Source: The American Prospect
by Maureen Tkacik
“If you’re a little too online, you likely know that Marco Rubio as a teenager made extra cash working for his late brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia. The business imported and sold exotic animals as a front for moving nearly a half million pounds of cocaine and marijuana. It was later said, when kingpin Mario Tabraue became a main character on the monstrously popular documentary series Tiger King, that the cocaine was actually stuffed into the bodies of vipers and boa constrictors, though an 80-page indictment of the enterprise makes no mention of that, and Tabraue has been known to sue those who accuse him of animal cruelty. ‘I dealt to support my animal habit,’ Tabraue humbly told the Netflix documentarians about the drug ring that imported and distributed $79 million worth of drugs between 1976 and 1987. It was Rubio’s job, the current secretary of state wrote in his memoir, to clean the cages.” (12/23/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/12/23/narco-terrorist-elite-rubio-south-america-iran-contra/
Source: Politico
“President Donald Trump expressed sympathy Monday for powerful and influential people caught up in convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, including former President Bill Clinton, telling reporters that he doesn’t ‘like the pictures of other people being shown.’ … Photos included Epstein with well-known figures, including Trump, on his plane or at social events. Clinton has appeared in multiple photos that were released last week as part of the first batch of documents the DOJ made available. There has been ‘tremendous backlash’ to the documents, Trump said, because they’ve ensnared ‘people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago,’ including successful lawyers and businesspeople. … Trump briefly acknowledged that there were photos of himself included in the recent document dumps, but didn’t provide any details on his relationship with Epstein at the time, except to say that he threw him out of Mar-a-Lago.” (12/22/25)
https://archive.is/KRED9
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Leftist Pigs Rewrite ‘Animal Farm.'” (12/22/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/madd-leftist-pigs-rewrite-animal-farm
Source: The UnPopulist
by Samantha Hancox-Li
“And it’s a good thing for women and the world, contrary to claims of the neo-right’s new darling.” (12/22/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweetheart-favoritism-isnt-driving
Source: Reuters
“Russia hammered Ukraine with missiles and drones in a new air attack on Tuesday, authorities said, killing at least three people including a child and triggering emergency power cuts across the country as Ukrainians gear up to celebrate Christmas. Moscow’s latest combined strike hit energy facilities in western regions the hardest, said Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, and came days after another round of U.S.-led peace talks to end the nearly four-year-old war.” (12/23/25)
https://archive.is/yd2Lc
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week over the abuse she suffered prior to a recent flight. Writing on X on Thursday, she called for abolishing TSA: ‘I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant and didn’t feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner. The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it’s ‘safe.’ … Duffy-Alfonso’s condemnation of TSA is refreshing regardless of whether it spurs the Trump administration to repent. But the outrage that her comment evoked on Twitter does raise the question: How many Trump voters abandoned their opposition to unleashing federal agencies after Trump was back in the Oval Office?” (12/22/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/12/22/did-tsa-finally-grab-the-wrong-groin/
Source: Reason
“Can J.D. Vance Stop a MAGA Civil War?” (12/22/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/12/22/can-j-d-vance-stop-a-maga-civil-war/
Source: The Hill
“The U.S. military struck an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, [murdering] one ‘narco-terrorist.’ U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) shared a 27-second video of the strike on X, adding that the vessel was ‘operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters’ and was ‘transiting along known narco-trafficking routes’ in the eastern Pacific. No U.S. military forces were injured in the latest operations, Southcom noted. The U.S. military has now conducted a minimum of 27 strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea since early September, [murdering] at least 105 people.” (12/22/25)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5660638-us-military-strikes-alleged-drug-boat/
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by William Harris
“On college campuses across the country, students and administrators are debating bans on Fizz, a mobile app that lets users within a particular community — such as a college or university — communicate anonymously. Some view Fizz as a source of bullying and other unwelcome content. Yet many students see Fizz — founded by two Stanford dropouts who felt their campus lacked opportunities to build community during the COVID-19 pandemic — as a source of vital connection. … The practical stakes of banning anonymous forums from campus are high. Cutting off access to online platforms doesn’t only silence offensive comments — it restricts the tools students use to speak, organize, and mobilize around political and social causes, in ways that are often faster and more powerful than offline alternatives. Consistent with their right to speak anonymously, students possess the First Amendment freedom to assemble and receive information through both online platforms and offline media.” (12/22/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/trouble-banning-fizz
Source: Seattle Times
“The Federal Communications Commission on Monday said it would ban new foreign-made drones, a move that will keep new Chinese-made drones such as those from DJI and Autel out of the U.S. market.
The announcement came a year after Congress passed a defense bill that [pretended there are] national security concerns about Chinese-made drones …. The bill called for stopping the two Chinese companies from selling new drones in the U.S. if a review found they posed a risk to American national security. The deadline for the review was Dec. 23. The FCC said Monday the review found that all drones and critical components produced in foreign countries, not just by the two Chinese companies, posed ‘unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States and to the safety and security of U.S. persons.'” (12/22/25)
https://archive.is/l1M7k
