Let Them Fight…

Trump says the U.S. government may reimburse oil companies for rebuilding Venezuela’s infrastructure

No healthcare subsidies, no money to feed poor people or kids who need government help to have lunch.  As a kid often the only meal I got was lunch at school.   No one monitored if I paid or not I was given food to eat like every other kid.   In Jr / Senior high school, say from 13 to 18 again my only meal was lunch or snacks at school.  But yes the tRump admin was cutting every safety net program and even halting child care so it hurts Walz, and stopping FEMA funds to states run by democrats among other cuts to already congress approved funding.   All illegally I will add but the republicans in congress are too scared of tRump to object to his being a tyrant.   But we have plenty of money for companies and businesses to extract oil.   

On The Majority Report I am listening to an oil person saying that the price of oil has fallen below $50 a barrel because of a glut on the market, and that Venezuelan oil is “sour oil” meaning it is hard to refine.  He says that to make a profit on that prices have to be over $80 dollars a barrel.   Which means this demented daydream of Rubio’s and Miller’s is not about oil so much as territorial control over other countries and Rubio has long wanted Cuba to fall to the US so his parent’s lands and money can be claimed from the rightful owners of it now.   Rubio’s family fled Cuba as refugees and lost all their holdings in Cuba, he has made a career of wanting it all back and toppling Castro.  But … well Rubio and the neocons claim that if we can make Venzualia fall into line then all the other Latin American countries will fall in line also and Cuba’s government will be destroyed.  Just like if we take out Saddam Hussein then the entire Middle East will embrace democracy.   Same story different location.   And it is all lies.  Just an excuse to use the US military might and have a reason to deny any public relief or safety nets at home.   Hugs


https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/trump-venezuela-oil-companies-reimburse-rcna252434

Big oil firms will either “get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” Trump told NBC News in an exclusive interview.

President Donald Trump said he believes the U.S. oil industry could get expanded operations in Venezuela “up and running” in fewer than 18 months.

“I think we can do it in less time than that, but it’ll be a lot of money,” Trump told NBC News in an interview Monday.

“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent, and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” he said.

Whether the U.S. government ultimately agrees to reimburse the oil industry’s costs in Venezuela, or alternatively, decides that future revenue is sufficient repayment, will likely be a key factor for the oil companies as they consider their options.

Trump declined to say how much money he believes it would cost companies to repair and upgrade Venezuela’s aging oil infrastructure.

“It’ll be a very substantial amount of money will be spent” by the oil companies, Trump said. “But they’ll do very well.”

“And the country will do well,” he added.

Despite Trump’s optimism, oil companies have appeared skeptical of quickly entering, expanding or investing in Venezuela. A history of state asset seizures, the ongoing U.S. sanctions and the latest political instability all feed into this caution.

Trump said he believed that tapping Venezuela’s oil reserves is “going to reduce oil prices.”

Gas prices are already at multiyear lows. The average retail gas price on Monday was $2.81, according to AAA. That’s the lowest since March 2021.

“Having a Venezuela that’s an oil producer is good for the United States because it keeps the price of oil down,” Trump also added.

While lower oil prices could make gas cheaper at the pump, it would likely also mean lower revenues for the same big oil companies that Trump is counting on to bankroll the rebuilding of Venezuela’s oil industry to the tune of billions of dollars in foreign investment.

Asked if the administration had briefed any oil companies ahead of Saturday’s military operation to capture deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, Trump said, “No. But we’ve been talking to the concept of, ‘what if we did it?'”

“The oil companies were absolutely aware that we were thinking about doing something,” Trump said. “But we didn’t tell them we were going to do it.”

Trump told NBC News it was “too soon” to say whether he had personally spoken to top executives at America’s three largest oil producers, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips.

“I speak to everybody,” he said.

ConocoPhillips declined to comment Monday on Trump’s plans for Venezuela’s oil reserves. Chevron told NBC News it does not comment “on commercial matters or speculate on future investments.” Exxon did not immediately respond to questions.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright plans to meet with executives from Exxon and ConocoPhillips this week about Venezuela’s oil industry, Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Wright will be a point person for the Trump administration’s broader campaign to rebuild Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, a White House official said Monday.

The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. oil industry is eager to return to Venezuela, nearly two decades after the country last nationalized billions of dollars’ worth of oil company assets.

