The U.S. Coast Guard has pursued the sanctioned vessel Bella 1 across the Atlantic for over five days and is readying an elite Maritime Security Response Team for a potential forced boarding in accordance with a judicial seizure order.-WSJ

The strike was carried out by more than a dozen Tomahawk missiles from a U.S. Navy warship, an official says. -Reuters

🇺🇦🇺🇲 Key statements by Volodymyr Zelensky today (English translation): 🔹️ “We have a broad agenda. The meeting will take place over the weekend, I believe on Sunday, in Florida. We will meet with President Donald Trump.”

The U.S. and Nigeria differed about whether Christmas Day airstrikes on militants in Nigeria were intended specifically to protect Christians, who President Trump says are victims of a “genocide” there.

“Assault Rifle Jesus is the reason for the season.” Also Valentina Gomez… “Vote for me so we can kick every dirty Muslim out of Texas.”

The numbers are in. More people watched the bootlegged 60 Minutes CECOT segment than watched Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors on CBS.

Chump's Heroes.......

Exclusive: Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at an eastern Belarus ex-airbase, which could bolster Russia’s ability to deliver missiles across Europe, two US researchers found by studying satellite imagery reut.rs/4pgbA8V

Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately free her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts from her sex trafficking case returned the spotlight to victims whose allegations helped land her behind bars.

"You know, they talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it’s not a democracy anymore" - Donald Trump on *Ukraine*

He always warms my heart.

The shocking brutality behind Gaza’s crumbling ceasefire

Carry around images of your documents(birth certificate, Green Card, visa, work permit, naturalization doc or passport) on your phone because apparently we've arrived at the "show me your papers" part of the Nazification of our country in this Trump nightmare.

All Americans Should Be Outraged By This….

Follow the laundered money. Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional. share.google/4xmxlzgHCHeP... www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar... “A lot of really wealthy people don’t own an island!” youtu.be/VaoGl-soL1g

In case this wasn't clear. #f'djt

Anyone who thought Trump wasn’t going to bomb people on Christmas Day hasn’t been paying attention.

A million pages is conservatively 400 bankers boxes.

🇺🇲Donald Trump has officially announced the construction of “Trump-class” battleships (missile battleships in today’s terms). The first ship of this class has already been named USS Defiant. According to Donald Trump, this will be the fastest and largest battleship in world history.

Macron: Greenland belongs to its people. Denmark stands as its guarantor.

🇫🇮 Finland plans to increase the number of reservists to nearly 1 million. As part of this change, the government intends to raise the upper age limit for reservists from 60 to 65.

🇺🇸 According to NBC News, tensions are rising within Donald Trump’s administration between Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff over the coordination of peace talks on Ukraine. 👇

Morgan Stanley sees hundreds of gigawatt hours of battery demand from data centers by 2030; Tesla, Amazon, Oracle to invest in Bolivia data centersMorgan Stanley: “We note that battery storage could experience significantly greater demand than we currently forecast stemming from the data center oppo

The U.S. Coast Guard is waiting for additional forces to arrive before potentially attempting to board and seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker it has been pursuing since Sunday, a U.S. official and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Despite Trump’s promises, likely no peace in the Middle East anytime soon. Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan: "The logic of surrendering weapons is inherently unacceptable.

Venezuela resorts to floating storage as onshore tanks fill up amid ship seizures www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

The DOJ is frantically spamming media outlets on Twitter to insist Trump is "innocent"

Billionaires didn’t appear out of nowhere. Their rise mirrors our national debt - dollar for dollar, decade for decade. Since Reagan, wealth went up, taxes went down, and the bill went to everyone else. At what point do we say enough?

Mockler: He said he grabbed women because they let him do it. You heard that clip, right? Abuse of power dynamics. Now that he's in office, he's abusing these same power dynamics to cover up the files, delay the releases, redact.

🚨The MAGA Cult wants to destroy PBS because they don’t bow down to their dear leader like 60 minutes does.

Missing from Trump & his mediasphere's "4.3% economic growth" fable: How the GOP spending taxpayer dollars like reckless sailors on DHS, FBI, DOJ--planes, vehicles, travel, lawyers, armor, ads, six-figure salaries, bonuses, student loan repayment (for ICE recruits only)--bumps "consumer spending".

Woo hoo! Thank you! U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Mon solidified a win for coalition of 12 AGs that sued Nazi regime earlier this year after being alerted their states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary” jurisdictions. apnews.com/article/immi...

BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Remember who was sitting right behind Donald Trump on his Inauguration Day? The richest man in the world, the tech billionaire tycoons, and his billionaire cabinet. He’s certainly delivering his “golden age” for them, but it’s crumbs for everyone else. That’s the Trump economy.

Ouch, that #SpinelessSpeaker Johnson quote. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Priorities sir, Priorities...

The AG is *supposed* to be the people’s lawyer, not the president’s. This is outrageous. It also indicates Trump feels that he needs protection from Epstein file disclosures.

Incriminating behavior in plain sight. “There is only one woman (Ghislaine Maxwell) in the Epstein files who Donald Trump wishes well… the woman who sexually abused children herself… who trafficked children with and for Jeffrey Epstein” — Lawrence O’Donnell Trump’s never wished the survivors well.

From The New York Independent: "This is how the Department of Justice is redacting files to cover up for Donald Trump. The top redacted document was released by the DOJ. The bottom identical document was released by a judge during the Biden administration. See the difference?"

The arguments for toppling Maduro are stacking up, and they have far more to do with power and resources than moral outrage.Nobody in Washington is talking about democracy first, even if they say the word out loud. This is about oil, leverage, and cutting enemies out of the backyard. Maduro staying

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇻🇪 According to the Associated Press, Russia has begun evacuating the family members of its diplomats from Venezuela. Support me : ko-fi.com/osintradar445

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has begun evacuating diplomats’ families from Venezuela, according to a European intelligence official. -AP

Oil loading in Venezuela slows, more ships make U-turns after new US interceptions reut.rs/3YG7RXb

2/ To make the one on the right more legible.⬇️ Also in full here (too long for alt-text window): www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/6...