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The Trump Administration says its recent military strikes near Venezuela are about stopping drug traffickers, but what’s really driving this?
Reporting shows Venezuela isn’t a major source of drugs entering our country. 🧵
Reporting shows Venezuela isn’t a major source of drugs entering our country. 🧵
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Trump Administration says its recent military strikes near Venezuela are about stopping drug traffickers, but what’s really driving this?
Reporting shows Venezuela isn’t a major source of drugs entering our country. 🧵
Reporting shows Venezuela isn’t a major source of drugs entering our country. 🧵
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Downgrading essential degrees isn’t a small change. It means fewer students can afford teaching, nursing, social work & PA programs. Communities, patients, and classrooms feel the pain first.
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Downgrading essential degrees isn’t a small change. It means fewer students can afford teaching, nursing, social work & PA programs. Communities, patients, and classrooms feel the pain first.
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Trump has been played over and over again by Putin.
From the summit in Alaska, to the 28-point plan that was a Trojan Horse for Putin's demands, to today — he has betrayed the cause of freedom in Ukraine.
We all want peace. He is prolonging the war and the suffering.
From the summit in Alaska, to the 28-point plan that was a Trojan Horse for Putin's demands, to today — he has betrayed the cause of freedom in Ukraine.
We all want peace. He is prolonging the war and the suffering.
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trump has been played over and over again by Putin.
From the summit in Alaska, to the 28-point plan that was a Trojan Horse for Putin's demands, to today — he has betrayed the cause of freedom in Ukraine.
We all want peace. He is prolonging the war and the suffering.
From the summit in Alaska, to the 28-point plan that was a Trojan Horse for Putin's demands, to today — he has betrayed the cause of freedom in Ukraine.
We all want peace. He is prolonging the war and the suffering.
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The constitution says only Congress can declare war.
December 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The constitution says only Congress can declare war.
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You'd have to go back ~100 years to even get close and even they wouldn't have been so crass and vulgar about it.
December 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
You'd have to go back ~100 years to even get close and even they wouldn't have been so crass and vulgar about it.
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i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.
I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.
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Seems like the only point for them is so they can blow up stuff and watch it on a big screen. Like juveniles with a video game. If they have any grasp that they're killing living, breathing humans, they don't seem to care. Clearly, they're not interested in the drugs, or the truth. I feel sick.
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Seems like the only point for them is so they can blow up stuff and watch it on a big screen. Like juveniles with a video game. If they have any grasp that they're killing living, breathing humans, they don't seem to care. Clearly, they're not interested in the drugs, or the truth. I feel sick.
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This probably isn't going to work out well.
A Narcissist Develops Dementia
Dr Bandy X Lee said Trump may be a Malignant Narcissist.
With dementia what's next?
- Paranoia and Suspicion Intensify
- Projection and Blame Magnified
- Increased Emotional Volatility
- Fabrication and Deception Become Less Coherent
abuselogapp.com/blog-2-1/8xq...
Dr Bandy X Lee said Trump may be a Malignant Narcissist.
With dementia what's next?
- Paranoia and Suspicion Intensify
- Projection and Blame Magnified
- Increased Emotional Volatility
- Fabrication and Deception Become Less Coherent
abuselogapp.com/blog-2-1/8xq...
When a Narcissist Develops Alzheimer’s or Dementia: The Unraveling of Manipulation — The Abuse Log - Forensic Abuse Journaling
Narcissists thrive on control, power, and manipulation. They carefully construct a world where they dictate the terms, using psychological games to maintain their dominance over family, friends, and c...
abuselogapp.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This probably isn't going to work out well.
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Top ten REAL threats to women:
10) climate change
9) food insecurity
8) lack of access to health care
7) pay disparity
6) sexual harassment
5) gender discrimination in employment
4) political disenfranchisement
3) lack of job opportunities
2) abuse/violence
1) other men
If you fancy yourself
10) climate change
9) food insecurity
8) lack of access to health care
7) pay disparity
6) sexual harassment
5) gender discrimination in employment
4) political disenfranchisement
3) lack of job opportunities
2) abuse/violence
1) other men
If you fancy yourself
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Top ten REAL threats to women:
10) climate change
9) food insecurity
8) lack of access to health care
7) pay disparity
6) sexual harassment
5) gender discrimination in employment
4) political disenfranchisement
3) lack of job opportunities
2) abuse/violence
1) other men
If you fancy yourself
10) climate change
9) food insecurity
8) lack of access to health care
7) pay disparity
6) sexual harassment
5) gender discrimination in employment
4) political disenfranchisement
3) lack of job opportunities
2) abuse/violence
1) other men
If you fancy yourself
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Cabinet members speaking to a dozing trump as if nothing happened.......that’s a crisis.
