There's not a chance this is actually true www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/202...

I'd be shocked if this actually passed but in the remote chance that it somehow does, how exactly would this be enforced? The Republicans will never impeach him, his DoJ won't appoint a special counsel to investigate him, and he can't be prosecuted for official acts. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

It would be a strategic error to ban X in the UK and would play directly into the hands of the site's hybrid threat actor owner. They should be penalized for facilitating the creation of illegal content.

Absolutely insane that even got to this point

Breaking : DNI mostly a pointless job www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

After he retired from the FBI in 1990, John Connolly was hired by Boston Edison as VP of security. In 1996, BECo partnered with C-TEC in Princeton, NJ to bundle telecoms/cable/net with their services as the investigation of Connolly began ~a year after Whitey Bulger fled. www.wsj.com/articles/SB8...

Eversource, back when they were still called Boston Edison, hired corrupt former FBI special agent John Connolly as the VP of security after he helped Whitey Bulger evade arrest. They were probably laundering drug and arms trafficking money through energy futures with Credit Suisse First Boston.

Intelligence Online has revealed the identities of two previously unknown spyware makers. The market is probably bigger than we realize.

Just a personal theory but I suspect this piece was originally scheduled to run today and instead the editors ran it several days early after learning of the planned operation in Venezuela before it happened. Just a theory. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

I didn't foresee Trump forcibly removing Maduro so take this with a grain of salt, but unilateral military force in Mexico in the next 3 years seems unlikely in my opinion. apnews.com/article/mexi...

Maduro was captured to face criminal charges for being the head of a narcoterrorist regime, which will remain in place to continue to run Venezuela as they see fit.

U.S. sanctions on Venezuela have created a $30 billion industry for lobbyists.The Venezuelan politicians cashing in would rather continue to profit off of the ongoing tensions rather than work to avoid a war. From Maureen Tkacik: trib.al/zOkf54u

Looking back on the damage done by DOGE in 2025, investigative editor Maureen Tkacik writes that although Elon Musk was the figurehead, “the real dirty work was done by Tom Krause, a veteran private equity hatchet man in the Neutron Jack mold.” trib.al/i1DEsnn

As a teenager, Marco Rubio worked for his brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia in an import and sale business of exotic animals. It was a front for moving nearly half a million pounds of cocaine and marijuana Maureen Tkacik prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

The former Mexican president's chief of staff's private equity fund was sanctioned months ago for helping supply the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels with fentanyl precursor. Make it make sense.

Speaking of Marco Rubio, this Dec 23 2025 American Prospect story about Rubio's familial ties to drug trafficking & subsequent support for right wing narco-terrorists was making the rounds yesterday. prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

Law of the jungle world order is going to suck ass www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

Great news for insurgents and narcos

Regime change in Venezuela doesn't make military force in Mexico more likely in my opinion. That ship appears to have sailed. It's possible that there could be some military involvement in Colombia months or years from now depending on what happens in Venezuela. Cuba and Nicaragua also.

Kinda hard to believe this is really about cocaine after the pardon of convicted multi-hundred ton cocaine trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández. apnews.com/article/madu...

true detective moments everywhere for those with eyes to see

Tough break for Ukraine and Taiwan, it's a spheres of influence world now

I doubt enough people understand how central AI and data exploitation is to Republican strategy but we may have already passed the point of no return where elections are decided by the project that can algorithmically reinforce support the most efficiently.

The Russian military experience is like joining a prison gang: self-selecting for only the most ruthless, brutal, cunning, and diabolical psychopaths www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Major scoop potentially connecting Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg's reporting for ProPublica from 2021-2024 to the Eric Adams affair. Happy New Year! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...

Killing people that are already disposable just makes it more difficult to develop intelligence and evidence that the DEA and others need in order to target the organizations producing and shipping drugs, which lets those organizations grow in size and sophistication www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...

Despite the Mexican government putting more effort into gestures like killing or capturing criminals, handing over fugitives, and seizing tithed labs, drugs, weapons, fuel, and vehicles, organized crime is still a fact of life in Jalisco. www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/est...

Deportation flights and maybe some more bombing? I'm not an expert on Iran but something doesn't compute here.

Being a dirt-poor fisherman that occasionally makes a rational choice to earn more than it's possible to earn from fishing shouldn't be a death sentence. Transporting a load of dirtpack weed for less than $300 a trip shouldn't be a death sentence. This is madness. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

Is the President of the United States: a. distorting / exaggerating b. fabricating / lying c. confused / hallucinating d. accurately describing direct action www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...

Interesting bit of deep trivia: starting in 1998 there was a limited production run of 9x18 Makarov pistols produced by the Arsenal factory in Bulgaria and apparently imported by former American military intelligence officer and arms dealer Dale Stoffel's company Miltex.

The December 2009 assassination of Honduran counternarcotics czar Gral. Julián Arístides González Irías (ret.) was planned and executed by the Honduran National Police to protect a cocaine pipeline to the U.S. and a sprawling international web of corruption. www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/w...

If anyone has gift link to this story I'd love to read it www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Idiotic self-destruction. A guaranteed formula for corruption and capture. www.reuters.com/world/italy-...

If JSOC or the CIA or whoever is calling the shots is confident enough in the intelligence to target a suspected smuggling vessel with a lethal strike, why not arrest the surviving passengers for drug crimes? Make it make sense. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

There's more to the Ryan Wedding saga including a relationship with an Iranian-Canadian realtor who he married briefly while in prison and who was later linked to a gang-related kidnapping plot but ultimately cleared of involvement. To me, Wedding's life sounds like a soap opera written by the CIA.

Can you imagine what the Republicans and their media allies and influencers would do if Biden had pardoned a two-bit narcopresident convicted of importing at least 400 tons of cocaine into the United States? Did the Democrats even protest? Did they demand information about the case from DoJ?

Feliz Navidad plebada

Russia's strategy is to sow chaos and displace as many people as possible to drive immigration to Europe and bolster nationalist political parties in EU and NATO countries. apnews.com/article/mali...

Holy shit. apnews.com/article/isra...

Almost like it was the most damaging attack on our government in history, successful beyond our adversaries' wildest dreams... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

July 16, 2024: Elon announced SpaceX was relocating their HQ to Brownsville, TX (sister city of Gulf cartel stronghold Matamoros) " 23: Tesla 'gigafactory' in Nuevo León paused " 25: Mayo Z. allegedly abducted at a meeting with Joaquín Guzmán López, Sinaloa officials " 26: Mayo arrest announced

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to return approximately 137 Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador's brutal CECOT gulag in March without due process and in blatant defiance of an order halting the deportations. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

While the visibility of violence in Sinaloa was lower before the capture of Mayo Zambada in late July 2024, disappearances, journalist murders, and omnipresent authorized crime have been facts of life in Sinaloa since at least the mid-2000s www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/202...

What a fucking moron www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Reported that Óscar Noé Medina González, "El Panu," a high-ranking member of the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa cartel, was murdered in the Zona Rosa in CDMX, via @c4jiminez on Twitter.

Susie Wiles probably tolerates the incoherence, chaos, and incompetence out of necessity as a former employee of Ballard Partners. That's the honest truth. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/o...

Really have to compliment @warren.senate.gov and @slotkin.senate.gov for their advocacy. Sens. Warren, Sanders, Wyden, and Murphy in particular have done a great job this year in contrast to their worse than useless colleagues Sens. Warner, Booker, and Gillibrand. www.semafor.com/article/12/2...

Trump aides Sacks and Witkoff could face ethics probe over UAE deals, Semafor reports reut.rs/4anP7D3