#Democrats & 5 #Republicans voted to advance the #WarPowers resolution on a 52-47 vote tally & ensure a later vote for final passage.

It has virtually no chance of becoming #law because #Trump would have to sign it if it were to pass the #House, but it’s still a significant gesture that shows unease among some Republicans after the #US #military seized #Venezuela President #Maduro in a nighttime raid.

#imperialism #geopolitics #Congress #oil #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings

#US forces have boarded a #Russia-flagged US sanctioned #OilTanker linked to #Venezuela in the North #Atlantic after pursuing it for weeks.

The US had been pursuing the #oil tanker since last month after it tried to evade a US “ #blockade” around Venezuela.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #criminal #law #Congress #WarPowers #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
https://apnews.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-tanker-77f2c1441dda8217b37f9e38c3ae9131?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-07-Breaking+News

"We also must remember that with the flood of Epstein releases just before the holidays Trump’s job approval began falling again, and it was clear he needed to do something dramatic to change the national narrative."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #Venezuela #Epstein #DOJ #Congress
/22

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-starts-underwater-in-initial

Corporation for #PublicBroadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal #funding to #PBS, #NPR & hundreds of #public #television & #radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967.
#CPB had been winding down since #Congress acted last summer to defund its operations under orders from #Trump. Its board of directors chose to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it as a shell.

#media #FourthEstate #journalism
https://apnews.com/article/public-broadcasting-pbs-npr-b68f441c227ec7e076c038821b4a5931?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-05-CPB%27s+final+act

Here is the unsealed 25 page #MaduroIndictment

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1422326/dl

#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

"By a 4:1 ratio, polls show the American people oppose the use of military force for regime change in Venezuela — including the strike that led to Maduro’s capture over the weekend."

~ G. Elliott Morris

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #domination #NationalSecurityStrategy #Congress #violence #narcissism
/1

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americans-do-not-want-war-with-venezuela

Following the #Venezuela raid, #Trump has voiced threats toward #Colombia & #Mexico, while resurfacing his desire to control #Greenland

“Colombia is very sick too, run by a sick man who likes making cocaine & selling it to the United States, & he’s not going to be doing it very long,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

#imperialism #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Maduro #abduction #oil #sovereignty #WarCrimes #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/venezuela-trump-maduro-01-04-26?post-id=cmk0gm3dm00103b6qjg1wfaa3

#Democrats & 5 #Republicans voted to advance the #WarPowers resolution on a 52-47 vote tally & ensure a later vote for final passage.

It has virtually no chance of becoming #law because #Trump would have to sign it if it were to pass the #House, but it’s still a significant gesture that shows unease among some Republicans after the #US #military seized #Venezuela President #Maduro in a nighttime raid.

#imperialism #geopolitics #Congress #oil #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings

Top #Republican lawmakers are firmly backing the #Trump admin’s arrest of Venezuela’s president & assertions of control over the South American nation’s #oil industry, but some #GOP senators are drawing the line on more attacks without the approval of #Congress.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #law #WarPowers #Maduro #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

As the #Trump admin asserts a #NewWorldOrder guided by #military #force & #economic #power — & Trump calls for a massive increase in military spending to confront these “dangerous times” — #US #allies are insisting that global stability depends on following #InternationalLaw.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Maduro #abduction #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy

The #Senate has advanced a resolution to limit #Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against #Venezuela, sounding a note of disapproval for the president’s expanding ambitions in the #WesternHemisphere.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #oil #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-1-8-2026?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-08-Breaking+News

These idiots have no idea what they’re doing

#Rubio says #US won’t govern #Venezuela but will press changes through #oil blockade

# #idiocracy #kakistocracy #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #Maduro #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
https://apnews.com/live/us-venezuela-trump-maduro-updates-01-04-2026?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-04-Breaking+News

#Russia hasn’t commented on the apparent #US operation against the Russian-flagged #OilTanker. In a statement issued on Tuesday to the state news agency #Tass, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the vessel was operating in full compliance with international #MaritimeLaw, & said it was receiving increased attention from the US & #NATO “disproportionate to its peaceful status.”

#Trump #MafiaState #geopolitics #Venezuela #law #Congress #WarPowers #sovereignty #oil #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

The ship was sanctioned by the #US in 2024 for allegedly smuggling cargo for a company linked to Lebanese militant group #Hezbollah. The US #CoastGuard attempted to board it in the #Caribbean in December as it headed for #Venezuela, which the #Trump admin has placed under naval blockade [but they continue to claim it’s not a #war]. The ship refused boarding & headed across the #Atlantic.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #sovereignty #oil #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

#US forces have boarded a #Russia-flagged US sanctioned #OilTanker linked to #Venezuela in the North #Atlantic after pursuing it for weeks.

The US had been pursuing the #oil tanker since last month after it tried to evade a US “ #blockade” around Venezuela.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #criminal #law #Congress #WarPowers #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
https://apnews.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-tanker-77f2c1441dda8217b37f9e38c3ae9131?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-07-Breaking+News

Corporation for #PublicBroadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal #funding to #PBS, #NPR & hundreds of #public #television & #radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967.
#CPB had been winding down since #Congress acted last summer to defund its operations under orders from #Trump. Its board of directors chose to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it as a shell.

#media #FourthEstate #journalism
https://apnews.com/article/public-broadcasting-pbs-npr-b68f441c227ec7e076c038821b4a5931?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-05-CPB%27s+final+act

"What we cannot forget for one moment in all this is that Trump is now acting as if law, or the very concept of law, does not exist. He is acting outside and in violation of the Constitution, domestic American law, and the oath he took; and outside and in violation of the UN Charter, well established international law, and Senate ratified treaties with other nations. There is only him."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #Constitution #RuleofLaw
/37

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-ridiculous-donroe-doctrine-trump

"At Strength in Numbers, G. Elliott Morris noted that military intervention in Venezuela is even more unpopular with the American people 'than Trump’s tariffs and health care cuts.' ...

But officials in the administration no longer appear to care what the American people want," (continued in /3)

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #domination #NationalSecurityStrategy #Congress #violence #narcissism
/2

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-4-2026

"It’s no good pondering whether what just happened in #Venezuela was a “war crime” or mumbling about how perhaps #Congress should have been notified. There has to be an actual war before you can have war crimes, brothers and sisters. These were just straight-up crimes, committed by a criminal president and a criminal regime, and the entire world knows it."

And #Epstein and #JackSmith.

https://www.salon.com/2026/01/03/venezuela-our-criminal-presidents-latest-crime-scene/

#USPol