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On Sept. 2, Donald Trump did something shocking even for him:
ordering the cold-blooded murder of 11 people.
With his active approval, they were summarily executed by an air strike on a boat carrying them off the coast of Venezuela.
Trump said that the vessel was manned by “Tren de Aragua Narco terrorists” from Venezuela carrying illegal drugs to the U.S.
He also said, “We have tapes of them speaking” and that “we knew exactly who was in that boat” and “exactly wha…

Trump’s State Terrorism Against Venezuela Will Endanger American Lives
If the champion of the rules-based international order turns to violence as a first resort, so will other countries

Panama, 1989.
Also Gulf of Tonkin, 1964.
Donald Trump says Venezuela 'sending drugs, gang members' as tensions rise - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jel4gyezo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub…

Donald Trump says Venezuela 'sending drugs, gang members' as tensions rise
Tension has been running high between the two countries since the US deployed war ships to the South Caribbean.

Bragging about an overt triple murder.
The sailors involved and their whole chain of command followed grossly illegal orders to murder three civilian Venezuelans who posed no serious threat to anyone.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
⚠️ Trump says the US attacked what he claims was drug-trafficking boat from Venezuela in international waters:

"“They openly confessed to killing 11 people,” Venezuela’s interior minister said on state television. “We have done our investigations here in our country and there are the families of the disappeared people who want their relatives, and when we asked in the towns, none were from Tren de Aragua, none were drug traffickers."
**Venezuela says 11 killed in US boat strike were not gang members amid reports vessel was returning to shore** | Venezuela | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/venezuela-boat-strike-tren-de-aragua-trump

Trump, speaking in the Oval Office, said he’s creating a “task force”
to crack down on "crime" in Memphis at the request of the governor.
“We’re going to take care of all of them step by step, just like we did in D.C.,” Trump said.
It’s worth noting that while Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee, a Republican,
requested the National Guard and some federal assistance,
it was not requested by either the mayor of Memphis or the mayor of surrounding Shelby County, …

President Announces New Deadly Strike on Boat From Venezuela

Depending how you want to analyze it, an even split or a majority in this small poll believe the US send its military against Venezuela directly.
😔
#usa #venezuela #war
https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/115155459830582839

Venezuela condemns US destroyer for hostile occupation of fishing vessel | Border Disputes News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/13/venezuela-condemns-us-destroyer-for-hostile-occupation-of-fishing-vessel?traffic_source=rss

Fallujah, Iraq is ~15sq mi (~25sq km) & had ~4,000 fighters US military and allies faced in 2nd Battle of Fallujah, one of fiercest fought by US this century.
Caracas Venezuela is ~300sq mi (~433sq km) & Venezuela has ~4.5 million militia now activated.
potus & kegseth must be stopped.
#USpol

What is happening here? F-35s for fighting against drugs traffickers is very strange. An attack against Venezuela would be a good distraction for Trump from everything that is going wrong elsewhere.
https://www.twz.com/air/10-f-35s-deploying

#Socialism #Venezuela

Trump Admin Considering a Strike on Venezuela, Military Sources Say | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-bomb-venezuela

U.S. kills 11 in strike on alleged drug vessel from Venezuela, Trump says https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/02/trump-drug-strike-venezuela/

U.S. kills 11 in strike on alleged drug vessel from Venezuela, Trump says
The attack is a dramatic escalation that coincides with the administration’s growing counternarcotics focus and its intensifying feud with the Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro.

Convicted of murder in Venezuela. Freed by the Trump administration. https://wapo.st/46ZIHIt

Convicted of murder in Venezuela. Freed by the Trump administration.
The case of Dahud Hanid Ortíz, a U.S.-Venezuelan citizen brought home in Trump’s prisoner swap, has upset U.S. allies and sown division in the State Department.

