In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination as well as the confirmation that alleged killer Tyler Robinson is a far-left ideologue and gay man living with a transgender partner, the public’s attention has once again turned to the issue of Antifa, an activist network that shares many similar political beliefs with the shooter.
Federal authorities are currently investigating the Discord sever groups used by Robinson in the lead up to the attack to find any potential co-conspirators. Discord has been identified as a common forum used by Antifa for organizing members for specific events while pretending as if their protests are random and “grassroots”.
In the meantime, the corporate media is once again running interference for Antifa, claiming that the group is nothing more than a gaggle of disconnected people without no affiliation other than they “agree to oppose fascists”.
Of course, simply declaring yourself the “good guys” does not necessarily make it so.
The Antifa of pre-war and post-war Europe used a similar tactic, claiming that they were a loose collection of concerned citizens seeking to fight fascism and participate in civil discourse. In reality, they were being directly funded by the Soviet Union and their ultimate goal was the downfall of the western world to make way for a communist “Utopia”.
One expert on Antifa, Andy Ngo, says that the claim that Antifa is nothing more than a disorganized protest ideal is a lie. He notes that the decentralized cell structure of Antifa is similar to structures used by Islamic terror groups.
Ngo is deeply acquainted with the operations of Antifa; he has tracked hundreds of violent incidents involving member of the group over the years. He was also attacked and nearly killed by a mob of Antifa activists in Portland, Oregon after they recognized him in the street.
On May 28, 2021, I ran for my life through the streets of downtown Portland, Ore.
Antifa had discovered me working undercover after one of their members, John Hacker, exposed me to the mob.
I screamed for help as I fled, but drivers and pedestrians looked away. The businesses… pic.twitter.com/kX7PKoIm8a
Portland authorities failed to arrest and prosecute the attackers despite some of them being identified on video footage. In a subsequent civil trial, Antifa intimidated the jury into returning a verdict which favored the assailants.
Andy Ngo and many other investigators into Antifa activities note that the group enjoys a number of protections, including legal protections and funding for operations. Financial aid comes from crowdfunding pages, but also from NGOs and even government agencies feeding cash into adjacent activism groups.
This helps to explain why Antifa protesters often have the same signs, the same tents, the same riot shields, access to safe houses, etc. Many activists travel from outside of the locations that they protest in, which means funding for gas, food, lodging, etc. Considering the average full-time protester isn’t able to maintain a job to pay for these excursions, the money has to come from somewhere. NGOs and state government funds are the primary sources.
Did you know that many liberal states give taxpayer-funded grants to Antifa groups that register as nonprofits? In Oregon, taxpayers fund Antifa legal groups that provide free legal aid to violent Antifa members who are charged with felonies. pic.twitter.com/PbYJDMoBuN
Antifa and related leftist groups exploit various civil and political conflicts, hijack these causes and then use them as a means to further their own goals. Recent examples include the mass deportation debate and the protests over Gaza. It’s important to understand that leftist militants do not necessarily care about immigrants or Palestinians, they only see their “plight” as a useful tool for radicalizing activists into using violent tactics.
Horrifying, listen to three professors from Virginia public universities discuss taking down the United States through violence.
“We actually need to crash the US—We must stand with the armed resistance.”
The problems of the world become the justifications for Antifa terror, melding gay, trans, migrant and Islamic grievances under a single communist umbrella.
The end game, though, is always the same. Burn the west to the ground. Burn free markets to the ground. Destroy as many conservatives and nationalists as possible in the process until there is no one left to oppose them.
Sens. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) introduced a resolution on Friday aimed at halting U.S. military strikes on drug trafficking operations in the Caribbean, saying the actions were launched without congressional approval.
The measure, filed under the War Powers Act, would prohibit use of the military against non-state groups involved in drug trafficking unless Congress authorizes it. War powers resolutions are privileged, meaning the Senate must take up the measure for debate and a vote.
The move follows two recent military strikes in the Southern Caribbean Sea—on Sept. 2 and Sept. 15—that targeted vessels that were carrying narcotics. Democratic lawmakers say they have not received key details about the incidents, including who was on board, the cargo, and the legal basis for lethal force.
