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Hot takes happy hour 🍸 with Dany and Elise

Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, Minnesota, and more
"Thanks to everyone for joining us for our first Hot Takes Happy Hour of the new year. We are grateful for our HTHH community. If you missed us live, here is the recording. Look forward to more in 2026, including breaking news conversations and deep dives on hot button issues. And cocktails! Send us your thoughts, suggestions and topics you would like to see covered. And see you next week!"

It’s January 9, people. But it feels like it has been 2026 for months already.

Maduro is in jail.

The Iranian people are in the streets.

Greenland still belongs to Denmark.

And those are all good things. What’s going down in Minnesota was less good, from almost any perspective. No one should celebrate a loss of life… and we were able to agree on that as well.

Thanks for joining us. All of the shownotes are below. Take care…

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SHOWNOTES

Check out Elise’s interviews with Elliott Abrams and Ivo Daalder on the COSMOPOLITICS site

Check out Dany’s piece on Venezuela on the What the Hell site

Check out Dany’s latest piece (this morning) on Iran here.

Here’s the excellent podcast with Amb. Roger Noriega

Iran details from CTP/ISW

Here is Eli Lake’s excellent piece on Marco Rubio

Here’s Rubio explaining the plan for Venezuela

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