J Grant Burns
@jgbfree.bsky.social
Traveler, BrightBlueDot in HSV yes Alabama -💙Horticulturist, Naturalist, Birder, retired Physics & Bio Educator in a family of legal minds. 🏳️🌈💙🇺🇸
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J Grant Burns
@jgbfree.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hi Friends! Sliding into BlueSky from Threads. Left X at X. Building a purple community in Huntsville Al.
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How does an entire administration not understand this basic reality? Venezuelan oil is not profitable.
Heavy crude takes years to extract profitably. It requires massive upfront investment, specialized infrastructure, refineries configured for heavy oil, long timelines, and political stability.
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Heavy crude takes years to extract profitably. It requires massive upfront investment, specialized infrastructure, refineries configured for heavy oil, long timelines, and political stability.
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January 4, 2026 at 10:23 PM
How does an entire administration not understand this basic reality? Venezuelan oil is not profitable.
Heavy crude takes years to extract profitably. It requires massive upfront investment, specialized infrastructure, refineries configured for heavy oil, long timelines, and political stability.
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Heavy crude takes years to extract profitably. It requires massive upfront investment, specialized infrastructure, refineries configured for heavy oil, long timelines, and political stability.
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TRUMP: Colombia is very sick too. Run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the US, and he's not gonna be doing it very long
Q: So there's will be an operation by the US in Colombia?
TRUMP: Sounds good to me
Q: So there's will be an operation by the US in Colombia?
TRUMP: Sounds good to me
January 5, 2026 at 1:00 AM
TRUMP: Colombia is very sick too. Run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the US, and he's not gonna be doing it very long
Q: So there's will be an operation by the US in Colombia?
TRUMP: Sounds good to me
Q: So there's will be an operation by the US in Colombia?
TRUMP: Sounds good to me
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The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.
January 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.
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For those not on X, I think you can read the thread via the link I provided. It’s why I provided the link. Am I wrong?
Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute (CCI) has been eyeing Venezuela since 2019, has received $$$ from Emergent Ventures (backed by Thiel), & calls Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale a “supporter”. Lutter & I just had an interesting exchange. See posts 40-43…1/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/20074...
January 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
For those not on X, I think you can read the thread via the link I provided. It’s why I provided the link. Am I wrong?
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Whoa!
🚨 BREAKING: The Atlantic is reporting that Trump just threatened the VP of Venezuela.
TRUMP: “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she’s going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”
So if she doesn’t go along with the get-along and give the US their oil, he’s coming for her too.
🚨 BREAKING: The Atlantic is reporting that Trump just threatened the VP of Venezuela.
TRUMP: “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she’s going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”
So if she doesn’t go along with the get-along and give the US their oil, he’s coming for her too.
January 4, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Whoa!
🚨 BREAKING: The Atlantic is reporting that Trump just threatened the VP of Venezuela.
TRUMP: “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she’s going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”
So if she doesn’t go along with the get-along and give the US their oil, he’s coming for her too.
🚨 BREAKING: The Atlantic is reporting that Trump just threatened the VP of Venezuela.
TRUMP: “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she’s going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”
So if she doesn’t go along with the get-along and give the US their oil, he’s coming for her too.
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Let’s be clear: the Trump Admin is lying to the American people. This has never been about stopping drugs from coming to the US — it’s about grabbing Venezuela’s oil for his billionaire buddies. Trump has put American troops in harm’s way to boost oil company profits. Outrageous.
January 4, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Let’s be clear: the Trump Admin is lying to the American people. This has never been about stopping drugs from coming to the US — it’s about grabbing Venezuela’s oil for his billionaire buddies. Trump has put American troops in harm’s way to boost oil company profits. Outrageous.
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This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files.
#ImpeachAndConvict47NOW
#ImpeachAndConvict47NOW
January 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files.
#ImpeachAndConvict47NOW
#ImpeachAndConvict47NOW
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The Hubble Space Telescope spotted evidence of a collision of asteroid-sized bodies. The smashup gives clues to planet formation. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hubble-telescope-exoplanet-mystery
New Hubble images may solve the case of a disappearing exoplanet
A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of planetary construction.
www.sciencenews.org
January 4, 2026 at 9:05 PM
The Hubble Space Telescope spotted evidence of a collision of asteroid-sized bodies. The smashup gives clues to planet formation. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hubble-telescope-exoplanet-mystery
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PRESIDENT OF CUBA 🇨🇺: “An act of state terrorism… the object of imperialist desire is Venezuelan oil… down with imperialism!”
PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA 🇨🇴: “To keep the Epstein list from coming out (Trump) kills fishermen… this invasion is about oil, driven by greed & violence.”
PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA 🇨🇴: “To keep the Epstein list from coming out (Trump) kills fishermen… this invasion is about oil, driven by greed & violence.”
January 4, 2026 at 1:58 PM
PRESIDENT OF CUBA 🇨🇺: “An act of state terrorism… the object of imperialist desire is Venezuelan oil… down with imperialism!”
PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA 🇨🇴: “To keep the Epstein list from coming out (Trump) kills fishermen… this invasion is about oil, driven by greed & violence.”
PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA 🇨🇴: “To keep the Epstein list from coming out (Trump) kills fishermen… this invasion is about oil, driven by greed & violence.”
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Trump is the first US president to bomb 7 countries in one year.
