“AEM, the essential source for environmental insights, today released its 2025 US Lightning Report, revealing that Oklahoma has dethroned Florida to become the nation’s lightning concentration capital. With approximately 73 flashes per square mile, Oklahoma displaced the state that has traditionally dominated this ranking, signaling a broader surge in lightning activity across the Great Plains. Overall, AEM’s Earth Networks Total Lightning Network® detected nearly 430 million lightning pulses within 88.4 million lightning flashes across the US in 2025, a 9.8 percent increase from the prior year,” says AEM in a press release on Florida getting zapped from the top spot.

“While Oklahoma led in lightning concentration, Texas dominated in sheer volume and storm intensity. The state recorded more than 13 million lightning flashes, exceeding its historical average by 1.3 million. As an additional indicator of storm severity derived from lightning behavior, Texas also registered the highest number of Dangerous Thunderstorm Alerts (DTAs), a proprietary AEM metric that flags periods of exceptionally intense lightning rates associated with severe storms and provides an early signal of rapidly intensifying thunderstorm activity. Overall, the Great Plains accounted for roughly half of the top 10 states with the most intense lightning storms, underscoring the region’s reputation as a severe weather hotspot,” the fucking electrifying statement continued.

Asked by CNN’s Manu Raju if he’s okay with convicted felon President Trump now claiming the United States runs Venezuela, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said “Well, we’re gonna try and get more information about that,” adding his team will be briefed on the matter this week.

Asked again what he thought Trump meant, Thune said simply he’s “hoping to find out more.”

Venezuela Fury, 16, daughter of famous UK Traveler boxer Tyson Fury, told fans during an Instagram live AMA on Sunday that she expects her wedding with her boyfriend, 17 year-old Noah Price, also a boxer and a Traveler, to be in May or June, People Magazine reports on the latest Venezuela news.

“I’m trying to get everything booked for may/june time but I’m not sure when it will be,” said Venezuela, whose dad Tyson 37, got married to her mom, Paris, 35, in 2008. They have seven children together and it’s not clear if Venezuela is the oldest but holy shit these people are weird.

NO ROOM AT THE INN!@HiltonHotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement.

When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their reservations.

This is… pic.twitter.com/qKMKypGtzi

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 5, 2026

Senior Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is “seriously” considering running for governor of her state following incumbent Tim Walz’s decision to drop his bid for a third term, Axios reports.

Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday pleaded not guilty to the multicount federal indictment charging him with aggravated Venezuelanism, conspiracy to commit Venezuelanism, Venezuelaing in a restricted area, and Venezuelation of justice, all serious federal offenses, CNN reports and they probably have the real charges against Maduro in their article on the proceedings in New York. It was about drug trafficking or Tren de Aragua something.

BREAKING UPDATE: Sources indicate this video feed is of the real United Nations in New York City, modeling what an actually effective supranational organization would do if its resolutions and condemnations had any real consequences to enforce the international order.

“Over twenty-five years in the US Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that. My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head – all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of service members have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve,” says Arizona Dem Senator Mark Kelly in a statement responding to binge-drinking date rapist Secretary of “War” Pete Hegseth’s stupid demotion order.

“Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired service member that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that. If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got – not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government,” Kelly continued ripping the fallback option that came probably after Pentagon lawyers advised Pete that they had no chance of convicting Kelly in a case the Suckretary had already wrecked even if the charges were actually real.

Among the eight – or maybe 15, depending on the source – Republican candidates running in the not-yet-scheduled Georgia 14th Congressional District GOP primary to replace now-former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is creepy incel state Senator Colton Moore, famous for living in his mom’s basement and getting the shit kicked out of him by state police last year for attempting to disrupt Governor Brian Kemp’s State of the State address, Atlanta News First reports.

Moore, who in 2023 was expelled from the state Senate’s GOP conference thus making him technically an “independent” as far as legislative order is concerned, touts himself as “A Fearless Fighter for Northwest Georgia. A Proven Warrior for President Trump,” on his campaign website and you know he originally had those sentences reversed until some consultant strongly advised him to put the part about the district first. The “About” page is long on shit like “In 2024, I exposed a secret room at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport packed with illegal aliens, guarded by US military personnel,” and “I serve as President Trump’s floor leader in the Georgia Senate. I’ve battled bloated budgets that pile on debt… and took on Big Pharma to make ivermectin accessible. I even exposed state funds possibly propping up illegal immigration schemes at places like the Hyundai plant” and short on “I enjoy spending weekends with my lovely wife Sarah and our sons, Jefferson and Davis.”

