Bill Conroy
@bconroy.bsky.social
Independent Investigative Journalist
https://billconroy.pressfolios.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-conroy-45379652
Houseofdeath.org
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https://billconroy.pressfolios.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-conroy-45379652
Houseofdeath.org
* Comments ground rule: non sequitur ad hominem attacks are subject to deletion. Irony/humor excepted.
We created a ticking time bomb, and it exploded on us.
RS
Lakanwal..inability to work due to missing immigration paperwork meant his family couldn’t afford rent or food..Lakanwal sought help..from a CIA program designed to aid Zero Unit veterans with immigration issues..His pleas..went unanswered.
RS
Lakanwal..inability to work due to missing immigration paperwork meant his family couldn’t afford rent or food..Lakanwal sought help..from a CIA program designed to aid Zero Unit veterans with immigration issues..His pleas..went unanswered.
Fellow Unit Member Says Alleged D.C. Shooter Felt Abandoned by CIA
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan who allegedly shot two National Guard members, felt abandoned by the CIA, according to a former Zero Unit member.
www.rollingstone.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We created a ticking time bomb, and it exploded on us.
RS
Lakanwal..inability to work due to missing immigration paperwork meant his family couldn’t afford rent or food..Lakanwal sought help..from a CIA program designed to aid Zero Unit veterans with immigration issues..His pleas..went unanswered.
RS
Lakanwal..inability to work due to missing immigration paperwork meant his family couldn’t afford rent or food..Lakanwal sought help..from a CIA program designed to aid Zero Unit veterans with immigration issues..His pleas..went unanswered.
Trump's pardon of this narco exposes his duplicity on drug trafficking and immigration.
"After the coup, Honduras became the most violent country in the world.. Political assassinations spiked and..the country became one of the main sources of undocumented migrants fleeing to the United States."
"After the coup, Honduras became the most violent country in the world.. Political assassinations spiked and..the country became one of the main sources of undocumented migrants fleeing to the United States."
The Spectacular Fall of Honduras’s Juan Orlando Hernandez
www.thenation.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Trump's pardon of this narco exposes his duplicity on drug trafficking and immigration.
"After the coup, Honduras became the most violent country in the world.. Political assassinations spiked and..the country became one of the main sources of undocumented migrants fleeing to the United States."
"After the coup, Honduras became the most violent country in the world.. Political assassinations spiked and..the country became one of the main sources of undocumented migrants fleeing to the United States."
Hegseth's toast if Congress does its job.
[Liars lie]
Trump said Hegseth told him “he did not say that, and I believe him, 100 percent.”
[Just in case, throw him under the the bus]
Trump said..“I wouldn’t have wanted that. Not a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine."
[Liars lie]
Trump said Hegseth told him “he did not say that, and I believe him, 100 percent.”
[Just in case, throw him under the the bus]
Trump said..“I wouldn’t have wanted that. Not a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine."
Trump says Hegseth denied issuing order to kill boat crew
The president also said he would not have wanted a second strike on a boat allegedly carrying drugs, which occurred after U.S. forces realized the initial attack left two survivors, as The Post report...
wapo.st
December 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hegseth's toast if Congress does its job.
[Liars lie]
Trump said Hegseth told him “he did not say that, and I believe him, 100 percent.”
[Just in case, throw him under the the bus]
Trump said..“I wouldn’t have wanted that. Not a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine."
[Liars lie]
Trump said Hegseth told him “he did not say that, and I believe him, 100 percent.”
[Just in case, throw him under the the bus]
Trump said..“I wouldn’t have wanted that. Not a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine."
With Venezuela, the smart money is on war. Shock and awe, then a grueling, bloody quagmire that will haunt us as a nation for years and cost us both blood and treasure.
Nixon bombed Cambodia to cut Vietcong supply lines. That resulted in napalm hell and mass murder.Trump is on the same path.
