🚨🇻🇪 BREAKING: This is how the streets of Caracas look during the protest against the US aggression.

🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 SEC. RUBIO TO JOURNALIST: YOU WANT US TO INVADE FIVE BASES AT ONCE? THE U.S. GOT MADURO, BE HAPPY WITH THAT Sec. Rubio just got grilled by a reporter who wanted to know one thing: if this was really about taking down a narco-terrorist regime in Venezuela, why stop with just Maduro? Why leave the rest of his crew in power, including the Defense Minister, who has deep ties to Russia and a $15M bounty on his head? Why didn’t the U.S. land in more military bases, arrest the whole network, and shut it all down? Rubio didn’t back off, he defended the limits and called the op a historic win. "It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country, kick down his door, grab him, and leave without losing any Americans. You're asking me why we didn’t do that in five other places at the same time? I mean, that’s absurd. This is one of the most daring, complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time. An indicted drug trafficker who was not the legitimate president of Venezuela was arrested, and now faces justice in the U.S. court system. The others who were also indicted are still in place." Source: @RapidResponse47 , @SecRubio

🇮🇷 FROM TEHRAN TO QOM: ANTI-REGIME PROTESTS SWEEP IRAN Even small towns and conservative provinces are rising, signaling a level of rejection the regime hasn’t faced since 1979. Security forces are stretched thin, with reports of desertions and escalating brutality to compensate. Source: @Daractenus

🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 REP. JIM JORDAN: MADURO IS A NARCO BACKED BY IRAN AND CHINA - HE WAS OPERATING A DRUG EMPIRE Maduro ran a drug empire, cozied up to Iran and China, and operated freely in the U.S.’s backyard, until Trump had him snatched and flown to a New York jail. Rep. Jim Jordan is all for it. He says this is about protecting American families from fentanyl and cartels. Jordan points to real damage in his own district and says bringing down Maduro sends a message: Trump acts, and he gets results. "I trust Trump to make decisions that are in the best interest of Americans. Trump gets results. When you have a guy who's head of a narco-terrorist operation cozying up to Iran and China in our hemisphere, bringing him to justice is a good thing. Most Americans think that’s a good thing. I know what fentanyl and other drugs have done to families in the 4th District of Ohio. Americans recognize this as decisive action that makes a difference for us and for Venezuelans." Source: @Jim_Jordan , @rapidresponse47

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🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳🇻🇪 WHY VENEZUELA MATTERS: TRUMP’S MOVE MAY HAVE SHAKEN CHINA’S GLOBAL STRATEGY Trump’s action in Venezuela is not regional politics, it directly targets China’s most critical vulnerability: energy dependence. China buys 60-90% of Venezuelan oil and 85-90% of Iranian crude, together accounting for roughly 30-35% of its total oil imports. Another 35% of China’s oil comes from Middle Eastern suppliers vulnerable to U.S. pressure, giving Washington potential influence over up to 70% of China’s energy supply. Under those conditions, Beijing’s ability to launch a high-risk operation against Taiwan becomes severely constrained. This weakens China’s military planning in the Indo-Pacific and disrupts its long-term strategy to project power beyond Asia. It also forces China to squeeze Russia harder on oil prices, increasing the economic strain on Moscow’s war effort. The U.S. gains strategic breathing room globally, strengthening its ability to meet commitments in Europe and elsewhere. Meanwhile, China suffers a major setback in Latin America, a loss of leverage abroad, and a blow to Xi’s image of control and inevitability. A post-Maduro Venezuela could open access to years’ worth of information on corruption networks, covert financing, sanctions evasion, and foreign influence operations, not just regionally, but globally. That intelligence windfall may reshape how power is understood, exercised, and constrained in the years ahead. In short, Venezuela is not a side story. It is a pressure point in a global system defined by energy, leverage, and timing. If Trump’s move achieves even part of its strategic promise, historians may one day view it not as a regional intervention, but as a pivotal moment in the great power competition of the 21st century. Source: @JMichaelWaller Media: RNA

As of today, Venezuela is facing a major geopolitical crisis: 🔹 U.S. military strikes have targeted the country. 🔹 Nicolás Maduro has been captured and removed from power according to U.S. authorities. 🔹 The Venezuelan government denounces an act of aggression and calls for resistance. 🔹 The international community is deeply divided over the legitimacy of the operation.

🚨 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 STEALTH MODE: ULTRA-RARE RQ-170 DRONE SPOTTED AFTER VENEZUELA STRIKES The U.S. RQ-170 “Sentinel,” one of America’s most secretive stealth drones, was caught on camera returning to Puerto Rico this morning. According to reports, it had just finished supporting precision U.S. strikes in Venezuela following Maduro’s capture. This drone is so classified it's nicknamed the “Beast of Kandahar,” and it never shows up unless something major is going down. So the U.S. doesn't send the RQ-170 for show, but sends it when you need surgical surveillance over hostile territory with zero footprint. Its presence confirms what many suspected: this was a tightly coordinated op with full-spectrum visibility and elite-level execution. And now the whole world knows: The U.S. was watching the whole time. Source: Osinttechnical

