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Lawmaker Demands Hearing on U.S. Strikes on Boats in Caribbean Representative Adam Smith said the Trump administration had failed to provide a legal rationale for killing rather than arresting drug trafficking suspects.

The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee called on Monday for his panel to hold a hearing to examine the Trump administration’s use of the military in the Caribbean. The administration has acknowledged killing more than 30 people in the strikes.

Pro-Business Senator Paz Wins Bolivia Runoff Amid Economic Chaos Senator Rodrigo Paz won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday, pledging to repair relations with Washington and curb spending to address the deepest economic crisis in four decades.

BREAKING: Pro-business senator Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia’s presidential runoff, pledging to improve US ties and curb spending to fix a deep economic crisis

Bolivia elections today. Could have significance outside the country as the socialist MAS is out and a more conservative leader is in, no matter who wins the runoff. China has had free reign in the country, and also Brazil. That may now be corrected.

Donetsk is Ukraine.

YouTube video by ABC News Venezuelan government bolsters forces after US military strikes

Talking #Venezuela on ABC News: youtu.be/c3TcSgVOT_c

That’s definitely true. It’s the right question to ask.

Perhaps, but the Brazilian analyst they feature is working her own agenda. No economic rationale at all? That’s a strange claim to make…

Russia's latest big Ukraine offensive gains next to nothing, again Hundreds of thousands of Vladimir Putin's troops are losing their lives for barely any land

Over the summer Russia launched an enormous campaign aimed at breaking Ukrainian lines. Our calculations suggest its furious attacks seized just 0.4% of Ukrainian land, and cost the lives of tens of thousands

Political opposition is not rebellion. A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to carry firearms as the law currently allows.

The 7th Circuit rejected the President’s argument that he can simply declare that a “rebellion” is occurring when, in fact, the evidence shows protests clearly protected by the First Amendment.

To the extent anyone cares, the legality of tapping into tariff money is identical to the legality of tapping into federal income tax money, because they are both taxes that accrue to the treasury. Appropriations are still needed to spend it

No surprise that Uruguay would be first in LatAm. Hopefully will be the last.

And also, #Venezuela

Whiplash

Here on CNN talking #Argentina rescue package: video.snapstream.net/Play/2ODGPme...

Joining ABC News this evening on #Argentina

Quick reminder that China is Putin's biggest enabler in his invasion of Ukraine. As US tariffs flood the world with cheap Chinese goods, there's no gain to allowing this stuff into your country. That applies especially to the EU, because China is indirectly waging war on you via its proxy Russia...

Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America The pain from trade and immigration restrictions cannot be postponed forever

The damage from the tariffs that are in place is starting to be felt. And the collapse in migration is an enormous and underappreciated shock to the American economy

The new war on drugs Bringing tactics from the war on terror to America’s backyard

Bringing tactics from the war on terror to America’s backyard

Editorial: Brandon Johnson says the quiet part out loud about the CTU “I believe Rahm Emanuel referred to the Chicago Teachers Union as a socialist conspiracy,” Johnson said. “Did I get the words? But little did he know there was no conspiracy. We were just doing it.…

From the Editorial Board:

Once again, Mayor Brandon Johnson has made clear what Chicago suspected all along — that his administration isn’t merely allied with the Chicago Teachers Union, it is one and the same, even when it is supposed to be on the other side of the negotiating table.

Exactly. #CubaHandsOffVenezuela

This one comes with a nice interactive pulldown table of (partial) pen names used in the CCP's official People's Daily. We aim to serve!

Similar for the Nobel Peace Prize for Maria Corina Machado. So well-deserved. Yet getting hammered from both right and left. Weird.

Ick

NATO to kick off annual nuclear deterrence exercise with more aircraft This year's edition of Steadfast Noon, which comes at a time of heightened nuclear tension, will involve 71 aircraft from 14 countries.

"United States will participate with four F-35s jets in the dual-capable aircraft role for the first time, with that role previously performed by the F-15E Strike Eagle.”

Is there anything left to say about Frida Kahlo? A third museum focused on the artist has just opened in Mexico City

The team behind a new museum aims to show the Mexican painter as a daughter, sister and aunt. “To understand Frida, you need to understand her family,” says its director

Such a dumb take

Why the quotes? She is an extraordinary leader at a very complicated time, in hiding from the brutal Maduro regime, her family in exile. Why should Venezuelans be denied the democracy they clearly and courageously voted for in July 2024?

Delighted by the news today that the Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado. Very well deserved. A great day for #Venezuela. ¡Muy merecido!

Propose Nobel Peace Prize 2025 for Maria Corina Machado…