“They want to go in so badly,” Trump told reporters Sunday evening.

Despite Venezuela’s massive reserves of crude oil, large U.S. oil firms have a good reason to pause before committing to expand operations in Venezuela.

In the 1970s, the Venezuelan government nationalized energy assets there, including those owned by Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips. In the years since, the companies have tried unsuccessfully to recover billions of dollars.

In 2006 and 2007, the Venezuelan government nationalized even more assets. Then-President Hugo Chávez allowed foreign oil firms to remain, but on less favorable terms, leading to the full departure of Exxon and Conoco.

Chevron, however accepted the terms and remains to this day, thanks in large part to a limited waiver exempting it from U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan oil.

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods recently expressed caution about re-entering Venezuela.

“We’ve been expropriated from Venezuela two different times,” he told Bloomberg News in November, replying to a question about whether Exxon would be interested in Venezuela’s oil or gas. “We’d have to see what the economics look like.”

The banana wars

 

 

US can’t deport hate speech researcher for protected speech, lawsuit says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/us-cant-deport-hate-speech-researcher-for-protected-speech-lawsuit-says/

On Monday, US officials must explain what steps they took to enforce shocking visa bans.

Ashley Belanger – 
Imran Ahmed, the founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), giving evidence to joint committee seeking views on how to improve the draft Online Safety Bill designed to tackle social media abuse. Credit: House of Commons – PA Images / Contributor | PA Images

Imran Ahmed’s biggest thorn in his side used to be Elon Musk, who made the hate speech researcher one of his earliest legal foes during his Twitter takeover.

Now, it’s the Trump administration, which planned to deport Ahmed, a legal permanent resident, just before Christmas. It would then ban him from returning to the United States, where he lives with his wife and young child, both US citizens.

After suing US officials to block any attempted arrest or deportation, Ahmed was quickly granted a temporary restraining order on Christmas Day. Ahmed had successfully argued that he risked irreparable harm without the order, alleging that Trump officials continue “to abuse the immigration system to punish and punitively detain noncitizens for protected speech and silence viewpoints with which it disagrees” and confirming that his speech had been chilled.

US officials are attempting to sanction Ahmed seemingly due to his work as the founder of a British-American non-governmental organization, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).

“An egregious act of government censorship”

In a shocking announcement last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that five individuals—described as “radical activists” and leaders of “weaponized NGOs”—would face US visa bans since “their entry, presence, or activities in the United States have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences” for the US.

Nobody was named in that release, but Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, Sarah Rogers, later identified the targets in an X post she currently has pinned to the top of her feed.

Alongside Ahmed, sanctioned individuals included former European commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton; the leader of UK-based Global Disinformation Index (GDI), Clare Melford; and co-leaders of Germany-based HateAid, Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon. A GDI spokesperson told The Guardian that the visa bans are “an authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship.”

While all targets were scrutinized for supporting some of the European Union’s strictest tech regulations, including the Digital Services Act (DSA), Ahmed was further accused of serving as a “key collaborator with the Biden Administration’s effort to weaponize the government against US citizens.” As evidence of Ahmed’s supposed threat to US foreign policy, Rogers cited a CCDH report flagging Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. among the so-called “disinformation dozen” driving the most vaccine hoaxes on social media.

Neither official has really made it clear what exact threat these individuals pose if operating from within the US, as opposed to from anywhere else in the world. Echoing Rubio’s press release, Rogers wrote that the sanctions would reinforce a “red line,” supposedly ending “extraterritorial censorship of Americans” by targeting the “censorship-NGO ecosystem.”

For Ahmed’s group, specifically, she pointed to Musk’s failed lawsuit, which accused CCDH of illegally scraping Twitter—supposedly, it offered evidence of extraterritorial censorship. That lawsuit surfaced “leaked documents” allegedly showing that CCDH planned to “kill Twitter” by sharing research that could be used to justify big fines under the DSA or the UK’s Online Safety Act. Following that logic, seemingly any group monitoring misinformation or sharing research that lawmakers weigh when implementing new policies could be maligned as seeking mechanisms to censor platforms.

Notably, CCDH won its legal fight with Musk after a judge mocked X’s legal argument as “vapid” and dismissed the lawsuit as an obvious attempt to punish CCDH for exercising free speech that Musk didn’t like.

