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As Dave DeCamp reports, Trump has posted a photo of himself as the "Acting President of Venezuela" -- oh, the shock of it all. Who would ever expect such a thing from Donald J. Trump?
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President Trump Posts Picture of Himself as 'Acting President of Venezuela' - News From Antiwar.com
President Trump on Sunday shared a picture of a fake Wikipedia page that described him as the "Acting President of Venezuela" as he continues to push the idea that the US is "running" the country foll...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:26 PM
As Dave DeCamp reports, Trump has posted a photo of himself as the "Acting President of Venezuela" -- oh, the shock of it all. Who would ever expect such a thing from Donald J. Trump?
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With Trump a distinct question mark and with the Trumpian current ebbing and flowing, another wave is pushing the 2028 candidacy of Vice President JD Vance -- Clarence Lusane, "Just as Dangerous, Vance and the 2028 Election"
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Just as Dangerous
Donald Trump may, of course, be the Republican candidate for president in 2028, the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding. Although it is clearly written in the 22nd Amendment that “no person shall be ele...
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January 15, 2026 at 9:11 PM
With Trump a distinct question mark and with the Trumpian current ebbing and flowing, another wave is pushing the 2028 candidacy of Vice President JD Vance -- Clarence Lusane, "Just as Dangerous, Vance and the 2028 Election"
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William Leogrande at the Responsible Statecraft website on what to expect of Cuba's fate after the fall of its ally in Venezuela. shorturl.fm/kLiUO
Trump will be sore when Cuba domino refuses to fall
But he shouldn't be surprised. American presidents have been predicting collapse there since 1959.
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January 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
William Leogrande at the Responsible Statecraft website on what to expect of Cuba's fate after the fall of its ally in Venezuela. shorturl.fm/kLiUO
As Joseph Gedeon of the Guardian reports, immigrants, who the hell needs them? Not Donald Trump, that's for sure. shorturl.fm/eJKPh
Trump administration halts immigrant visa processing from 75 countries
The state department cites welfare use as it pauses visa processing for Brazil, Iran, Russia, Somalia and others
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January 15, 2026 at 7:14 PM
As Joseph Gedeon of the Guardian reports, immigrants, who the hell needs them? Not Donald Trump, that's for sure. shorturl.fm/eJKPh
The Washington Post's Patrick Marley and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez on how Trump may want to mess with the 2028 election. Yikes! shorturl.fm/9Wav7
Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging long-established democratic norms.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:11 PM
The Washington Post's Patrick Marley and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez on how Trump may want to mess with the 2028 election. Yikes! shorturl.fm/9Wav7
With Trump a distinct question mark and the Trumpian current ebbing and flowing, another wave is pushing the 2028 candidacy of Vice President JD Vance -- Clarence Lusane, "Just as Dangerous, Vance and the 2028 Election"
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Just as Dangerous
Donald Trump may, of course, be the Republican candidate for president in 2028, the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding. Although it is clearly written in the 22nd Amendment that “no person shall be ele...
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January 15, 2026 at 5:09 PM
With Trump a distinct question mark and the Trumpian current ebbing and flowing, another wave is pushing the 2028 candidacy of Vice President JD Vance -- Clarence Lusane, "Just as Dangerous, Vance and the 2028 Election"
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Robert Reich at his substack on how the only reality in this Trumpian world of ours is that an increasingly dangerous and irrational sociopath is now exercising brutal and unconstrained power over America and, hence, the world.
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Trump’s War Footing
His foreign and domestic policies are becoming one and the same, and their purpose isn't complicated.
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January 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Robert Reich at his substack on how the only reality in this Trumpian world of ours is that an increasingly dangerous and irrational sociopath is now exercising brutal and unconstrained power over America and, hence, the world.
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The Nation's Jeet Heer on how the defamation of a murdered woman is proof of the moral depravity of MAGA.
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Renee Good’s Killing Has Unleashed MAGA’s Misogyny
To defend the indefensible, the right is going after white women as race traitors.
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January 14, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The Nation's Jeet Heer on how the defamation of a murdered woman is proof of the moral depravity of MAGA.
