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Venezuelan opposition leader Machado meets Trump at White House, gifts him her Nobel Peace Prize medal: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/venezuelan-opposition-leader-machado-meets.html

With a historic supermajority now secured, the Japanese
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) under Sanae Takaichi stands at its strongest position in decades.
The collapse of the Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA) in the same election has left Japan’s political landscape without its most prominent counterweight.
The question now is simple: what is left of Japan’s opposition?
Running under the slogan “Citizens First,” the CRA tried to appeal to voters with middle-ground messagi…

[Insider] Where Will Japan’s Bruised Opposition Go After Takaichi’s Big Win? - Unseen Japan
PM Takaichi secured a supermajority in the Lower House election as the opposition fractured. What comes next for Japan’s politics?

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Trump accepts Nobel Peace Prize medal from Venezuelan opposition leader Machado (Jon Haworth/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-meet-venezuelan-opposition-leader-mara-corina-machado/story?id=129234741
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p151#a260115p151

AOC’s reframing here cuts to the heart of it:
A politics that blames the most vulnerable people in society for society’s problems is diametrically opposed to a politics that blames the most powerful. Lumping these opposites together as both being “populism” is nonsense.
It is important, she says, to provide an explanation of the •causes• of society’s problems — both why and who — or the worst people will fill that explanatory vacuum.

'Mass obstruction' — Draft officers injured in Odesa following confrontation with 'civilian group': https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/16/mass-obstruction-draft-officers-injured.html

Democrats that are very ineffective and weak in their opposition to Trump, telling he will be gone in three years, not exactly credible..
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Democrats seek to reassure Europe about post-Trump America
Opposition politicians flocked to a summit in Munich to offer an alternative to America First - and stake a claim as future party leaders.

Thune guarantees voter ID bill to hit the Senate despite Schumer, Dem opposition: 'We will have a vote' (Alex Miller/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/thune-guarantees-voter-id-bill-hit-senate-despite-schumer-dems-opposition-we-have-vote
http://www.memeorandum.com/260217/p2#a260217p2

A federal officer has shot a second person in Minneapolis,
just days after Trump immigration hawk Stephen Miller told ICE agents that they have
“federal immunity” to act as they like
— and that anyone obstructing them will face prosecution from the federal government.
In a Fox News segment shared by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on X,
Miller falsely said that it was a “felony” to obstruct or even so much as touch an Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

Fed Agent Shoots Second Person, Days After Miller Claims Agents Have “Immunity”
Miller lied to ICE agents, saying, “Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you … is committing a felony.”…

BREAKING: Russia killed opposition leader Navalny with dart frog poison, UK official says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/14/breaking-russia-killed-opposition-leader.html