President Donald Trump has said the vessels belonged to “extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists” operating out of Venezuela. He said the boats were carrying narcotics bound for the United States, calling them a direct threat to U.S. national security and vital interests.
“If you are transporting drugs that can kill Americans, we are hunting you,” Trump said after the Sept. 15 operation, which killed three people. He added there was “recorded evidence” that drugs were on board, including large bags of cocaine and fentanyl scattered in the water after the strike.
“Congress alone holds the power to declare war,” Schiff said in announcing the resolution. “And while we share with the executive branch the imperative of preventing and deterring drugs from reaching our shores, blowing up boats without any legal justification risks dragging the United States into another war and provoking unjustified hostilities against our own citizens.”
Kaine alleged the Trump administration had failed to explain why standard interdiction methods were not used.
“President Trump has no legal authority to launch strikes or use military force in the Caribbean or elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere,” Kaine said, adding that “Congress simply cannot let itself be stiff-armed as this administration continues to flout the law.”
The White House has said the earlier strike on Sept. 2 targeted the operations of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan transnational gang designated as a foreign terrorist organization, and that it was conducted in defense of U.S. national interests.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at the time the mission was part of a broader effort to protect the United States and the Western Hemisphere from drug cartels. “Anyone else trafficking in those waters who we know is a designated narco-terrorist will face the same fate,” Hegseth said.
The Democrat resolution argues that drug trafficking does not constitute an armed attack or an imminent threat justifying military action, and that designating an organization as a foreign terrorist group does not authorize use of force.
It directs the president to remove U.S. forces from hostilities against such groups unless explicitly authorized by Congress, while clarifying that the United States retains the right to act in self-defense against an armed attack.
Schiff and Kaine said that Congress supports efforts to stop narcotics from reaching the United States, but said intelligence, law enforcement, and diplomatic tools should be prioritized.
Topgolf was once a Wall Street darling, riding billion-dollar growth and pandemic-era hype as its popularity exploded nationwide. But the boom has since turned into a bust: sales are sliding, the stock has collapsed 75% from its 2021 peak, and now the chain is being forced to split from Callaway. The question is simple: what went wrong?
The answer comes from former Topgolf executives Devin Charhon and Michael Canfield, who told Golf Digest in a recent interview that while Topgolf introduced many new players to the game, it failed to retain them or help them improve their swing. Recognizing this gap between entertainment golf and traditional courses, the two recently launched Blue Jeans Golf.
Charhon and Canfield noted that Topgolf spent tens of millions building state-of-the-art facilities. Yet, the experience created little real value for customers and did not significantly improve their game. On average, customers returned less than twice a year – an obvious sign that Topgolf failed to retain them.
“The one key insight that I left Topgolf with was, ‘Hey, people love Topgolf. It’s an amazing sort of top-of-the-funnel experience to introduce people to the game. But people aren’t necessarily going back there frequently to practice and get better. It’s not a place for the core golfer. So that was kind of the thesis. This jump from entertainment golf to traditional golf is still a really big and intimidating one. How do we create the experience and the environment that should exist between those two ends of the spectrum? And how do we retain golfers?” Charhon pointed out.
The duo left Topgolf and started a company called Blue Jeans. With the help of long-term equity and debt partners, they purchased preexisting public driving ranges, with the move to create “Golf Ranch” that blends Topgolf-style amenities (food, drinks, music, Toptracer tech) with traditional range elements (bring your own clubs, unlimited practice time, short-game areas, putting greens). The goal is to modernize aging driving ranges and build community hubs where golfers of all levels feel comfortable.
Growth & Expansion
First purchase: Golf Quest (Brookfield, CT) in 2021.
By 2023: three more sites added (Richardson, TX; Lee’s Summit, MO; Kansas City, MO).
Amenities include par-3 courses, heated bays, mini golf, batting cages, premium balls/mats, and food & beverage upgrades.
Funding & Future Plans
Closed a $20M Series B in Sept 2025 (led by Old Tom Capital and Creator Sports Capital).
Plans: grow to 10–12 locations by 2026, aiming for 50 total and 100k members long-term.
