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Friday, January 09, 2026

The Senate dealt a rare rebuke to President Donald Trump in a Thursday vote to advance legislation opposing further military action in Venezuela, demonstrating formidable political opposition to a foreign intervention that has yet to cost the life of a single US service member.

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Welcome to the resistence: Senate passes bill to block further military action in Venezuela www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec ...

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-- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) Jan 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM

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If Congress doesn't assert its powers now, it will never get to assert them again.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-09 09:31 AM | Reply

WE REBUKE THEE!

That will show him.

#2 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-01-09 09:52 AM | Reply

That will show him.

#2 | Posted by sitzkrieg a

Impossible to make points with a rabid dog, true.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-09 09:57 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

WE REBUKE THEE!
That will show him.
Posted by sitzkrieg

Well, at least that's up slightly from a strongly worded letter.

#4 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2026-01-09 10:04 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

What will stop him is the vote to flip the Senate in November. While democracy still has a sliver of a chance to survive this nightmare.

#5 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-01-09 07:31 PM | Reply

The next step, and undoubtedly the most urgent because it involves the northern passage of Russin war ships as they steam toward Western European countries, is to block Trump's military advancement on Greenland.

I hope nobody believes the malarky about national security coming out of Trump 's yapper.

This is all about helping Russia's advancement.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-01-10 06:17 AM | Reply

Anybody who can't see this assistance to Russia coming has their bifocals on upside down.

#7 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-01-10 10:59 AM | Reply

WE REBUKE THEE!
That will show him.
Posted by sitzkrieg

Well, at least that's up slightly from a strongly worded letter.

#4 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday

Almost causing Susan Collins' "Concern-O-Meter" to rise to the middling "HMMMM" level.

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#8 | Posted by americanunity at 2026-01-10 12:05 PM | Reply

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