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Pinned
The Obama adm. asserted a right to kill U.S. citizens w/o trial, w/o notice & w/o any chance for the marked men to legally object.
In 11/2010, Justice Dept. said that no judge had legal authority to be “looking over the shoulder” of Obama’s targeted killing.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/o...
In 11/2010, Justice Dept. said that no judge had legal authority to be “looking over the shoulder” of Obama’s targeted killing.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/o...
Obama’s PowerPoint Death Parade Led to Trump’s Venezuelan Killings
The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are provoking outrage across the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, “We have only just begun to kill na...
www.counterpunch.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The Obama adm. asserted a right to kill U.S. citizens w/o trial, w/o notice & w/o any chance for the marked men to legally object.
In 11/2010, Justice Dept. said that no judge had legal authority to be “looking over the shoulder” of Obama’s targeted killing.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/o...
In 11/2010, Justice Dept. said that no judge had legal authority to be “looking over the shoulder” of Obama’s targeted killing.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/o...
The National Security Strategy, released overnight, described & argued that the U.S. should revive the Monroe Doctrine, declaring the Western Hemisphere to be Washington's zone of influence.
It warned that Europe faces "civilizational erasure" & must change course.
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
It warned that Europe faces "civilizational erasure" & must change course.
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Trump strategy document revives Monroe Doctrine, slams Europe
The United States will reassert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere, build military strength in the Indo-Pacific, and possibly reassess its relationship with Europe, President Donald Trump said on...
www.reuters.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The National Security Strategy, released overnight, described & argued that the U.S. should revive the Monroe Doctrine, declaring the Western Hemisphere to be Washington's zone of influence.
It warned that Europe faces "civilizational erasure" & must change course.
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
It warned that Europe faces "civilizational erasure" & must change course.
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Palantir has secured federal contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars since tRump returned to office. Those include work to support ICE as it pursues increased arrests & deportations.
www.latintimes.com/palantir-chi...
www.latintimes.com/palantir-chi...
Palantir Chief Defends Company's Work With ICE, Claims He's Running 'The Most Important Tech Company in the World
Palantir chief executive Alex Karp defended his company's expanding role in the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts, arguing that the data software company is not enabling domestic ...
www.latintimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Palantir has secured federal contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars since tRump returned to office. Those include work to support ICE as it pursues increased arrests & deportations.
www.latintimes.com/palantir-chi...
www.latintimes.com/palantir-chi...
Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean are a moneymaking opportunity for his company. Karp has never been shy to give his full support to violence he deems necessary.
Karp has praised tRump’s immigration policy & offered Palantir’s services to ICE.
gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...
Karp has praised tRump’s immigration policy & offered Palantir’s services to ICE.
gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his
gizmodo.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean are a moneymaking opportunity for his company. Karp has never been shy to give his full support to violence he deems necessary.
Karp has praised tRump’s immigration policy & offered Palantir’s services to ICE.
gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...
Karp has praised tRump’s immigration policy & offered Palantir’s services to ICE.
gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...
In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on Donhole tRump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth & MLK Day.
Previously, the National Park Service included these 2 federal holidays among its free-entry days for its 116 parks.
www.usatoday.com/story/travel...
Previously, the National Park Service included these 2 federal holidays among its free-entry days for its 116 parks.
www.usatoday.com/story/travel...
National parks cut free entry for MLK Day, add Trump's birthday
NPS changed its free admission days in 2026, removing MLK Day and Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday.
www.usatoday.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on Donhole tRump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth & MLK Day.
Previously, the National Park Service included these 2 federal holidays among its free-entry days for its 116 parks.
www.usatoday.com/story/travel...
Previously, the National Park Service included these 2 federal holidays among its free-entry days for its 116 parks.
www.usatoday.com/story/travel...
Reposted
Is it dead yet?
September 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Is it dead yet?
ICE arrested more than 1,100 people in D.C. from August thru mid-October, more than 3X the amount of ICE arrests in the city within the first 7 months of the year.
But that spike saw a 6X increase of arrests of immigrants without any criminal record at all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
But that spike saw a 6X increase of arrests of immigrants without any criminal record at all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump’s ICE surge into cities mostly arrested migrants without criminal records
High-profile operations in major cities mostly targeted people who were never convicted of any crimes, data analysis finds
www.independent.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
ICE arrested more than 1,100 people in D.C. from August thru mid-October, more than 3X the amount of ICE arrests in the city within the first 7 months of the year.
But that spike saw a 6X increase of arrests of immigrants without any criminal record at all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
But that spike saw a 6X increase of arrests of immigrants without any criminal record at all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
It could be that Sean Duffy’s views on presidential power have evolved over time, his apparent flip-flopping on something as fundamental as the meaning of the Constitution raises the prospect that Duffy may “just be playing a game for power.”
www.propublica.org/article/sean...
www.propublica.org/article/sean...
Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Once Defended Congress’ Power of the Purse. Now He Defies It.
As a congressman, Duffy made an impassioned legal case against executive overreach. A decade later, judges have used those same arguments to rebuke him for withholding billions in transportation fundi...
www.propublica.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It could be that Sean Duffy’s views on presidential power have evolved over time, his apparent flip-flopping on something as fundamental as the meaning of the Constitution raises the prospect that Duffy may “just be playing a game for power.”
www.propublica.org/article/sean...
www.propublica.org/article/sean...
The Pentagon issued press passes & access to dozens of rightwing media figures, including Laura Loomer, Matt Gaetz & LindellTV, founded by Mike Lindell, a conspiracy theorist & CEO of MyPillow.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Mouthpieces for Trump’: inside the rightwing takeover of the Pentagon press corps
Pentagon press passes once held by credentialed journalists are now in the hands of rightwing pundits and Trump allies
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The Pentagon issued press passes & access to dozens of rightwing media figures, including Laura Loomer, Matt Gaetz & LindellTV, founded by Mike Lindell, a conspiracy theorist & CEO of MyPillow.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Bongino admitted that he was paid as a MAGA podcaster & influencer to say whatever was necessary to rile his base before taking the job at the FBI.
www.alternet.org/dan-bongino-...
www.alternet.org/dan-bongino-...
FBI deputy director accused of admitting he used to be a 'paid liar' for Fox News
After nabbing a more likely “pipe-bombing” suspect this week, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino did not apologize for initially insinuating that the bombing attempt was “an inside job” on Fox News “Hann...
www.alternet.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Bongino admitted that he was paid as a MAGA podcaster & influencer to say whatever was necessary to rile his base before taking the job at the FBI.
www.alternet.org/dan-bongino-...
www.alternet.org/dan-bongino-...
influential voices in the Maga movement & the far-right CON party are calling to strip women of the franchise. Opposition to women’s voting rights has long been a persistent feature of the American right. It’s been a favorite hobby horse of extremist preachers.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
influential voices in the Maga movement & the far-right CON party are calling to strip women of the franchise. Opposition to women’s voting rights has long been a persistent feature of the American right. It’s been a favorite hobby horse of extremist preachers.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The US plans to expand the number of countries covered by its travel ban to more than 30.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Homeland security head reveals plans to widen US travel ban to more than 30 countries
Kristi Noem said the list of countries from which travel to the US is prohibited will increase to an unspecified number
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The US plans to expand the number of countries covered by its travel ban to more than 30.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s VC firm 1789 Capital, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense.
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finance.yahoo.com/news/company...
Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract
Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. defense department.
finance.yahoo.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s VC firm 1789 Capital, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense.
finance.yahoo.com/news/company...
finance.yahoo.com/news/company...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s rush to bolster the number of ICE agents on the streets means applicants who can “barely read or write” are being accepted.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
ICE applicants who can ‘barely read or write’ are being accepted, report says
The Homeland Security Department hopes to hire 10,000 new deportation officers by the end of the year to help in President Donald Trump’s massive immigration crackdown
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s rush to bolster the number of ICE agents on the streets means applicants who can “barely read or write” are being accepted.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
An increasing number of Christian nationalists & MAGA influencers are flat-out calling for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which, in 1920, gave women nationwide the right to vote.
www.alternet.org/maga-repeal-...
www.alternet.org/maga-repeal-...
'More and more' MAGA Republicans openly calling to end women’s right to vote
Over the years, right-wing firebrand author Ann Coulter argued, on various occasions, that the United States needs to "reconsider women's suffrage." And during Trump's second presidency, however, an i...
www.alternet.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
An increasing number of Christian nationalists & MAGA influencers are flat-out calling for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which, in 1920, gave women nationwide the right to vote.
www.alternet.org/maga-repeal-...
www.alternet.org/maga-repeal-...
2 fossil-fuel billionaires w/ close ties to the tRump Crime Family bought millions of shares in the company they co-founded after a meeting w/ White House officials, who then issued a key regulatory permit that helped expand the company’s fortunes in Europe.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials
Co-founders’ acquisition of Venture Global shares before key permit granted draws scrutiny as pair deny wrongdoing
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
2 fossil-fuel billionaires w/ close ties to the tRump Crime Family bought millions of shares in the company they co-founded after a meeting w/ White House officials, who then issued a key regulatory permit that helped expand the company’s fortunes in Europe.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Indications are that the ICE forces that were in Charlotte earlier this year may be coming to SE Louisiana in December.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/03/i...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/03/i...
