Venezuela claims to have captured ‘CIA backed cell plotting false flag attack’ Venezuela believes Trump is trying to put pressure on President Maduro in order to displace him from power

Venezuela believes Trump is trying to put pressure on President Maduro in order to displace him from power.

This broke me. She’s someone’s mama, and they have kidnapped her.

Major companies are rolling out major layoffs, from UPS at 48,000 to Meta, 600.

They’re gearing up for The Hunger Games. CBP’s taking over for heads of ICE, & DT’s calling out the Guard while hinting that he’ll invoke the Insurrection Act. Meanwhile, the Commerce Sec’y says to expect ~30% of the workforce to be replaced by AI in the next two yrs.
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YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder Upcoming SCOTUS Decision Will Devastate What's Left Of Democracy

“They want to change the analysis so that you have to show intent to be racist in order for the Voting Rights Act to operate…And for the most part, white people don’t admit to being racist…There’s always some other reason they’re doing these racist things.”

— Elie Mystal

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

The ~100 male veterans newly diagnosed/yr will have to show their cancer was connected to their military service, a burden often hard to meet. The new policy rolls back benefits created under the PACT Act, a Biden-era law that was one of the largest expansions of health care/benefits in VA history.

WATCH LIVE: Sanders and Senate Democrats hold news briefing on SNAP benefits threatened by shutdown YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

House Repubs refuse to enter into negotiations & take a 6-wk paid vacation, while creating a health crisis. Like his child separation policy to try to force immigrants out of the country, DT threatens to starve Americans as a negotiating tactic to get what he wants.

MAHA=Make America Hungry Again

YouTube video by Democracy Now! Project 2025 Architect Russell Vought Is Using Shutdown to Gut Federal Agencies

Vought is "the driving force behind the shutdown" & "basically a 2nd commander-in-chief, a shadow president," says reporter Andy Kroll. During this DT regime, Vought's deeply conservative ideology has been unchallenged by a compliant Congress, placing unprecedented power into the executive branch.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Thursday: Target to lay off 1800 corporate jobs
Monday: Amazon to lay off 30,000 corporate jobs
Tuesday: UPS to lay off 48,000 operations and management jobs

You'd think with all these layoffs, CEOs and CFOs and COOs would also be fired. Alas.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

From last spring:

Arc de Grift Trump crowns himself in gold, Big Tech buys redemption, and the Fed prints confetti while the rest of us eat tariffs.

"Economists call it a feedback loop of corruption, speculation, and starvation. Tomorrow’s forecast: partly fascist with a chance of layoffs."

YouTube video by Jim Acosta EARTH TO MAGA! Working People are Suffering in Donald Trump's America and It's About to Get Worse!

Every week, hundreds of furloughed federal workers line up just outside of DC, and wait for up to 4 hrs for free groceries. They are supposed to be working on behalf of the American people & earning a paycheck. Instead, they’re living month to month, struggling to keep up with the high cost of food.

Senate votes against Trump’s 50 percent tariff on Brazil The vote comes while the president is in Asia touting his trade agenda.

But the vote remains largely symbolic: Republican leaders in the House have blocked the chamber from voting to overrule the tariffs until March 2026, protecting Republican members who are facing blowback from home state farmers and small businesses angry over the economic impact.

President for Life Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.

“With his every word and deed, Trump has given Americans reason to believe that he will seek a third term, in defiance of the Constitution. It seems abundantly clear that he will hold on to the office at any cost, including America’s ruin.“

Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

DT offered his FL supporters a promise. “Christians, get out & vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”

Death toll from latest Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 104 The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports that Israeli attacks across Gaza since last night have killed at least 104 Palestinians, including 46 children, and wounded at least 253. Since the ceasefire was agreed on October 10, at least 211 Palestinians have been killed and 597 wounded in Israeli attacks, while 482 bodies have been recovered, the ministry said. Israel’s war on Gaza has now killed at least 68,643 people and wounded 170,655 since it began in October 2023, according to the ministry’s latest figures.

Israel murdered at least 46 children in Gaza yesterday because of the *unexplained* death of a *soldier* in Rafah.

And this is not understood by the US et al to have violated the ‘ceasefire.’

“For every meal a food bank provides, SNAP provides nine.
We can’t replace that,” said one director. “We were not built to do this.”

Let that sink in.

Cutting SNAP doesn’t just starve families, it breaks the last line of defense against hunger.

YouTube video by Aaron Parnas BREAKING: Over One Dozen Injured as Shootings Strike America

There are so many mass shootings in the U.S. that the media barely even covers them. There have already been more mass shootings than days of the year in 2025.

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Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances

The felon in the WH has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of next year’s midterms.

Cuomo condemned over racist AI ad depicting ‘criminals for Zohran Mamdani’ Official X accounts posts and then deletes AI-generated attack ad that prompts widespread denunciation

Cuomo is so pathetic.

‘Blatant Discrimination’: North Carolina Advances GOP Gerrymander at the Expense of Black Voters Read more here.

🚨 BREAKING: In a 66-48 vote, Republicans in the North Carolina House officially pass their new Trump-approved congressional gerrymander targeting the state’s Black voters. More to come.

Background:

They are demolishing the entire East Wing of the White House—the place where Trump cowered in a bunker during the protests of May 2020. This NYT photo is emblematic of the destruction of our nation at the hands of malevolent, sociopathic cowards.

Not nearly as obscene as what Republicans are doing to destroy our country and its citizens…

SNAP crisis: Healey calls on Trump to unfreeze food stamps funding "The federal government provides about $240 million a month in SNAP benefits to Massachusetts residents," Healey said. "There's no way that the state can make up for that."

1 in 5 children in the U.S. depend on SNAP.

ICE Agents Accidentally Shoot Marshal While Trying to Arrest TikToker A deputy marshal was wounded by a bullet during an ICE arrest that went horrifically awry.

Tues., an ICE agent injured a deputy US marshal while shooting at a TikTok streamer known for documenting ICE raids. The violent incident occurred during a traffic stop in S. LA when agents tried to detain Carlitos Ricardo Parias, aka Richard LA, who has received recognition as a citizen journalist.

surely just a coincidence.

Slaves Built the White House and Capitol - See the Records National Archives holdings include extensive documentation showing that slaves built the White House and Capitol (On public display at the National Archives Museum, Washington, DC, 1/12-25/2009; and 2...

The historic White House hasn’t just been desecrated, but partially destroyed by FOTUS. W/out proper authority, he’s turning it into Mar-a-Lago II. Both the WH & Capitol were built largely by enslaved African Americans. Now the US has permitted a sociopathic fascist to destroy both it & the country.

YouTube video by MSNBC 'He might as well rob Fort Knox and take the gold out’: Reaction to Trump shaking down his own DOJ

“The President of the United States is now the Extortionist in Chief…He might as well just go ahead and rob Fort Knox and take the gold out.”

“…kids do stupid things, especially young boys.” — failed drag queen James Donald Bowman