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Retired, but not done. Resister. Do not comply in advance. 💙 art/crafts, music, reading, travel, camping, & sunsets...& now I really need to get a dog.
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Incredible.
January 4, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Incredible.
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Your activism will be even more important this year.
Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026
Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026
10 Crucial Things You Can Do in 2026
Your activism will be even more important this year
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January 4, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Your activism will be even more important this year.
Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026
Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026
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This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files.
#ImpeachAndConvict47NOW
#ImpeachAndConvict47NOW
January 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files.
#ImpeachAndConvict47NOW
#ImpeachAndConvict47NOW
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Comer: "You're gonna see the Trump administration continue to freeze funds until Democrat governors do like what the Republican governors are doing: they're complying with the federal government, with the Trump administration."
January 4, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Comer: "You're gonna see the Trump administration continue to freeze funds until Democrat governors do like what the Republican governors are doing: they're complying with the federal government, with the Trump administration."
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America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor
January 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor
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When Elliot Abrams is saying your capture of a LatAm head of state is a cockamamie idea…
BRENNAN: The president's last envoy to Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, says US oil executives seem to be coming to Mar-a-Lago and whispering about how easy life would be if we just made a deal with the regime once Maduro is gone. Is that what happened here?
MARCO RUBIO: No.
MARCO RUBIO: No.
January 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
When Elliot Abrams is saying your capture of a LatAm head of state is a cockamamie idea…
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Yesterday, Trump stood in front of Marco Rubio and said the US will run Venezuela. Now Rubio says the US will not run the country. Clearly, they didn’t think through what they planned to do after they abducted Maduro and left his vice president in place.
Live updates: Rubio says US won’t govern Venezuela but will press changes through oil blockade
Secretary of State Rubio suggested that the U.S. would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after Trump anno...
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January 4, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Yesterday, Trump stood in front of Marco Rubio and said the US will run Venezuela. Now Rubio says the US will not run the country. Clearly, they didn’t think through what they planned to do after they abducted Maduro and left his vice president in place.
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This week’s ‘Noel’s Notes’ is out now, thanks for reading & sharing. Link to subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...
January 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
This week’s ‘Noel’s Notes’ is out now, thanks for reading & sharing. Link to subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...
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Unsurprisingly, the Donroe Doctrine is just bullying.
January 4, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Unsurprisingly, the Donroe Doctrine is just bullying.
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Kyiv in darkness. Blackouts in most districts, the city is in darkness from the Russian strikes.
Emergency and planned power outages have been introduced. Many shops, pharmacies work from generators
Russia terrorizes millions of people.
📹Galyna Lapina
Emergency and planned power outages have been introduced. Many shops, pharmacies work from generators
Russia terrorizes millions of people.
📹Galyna Lapina
January 4, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Kyiv in darkness. Blackouts in most districts, the city is in darkness from the Russian strikes.
Emergency and planned power outages have been introduced. Many shops, pharmacies work from generators
Russia terrorizes millions of people.
📹Galyna Lapina
Emergency and planned power outages have been introduced. Many shops, pharmacies work from generators
Russia terrorizes millions of people.
📹Galyna Lapina
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Reupping these posts.
The indictment against Maduro is designed to serve several purposes.
One is to get legal sanction (in form of probable cause finding from GJ) for Stephen Miller's debunked claim that Venezuela = TdA.
He will presumably now try using it to mass deport again.
The indictment against Maduro is designed to serve several purposes.
One is to get legal sanction (in form of probable cause finding from GJ) for Stephen Miller's debunked claim that Venezuela = TdA.
He will presumably now try using it to mass deport again.
Another point I made in this post comparing the 2020 and 2025 Maduro indictments is that Tren de Aragua is added (including its head as co-conspirator), but his inclusion is really thin.
Effectively DOJ used indictment to ham-sandwich TdA claim IC disavowed.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/04/d...
Effectively DOJ used indictment to ham-sandwich TdA claim IC disavowed.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/04/d...
