Every day I collect another piece of supporting evidence for the idea that the pandemic made a dangerously large plurality, if not an outright majority, of Americans go absolutely feral. Zero sense of or interest in how to interact with other humans in shared spaces. None.
It seems like he was so low key that no one really paid him all that much attention until CJNG started rapidly expanding, at least according to American law enforcement but who knows?
"The report outlined how [former Paraguayan President Horacio] Cartes allegedly helped finance deals between Brazilβs largest criminal group, the First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital β PCC) and the Islamist militant group, Hezbollah."
insightcrime.org/news/paragua...
He was clearly a very capable guy but that is pretty wild. It would not surprise me if he was some kind of asset. Chapo was
Something I've never understood is how Mencho went from dope delivery boy deported to Mexico to working as a corrupt cop in the Puerto Vallarta area to marrying into an upper class family of narco royalty with global connections and roots in the business for decades
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Absolutely fucking crazy this is the first thing I've read mentioning the Trump administration's unexplained decision to drop sanctions related to international cocaine trafficking and Hezbollah financing for the former president of Paraguay
www.justsecurity.org/133481/year-...
They're calling it the Iran-cointra affair
fortune.com/2026/03/12/b...
"Itβs a frightening reality of the Trump regime that, as he's descended into utter incoherence & is now nothing more than an assortment of adolescent (& frequently violent) urges, the govt has been remade into a tool for the immediate satisfaction of his desires no matter how nihilistic they may be"
conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity
CRIME INTEL - @worldcrimeintel
TΓΌrkiye: Fugitive organized crime member Serkan Akbaba, sentenced to 14 years and 2 months for crimes including membership in the Turgutlar gang, usury, extortion, and illegal arms possession, was found dead at a residence in Ankaraβs Δ°ncek district.
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π¨π¨ Europeβs plan to keep Ukraine afloat β even if #Hungary keeps blocking β¬90B loan. Kyiv was expected to run out of money at the end of this month, but an #IMF lifeline and help from the #Nordics and #Baltics are set to keep it solvent.π§΅
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Shout it from the rooftops
rebecca solnit today rebecca solnit tomorrow rebecca solnit forever
The Bank of England has only put non royals on bank notes since 1970.
Farage and Co. losing their minds over a relatively modern tradition.
The appropriation of Tommy Shelby by reactionaries is pretty funny because Tommy is a Roma WWI veteran who becomes a socialist MP and does antifa active measures against Nazi British aristocrats. Cillian has so much rizz chuds just see "Handsome man in a suit, must be an alpha chad"
The fires continue to burn what remains of the fuel tanks at the Omani port of Salalah after they were hit by Iranian drones.
FAFO asshole. This guy voted for Trump twice and didn't learn from brutal neoliberal austerity Trump put into place the first time for rural America. American farmers didn't think globally and now they are having the bite put on them.
Pete Hegseth gutted Pentagon oversight, calling the rules of war "stupid." He slashed the Middle East casualty team from 10 experts to one.
Then came the Minab strike: 170 girls and 14 teachers dead.
The Pentagonβs "inability to confirm" its role is the outcome Hegseth engineered.
''When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.' - Lin Yutang
this will never pass, everyone involved know it will never pass, and you shouldn't give authoritarians like Josh Hawley antitrust credibility they never had to actually earn
At least 1243 civilians killed by commercial drones operated by security forces and contractors, including Blackwater founder Erik Prince's employees, in Haiti from 1 March 2025-21 January 2026
www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths
from this recent Dorsey interview:
Peaky Blinders no posting that you can go to jail over no fucking posting that you can go to jail over
I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.
Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.