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The New York Times finally has a major piece (by Lisa Friedman) on Trump, the seizing of Venezuelan oil and so much more and the growing disaster of climate change being functionally promoted by Donald Trump.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:21 PM
The New York Times finally has a major piece (by Lisa Friedman) on Trump, the seizing of Venezuelan oil and so much more and the growing disaster of climate change being functionally promoted by Donald Trump.
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The Guardian's Damian Carrington on just how quickly and potentially disastrously the Earth's oceans are now heating up. shorturl.fm/XZr7r
‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows
Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the climate crisis
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January 14, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The Guardian's Damian Carrington on just how quickly and potentially disastrously the Earth's oceans are now heating up. shorturl.fm/XZr7r
Will the Chinese need for oil save the present Iranian government? Check out Juan Cole's latest column on the subject. shorturl.fm/IgZy0
Could Trump's Diversion of Venezuelan Oil to US Save the Iranian Regime?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Siyi Liu and Florence Tan at Reuters report that since Trump plans on diverting 2 million barrels a day of Venezuelan petroleum to the United States, the former buyer, C...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Will the Chinese need for oil save the present Iranian government? Check out Juan Cole's latest column on the subject. shorturl.fm/IgZy0
As Jon Queally reports at Common Dreams, Representative Ilhan Omar believes that her state is being turned into an "environment where people feel intimidated, threatened, and terrorized. shorturl.fm/jDKap
Omar Warns Trump Aims to Provoke Enough Agitation in Minnesota So He Can Declare 'Martial Law' | Common Dreams
"There is no other justifiable way to describe what is taking place in Minneapolis at this moment," said the Minnesota Democrat.
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January 13, 2026 at 10:27 PM
As Jon Queally reports at Common Dreams, Representative Ilhan Omar believes that her state is being turned into an "environment where people feel intimidated, threatened, and terrorized. shorturl.fm/jDKap
From TomDispatch this morning: Stan Cox, "We're Racing Down the Highway to a Mad Max World, But There's a Degrowth Exit Up Ahead" shorturl.fm/dqQ1s
We’re Racing Down the Highway to a Mad Max World
Let me start by putting things bluntly: Don't bother to tell Donald Trump, but with his distinct help, we're doing nothing less than cooking ourselves. Thanks to the continued use of fossil fuels in a
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January 13, 2026 at 7:39 PM
From TomDispatch this morning: Stan Cox, "We're Racing Down the Highway to a Mad Max World, But There's a Degrowth Exit Up Ahead" shorturl.fm/dqQ1s
Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi on what Zohran Mamdani is already beginning to get done in New York City.
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Kathy Hochul and Zohran Mamdani are showing what ‘pro-family’ means | Arwa Mahdawi
The governor and mayor unveiled a plan for free childcare in New York City. Is the ‘family values’ party listening?
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January 13, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi on what Zohran Mamdani is already beginning to get done in New York City.
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Sigh... Thank you, Donald Trump. PBS News weekend is signing off the air. It will no longer exist, given Trump funding cuts. shorturl.fm/fdBp2
PBS News Confirms Weekend Team Will Air Final Broadcast on Sunday | Video
"PBS News Weekend" will sign off for good on Sunday after federal budget cuts forced the broadcaster to "rework" its staffing and programming.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Sigh... Thank you, Donald Trump. PBS News weekend is signing off the air. It will no longer exist, given Trump funding cuts. shorturl.fm/fdBp2
From TomDispatch this morning: Stan Cox, "We're Racing Down the Highway to a Mad Max World, But There's a Degrowth Exit Up Ahead"
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We’re Racing Down the Highway to a Mad Max World
Let me start by putting things bluntly: Don't bother to tell Donald Trump, but with his distinct help, we're doing nothing less than cooking ourselves. Thanks to the continued use of fossil fuels in a
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January 13, 2026 at 4:45 PM
From TomDispatch this morning: Stan Cox, "We're Racing Down the Highway to a Mad Max World, But There's a Degrowth Exit Up Ahead"
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Katrina vanden Heuvel at the Nation on the death of antiwar and antinuclear activist Cora Weiss -- a true loss for us all. shorturl.fm/biXRw
On Cora Weiss (1934-2025) and Peace
Cora Weiss died in December at age 91. She never stopped campaigning to save the world from nuclear destruction.