I Bet I Know Where You Got Your Jackboots: Immigration Sweeps in New Orleans
Another city is readying itself to be the recipient of an immigration force “deployment”. This time, it’s the Crescent City that’s up to bat. The details
www.counterpunch.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Indications are that the ICE forces that were in Charlotte earlier this year may be coming to SE Louisiana in December.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/03/i...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/03/i...
VA confirmed that the department would share some of the data it is now gathering w/ other federal agencies, including for immigration enforcement purposes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: US veterans affairs to share immigration data about non-citizen workers with ‘appropriate agencies’
Exclusive: The move prompts fears the data will be sent to ICE to further the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
VA confirmed that the department would share some of the data it is now gathering w/ other federal agencies, including for immigration enforcement purposes.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The religious right wants more white Christian babies & is trying to curtail women’s reproductive freedom in order to achieve that aim.
The real danger is the constant whittling down of reproductive rights.
www.alternet.org/trump-babies...
The real danger is the constant whittling down of reproductive rights.
www.alternet.org/trump-babies...
Trump wants Americans to have more babies. There's just one big problem with that
Maddy Olcott plans to start a career once she graduates from college. But the junior at the State University of New York-Purchase College is so far not planning to start a family — even with the Trump...
www.alternet.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The religious right wants more white Christian babies & is trying to curtail women’s reproductive freedom in order to achieve that aim.
The real danger is the constant whittling down of reproductive rights.
www.alternet.org/trump-babies...
The real danger is the constant whittling down of reproductive rights.
www.alternet.org/trump-babies...
Russian strategic policy, known as the Gerasimov doctrine, argues that chaos in the ranks of the enemy is victory & a path to greatness.
He’s achieved unimagined strategic effect by manipulating the Trump administration.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
He’s achieved unimagined strategic effect by manipulating the Trump administration.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Putin doesn’t want peace – and Trump’s baffling error has made it easy for him
All hopes were on Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff’s trip to Moscow, but a breakthrough in peace talks was never going to happen with a man who has repeatedly taken Russia’s side, writes wor...
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Russian strategic policy, known as the Gerasimov doctrine, argues that chaos in the ranks of the enemy is victory & a path to greatness.
He’s achieved unimagined strategic effect by manipulating the Trump administration.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
He’s achieved unimagined strategic effect by manipulating the Trump administration.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Double-tap strikes are highly controversial & seen by many as war crimes.
Under the most basic tenets of the laws of war, which the US helped to write, you don’t mow down survivors of a bombing, especially survivors who are not enemy combatants.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Under the most basic tenets of the laws of war, which the US helped to write, you don’t mow down survivors of a bombing, especially survivors who are not enemy combatants.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
‘Taking the gloves off’: Trump just held the Cabinet meeting from Hell
Holly Baxter reports on a wild-eyed, fast-talking Pete Hegseth and Trump’s detour from ‘fat drugs for fat people’ to extrajudicial killings to Melania’s thoughts on the construction noise around the n...
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Double-tap strikes are highly controversial & seen by many as war crimes.
Under the most basic tenets of the laws of war, which the US helped to write, you don’t mow down survivors of a bombing, especially survivors who are not enemy combatants.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Under the most basic tenets of the laws of war, which the US helped to write, you don’t mow down survivors of a bombing, especially survivors who are not enemy combatants.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Democrats don't exist to fight the right. They exist to block the left.
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Democrats don't exist to fight the right. They exist to block the left.
The Nod Father…
December 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The Nod Father…
China’s siege of traditionally US-backed Taiwan has moved beyond crude military pressure. Its efforts to enforce the island’s economic & diplomatic isolation are augmented by spying, cyber-sabotage, mass surveillance, idiotic lies, conspiracies & disinformation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation | Simon Tisdall
The US hasn’t just left Ukraine vulnerable; it is also provoking Xi’s intensifying attitude towards what he considers a renegade province, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
China’s siege of traditionally US-backed Taiwan has moved beyond crude military pressure. Its efforts to enforce the island’s economic & diplomatic isolation are augmented by spying, cyber-sabotage, mass surveillance, idiotic lies, conspiracies & disinformation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
He is in the national command authority for nuclear weapons & he's putting out … turtles w/ rocket-propelled grenades.
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
'Franklin' publisher slams Hegseth for his post of the turtle firing on drug boats
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces growing scrutiny over an attack on an alleged drug boat. His response included a parody of the kids' book character Franklin, showing the turtle firing at boats.
www.npr.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
He is in the national command authority for nuclear weapons & he's putting out … turtles w/ rocket-propelled grenades.
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...