In his complaint last week, Ahmed alleged that US officials were similarly encroaching on his First Amendment rights by unconstitutionally wielding immigration law as “a tool to punish noncitizen speakers who express views disfavored by the current administration.”

Both Rubio and Rogers are named as defendants in the suit, as well as Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and Acting Director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons. In a loss, officials would potentially not only be forced to vacate Rubio’s actions implementing visa bans, but also possibly stop furthering a larger alleged Trump administration pattern of “targeting noncitizens for removal based on First Amendment protected speech.”

Lawsuit may force Rubio to justify visa bans

For Ahmed, securing the temporary restraining order was urgent, as he was apparently the only target currently located in the US when Rubio’s announcement dropped. In a statement provided to Ars, Ahmed’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, suggested that the order was granted “so quickly because it is so obvious that Marco Rubio and the other defendants’ actions were blatantly unconstitutional.”

Ahmed founded CCDH in 2019, hoping to “call attention to the enormous problem of digitally driven disinformation and hate online.” According to the suit, he became particularly concerned about antisemitism online while living in the United Kingdom in 2016, having watched “the far-right party, Britain First,” launching “the dangerous conspiracy theory that the EU was attempting to import Muslims and Black people to ‘destroy’ white citizens.” That year, a Member of Parliament and Ahmed’s colleague, Jo Cox, was “shot and stabbed in a brutal politically motivated murder, committed by a man who screamed ‘Britain First’” during the attack. That tragedy motivated Ahmed to start CCDH.

He moved to the US in 2021 and was granted a green card in 2024, starting his family and continuing to lead CCDH efforts monitoring not just Twitter/X, but also Meta platforms, TikTok, and, more recently, AI chatbots. In addition to supporting the DSA and UK’s Online Safety Act, his group has supported US online safety laws and Section 230 reforms intended to protect kids online.

“Mr. Ahmed studies and engages in civic discourse about the content moderation policies of major social media companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union,” his lawsuit said. “There is no conceivable foreign policy impact from his speech acts whatsoever.”

In his complaint, Ahmed alleged that Rubio has so far provided no evidence that Ahmed poses such a great threat that he must be removed. He argued that “applicable statutes expressly prohibit removal based on a noncitizen’s ‘past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations.’”

According to DHS guidance from 2021 cited in the suit, “A noncitizen’ s exercise of their First Amendment rights … should never be a factor in deciding to take enforcement action.”

To prevent deportation based solely on viewpoints, Rubio was supposed to notify chairs of the House Foreign Affairs, Senate Foreign Relations, and House and Senate Judiciary Committees, to explain what “compelling US foreign policy interest” would be compromised if Ahmed or others targeted with visa bans were to enter the US. But there’s no evidence Rubio took those steps, Ahmed alleged.

“The government has no power to punish Mr. Ahmed for his research, protected speech, and advocacy, and Defendants cannot evade those constitutional limitations by simply claiming that Mr. Ahmed’s presence or activities have ‘potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States,’” a press release from his legal team said. “There is no credible argument for Mr. Ahmed’s immigration detention, away from his wife and young child.”

X lawsuit offers clues to Trump officials’ defense

To some critics, it looks like the Trump administration is going after CCDH in order to take up the fight that Musk already lost. In his lawsuit against CCDH, Musk’s X echoed US Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) by suggesting that CCDH was a “foreign dark money group” that allowed “foreign interests” to attempt to “influence American democracy.” It seems likely that US officials will put forward similar arguments in their CCDH fight.

Rogers’ X post offers some clues that the State Department will be mining Musk’s failed litigation to support claims of what it calls a “global censorship-industrial complex.” What she detailed suggested that the Trump administration plans to argue that NGOs like CCDH support strict tech laws, then conduct research bent on using said laws to censor platforms. That logic seems to ignore the reality that NGOs cannot control what laws get passed or enforced, Breton suggested in his first TV interview after his visa ban was announced.

Breton, whom Rogers villainized as the “mastermind” behind the DSA, urged EU officials to do more now defend their tough tech regulations—which Le Monde noted passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and very little far-right resistance—and fight the visa bans, Bloomberg reported.

“They cannot force us to change laws that we voted for democratically just to please [US tech companies],” Breton said. “No, we must stand up.”