Based on verified reports from Al Jazeera, Fox News, Washington Examiner, and CBC, the seven countries targeted by US strikes under Trump in 2025 are: Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Nigeria, and Venezuela.
Based on verified reports from Al Jazeera, Fox News, Washington Examiner, and CBC, the seven countries targeted by US strikes under Trump in 2025 are: Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Nigeria, and Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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The real Wagner group has been in Venezuela since 2019, so likely they set this whole coup in motion and let Dump step in and look like it was a slam dunk. Either way, all roads lead to Putin. Keep laser focused on that wretched goblin. He's driving this. He's also likely in the new #Epstein files.
Russian mercenaries reportedly in Venezuela to protect Maduro
Contractors linked to the Wagner group, which has carried out missions in Ukraine and Syria, reportedly travelled to Venezuela
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
The real Wagner group has been in Venezuela since 2019, so likely they set this whole coup in motion and let Dump step in and look like it was a slam dunk. Either way, all roads lead to Putin. Keep laser focused on that wretched goblin. He's driving this. He's also likely in the new #Epstein files.
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January 3, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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Dog ain’t gonna wag itself.
January 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Dog ain’t gonna wag itself.
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Jack Smith is a man of honor and moral conviction. He is the kind of person we as a nation must become like once more.
January 3, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Jack Smith is a man of honor and moral conviction. He is the kind of person we as a nation must become like once more.
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“It only took three days for these toxic goons to ruin the new year. Yes, there is no bottom.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-a...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-a...
Snapshot: A Deeply Appalling Press Conference
It's worse than I thought. Trump plans to "run" Venezuela and does not pretend he cares about anything beyond taking the oil.
www.americaamerica.news
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
“It only took three days for these toxic goons to ruin the new year. Yes, there is no bottom.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-a...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-a...
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Ok let’s keep playing this.
Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”
January 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Ok let’s keep playing this.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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UPDATE: *peace president* Trump bombs Venezuela… (after pardoning an ex president of Honduras for drug trafficking)
This is about oil (+ distracting from Epstein), not drugs.
“international condemnation followed US military strikes on Venezuela”: www.trtworld.com/article/ab57...
This is about oil (+ distracting from Epstein), not drugs.
“international condemnation followed US military strikes on Venezuela”: www.trtworld.com/article/ab57...
January 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
UPDATE: *peace president* Trump bombs Venezuela… (after pardoning an ex president of Honduras for drug trafficking)
This is about oil (+ distracting from Epstein), not drugs.
“international condemnation followed US military strikes on Venezuela”: www.trtworld.com/article/ab57...
This is about oil (+ distracting from Epstein), not drugs.
“international condemnation followed US military strikes on Venezuela”: www.trtworld.com/article/ab57...
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While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM
While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.
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How long until Maduro is pardoned in exchange for American companies' access to Venezuelan oil fields?
A reminder: just weeks ago, Trump pardoned a former Honduran president who was convicted in the U.S. of drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
A reminder: just weeks ago, Trump pardoned a former Honduran president who was convicted in the U.S. of drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
January 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM
How long until Maduro is pardoned in exchange for American companies' access to Venezuelan oil fields?
A reminder: just weeks ago, Trump pardoned a former Honduran president who was convicted in the U.S. of drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
A reminder: just weeks ago, Trump pardoned a former Honduran president who was convicted in the U.S. of drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Reup: Trump's Selective Drug Enforcement in Latin America
One nifty thing abt Maduro's known 2020 indictment is it cited trafficking drugs THROUGH Honduras, whence Juan Orlando Hernández was just pardoned so he could help Peter Thiel destroy government.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/03/t...
One nifty thing abt Maduro's known 2020 indictment is it cited trafficking drugs THROUGH Honduras, whence Juan Orlando Hernández was just pardoned so he could help Peter Thiel destroy government.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/03/t...
Trump's Selective Drug Enforcement in Latin America - emptywheel
Given his pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, Trump's kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro cannot be regarded as a legitimate fight against drug trafficking. Rather, it's about getting a piece of the action.
www.emptywheel.net
January 3, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Reup: Trump's Selective Drug Enforcement in Latin America
One nifty thing abt Maduro's known 2020 indictment is it cited trafficking drugs THROUGH Honduras, whence Juan Orlando Hernández was just pardoned so he could help Peter Thiel destroy government.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/03/t...
One nifty thing abt Maduro's known 2020 indictment is it cited trafficking drugs THROUGH Honduras, whence Juan Orlando Hernández was just pardoned so he could help Peter Thiel destroy government.
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/03/t...
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"Lil' Marco" calling Trump a CON ARTIST in 2016
April 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Lil' Marco" calling Trump a CON ARTIST in 2016
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Mike Lee - ANOTHER COUP RINGLEADER never held accountable. Now starting war. No excuse
4-19-22: Maddow: 'Behind the scenes, Sen. Mike Lee was vocally advocating John Eastman’s #Jan6 plan, as far back as Dec 8th. But he told Woodward & Costa he didn’t learn about it until Jan 2nd
January 3, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Mike Lee - ANOTHER COUP RINGLEADER never held accountable. Now starting war. No excuse
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I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
January 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
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Dropping Epstein info on Christmas Eve. Dropping Jack Smith’s testimony on New Year’s Eve. Republicans are bad faith actors and don’t even care.
January 1, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Dropping Epstein info on Christmas Eve. Dropping Jack Smith’s testimony on New Year’s Eve. Republicans are bad faith actors and don’t even care.