Jaja en dan over 2 weken meetellen als een oorlog die hij ‘beëindigd’ heeft …
VS stuurt oorlogsschepen richting Venezuela in strijd tegen kartels https://nos.nl/l/2579371

VS stuurt oorlogsschepen richting Venezuela in strijd tegen kartels
Het plan is om in het internationale luchtruim en de internationale wateren te opereren, aldus een Amerikaanse functionaris. 

The White House’s former top Latin America official has said
he fears the US could stumble into a protracted guerrilla war in Venezuela
after Donald Trump ordered a military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea,
killing 11 alleged drug traffickers.
Tuesday’s controversial strike off the Venezuelan coast – which was reportedly carried out by an attack helicopter or Reaper drone – came after Trump ordered a major naval deployment to the region,
ostensibly to comb…

Vice President JD Vance doesn’t ‘give a s***’ if you think Venezuela boat strike was a war crime, he writes on X | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-war-criminal-venezuela-boat-strike-b2821599.html

Entrevista a Daniel Matamala: “La élite política cree que puede manejar a los líderes autoritarios, y estos lo primero que hacen es destruir a esa élite”.
https://www.latercera.com/mundo/notici…

Reasons NOT to give a Peace Nobel Prize to Trump: Department of War, support genocide in Gaza, escalate conflicts with Iran and Yemenis, deport children, blow up criminals instead of judge them, threaten Venezuela, Canada and Greenland with invasions. For The Norwegian Nobel Committee consideration.
#Peace #Trump

The US is set to raise the number of military vessels deployed near Venezuela to eight this week,
which Maduro described as
“the greatest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years.”
Following an authorization by Trump to use military force against Latin American drug cartels,
the Associated Press and CBS News report that “the US Navy now has two Aegis guided-missile destroyers — the USS Gravelyand the USS Jason Dunham — in the Caribbean,
a…

Maduro Says US Pointing '1,200 Missiles' at Venezuela After Trump Sends More Warships | Common Dreams
In a press conference on Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said the US has "1,200 missiles" pointed at the country after Trump sent more warships. One US defense official said Trump is gearing up for "Noriega part two," suggesting regime change.

Individual sailors and soldiers who destroyed boat Tuesday may have committed war crimes.
"'…zero evidence of self-defense…Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea,' according to Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at…Washington Office on Latin America. 'Even if…drugs aboard…not a capital offense.'"
Lethal force against civilians in international waters 'is a war crime if not in self-defense,” according to Isacson."

Was Trump’s Venezuelan boat attack a ‘war crime’? Experts say extrajudicial killings violate international law
Attack raises serious questions about president’s legal authority for lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers

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Documenting Patterns of Exoticism of Marginalized Populations within Text-to-Image Generators
Sourojit Ghosh, Sanjana Gautam, Pranav Venkit, Avijit Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02937

Documenting Patterns of Exoticism of Marginalized Populations within Text-to-Image Generators
A significant majority of AI fairness research studying the harmful outcomes of GAI tools have overlooked non-Western communities and contexts, necessitating a stronger coverage in this vein. We extend our previous work on exoticism (Ghosh et al., 2024) of 'Global South' countries from across the world, as depicted by GAI tools. We analyze generated images of individuals from 13 countries -- India, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Sudan, Libya, Venezuela, Colombia, Indone…

While Venezuela is not a democratic example like Ukraine, the echoes of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as Trump moves US military assets toward the Venezuelan coast are certainly there.
"Maduro spoke to the Venezuelan people on Monday, asking them to prepare for an invasion.
"In the face of this maximum military pressure, we have declared maximum preparedness for the defence of Venezuela," Maduro said of the deployment, which he characterized as "an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody threat."
He deployed troops along the coast and at the border with Colombia. He also urged Venezuelans to enlist in a civilian militia.”
#Trump #Venezuela #Russia #Empire #War
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-us-attack-military-drug-cartels-1.7624235

Maduro Says War With Venezuela Would Stain Trump’s Hands with Blood - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/world/americas/maduro-trump-venezuela-war.html

Many legal specialists,
including retired top military lawyers,
have rejected the idea that Trump has legitimate authority to treat suspected drug smuggling as legally equivalent to an imminent armed attack on the United States.
Even if one accepted that premise for the sake of argument, they added,
if the boat had already turned away, that would further undermine what they saw as an already weak claim of self-defense.
“If someone is retreating, where’s the ‘imm…

Venezuelan Boat Suspected of Drug Smuggling Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Strike
The Trump administration has argued that the summary killing of 11 people it accused of running drugs was legal under the laws of war.