![f. Between approximately 2006 and 2008, HECTOR RUSTHENFORD GUERRERO FLORES, a/k/a “Nifio Guerrero,” the defendant, worked with one of the largest drug traffickers in Venezuela, Walid Makled. Members of the Venezuelan regime helped protect Makled’s cocaine shipments that were transported from San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela, to Valencia, Venezuela, and were then sent by plane from the Valencia international airport to Mexico and other locations in Central America for eventual distribution to the United States. Between in or about 2008 and in or about 2009, GUERRERO FLORES also provided another major Venezuelan drug trafficker with protection for cocaine shipments moving through Venezuela, including by providing armed men who carried, among other automatic weapons, AK47s, MP5s, and AR-15s, as well as grenades. At times, GUERRERO FLORES personally accompanied large cocaine loads as they were guarded by the teams of armed men, en route to airports or airstrips for transport north and eventual distribution to the United States. GUERRERO FLORES was paid a fee per kilogram of cocaine transported or received and he sometimes received an interest in portions of these massive cocaine shipments in lieu of payment. The traffickers that GUERRERO FLORES worked with moved thousands of kilograms per shipment, multiple times per month, resulting in the distribution of hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States. In or about 2009, Makled was charged with narcotics offenses in this District and is a fugitive.
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o. In or about 2019, TdA’s leader, GUERRERO FLORES, discussed drug trafficking with an individual he understood to be working with the Venezuelan regime. Over multiple calls, GUERRERO FLORES offered to provide escort services for drug loads, explaining that GUERRERO FLORES and TdA had control of the coastlines of Venezuela’s Aragua State. GUERRERO FLORES, speaking from TdA’s base of operations in Tocor6n Prison, explained that TdA could handle the logistics of ever…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreicg2zrssmx6kodqn3vjafhz7ooaujn6vyjqudnczwwnnyaylfrsdi@jpeg)
January 4, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Reupping these posts.
The indictment against Maduro is designed to serve several purposes.
One is to get legal sanction (in form of probable cause finding from GJ) for Stephen Miller's debunked claim that Venezuela = TdA.
He will presumably now try using it to mass deport again.
The indictment against Maduro is designed to serve several purposes.
One is to get legal sanction (in form of probable cause finding from GJ) for Stephen Miller's debunked claim that Venezuela = TdA.
He will presumably now try using it to mass deport again.
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The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
January 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
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I think one way to do this is to insist that Tom Cotton, who DID get advance notice (I'm not even sure Thune did) is personally responsible for Americans who've been wounded and anything that goes haywire.
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 4, 2026 at 6:25 PM
I think one way to do this is to insist that Tom Cotton, who DID get advance notice (I'm not even sure Thune did) is personally responsible for Americans who've been wounded and anything that goes haywire.
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THIS WAS AN ACT OF WAR AND A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
But put that aside for a second…
What’s wild is that Marco Rubio isn’t even pretending anymore. He’s not hiding that the invasion of Venezuela is about oil.
This is going to end up a dumpster fire…
But put that aside for a second…
What’s wild is that Marco Rubio isn’t even pretending anymore. He’s not hiding that the invasion of Venezuela is about oil.
This is going to end up a dumpster fire…
January 4, 2026 at 5:14 PM
THIS WAS AN ACT OF WAR AND A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
But put that aside for a second…
What’s wild is that Marco Rubio isn’t even pretending anymore. He’s not hiding that the invasion of Venezuela is about oil.
This is going to end up a dumpster fire…
But put that aside for a second…
What’s wild is that Marco Rubio isn’t even pretending anymore. He’s not hiding that the invasion of Venezuela is about oil.
This is going to end up a dumpster fire…
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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
I’d hate to think what he’d be doing if he hadn’t declared himself the “President of Peace”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mI...
I’d hate to think what he’d be doing if he hadn’t declared himself the “President of Peace”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mI...
January 4, 2026 at 5:09 PM
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
I’d hate to think what he’d be doing if he hadn’t declared himself the “President of Peace”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mI...
I’d hate to think what he’d be doing if he hadn’t declared himself the “President of Peace”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mI...
