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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.
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NEWS: Sen. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN will challenge Schumer for Senate majority leader, per multiple sources
The Maryland Democrat and prominent progressive has been weighing a bid
W @bresreports@JakeSherman
Yes. The grassroots campaign
of the American people,-
not the superpacs are
what “we the people” elected.
To pass healthcare for all,
to repeal citizens united,
to get an affordability crisis remedy,
a wealth tax on the 1%,
more money to the people
not corporations.
Thank you for your service.
@ChrisVanHollen Let’s gooo, @ChrisVanHollen for Senate leadership! ✊🏼
Chuck Schumer repeatedly declared he serves Isræl and would NEVER cut aid even as Isrælis commit war crimes!
Even Trump said days ago that Americans hate Isræl. That’s why they lost! 🧵⤵️
In this election, Americans called on us to unrig an economy rigged against working people & fueled by political corruption.
To deliver, we need new leadership. This isn't about any one person – it’s about answering that call.
That's why I’m running for Senate Majority Leader.
Teck made $1.69 billion in the last quarter alone. Yet they want to slash pensions by 25%! #bcpoli#bclab#bcunion@bcfed@LiUNA1611
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BREAKING: "GET READY ASSHOLE!" Veteran Congressman-elect Richard Ojeda throws down the gauntlet to Pete Hegseth and vows to impeach him when the blue tsunami takes power.
This guy is MAGA's worst nightmare...
"For Pete Hegseth, he lucked out, he squeaked through this one," said Ojeda, referring to the Republicans' successful efforts to block Hegseth's impeachment earlier this week.
"But make no mistake about it, in the 120th Congress, he will not be so lucky. Tick tock, get ready asshole because we're coming!" Ojeda added.
Democrats will take control of both the House and Senate in January, at which point Hegseth's impeachment is all but a foregone conclusion.
The fact that Ojeda is one of the faces leading the charge to get rid of Hegseth is perfect, because he's a retired United States Army major. He's the spitting image of the kind of muscular, imposing soldier that Hegseth spends all his time fetishizing. Except in Ojeda's case, there's no need for injecting testosterone.
Ojeda is also more decorated than Hegseth, having received two Bronze Star Medals during his 24 years in the Army.
“I absolutely think that this administration definitely needs to be investigated,” he told CNN last week. “We can impeach the people that are part of the administration that have done so many horrific things.”
He added that Hegseth should "absolutely" be impeached.
“We are committed to a war with no exit strategy,” said Ojeda. “There needs to be accountability for this, and I think that we are going to absolutely do that as soon as we get there.”
Imagine this man questioning Hegseth about the failed Iran War during an impeachment hearing. That drunken Fox News poser will wilt under the pressure.
Please ❤️ and share if you love this incoming Democratic class!
Taxpayers have funded hundreds of millions into the data centre, now Cohere gets 1.6 billion. It is shameful that they hid from telling us about the spill. https://t.co/nf4b8Zpy19
Kherson.
Russian Telegram channels post footage of a Russian drone attacking a civilian Ukrainian woman in a civilian car. They are proud of their war crime.
Unfortunately, there is no information whether the lady survived.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has awarded the soldier who reprimanded him and members of his staff at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier a Joint Service Commendation Medal. https://t.co/GOMBw4WVSr
Ukrainian Defender Serhii from CODE 9.2 was heavily injured by a Russian FPV drone. It was impossible to evacuate him by ground because of Russian attacks and mines.
His brother-in-arms used all his strength to drag Serhii to a StarGate evacuation drone to take him to safety by air.
Serhii is now in the hospital.