Matt Lake
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Trump plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking
Hernandez was convicted in U.S. court of conspiring to import cocaine & fentanyl into the U.S.A. & was convicted for drug trafficking & weapons charges & sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Hernandez was convicted in U.S. court of conspiring to import cocaine & fentanyl into the U.S.A. & was convicted for drug trafficking & weapons charges & sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 ye...
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Trump plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking
Hernandez was convicted in U.S. court of conspiring to import cocaine & fentanyl into the U.S.A. & was convicted for drug trafficking & weapons charges & sentenced to 45 years in prison.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hernandez was convicted in U.S. court of conspiring to import cocaine & fentanyl into the U.S.A. & was convicted for drug trafficking & weapons charges & sentenced to 45 years in prison.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
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November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Officials Had Been Warned for Over a Year Before Hong Kong Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Officials Had Been Warned for Over a Year Before Hong Kong Fire
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Officials Had Been Warned for Over a Year Before Hong Kong Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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Reposted by Matt Lake
Reposted by Matt Lake
Immigration agents swept into North Carolina this week. “They came in, they made a splash, they terrorized, and they left,” the mayor of Durham tells @dgraham.bsky.social in The Atlantic Daily:
Border Patrol’s Chaotic Week in North Carolina
Agents swept in and left residents to sort through fear, fact, and fiction.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Immigration agents swept into North Carolina this week. “They came in, they made a splash, they terrorized, and they left,” the mayor of Durham tells @dgraham.bsky.social in The Atlantic Daily:
Why the British dream of moving to Australia is far from the paradise people think - The Telegraph apple.news/AOLB4WE47RQq...
Why the British dream of moving to Australia is far from the paradise people think — The Telegraph
Expats reveal what they wish they knew before leaving the UK for the other side of the world
apple.news
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Why the British dream of moving to Australia is far from the paradise people think - The Telegraph apple.news/AOLB4WE47RQq...
23,000 died because government Covid response ‘too little, too late’
www.thetimes.com/article/a45e...
www.thetimes.com/article/a45e...
23,000 died because government Covid response ‘too little, too late’
An excoriating report by the UK Covid-19 inquiry says Boris Johnson failed to appreciate the calamity and that lockdowns have left ‘lasting scars’ on society
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
23,000 died because government Covid response ‘too little, too late’
www.thetimes.com/article/a45e...
www.thetimes.com/article/a45e...
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gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme
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November 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
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'A lot of governments are very nervous'
@markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social unpack how Venezuela’s turmoil pushed the UK to halt intel-sharing with the US—and why this isn’t the first time geopolitics have forced such moves
Listen to The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧
@markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social unpack how Venezuela’s turmoil pushed the UK to halt intel-sharing with the US—and why this isn’t the first time geopolitics have forced such moves
Listen to The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
'A lot of governments are very nervous'
@markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social unpack how Venezuela’s turmoil pushed the UK to halt intel-sharing with the US—and why this isn’t the first time geopolitics have forced such moves
Listen to The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧
@markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social unpack how Venezuela’s turmoil pushed the UK to halt intel-sharing with the US—and why this isn’t the first time geopolitics have forced such moves
Listen to The Crisis Room on @globalplayer.com 🎧
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The BBC is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in?
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social reports
www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social reports
www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The BBC is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in?
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social reports
www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social reports
www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
Born to Unwed Mothers, These Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Born to Unwed Mothers, These Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia
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November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Born to Unwed Mothers, These Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
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Polly is bang on with this. The BBC needs protecting and strengthening.
Polly is bang on with this. The BBC needs protecting and strengthening.
If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee
Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weapons, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Polly is bang on with this. The BBC needs protecting and strengthening.
Polly is bang on with this. The BBC needs protecting and strengthening.
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Sudan Is in Free Fall www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
“The militia’s campaign of annihilation has closed in on hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the region, risking the further expansion of one of the greatest mass killings of this century.”
This is really hard to read.
#SudanGenocide
“The militia’s campaign of annihilation has closed in on hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the region, risking the further expansion of one of the greatest mass killings of this century.”
This is really hard to read.
#SudanGenocide
Opinion | Sudan Is in Free Fall
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Sudan Is in Free Fall www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
“The militia’s campaign of annihilation has closed in on hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the region, risking the further expansion of one of the greatest mass killings of this century.”
This is really hard to read.
#SudanGenocide
“The militia’s campaign of annihilation has closed in on hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the region, risking the further expansion of one of the greatest mass killings of this century.”
This is really hard to read.
#SudanGenocide
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