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El Parece
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · Oct 30
"Between 2016 and 2020, Punjab Chemicals conducted six other transactions with Pro Chemie New York, shipping a total of 154 tons of oxalic acid to the ports of Veracruz and Manzanillo, according to shipping data."
insightcrime.org/investigatio...
Beyond China: How Other Countries Provide Precursor Chemicals to Mexico
China cracked down on precursor chemicals but regulations in other chemical-producing countries are less strict and have gaps in enforcement.
insightcrime.org
elparece.bsky.social
Trump sees himself in Juan Orlando Hernández
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
elparece.bsky.social
Cool
erikhoffner.bsky.social Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 13h
Interesting boletus type Asian #fungi looks like the bicolor bolete in New England, with a very unlike effect:

“Lilliputian hallucinations — a rare, clinically defined psychiatric syndrome [of the] perception of numerous little people autonomously moving about and interacting in the real-world”
Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.
nhmu.utah.edu
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
elparece.bsky.social
I'd love to see a single trace of proof that ideology played any part in the attack
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Kristi Noem claims suspect in national guard shooting was ‘radicalized’ in US
Homeland security secretary also blamed ‘activist’ judges for defying court order to halt deportation flights
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
elparece.bsky.social
The ironic tragedy of the failure of the feds to explain how cognitive exploitation works is that it allows an incident like this to be used by a nativist demagogue to irreparably harm our reputation for helping the people that we ask to help us.
apnews.com/article/laka...
Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with 'dark isolation' as community raised concerns
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan man accused of gunning down two National Guard members blocks from the White House last week, had been unraveling for years.
apnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
elparece.bsky.social
It's possible that this is a reflexive control gambit designed to help Moncada
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
elparece.bsky.social
Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of conspiring to smuggle at least 400,000 kgs of cocaine into the U.S. That's just the stuff the government could prove in court. In reality, it was probably over a thousand tons (>1,000,000 kgs).
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
elparece.bsky.social
This is way too cautious. You have to be dishonest or delusional to not see what this all adds up to.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
elparece.bsky.social
Everything Samantha Schmidt writes is worth reading
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Trump plans to pardon former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced to 45 years in prison for running a “narco-state” that helped send cocaine to the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
elparece.bsky.social
How the fuck are the Democrats losing on message to an ethnonationalist project that promises law and order while disbanding the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and pardoning multi-ton drug traffickers and terrorist money launderers (from China!)?
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
elparece.bsky.social
This makes absolutely no sense and contradicts everything Trump has said and done in the name of combatting drug trafficking. The only possible conclusion here is that Donald Trump himself is at least complicit in industrial-scale cocaine trafficking into the United States. This confirms it.
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
elparece.bsky.social
While killing interchangeable peons transporting loads of cocaine to Trinidad & Tobago for less than $500 USD, Donald Trump pardoned a convicted narco-president that worked with the Sinaloa cartel to flood the U.S. with thousands of tons of cocaine from 2004-2022.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
elparece.bsky.social
I don't understand why the feds haven't explained to the public how cognitive exploitation works or how commercial data and AI put all of us at risk from threats both foreign and domestic
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Counterterrorism officials vetted Guard shooting suspect before he entered U.S.
Individuals with knowledge of the process that Rahmanullah Lakanwal went through contradicted senior Trump officials’ claim that he was not scrutinized.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
elparece.bsky.social
Maduro's really got them by the balls
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Trump Spoke by Phone Last Week With Maduro, Venezuela’s Leader
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
elparece.bsky.social
Cool, criminal evidence.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
elparece.bsky.social
It really looks like both Mexico and the Trump administration are in the process of cleaning up an enormous and interconnected mess.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Sheinbaum Pushes Attorney General Out Amid Fuel Smuggling Probe
Mexico’s Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero resigned under pressure from President Claudia Sheinbaum, who had grown increasingly frustrated over his handling of high-profile investigations.
www.bloomberg.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
elparece.bsky.social
The idea that the target of the strikes is actually drugs rather than people doesn't compute because I guarantee that not all of the drugs are destroyed in the blast and ensuing fire. The packaging routinely survives plane crashes intact. It's washing up somewhere.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
Intelligence on U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Is Limited
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
elparece.bsky.social
campaign demagoguery may not go over as well with our closest allies on earth as it does online
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
elparece.bsky.social
Alleged drug, arms, and fuel smuggling by Raúl Rocha Cantú, owner of Miss Universe, formerly owned by ITT until 1996, Donald Trump until 2015, and William Morris Endeavor/IMG until 2022, when it was sold to JKN Global in Thailand and Legacy Holding in Mexico/U.S.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Mexico Orders Arrest of Miss Universe Owner in Smuggling Probe
Mexican authorities issued an arrest warrant for the co-owner of the Miss Universe franchise, the latest in a growing controversy involving a beauty queen, drug cartels and the state oil company.
www.bloomberg.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
elparece.bsky.social
Thank God for Europe
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Who leaked Witkoff’s call advising Kremlin on how to get Trump on side?
Bloomberg publishes extraordinary transcripts of secret discussions, but their provenance remains unclear
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
elparece.bsky.social
If you try doing this in Michoacán, a guy will show to your house every other week demanding $100
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
elparece.bsky.social
A team of engineers and scientists couldn't design a more perfect narcostate than Venezuela after a forcible regime change. Maduro is a huge piece of shit and (worse than Chavéz imo) but removing him by force would be extremely destabilizing and would lead to a mess.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d
As the Trump administration weighs using force to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, former diplomats and even some prominent critics of Maduro worry that his political opponents in Venezuela are promoting exaggerated claims and falsehoods to justify a U.S. intervention.
Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner Pushes False Claims About Maduro
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado faces criticism that she is exaggerating threats posed by Venezuela’s leader to justify U.S. force to overthrow him.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
elparece.bsky.social
I'd be lying if I said that I didn't suspect this might somehow be related to the documents Donald Trump pilfered from the White House and squirreled in a Mar-A-Lago bathroom. I hope I'm wrong.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/s...
U.S. Nuclear Arms Chief Warns Against Leaks of Secret Information
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
elparece.bsky.social
Considering the way Elon Musk has incompetently run X and DOGE as first and foremost opportunities to pry through records looking for embarassing information, you're gambling with your life by buying internet service or a remotely-controllable vehicle packed with internet-connected sensors from him.
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
elparece.bsky.social
Kristi Noem, with advice from Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, defied a judicial order to exfiltrate high-ranking MS-13 leaders / protected witnesses that helped Nayib Bukele get elected in exchange for favors (as well as working with various Mexican drug cartels in Guanajuato and Baja California).
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
elparece.bsky.social
28 years in prison for the brother of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, himself a known member of the Medellín cartel according to declassified DIA documents, for supporting the drug trafficking, designated FTO death squad known as the AUC
www.proceso.com.mx/internaciona...
Condenan a 28 años de prisión a hermano del expresidente Álvaro Uribe por apoyar a paramilitares
El fallo se produce apenas unas semanas después de que un tribunal de Bogotá anuló una sentencia de 12 años de prisión contra Álvaro Uribe, expresidente de Colombia.
www.proceso.com.mx
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM