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Trump Targets Venezuela's Oil, Intensifying Pressure on Maduro Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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12.12.2025 14:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump Targets Venezuela's Oil, Intensifying Pressure on Maduro Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex

Always a pleasure to talk with @ianmastersmedia.bsky.social about Venezuela

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12.12.2025 14:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Machado to accept Nobel as fight against Venezuelan regime intensifies As María Corina Machado is set to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, the Venezuelan opposition leader is betting everything on her prediction of an imminent political transition.

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Report sheds light on the lives of Florida immigrants under Trump's second term It shows how federal and state policies have pushed immigrants and their family members into a state of social isolation.

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What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong? The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.

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Authorities monitor online criticism of New Orleans immigration crackdown Officials track public sentiment, noting negative impact of ‘videos with sounds of children crying’ as parents arrested

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Moreno demands details on 'Catahoula Crunch' as Border Patrol operation continues “If they’re insisting on wearing a mask, they can ride in Rex, Zulu or Endymion," said former Mayor Marc Morial.

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La operación Lanza del Sur es una amenaza a la democracia estadounidense La operación contra Venezuela, basada en pretextos dudosos, busca evadir controles al poder militar en EE. UU. y acelera una peligrosa erosión democrática.

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05.12.2025 15:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Federal agents launch immigration crackdown in New Orleans The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new immigration crackdown in New Orleans. A Homeland Security official says the operation that got underway Wednesday targets violent criminals.

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Trump’s War on Venezuelans: From Operation Aurora to Operation Southern Spear nacla.org/trumps-war-o...

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The White House argues that drug smugglers are terrorists who've effectively launched mass casualty attacks on the US -- and thus, our military has a right to bomb civilian ships suspected of carrying drugs.

There are a few problems with that argument

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Labeling dissent as terrorism: New US domestic terrorism priorities raise constitutional alarms A new Trump administration policy threatens free speech and association by targeting individuals and groups as potential domestic terrorists based on their beliefs rather than their actions.

So proud that my latest piece, "Labeling dissent as terrorism: New US domestic terrorism priorities raise constitutional alarms," is headlining today's newsletter from @us.theconversation.com

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"She can be heard screaming as agents attempt to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. 'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'”

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Operation Southern Spear and Democratic Erosion (in the U.S.) Yesterday The Dispatch published a piece that looks at how the current U.S.

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U.S. Pauses Immigration Applications From Nations on Travel Ban List

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How Trump is intensifying his crackdown on every form of immigration to the US | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s latest immigration crackdown, prompted by the shooting of two National Guard members, means he has now halted or significantly tightened every form of foreign entry into the U...

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How Operation Southern Spear Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy It’s one more way the Trump administration is eroding democratic norms.

My piece today in @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social “It’s one more way the Trump administration is eroding democratic norms.”
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