While EU officials seemingly drag their feet, Ahmed is hoping that a judge will declare that all the visa bans that Rubio announced are unconstitutional. The temporary restraining order indicates there will be a court hearing Monday at which Ahmed will learn precisely “what steps Defendants have taken to impose visa restrictions and initiate removal proceedings against” him and any others. Until then, Ahmed remains in the dark on why Rubio deemed him as having “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences” if he stayed in the US.

Ahmed, who argued that X’s lawsuit sought to chill CCDH’s research and alleged that the US attack seeks to do the same, seems confident that he can beat the visa bans.

“America is a great nation built on laws, with checks and balances to ensure power can never attain the unfettered primacy that leads to tyranny,” Ahmed said. “The law, clear-eyed in understanding right and wrong, will stand in the way of those who seek to silence the truth and empower the bold who stand up to power. I believe in this system, and I am proud to call this country my home. I will not be bullied away from my life’s work of fighting to keep children safe from social media’s harm and stopping antisemitism online. Onward.”

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Ashley is a senior policy reporter for Ars Technica, dedicated to tracking social impacts of emerging policies and new technologies. She is a Chicago-based journalist with 20 years of experience.

Many in Gaza to ‘Lose Access to Critical Medical Care’ as Israel Suspends Doctors Without Borders

Criminal Israel has violated every aspect of the “ceasefire” and made a mockery of the promises of security guarantees tRump gave Hamas / the Palestinians.  It should make Ukraine really nervous of the same things he has promised them.  All tRump can see or cares about is his personal profit of building on Palestinian lands making profits over the dead bodies of the Palestinians.   He is OK with Israel hurrying up the slaughter to get to that profit point.  I hate this.  You should also.   Hugs


https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-doctors-withour-borders

Funeral of Dr. Hussein Najjar of Doctors Without Borders

People attend the funeral of Dr. Hussein Najjar, a member of the Doctors Without Borders team who was killed by shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike, in Deir al Balah, Gaza on September 16, 2025

 (Photo by Alaa Y. M. Abumohsen/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“The humanitarian response in Gaza is already highly restricted, and cannot afford further dismantlement,” the renowned organization warned.

The Israeli government said Tuesday that Doctors Without Borders, one of the largest medical organizations currently operating in Gaza, is among the 25 humanitarian groups that will be suspended at the start of the new year for their alleged failure to comply with Israel’s widely criticized new registration rules for international NGOs.

According to the Associated Press, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs “said the organizations that will be banned on January 1 did not meet new requirements for sharing staff, funding, and operations information.” The Israeli government specifically accused Doctors Without Borders, known internationally as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), of “failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with Hamas and other militant groups,” AP reported.

In addition to providing medical assistance to desperate Palestinians, MSF has been an outspoken critic of what has it described as Israel’s “campaign of total destruction” in Gaza. The group said in a report released last December that its teams’ experiences on the ground in Gaza were “consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place.”

Ahead of Tuesday’s announcement, Doctors Without Borders warned that the looming withdrawal of registration from international NGOs “would prevent organizations, including MSF, from providing essential services to people in Gaza and the West Bank.”

“With Gaza’s health system already destroyed, the loss of independent and experienced humanitarian organizations’ access to respond would be a disaster for Palestinians,” the group said in a statement last week. “The humanitarian response in Gaza is already highly restricted, and cannot afford further dismantlement.”

“If Israeli authorities revoke MSF’s access to Gaza in 2026, a large portion of people in Gaza will lose access to critical medical care, water, and lifesaving support,” the group added. “MSF’s activities serve nearly half a million people in Gaza through our vital support to the destroyed health system. MSF continues to seek constructive engagement with Israeli authorities to continue its activities.”

Pascale Coissard, MSF’s emergency coordinator for Gaza, noted that “in the last year, MSF teams have treated hundreds of thousands of patients and delivered hundreds of millions of liters of water.”

“MSF teams are trying to expand activities and support Gaza’s shattered health system,” said Coissard. “In 2025 alone, we carried out almost 800,000 outpatient consultations and handled more than 100,000 trauma cases.”

Israel’s announcement came shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US President Donald Trump in Florida, where both dodged questions about their supposed “peace plan” for Gaza after more than two years of relentless bombing. The Israeli military has been accused of violating an existing ceasefire agreement hundreds of times since it took effect in October.

