Trump’s credibility problem on Venezuela

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/07/politics/trump-venezuela-justifications-credibility

In the run-up to ousting him, Trump and his administration repeatedly cast Maduro as the head of a drug-trafficking organization called Cartel de los Soles, or Cartel of the Suns.

The first Trump administration did so in its initial indictment of Maduro in 2020, and then again last year when the Treasury and State departments designated this supposed cartel as a terrorist organization. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have also cast Maduro as the head of this cartel in recent days.

“They’re designating a non-thing that is not a terror organization as a terrorist organization,” former State Department lawyer Brian Finucane told CNN in November.

Similarly, Trump and his administration have in recent weeks set about accusing the Venezuelan government of stealing oil that the United States had a right to.

But the issue is a lot more complicated than that, as CNN’s David Goldman reported this week. And the indictment makes no mention of oil, much less Maduro’s or anyone else’s role in such purported theft.

Donald Trump is ADDICTED to power; planning, not so much

Trump escalates aggressive posture on Greenland

https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5676130-potential-greenland-seizure-trump/

The Trump administration is stepping up its rhetoric about potentially seizing Greenland following the U.S. military action in Venezuela and capture of the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.

President Trump has openly shared his desire for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, a semiautonomous territory from Denmark, throughout his second term. He’s argued it’s necessary for protecting national security

Trump drops DERANGED news on INVADING Greenland

US Job Market Weakens as Unemployment Reaches Four-Year High

Trump Addresses Nation on Venezuela Regime Change Operation

‘It’s rough out there’: Enten runs numbers on US job market

Trump says US will run Venezuela following Maduro's capture

 https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/venezuela-explosions-caracas-intl-hnk-01-03-26

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the US is “going to run” Venezuela in the immediate aftermath of the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” he said during a press conference from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. “We don’t want to be involved with having someone else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years. So we are going to run the country.”

Trump did not offer a timeline for how long he anticipated such a transition of power would take.

Maddow’s instant reaction to Trump 'capturing' Maduro

Science vs Engineering Torah Scholarship Seems closer to Engineering

 Hi – I'm reading "The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans" by Bill Hammack Ph.D. and wanted to share this quote with you.

"Put another way, the two methods have different goals: the scientific method wants to reveal truths about the universe, while the engineering method seeks solutions to real-world problems. The scientific method has a prescribed process that we all learn in school—state a question, observe, state a hypothesis, test, analyze, and interpret—but it doesn’t know what will be discovered, what truth revealed. In contrast, the engineering method aims for a specific goal—an airplane, a computer, a cathedral—but it has no prescribed process. The engineering method cannot be reduced to a set of fixed steps that must be followed, because its power lies exactly in the fact that there is no “must.” The specialized skill of an engineer is to find the correct strategy to reach a goal, to select among, combine, and create the many rules of thumb that will lead to a solution. Most often a rule of thumb results in a numerical estimate of some quantity, but it also guides an approach to problem-solving. A common one that illustrates the flavor of this class of rule is “break complex problems into smaller, more manageable pieces.” Thus, the engineering method is best described as an attitude or approach or even a philosophy of creating a solution to a problem."

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Israel Spiritual life outside

Rav Tzadok (Vayechi 47:28) Yakov lived in Egypt for 17 years, It says in the Zohar  that these 17 years  were the main ones of his life.He did not suffer and was not bothered by the yetzer harah.and it was like Olam HaBah.  

Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born. The data doesn’t show it.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/02/trump-americans-jobs-immigrants-labor/

President Donald Trump and White House leaders say that American workers are winning because of his immigration crackdown. But the data doesn’t back that up.

Since the summer, Trump officials have been trumpeting the idea that job creation is booming for U.S.-born workers. Trump said so, too, during a prime-time address last month aimed at assuaging Americans’ concerns about the economy.

In fact, data shows that U.S.-born workers are doing moderately worse under Trump than they were under President Joe Biden because the labor market has weakened — partly due to a sharp slowdown in immigration.

“The unemployment rate has been rising for both native-born and foreign-born adults,” said Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former Commerce Department economist.

Joe Rogan Trashes Trump Admin Deporting Long-Term US Residents

 https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-trashes-trump-admin-deporting-long-term-us-residents-11296338

Podcaster Joe Rogan criticized the Trump administration's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement operations during an episode of his show, pointing to what he described as a focus on quotas rather than targeting serious criminals.

Rogan, who endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, interviewed the GOP leader on his podcast and attended his inauguration. Trump campaigned on a tougher immigration platform, promising to deliver what he called the largest mass deportation in American history.

 "Think what's going on with ICE is one of the things that's going on with quotas for speeding tickets and things along those lines, is that they have numbers that they want to achieve," Rogan said on a podcast episode with Josh Dubin, a civil rights attorney, shared on December 30 . "They've openly talked about this—they want to remove a certain amount of people per week. And when they do that, I think everything's on the table."

"Then they start showing up at Home Depot instead of like looking for gangbangers and looking for criminals and cartel members. They go to whatever's easiest pickings so they can get numbers up," he said.

‘Locked and loaded’: Trump and Iranian officials exchange threats over protests

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/locked-and-loaded-trump-and-iranian-officials-exchange-threats-over-protests/

US President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged dueling threats Friday as widening economic protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after America joined Israel in bombing Iranian nuclear sites in June.

Trump initially wrote on his Truth Social platform, warning Iran that if it “violently kills peaceful protesters,” the United States “will come to their rescue.” At least seven people have been killed so far in violence surrounding the demonstrations, sparked in part by the collapse of Iran’s rial currency.