Posts on Saturday, January 3, 2026
Washington — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from what prosecutors said was his role in a scheme to import "thousands of tons" of cocaine into the United States and enrich himself, his family and senior members of the Venezuelan government.[Snip] The case against them was brought in the Southern District of New York, where Maduro and 14 others were first indicted in March 2020, during the first Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein is overseeing the case.
The woke left and woke right are coming out in force to defend Nicholas Maduro and to attack Donald Trump for his operation to arrest him and bring him to the United States. [snip] On the left, everybody from the hard communists to the soft communists is angry, as are Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, of course. All are united by the belief that the United States is in the wrong no matter what.[X Video Post] here’s tucker carlson defending communist dictator nicolas maduro because he’s allegedly “socially conservative.”
Almost six years ago the Democrats published the world's longest political suicide note -- their 2020 election platform on immigration. (snip) Basically, the Democratic Party vowed that if it ran the federal government, it would open American borders to anyone and everyone in the world who could reach them. (snip) How the Democrats got to this point is its own story and worth exploring. So is the question of what happens next. But for now it is simply worth understanding that the collapse of any immigration restrictions was a feature, not a bug.
Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine provided details Saturday on how the U.S. military and various intelligence agencies worked together to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, revealing that more than 150 aircraft were launched in close coordination in a mission called "Operation Absolute Resolve."
Caine said the operation began "during the darkest hours of January 2nd and was the culmination of months of planning and rehearsal," and one that "only the United States military could undertake."
"It required the utmost of precision and integration within our joint force, and the word integration does not explain the sheer complexity of such a mission, an extraction so precise
The United States carried out strikes in Venezuela today and arrested Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The U.S. launched a "large scale" strike against the South American nation, including on military facilities. The move came after months of build up in the region. In recent weeks, the U.S. had seized two oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela and conducted kinetic strikes on narco-terrorist vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific. Both Maduro and his wife were indicted in the Southern District of New York. Attorney General Pam Bondi shared news of the indictment on X, and here's what that indictment entails:
Democrats face persistent internal discord, unresolved strategic debates, and voter skepticism that threatens to complicate their path toward unity and success in the 2028 presidential election.
As Democrats begin 2026 with renewed optimism about flipping the House, the underlying fractures within the party have not healed. A Hill report published this week highlights how, even amid growing discontent with Donald Trump’s second term, Democrats continue to struggle with deep divisions, conflicting ideological strategies, and questions about leadership — raising serious concerns about their ability to coalesce ahead of the next presidential cycle.
“Democrats are finding their way out of political wilderness,”
In what Secretary of War Pete Hegseth described as a "flawlessly executed" demonstration of American military superiority, U.S. Special Operations forces executed a lightning-fast raid in Venezuela in the early-morning hours Saturday, capturing and arresting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on charges of narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices. Maduro's wife, Cilia Flores, was also captured in the raid.
The extraction was carried out by operators from the U.S. Army's Delta Force, supported by the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment's advanced helicopters.
Finnish police have detained a vessel sailing from Russia, which is suspected of damaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia across the Gulf of Finland.
The cargo vessel, the Fitburg, was sailing from St Petersburg to the port of Haifa in Israel, under the flag of St Vincent and Grenadines.
All 14 crew members were arrested after the cable owned by Finnish telecoms operator Elisa was damaged.
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Many experts and political leaders have viewed the recent incidents as part of a "hybrid war" carried out by Russia against Western countries.
Thug-dictator and illegitimate Venezuelan "president" Nicolás Maduro is now facing charges in the United States. Much of the international community (except Venezuela's neighbors) has been waving their hands and twittering their consternation. Most of Europe is upset, and honestly, they can be upset all they like; it's not their hemisphere.
Of course, it's not China's hemisphere, either, but they have economic ties to the late, unlamented Maduro regime; and, in fact, the Middle Kingdom has a delegation in Caracas right now, no doubt still burping from a late lunch and wondering just what the heck they're supposed to do now.
Until the past 24 hours, Nicolás Maduro Moros and other Venezuelan high-ranking individuals in the Maduro regime ran the Cartel of the Suns (Cartel de los Soles). Now that the U.S. has penetrated Venezuela’s defenses to capture and arrest Maduro, things have changed.
Maduro and his regime had corrupted the institutions of that country, including its military, its intelligence apparatus, its legislature, and its judiciary, all to aid his cartel’s massive criminal operations.
