Venezuela is NOT a cocaine producer, nor does it register as a significant transit country. Meanwhile, 70% of Colombia's cocaine that reaches the US departs from Ecuadorian ports, the US’ closest ally in the region. These figures come from World Customs Organization.

"excess profits"

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Instead of eliminating fraud in Social Security, Trump created a bureaucratic mess with long waits and a huge backlog: washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/… This is the kind of daily frustration that pisses off my conservative neighbors in rural Oregon who otherwise lean pro-Trump.

2025 Person of the Year, ⁦Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt⁩

Why you shd suppress online portraits

#USPS rule change: DeJoy endangers democracy, again

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The world faces unresolved conflicts, growing climate crises, attacks on aid workers, two famines, and diminishing political will—along with significant aid cuts. Altogether, 2025 has earned a grim new superlative: the worst humanitarian year on record, argues Sam Vigersky.

A group of about two dozen Buddhist monks is participating in a journey they're calling a "Walk for Peace," trekking from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C. as a way to promote a message of peace. On Dec. 29, they passed through a suburb of Atlanta and were greeted by a

In Japan, monks ring temple bells 108 times across the country on New Year’s Eve, symbolically releasing the 108 worldly desires in mahāyāna tradition. A footage from Chion-in temple in Kyoto.

Thrilled to participate in jaipurlitfest in a couple of weeks!!!

Why poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal believed Plato’s ideas contribute to intellectual stagnation scroll.in/article/108836…

Hello cancer, my old friend... (to The Sounds of Silence) Billions of pounds... #cancer

Denying medical assistance is unacceptable under any circumstances. Israel’s threat to withhold registration from MSF & other INGOs is a cynical and calculated attempt to prevent organisations from providing services in Gaza and the West Bank, Palestine. msf.org/israels-threat…

#Roundup replaced glysophate w a neurotoxin banned on China. Progress?

This article will make you understand the entire Venuzuela episode. Don't miss giving it a readc🎯🔥🚨 Save , bookmark , don't forget to retweet.

A brief history of American NarcoTerrorism as told through Marco Rubio's family cocaine trafficking enterprise prospect.org/2025/12/23/nar…

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Socrates was put to death for corrupting the youth of Athens by asking philosophical questions. Now, some works by his student Plato have been banned by Texas A & M, under new state guidelines, for corrupting the youth of Texas. nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/…