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· Dec 5
Opinion | Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul
www.nytimes.com
This is probably the best essay I've read all year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
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The trial of several Serbian government officials on charges related to forging documentation for the approval of a failed development project on a nationally-protected heritage site began today. The project was financed by Jared Kushner's firm before it was scrapped.
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Serbian government official faces forgery trial over withdrawn Kushner-linked project
A Serbian government minister and three others are on trial for abuse of office and document falsification.
apnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
The trial of several Serbian government officials on charges related to forging documentation for the approval of a failed development project on a nationally-protected heritage site began today. The project was financed by Jared Kushner's firm before it was scrapped.
apnews.com/article/serb...
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Abject racial terror.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
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A Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Abject racial terror.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
A deeper layer of irony to a lone actor attack motivated by a personal vendetta against a cult is that some of the same cognitive exploitation techniques that cults use to recruit and manipulate followers are also used to mobilize lone actor attacks.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Shinzo Abe’s Assassination Brought the Moonies Back Into the Limelight
A shocking act of political violence exposed the cult’s deep influence.
www.newyorker.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:25 AM
A deeper layer of irony to a lone actor attack motivated by a personal vendetta against a cult is that some of the same cognitive exploitation techniques that cults use to recruit and manipulate followers are also used to mobilize lone actor attacks.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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It's hard to overstate how uniquely aggressive, unprofessional, insular, and ideological Border Patrol is compared to all other federal law enforcement agencies. Among other things, USBP is distinct for being the only federal LEA to employ an active serial killer.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
Pretti Shooting Thrusts Border Patrol’s History of Aggressive Tactics Into View
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:57 PM
It's hard to overstate how uniquely aggressive, unprofessional, insular, and ideological Border Patrol is compared to all other federal law enforcement agencies. Among other things, USBP is distinct for being the only federal LEA to employ an active serial killer.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
This is the tip of the iceberg
www.occrp.org/en/project/s...
www.occrp.org/en/project/s...
Historic Leak of Swiss Banking Records Reveals Unsavory Clients
Despite two decades of pledges by Credit Suisse to crack down on illegitimate funds, data leaked from the bank reveals that it catered to dozens of criminals, dictators, intelligence officials, sancti...
www.occrp.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:22 PM
This is the tip of the iceberg
www.occrp.org/en/project/s...
www.occrp.org/en/project/s...
Peter Thiel got his start as a commodities trader at Credit Suisse by the way
A lawyer who has been conducting a yearslong investigation of Credit Suisse’s history during the World War II era has uncovered previously unreported relationships between the bank and Nazis, according to written testimony the investigator is expected to deliver at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
Investigation Finds Credit Suisse Had Wider Nazi Ties Than Previously Known
A lawyer who has been scrutinizing archives for the bank, which is now part of UBS, is expected to testify about his findings on Tuesday.
nyti.ms
February 3, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Peter Thiel got his start as a commodities trader at Credit Suisse by the way
Companies like Alphabet, Apple, Meta, XAi, Oracle, and Palantir already do all of this and some of their board chairmen and CEOs have some pretty extreme views about everything from our system of government to eugenics
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
February 3, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Companies like Alphabet, Apple, Meta, XAi, Oracle, and Palantir already do all of this and some of their board chairmen and CEOs have some pretty extreme views about everything from our system of government to eugenics
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
The reader comments on this story are remarkable. There's a consensus that corruption is rampant in this administration and comments generally express distrust and disapproval.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency
Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.
www.wsj.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:39 AM
The reader comments on this story are remarkable. There's a consensus that corruption is rampant in this administration and comments generally express distrust and disapproval.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
The bottom-of-the-barrel sycophants that are the only people crazy or personally compromised enough to work for him are so eager to impress their moron boss that their inexperience always catches up with them. Great job fucking up your own evil plans.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
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Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
The bottom-of-the-barrel sycophants that are the only people crazy or personally compromised enough to work for him are so eager to impress their moron boss that their inexperience always catches up with them. Great job fucking up your own evil plans.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
Saddam-tier behavior
Trump, Gabbard personally oversee FBI raid on Georgia election center.
Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Saddam-tier behavior
You need crampons or ice skates to get anywhere on foot outside right right now throughout Appalachia
February 2, 2026 at 2:57 PM
You need crampons or ice skates to get anywhere on foot outside right right now throughout Appalachia
One of the reasons it's impossible to disrupt Mexican cartels with military force is because there are state and municipal police that work for them in every state. Good luck trying to root out police corruption with drone strikes or counterterrorism-style SOF raids.
zetatijuana.com/2026/01/celu...
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Célula del CDS en crimen del comandante Israel Ortiz
El caso de Ortiz podría estar relacionado con la detención del policía municipal Martín Ibarra Páez, acusado de desapariciones forzadas en el Valle de Guadalupe. La fiscalía ha ejecutado varios cateos...
zetatijuana.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
One of the reasons it's impossible to disrupt Mexican cartels with military force is because there are state and municipal police that work for them in every state. Good luck trying to root out police corruption with drone strikes or counterterrorism-style SOF raids.
zetatijuana.com/2026/01/celu...
zetatijuana.com/2026/01/celu...
"In each case, officials at the highest levels of government declared a protester killed by security forces to be an enemy of the state. Authoritarian regimes have always done this. Now, it’s part of American life."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
Opinion | The Trump Administration Thinks They Had It Coming
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:13 PM
"In each case, officials at the highest levels of government declared a protester killed by security forces to be an enemy of the state. Authoritarian regimes have always done this. Now, it’s part of American life."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
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Cameos by Massad Boulos, Ted Cruz, and Sebastian Gorka
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/w...
