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<\/a><\/p>\nReuters: Video shows final, confused moments of survivors of US boat strike in Caribbean, say sources<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThey were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the U.S. military was weighing whether to finish them off.<\/p>\n
“The video follows them for about an hour as they tried to flip the boat back over. They couldn’t do it,” one source said.<\/p>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – December 4, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n\u201cWhat I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I\u2019ve seen in my time in public service,\u201d Representative Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said. \u201cYou have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel,… killed by the United States.\u201d
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\nThe administration says President Donald Trump has \u201cdetermined\u201d that the U.S. is in a formal armed conflict with drug cartels and that those in the boats are formally \u201ccombatants,\u201d but it has not reinforced those claims with the legal authority they need. After informing Congress of the strikes on September 4 to ensure Congress was \u201cfully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution,\u201d Trump has since ignored that resolution, which requires congressional approval for hostile actions to continue longer than 60 days, a deadline that passed in early November.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
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<\/a><\/p>\nDaily Beast: Real Reason for Pentagon Pete Commander\u2019s Shock Retirement Revealed<\/a><\/h2>\nFRIENDLY FIRE
\nReports initially stated Hegseth had nothing to do with the officer\u2019s abrupt exit.
\n(Daily Beast more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSnopes: Did Adm. Alvin Holsey resign over Hegseth’s Venezuela boat strike orders? What we know<\/a><\/h2>\nBrian Allen: Hegseth vs Holsey<\/a><\/h2>\nAP: US military conducts strike on another suspected drug boat as probe into the first strike begins<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n\n![\"Donald](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/78abc67e-237d-492c-9528-6f018ea1dccb_1024x683.webp\" "\\"Donald")
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Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan<\/a><\/h2>\nIn October, Popular Information reported<\/a> that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump\u2019s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in November 2024, despite having no notable experience with drones or military contracting.<\/p>\nThe contract was for the manufacturing of 3,500 drone motors, and the Army also \u201cindicated it planned to order an additional 20,000 components\u201d from Unusual Machines next year. Trump Jr. was given 200,000 shares of the company\u2019s stock<\/a> in 2024, which are now worth millions.<\/p>\nNow, another small startup funded by 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm where Trump Jr. is a partner, will receive a $620 million loan from the Defense Department, the Financial Times reported<\/a>. Vulcan Elements, which currently has around 30 employees, produces rare-earth magnets, which can be used in \u201cdrones, radar systems and other military applications<\/a>.\u201d The contract was awarded just three months after 1789 invested in Vulcan.
\n(Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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WSJ: Pentagon\u2019s Signalgate Review Finds Hegseth Violated Defense Department Regulations<\/a><\/h2>\nMarcy Wheeler: Signalgate: \u201cthis chat\u2019s kinda dead\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Jennifer Rubin: Republicans are \u2018Nowhere on Healthcare\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nWe should not be surprised by the utter disarray on the Republican side. MAGA Republicans have never given up hope of repealing or at least hobbling the ACA. When the White House suggested it would roll out its own capitulation<\/strikethrough> plan to extend the ACA credits, Republicans on the Hill threw a fit. That leaves Republicans facing a Democratic plan with no alternative of their own.
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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NBC: Suspect arrested in January 2021 D.C. pipe bomb case<\/a><\/h2>\nThe FBI has arrested a suspect in its investigation into pipe bombs planted near the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, according to a federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.<\/p>\n
Brian Cole was identified as the suspect in custody, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. The arrest marks a breakthrough in a case that has stymied investigators for nearly five years.
\n(NBC more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBrian Allen: The Arrest America Has Been Waiting For: FBI Nabs Suspect in Jan. 6 Pipe-Bomb Case<\/a><\/h2>\nJoyce Vance: An Alleged Bomber, Arrested and Charged<\/a><\/h2>\nMary Geddry: A Face for the Crime, No Spine for the Truth<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Politico: Trump asserts executive privilege to thwart Jan. 6 lawsuit<\/a><\/h2>\n
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KUT: Supreme Court lets Texas use gerrymandered map that could give GOP five more House seats<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Patricia J Wentzel: Mental Health Respite Centers<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nRespite centers are usually run by peer supporters and their approach tends to run at right angles to those of medically oriented crisis stabilization centers. Instead of seeking solutions that favor medications and professional treatment modalities, respite centers are generally client-centered spaces where the questions that are asked don\u2019t involve blood pressure and psychiatric diagnoses. Instead they focus on symptoms as coping mechanisms that deserve curious inquiry. Peer support workers are more interested in understanding how the person sees the world and how they can support the person in resolving the crisis without medical intervention. Instead, resolution is achieved by exploring issues of meaning and identity and relying on internal resources to place the crisis in context and reduce the subjective distress of the person in crisis.
\n(Patricia J Wentzel more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Christina Pagel: How much should the NHS worry about this winter’s flu wave?<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Allison Gill: Is Pam Bondi Trying to Use the Courts to Justify Withholding Epstein Files?<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nMy first thought was that this new request is an attempt to pass off their efforts as the \u201crelease of the Epstein files\u201d as judge Berman said when asked the first time. And as it turns out, an Epstein survivor named Annie Farmer has the same concerns.
