El Parece

Nayib Bukele probably authorized MS-13 to smuggle drugs, precursor, migrants, and weapons in exchange for their help getting him votes and reducing the visibility of crime and violence.

There's only one plausible motive for this level of thuggishness and that's self-preservation. There are dozens of other incentives Trump could use to induce cooperation on deportations that aren't nearly as costly, damaging, and risky. This is desperate behavior.

Most corrupt, full of shit, criminal administration in American history and it's not even close.
archive.ph/N6c5k

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

"...current and former officials worry that this force assembled from federal agents across the country could eventually be turned against any groups the administration labels a threat."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

USBP and state and local police in TX used to leak sensational content from LE bulletins to Breitbart,
Judicial Watch, Fox News, NewsNation, etc. to enhance the perception of threats to USBP from cartels, drones, IEDs, etc. but those stories rarely escaped the rightwing echo chamber.

No, it's 100% fake

Young People and The Emerging Terrorism Threat Landscape Prevention efforts must shift toward a model that addresses the systemic drivers and underlying causes of youth vulnerability to violent extremism.

The greatest threat to everyone and young, developing minds most of all is the extreme accumulation of commercial surveillance data and advanced stochastic inference tech in the hands of ideologues with as many resources as nation states
www.justsecurity.org/121085/young...

DHS leaking nonsense like this suggests the problems within USBP have metastasized

Mexico president dismisses US claim of cartel bounties on immigration officials Sheinbaum says she has ‘no information’ about Trump administration claim as experts also deeply skeptical

While the police in Mexico and other producer and transit countries are routinely targeted by gangs, there are no consequences for murder 95% of the time in Mexico and the police there are often deeply involved in organized crime themselves. Not the case here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gangsters and Suits: The Most Murderous Mafia of Postwar El Salvador Twenty-seven leaders of MS-13, the most murderous criminal gang in post-war El Salvador, which had more than 40,000 members in El Salvador and a presence in 40 of the 50 states of the United States,…

Nayib Bukele is directly responsible for the systematic practice of torture in Salvadoran prisons, the extension of the state of exception, and the detention of his critics. #efEditorial beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...

If anything the cartels are probably grateful for Trump's approach to immigration enforcement for providing them with a huge new pool of displaced workers to recruit from, extort, kidnap, and/or smuggle back in illegally.

Attacking Drug Cartels in the Territory of Another State U.S. lethal operations against suspected cartel-affiliated individuals to date stretch applicable international law beyond recognition.

"Such an interpretation would break down the strict normative barrier between the legal regimes governing law enforcement and armed conflict; it would normalize extrajudicial killing under the guise of law enforcement."
www.justsecurity.org/122756/drug-...

Polish court blocks extradition and frees Ukrainian suspected in Nord Stream pipeline blasts A Polish court has blocked the extradition of a Ukrainian man to Germany and ordered his immediate release.

Some of the strongest support to date for the theory that responsibility for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline is a trail that leads back to Poland
apnews.com/article/pola...

DHS is fully off the leash and they're definitely targeting individuals including journalists for their political views. The internal oversight that previously kept surveillance within the bounds of the law are gone. We are in totally uncharted territory.
archive.ph/1GRnN

A war on drugs or a war on terror? Trump's military pressure on Venezuela blurs the lines Legal experts say U.S. strikes against alleged members of Latin American drug cartels are pushing the bounds of international law.

The administration refuses to provide evidence that the individuals targeted in the strikes were even associated with Tren de Aragua, and there's reason to doubt that they were since several were likely from Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago.
apnews.com/article/trum...

Things are dire when you lose the commander of the shadiest combatant command of them all because he has doubts about the mission

Trump confirms the CIA is conducting covert operations inside Venezuela President Donald Trump has confirmed that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela.

What's the point of disclosing this publicly? In my opinion this adds support to the theory that everything so far (military presence in the Caribbean, occasional drone strikes) is first and foremost demonstrative.
apnews.com/article/trum...

*Unless it's a joke about Charlie Kirk

There is no fentanyl coming by sea in the Caribbean. About 99.9% of the fentanyl in the U.S. is from Mexico and then the tiniest fraction still comes in the mail but there is no fentanyl from Venezuela. Lying out of his ass.

You guys know Elon's family was involved in the technocracy movement in Canada, right? The movement that wanted to put "ultra-high IQ" engineers in charge of society and replace money with energy credits? (Sorry for Dave Troyposting but it's actually true)

Elon Musk's tweets from 13-17 February 2021 during the Texas freeze are extremely interesting if you read them imagining a sprawling technocracy movement conspiracy linking the TX power grid with a giant crypto Ponzi scheme and dirty money from all over the world

In Juárez, a Militarized Border Makes Drug Use More Deadly Growing security deployments pose unique challenges for harm reduction groups.

New from @jlbuch.bsky.social: Research suggests a harm reduction approach helps drug users stay healthier and enter recovery. But doing this work on the border has become more dangerous and difficult as troop presence increases.

Holy shit, Saudi Arabia invested $3.3 billion in Electronic Arts the very moment the Texas power grid showed signs of imminent collapse, the day before Ted Cruz flew to Cancún.

I don't know to be honest, I don't read it

US Electricity Bills Seen Rising Most in Three Years This Winter US households will see their winter electric bills climb by the most in three years, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Why is the price of energy exploding? Why are there so many major power outages in Lebanon and Latin America and the Caribbean since 2021? Why did Ted Cruz fly to the cocaine Mecca of the western hemisphere in the middle of the February 2021 freeze?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Teaching America Taekwondo, and through it, self-esteem.

Not to belabor the point but strategic leaks of sensational content from LE bulletins is an entire genre at Breitbart. The technique used to be limited to USBP and state and local police in TX and occasionally AZ. Now it's coming straight from the top and getting mainstream coverage.

so many classics