Will Russia Defend Venezuelan Oil Tanker from US Military? - the Wednesday AM Quickie 12/31/25

By Corey Pein — Dec 31, 2025

Happy New Year, readers! I don't say it enough, but thanks so much for your support. My resolution is to help people understand that we have entered the beginning of the end of the Trump era, thank god, and that the post-Trump era beckons on the horizon. It's a good thing, probably. - Corey

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Venezuelan Oil Tanker Fleeing US Military Claims Russian Protection Meanwhile, members of Venezuela's Wayuu indigenous community say a CIA strike on a supposed narcotics trafficking facility destroyed a storage hut and the equipment they use for fishing to feed themselves. via the New York Times, NBC News, and the Associated Press.
Israel Bans More Than Two Dozen Gaza Aid Groups The foreign ministers of Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland protested the decision, noting that "1.3 million people still require urgent shelter support." via the Guardian, the AP, and the New York Times.
Documents Prove Trump's Justice Department Pursued Vindictive Prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia After His Wrongful Deportation Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement made clear the only thing keeping them from again detaining the Maryland man is a judge's order barring them from doing so. via the New York Times, NBC News, and the AP.
Iowa Democrat Who Campaigned on Working-Class Affordability Wins State Senate Seat and Denies GOP Supermajority Renee Hardman, a West Des Moines council member and president and nonprofit executive, won nearly 72 percent of the vote in Tuesday's special election. via the AP, the Des Moines Register, and Iowa Capital Dispatch.

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$185 million

That's how much annual child care funding the state of Minnesota will lose under a freeze announced yesterday by the Trump regime's Department of Health and Human Services, according to the New York Times. The regime claims to have uncovered rampant social serices fraud under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, but most of the unproven allegations stem from a far-right influencer named Nick Shirley who cast suspicion on the state's Somali-Americans.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

12/31: Today's Best of 2025 interview features Kellie Carter Jackson, associate professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College and author of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.

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PARTING WORDS

"I would never have signed a contract if I'd known what it's like out there. Our television is lying to us."

-- Fyodor, a young Russian soldier from Siberia who had his lower leg blown off by a land mine in Ukraine, speaking to the Washington Post about the grim reality of the war, which remains invisible to most Russians after nearly four years. Russia yesterday moved a new nuclear missile system to its ally, Belarus, one day after alleging a Ukrainian drone attack on one of Aspiring Tsar Vladimir Putin's residences. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the US agrees that the claimed attack on Putin is a "complete fabrication" by Russia.

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