Currently over 8,000 active “Ranch Pass” members ($20/month subscription).
Positioning Golf Ranch as “Topgolf for golfers”—scalable, community-driven, and welcoming to both beginners and core players.
Apparently, golfers don’t need all the fancy gadgets at Topgolf.
They want an actual practice facility.
Sure, maybe each bay has a Trackman, but that’s about it.
Golf Ranch’s rise and expansion come as Topgolf Callaway Brands is preparing to split into two independent companies.
Sales for Topgolf Callaway Brands have stalled. Suggesting the Topgolf hype is over.
The stock has tumbled 75% from the 2021 peak.
Topgolf might be fun, but it’s expensive. The consumer has moved on. Now welcome the more affordable Golf Ranch.
Carjacking Suspect Jumps Over Open Drawbridge To Escape Police
In a scene straight out of Blues Brothers, a man behind the wheel of a stolen car crashed through a barrier and leapt the University Bridge in a desperate attempt to escape Seattle police officers.
According to SPD spokesperson Brian Pritchard, the chase reached its peak just after 12:20 p.m. Wednesday, when the driver barreled across the bridge as it was lowering, KOMO reported.
With a five-foot gap separating the south and north ends, the car launched over the drop, a stunt that might have looked choreographed for the big screen rather than unfolding in real life.
KOMO says the vehicle, reported stolen on August 4 in Seattle, had first been spotted in the Montlake neighborhood. When officers recognized it, one attempted to follow, but the driver managed to slip away.
Shortly after, police located the suspect again and initiated what they described as a “high-risk stop” at the south end of the bridge.
Instead of giving up, the suspect made the daring jump, sped into the University District, and ditched the battered car. Officers later recovered the vehicle, its windshield shattered and its undercarriage torn up from the landing, but the driver had already vanished.
The suspect remains at large—leaving behind only the wrecked car and a chase that sounds more like Hollywood than Seattle’s streets.
Huawei’s New Ascend Chips Aim To Close China’s AI Gap With US
Huawei may be closing the gap in semiconductors.
On Thursday, the company unveiled AI hardware it says can deliver world-class computing power without Nvidia’s advanced chips, a potential breakthrough for China’s drive to reduce reliance on US technology, according to the South China Morning Post.
The announcement came just before a scheduled call between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, underscoring Beijing’s push for self-reliance amid tightening export restrictions.
SCMP writes that the Shenzhen-based firm introduced a “supernode + cluster” solution built on domestic chipmaking and revealed a multi-year roadmap for its Ascend AI chips.
“Ascend chips are the foundation of our AI computing strategy,” deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun said at Huawei’s Connect Conference in Shanghai. The company plans to launch Ascend 950 chips in 2026, followed by the 960 in 2027 and 970 in 2028, all featuring in-house high-bandwidth memory.
Huawei also announced the Atlas 950 SuperPoD, a system of 8,192 chips delivering 8 exaflops FP8 performance, due late next year. Multiple SuperPoDs can be linked into a 524-exaflop SuperCluster, while Atlas 960 systems in 2027 could scale to millions of cards.
Founder Ren Zhengfei has argued clustering allows Huawei to reach state-of-the-art performance despite its chips lagging US rivals “by a generation.”
Analysts highlighted both potential and pitfalls. Tilly Zhang of Gavekal Dragonomics said the move was “good timing for China to show strength,” though “China still needs US chips for now, but probably in a much less significant way.” Omdia’s Su Lian Jye called it proof of Huawei’s “relentless desire to innovate.”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, reacting to Beijing’s restrictions on Nvidia sales, admitted he was “disappointed with what I see, but … patient about it.”
Huawei has already deployed over 300 CloudMatrix 384 systems—clustering 384 Ascend chips for 300 petaflops—with more than 20 clients. But concerns remain over scaling production, as the plan depends heavily on domestic foundry SMIC. Still, Paul Triolo of Albright Stonebridge said: “If any company can accomplish the miracle … it is Huawei.”
