day to day responsibilities?
STEPHEN MILLER: ... heh heh. The president has asked Rubio to be the lead
C: But what are you specifically doing?
M: I don't want to talk too much about myself
STEPHEN MILLER: ... heh heh. The president has asked Rubio to be the lead
C: But what are you specifically doing?
M: I don't want to talk too much about myself
January 6, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Rubio will be viceroy and Miller will be proconsul.🙄
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COLLINS: Stephen, you're part of the group the president has said is running Venezuela. What are your day to day responsibilities?
STEPHEN MILLER: ... heh heh. The president has asked Rubio to be the lead
C: But what are you specifically doing?
M: I don't want to talk too much about myself
STEPHEN MILLER: ... heh heh. The president has asked Rubio to be the lead
C: But what are you specifically doing?
M: I don't want to talk too much about myself
January 6, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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Frum worked for Bush and pushed the Iraq invasion.🙄
Some people are just impervious to any lessons history or common sense can offer us.
January 6, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Frum worked for Bush and pushed the Iraq invasion.🙄
I’ll be on BBC in about an hour to talk about many of the outrages in this thread.
I’ve been working full time to stop this war since last summer and the one scenario I feared the most is materializing — Trump is making a play for Venezuela’s oil. I’m not saying an insurgency will definitely form, but Trump’s ploy creates the perfect storm for an absolutely disastrous occupation.🧵
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 AM
I’ll be on BBC in about an hour to talk about many of the outrages in this thread.
I thought I was losing my mind when I heard a series of explosions outside so I immediately checked @popville.bsky.social. Is this some sort of premature January 6 insurrection celebration?
Heads Up – For Some Reason There Will Be Fireworks Tonight AND There Will be Parking Restrictions and Street Closures - Illumination of America: Washington Monument Lighting and Freedom 250 Fireworks: www.popville.com/2026/01/fire...
Heads Up – For Some Reason There Will Be Fireworks Tonight AND There Will be Parking Restrictions and Street Closures - PoPville
photo by LaTur From AlertDC: "On Monday, January 5, 2026, the Illumination of America: Washington Monument Lighting and Freedom 250 Fireworks will take place on the National Mall. In support of this e...
www.popville.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:04 AM
I thought I was losing my mind when I heard a series of explosions outside so I immediately checked @popville.bsky.social. Is this some sort of premature January 6 insurrection celebration?
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Cuba is the ultimate manifestation of the Pottery Barn Rule. If they destabilize the govt & can’t rebuild the economy quickly, then they will face a tsunami of migration that will make the MASSIVE 1980 Mariel Boatlift look like a picnic. Rubio’s dream is Miller’s greatest nightmare. This is no joke!
January 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Cuba is the ultimate manifestation of the Pottery Barn Rule. If they destabilize the govt & can’t rebuild the economy quickly, then they will face a tsunami of migration that will make the MASSIVE 1980 Mariel Boatlift look like a picnic. Rubio’s dream is Miller’s greatest nightmare. This is no joke!
Listen to him. He’s a doctor.
January 5, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Listen to him. He’s a doctor.
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“No room at the Inn” is a biblical reference about immigrants (Jesus’ parents) being turned away. Not the government. Way to go, Hilton! The 3rd Amendment protects private entities from having to house the government.
January 5, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“No room at the Inn” is a biblical reference about immigrants (Jesus’ parents) being turned away. Not the government. Way to go, Hilton! The 3rd Amendment protects private entities from having to house the government.
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U.S. troops deployed to Greenland to defend it against U.S. troops.
January 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
U.S. troops deployed to Greenland to defend it against U.S. troops.
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I can completely understand why they nationalized it ... and those oil companies have been plotting ever since.
This is why Venezuelans nationalized their oil over generations:
“The right-wing strongman Juan Vicente Gómez, the military dictator who ruled Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935, granted concessions that left three foreign oil companies in control of 98% of the Venezuelan market.“
“The right-wing strongman Juan Vicente Gómez, the military dictator who ruled Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935, granted concessions that left three foreign oil companies in control of 98% of the Venezuelan market.“
FACT CHECK American companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, and officials didn’t kick them out. Venezuela, following Mexico, Brazil and Saudi Arabia, nationalized its most lucrative sector in 1976 and developed mutually beneficial partnerships with American and other firms
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January 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I can completely understand why they nationalized it ... and those oil companies have been plotting ever since.