Truth and Soul
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Could somebody forward this clip to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov to show them what a proper, perfectly legit response to Trump WH’s outrageous activity actually looks like!
Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."
January 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Could somebody forward this clip to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov to show them what a proper, perfectly legit response to Trump WH’s outrageous activity actually looks like!
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Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.
WELKER: Mr. Secretary, are you running Venezuela right now?
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.
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Watch this. Watch again.
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
January 4, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Watch this. Watch again.
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
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See, it’s not hard to denounce this and toe it into the larger pattern of criminality.
Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."
January 4, 2026 at 4:11 PM
See, it’s not hard to denounce this and toe it into the larger pattern of criminality.
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Quite simply, any mail-in voter must now place their ballot in the mail at least ONE WEEK sooner than they might have in previous years...or be encouraged to return them in person, if possible.
We need to message around this consistently from this point forward.
www.masslive.com/news/2026/01...
We need to message around this consistently from this point forward.
www.masslive.com/news/2026/01...
Mail-in voting faces new hurdle as postal service formalizes postmark practice
Guidelines announced on Dec. 24 allow postmarks to reflect processing date rather than mailing date, affecting 14 states with grace periods for late-arriving ballots, including Massachusetts.
www.masslive.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Quite simply, any mail-in voter must now place their ballot in the mail at least ONE WEEK sooner than they might have in previous years...or be encouraged to return them in person, if possible.
We need to message around this consistently from this point forward.
www.masslive.com/news/2026/01...
We need to message around this consistently from this point forward.
www.masslive.com/news/2026/01...
All I see are boxes full of diabetes.
January 4, 2026 at 6:28 PM
All I see are boxes full of diabetes.
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Question that needs to be asked and answered: "If this was an 'arrest operation,' as in law enforcement, then how do you feel about 40 civilians being killed in the process?"
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why wasn't congressional authorization necessary?
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
January 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Question that needs to be asked and answered: "If this was an 'arrest operation,' as in law enforcement, then how do you feel about 40 civilians being killed in the process?"
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We literally said we’d be running their country and taking their oil.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why wasn't congressional authorization necessary?
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
January 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM
We literally said we’d be running their country and taking their oil.
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FLASHBACK—Trump in 2023: When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil.
January 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM
FLASHBACK—Trump in 2023: When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil.
I’ve been a PTA fan since *Boogie Nights* and *There Will Be Blood* so I’m saying this with all due respect: *One Battle After Another* is pretty good but doesn’t hold a candle to *Sinners* both critically or commercially—nuff said!!!!
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'One Battle After Another' Wins Best Film From National Society of Film Critics
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another won four awards from the National Society of Film Critics including Best Picture
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January 4, 2026 at 3:39 AM
I’ve been a PTA fan since *Boogie Nights* and *There Will Be Blood* so I’m saying this with all due respect: *One Battle After Another* is pretty good but doesn’t hold a candle to *Sinners* both critically or commercially—nuff said!!!!
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#GVerse Massive march in NYC against #Shit4Brain's war on Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 11:52 PM
#GVerse Massive march in NYC against #Shit4Brain's war on Venezuela
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So it’s ok for a country to invade another country and kidnap its president? I hope that the rest of the world is paying attention. I have a president . . .
January 3, 2026 at 2:15 PM
So it’s ok for a country to invade another country and kidnap its president? I hope that the rest of the world is paying attention. I have a president . . .
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January 2, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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Pete Buttigieg: “It’s an old & obvious pattern. An unpopular president — failing on the economy & losing his grip on power at home — decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one”
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one”
January 3, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Pete Buttigieg: “It’s an old & obvious pattern. An unpopular president — failing on the economy & losing his grip on power at home — decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one”
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one”
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Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?
January 4, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?
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Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.
January 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.
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"His physical signs of aging are becoming more evident to some of his closest advisers. His skin is so delicate that Pam Bondi caused his hand to bleed when she nicked him with her ring while giving him a high-five at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee..."
www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...?
