Clare Bertrand

[Clare Bertrand @ClareBertrand]

@atrupar Yikes self incriminating…

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

Hey! My colleagues at NPR made a voter registration guide. Enter your state and learn the deadlines to register in time to make your voice heard in this year’s primaries.

https://t.co/0LCCLlew45

[Max Burns @themaxburns]

At the current burn rate, it will take just 12 weeks for the @GOP to spend more on the Iran war than it would have cost to continue the Affordable Care Act subsidies for 22 million Americans.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....

[Western Mass Weather @DHTheWeatherNut]

THE BLIZZARD OF 2026 IN A PHOTO (9AM): It's as perfect a mid-latitude winter cyclone that you'll ever see! It almost has an eye, and is as strong as a Category 2 hurricane. Historic for far southern and eastern New England and a likely memorable cap to the core of the Winter of 2025-26.

[Lee Merritt @LeeMerrittesq]

I’m sure these images hit different now. Black communities have been warning about this for years. Non-violent people being attacked and murdered by law enforcement. Unjustly.

Trayvon Martin. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Atatiana Jefferson. Ahmaud Arbery. Keith Porter. Silverio Villegas González . Alex Pretti. Renee Good. And so many others. Whether they were holding Skittles, a phone, playing a video game, peacefully protesting for your rights, or just going for a walk in their neighborhood, they were unjustifiably killed while posing no violent threat to law enforcement.

What we’ve been fighting against for decades is now happening across all communities. It’s bigger than us now. When we said reform the system, we were protecting everyone from unchecked power and zero accountability.

Maybe now people will understand why we’ve been demanding change. This fight was never just about Black lives. It was always about justice for all.

We demand accountability. We demand change. For all of us. Rest in power to every life lost.

[Nathan Bernard @nathanTbernard]

Maine Attorney General announces ICE tip line for potential prosecution. If you see ICE agents terrorizing Mainers, peacefully film the encounter and email information to [email protected]

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Even though PBS and NPR are still in existence, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he “heard they’re closed up.”

During a news conference at the White House that lasted more than 90 minutes, Trump noted that, among his accomplishments during the first year of his second term in office, he signed legislation “to cut all taxpayer funding” to the two main American public media networks.

The Trump administration’s move mainly affected the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the independent nonprofit organization that distributed federal funds to PBS, NPR, public media programming and more than 1,500 local stations. The corporation’s board voted earlier this year to dissolve itself after Congress voted last summer, at Trump’s request, to claw back about $1.1 billion of previously approved federal funding for public broadcasting.

While the rescission of federal funding and the dissolution of the CPB resulted in layoffs, programming cancellations and operational changes at stations across the country, PBS and NPR continue to air news, arts and other programming on television, radio and online platforms.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

The Venezuela story everyone missed.

The U.S. just sold $500 million of Venezuelan oil.

But they deposited the money in Qatar.

Not the U.S. Not Venezuela. Qatar.

Here is why that satisfies detail changes everything you think you know about what just happened.

Venezuela owes $170 billion to international creditors. Bondholders. Oil companies. China. Everyone is owed money.

Any account in the U.S. or Venezuela would be immediately seized through litigation.

So the Trump administration parked the money in Qatar. A “neutral venue” where funds flow freely with U.S. approval and without risk of seizure.

This is not liberation. This is not regime change. This is not intervention.

This is the first operational deployment of a new architecture for sovereign resource capture.

The sequence:

- January 3: Capture the president
- January 6: Announce U.S. will “run” oil sector indefinitely
- January 9: Sign Executive Order shielding revenues from all creditors
- January 14: Complete first $500 million sale

Twelve days from military operation to revenue capture.

Iraq took six years to sign its first major oil contracts after 2003. Foreign companies operated under Iraqi law. Revenues went to Iraqi accounts.

Venezuela 2026: The U.S. government directly markets the oil, completes the sales, and deposits proceeds in accounts it controls in third countries.

This has never happened before. Never! Yup!

Not in Iraq. Not in Libya. Not in Kuwait. Not anywhere since 1945.

The Executive Order is the key document. It declares that Venezuelan oil revenues are exempt from all creditor claims, all legal judgments, all international arbitration.

With one signature, $170 billion in legal obligations became unenforceable.

The international legal architecture built over 80 years was bypassed through a domestic Executive Order and an account in Doha.

ExxonMobil’s CEO called Venezuela “uninvestible” at the White House meeting last week.

He is correct. And it does not matter.

When the U.S. government controls the revenue stream, shields it from courts, and promises to “make it real easy,” the old investment calculus is obsolete.

