I realize that this was a slow news day and it may have seemed a good time to run some lighter stories like the Guilfoyle piece and some fairly trivial local news...
But I can't help but feel they could have found something a bit more substantive.
Maybe they could do something about the speculations around the timing.
Or something about this...
UPDATED LIST of countries the Trump administration has threatened to invade, annex, or otherwise attack in the 85 hours of 2026 so far: 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇬🇱 Greenland 🇮🇷 Iran 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇲🇽 Mexico Insane.
— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Trump: "Cuba is ready to fall. Cuba looks like it's ready to fall. I don't know if they're gonna hold out."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Trump: We have a very sick neighbor. That’s Venezuela. Colombia is very sick too. Reporter: So there will be an operation by the US in Colombia? Trump: Sounds good to me
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.
— Thorsten Benner (@tbenner.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Greenland slams ‘disrespectful’ pic posted by Trump aide’s wife www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
— Serena (@bibliophile99.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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This claim from inside the White House might be worth discussing.
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
— Eric Umansky (@ericumansky.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Or these questions about the way Russia and China might react.
“Russian commentators have frequently suggested that Latin America lies in America’s domain just as Ukraine was under the Russian shadow. Vladimir Putin thinks the same of much of eastern Europe. Xi Jinping will draw his own conclusions.”
— Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News (@froomkin.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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“.. The United States has now given Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to give it a try a road map for invading countries and capturing leaders who displease them ..” @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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The paper of record could examine whether you can really make a secure situation room by partitioning of part of a Mar-A-Lago ballroom with black curtains.
Name Brand vs Dollar Store Knockoff
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Trump is posting some photos from last night / this morning, including this one. Very weird to see this in a non-situation room setting with black curtains
— Jake Lahut (@jakelahut.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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Shortly before the US military launched an attack on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, an account on Polymarket made some very suspiciously timed investments. The prediction market had been running bets on when or if Maduro would be removed from power, with prices for “out by January 31, 2026” as low as $0.07 late Friday evening. But within 24 hours of the military action, a newly created account invested tens of thousands of dollars, racking up several hundred thousand in profits.
The account was created less than a week ago, and invested over $30,000 the day before the assault, turning a profit of over $408,000. The activity was flagged on social media, with people speculating that the person placing the bet was acting on inside information and perhaps even worked at the Pentagon. Joe Pompliano, an investor and podcaster, quickly pointed out on X that “Insider trading is not only allowed on prediction markets; it’s encouraged.”
There have been past incidents of seemingly obvious insider trading on prediction markets, but the companies often show little interest in curbing such behavior. This is partly because these companies believe the value they offer is not a level playing field for investors, but rather in delivering news and insights. When reached for comment, Kalshi, another prediction market, pointed us to a post on X stating that such insider trading was against its rules. We reached out to Polymarket for comment, but have yet to receive a response.
We'll be coming back to that last one.
It's all very well to to think it is a success to capture (kidnap) a foreign leader and his wife but in the process innocent people who happened to get in the way died.
ReplyDeleteI notice they don't want to show photos of the wife of the president. I guess it's not manly to show how the military are treating an elderly women.