Nixon bombed Cambodia to cut Vietcong supply lines. That resulted in napalm hell and mass murder.Trump is on the same path.
Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
With Venezuela, the smart money is on war. Shock and awe, then a grueling, bloody quagmire that will haunt us as a nation for years and cost us both blood and treasure.
Nixon bombed Cambodia to cut Vietcong supply lines. That resulted in napalm hell and mass murder.Trump is on the same path.
Nixon bombed Cambodia to cut Vietcong supply lines. That resulted in napalm hell and mass murder.Trump is on the same path.
Mass murder with no quarter..
WaPO
As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck...The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack.. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions..The two men were blown apart in the water.
WaPO
As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck...The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack.. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions..The two men were blown apart in the water.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
wapo.st
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Mass murder with no quarter..
WaPO
As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck...The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack.. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions..The two men were blown apart in the water.
WaPO
As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck...The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack.. ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions..The two men were blown apart in the water.
The definition of blowback.
WaPo
The alleged gunman..came to the United States in..2021 after working for a CIA-organized counterterrorism squad.
The Zero Units..were involved in dangerous and often deadly night raids and other missions to kill or capture members of the Taliban.
wapo.st/3KmlQxP
WaPo
The alleged gunman..came to the United States in..2021 after working for a CIA-organized counterterrorism squad.
The Zero Units..were involved in dangerous and often deadly night raids and other missions to kill or capture members of the Taliban.
wapo.st/3KmlQxP
Afghan national who once worked with the CIA faces charges in D.C. ambush
The shooting has sparked an intense, international investigation. One National Guard member had died and another remains in critical condition, officials said.
wapo.st
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
The definition of blowback.
WaPo
The alleged gunman..came to the United States in..2021 after working for a CIA-organized counterterrorism squad.
The Zero Units..were involved in dangerous and often deadly night raids and other missions to kill or capture members of the Taliban.
wapo.st/3KmlQxP
WaPo
The alleged gunman..came to the United States in..2021 after working for a CIA-organized counterterrorism squad.
The Zero Units..were involved in dangerous and often deadly night raids and other missions to kill or capture members of the Taliban.
wapo.st/3KmlQxP
Tacky is the artistic term used to describe the tastes of the current White House majordomo.
The MAGA movement itself is awash in tackiness and unoriginality. Creative cheats who steal the worse ideas from even worse people.
The White House will be remade again, with taste, once Trump is gone.
The MAGA movement itself is awash in tackiness and unoriginality. Creative cheats who steal the worse ideas from even worse people.
The White House will be remade again, with taste, once Trump is gone.
What’s going on with Trump’s gold ‘Oval Office’ sign?
We asked design experts to read the writing on the White House wall and tell us what they see.
wapo.st
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Tacky is the artistic term used to describe the tastes of the current White House majordomo.
The MAGA movement itself is awash in tackiness and unoriginality. Creative cheats who steal the worse ideas from even worse people.
The White House will be remade again, with taste, once Trump is gone.
The MAGA movement itself is awash in tackiness and unoriginality. Creative cheats who steal the worse ideas from even worse people.
The White House will be remade again, with taste, once Trump is gone.
This article could have been just as easily written about addictions to potato chips or soda and it would be equally banal. The cases mentioned in the story, it seems to me, have far more to do with other underlying problems than weed. Reefer madness. The problem's not in us but in the evil weed.
They relied on marijuana to get through the day. But then days felt impossible without it
As daily cannabis use rises to historic levels in the U.S., some longtime users are finding it harder to quit.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This article could have been just as easily written about addictions to potato chips or soda and it would be equally banal. The cases mentioned in the story, it seems to me, have far more to do with other underlying problems than weed. Reefer madness. The problem's not in us but in the evil weed.
When literal batcrap crazy Nazi plots are a normal part of the Trump era, we know it's time to stop the talk of finding common ground with the "other side." The only thing reasonable people can agree to here is that, if guilty as charged, these perps go to prison and see how slavery works there.