The Cartel de los Soles originated in Venezuela, and has been involved in the illicit drug trade, human smuggling and trafficking, extortion, sexual exploitation of women and children, and money laundering, along with other criminal activities.
As video of U.S. military operations inside Venezuela began to surface on social media, President Donald Trump has announced that overnight the U.S. military carried out a “large scale strike” against Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro.(image) (videos tweets)
Residents of Staten Island have discussed renewed calls for secession from New York City after newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani visited the borough. Mamdani, 34, was sworn in as New York's youngest mayor in more than a century on New Year's Day - its first Muslim, South Asian, and African-born leader. He ran on a Democratic socialist platform that included raising the minimum wage to $30 by 2030, raising the city's corporate tax to 11.5 percent, city-run grocery stores, fare-free buses, and freezing rent on rent-stabilized apartments. Citizens and lawmakers of Staten Island, a staunch Republican
In an extraordinary military operation, the United States launched a large-scale military operation in Caracas, Venezuela, early Saturday, with Special Forces seizing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. There is a pending 2020 indictment of Maduro in the Southern District of New York, where he is expected to be taken to face prosecution. The operation comes not long after the 37th anniversary of the capture of Manuel Antonio Noriega on Dec. 20, 1989. Noriega was convicted of drug and money laundering offenses and sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was tried in Miami.
Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who attempted to put President Trump in prison for acknowledging that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud, testified before the House Judiciary Committee the week before Christmas. Here are the video and transcript of his deposition. Smith’s testimony is disturbing because his argument in favor of prosecuting the president boils down to this: (1) Every sensible person knows that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. (2) For President Trump to pretend otherwise reveals that he is knowingly telling a “lie.” (3) By using this “lie” to undermine the 2020 election results, Trump committed fraud against the U.S. government
A Justice Department official vowed to protect the free speech rights of citizen journalists Thursday after Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson (snip) posted a message (snip) including a warning against filming day care facilities. (snip) "Family home childcare programs are privately operated spaces, not public spaces. And they are regulated by the government, not private individuals or groups." Wilson's post caught the eye of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon (snip.) "Asking questions/citizen journalism are not hate crimes in America -- they are protected speech and if Seattle tries to chill that speech @CivilRights will step in to protect it and set them straight!"
Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were indicted in the Southern District of New York, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced early on Jan. 3.
“Nicolás Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States,” Bondi said on X. “They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
Bondi issued the statement hours after Maduro and Flores were captured and extracted by U.S. armed forces in Caracas in the early hours of Jan. 3.
“On behalf of the entire U.S. DOJ, I would like to thank
Rep. Eric Swalwell has promised to strip federal immigration officers of driving privileges if they wear masks while working in California, and that pledge has set off a legal and political fight. His comments came as he runs for governor and as California navigates a state law aimed at unmasking ICE agents, a move the federal government calls unconstitutional. The debate now centers on federal supremacy, public safety, and whether state leaders are playing political theater at the expense of law enforcement and immigrants alike.
Public education has been undergoing a type of ideological and administrative mutilation for many decades. Under the guise of new educational paradigms that will supposedly both increasingly democratize education and improve learning, we see in the schools a collapse in student cooperation, an increase in violence and disruptive behaviors, a decline in academic achievement, and an increase in teacher turnover.
We have seen a shift away from individual work to cooperative learning where students work together in groups. “Learning together” is a mantra opposed to classical individual learning and individual responsibility. Other strategies intended to motivate students
Have you ever wondered why Democrats are so aggressively defending rampant fraud in Minnesota? Why Gov. Tim Walz so desperately wants to handle the investigation on his own? There’s a simple explanation: it has nothing to do with protecting vulnerable communities or fighting discrimination. Democrats are shielding these schemes because they profit directly from them.
Somali-run childcare centers, adult care facilities, and social service operations across the country are getting funded through programs riddled with fraud, and then the Democrats who enabled the fraud and looked the other way get a kickback.
The arrangement works beautifully for everyone except the taxpayers funding it.
Former special counsel Jack Smith used a closed-door deposition with House Republicans last month to defend his investigations into Donald Trump's alleged effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election and his alleged retention of certain classified documents, using the hours-long testimony to forcefully dispute the notion that his team had acted politically, and citing what he described as ample evidence to support the indictments that had been levied against Trump.
The City of Portland has officially rolled out a new taxpayer-funded benefit: paid “Immigration, Naturalization, and Citizenship Leave” Human Resources Administrative Rule (HRAR) 6.15.
City officials have now committed public funds to cover paid leave for immigration court proceedings—including deportation hearings while blocking basic oversight, all while the city is facing a $66 million shortfall.
