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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This new Reuters report is stunning.

A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.

Both men deny the meeting.

Flight records show their planes parked together that day.

Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.

Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.

Congress has a duty to act.

We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.

If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
https://t.co/wUddI1206p

[Lavy @Lavy02]

Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang was a great visionary despite what has happened! just finished reading his bio!

[Lavy @Lavy02]

GM everyone,

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Jensen Huang has learned his lesson.

by Susan Collins

[Lavy @Lavy02]

@kokoro_fukufuku I see another men’s jacket on the bed!

[Lavy @Lavy02]

Special Report-Fran Chambers: In terms of whether the President is changing course... one day, it’s Stephen Miller, and then it's too tough on immigration. Another day it's there could be more strikes in Iran, but also now we're going to keep the status quo. He seems to be caught between doubling down on what he thought has worked here and what voters said in this past election, which was to elect a bunch of Democrats.

[Lavy @Lavy02]

Sen. Elissa Slotkin w/Erin Burnett: President Trump’s threats that he wants his DOJ to investigate her: “I don’t know why Trump keeps name checking me.”

[Lavy @Lavy02]

Kurt Bardella: The old way, a polite letter, a less polite letter, then a subpoena a month later.

The White House just told Democrats it won’t cooperate. That’s a permission slip to skip the fake niceties and start with the subpoena.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Another person who voted to decertify the 2020 election is gone.

Sen Cindy Hyde Smith (R-MS) loses in Mississippi

[Lavy @Lavy02]

Scott MacFarlane : They need to pass things. Their constituents are not going to be satisfied with strongly worded letters and bills that passed one chamber, but didn't become law.

[Lavy @Lavy02]

Rep Jamie Raskin: Somebody should tell Todd Blanche and his team to get a Supreme Court decision called Steffel v. Thompson, which says it’s legally actionable to bring an injunction action against the government if the government is trying to scare you out of exercising your First Amendment rights and your constitutional rights.

In our case, it’s not just that these members were exercising their constitutional rights; they were exercising their constitutional duties. We have a duty, as the Article I preeminent branch of government, to conduct oversight operations of the entire government, as well as the economy and other things happening in society.

[POLITICO @politico]

Madeleine Dean ‘considering’ Senate bid against Fetterman https://t.co/TRIBRqgYXy

[Leo @Leooweb3]

Me managing my $193 portfolio

[Lavy @Lavy02]

@snarkbox Better impeach all his enablers

[Lavy @Lavy02]

Rep. Bennie Thompson: Absolutely… if it hits the table, impeaching Donald Trump remains on the table for House Democrats.

[Lavy @Lavy02]

Stuart Stevens: The real test for the GOP in 2028: will its nominee admit Trump lost in 2020? Don’t count on Vance to pass it.

[Lavy @Lavy02]

Charlie Gasparino w/Kudlow: on the “reckless” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s alleged spy affair: “he's going to resign.”

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

An Indian newspaper front-page story today

[Lavy @Lavy02]

Rep Robert Garcia: We are not going to be threatened or intimidated because we are demanding accountability and oversight. The truth is that he needs to understand that Congress is a co-equal branch of government.

This idea that President Trump or the White House counsel want to send threatening letters to myself… it’s not going to stop our important work.