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Murder is wrong, but it's sickening that people are pretending this dude was some sort of angel

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40278335

Published Dec. 12, 2025
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Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses.

[If the US didn't embargo and sanction Cuba and Venezuela, this wouldn't be necessary.]

On Friday, Cuban officials condemned the American seizure of the tanker, calling it in a statement an “act of piracy and maritime terrorism” that hurts Cuba and its people.

“This action is part of the U.S. escalation aimed at hampering Venezuela’s legitimate right to freely use and trade its natural resources with other nations, including the supplies of hydrocarbons to Cuba,” the statement said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

I noticed instead what they say is 'you should be deported'; NONE of them are saying 'go back to where you came from' cause inevitably the response would probably be 'I'm trying!'

I recall something one Gazan lady on Piers was told was 'if you don't like it here you can go back' to which she inevitably responded 'no I literally can't' and then explained why she couldn't (with Piers interrupting her and stopping her from explaining fully and seeing what response the two women she was debating had to say about it).

NEW YORK (AP) — For one Wisconsin couple, the loss of government-sponsored health subsidies next year means choosing a lower-quality insurance plan with a higher deductible. For a Michigan family, it means going without insurance altogether.

For a single mom in Nevada, the spiking costs mean fewer Christmas gifts this year. She is stretching her budget already while she waits to see if Congress will act.

Less than three weeks remain until the expiration of COVID-era enhanced tax credits that have helped millions of Americans pay their monthly fees for Affordable Care Act coverage for the past four years.

The Senate on Thursday rejected two proposals to address the problem and an emerging health care package from House Republicans does not include an extension, all but guaranteeing that many Americans will see much higher insurance costs in 2026.

A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she deals with the consequences of having her visa revoked by the Trump administration, leading to six weeks of detention.

The arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student studying children’s relationship to social media, was among the first as the Trump administration began targeting foreign-born students and activists involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy. She had co-authored an op-ed criticizing her university’s response to Israel and the war in Gaza. Caught on video in March outside her Somerville residence, immigration enforcement officers took her away in an unmarked vehicle.

Öztürk has been out of a Louisiana immigrant detention center since May and back on the Tufts campus. But she’s been unable to teach or participate in research as part of her studies because of the termination of her record in the government’s database of foreign students studying temporarily in the US.

"As far as we know, no coordination or deconfliction with existing satellites operating in space was performed, resulting in a 200 meter close approach between one of the deployed satellites and STARLINK-6079 (56120) at 560 km altitude."

Well, the radio on the countryside sucks (here at last). At home i use raspberry-pi's with mpd to listen to internet radio or my mp3 collection. But on the road .,..... Radio apps are loaded with ad's and/or you need a periodic deny all cookies.

So I m looking fore something else on my phone similar to my pi with mpd. Anyone implemented (re)stream internet from home to android?

Donald Trump failed to end the renewed fighting between Thailand and Cambodia despite his claims to the contrary, as cross-border clashes between the Southeast Asian neighbors continued on Saturday.

Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday that he had "very good" conversations with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Manet, and that they were "ready for PEACE."

He said the Southeast Asian leaders "have agreed to CEASE all shooting effective this evening, and go back to the original Peace Accord made with me, and them, with the help of the Great Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim."

Neither Anutin nor Hun Manet confirmed this in statements made after the calls, and Thai F-16 fighters conducted airstrikes on at least two sites in Cambodia on Saturday morning, the seventh day of renewed fighting.

A string of sex-related and political scandals affecting Spain’s governing Socialists has rocked the beleaguered administration of Pedro Sánchez and caused deep unease within a party which prides itself on promoting feminist causes.

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On Wednesday, José Tomé, the Socialist head of the provincial council of Lugo, in the northwest of the country, resigned after six women had made complaints about his behaviour. The women, who were current and former members of the party, claimed that Tomé had groped them, offered jobs in exchange for sex, and sent explicit photographs to their phones.

After a television programme had aired the anonymous complaints, Tomé insisted he was innocent. However, within hours he had stepped down, saying he would take the case to court to prove that it was “a set-up”.

Tomé’s case is extremely damaging for the Socialist Party in the Galicia region. Although he has resigned as president of the provincial council and requested that his party membership be suspended, he has not stepped down as mayor of the town of Monforte or given up his seat on the council.

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Lara Méndez, the party’s number three in the region, described the claims against Tomé as “repugnant”.

However, this is only the latest of several such cases to affect the party.

In July, Francisco Salazar, who had been a close ally of and senior advisor to prime minister Sánchez, was forced to step down after female colleagues had repeatedly complained about harassment by him. The allegations included that he had unzipped his trousers, made sexually explicit comments and mimicked sex acts in front of them.

It subsequently emerged that the party had failed to contact those who had made the complaints for several months.

... Salazar’s assistant in the prime minister’s office, Antonio Hernández, was sacked this week for allegedly enabling his boss’s actions and trying to protect him from being investigated.

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Meanwhile, the Socialist Party has suspended Antonio Navarro, its secretary general in the southern town of Torremolinos, after a woman filed a complaint of harassment before the local prosecutor for violence against women, which he denied.

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There are signs of unease within Socialist ranks at the cases, adding to the government’s many problems, which include the apparent collapse of its parliamentary majority. Two former secretaries of the Socialist Party and close allies of Sánchez, José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán [who has resigned from office], are due to go on trial accused of overseeing a massive kickback scheme.

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In an open letter published in El País newspaper, three high-profile female Socialist politicians, including the party’s spokeswoman for equality, Andrea Fernández, expressed deep concern ... They also said [the Socialist party] needed to introduce “greater control over processes against harassment and other types of violence” and to “introduce measures to help repair the damage caused” by such cases.

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