‘Invasion plan’: Two North Texas men face federal indictment over plot to murder, enslave people on Haitian island
Two North Texas men face federal charges after a grand jury indicted them for an alleged plot to invade an island off Haiti, murder the men living there, and enslave women and children.
www.click2houston.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
When literal batcrap crazy Nazi plots are a normal part of the Trump era, we know it's time to stop the talk of finding common ground with the "other side." The only thing reasonable people can agree to here is that, if guilty as charged, these perps go to prison and see how slavery works there.
This is what we can expect from Trump's "drug war" He breaks it, he owns it.
NYT
The results showed that chaos and violence were likely to erupt within Venezuela, as military units, rival political factions and even jungle-based guerrilla groups jockeyed for control of the oil-rich country.
NYT
The results showed that chaos and violence were likely to erupt within Venezuela, as military units, rival political factions and even jungle-based guerrilla groups jockeyed for control of the oil-rich country.
U.S. Ran a War Game on Ousting Maduro. Venezuela Fell Into Chaos.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This is what we can expect from Trump's "drug war" He breaks it, he owns it.
NYT
The results showed that chaos and violence were likely to erupt within Venezuela, as military units, rival political factions and even jungle-based guerrilla groups jockeyed for control of the oil-rich country.
NYT
The results showed that chaos and violence were likely to erupt within Venezuela, as military units, rival political factions and even jungle-based guerrilla groups jockeyed for control of the oil-rich country.
Coast Guard is under DHS. So, this makes sense. They are simply re-aligning their policy on fascist and hate symbols to keep pace with Border Patrol, ICE, and the private bounty hunters that they plan to deputize. Makes DHS white supremacists one big happy family with a revolving door.
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Coast Guard is under DHS. So, this makes sense. They are simply re-aligning their policy on fascist and hate symbols to keep pace with Border Patrol, ICE, and the private bounty hunters that they plan to deputize. Makes DHS white supremacists one big happy family with a revolving door.
The media should be on this hard. Privatizing the military via Blackwater didn't work out well in Iraq.
DB
News the department may now be going private with its nationwide migrant purge comes amid reports that more than a third of new ICE recruits are failing to pass the most basic fitness tests.
DB
News the department may now be going private with its nationwide migrant purge comes amid reports that more than a third of new ICE recruits are failing to pass the most basic fitness tests.
ICE Barbie Plots Secretly Using Bounty Hunters for Round-ups
Amid a beleaguered recruitment drive, it’s unclear whether private contractors would be subject to the same physical fitness tests that new DHS recruits have been failing en masse.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The media should be on this hard. Privatizing the military via Blackwater didn't work out well in Iraq.
DB
News the department may now be going private with its nationwide migrant purge comes amid reports that more than a third of new ICE recruits are failing to pass the most basic fitness tests.
DB
News the department may now be going private with its nationwide migrant purge comes amid reports that more than a third of new ICE recruits are failing to pass the most basic fitness tests.
Trump's big Epstein stall has plenty of track yet. But the race to midterms has begun.
As a military assault looms in Latin America, paramilitaries prowl our streets.
Masses of people are starving, sick as the economy sinks.
It's winter in America.
For Trump, too.
As a military assault looms in Latin America, paramilitaries prowl our streets.
Masses of people are starving, sick as the economy sinks.
It's winter in America.
For Trump, too.
In reversal, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files
President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in ...
apnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Trump's big Epstein stall has plenty of track yet. But the race to midterms has begun.
As a military assault looms in Latin America, paramilitaries prowl our streets.
Masses of people are starving, sick as the economy sinks.
It's winter in America.
For Trump, too.
As a military assault looms in Latin America, paramilitaries prowl our streets.
Masses of people are starving, sick as the economy sinks.
It's winter in America.
For Trump, too.