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Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance
In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
www.wsj.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:19 AM
"His physical signs of aging are becoming more evident to some of his closest advisers. His skin is so delicate that Pam Bondi caused his hand to bleed when she nicked him with her ring while giving him a high-five at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee..."
www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...?
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These outrages need to stop.
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 AM
These outrages need to stop.
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ICYMI: @wajali.bsky.social @tamikaynunley.bsky.social and @therickwilson.bsky.social join TJRS for our first show of the year, covering Trump's destruction of the country and his party, and the lying campaign against Somalis in Minnesota. Plus, Jack Smith speaks! www.youtube.com/live/Xj9OJ5M...
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January 3, 2026 at 2:41 AM
ICYMI: @wajali.bsky.social @tamikaynunley.bsky.social and @therickwilson.bsky.social join TJRS for our first show of the year, covering Trump's destruction of the country and his party, and the lying campaign against Somalis in Minnesota. Plus, Jack Smith speaks! www.youtube.com/live/Xj9OJ5M...
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“Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
My latest for Zeteo:
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
My latest for Zeteo:
Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
zeteo.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
“Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
My latest for Zeteo:
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
My latest for Zeteo:
Is he dumb!?! Trump has just toppled a foreign government and jacked its vast oil supply yet somehow some way Schumer still doesn’t understand that Trump is on some totally next level -ish!!!
Schumer: "It makes you think that maybe to Trump he wants to distract the American people, as he always does, from the skyrocketing costs they are facing, from the Epstein files."
January 4, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Is he dumb!?! Trump has just toppled a foreign government and jacked its vast oil supply yet somehow some way Schumer still doesn’t understand that Trump is on some totally next level -ish!!!
So, the same Mr. MAGA complaining about poor Latine migrants crossing the US border uninvited just invaded #Venezuela and kidnapped #Maduro without a second thought…
a man in a leather jacket and tie is saying cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
ALT: a man in a leather jacket and tie is saying cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
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January 4, 2026 at 3:14 AM
So, the same Mr. MAGA complaining about poor Latine migrants crossing the US border uninvited just invaded #Venezuela and kidnapped #Maduro without a second thought…
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The US is now responsible for the governance of Venezuela. Toppling the regime of a smaller country is always the easy part. The hard part is what comes after. Neo-cons always expect a pro-US nirvana. It rarely works out. But I suppose the oil companies can seize some assets.
January 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM
The US is now responsible for the governance of Venezuela. Toppling the regime of a smaller country is always the easy part. The hard part is what comes after. Neo-cons always expect a pro-US nirvana. It rarely works out. But I suppose the oil companies can seize some assets.
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In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
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Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
zeteo.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
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“Trump’s Attack in Venezuela Is Unlawful – and Latin America Will Fight Back”
Trump seems to subscribe to the view that might makes right, that the US is unstoppable. But it is difficult to see the region going back willingly to “backyard” status without a fight, writes Alonso Gurmendi for Zeteo:
Trump seems to subscribe to the view that might makes right, that the US is unstoppable. But it is difficult to see the region going back willingly to “backyard” status without a fight, writes Alonso Gurmendi for Zeteo:
Trump’s Attack in Venezuela Is Unlawful – and Latin America Will Fight Back
Trump seems to subscribe to the view that might makes right, that the US is now unstoppable. But it is difficult to see the region going back willingly to “backyard” status without a fight.
zeteo.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
“Trump’s Attack in Venezuela Is Unlawful – and Latin America Will Fight Back”
Trump seems to subscribe to the view that might makes right, that the US is unstoppable. But it is difficult to see the region going back willingly to “backyard” status without a fight, writes Alonso Gurmendi for Zeteo:
Trump seems to subscribe to the view that might makes right, that the US is unstoppable. But it is difficult to see the region going back willingly to “backyard” status without a fight, writes Alonso Gurmendi for Zeteo: