Marilyn Maciel

Long-time tweeter. My eclectic interests all have one thing in common--storytelling. That's really all life is, right?

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

BREAKING: As Donald Trump cancels free admission to National Parks on MLK Day, California will be offering FREE entry at more than 200 participating state parks.

Honor MLK. Get outdoors. And stick it to an old man with a fragile ego.

[Martin Luther King III @OfficialMLK3]

Happy birthday, Dad. Your faith in humanity, your insistence on love over hate, and your belief that everyone can serve continue to renew me. In the darkest of times, your legacy is a light. When I feel hopeless, your spirit carries me. You will forever be in my heart.

[Ryan Nobles @ryanobles]

NEW- on GREENLAND.. powerful Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R) just left a meeting with the representative from Greenland and the Danish ambassador and made it clear he DOES NOT support any U.S. attempt to acquire the country.

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.

[Oversight Dems @OversightDems]

We are sure it’s just a coincidence, but today is the statuatory date for the DOJ to explain its redactions in the Epstein file productions.

We have not forgotten, and we won’t let up - regardless of the President’s new unconstitutional actions.

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

Question — if the US is not currently running Venezuela as Trump claimed, does that mean he is preparing to fight the Venezuelan military now to gain control of it?

[Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand]

Trump is repeatedly being asked who is running Venezuela right now and he won’t say, including whether there are still US troops on the ground. “
“We’re designating people right now… it’s largely for a period of time going to be the people standing behind me.”
Caine Hegseth Rubio and Stephen Miller are standing behind him

[Konstantin Toropin @KToropin]

The silence from Pentagon officials since this operation began last night is staggering.

A complete abdication of any effort to inform the American public of what the military is doing in their name.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

FLASHBACK—Trump in 2023:

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

President Trump thinks he is above the law. He steals from taxpayers. He thumbs his nose at the law.

And now, he is starting an illegal war with Venezuela that Americans didn’t ask for and has nothing to do with our security.

How does going to war in South America help regular Americans who are struggling? How does this do anything about drugs entering the U.S. when Venezuela produces no fentanyl? What is the actual security threat to the United States? And what happens next in Venezuela?

He cannot answer these questions - and that’s why there was no briefing to Congress to explain this action, and no briefing scheduled.

And Maduro’s illegitimate election does not give the president the power to invade without congressional approval, nor does it create a national security justification. That contention is laughable.

This is about satisfying Trump’s vanity, making good on the long standing neocon grudge against Maduro, enriching Trump’s oil industry backers, and distracting voters from Epstein and rising costs.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Almost one month ago to the day, Trump pardoned a drug trafficking president from Latin America. https://t.co/slrWhKiHjq

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

President Trump, his campaign and his White House have never provided any proof for his serial claim, which he repeated again this morning, that Venezuela emptied prisons and mental institutions and sent the people in them to the US as migrants. The Trump team once emailed me a single vague article from right-wing website Breitbart News.

Experts on Venezuela and global prison policy have said they’ve seen no basis for the claim; there’s certainly been large-scale emigration from troubled Venezuela, but they’ve seen no proof of some sort of prison/“insane asylum”-emptying migration scheme by the government.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Trump WH: The people on those little drug boats couldn’t be arrested. We had to kill them.

Also Trump WH: We invaded a foreign country last night to make an arrest.

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

So, in 2026, the United States can hold a foreign president responsible for breaking US law but not an American president. Interesting.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

Main Venezuelan opposition leader

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Happy new year from Donald Trump and Mike Johnson.

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

I don't hear anybody talking about how the post office changed their postmark rules, and how this will potentially disqualify votes in upcoming elections.

Postmarks indicate when the USPS processed mail now, not when you dropped it off, impacting deadlines for taxes, donations, or legal docs.

To ensure a same-day postmark, you must visit a post office and ask for a manual stamp, as blue boxes often get postmarked days later at regional centers.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

One of the most underreported stories of 2025 is that Trump is the first President ever to create electricity shortages on purpose. He is illegally canceling solar and wind, causing layoffs and price spikes, and the media is like “wow what a showman that guy is!”