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How Trump Took Up the ‘Christian Genocide’ Cause in Nigeria
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Cameos by Massad Boulos, Ted Cruz, and Sebastian Gorka
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/w...
It should never have been this easy to turn an entire executive cabinet into a totally lawless paramilitarized occupation force
Over the last five years, police chiefs have worked to persuade a skeptical public that officers would curb their use of violence. Now, police officials are complaining about ICE, saying they are endangering residents and setting back efforts to improve public trust.
Police Chiefs Fume at ICE Tactics Across Cities
Many police departments adopted major changes after civilian killings. Now, police chiefs worry ICE is ignoring those lessons and setting back efforts to improve public trust.
nyti.ms
January 30, 2026 at 6:55 PM
It should never have been this easy to turn an entire executive cabinet into a totally lawless paramilitarized occupation force
DHS is stabbing every LE agent in the country in the back by doing this shit and it's horrifying that an entire executive cabinet department's institutional resilience is so weak that an election outcome is all it took for them to trash everything they learned in 2020
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
‘It’s All Just Going Down the Toilet’: Police Chiefs Fume at ICE Tactics
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
DHS is stabbing every LE agent in the country in the back by doing this shit and it's horrifying that an entire executive cabinet department's institutional resilience is so weak that an election outcome is all it took for them to trash everything they learned in 2020
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Detail in this story caught my attention about a DHS / ICE request for information (RFI) solicitation posted last week for ad tech and data companies to demonstrate their latest "operational capabilities" that implies DHS is now working with a lot more personal data
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
January 30, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Detail in this story caught my attention about a DHS / ICE request for information (RFI) solicitation posted last week for ad tech and data companies to demonstrate their latest "operational capabilities" that implies DHS is now working with a lot more personal data
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
The public funds up for grabs for construction contractors are a magnet for organized crime in Italy, but diligent law enforcement and civil society advocacy to improve award process transparency help. The Strait of Messina bridge megaproject, on the other hand...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
‘A very Italian problem’: inside the fight against the mafia and corruption at the Winter Olympics
Construction works for Milano Cortina have been a lightning rod for suspected infiltration by organised crime, but anti-mafia groups have adopted an approach that will help future hosts
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:59 AM
The public funds up for grabs for construction contractors are a magnet for organized crime in Italy, but diligent law enforcement and civil society advocacy to improve award process transparency help. The Strait of Messina bridge megaproject, on the other hand...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
"This is the governing model that he and his allies are trying to globalize. A world where national sovereignty is dead, the rule of law is nonexistent for corporations, and convicted felons like Mr. Trump and Mr. Hernández run the world for the pillaging classes."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:48 AM
"This is the governing model that he and his allies are trying to globalize. A world where national sovereignty is dead, the rule of law is nonexistent for corporations, and convicted felons like Mr. Trump and Mr. Hernández run the world for the pillaging classes."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Waving a gun around and threatening economic warfare against your closest allies on earth is a gift to China and Russia and is already benefitting them more than anyone. Nothing that this administration or their helper monkeys are saying or doing makes any sense.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Greenland Envoy: We Need ‘Total, Unfettered Access’
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Waving a gun around and threatening economic warfare against your closest allies on earth is a gift to China and Russia and is already benefitting them more than anyone. Nothing that this administration or their helper monkeys are saying or doing makes any sense.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
A few in Florida and Western European countries living large at the expense of the majority of Venezuelan citizens suffering hunger and deprivation. The Chavista regime has been the frontman of a mafia-style bust out on a national scale. Forcibly removing Maduro while leaving them in place is crazy.
January 29, 2026 at 12:11 PM
A few in Florida and Western European countries living large at the expense of the majority of Venezuelan citizens suffering hunger and deprivation. The Chavista regime has been the frontman of a mafia-style bust out on a national scale. Forcibly removing Maduro while leaving them in place is crazy.
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NEW: “Cuello Blanco, Manos Sucias” (“White Collars, Dirty Hands”), a podcast from OCCRP and La No Ficción, explores the looting of Venezuela’s oil wealth. @lauraweffer.bsky.social tells the story of how the profits from oil extraction were siphoned out of the state oil company.
January 28, 2026 at 6:35 PM
NEW: “Cuello Blanco, Manos Sucias” (“White Collars, Dirty Hands”), a podcast from OCCRP and La No Ficción, explores the looting of Venezuela’s oil wealth. @lauraweffer.bsky.social tells the story of how the profits from oil extraction were siphoned out of the state oil company.
Why on earth is Qatar managing all of oil revenue for the Chavista regime minus Maduro?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
Rubio Says Venezuela Will Submit Monthly Budget to White House
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Why on earth is Qatar managing all of oil revenue for the Chavista regime minus Maduro?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
I feel a responsibility for feeding the birds especially when it's really cold, I feel like they're counting on me
January 28, 2026 at 10:26 AM
I feel a responsibility for feeding the birds especially when it's really cold, I feel like they're counting on me
Ted Cruz lacks anything resembling a moral center so I assume he's responding to troubling sentiment analytics data trends and stochastic prediction models of voter turnout rather than taking a principled stand over how to better handle future executions on video
Ted Cruz: "If you're being told, this is a mom of three -- and she's not waving an ISIS flag or doesn't have a suicide vest -- escalating the rhetoric doesn't help, and it actually loses credibility. So I would encourage the administration to be more measured and recognize the tragedy."
January 27, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Ted Cruz lacks anything resembling a moral center so I assume he's responding to troubling sentiment analytics data trends and stochastic prediction models of voter turnout rather than taking a principled stand over how to better handle future executions on video