This is a ticking time bomb. Trump's racist deportation dragnet is opening a back door to incalculable harms to victims of predators. He's also playing Russian roulette with our national security.
NYT
Today, the Trump administration has remade the agency into a veritable Department of Deportation.
NYT
Today, the Trump administration has remade the agency into a veritable Department of Deportation.
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is a ticking time bomb. Trump's racist deportation dragnet is opening a back door to incalculable harms to victims of predators. He's also playing Russian roulette with our national security.
NYT
Today, the Trump administration has remade the agency into a veritable Department of Deportation.
NYT
Today, the Trump administration has remade the agency into a veritable Department of Deportation.
In this email, Epstein is offering to help the Kremlin manipulate Trump. This is damning, knowing Epstein also claims to have had dirt on Trump.
November 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
In this email, Epstein is offering to help the Kremlin manipulate Trump. This is damning, knowing Epstein also claims to have had dirt on Trump.
What Trump really fears?
“There are probably intelligence ties to our CIA and other foreign intelligence, and the American people would be shocked to know that our intelligence agency was working with a pedophile who was running a sex trafficking ring." — Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (Ky.
“There are probably intelligence ties to our CIA and other foreign intelligence, and the American people would be shocked to know that our intelligence agency was working with a pedophile who was running a sex trafficking ring." — Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (Ky.
thehill.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
What Trump really fears?
“There are probably intelligence ties to our CIA and other foreign intelligence, and the American people would be shocked to know that our intelligence agency was working with a pedophile who was running a sex trafficking ring." — Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (Ky.
“There are probably intelligence ties to our CIA and other foreign intelligence, and the American people would be shocked to know that our intelligence agency was working with a pedophile who was running a sex trafficking ring." — Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (Ky.
Alcohol kills far more people and ruins far more lives in this country than cocaine.
But we aren't declaring Budweiser a terrorist organization and blowing up beer trucks.
But we aren't declaring Budweiser a terrorist organization and blowing up beer trucks.
U.S. conducts 20th strike on alleged drug boat, killing 4 people in Caribbean Sea
Since September, U.S. forces have destroyed multiple vessels in international waters, killing at least 80 people.
www.cbsnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Alcohol kills far more people and ruins far more lives in this country than cocaine.
But we aren't declaring Budweiser a terrorist organization and blowing up beer trucks.
But we aren't declaring Budweiser a terrorist organization and blowing up beer trucks.
Define working class. Define billionaires.
An us vs. them ideological frame that falls apart when folks don't embrace that frame. A vision for the future is different.
Example: Food, shelter, health care and equal opportunity as a floor — with all taxed progressively to maintain that floor.
An us vs. them ideological frame that falls apart when folks don't embrace that frame. A vision for the future is different.
Example: Food, shelter, health care and equal opportunity as a floor — with all taxed progressively to maintain that floor.
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Define working class. Define billionaires.
An us vs. them ideological frame that falls apart when folks don't embrace that frame. A vision for the future is different.
Example: Food, shelter, health care and equal opportunity as a floor — with all taxed progressively to maintain that floor.
An us vs. them ideological frame that falls apart when folks don't embrace that frame. A vision for the future is different.
Example: Food, shelter, health care and equal opportunity as a floor — with all taxed progressively to maintain that floor.
Future Vision.
The future unfolds in waves. It can echo the past but never be the past. Nor can it exist without the past.
In terms of narrative, whoever controls the past can control the future.
NYTs
He has been especially critical — at times viciously so — of his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr..
The future unfolds in waves. It can echo the past but never be the past. Nor can it exist without the past.
In terms of narrative, whoever controls the past can control the future.
NYTs
He has been especially critical — at times viciously so — of his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr..
Jack Schlossberg, Kennedy Heir, to Seek Nadler’s N.Y. Congressional Seat
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Future Vision.
The future unfolds in waves. It can echo the past but never be the past. Nor can it exist without the past.