If Huawei can execute its roadmap, it could mark a turning point in China’s semiconductor race—narrowing the gap with US leaders and giving Beijing a stronger footing in AI computing.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is now claiming that Charlie Kirk’s “rhetoric” was racist…and not only did she vote against the House resolution to honor him, she’s furious that MORE Democrats didn’t do the same.
She’s now openly attacking the “Caucasians” in her own party who supported the resolution.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is now claiming that Charlie Kirk’s “rhetoric” was racist…and not only did she vote against the House resolution to honor him, she’s furious that MORE Democrats didn’t do the same.
“One of the things I do want to point out that’s not been laid out, that honestly hurts my heart, is when I saw the no votes, there were only two caucasians.”
“For the most part, the only people that voted no were people of color.”
“Because the rhetoric that Charlie Kirk continuously put out, there was rhetoric that specifically targeted people of color.”
“And so it is unfortunate that even our colleagues could not see how harmful his rhetoric was specifically to us.”
“And I can tell you that a month prior to him passing away, he had actually gotten out on his podcast, I wasn’t aware of this at the time, but he got out there and he was talking negatively about me directly.”
“So if there was any way that I was going to honor somebody who decided that they were just going to negatively talk about me and proclaim that I was somehow involved in the great white replacement, yeah, I’m not honoring that kind of stuff.”
“So to me, just like we wanted to make sure that those confederate relics were taken down, the idea of a new age relic being propped up was something that I just could not subscribe to, and it is unfortunate that more of my colleagues, even on my side of the aisle, could not see the the amount of harm that this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities.”
Disgraceful.
Scott Jennings just came out swinging in response to Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s vile comments about Charlie Kirk.
He said what no one else on CNN seems willing to admit…after the network gave her a platform to smear a man who hasn’t even been buried yet.
“To say that he was continuously targeting people of color is nothing but a malicious smear, on the very day that people are remembering Charlie, and he’s going to be laid to rest.”
“And so I think when you combine the no votes on the resolution and then you look at the leading Democratic voices like Ilhan Omar and Jasmine Crockett, who’ve gone out to smear Charlie before he’s even had his funeral.”
“When I hear people say, we need to come together and both sides need to turn down the rhetoric, you know, a lot of the people saying that need to look inward right now.”
Scott Jennings just came out swinging in response to Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s vile comments about Charlie Kirk.
He said what no one else on CNN seems willing to admit…after the network gave her a platform to smear a man who hasn’t even been buried yet.@ScottJenningsKY then… pic.twitter.com/pKPUIZDjPX
But, Crockett was far from done. After CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday played clips of the Congresswoman calling President Donald Trump an “enemy to the United States” and comparing him to Hitler, the Texas Democrat doubled down.
Bash asked Crockett on “State of the Union” if she had “a responsibility” to cool down her rhetoric, but she said she did not and that the president was using Hitler’s “playbook.”
Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett continues to compare Republicans to Hitler: “I am using that language because it is accurate language.”
“I think that my responsibility is to be transparent and to be honest. And the reality is that we are living in a time in which this administration and this regime is not interested in making sure that people understand history,” Crockett said. “We need to understand why they are so problematic.”
“So I am using that language because it is accurate language,” she continued, saying Trump’s policies are “a playbook out of Hitler and I won’t deny it! Like, these are the facts.”
“Some People Have To Die”: NJ Elementary School Teacher Resigns After Celebrating Charlie Kirk Murder Online
A New Jersey teacher resigned after backlash over her response to conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Elizabeth Clark, a fifth-grade math teacher at Katharine D. Malone Elementary in Rockaway Township, wrote on Facebook, “Some people have to die – buh bye,” just hours after Kirk was shot dead at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, according to the NY Post, who posted screenshots.
The Post writes that her remark outraged local residents.
“Public assassination and celebrating it is detrimental to the children,” one speaker said at a school board meeting Tuesday, where calls for Clark’s removal mounted. The board later confirmed she had resigned during a private session.
Clark told the Daily Record she was put on leave the next day and claimed she was “doxxed” online.
One resident said: “If this teacher saw what happened, was happy about it, jumped for joy in her own house, we would never have known about it. But the minute you post it online, it’s an extreme lapse in judgment, right?So if that kind of lapse in judgment is happening by a teacher at our school, I don’t think they should be teaching our children.”
