$330M in F-16 and C-130 parts is not exactly an unequivocal signal of support. I wonder if this isn't an empty gesture to create the barest minimum appearance of support for Taiwan without actually offending China.

Lucchese crime family associate accused of running multi-million dollar college sports gambling racket in New Jersey www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

OFAC has officially lapsed into self-parody www.state.gov/releases/off...

The Vitol-Los Zetas connection empowerllc.net/en/2022/06/2...

If you haven't read Wikipedia about organized crime in the U.S., Canada and Mexico lately, you're missing out on the best Wikipedia has ever been. These are like dossiers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_...

They're calling it the Apalachin meeting on the Potomac www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

If I were the Democrats, I would simply make a bigger deal out of Trump pardoning a Chinese-Canadian crypto billionaire who laundered money for the Sinaloa cartel, Al Qaeda, Hamas, the North Korean regime, and child abusers before donating to the Trump family bribery fund. apnews.com/article/trum...

Probably not a decoy load. #analysis

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Not nearly as big of a story as the FBI Director secretly flying to China for a one-on-unknown-number-of-Chinese-government-officials meeting in my humble opinion.

Those data centers continue to pay for themselves, mostly in copper. If a lefty like Boric out-algorithmic populisms you, just crank up the dials for nativism and crime and give it a couple of years. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Venezuelans deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration endured systematic torture according to a report from Human Rights Watch. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Only 13 casinos in only 8 states means this is half true at best. 100% of casinos in every Mexican state that has them are used to launder money. Why wouldn't they be? Anyone with cash can walk in and lose it, no questions asked, and it instantly becomes legit revenue. apnews.com/article/mexi...

If AI can positively reinforce delusions or self-destructive ideation, and if some mass shootings are motivated by delusions (e.g. the 'Great Replacement') and others are suicides turned outward, then couldn't AI be used to mobilize a mass murder? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

This plays right into the Trump administration's hands and will ultimately hurt Colombia more than it will influence the U.S. to change their approach.

British pause sharing intelligence with American counterparts on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Mysterious nationwide blackout in the Dominican Republic, just another in a long list of mysterious blackouts that have plagued Latin America and the Caribbean since 2017 apnews.com/article/domi...

Surprise: it's actually money laundering! www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...

Can't imagine why they'd feel the need to do that...

The globetrotting con artist and suspected Chinese spy who met with Donald Trump at his New Jersey country club. www.propublica.org/article/liu-...

Started doing this thing where I leave coins next to a little pile of cat food or peanuts on the sidewalk for the crows in the morning and I'm hoping they start bringing me treasure

Give it a few years, Texas looking more like Russia every day. You've got an economy that revolves around petroleum, corruption from top to bottom, a perma-executive, oligarchs beyond the law, mafia that own sports teams, terrorist attacks that the government lets happen

"Across Latin America, corruption and organized crime no longer operate outside the law. They increasingly operate through it." www.justsecurity.org/124089/impun...

don't wear a pulse oximeter on your body unless you want a 24/7 polygraph that goes straight to Meta, Google, etc.

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Two stories that I strongly suspect are related: Kash Patel quietly travels to Beijing on Friday (7 Nov) www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Truly a golden era for serious crime. It will take decades to repair the capacity and experience they've flushed down the toilet in less than a year. Our adversaries could only dream of pulling off something as harmful as this. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I admire people like this that want to make the world slightly less bad but there is no way to buy illegal drugs without participating in international supply chains sustained by poverty, corruption, violence, and death. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The precursors China added to a list of banned substances are already obsolete. Producers will just modify them slightly with a bromine or a chlorine or an iodine substituted somewhere on the molecule and continue manufacturing and selling them. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just a few bad apples in three professional leagues and counting. apnews.com/article/mlb-...

The hottest method for infiltrating operatives, subversives, spies, and agents of chaos this year is claiming political persecution for being a racist

The lessons of Donald Trump's indefensible pardon for a Chinese-Canadian kingpin of the world's illicit revenue flows. >Al Qaeda >Hezbollah >Hamas >'Ndrangheta >Cártel de Sinaloa >CJNG >Triad slave compounds in Myanmar >Lazarus Group >Russia www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Heidi Cruz was born and raised Seventh Day Adventist and still maintains their dietary requirements 🤨 www.expressnews.com/news/local/a...

If Ted Cruz turns out to be an ultra deep-cover Cuban operative I'm going to lose my shit

Not to be culturally insensitive but BBC Pidgin is always good for a chuckle

Ted Cruz is a gangster and up to his neck in transnational organized crime at the highest levels since 1997 when he bought into the remnants of the drug money laundering and terrorist finance system dismantled with the arrest of Fawaz Younis during Operation Goldenrod. narco.news/articles/the...

As Ted Cruz attempts to puppeteer Trump into a misadventure in Nigeria, it's important to understand where this is coming from: the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and The Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), the latter of which has recently lobbied Ted Cruz. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Analysts warned that Trump appeared not to fully grasp Nigeria’s deeply complex political and religious dynamics. While the gov't has clearly failed to get a handle on the violence wracking the country, they said, there is little evidence it is turning a blind eye to the killing of Christians."

This story makes it clear that Ted Cruz is the shadow puppet master controlling Trump www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

That political control of the Executive will be decided by an election in 2028 may be too optimistic www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Interactive map of illicit hubs in West Africa wea.globalinitiative.net/illicit-hub-...

The North Pole has fallen to Tren de Aragua. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why is the U.S. attacking 'cartels' that don't exist? Treating complex, multilayered, horizontal, adaptive criminal networks as unified terrorist-style organizations misapprehends the challenge and risks misguided strategy. youtu.be/IrSfsZYm6rU?...

Evidence of torture, beatings, starvation —even the deaths of babies in Salvadoran prisons— is undeniable. The press and human rights organizations have documented it in detail, and it’s even been cited in US courts. beta.elfaro.net/en/el-faro-w...

It's good to see this receiving the attention it deserves but gathering evidence to support sanctions and criminal charges should have been a top priority in 2022 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Man, I miss shit like Leahy laws and human rights. I'm not sure who this story is for, you've seen what we're doing in the Caribbean right?

Is Director of National Intelligence to president of the Kennedy Center a typical arc? Sorry, I'm a rube when it comes to the performing arts. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Up next, Tren de Aragua-controlled bank discovered in Ireland and a Tren de Aragua auto theft ring shipping stolen cars from Texas and Michigan and New Jersey to fucking Nigeria to fund Hezbollah apnews.com/article/vene...

Like America's fixed NBA games and UFC fights, Turkey suddenly discovers rigged football games. apnews.com/article/refe...

Intelligence op alert. Fake as a three dollar bill. apnews.com/article/vene...