\n(Allison Gill more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nThey were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the U.S. military was weighing whether to finish them off.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I\u2019ve seen in my time in public service,\u201d Representative Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said. \u201cYou have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel,… killed by the United States.\u201d FRIENDLY FIRE In October, Popular Information reported<\/a> that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump\u2019s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in November 2024, despite having no notable experience with drones or military contracting.<\/p>\n The contract was for the manufacturing of 3,500 drone motors, and the Army also \u201cindicated it planned to order an additional 20,000 components\u201d from Unusual Machines next year. Trump Jr. was given 200,000 shares of the company\u2019s stock<\/a> in 2024, which are now worth millions.<\/p>\n Now, another small startup funded by 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm where Trump Jr. is a partner, will receive a $620 million loan from the Defense Department, the Financial Times reported<\/a>. Vulcan Elements, which currently has around 30 employees, produces rare-earth magnets, which can be used in \u201cdrones, radar systems and other military applications<\/a>.\u201d The contract was awarded just three months after 1789 invested in Vulcan. … The FBI has arrested a suspect in its investigation into pipe bombs planted near the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, according to a federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.<\/p>\n Brian Cole was identified as the suspect in custody, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. The arrest marks a breakthrough in a case that has stymied investigators for nearly five years. … … <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" curated news excerpts & citations Reuters: Video shows final, confused moments of survivors of US boat strike in Caribbean, say sources … They were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the U.S. military was weighing whether to finish them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7251,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions\/7251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe administration says President Donald Trump has \u201cdetermined\u201d that the U.S. is in a formal armed conflict with drug cartels and that those in the boats are formally \u201ccombatants,\u201d but it has not reinforced those claims with the legal authority they need. After informing Congress of the strikes on September 4 to ensure Congress was \u201cfully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution,\u201d Trump has since ignored that resolution, which requires congressional approval for hostile actions to continue longer than 60 days, a deadline that passed in early November.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/p>\nDaily Beast: Real Reason for Pentagon Pete Commander\u2019s Shock Retirement Revealed<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nReports initially stated Hegseth had nothing to do with the officer\u2019s abrupt exit.
\n(Daily Beast more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSnopes: Did Adm. Alvin Holsey resign over Hegseth’s Venezuela boat strike orders? What we know<\/a><\/h2>\n
Brian Allen: Hegseth vs Holsey<\/a><\/h2>\n
AP: US military conducts strike on another suspected drug boat as probe into the first strike begins<\/a><\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nRebecca Crosby and Noel Sims: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWSJ: Pentagon\u2019s Signalgate Review Finds Hegseth Violated Defense Department Regulations<\/a><\/h2>\n
Marcy Wheeler: Signalgate: \u201cthis chat\u2019s kinda dead\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nJennifer Rubin: Republicans are \u2018Nowhere on Healthcare\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nWe should not be surprised by the utter disarray on the Republican side. MAGA Republicans have never given up hope of repealing or at least hobbling the ACA. When the White House suggested it would roll out its own
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nNBC: Suspect arrested in January 2021 D.C. pipe bomb case<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(NBC more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBrian Allen: The Arrest America Has Been Waiting For: FBI Nabs Suspect in Jan. 6 Pipe-Bomb Case<\/a><\/h2>\n
Joyce Vance: An Alleged Bomber, Arrested and Charged<\/a><\/h2>\n
Mary Geddry: A Face for the Crime, No Spine for the Truth<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nPolitico: Trump asserts executive privilege to thwart Jan. 6 lawsuit<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nKUT: Supreme Court lets Texas use gerrymandered map that could give GOP five more House seats<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nPatricia J Wentzel: Mental Health Respite Centers<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nRespite centers are usually run by peer supporters and their approach tends to run at right angles to those of medically oriented crisis stabilization centers. Instead of seeking solutions that favor medications and professional treatment modalities, respite centers are generally client-centered spaces where the questions that are asked don\u2019t involve blood pressure and psychiatric diagnoses. Instead they focus on symptoms as coping mechanisms that deserve curious inquiry. Peer support workers are more interested in understanding how the person sees the world and how they can support the person in resolving the crisis without medical intervention. Instead, resolution is achieved by exploring issues of meaning and identity and relying on internal resources to place the crisis in context and reduce the subjective distress of the person in crisis.
\n(Patricia J Wentzel more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nChristina Pagel: How much should the NHS worry about this winter’s flu wave?<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAllison Gill: Is Pam Bondi Trying to Use the Courts to Justify Withholding Epstein Files?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nMy first thought was that this new request is an attempt to pass off their efforts as the \u201crelease of the Epstein files\u201d as judge Berman said when asked the first time. And as it turns out, an Epstein survivor named Annie Farmer has the same concerns.
\n(Allison Gill more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
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