Category: 2026

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Al Jazeera: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro ‘captured’ after huge US military strikes

US says Venezuelan president will face drug-related charges in New York as Caracas decries Nicolas Maduro’s capture.
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Al Jazeera: US lawmakers react to attack on Venezuela, ‘capture’ of Nicolas Maduro

Sarah Burns: … Trump’s attack on Venezuela reflects Congress surrendering its decision-making powers

… This is regime change, and whether or not it has a positive impact on the United States, whether or not it has a positive impact on Venezuela, I think the likelihood is very low for both of those things being true.
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Daily Beast: Sleepless Trump, 79, Threatens New War in 3AM Rage Post

PEACEMAKER IN CHIEF?
The president, who has been lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize, warned a foreign adversary that the U.S. is “locked and loaded and ready to go.”

President Donald Trump fired off a 3 a.m. social media post threatening to attack Iran after protests against the country’s supreme leader turned deadly.
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Brian Allen: Federal Judges Blow the Whistle on DOJ Deception: 35+ Cases of Lies and “Sham” Evidence

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The cleanest way to understand this is through the Goodman-led tracking work (published via Just Security) that compiles cases where judges themselves explicitly questioned the government’s truthfulness, accuracy, or good faith.

This matters because it is not punditry. It is not Twitter. It is not “some guy says.”

It is judges putting it in orders and on transcripts.

And the allegations are not all one flavor. They cluster into repeatable misconduct categories:

• False sworn declarations used to win emergency rulings
• Evidence problems judges call “sham,” “misleading,” or “unsupported”
• Noncompliance with court orders followed by legal gymnastics to justify it
• Agency narratives that fall apart under basic cross-checking

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Techno-Science: ⚠️ A robot, missing for 9 months, resurfaces with an alarming message

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The discovery is more alarming for the Denman Glacier. The profiler clearly identified the presence of a layer of warmer water circulating beneath its floating part. This water is already causing melting at the base. Scientists believe the configuration is precarious: a slight increase in the thickness of this warm water layer could significantly accelerate the disintegration process, committing the glacier to a potentially irreversible retreat.

The stakes are high. The Denman Glacier alone contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by about 5 feet (1.5 meters) if it were to melt completely. Combined with the Totten Glacier, whose potential is estimated at 11.5 feet (3.5 meters), these two giants of East Antarctica represent a major long-term threat. Their confirmed vulnerability to warm ocean water requires integrating these new parameters into sea level rise forecast models.
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