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REMINDER: The Republicans' budget bill made private jets tax-deductible.
Yes, it made private jets fully tax-deductible. It’s clear who Republican politicians are working for… and it ain’t you.
Yes, it made private jets fully tax-deductible. It’s clear who Republican politicians are working for… and it ain’t you.
January 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM
REMINDER: The Republicans' budget bill made private jets tax-deductible.
Yes, it made private jets fully tax-deductible. It’s clear who Republican politicians are working for… and it ain’t you.
Yes, it made private jets fully tax-deductible. It’s clear who Republican politicians are working for… and it ain’t you.
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Rep. Jim Himes: "I'm a member of the Gang of Eight and I have yet to get a phone call from anybody in the administration…Whether you think Congress leaks or not, the law says that [POTUS] must brief Congress. This is just another example of absolute lawless on the part of this administration."
January 4, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Rep. Jim Himes: "I'm a member of the Gang of Eight and I have yet to get a phone call from anybody in the administration…Whether you think Congress leaks or not, the law says that [POTUS] must brief Congress. This is just another example of absolute lawless on the part of this administration."
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Oops!
Erika Kirk Has Ultimate Freudian Slip While Honoring Student With 'Charlie Kirk Courage Award'
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January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Oops!
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said the US is going to 'run Venezuela.' Under what legal authority?
RUBIO: We want a better future for the people of Venezuela
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'll ask again -- what is the legal authority?
RUBIO: We have court orders
RUBIO: We want a better future for the people of Venezuela
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'll ask again -- what is the legal authority?
RUBIO: We have court orders
January 4, 2026 at 4:21 PM
STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said the US is going to 'run Venezuela.' Under what legal authority?
RUBIO: We want a better future for the people of Venezuela
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'll ask again -- what is the legal authority?
RUBIO: We have court orders
RUBIO: We want a better future for the people of Venezuela
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'll ask again -- what is the legal authority?
RUBIO: We have court orders
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The irony is deafening.
January 4, 2026 at 4:22 PM
The irony is deafening.
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Lot of movement to Europe from SOF bases like Bragg/Pope, Cannon, Campbell.
A noticeably large amount.
Via @defencegeek.bsky.social on Twitter.
A noticeably large amount.
Via @defencegeek.bsky.social on Twitter.
January 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Lot of movement to Europe from SOF bases like Bragg/Pope, Cannon, Campbell.
A noticeably large amount.
Via @defencegeek.bsky.social on Twitter.
A noticeably large amount.
Via @defencegeek.bsky.social on Twitter.
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RUBIO: Maduro was indicted. Nobody ever did anything about it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury
RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it?
RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury
RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it?
RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.
January 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
RUBIO: Maduro was indicted. Nobody ever did anything about it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury
RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it?
RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury
RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it?
RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: In your view, who is running Venezuela right now?
SCHUMER: Nobody knows
SCHUMER: Nobody knows
January 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
STEPHANOPOULOS: In your view, who is running Venezuela right now?
SCHUMER: Nobody knows
SCHUMER: Nobody knows
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“Optionality”?
BRENNAN: To be clear, there is no plan for US occupation of this country of nearly 30 million people?
MARCO RUBIO: The president always retains optionality on anything and on all of these matters
MARCO RUBIO: The president always retains optionality on anything and on all of these matters
January 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
“Optionality”?
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NEW: I have not forgotten about the Epstein files. Kash Patel is trying to hide his Trump redaction training videos, saying I’ve failed to prove sufficient public interest. Well, I just hit back in court. I’ll share my response with you today at noon PT. youtube.com/live/c3NVDAQ...
LIVE: I Just BLEW UP Trump’s EPSTEIN LIE in NEW FILING to DOJ
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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January 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
NEW: I have not forgotten about the Epstein files. Kash Patel is trying to hide his Trump redaction training videos, saying I’ve failed to prove sufficient public interest. Well, I just hit back in court. I’ll share my response with you today at noon PT. youtube.com/live/c3NVDAQ...