SHAHEEN: It's been reported that the oil sold for $500 million and $300 million went to Venezuelan government. What happened to the other $200 million?
RUBIO: It's still sitting in the account is my understanding
SHAHEEN: The account in Qatar?
RUBIO: Yes
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ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the areaβs African community. Multiple people have been detained.
Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk
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I think not enough white people are taking the voting rights issues seriously enough. They are killing people and then offering to stop killing if the state gives up the voter registration data. This should be setting off massive alarms for EVERYONE. (Iβm looking at you, white people.)
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A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
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RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?
RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition
PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!
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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itβs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
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WOW
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Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his βtone.β
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English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICEβs attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today:
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Ms. Omar, visibly shaken after the assault, insisted to her staff and security that she would continue. She asked for a napkin and told them: "Just give me 10 minutes. I beg you. Please don't let them have the show."
Ms. Omar then turned the crowd. "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand," she said. "We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us."
Someone in the crowd later thanked Ms.
Omar for staying and continuing after the assault, which had shaken not only her but the entire room.
"I learned at a young age you don't give in to threats," Ms. Omar said.
Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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BREAKING: Supreme Leader Trump has repealed the Second Amendment
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(CNN) - The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago.
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www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/h...
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REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: βWe will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man donβt understand β we are Minnesota Strong. Weβll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.β
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CNN: Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost assaulted at Sundance Film Festival event, police say
By Aleena Fayaz
Updated Jan 24, 2026
NBC News: Man lunges at Ilhan Omar during town hall and tries to spray her with unknown substance
January 27, 2026
Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.
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I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me. Separately, a major investigation is going on with respect to the massive 20 Billion Dollar, Plus, Welfare Fraud that has taken place in Minnesota, and is at least partially responsible for the violent organized protests going on in the streets.
Additionally, the DOJ and Congress are looking at "Congresswoman" Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars. Time will tell all. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
Sorry, Trump, your support is collapsing and youβre panicking.
Right on cue, youβre deflecting from your failures with lies and conspiracy theories about me. Years of βinvestigations" have found nothing.
Get your goons out of Minnesota.
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Damn right.
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Iβm ok. Iβm a survivor so this small agitator isnβt going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I donβt let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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He had a syringe. A syringe filled withβ¦idk (urine?)
The President of the United States has incited this kind of action against a sitting, Black woman member of Congress. Where is the βtone down the rhetoricβ brigade?
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I guess he just got lucky.
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ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
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- IRAN UPDATE
HRANA's latest numbers.
The total number of fatalities - confirmed and under review - has now surpassed 23,000.
Reminder: HRANA death confirmations take time, as they go through multiple layers of verification.
Very limited internet access continues to make the collection and processing of data difficult. We still do not know the full extent of the Islamic Republic's carnage.
Confirmed fatalities: 6,126
Protesters: 5,777
Children (under 18): 86
Forces affiliated with the regime: 214
Non-protesters: 49
Fatalities under investigation: 17,091
TOTAL: 23,217
Severely injured individuals: 11,009
Total arrests: 41,880
Broadcast of forced confessions: 245
Summoned to intelligence/security agencies: 11,024
Latest numbers out of Iran.
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Stephen Miller going down at the power of the labor movement would be one of the proudest moments I'd witness in my nearly 20 years in organized labor.
Let's get it done.
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Okay. Time to call your democratic senators and tell them that Bovinoβs demotion and humiliation WILL NOT SUFFICE to fund DHS.
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I will give Suozzi more credit than he gives himself. He knew what the vote was. He just figured the way to "win" was to support the funding because that's more "centrist" and buck the Democratic majority. But morally, he knew what this was about. He ended up wrong morally AND politically.
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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