Al Jazeera reported Tuesday that “Israeli forces have carried out strikes across the Gaza Strip as they continue with their near-daily violations of the ceasefire agreement, with Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged enclave continuing apace and displaced Palestinians enduring the destruction of their few remaining possessions in flooding brought about by heavy winter rains.”

 

Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims

Please note the article is 4 months old.  However in this time of constant AI talk and every company trying to push us into using it against out will I think we also realize how dangerous AI can be.   Hugs


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/27/chatgpt-scrutiny-family-teen-killed-himself-sue-open-ai

Open AI to change way it responds to users in mental distress as parents of Adam Raine allege bot not safe

Adam Raine smilingAdam Raine’s parents are suing Open AI after he discussed a method of suicide with ChatGPT on several occasions, including shortly before taking his own life. Photograph: the Raine Family

The makers of ChatGPT are changing the way it responds to users who show mental and emotional distress after legal action from the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who killed himself after months of conversations with the chatbot.

Open AI admitted its systems could “fall short” and said it would install “stronger guardrails around sensitive content and risky behaviors” for users under 18.

The $500bn (£372bn) San Francisco AI company said it would also introduce parental controls to allow parents “options to gain more insight into, and shape, how their teens use ChatGPT”, but has yet to provide details about how these would work.

Adam, from California, killed himself in April after what his family’s lawyer called “months of encouragement from ChatGPT”. The teenager’s family is suing Open AI and its chief executive and co-founder, Sam Altman, alleging that the version of ChatGPT at that time, known as 4o, was “rushed to market … despite clear safety issues”.

The teenager discussed a method of suicide with ChatGPT on several occasions, including shortly before taking his own life. According to the filing in the superior court of the state of California for the county of San Francisco, ChatGPT guided him on whether his method of taking his own life would work.

It also offered to help him write a suicide note to his parents.

A spokesperson for OpenAI said the company was “deeply saddened by Mr Raine’s passing”, extended its “deepest sympathies to the Raine family during this difficult time” and said it was reviewing the court filing.

Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft’s AI arm, said last week he had become increasingly concerned by the “psychosis risk” posed by AI to users. Microsoft has defined this as “mania-like episodes, delusional thinking, or paranoia that emerge or worsen through immersive conversations with AI chatbots”.

In a blogpost, OpenAI admitted that “parts of the model’s safety training may degrade” in long conversations. Adam and ChatGPT had exchanged as many as 650 messages a day, the court filing claims.

Jay Edelson, the family’s lawyer, said on X: “The Raines allege that deaths like Adam’s were inevitable: they expect to be able to submit evidence to a jury that OpenAI’s own safety team objected to the release of 4o, and that one of the company’s top safety researchers, Ilya Sutskever, quit over it. The lawsuit alleges that beating its competitors to market with the new model catapulted the company’s valuation from $86bn to $300bn.”

Open AI said it would be “strengthening safeguards in long conversations”.

“As the back and forth grows, parts of the model’s safety training may degrade,” it said. “For example, ChatGPT may correctly point to a suicide hotline when someone first mentions intent, but after many messages over a long period of time, it might eventually offer an answer that goes against our safeguards.”

Open AI gave the example of someone who might enthusiastically tell the model they believed they could drive for 24 hours a day because they realised they were invincible after not sleeping for two nights.

It said: “Today ChatGPT may not recognise this as dangerous or infer play and – by curiously exploring – could subtly reinforce it. We are working on an update to GPT‑5 that will cause ChatGPT to de-escalate by grounding the person in reality. In this example, it would explain that sleep deprivation is dangerous and recommend rest before any action.”

 

Russia carried out a record number of missile and drone attacks on Ukraine in 2025

I want to thank https://personnelente.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/attacking-ukraine/ for the link to this news article.  I think it is seriously important we realize Ukraine is suffering to keep the rest of the world safe.  If Putin has his way he will recreate the world of the USSR in the 1980s again, taking territory of other countries by force and stealing their resources, just as tRump thinks the US should be able to do the countries the US deals with or are in our hemisphere.  None of this will come to any good for the world.  Right from the start Ukraine should have been given the weapons it needed with no restraint on how to use them.  Biden did as much to damage Ukraine as Putin’s military did.   Biden forced Ukraine to fight with their hands tied behind their backs.  Thankfully Europe is realizing that mistake and removing the no attacks on Russian soil restrictions.   Hugs


Russia carried out a record number of missile and drone attacks on Ukraine in 2025

31.12.2025

In 2025, Russian troops carried out a record number of air attacks on the territory of Ukraine. According to the United24 platform, the enemy used more than 60 thousand guided bombs, about 2.4 thousand missiles and more than 100 thousand drones of various types.

