What to Say, July 6, 2026

What’s Happening: Venezuela is in desperate need of help after a devastating double earthquake, with more than 3,300 reported dead so far. Meanwhile, the U.S. has taken over their oil market pocketing 8 billion in revenue and offering $300 million of it back in “aid” - far less than the $3b provided to Haiti in 2010.

What to Say: “I don’t understand what we’re doing in Venezuela. We toppled their leader, but we left the same administration in place, and the people there are just as oppressed as they were before. Now we have apparently pocketed billions of dollars in profits from selling Venezuela’s oil, but nobody knows where the money went or who is controlling it. Trump basically used the U.S. military to pull off an armed robbery and skip out with the money. That money belonged to the people of Venezuela. We took it, and now we’re giving them back a fraction of it in in earthquake aid? Isn’t America supposed to be the good guy? The least we should do is give them their own money back.”What to Do: AMPLIFY. The story of the Trump administration’s unprovoked attack on Venezuela, the failure to institute any real political change, and the $8b we have apparently stolen so far and hid somewhere, has dropped out of the news. The people of Venezuela deserve our sympathy and support at this time of crisis, but also, they should get their $8b back. Share this story every chance you get and use it to bring this travesty back into the spotlight.

What’s Happening: Trump pressured World Cup officials to overturn a penalty on a U.S. player that would have required him sitting out a game.

What to Say: “This World Cup. It’s a nice thing. Good sports. People from all over the world getting along, enjoying America. Why does Trump have to go and mess with it? Is there really not one thing in the whole world that can just happen without him having to throw his weight around and get his way? Now, the whole rest of the world is going to be pissed at us, again. I’m tired of people seeing America as the a**hole that has to get special treatment and can’t just play fair. This is embarrassing.”What to Do: NEUTRAL. It’s up to you. It’s all over the news. If people bring it up, it’s fine to point out how typical it is of Trump to need to control everything. But it’s not important. If you are initiating a story or post, spend your time talking about real priorities.

What’s Happening: Ukraine hits Russia’s machinery of war, causing a major fuel crisis in Russia. Russia bombs apartment buildings. Ukraine is unable to defend itself because of a shortage of interceptor missiles, in part due to the Iran war. Meanwhile, Ex-CIA Director John Brennan sues Trump to block the destruction of evidence in Trump’s attempt to vindictively prosecute Brennan over Russia investigation.

What to Say: “I’m really impressed with how the people of Ukraine have kept the moral high ground by only attacking the facilities that Russia uses to wage war on them, like oil refineries and military sites. Now Russia is having a fuel crisis and Ukraine is becoming a world leader in drone technology. Meanwhile, Russia is bombing apartment buildings full of civilians and kids. It’s just tragic that we can’t give the people of Ukraine the missiles they need to intercept those bombs because we wasted them all on Iran. Let’s face it. We’d be better off if we had never attacked Iran in the first place. What I can’t figure is why Trump seems so determined to side with Putin when he’s clearly so morally in the wrong. It just makes you wonder why.”What to Do: AMPLIFY. This war and the Brennan/Russia election interference case should never leave the front burner. Ukraine’s heroism and ingenuity is inspiring. Their conduct here is admirable. There should be no question that Russia and Putin are the bad guys and the losers, and we should never stop reminding people that Trump is way too cozy with them.

What’s Happening: Trump is wasting billions in public dollars, paying $129b to Duke Energy to cancel wind energy projects that we really need. Union workers are pissed that they are losing those good jobs. Meanwhile Southern Europe is evacuating due to wildfires and China is cleaning our clock in the most important industry of the future.

What to Say: “Trump ought to be creating jobs, not killing them. Why should we be giving more than $2 billion dollars of taxpayer money to energy companies to cancel wind power projects that would have created thousands of good union jobs? Besides, it’s not like we don’t need the clean energy. The weather is messed up. We had heatwaves. Now it’s wildfire time. Clean energy is the biggest economy of the future and we’re falling further behind China every day.”What to Do: AMPLIFY. Everything about this story is good for us. Trump killing good jobs and wasting our money. Losing competition with China. Heat waves and fires give us the news hook to talk about it. We can also bring up Biden’s bipartisan Infrastructure Act that would have helped us build up our clean energy industry.