Trump STRUGGLES to STAY AWAKE during Agriculture Secretary’s Cabinet Speech
YouTube video by Diario AS
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December 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Cabinet members speaking to a dozing trump as if nothing happened.......that’s a crisis.
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He's off in a dream, while the rest of the country is in the living nightmare of his making.
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
He's off in a dream, while the rest of the country is in the living nightmare of his making.
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You’re correct…those exact words will be uttered shortly, it’s his only defense using “war” as an excuse to send out the military.
The entire deployment of Naval ships to the Caribbean falls under the make believe “war on drugs” too.
Trump really wants the Venezuela oil.
The entire deployment of Naval ships to the Caribbean falls under the make believe “war on drugs” too.
Trump really wants the Venezuela oil.
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You’re correct…those exact words will be uttered shortly, it’s his only defense using “war” as an excuse to send out the military.
The entire deployment of Naval ships to the Caribbean falls under the make believe “war on drugs” too.
Trump really wants the Venezuela oil.
The entire deployment of Naval ships to the Caribbean falls under the make believe “war on drugs” too.
Trump really wants the Venezuela oil.
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I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.
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22-23 total strikes since September. How many other second strikes have occurred? Is it the same strike team or have they expanded more American military into their murderous ranks?
The USA is not at WAR! Trump makes shit up, Hegseth incites the violence, and innocent fishermen and immigrants die.
The USA is not at WAR! Trump makes shit up, Hegseth incites the violence, and innocent fishermen and immigrants die.
December 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
22-23 total strikes since September. How many other second strikes have occurred? Is it the same strike team or have they expanded more American military into their murderous ranks?
The USA is not at WAR! Trump makes shit up, Hegseth incites the violence, and innocent fishermen and immigrants die.
The USA is not at WAR! Trump makes shit up, Hegseth incites the violence, and innocent fishermen and immigrants die.
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Exactly. The alleged war on drugs is in no way a declared war on a country. I say 'alleged' because pardoning the convicted former Honduras president, who boasted he aided trafficking of over 500 TONS of cocaine directly to the US belies this war on drugs crap.
The whole operation is mass murder.
The whole operation is mass murder.
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Exactly. The alleged war on drugs is in no way a declared war on a country. I say 'alleged' because pardoning the convicted former Honduras president, who boasted he aided trafficking of over 500 TONS of cocaine directly to the US belies this war on drugs crap.
The whole operation is mass murder.
The whole operation is mass murder.
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They were all illegal and none of those boats were even large enough to have enough fuel to reach the US
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
They were all illegal and none of those boats were even large enough to have enough fuel to reach the US
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
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The U.S. has conducted 19 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing at least 76 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The U.S. has conducted 19 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing at least 76 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
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I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
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ICE agents arresting people without due process: I was just following orders.
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
ICE agents arresting people without due process: I was just following orders.
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The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the professionalism and dignity of the United States military.
They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.
They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the professionalism and dignity of the United States military.
They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.
They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.
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The boat’s cargo was alleged to have been fentanyl.
Hernandez was convicted of smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.. He was sentenced to 45 years behind bars in June 2024. Less than 18 months after sentencing, Trump pardoned and released Hernandez.
Hernandez was convicted of smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.. He was sentenced to 45 years behind bars in June 2024. Less than 18 months after sentencing, Trump pardoned and released Hernandez.
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The boat’s cargo was alleged to have been fentanyl.
Hernandez was convicted of smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.. He was sentenced to 45 years behind bars in June 2024. Less than 18 months after sentencing, Trump pardoned and released Hernandez.
Hernandez was convicted of smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.. He was sentenced to 45 years behind bars in June 2024. Less than 18 months after sentencing, Trump pardoned and released Hernandez.
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As a veteran who served in intelligence, I want to introduce you to EXORDS: the execute order from the President to SecDef. This allows 60 days operations under the War Powers Act. The President must advise Congress and gain approval to continue.
No EXORD was sent to Congress. This is illegal
No EXORD was sent to Congress. This is illegal
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As a veteran who served in intelligence, I want to introduce you to EXORDS: the execute order from the President to SecDef. This allows 60 days operations under the War Powers Act. The President must advise Congress and gain approval to continue.
No EXORD was sent to Congress. This is illegal
No EXORD was sent to Congress. This is illegal