In terms of narrative, whoever controls the past can control the future.
NYTs
He has been especially critical — at times viciously so — of his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr..
The future unfolds in waves. It can echo the past but never be the past. Nor can it exist without the past.
In terms of narrative, whoever controls the past can control the future.
NYTs
He has been especially critical — at times viciously so — of his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr..
If the cocaine/marijuana boat attacks launched in early September were really stopping drugs, how do we explain CBP cocaine seizures at the border exploding in September and cannabis seizures exploding in October, compared with months prior to the attacks. For every load caught, 2 get through?
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If the cocaine/marijuana boat attacks launched in early September were really stopping drugs, how do we explain CBP cocaine seizures at the border exploding in September and cannabis seizures exploding in October, compared with months prior to the attacks. For every load caught, 2 get through?
This caving based on claims the goal was only to make Dem issues like health care salient, I call BS.
The health care issue would have been there to claim without a shutdown. Just like now, folks still lose coverage.
What this does is make Trump far more likely to order troops to shoot protesters.
The health care issue would have been there to claim without a shutdown. Just like now, folks still lose coverage.
What this does is make Trump far more likely to order troops to shoot protesters.
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This caving based on claims the goal was only to make Dem issues like health care salient, I call BS.
The health care issue would have been there to claim without a shutdown. Just like now, folks still lose coverage.
What this does is make Trump far more likely to order troops to shoot protesters.
The health care issue would have been there to claim without a shutdown. Just like now, folks still lose coverage.
What this does is make Trump far more likely to order troops to shoot protesters.
All this pain and nothing gained?
If Schumer can't stop it, he shouldn't be leader.
Truth is, though, despite the failure of the Dem's if they cave here, this whole exercise was a failure of government. So, it's not a surprise if it ends in failure.
But voter trust is a terrible thing to squander
If Schumer can't stop it, he shouldn't be leader.
Truth is, though, despite the failure of the Dem's if they cave here, this whole exercise was a failure of government. So, it's not a surprise if it ends in failure.
But voter trust is a terrible thing to squander
Senate is poised to take the first steps to end 40-day shutdown
The Senate is poised to take the first steps toward ending the 40-day government shutdown Sunday after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of healthcare subs...
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
All this pain and nothing gained?
If Schumer can't stop it, he shouldn't be leader.
Truth is, though, despite the failure of the Dem's if they cave here, this whole exercise was a failure of government. So, it's not a surprise if it ends in failure.
But voter trust is a terrible thing to squander
If Schumer can't stop it, he shouldn't be leader.
Truth is, though, despite the failure of the Dem's if they cave here, this whole exercise was a failure of government. So, it's not a surprise if it ends in failure.
But voter trust is a terrible thing to squander
This should be a hoot for most.
Jennifer Canter (@jennifercanter)
A must watch! 😂😂😂
The funniest, and best, Trump impersonation ever.
VC GodfreyComic
substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This should be a hoot for most.
This is an interesting AP investigative piece on who a small number of the 70 killed to date are in Trump's war on boats. Yes, some boats were hauling illicit drugs, coke. But many of those onboard were fisherman or farmers or recently unemployed laborers, not battle-hardened "cartel soldiers." (1
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is an interesting AP investigative piece on who a small number of the 70 killed to date are in Trump's war on boats. Yes, some boats were hauling illicit drugs, coke. But many of those onboard were fisherman or farmers or recently unemployed laborers, not battle-hardened "cartel soldiers." (1
The lesson of this tumultuous era in our history was revealed years ago by one of our great American writers. It's the lesson of all struggles for justice, dignity and peace.
"Without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently."
— Maya Angelou
"Without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently."
— Maya Angelou
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The lesson of this tumultuous era in our history was revealed years ago by one of our great American writers. It's the lesson of all struggles for justice, dignity and peace.
"Without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently."
— Maya Angelou
"Without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently."
— Maya Angelou