“I resigned because I feared for my safety,” she said. “And me being present at the school would have caused safety concerns for the children. I did not feel Rockaway could protect me and keep me safe.”
“There’s a lot of untruths out there. I just don’t know what this world is coming to,” she said.
I was looking for something to watch on Friday night when I stumbled upon the movie Inside Job on Amazon Prime. It’s a documentary from 2010 that vividly recounts the global financial crisis of 2008.
In the first half hour of the movie, they set the scene for what led up to the crisis: all of the deregulation, speculation, derivatives, lavish Wall Street spending and euphoric attitudes that ran the show right up until the very day the world ran face-first into reality and the global economy bricked.
Watching the movie, I couldn’t help but feel like I could draw direct similarities to the market we are in today.
Sell Side Analyst Reports: Still Biased, Still Bullsh*t
For example, every day I wake up to a new email from a friend ridiculing a sell-side analyst note. I think to myself two things: first, it’s criminal that investment banks are allowed to put out absolutely bullshit projections while simultaneously trying to win the investment banking business of the companies they cover; and second, I can’t believe anybody on the Street takes these reports seriously.
Sell side analyst reports have become f*cking embarrassing. I mean, really bad. Making excuses for non-cash generating companies that can’t even hit whatever bullshit Non-GAAP KPI metric they’re distracting the market with. Initiating coverage on SPACs based on fairy-tale TAM slides, defending “disruptive” technologies that a 4th grader knows won’t work. Calling obvious financial frauds “overblown market concerns” . It’s theater dressed up as research, and the audience is clapping like trained f*cking circus seals.
Day in and day out, we read about upgrades and downgrades—almost all of which are issued after stock price moves and not ahead of them. And day-to-day, the market responds to the “analysis” of these investment banks, despite the fact that most people who have been in the industry for a while, and who are sharp, know not to pay them any heed whatsoever. Hell, even the Financial Times put out an article a week or two ago questioning one of the most egregious offenders on Wall Street and the frequency with which he pens his “analysis.”
In Inside Job, they set the stage for the financial crisis by talking specifically about how investment banks issued bullish research on names that, privately, they were referring to as “dogshit.” Before 2008, major Wall Street banks were accused of using sell-side research as a tool to serve their investment banking interests rather than investors. Analysts allegedly issued biased ratings—rewarding companies that hired their banks with positive coverage and punishing those that didn’t with negative or withdrawn reports—while internal communications often contradicted their public recommendations.
Regulators found that analyst pay and job security were tied to banking deals, creating deep conflicts of interest. This led to the 2003 $1.4 billion Global Research Analyst Settlement, which imposed reforms to separate research from banking, though critics argued informal pressures persisted up to the financial crisis. Banks promised to do better in the future, which is now. If you ask me, it looks like nothing has changed.
Stablecoins Are This Crisis’ Unregulated Time Bomb
Also, while setting the scene for the financial crisis, the movie talks about the deregulation of the derivatives market and how that eventually caused money market funds to essentially lock up when selling began. You could almost make the exact same analogy to the crypto and stablecoin market right now. The derivatives market was $50 trillion at the time, and the stablecoin market now is in the trillions.
As Jim Rickards noted in what I think is an extremely important “must-listen” interview just days ago, the stablecoin market is also basically unregulated due to the Genius Act, and most of the companies participating haven’t even passed an audit.
“Stablecoin sponsors are almost completely unregulated, non-transparent; no one has ever audited one of them. We don’t know what’s inside,” Rickards says. “In 2008 the money-market funds froze up and the Fed bailed them out; is the Fed going to bail out the stable-coin market? I don’t think so.”
In his interview—where he describes exactly how stablecoins could eventually wind up locking up money market funds in the same way as 2008—Rickards says what I’ve been thinking for a long time: there’s already massive fraud out there being perpetrated, we just don’t know where it is. And we won’t know until — like 2008 — the shit hits the fan.
“Stablecoins are an enormous danger — they may cause the greatest financial catastrophe of all time,” Rickards said, echoing what I wrote about last month — that crypto will cause the next trillion dollar crash: Crypto Will Cause The Next Trillon Dollar Crash
And in addition to being unregulated, we know that market participants in crypto are able to take on extreme leverage in ways that normal market participants are not.
