#Venezuela #WarPowers resolution fails in #Senate as #Republicans bow to #Trump pressure

Senate Republicans voted to dismiss a war powers resolution Wednesday that would have limited Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela after 2 GOP senators reversed course on supporting the #legislation.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #law #Congress #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-senate-war-powers-2350b162d116090759a7428c4b915eea?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-14-Breaking+News

#Trump put intense pressure on 5 Republican senators who joined with #Democrats to advance the resolution last week & ultimately prevailed in heading off passage of the #legislation. 2 of the #Republicans — Sens #JoshHawley of Missouri & #ToddYoung of Indiana — flipped under the pressure.

VP #JDVance had to break the 50-50 deadlock in the #Senate on a Republican motion to dismiss the bill.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #Venezuela #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty

@steter

The Nan Who Fell To Earth is 100% my all time without a doubt favorite movie

File under #HotDamn!

Cross reference #FireWithFire

Federal #Judges Uphold New #California Congressional Maps

A panel in #LosAngeles sided with Gov #GavinNewsom [not a great example of #USpol, but bread & circuses & whatnot 🤷🏼♀️] in a decision that will help #Democrats counter #Trump initiated Republican #gerrymandering [#ElectionInterference / #rigging] in #Texas.

#Republicans are of course expected to appeal.

#law #ElectionLaw #FAFO
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/federal-court-california-redistricting-decision.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Oh my goodness, my bar for “hot damn” / “Fire with fire” in the new fascist United States Of Trump has become … nauseatingly low. Lower than the fart swamp in the David Bowie fairytale Labyrinth.

Checking myself before wrecking myself right now.

David Bowie / Labyrinth reference was intended to help alleviate the horror.

Yeah it cheesy, but also wonderful along the lines of the Dark Crystal or the Neverending Story but with muther freaking Bowie.

Jiminy Cricket do I wish our problems were as simple as they were in the 1970s—1980s!!!!!

shrug

sigh

#US Sen #MitchMcConnell (R-KY) has been speaking in the #Senate.

The #Republican Party's former leader in the chamber & chair of the #defense appropriations subcommittee defended #NATO.

"I have yet to hear from this administration a single thing we need from #Greenland that this #sovereign people is not already willing to grant us," he said.

#Trump #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw

#MitchMcConnell added: "This is about more than #Greenland. It's about more than America's relationship with its highly capable Nordic #allies. It's about whether the #UnitedStates intends to face a constellation of strategic adversaries with capable friends ... or commit an unprecedented act of strategic self-harm & go it alone."

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw

While #Greenland talks continue at the White House, Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has been speaking to media in Copenhagen.

Poulsen said #Denmark will increase its #military footprint in Greenland & have a more permanent presence in Greenland going forward.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw
https://www.reuters.com/world/greenland-talks-live-trump-says-us-needs-danish-territory-2026-01-14/

The #Trump #WhiteHouse posted an image on X showing ONLY 2 possible paths for #Greenland.

On the left, a sunny White House awaits. On the right, apocalyptic thunderstorms in China & Russia.

The image was posted at 11:31 AM (1631 GMT). It is unclear whether the diplomatic meeting with #Denmark & Greenland was still ongoing at that time.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #greed #InternationalLaw

About time.

#Sweden’s prime minister just announced that a pan-European force is arriving in #Greenland as we speak.

At #Denmark’s request, officers from the #SwedishArmedForces are arriving in Greenland today. They are part of a group from 🚨SEVERAL ALLIED COUNTRIES🚨. Together, they will prepare for upcoming elements within the framework of the Danish exercise #OperationArcticEndurance.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #InternationalLaw

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#FBI executes search warrant at #WashingtonPost reporter’s home purportedly as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.

The #reporter, #HannahNatanson, covers the federal workforce & has been part of The Post’s most high-profile & sensitive coverage of the first year of the 2nd #Trump admin.

#law #FirstAmendment #FreePress #democracy #Constitution #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/14/washington-post-reporter-search/

The accusations leveled by Brandon Sigüenza & Patty O’Keefe suggest that #DHS is employing similar tactics in #Minneapolis & #StPaul as it did during the crackdowns in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #NewOrleans. Federal officers are again using roving patrols, #WarrantlessArrests & aggressive tactics such as spraying #ChemicalAgents, breaking car windows & recording #protesters, including #ReneeNicoleGood & her vehicle in the moments before an #ICE officer fatally shot her.

#law #Trump #RightToProtest

According to organizers & an #ACLU lawsuit, #immigration officers have also been #surveilling #activists who have been observing their activities in the #TwinCities, violating their #FirstAmendment rights. And Sigüenza, who like his friend O’Keefe is a #US #citizen, said an immigration officer who questioned him Sunday even offered him money or legal protection if he gave up the names of organizers or neighbors who are in the country illegally.

#law #Trump #DueProcess #CivilRights #MafiaState

#Minneapolis duo details their #ICE #detention, including pressure to rat on #protest organizers

2 Minneapolis residents who have been monitoring #immigration officers’ actions during #Trump’s latest crackdown say they were detained without charge for several hours in distressing conditions, denied phone calls, & pressured to rat out protest organizers & people living in the country illegally.

#law #Constitution #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #DueProcess #CivilRights
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-protest-arrests-detention-ice-8993bfd5d54b870521ec5b44fc42cd71

Senator #ElissaSlotkin of #Michigan says she has learned that federal prosecutors are investigating her after she took part in a video urging #military service members to resist #illegal orders.

Slotkin, a Democrat, said in an interview Monday that she found out about the inquiry from the office of #JeaninePirro, the #USattorney for DC & a longtime ally of #Trump.

#law #LegalEthics #DOJ #RevengePolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/politics/slotkin-pirro-trump-justice-dept-video.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

In Secret Testimony, #Republicans Derided #Trump Stolen #Election Claims

The testimony, part of the derailed #Georgia #ElectionInterference case, makes clear how dismissive some senior Republicans were of claims of widespread fraud in the #2020election.

#law #gaslighting #propaganda #BigLie
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/georgia-election-republicans-trump-transcripts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Senator #LindseyGraham of South Carolina found #Trump’s claims of #election fraud in 2020 “unnerving.” Gov #BrianKemp of #Georgia described Trump’s efforts to get his state’s lawmakers to intervene a “fruitless exercise.” David Ralston, a former speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, called the plan to create slates of fake pro-Trump electors in states he had lost “the craziest thing I’ve heard.”

#law #gaslighting #propaganda #BigLie

Transcripts of secret grand jury testimony from the #Georgia #ElectionInterference case against #Trump & his allies, obtained by NYT, show just how alarmed & exasperated a number of senior #Republicans felt about Trump’s efforts to overturn a #US presidential election. The testimony, given in 2022, is emerging at a time when Trump is again raising complaints about his 2020 defeat & voicing regret that he did not order the #NationalGuard to seize voting machines after the #election.

#law #BigLie

The state better step up.

#Trump #DOJ claims no basis for #criminal #CivilRights probe in #Minnesota #ICE #shooting, a top department official said Tuesday.

The decision to keep the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division out of the investigation into the fatal shooting of #ReneeNicoleGood is a sharp departure from past admins, which moved quickly to probe shootings of civilians by law enforcement ofcls for potential civil rights offenses.

#law #murder #RightToProtest #UseOfForce
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-resignations-renee-good-f456dc01c7d72e15662016193b2e383e?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-13-Minnesota+ICE+shooting