The template is now operational:

- Designate government as narcoterrorist.
- Deploy military to capture leadership.
- Install cooperative interim authority.
- Issue Executive Order voiding all prior obligations.
- Sell resources through U.S.-controlled channels.
- Deposit proceeds in jurisdictions beyond legal reach.

Any nation with vast natural resources, a government whose legitimacy can be contested, and insufficient military deterrence just watched this template execute in real time.

Venezuela has 303+ billion barrels of proven reserves.

The largest on Earth.

The U.S. now controls the revenue stream.

This is not a story about Trump or Maduro or intervention ethics.

This is the birth of a new imperial architecture that renders the post-Westphalian legal order irrelevant through financial engineering and offshore banking.

The 21st century will not be shaped by international law.

It will be shaped by whoever controls the accounts.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Read the full article - https://t.co/TS1Nz2BiSp

[Trip Gabriel @tripgabriel]

If you read just one article about Venezuela today:

"We have long faced a brutal paradox: an absent yet omnipotent state. It is everywhere and nowhere. It has failed to provide the essential services...water, electricity, health care, education"

https://t.co/SaQ6y7HdQ7

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: We organized a sit down with Tim Walz and undecided working class voters in Erie, PA.

3 voted for Trump in 2020. 1 has never voted before.

After the conversation, their minds were changed.

[Go Bluesky (@StrictlyChristo.bsky.social) =🦤➡️🦋 @StrictlyChristo]

Stay steady, folks. Two more days. 🧘‍♀️
#HarrisWalz2024

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

We are at 1.9 MILLION VIEWS!

Let's get this over 2 MILLION.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

As I’ve traveled our country, I’ve seen a yearning for a president who will see you, who gets you, and who will fight for you.

I pledge to be that president.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

NEW: As promised, here is my new ad for #HarrisWalz. My story never gets easier to tell, but everything is on the line this election. Please watch and share 🙏🫶

🎥 @dprzygoda

[Doug Emhoff @DouglasEmhoff]

My Mom and Dad wanted to make sure you heard about Kamala’s new proposal.

She’ll expand Medicare to cover home care for our nation’s seniors and those with disabilities—so that they can live with dignity and afford care.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

If you support KAMALA HARRIS retweet this ad to help win Michigan. This is not another tweet. This is crucial.

[Allen Mashburn @Mashburn4NC]

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This gentleman hiked 11 miles to check on his parents— read his story of what all he saw.

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My parents are ok but completely trapped. Yesterday, I hiked up to check on them. Brain spew coming; I'm still processing it all and was just locked in on go-mode yesterday.

Still not having heard from my parents in 48 hours, I was drowning in worry. My parents live in an absolute gem of the NC mountains -- the Little Switzerland, Spruce Pine, Burnsville area -- halfway between Asheville and Boone. Under normal circumstances, it's pleasantly very isolated.

Little did I know that up there, Helene has demolished roads, homes and utility networks. **This area is completely cut off from resources in every direction.** I tried multiple routes to drive up but had to settle on parking in Marion at the base of a closed road (Hwys 221/226) and hiking 11 miles and 2,200 feet to find my parents thankfully ok but surrounded by devastation. I have never been so relieved to see anyone ok.

Crews weren't even close yesterday. I can't tell you how many failing roads and deep mudslides I had to cross, how many fallen trees I had to take off my backpack for and navigate through. While hiking up 226A, I met multiple people trapped by devastation in both directions of the highway.

In this part of the mountains with steep terrain rolling off the Blue Ridge Parkway, not only did water rise, it RAGED to tear up roads, earth and homes. Then, the winds (I'm certain tornados in some places) have brought down up to half the tree canopy.

I'm still processing it all. I've never seen anything like it. Power is a couple weeks out. I cannot fathom how long it will take DOT to repair the curvy roads that hug steep mountainsides with the most amazing views. Most of all, I want my parents to have the same basic needs they always provided me -- food, water, shelter (house is mostly ok) and the ability to explore! But they can't even leave their home right now. The steep part of their gravel road has braided channels only 18" wide but up to 5' deep from rushing water.

It's just a waiting game now. If you are or you have family in the mountains, I feel for you. Know that crews are chipping away.

#helene #ncwx #wnc

[Angela Alsobrooks @AlsobrooksForMD]

I am running to stop Republicans from taking control of the Senate.

But, that's not all. I will ALSO protect our communities, stop corporate price gouging, ensure access to quality education, and protect a woman's right to choose.

We have a lot to do, so let's get to work.