Number of air alerts in Ukraine in 2025 / United 24
Number of air alerts in Ukraine in 2025 / United 24

During the year, at least 19,033 air alerts were announced throughout the country. The sirens sounded most often in the Kharkiv region (2,020 times), Zaporizhia (1,807 times) and Sumy region (1,793 times). The fewest alerts were recorded in Transcarpathia (126 times), Ivano-Frankivsk region (133 times) and Lviv region (140 times).

If in the winter and spring months there were one or two major attacks per month, then since June-July their number has increased significantly. During individual strikes, the enemy used up to 60 missiles and hundreds of drones, sometimes up to 700–800 drones in a single attack.

The most massive attacks of 2025:

  • January 15: 177 targets (of which 43 missiles and 74 drones, air defense destroyed 30 missiles and all drones)
  • February 1: 165 targets (of which 42 missiles and 123 drones)
  • March 7: 261 (of which 67 missiles and 194 drones)
  • April 24: 215 (of which 70 missiles and 145 drones)
  • May 25: 367 (of which 69 missiles and 298 drones)

Starting in June, the shelling has intensified significantly:

  • June 29: 537 targets (of which 60 missiles and 477 drones)
  • July 9: 728 drones.

In August, the number of attacks remained at a high level:

  • August 21: 614 targets (including 40 missiles and 574 drones)
  • August 28: 629 targets (including 31 missiles and 598 drones)
  • August 30: 582 targets (including 45 missiles and 537 UAVs).
Consequences of the shelling of Donetsk : National Police of Ukraineregion
Consequences of the shelling of Donetsk : National Police of Ukraineregion

A record number of drones was recorded on September 7 – 823 targets (including 810 drones and 13 missiles), and on October 30 the enemy launched 705 targets (including 52 missiles and 653 drones). During November and December, massive attacks continued: the number of missiles reached 51, drones – up to 653 in one shelling.

United24 emphasizes that human suffering cannot be fully measured in numbers, but statistics clearly demonstrate the scale of the threat and confirm that Ukraine needs enhanced air defense and support from international partners.

Author: Anna Romaniv | View all publications by the author

 

Two days of news that is all over the map.

Why I do these posts.   This is three days of Joe My God that got away way from me.   So why do I do these long news posts?  Because I comb the Joe My God comment section for the best memes and snarkiest comments.   It dawned on me I could post his news articles for those that want to read them.  But three days is a lot to go throw and it is much easier just to quickly scan and snatch the comments rather than post them.   So I need some inputs from everyone.  Are these posts worth it?  Or would you rather go to Joe My God yourselves.  Or I can keep doing these.   Up to you.  Hugs

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tRumps Grifts / Scams / Ripping off the rubes / tRump’s ego / tRump’s Crimes / tRump’s health / Republican grifts & payouts for supporting tRump / other trump scammers

Vaporware Trump Phone Again Gets Release Delay

The Trump Mobile website recently scrubbed its “100% made in America” claim.

 

Trump: Construction Of Arch To Start In Two Months

 

Trump’s Golfing Cost Over $110 Million This Year

The Trump Golf Tracker estimates that the president’s golf trips have cost taxpayers some $110,600,000 so far in 2025. But that estimate, which was based on a 2019 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on four golf trips during his first term, doesn’t even take into account the month of December.

