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Interesting timing. It's known that the admin started planning this raid in early December. This may have been the reason--to enrich a major Trump donor.

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Exclusive: Amber Energy plans to hold on to Citgo refineries after takeover
Elliott Investment Management's affiliate Amber Energy plans to keep Citgo Petroleum's refineries, terminals and other connected assets once it takes over the Venezuela-owned U.S. refiner, following t...
www.reuters.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Given Fitzcarraldo's--I mean Trump's--delusional pursuit of chimeras (e.g., Atlantic City casinos, "the Wall", tariffs), this rebuilding of the oil industry in Venezuela may be his fantasy project alone.
www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump wants U.S. oil companies in Venezuela. Here's what to know
President Trump wants more U.S. oil companies to "go in" to Venezuela. But there are economic, historical, and climate reasons that may not be easy. Here's what you need to know about oil in Venezuela...
www.npr.org
January 4, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNOW show has 2 Epstein survivors blasting DOJ for failing to properly redact names, leaving some survivors‘ identities newly revealed. They suspect DOJ’s top priority is to protect other people — not the survivors. “We’re being re-traumatized by our government.”
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Candian #samizdat supporting US is bit scary but very funny

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
December 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
December 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I'm loving it.
December 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The US's military build up against Venezuela may not only be about oil, it might also be about crypto.

inca.digital/intelligence...
Venezuela is Patient Zero Challenging The Western Financial System with Bitcoin
Venezuela’s building a crypto-financial critical infrastructure to evade US sanctions
inca.digital
December 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Why Nicki Minaj is sucking up to trump
A pardon
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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As I understand it at some boxing thing in Dubai, i) Andrew Tate got comprehensively knocked out by a not very good amateur boxer, and ii) 'Tommy Robinson' who was attending the boxing thing, got deported from Dubai for being a little shit.

All in all, a great day for the manosphere.
December 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Why RFK Jr. is so dangerous when it comes to Hep B.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA7g...
Beyond the Noise #87: RFK Jr. says we need to stop trusting experts
YouTube video by MicrobeTV
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If you are a lawyer do not use AI to write pleadings, to fix grammar of pleadings. You risk sanctions. Other risks.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgX...
AI Is Upending Law. Is That A Sign For The Rest Of Us? — With Melia Russell
YouTube video by Alex Kantrowitz
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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The qualified immunity pleadings and ultimate denial of Bivens claims are going to be rage-inducing and I am 100% here for it.

This story should be on every news outlet from now until the case is over and it's not because it's a month old and this is the first I'm hearing of it.
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.

Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.

They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.

Another horrific story.

More details below.
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her.

The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.”

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I truly feel for everyone dealing with the Brown investigation. We have capable and transparent police and investigators in Rhode Island who are clearly working their asses off to get answers. They have to deal with a clown show of an FBI.
December 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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The FBI is run by a social media clown. They jumped the gun on the Charlie Kirk shooter as well.
BREAKING: Person of interest in Brown University shooting being released by police, mayor says. Gunman is still at large
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.

The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.

These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.

We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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There's a straight line between the original purpose for Zuckerberg's Facebook--rating the hotness of co-eds--and using AI to create deep fake porn.
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines

www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Meanwhile AI porn is happening on Facebook.
As always nobody can read, so just fyi, here are the other sites already using this service (h/t @surfdude29.ispost.ing)
December 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I would like him to provide a single example of a successful modern country that operates in the way he proposes. A follow-up would be to explain why *all* of the countries that have stronger international test scores and better health outcomes have government-run education and health care.
November 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM