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El Parece
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · Sep 6
A Republican president so compromised he can neither "do Sicario," nor publicly try the world's most prolific drug trafficker, nor topple the Maduro regime and instead has to settle for a video killing a boat full of guys in sandals to save face.
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 1h
cartel bros:
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 1h
Honduran journalist Óscar Estrada suspects the elections are being soiled with narco-donations to all parties. “The conditions before 2021 have not changed,” he reasons, adding that US courtrooms have left cartel operations mostly unscathed. beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
“I believe every presidential candidate in Honduras since 2013 has taken drug money”
Honduran journalist Óscar Estrada suspects this year’s elections are being soiled with narco-donations to all political parties. “The conditions before 2021 have not changed,” he reasons in this…
beta.elfaro.net
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 1h
I guarantee interest rates are not what led to Elon's overt transformation from an exoteric moderate to a Roman-saluting great reaplacement theorist between 2018 and 2022.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right
In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.
www.bloomberg.com
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 2h
Trump’s rationale for sending the military into American cities keeps shifting. But the purpose remains constant: intimidation. The Supreme Court and Congress must push back. bit.ly/3IWUMED
There Is No Insurrection
Troops are for national defense, not displays of presidential power. 
www.brennancenter.org
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 3h
Unsolicited advice to the BKA and @bnd.social.bund.de.ap.brid.gy: pay extremely close attention to the collection of personal data related to foraging, it's a gamification vector.
apnews.com/photo-galler...
Mushroom hunting in Germany sees a revival thanks to veganism and medicinal fungi, in photos
POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — Wolfgang Bivour, a renowned fungi expert in Germany, leads mushroom hunting tours near Potsdam.
apnews.com
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 3h
"...immigration enforcement has become the administration’s primary political weapon — not to solve problems, but to manufacture fear, provoke outrage and stage an illusion of control"
A voice of moral clarity from former ICE chief of staff Jason Houser.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
Opinion | This Isn’t Crisis Response, It’s Crisis Construction
www.nytimes.com
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 1d
Co-CEO of company that loaned the Trump Organization $130M in 2005 and forgave $100M in 2020 dies unexpectedly, age 51
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fortress Co-CEO’s Unexpected Death Rattles $53 Billion Debt Firm
Well before they became co-chief executive officers, Drew McKnight and Josh Pack were known for their close partnership within Fortress Investment Group.
www.bloomberg.com
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 1d
Really good reporting. This is just a gut feeling but I suspect there's still more to this story than resources and whether the Maduro regime remains in place or not. I still don't understand why they're blowing up alleged smuggling boats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...
Venezuela’s Maduro Offered the U.S. His Nation’s Riches to Avoid Conflict
www.nytimes.com
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 1d
45% of personnel at the FBI's 25 largest field offices are currently assigned to immigration enforcement. This comes at the expense of everything else the FBI is responsible for including counterterrorism, cyber, cointel, CSEM, organized crime, and corruption.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement
Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns
www.theguardian.com
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 1d
T&T granted permission from OFAC for development of a gas field in Venezuelan waters. The project was initially licensed in October 2023, revoked by the Trump administration in April, and reapproved following Rubio's meeting with T&T's prime minister September 30.
apnews.com/article/trin...
Trinidad and Tobago secures US permission to negotiate gas deal with neighboring Venezuela
The U.S. has granted Trinidad and Tobago permission to negotiate a gas deal with neighboring Venezuela without facing any U.S. sanctions.
apnews.com
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 1d
Deeper questions, sharper answers, more journalism. Help us keep digging by joining our crowdfunding community. bit.ly/3TFWLzu
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 2d
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d
Breaking News: Jose Uribe, the star witness who helped convict former Senator Bob Menendez on corruption charges, will serve no prison time.
Star Witness in Menendez Bribery Case Avoids Prison Time
Jose Uribe was sentenced to a period of home confinement and supervised release after pleading guilty to bribing New Jersey’s former senator, Robert Menendez.
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 2d
"The administration has not explained why it has blown up vessels in some cases, while carrying out the typical practice of stopping boats and seizing drugs at other times."
Either the strikes are solely propaganda or these are special ops complementary to some larger play
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has yet to provide Congress hard evidence that targeted boats carried drugs, officials say
The Trump administration hasn't provided evidence to lawmakers that recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats were justified.
apnews.com
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 2d
That would probably lead to a civil war
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 2d
Excellent news for Antifa
kingpins, they're getting plea deals and don't even have to cooperate.
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 2d
It's going to be hard to undo this. Once you lavish an executive department with funding, it's not so simple for the next guy to just snap their fingers and reign in the budget. That's the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people. Ask fmr Kissinger Associate Paul Bremer how that went in Iraq.
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Christina(Tina) Hendriks @renissance1.bsky.social · 2d
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state
With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.
www.motherjones.com
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 2d
Why blowing up Venezuelan fishing villager gig workers won't even stop the flow of cocaine, much less fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin, nearly 100% of which is produced in Mexico and smuggled into the U.S. in commercial cargo and passenger vehicles.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs
President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.
www.nytimes.com
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 3d
Some right-wing figures have urged stronger responses against protesters, suggesting the use of “lethal force” or “actual ammo”
As Trump sends the National Guard into US cities, right-wing media celebrate and call protests “an insurrection”
Right-wing media and right-leaning online show hosts have rallied behind President Donald Trump’s attempts to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and Portland, suggesting the Democrat-run cities are ...
www.mediamatters.org
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 3d
The Trump administration's decision to eliminate foreign aid has resulted Rohingya children starving to death in the military junta's internment camps in Myanmar.
apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 3d
Context:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
Opinion | What the Mayor Got Away With Has Already Changed America
www.nytimes.com
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 3d
Context:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halkbank
Halkbank - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 3d
Context:
www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
Behind Trump’s Turkish ‘Bromance’: Oligarchs, Crooks, and a Multi-Million-Dollar Lobbying Deal
Turkey’s president has enjoyed an unusually powerful sway over the Trump administration. A new investigation reveals the relationship was built by a circle that included Trump’s favorite lobbyist, a k...
www.occrp.org
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 3d
Open corruption at the very core of a saga that links Lev Parnas, Mike Flynn, Brian Ballard, the firing of Preet Bharara, Bill Barr, Geoffrey Berman, John Bolton's purported leak of classified info, and Eric Adams.
@emptywheel.bsky.social @jamiepeppard.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Turkey’s Erdogan Says Halkbank US Case to End After Trump Talks
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said state lender Halkbank’s legal case in the US is due to be resolved following recent talks with President Donald Trump, prompting bank shares to rise.
www.bloomberg.com
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 3d
Colombian mercenaries hired by firms in the UAE are working with the RSF paramilitary in Sudan
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘War is a business’: the Colombian mercenaries at Sudan’s battlefront
A soldier of fortune tells of lucrative contracts, the siege of El Fasher and training child fighters to ‘go and get killed’
www.theguardian.com