The #Portland #shooting unfolded Thursday afternoon as #US #BorderPatrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop, #DHS said in a statement.

The DHS “statement” [ #propaganda] claimed the driver, a suspected Venezuelan gang member, attempted to "weaponize" his vehicle & run over the agents. In response, DHS said, "an agent fired a defensive shot" & the driver & a passenger drove away.

An all too common refrain.

#Trump #law #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #CBP

#US #BorderPatrol agent shoots & wounds 2 people in #Portland

A US #immigration agent shot & wounded a man & a woman in Portland, #Oregon, authorities said on Thursday night, leading city & state officials called for calm given public outrage over the #ICE #shooting death of a #Minnesota woman a day earlier.

#Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #MafiaState #CBP #Sturmabteilung
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-federal-agents-shot-two-people-portland-abc-affiliate-reports-2026-01-08/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Congrats on the Rogue State badge America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwV5ksCe95w

#minnesota #us #roguestate #impeachtrump #epstein #lawless

@ChrisMayLA6

Worth remembering also the diverting oil from #venezuela will improve utilisation of #us oil refining capacity - largely located in places which vote for his party. That would be an immediate benefit to him even if the process of increasing oil production in #venezuela proves to be both costly and lengthy - as I suspect it will be!

@ChrisMayLA6

Worth remembering also the diverting oil from #venezuela will improve utilisation of #us oil refining capacity - largely located in places which vote for his party. That would be an immediate benefit to him even if the process of increasing oil production in #venezuela proves to be both costly and lengthy - as I suspect it will be!

@ChrisMayLA6
It baffles me how die-hard Labour supporters despise what is happening with their party yet continue to throw in all their support. This, regardless of the fact that Labour has practically gone full fascism.

I ask, what's wrong with going with what is important in your heart instead of falling on one's own "pride" sword?

This isn't the only country that has their major political parties all go fascist, xenophobic, racist and bigoted. *hint hint, #us.

Yet when a party such as the #greenpartyuk actually makes sense, the 1st thing I hear from my very left leaning friends is how they hate the 20mph speed limit?!?! Really?!?! That's your reason for voting for fascism?

Silver lining: as you've alluded to and I agree, people are coming around. I believe we're in for a big surprise soon and #labour #tories #ReformUK are going to be scrambling to recover.

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115841022316410820

The problem here is that yet again, courts of the #USA are being asked to decide whether the #US has broken #internationalLaw.

On previous occasions when this question has arisen, #AmericanJudges have stood tall, looked themselves in the eye, and asked "should American criminality be restrained by international law?"

Or, simply "are we gangsters"?

Then they have proudly declared " #GodBlessAmerica", and pronounced that #America can do whatever the hell it likes to whoever it chooses.

The Trump administration is gambling that it can intimidate Venezuela's inner circle with threats of further military action. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/05/world/politics/trump-intimidation-venezuela/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #nicolasmaduro #venezuela #us #donaldtrump

The Trump administration is gambling that it can intimidate Venezuela's inner circle with threats of further military action. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/05/world/politics/trump-intimidation-venezuela/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #nicolasmaduro #venezuela #us #donaldtrump

@sarahjamielewis

Have you watched Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech about:

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jsstmmUUs

It's about the high risk of being dependent on US #techology & why other countries should get rid of the anti-circumvention laws (that they were forced to implement with threat of #tariffs) that prop up US #tech companies.

Worth watching.

#Enshittification #Video #Politics #US #USA #World

Secy of #State #MarcoRubio suggested Sunday that the #US would not take a day-to-day role in governing #Venezuela other than enforcing an existing “ #oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after #Trump announced a day earlier that the US would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás #Maduro.

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Secy of #State #MarcoRubio suggested Sunday that the #US would not take a day-to-day role in governing #Venezuela other than enforcing an existing “ #oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after #Trump announced a day earlier that the US would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás #Maduro.

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

These idiots have no idea what they’re doing

#Rubio says #US won’t govern #Venezuela but will press changes through #oil blockade

# #idiocracy #kakistocracy #geopolitics #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Trump #Maduro #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
https://apnews.com/live/us-venezuela-trump-maduro-updates-01-04-2026?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-04-Breaking+News

@sarahjamielewis

Have you watched Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech about:

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jsstmmUUs

It's about the high risk of being dependent on US #techology & why other countries should get rid of the anti-circumvention laws (that they were forced to implement with threat of #tariffs) that prop up US #tech companies.

Worth watching.

#Enshittification #Video #Politics #US #USA #World

Now, he asked himself: what has gone wrong in his life for him to end up here?

Andry was among 252 Venezuelans who were sent by Trump’s order to the maximum-security prison in El Salvador, known as the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT.

#prison #us #trump

Venezuala's Vice President gave an address late last night and posted this statement to their website this morning.

In the written statement from VP Rodríguez she says Venezuala is granted the right of self defense under the UN charter and that they will utilize these rights.

https://vicepresidencia.gob.ve/comunicado-republica-bolivariana-de-venezuela/

#venezuela #US #Trump #DelcyRodríguez

Secy of #State #MarcoRubio said the “capture” of President #Maduro & his wife from #Venezuela was a “law enforcement” operation as a rationale for not going to #Congress, yet #Trump said the #US will now run the country & said “We’re not afraid of boots on the ground,” neither of which would be the result of a #LawEnforcement action.

Also AG #PamBondi was not included in the news conference announcing what would absolutely be the most significant #prosecution of her career.

#law #war #oil

Secy of #State #MarcoRubio said the “capture” of President #Maduro & his wife from #Venezuela was a “law enforcement” operation as a rationale for not going to #Congress, yet #Trump said the #US will now run the country & said “We’re not afraid of boots on the ground,” neither of which would be the result of a #LawEnforcement action.

Also AG #PamBondi was not included in the news conference announcing what would absolutely be the most significant #prosecution of her career.

#law #war #oil

#Trump spoke more about #oil than anything else. I don’t think I even heard him mention #democracy a single time. He vowed to fix #Venezuela’s oil infrastructure & said the #US plans to sell it to other countries [again, how is this legal?].

“We’re in the oil business. We’re going to sell it to them,” Trump said. he said oil companies will pay for the rebuilding of Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, & the wealth will pour in.

#law #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #theft #piracy

Trump’s suggestion that Maduro’s VP, #DelcyRodríguez, would help the #US run the country literally came as #Venezuela state TV was playing a clip of her denouncing the US #military operation.

“Faced with this brutal situation & this brutal attack, we do not know the whereabouts of President Nicolás #Maduro & first lady Cilia Flores,” Rodríguez said. “We demand immediate proof of life for President Maduro & the first lady from the government of President Donald #Trump.”

#law #oil #LandGrab