This is because, as mentioned, Moore’s an incel who hasn’t yet found a woman willing to date him, let alone marry him and bear his two sons that he definitely would name Jefferson and Davis.

Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly — and five other members of Congress — released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline. As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he…

— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) January 5, 2026

“Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly’s seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E Kelly, USN (Ret). The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 USC § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay.”

“To ensure this action, the Secretary of War has also issued a formal Letter of Censure, which outlines the totality of Captain (for now) Kelly’s reckless misconduct. This Censure is a necessary process step, and will be placed in Captain Kelly’s official and permanent military personnel file,” and blah blah blah Secretary Drunken Date Rape continued announcing his chickenshit off-ramp.

“We have taken in, and will soon be receiving, more than 600 Billion Dollars in Tariffs, but the Fake News Media refuses to talk about it because they hate and disrespect our Country, and want to interfere with the upcoming Tariff decision, one of the most important ever, of the United States Supreme Court. Because of Tariffs, our Country is financially, AND FROM A NATIONAL SECURITY STANDPOINT, FAR STRONGER AND MORE RESPECTED THAN EVER BEFORE,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Monday, set off by God knows what the “Fake News Media” actually said that set him off, but hopefully it was some segment in which the $600 billion was correctly described as the revenue from a tax unlawfully imposed upon American consumers by fiat.

The MAGA propaganda-industrial complex on Monday got the scalp they sought with their Somalian fraud circlejerk as Dem Minnesota Gov Tim Walz announced he’s dropping his bid for a third term.

“I came to the conclusion that I can’t give a political campaign my all. Every minute I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who prey on our differences,” said Walz, per the Huffington Post’s Igor Bobic. Walz’s most recent approval rating was dead even at 48 to 48 approve/disapprove in a SurveyUSA test last month which is not even close to the danger zone, especially if “former” crackhead Mike Lindell wins the GOP nomination.

Seems like Tim’s simply tired of this shit and wants to put in a good final year.

Fox and Friends viewers on Monday got treated to a little behind-the-scenes look at how the FBI’s media team operates when the feed picked up one of K$H’s minions audibly yelling at another over the very appearance-conscious FBI director’s lighting on camera during his otherwise pointless hit.

At least 32 Cuban military officers were killed in the Saturday US raid on Caracas that ended in the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, the AP reports citing a statement from Havana.

“Faithful to their responsibilities for security and defense, our compatriots fulfilled their duty with dignity and heroism and fell after fierce resistance in direct combat against the attackers or as a result of the bombings of the facilities,” the commie regime said in their announcement.

🚨 BREAKING: Man in custody after windows broken at Vice President JD Vance's unoccupied Cincinnati home, Secret Service says pic.twitter.com/hj5RtOSTsM

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 5, 2026

“The obvious question is how seriously to take all this talk. The received wisdom during the bluster of Trump 1.0 was to take the president seriously, but not literally – but things have changed somewhat this past year. The bombing strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in the summer followed by the audacious capture of Maduro on Saturday has confirmed Trump as the most aggressively interventionist US president since George W Bush. And in case you hadn’t noticed, he appears unencumbered by legal and diplomatic norms,” writes Politico Playbook in the Monday morning edition of their all-too-often downright insufferable round-up. They wanted Trump back, they got him, now they can dust off that trusty bromide to make it look like they’re better at scrutinizing a madman’s ravings than you are. “OOOOH LOOK AT HOW PLUGGED IN WE R, U PLEBETARDS.”

You will not be surprised to learn that White House sources tell the Washington Post that convicted felon President Trump over the weekend publicly declined to back Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s nascent bid to hold and run in a new US-backed election in her home country because she did not give her Nobel Peace Prize to him following her win in early October.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” said a person “close to the White House” on Machado’s “ultimate sin.”

In secret meetings in freaking Qatar prior to Saturday’s swift US military raid on Caracas, convicted felon President Trump’s minions worked out a deal with Venezuelan officials disloyal to now-ex-dictator Nicolas Maduro – officials including then-VP Delcy Rodriguez and her brother Jorge – to allow the raid to happen and for the more pliant Rodriguez to take over, the Telegraph reports.

So yeah. All of Delcy’s shittalk is just kayfabe and this is why Trump was uninterested in helping Maria Corina Machado take over. Delcy’s just going to kiss Donald’s ass and do whatever he wants.