As of January 1, 2026, city workers in Portland, Oregon, can now clock out for up to 40 hours a year — without losing pay or benefits — to deal with immigration-related legal matters for themselves or for family members.
Eligible employees may use this leave for activities such as:
It just wouldn't be New Year's Eve without two scoops of global violence. And Islam, as regular as a prune farmer's to-do list, didn't disappoint. Let's go around the world in 956 words and see what the religion of pieces managed to destroy as civilized people bid adieu to 2025 and welcomed 2026. Rotterdam, Netherlands. Jihaddi-daddies in the Netherlands kicked off by treating the police in Rotterdam to "unprecedented" levels of violence that left two people dead.
Cops found themselves on the business end of fireworks and gas-fueled Molotov cocktails.
This article by the BBC, clearly written by subhumans from Operation Mockingbird, twists words to make the reader think the problem
Venezuela is free!
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Oh, what a fine morning it was to wake up to pictures of little orange puffs over Caracas with the news that U.S. forces took out Hugo Chavez's tomb (snip) every detail was already planned out. (snip)
"The Venezuelan opposition has already mobilized to secure government buildings and work toward establishing a legitimate administration." (snip) This is Trump's greatest achievement, one that is sure to have reverberations, none good, for the ruling claques in Cuba, Nicaragua and Iran. He truly is the new Liberator of the Americas.
Republican House candidate Ed Gallrein is raking in cash to defeat Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie in November’s midterm elections.
Gallrein, a fifth-generation Kentucky farmer and former Navy SEAL, reported a $1.2 million haul in the fourth quarter, which runs from October to December. He secured President Donald Trump’s endorsement in October upon entering the May 2026 primary.
“This fundraising number reflects the overwhelming support Ed’s campaign has received right out of the gate,” Gallrein campaign spokesman Lance Trover said in a statement. “President Trump endorsed Ed because he knows Ed is fighting to put America First
“If someone gave a certain order - there’s a few influential people at ground level - if we gave a certain order, all hell would erupt in the U.K. The troops are aligned, the armies are behind certain people, if certain people said, “enough’s enough”, and they pressed a certain button, you’d have an army of millions who would wipe this place out.
“What would cause that button to be pressed?”
“Any more children being murdered.”
See this girl? She is a real person. She is not a purple haired, ambi-sexual pawn of some ghastly ideology. She went to school, succeeded and loves her parents.
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Fox News reports that our armed forces carried out a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela early Saturday morning and took Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife into custody. President Trump relate on Truth Social that the operation was successful and Maduro and his wife were “captured and flown out of the country.” Trump said the operation was conducted with U.S. law enforcement and added that a news conference will take place at Mar-a-Lago at 11 a.m. on Saturday. It appears that congratulations are in order.
Our old friend Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau responded to Trump’s announcement on X, describing it as a “new dawn for Venezuela.
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sparked outrage Friday after ordering that 16 state landmarks – including Manhattan’s One World Trade Center – be illuminated in green to celebrate “the heritage and culture of Muslim Americans.”
Hochul’s decision to light up the skyscraper erected on the site where the Twin Towers were knocked down by terrorists during the 9/11 attacks was decried as “tone deaf” and “disgusting” by several social media users.
“The twin towers were unable to be lit green tonight,” Queens Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino wrote on X. “It’s disgusting that the Freedom Tower – which stands at the World Trade Center site
At the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020, California had more than 120,000 inmates in state prisons throughout the state.
When — in response to COVID-triggered shutdowns and layoffs — the federal government began pumping massive amounts of money into states’ unemployment compensation programs, the Administration of California Governor Gavin Newsom said “Hey, let’s pay prisoners in prisons and jails, they’re unemployed too.”
Well, maybe not quite as glibly as that, but it is a FACT that prison inmates in California prisons and county jails applied for and were paid unemployment compensation by Newsom’s “Employment Development Department” (EDD) which runs the state’s unemployment compensation system.
Harvard Professor Calls Out University’s
‘Exclusion Of White Males’ In Scathing
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‘Exclusion Of White Males’ In Scathing
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A history professor who has taught at Harvard for 40 years is publicly calling out the Ivy League school over race-based hiring and admissions policies, a “shocking indifference” to antisemitism, and for its eroding commitment to teaching students about Western history.
James Hankins wrote in a Compact Magazine essay titled “Why I’m Leaving Harvard” that his decision was largely influenced by the school’s abandonment of merit in favor of diversity quotas, which he said entirely changed “the way we conducted our affairs,” leaving extraordinary candidates behind if they did not have Harvard’s desired skin color or gender.
