Wednesday, January 7, 2026
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.
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
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Saturday, January 3, 2026
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.
Science vs Engineering Torah Scholarship Seems closer to Engineering
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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.
Friday, January 2, 2026
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.