Rolando Valdés Aguilar

Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.”

NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.

"It's bad," Smith says.

Read here:
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Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...

Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
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Affidavit In Support – #1, Att. #1 in United States v. COLE (D.D.C., 1:25-mj-00276) – CourtListener.com SEALED COMPLAINT as to BRIAN J. COLE, JR (1). (Attachments: # 1 Affidavit In Support) (zmcg) (Main Document 1 replaced on 12/4/2025) (zmcg). (Attachment 1 replaced on 12/4/2025) (zmcg). (Main Document...

So the complaint against the alleged pipe bomber is based entirely on:

1) His height (5'6")
2) His purchases of components
3) His phone pinging the cell towers
4) A meal at a restaurant by scene of the crime

No sneakers mentioned.

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not defending her but that honestly reads like it was written by someone starting to learn English esl.

irony died again... when will T***p pardon the bomber?

Futurism Groxxing Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Grok is a stalker's best friend. Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok. By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

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TRYING TO FLIP” THE BOAT MEANS THE BOAT WAS CAPSIZED AND THEY WERE SHIPWRECKED IN THE WATER.

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

NEW YORK-According to news reports, the Trump administration this week announced that applicants for H-1B visas for highly skilled workers would be subject to increased vetting, with an eye toward rejecting those involved in what it considers "censorship." A recent State Department cable reportedly requires U.S. consular officers to review applicants' resumes or LinkedIn profiles to determine if they have worked in areas related to misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, or trust and safety online. The following can be attributed to Carrie DeCell, senior staff attorney and legislative advisor at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University: "People who study misinformation and work on content-moderation teams aren't engaged in 'censorship' — they're engaged in activities that the First Amendment was designed to protect. This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional."

Knight First Amendment Institute's Carrie DeCell: "This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional."

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that recruiting women had been key to his success in gaining seats through two cycles. "My formula for success was simple: recruit and add more women, minorities and veterans to the House Republican conference, so that our conference would look more like America," he said.

So would you say, Mr McCarthy, you were trying to make the GOP conference more diverse, by stressing equal representation and inclusion?

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The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

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Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete Decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participation comes in spite of several broadcasters calling for its exclusion Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands will boycott next year’s Eurovision after Israel was given the all-clear to compete in next year’s song contest in spite of several participating broadcasters calling for its exclusion. At the general assembly of the European Broadcasting Union, the body that organises the hugely popular international annual singing competition, no vote on Israel’s participation was held. Continue reading...

Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete

As for the #ACIP meeting today, this is the only thing you need to watch.

And, to be clear, you do need to watch this.

If only we had a way of knowing where Tom Cotton stands on lawless abuse of the military.

Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.

For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The dregs of the Signal messaging thread. It starts noting "Jeff Goldberg left the group." The JD Vance says, "This chat's kind of dead. Anything going on?" Then one after another person changes their profile name: Scott Messent, Marco Rubio, John Ratcliffe, and Stephen Miller.

Whiskey Pete tried to attack the reliability of @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social by noting that there was one EXTRA text in what Whiskey Pete turned over, on top of what Goldberg published.

This was that text.

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Solo notando que en la mayor parte de México no decimos fútbol, si no futbol. Y no le llamamos la copa del mundo, si no el mundial.

NEW: The IG report on SignalGate is out. Hegseth sent classified information out on an unclassified Signal chat and put our troops in harms way. Hegseth says he retroactively "declassified" it so it doesn't count. You can read the findings here: media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...

Pete Hegseth bears responsibility for THIS

(hat tip @natashabertrand.bsky.social)

this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child

FBI makes arrest in investigation into pipe bombs placed in DC on eve of Jan. 6 riot, AP source says - WTOP News The FBI has made an arrest in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

(AP) — The FBI made an arrest on Thursday in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. wtop.com/national/2025/12/fbi...

Repeat with me: The "internet of things" is a bad idea, it has always been a bad idea, and it will always be a bad idea.
No appliance (no, not even a tv) needs to have an internet connection. Especially one you don't have control over.

Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.

In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing. n.pr/3Y7cjxW

Jamie Raskin Files Complaint To CBS News Ombudsman Over ‘60 Minutes’ Edits To Donald Trump Interview Jamie Raskin filed a formal complaint over the way that CBS News edited its Donald Trump interview.

Raskin wrote in his letter, “President Trump increasingly appears to be exercising direct control over CBS’s editorial decisions, destroying CBS’s ‘journalistic integrity’ while violating its right to be free from governmental coercion and manipulation.” deadline.com/2025/12/trum...

This is what I thought too.

If the first boat is a legit target, and you're picking up evidence of comms with a second that's close enough to rescue them, then the second would be a legit target too.

Of course, neither are legit targets.

8/ A public service reminder:

This entire exercise is an absurd, imaginary world for legal experts.

That's because the truth is:

It's not an armed conflict.
The laws of war thus don't apply.

The more restrictive rules of human rights apply.
It's extrajudicial killing under that law.

U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance

The USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test

Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors."

1/🧵

A new video captures masked ICE agents in unmarked vehicles swarming the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew before hauling her away. There’s no way this was random.

A box with the new Lego Star Trek enterprise in it

Yessssssssss. Happy promotion to full professor to meeeeeee

PRESS RELEASE Live Entertainment CEO Indicted for Orchestrating Conspiracy to Rig Bidding Process for Public University Arena Wednesday, July 9, 2025

SpongeBob title card: 5 MONTHS LATER…

CNN • Politics Subscribe Trump pardons former top entertainment executive who was charged by his own Justice Department UPDATED 3 MIN AGO By Samantha Waldenberg, Kaitlan Collins

I think Trump just set a record
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