Everyone Is Blissfully Ignorant Or Totally Lobotomized
It would be easy to make the comparison of everybody being drunk at the punchbowl between then and now as well. Major Wall Street investment bank stocks are at all-time highs, the general attitude on Wall Street is euphoria, bankers have for the most part stayed out of the crosshairs of criticism over the last decade, and executive compensation on Wall Street has been what many people would consider to be extremely excessive. Those sentiments all rang true leading into the 2008 financial crisis as well.
But what struck me more than these few things was the descriptions of how cavalier people’s attitudes were leading into the 2008 financial crisis.
If you need a refresher of what sentiment was like in 2008 and don’t want to watch the movie, watch this Peter Schiff Was Right video for a taste — listen to the sheep who refuse to acknowledge the reality of the situation:
I had seen them all already, but rewatching clips of analysts, government officials, and bankers assuring the public that nothing could ever go wrong—that there was no way to lose money on selling credit default swaps and that the U.S. housing market was indestructible—reminds me so much of how people view the market today.
There was the bailout in 2008, and then there was the extreme inflation caused by the Fed’s response to COVID. Before you know it, we’ve had two straight decades of conditioning investors to believe that nothing can go wrong and the market simply cannot—and will not—ever go down.
The gamification of stocks, combined with the influx of unsophisticated investors in the market, combined with the availability of extreme liquidity in options, combined with the multi-trillion-dollar, completely unregulated and opaque crypto and stablecoin market—layered on top of limitless hubris and arrogance—is the perfect Molotov cocktail for destruction.
The compass of what is right and wrong — what is speculative and conservative — for investors, is broken. We are so far off the path that not only can we not see it, but it’s almost foolish to expect people to see it. The recency bias has been so consistent for so long that it would be abnormal for people to expect chaos.
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A Window Into What A Reality Check Looks Like
For me, watching this film on Friday night time-warped my brain back 15 years.
When you hear the people recounting how the crisis happened, go back and listen to how they speak about the world of finance after being humbled so significantly. Their tone and tenor are almost unrecognizable in this day and age. Just listening to the tone of the commentators while they talk about finance, just years after being reminded that things can go horribly wrong, is almost as valuable as the story of the documentary itself.
People recalled the events with a sense of modesty, humility, and humbleness that I haven’t seen anywhere in the world of mainstream finance for a decade.
Thus, the curse of history: if we don’t remember it, we are doomed to repeat it. The further we get away from any consequential event in history—whether it is World War II, 9/11, the great financial crisis, or anything else—the less we feel like it can ever happen again, and the more bravado we carry ourselves with.
But there is a karmic ebb and flow to life that somehow always reminds us: when we feel the best, things can get way worse; and when we feel the worst, things can get better. While living in an echo chamber, nobody knows better than me that it is extremely difficult to break thought patterns and somehow remind yourself of this.
But if you want to mainline some reality into your brain and open your perspective on such a calamity taking place, I’d encourage you to go to Amazon Prime Video and watch the same movie I just did.
Then, look at the financial and economic world—and the world of markets—and I dare you to tell me everything’s fine and is going to be for the next decade.
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Maduro Complains Of ‘Undeclared War’ After Trump Ordered Another Deadly Boat Strike
President Trump has announced in a somewhat vague Truth Social post that US forces have conducted yet another “lethal kinetic strike” on a vessel involved in drug trafficking in the southern Caribbean, related to Venezuela enforcement currently being conducted by the American military.
The attack resulted in the deaths of three men he described as “narcoterrorists” – after he authorized the operation upon US intelligence confirming the vessel was smuggling drugs, according to the post.
On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was… pic.twitter.com/HB1Q6P08f8
It reportedly happened in international waters within the jurisdiction of US Southern Command, which oversees operations in much of South America and the Caribbean, and marks the third such operation targeting suspected drug-smuggling boats in recent weeks.