 

Trump Moves To Seize DC’s Public Golf Courses

 

Trump: My Ballroom Will Host The Next Inauguration

 

 

Smith’s House Testimony Released, Many Redactions

 

 

Both Of Trump’s Hands Are Now Showing Bruising

 

MTG: Trump Has Proven His Christian Faith Is Fake

 

Israeli President: Trump Lied About Netanyahu Pardon

 

 

Trump Lies: “No Hostages Were Released Under Biden”

 

Trump Threatens To Sue Fed Chair Jerome Powell

 

Alaska Gets Big Payoff For Murkowski’s Megabill Vote

 

DHS Seeks “Emergency” Demolition Of DC Buildings

 

Money Beg: Get Your Tariff Check Before Dems Steal It

DOJ Warned Trump Of Homan Bribery Investigation

 

“Civil War” Couple Guilty In $2 Million Medical Scam

 

 


Epstein Files / Sexualizing women 

DOJ Is Now Reviewing 5.2M Pages Of Epstein Docs

 

MTG “Never Liked MAGA Mar-A-Lago Sexualization”

 

MTG: Trump Said “My Friends Will Get Hurt” After I Threatened To Identify Men Who Sexually Abused Girls

 

 

 


Criminal Israel / Genocide / How easy tRump is played 

TODAY: Netanyahu Meets With Trump At Mar-A-Lago

 

 


The right wing media / the media arms of the GOP & Republican Party / The over the top thuggery and complete disrespect for common decency / Ask if you would like your child to act this way …. because maga does want their kids to be this crass as it makes them feel good / Kennedy Center debacle

 

Minnesota GOP Secretly Behind Viral Day Care Video

The video was shared by Vice President JD Vance. FBI director Kash Patel said he is aware of the video and the FBI is investigating. The YouTuber says he is uncovering new fraud in Minnesota, but media outlets like KSTP reported more than a year ago about more than 62 investigations into Minnesota child care centers.

 

Comer Summons Tim Walz Over “Day Care Fraud”

What this is really about is they are afraid Walz will run for office and win as he is so well liked.   They are trying to gin up a fake scandal to Benghazi him like they did with Hillary Clinton.   I posted yesterday how fake and full of lies / misinformation the “report” the YouTuber did was.  In the article above this one you can see how the Republican Party had a hand in helping the right wing influencer to push a fake story.   The state has been investigating these things for several years.  Hugs

 

ABC: HHS Freezes Child Care Funding For All States

 

 

Top DOJ Official Calls MAGA Critics “Paid Hoes”

Can these people hear what comes out of their mouths?  How nuts are they?  Why are they relevant anymore?   Hugs

Kari Lake: Imprison Trump’s Critics For Life [VIDEO]

 

Fox News Host Attacks Biden For Being “On Vacation”

Kennedy Center Changed Rules Before Renaming Vote

 

 

Grenell Claims “Legacy Media Is Encouraging Boycotts”

 

Two More Acts Cancel Kennedy Center Performances

 

Grenell Rages Over Latest Kennedy Center Cancellations

 

 

Trump Claims Approval Rating Is Twice What Polls Say

 

WSJ Board Mocks Latest 2020 Election Batshittery

Pam Bondi: The DOJ Is Investigating Obama And Biden Officials For “Conspiring” Against My Glorious Leader

 

 

 


Wars / Other countries taking advantage of tRump’s weakness / tRump’s false golden dome give away to defense contractors.

China Conducts Live-Fire Military Drills Around Taiwan

 

Bondi Deletes Post That Accidentally Praised Joe Biden

The chart posted shows that overall drug deaths dropped between 2023 and 2024, when the Biden administration was in the White House.

Before tRump started blowing up boats for oil.  Hugs

 

Trump Claims US Struck “Big Facility” In Venezuela

 

30th “Drug Boat” Strike Brings Murder Toll To 107

 

 

Trump: US “Exploded” Venezuelan Marine Facility

 

CNN: CIA Carried Out Drone Strike On Venezuelan Port

 

 

Zelensky: US Offered 15 Years Of Security Guarantees

 

Zelensky: Russia Is Lying To Sabotage Peace Talks

Don Bacon Blasts Trump For Swallowing Putin’s Lies

Mike Pompeo: “Putin Has Conceded Literally Nothing”

 

Trump Admin Gives Visa To Propagandist For Russia

 

 

Congress Still In The Dark About $175B “Golden Dome”

 $175 billion for a “golden dome” that experts doubt would actually work, but only $2 billion in humanitarian aid for the United Nations. It’s what Jesus would want.

