Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife following a series of air strikes that targeted the capital Caracas, while Venezuela’s vice president demanded that his whereabouts be revealed and proof provided that he is still alive.

Media outlets reported that the objective of the attacks was to seize Venezuela’s oil resources, as the army declared popular and police mobilization under a state of emergency.

The United States launched its attack at the moment reports emerged of warplanes flying overhead, followed by the sound of around seven explosions and rising columns of smoke across central Caracas, while the blasts occurred in different areas of the city.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Trump

Delta Force, the elite US Army special operations unit, took part in the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife during a large-scale military strike on Caracas, an operation confirmed by US President Donald Trump.

Simultaneously, Delta Force operatives reportedly provided support to Israeli military forces during their genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Trump

It's a beautiful day after the storm, spent a morning in the lab preparing samples for oxygen isotopes, but we're going out later for more coring and sampling. Here are WP9 including @mercerraa@pixelfed.global heading out for a few days overnight on the shelf.

The small cabins give a useful sense of scale in the huge landscape.
#iQ2300 #Antarctica #FieldWork #FieldPhoto #WasaStation

Digging deep into my Pocket archives since they shutdown

'When the Anti-Defamation League...magnifies offensive graffiti and unflattering tweets to the status of violence, while ignoring actual discrimination, if it exists, they trivialise antisemitism. When they condemn criticism of Israel and Zionism as antisemitic, they risk elevating antisemitism to a virtue. And when those who define antisemitism bend over backwards to allow interpretation of antizionist expression as antisemitic, they contribute to enabling such dilutions'

#israel #antisemitism #zionism #antiDefamationLeague

https://bureauofcounterpropaganda.substack.com/p/onto-front-foot

Committed to maximise death & destruction, vicious genocidal #Israel won't even permit Save the Children to be registered to operate in #Gaza.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2dmj7p8y2o #IsraelFascism #StopIsrael #GazaGenocide

'In what feels like Groundhog Day, once again the NSW parliament is rushing through anti-protest legislation with little to no scrutiny.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/nsw-parliament-rushing-anti-protest-laws

Sam Altman is the SBF of machine learning.

Today, another infant, Taim Al-Khawaja, died from hypothermia in Gaza City, along with a 9-year-old girl, Hadeel Al-Masri. Just yesterday, 8-month-old Rahaf Al-Jazar also lost her life to the cold. The occupation continues to block shelter aid at the border.

#hypothermia #SaveTheChildren #Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #CeasefireScam

@palestine@lemmy.ml
@palestine@fedibird.com

"They were:

Thomas Sewell, 32;
Nathan Matthew Bull, 24;
Timothy Holger Lutze, 35;
Billy Michael Conheady, 26;
Haymish Busscher, 18;
Jake Crockett, 20;
Zack Steven Dewaard, 19;
Augustus Coolie Hartigan, 22;
Jaeden Bernard Johnson, 29;
Michael Nelson, 22;
Michael Saarinen, 18;
Ryan Williams, 35;
Yan Zakharin, 20, and;
Blake Cathcart, 30.

Each is facing charges including violent disorder and affray and none of the men have been required to enter pleas."

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/group-of-14-men-charged-after-alleged-affray-at-indigenous-protest-site-camp-sovereignty-named-in-court/news-story/dd19471ed698e3f1536ae49456f40445

Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism, according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively.

The target is those expressing opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology, as well as anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming

#usa #uspol

Has the Albo government gone too far this time? Or not far enough? Dan Murphy opening hours https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/dec/08/algorithms-robots-hubris-is-robodebt-style-cruelty-coming-to-the-ndis

Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.

The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.