Prior strikes had already killed 14 individuals, allegedly linked to vessels originating from Venezuela, though serious questions remain – including what appears to be extrajudicial killings. This possibility or likelihood has been raised by many observers as there have not appeared to be efforts to warn or halt the moving vessels before it was bombs away (reportedly from drones). One example of such pushback comes from Human Rights Watch:
Sarah Yager, Washington director at Human Rights Watch, said “US officials cannot summarily kill people they accuse of smuggling drugs.”
“The problem of narcotics entering the United States is not an armed conflict, and US officials cannot circumvent their human rights obligations by pretending otherwise,” Yager said.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage en route to poison Americans,” Trump said in the late Friday evening post. It was accompanied by minute-long aerial footage showing side-by-side videos of a vessel getting struck by a missile.
“No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!” – the post added.
This comes as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said his country will defend itself against US “aggression”. His defense minister also called it“an undeclared war”.
“It is an undeclared war, and you can already see how people, whether or not they are drug traffickers, have been executed in the Caribbean Sea,” Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said Friday while overseeing a military exercise.
He then pointed out the victims have been “executed without the right to a defense” or without warning or attempt to intercept. The Maduro government has further accused the Trump White House of seeking to implement “violent regime change in Venezuela and in all of Latin America.“
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Over the weekend, President Trump has been on a Truth Social rage fest on a variety of topics, including an interesting message to on Pam Bondi…
There is some speculation that Trump accidentally posted what was supposed to be a DM to Pan Bondi as a regular post on Truth Social. Around an hour after that post he made another post saying Bondi is doing a great job. pic.twitter.com/l0pgocc5K4
And a Washington D.C. crime and protection status update…
Trump has been pushing for American forces to reoccupy Afghanistan’s sprawling Bagram air base, and he issued another threat of ‘bad things’ if the Taliban doesn’t comply…
…among several other Truth Social posts this weekend including the simple words JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!
🚨BREAKING: State Farm Stadium has reached full capacity for Charlie Kirk’s memorial! Tens of thousands are now heading to the overflow arena to continue honoring his legacy. 🇺🇸 #CharlieKirkMemorialpic.twitter.com/DLXM70La8A
A massive public memorial for Charlie Kirk is underway at State Farm Stadium outside Phoenix, Arizona. Long lines began forming overnight, and attendees have been pouring into the stadium since early morning, with the crowds expected to be between 100,000 and 200,000.
Worship at the State Farm Stadium has begun in honor of Charlie Kirk. Massive lines outside continue to slowly pour into the building. What an incredible scene! pic.twitter.com/eVo5w6UaZh
STUNNING TURNOUT: Drone video shows the outpouring of support as more than 100,000 people are expected to attend the Charlie Kirk memorial service in Arizona. pic.twitter.com/e8zQSF6i65
“Join us in celebrating the remarkable life and enduring legacy of Charlie Kirk, an American legend,” Turning Point USA said in a post on X.
Key details about Kirk’s public memorial:
Speakers: President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Kirk’s widow, Erika, who has just been named CEO of Turning Point USA.
Security: The Department of Homeland Security has classified the event as a SEAR Level 1 gathering – the highest designation, typically reserved for events of national significance – unlocking full federal security support, according to NBC News.
Turning Point USA said Kirk’s memorial service is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. local time. NBC News estimates the event could draw “a crowd as large as 100,000 people.”
Meanwhile, a Glendale Police Department spokesperson told CNN News that she estimates crowds could exceed 200,000.
State Farm Stadium has a maximum capacity of 63,000, with the ability to expand by an additional 10,000. Down the street, Desert Diamond Arena will serve as an overflow site, with seating for about 20,000.
Eleven days ago, Kirk was assassinated by a radical leftist while speaking at Utah Valley University. Tyler Robinson has been charged with aggravated murder and obstruction of justice in connection with Kirk’s death. Robinson is a furry-loving leftist who was in a relationship with a transgender person. There have been no links yet between Robinson and far-left groups, but that hasn’t stopped the White House from taking the rise of far-left militancy seriously.
Last week, the Trump administration requested tens of millions of dollars for extra security and vowed to crack down on leftist groups (Marxists) that sow chaos and want to collapse the nation from within.