🚨🇨🇳🇹🇼 CHINA LAUNCHES SNAP MILITARY DRILLS SIMULATING TAIWAN BLOCKADE... A 100-TON TAIWANESE PATROL BOAT IS SHADOWING THEM ANYWAY David vs. Goliath in the Taiwan Strait. Footage shows a tiny 100-ton Taiwanese Coast Guard patrol boat shadowing a massive Chinese Coast Guard ship during ongoing PLA exercises simulating a blockade of Taiwan. China launched "Justice Mission 2025" on Monday, its first major military exercises around Taiwan since April. Seven exclusion zones will be sealed off for live-fire drills Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Meng Xiangqing, China's National Defense University: "Our vessels and aircraft have been forming a new posture of pressing the island by getting closer and closer. The rope is being pulled tighter and tighter." Taiwan has detected 14 Chinese Navy vessels, 14 coast guard ships, and an amphibious assault group in the Western Pacific. Dozens of aircraft. Destroyers, fighter bombers, drones conducting "search-and-destroy operations." The timing: Days after Trump announced an $11 billion arms package to Taiwan including HIMARS rocket systems. Airlines cancelled flights to Taiwan's outlying islands. Some analysts say the exclusion zones could effectively block north-south passage through the strait. But a Pentagon report last week said China's leaders still aren't confident they can take Taiwan by force. That tiny patrol boat knows it. Source: NYT

🚨🇺🇸 OPINION: THE GOVERNMENT MADE STEALING SO EASY, A RECIEPT WOULD STOP BILLIONS IN FRAUD There's a moment in every failing system when someone finally says the quiet part out loud. This time, it was Elon: "Even requiring a tiny amount of work for fraudulent payments would have a massive positive effect. That's how insanely awful the level of fraud actually is." Let that sink in... We've built a public spending apparatus so porous that the mere act of asking for a receipt might save billions. Across the country, taxpayer dollars flow through programs that require less verification than ordering a pizza. Ghost daycares collect checks for children who don't exist, shell nonprofits invoice for services never rendered, and welfare fraud rings operate with industrial efficiency while bureaucrats shrug and process the next payment. The response to DOGE's suggestion: require a receipt, a photo, literally any documentation before releasing funds, reveals how normalized this has become. We're not talking about sophisticated fraud requiring forensic accountants to uncover, we're talking about schemes that would collapse if someone simply asked "Can you prove this is real?" When asking for basic documentation is treated as revolutionary rather than obvious, something has gone catastrophically wrong. Consider what we require of ordinary citizens: file your taxes perfectly or face penalties, document every deduction, save every receipt, prove every claim. Meanwhile, government programs hand out public money with less scrutiny than a vending machine… the asymmetry is insulting. Some will argue that adding verification requirements creates barriers for legitimate recipients, but this is where good-faith policy debates belong. There’s a difference between streamlining access and eliminating all safeguards, as we've sailed past efficiency straight into negligence. The fraud isn't even sophisticated, which is the most damning part, as these schemes survive not because they're clever, but because nobody's checking. Elon’s observation cuts through years of bureaucratic excuse-making. The current system insults both taxpayers funding it and legitimate recipients whose programs get undermined by unchecked abuse. If asking for a photo is too much friction, we're not serious about governing, we're just pretending while the treasury bleeds out. Source: elonmusk, DOGE

🇺🇸 TRUMP GOT CHECKED BY THE BOND MARKET - AND HE REMEMBERS April 2, 2025: Trump drops massive tariffs. The $30 trillion bond market revolts. Yields spike harder than any week since 2001. Stocks crash, dollar tanks, and suddenly the "Liberation Day" tariffs get delayed and downsized. Trump called the bond market "beautiful" once it calmed down. Translation: he blinked. Since then, Treasury Secretary Bessent - a hedge fund guy who knows exactly what he's dealing with - has been running a careful con to keep bond vigilantes quiet. Buyback programs tilted toward long-term debt. Leaning heavy on short-term T-bills. Even consulting investors on Fed chair picks (they vetoed Kevin Hassett for being too Trump-loyal). It's working. Yields are down 30+ basis points, volatility's at four-year lows. But the term premium - the extra yield investors demand for risk - just started creeping back up. The deficit's still 6% of GDP. And here's the kicker: Trump's own economic advisor Stephen Miran torched Biden last year for the exact T-bill strategy Bessent's using now, warning it piles up debt that could explode if rates spike. So Trump's using a plan his own guy called reckless, to keep bond traders from nuking his presidency. The bond market beat him once. It'll do it again if the numbers don't add up - and they don't. Source: Reuters

🚨🇺🇸 ILHAN OMAR FACES INVESTIGATION AS NET WORTH EXPLODED 3,500% WHILE MINNESOTA DROWNED IN FRAUD From under $1 million to $30 million in one year. Nothing to see here. The National Legal and Policy Center has launched an investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar's finances as her home state of Minnesota grapples with up to $9 billion in fraud. Omar's net worth mysteriously surged roughly 3,500% between 2023 and 2024, according to her financial disclosures. The gains came largely from her husband Tim Mynett's businesses, including a California winery that previously faced fraud allegations and his venture capital firm Rose Lake Capital. Rose Lake jumped from nearly zero to between $5 million and $25 million in just one year. The firm's website bragged about officers managing $60 billion in "previous" assets. Recently, all nine officers' names and bios were scrubbed from LinkedIn. Why? Omar blamed the fraud crisis on COVID programs lacking "guardrails." Rep. Brian Babin: "On Walz's watch, Minnesota became a fraud factory, aided and defended by allies like Ilhan Omar. Investigate everything. Prosecute everyone involved." Source: NY Post