Space based weapons are forbidden by treaties that the US signed.  That said do we have space based weapons … well I was sending commands somewhere for something when I was in the Army Sat coms / intel unit.  You decide.   Hugs

 

Trump Threatens To “Knock The Hell” Out Of Iran

 

Dershowitz Calls On Trump To Overthrow Iranian Govt

 

 


Maga hate fail / tRump lost in court / tRump supporters doing what they do not want you to know about / ICE lies / tRump’s DOJ / Misinformation / Trying to change history by spewing & omitting facts or what really happened

 

Charges Dropped Against TikTok Streamer Shot By ICE

 

ICE Plans $100 Million Recruitment Push At Gun Shows

 

 

DOJ: Pipe Bomber Planned To Attend J6 Protest Rally

 

DOJ Busted Lying About Charging Kilmar Garcia

The emails, which were made public as part of a newly unsealed judicial order, largely reflected communications about the case that Robert E. McGuire, the acting U.S. attorney in Nashville, had with members of his staff and with Aakash Singh, a top official in Mr. Blanche’s office. They raised serious questions about whether the Justice Department had misled Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr., who is overseeing the case, by telling him that local prosecutors had acted alone in charging Mr. Abrego Garcia.

 

Trump: National Guard Will Leave Chicago, LA, Portland

 

Chip Roy Cites Nazis In Call To End All Immigration

DHS Asks Courts To Summarily Dismiss Asylum Claims

 

 

 


Hate / Bigotry / DEI / White Supremacy / Christian Nationalism / US aid to only white countries or white dominated areas / US Healthcare / For Profit drug prices rip off the US public /

Major Companies To Face “Fraud” Charges Over DEI

The civil probes are proceeding under the umbrella of the False Claims Act, which has traditionally been used to go after contractors who bill the government for work that was never performed or inflate the cost of services rendered.

 

US Pledges $2B In Humanitarian Aid, Down From $17B

The U.S. slashed its aid spending this year, and leading Western donors such as Germany also pared back assistance as they pivoted to increased defense spending, triggering a severe funding crunch for the United Nations.

U.N. data shows total U.S. humanitarian contributions to the U.N. fell to about $3.38 billion in 2025, equating to about 14.8% of the global sum. This was down sharply from $14.1 billion the prior year, and a peak of $17.2 billion in 2022.

 

NOTUS: Trump To Decimate Senior Care Workforce

CDC: “Super Flu” Spikes Hospitalizations Nationwide

 

 

OK Bill Would Let Doctors Refuse LGBTQ Patients

The idea behind the legislation originated with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group that has gained prominence for its work to incorporate religion in public spaces.

West last appeared here for his bill that would create a database of abortion patients.

In 2024, we heard from West for his bill to ban Pride flags at public schools and government buildings.

He appeared here in 2023 for his bill that would make it a felony to perform drag in the view of minors. His bill called for a $20,000 fine and up to two years in prison.

West first appeared here in 2021 when Gov. Kevin Stitt signed his bill making it legal to run over protesters.

The tweet below refers to West’s attempt to pass this same bill earlier this year.

Drugmakers Hike US Prices On Over 350 Medications

Last week Trump claimed that he was bringing down drug prices by 3000%.

 

US Removes Overseas Displays Honoring Black Soldiers

 Popolo is a Trump megadonor with business interests in the Netherlands. News about the removal of the displays first surfaced last month.

 

Gay WA State Trooper Sues Over “Demeaning” AI Video

 

FL Bill Would Make Horse Paste Over The Counter

 

 


tRump’s attack on Colorado because they won’t bow to the whim of the tyrant.  His withholding money is illegal but no republican will stand up to the demented king.  

 

Trump: Colorado’s “Scumbag Governor Can Rot In Hell” For Refusing To Release QAnon Nutbag “Tina Petters”

 

 

Trump Vetoes Clean Water Project For Colorado

 In the past two week, Trump denied FEMA relief for Colorado and ordered the dismantling of the nation’s premier climate research facility. 

 


Renewable energy / fossil fuels / More tRump lies

Trump Claims “Windmills Are Killing All Our Beautiful Bald Eagles” (Photo Shows Israeli Windmill And Falcon)


AI / Chatbots / Advertising / Destroying education / Erasing Scientific knowledge /

ChatGPT To Promote Advertisers In Its Responses

 

Trump Admin To Shutter NASA Research Library

 


Good things 

SF Plans Apartment Tower For LGBTQ Seniors [VIDEO]

 

The New Anti-Trans Rules Are SO Much Worse Than You Think

Minnesota Fraud Scandal EXPLAINED