The U.S. military carried out a "large-scale strike" in Venezuela early Saturday morning and took Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife into custody, President Donald Trump confirmed.
The president wrote on Truth Social that the operation was successful and Maduro and his wife were "captured and flown out of the country." Trump said the operation was conducted with U.S. law enforcement and added that a news conference will take place at Mar-a-Lago at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
At least seven explosions could be heard in Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas early Saturday morning, according to The Associated Press, and low-flying aircraft were seen flying over Caracas
Setting Up the 2026 Midterms
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Ten months ahead of November’s midterms, political and economic crosscurrents are colliding. Which of these conflicting trends prevails will greatly shape the next two years. And possibly even longer.
Midterm elections are always important. Besides gauging the country’s political mood, they have proven integral to maintaining America’s political equilibrium.
They are the “ebb” to the “flow” of America’s political tide. Historically, every four years, a large tide of voters goes to the polls and elects a president. Then every two years, the large voter flow ebbs back and the president’s party suffers accordingly.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) proclaimed a “new era” as he took the helm of the country’s largest city on New Year’s Day.
Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist whose star rocketed last year, was publicly sworn in on the steps of City Hall, where he addressed a crowd of thousands in a sweeping inauguration speech attended by top progressive allies.
“My fellow New Yorkers, today begins a new era,” Mamdani said.
Here are five takeaways from Mamdani’s inauguration and his first hours in the mayor’s office:
A massive amount of streaming TV shows aimed at small children contain sexualized LGBTQ+ content, despite efforts to create a more detailed ratings system to help parents navigate streaming content.For instance, 41 percent of shows that are supposed to be G-rated for kids on Netflix still has blatant gay content, including transgenderism, according to a year-end report by the activist group Concerned Women for America (CWA).The group also found that 21 percent of shows in the TV-Y category, which is meant to cover kids up to seven years, also has LGBTQ+ content. And the numbers only get worse for older kids.
Welcome to "The New Monroe Doctrine," where I give you an update on what's going on in the Western Hemisphere, south of our border, especially as it relates to the United States. The biggest news out of our hemisphere this week was that the United States made its first anti-narco trafficking strike on Venezuelan land. CNN claims that it was a CIA drone strike on a port facility used by Tren de Aragua, but the only thing the president and his administration have confirmed is that "...there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. They load the boats up with drugs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy told New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani that his collectivist method of governing has been “done before,” saying the new leader is “doing a solid job steering the U.S. toward Communism.”Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive officer of Russia’s $10 billion RDIF investment fund and the Kremlin’s investment envoy to America, emerged as a “key player” in negotiations on Moscow’s war in Ukraine, the Associated Press reported in November.
He took to X on Friday, the day after Mamdani’s inauguration, to share takes that garnered attention from Americans.
“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,”
Venezuela’s government accuses US of
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attacking civilian, military installations
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CARACAS, Venezuela — At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in the capital, Caracas. Venezuela’s government accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations in multiple states.
Pentagon referred requests for comment to the White House, which didn’t immediately return an email seeking comment. Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Authority has banned U.S. commercial flights in Venezuelan airspace over “ongoing military activity” ahead of explosions in Caracas.
The FAA’s warning, known as “Notice to Airmen,” came shortly after one in the morning on the east coast of the U.S. It warned all commercial and private U.S. pilots that the airspace over Venezuela and
Kentucky Republican U.S. Senate candidate Nate Morris said outgoing Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “epitomizes the worst of government” and shows why career politicians should be “thrown out of office.” (snip) “I can’t speak for him, but what I will tell you — it’s an absolute disgrace. If something like that happened in the private sector, they’d make you retire. And remember, during the 2024 election, even in the 2020 election, we were criticizing Joe Biden for the exact same thing,” the businessman said. (snip) You know, he reports over $100 million — this is a guy who didn’t have two nickels
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sparked outrage Friday after ordering that 16 state landmarks – including Manhattan’s One World Trade Center – be illuminated in green to celebrate “the heritage and culture of Muslim Americans.”
Hochul’s decision to light up the skyscraper erected on the site where the Twin Towers were knocked down by terrorists during the 9/11 attacks was decried as “tone deaf” and “disgusting” by several social media users. (Snip) “It’s disgusting that the Freedom Tower – which stands at the World Trade Center site – is lit in green to celebrate Islam,” fumed Angela Morabito, a