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January 12, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Katrina vanden Heuvel at the Nation on the death of antiwar and antinuclear activist Cora Weiss -- a true loss for us all. shorturl.fm/biXRw
At the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland on flashes of Trumpian honesty with his stream of untruths and rule by fear.
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From Caracas to Minneapolis, the threat is the same – an American president ruling like a global emperor | Jonathan Freedland
Trump’s admission that he recognises no constraint outside his own morality was a horrifying moment of truth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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January 12, 2026 at 9:01 PM
At the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland on flashes of Trumpian honesty with his stream of untruths and rule by fear.
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Rebecca Gordon, who has been writing at TomDispatch on this country's "night terrors," so to speak, for well more than a decade, and her reports on them -- Rebecca Gordon, "Reflections on a Low, Dishonest Decade, And Nearly 100 Essays for TomDispatch"
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Reflections on a Low, Dishonest Decade
“Tom, I got nothin’.” That’s all I wanted to say to Tom Engelhardt, the kindly and incisive editor of TomDispatch.com. He’d called to check in and see what I was planning for my next piece.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Rebecca Gordon, who has been writing at TomDispatch on this country's "night terrors," so to speak, for well more than a decade, and her reports on them -- Rebecca Gordon, "Reflections on a Low, Dishonest Decade, And Nearly 100 Essays for TomDispatch"
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At Foreign Policy in Focus, in his latest piece, John Feffer on how Trump aspires to be the number one bad hombre: the one in complete control. shorturl.fm/AjvOR
The Power Play President - FPIF
For Trump, peace negotiations and military operations are simply different means to the same end: total control.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
At Foreign Policy in Focus, in his latest piece, John Feffer on how Trump aspires to be the number one bad hombre: the one in complete control. shorturl.fm/AjvOR
Here's a truly creepy account of the recent New York Times interview with -- yes! -- Donald J. Trump, a distinctly hell on earth president. shorturl.fm/FESTF
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January 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Here's a truly creepy account of the recent New York Times interview with -- yes! -- Donald J. Trump, a distinctly hell on earth president. shorturl.fm/FESTF
At the Nation, Michael Klare on why, instead of generating new wealth for the US and Venezuela, Trump’s drive to take its oil could result in unending conflict at great cost to both countries.
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“Take the Oil”
Trump’s Venezuelan petroleum fantasies.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:08 PM
At the Nation, Michael Klare on why, instead of generating new wealth for the US and Venezuela, Trump’s drive to take its oil could result in unending conflict at great cost to both countries.
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Be depressed, very depressed (again)... Thanks to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as Apoorva Mandavilli of the Times reports, kids are going to generally be vaccinated against far fewer diseases. (What could possibly go wrong?).
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January 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Be depressed, very depressed (again)... Thanks to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as Apoorva Mandavilli of the Times reports, kids are going to generally be vaccinated against far fewer diseases. (What could possibly go wrong?).
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Dharna Noor and Oliver Milman of the Guardian on just what it might mean for Venezuelan oil production to be ramped up -- a literal hell on earth when it comes to climate change.
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Trump taking ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan to Venezuela ‘terrible’ for climate, experts warn
‘Everybody loses’ if production supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say
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January 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Dharna Noor and Oliver Milman of the Guardian on just what it might mean for Venezuelan oil production to be ramped up -- a literal hell on earth when it comes to climate change.
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What a grim Trumpian world -- Greenland, why not (as Miranda Bryant of the Guardian reminds us)?
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Marco Rubio says he will meet Danish officials to discuss Greenland next week
Remarks by US secretary of state come after Greenland and Denmark request urgent meeting over Trump threats
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January 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
What a grim Trumpian world -- Greenland, why not (as Miranda Bryant of the Guardian reminds us)?
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