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Morgaan Sinclair, Ph.D.: Venezuela: It’s the Oil, Folks. Like it was with Trump Wanting Canada.
Venezuela has 10x more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. They’ll be wanting a piece, too.
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Reuters: Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be considered closed
- US officials unaware of military plans to enforce airspace closure
- Trump’s announcement raises questions, says retired US military officer
- Maduro’s government condemns Trump’s comments
- Venezuela revokes operating rights for six major airlines after FAA warning
Politico: Trump orders the closure of Venezuelan airspace
The president’s action comes amid a massive buildup of American military in the region.
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 29, 2025
In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 strike on a small boat off Venezuela, the Senate and the House Armed Services Committees have announced they intend to conduct “vigorous oversight” and “gather a full accounting” of the operation. …
Today former judge advocate generals (JAGs), military lawyers, in the Former JAGs Working Group issued a statement declaring that it unanimously “considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both,” and called for “anyone who issues or follows such orders [to] be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.”
The Former JAGs Working Group organized in February 2025 after Hegseth purged JAGs from the Army and Air Force and systematically dismantled the military’s legal guardrails. “Had those guardrails been in place,” they wrote, “we are confident they would have prevented these crimes.”
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Times of India: Ex-boyfriend of National Guard member killed in DC shooting reveals shocking details about her deployment: ‘Why am I here, it’s pointless…’
The ex-boyfriend of National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has said she felt her deployment to Washington DC was “pointless,” just days before she was fatally shot by an Afghan national.
In an interview with CNN, Adam Carr described how his 20-year-old girlfriend grew frustrated with the restrictions placed on her and other Guardsmen. “It was mixed,” Carr said. “She got deputized in there, and they gave them no rights to do anything.”
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Rook T. Winchester: The crime of feeding the hungry
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And the saddest part? This wasn’t accidental. This wasn’t a miscommunication or an overzealous officer tripping over bad instructions. This was intentional. A city chooses who it punishes. Pensacola looked at homelessness, hunger, poverty, and human suffering, and decided the problem wasn’t any of those things. The problem was the guy alleviating them. Kimberl didn’t break the law. He embarrassed the people who write them. …
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Intercept: Elon Musk’s Anti-Woke Wikipedia Is Calling Hitler “The Führer”
The anti-woke Wikipedia alternative aims to create a parallel version of the truth for the right wing.
…Take Grokipedia’s entry on Adolf Hitler. Until earlier this month, the entry read, “Adolf Hitler was the Austrian-born Führer of Germany from 1933 to 1945.” That phrase has been edited to “Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and dictator,” but Grok still refers to Hitler by his honorific one clause later, writing that Hitler served as “Führer und Reichskanzler from August 1934 until his suicide in 1945.” NBC News also pointed out that the page on Hitler goes on for some 13,000 words before the first mention of the Holocaust.
This isn’t the first time Grok has praised Hitler. Earlier this year, X users posted screenshots of the AI chatbot saying the Nazi leader could help combat “anti-white hate,” echoing his maker’s statements about debunked claims of a “white genocide” in South Africa. …
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Terrence Goggin: A nefarious “peace plan” exposed early – Trump hits a stone wall; the American military will not allow Ukraine to be sold out
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Guardian: ‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
For a moment, Jacob Hannah saw an unprecedented opportunity to make Appalachia great again.
In 2022, the Biden administration earmarked billions of dollars to help revitalize and strengthen former coal communities. The objective was to lay down building blocks for the region to transition from extractive industries like coal and timber to a hub for solar and other advanced energy technologies, with a view to long-term economic, climate and social resilience.
But on his first day in office, Donald Trump scrapped Biden’s clean energy and environmental programs, which he lambasted as woke, anti-American liberal hoaxes.
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Thom Hartmann: Part II: The System That Built Trump
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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