A mathematical model of vaccine hesitancy: Analysing the impact of political trends and the interaction across age and education groups in the USA
Wajid Ali (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK), Javad Mohamadichamgavi (Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland), Juan Ramirez (IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain), Jose Aguilar (IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain, Universidad de Los Andes, M\'erida, Venezuela), Antonio Fern\'…

A mathematical model of vaccine hesitancy: Analysing the impact of political trends and the interaction across age and education groups in the USA
Vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 disease has significantly reduced its mortality rate and spread. However, despite its availability, a considerable proportion of the public has either refused or delayed getting vaccinated. This reluctance is known as vaccine hesitancy. The aim of this paper is to present a mathematical model to investigate how social interaction can impact vaccine hesitancy. The model describes the temporal transitions between different vaccination classes of the population (…

https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/114929861839446170
Even the effing Nazis held the Olympic games and let all nations participate. MAGA is actually being worse. Impressive, in some sense.

Stephen Miller boasts about 'rich resources' in nation targeted by Trump for regime change - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/venezuela/

Determining Exciton Binding Energy and Reduced Effective Mass in Metal Tri-Halide Perovskites from Optical and Impedance Spectroscopy Measurements
K. Liz\'arraga, J. A. Guerra, L. A. Enrique-Moran, E. Serquen, E. Ventura, Cesar E. P. Villegas, A. R. Rocha, P. Venezuela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22680

Determining Exciton Binding Energy and Reduced Effective Mass in Metal Tri-Halide Perovskites from Optical and Impedance Spectroscopy Measurements
Accurate determination of the exciton binding energy and reduced effective mass in halide perovskites is of utmost importance for the selective design of optoelectronic devices. Although these properties are currently determined by several spectroscopic techniques, complementary theoretical models are often required to bridge macroscopic and microscopic properties. Here, we present a novel method to determine these quantities while fully accounting for polarization effects due to carrier intera…

The United States in the last 8 months has threatened to invade, or invaded:
Canada
Mexico
Panama
Greenland
Denmark
Venezuela
Los Angeles
Washington DC
Chicago
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Boston
And many others. potus and kegseth plan to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War.
This sounds like Nobel Peace Prize behavior, am I right? 🤦‍♂️

What happens to a man after he’s been resurrected from hell?
When I talked to Andry Hernšndez Romero earlier this week, he tried to answer this question.
Andry explained why he wanted to come to America.
How he was treated in our hands.
The disgusting and unconscionable abuse that he was subjected to an infamous Salvadoran prison.
His hopes for freedom and so much more.
The entire discussion was remarkable because he is remarkable.
Not just his …

Can We Ever Repair This Moral Rot
MAGA can learn grace from the folks their leader wrongfully imprisoned.

U.S. conducts ‘lethal strike’ on alleged drug vessel in Caribbean - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/02/trump-drug-strike-venezuela/

Rubio is distancing himself from the crime Trump committed.
#venezuela #trump #rubio #drugs

I feel safer already.
American Convicted of Murder Among Those Trump Rescued From Venezuela Prison - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/world/americas/venezuela-american-convicted-murder.html

"Zuverlässige Schweiz heute" Ruag liefert bestellte Flugzeuge jahrelang nicht und hofft, dass der Auftraggeber andere Probleme hat und es nicht merkt. Jetzt will dieser das Geld zurück. Ziemlich peinlich.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ruag-lieferte-bezahlte-flugzeuge-nicht-jetzt-will-venezuela-35-millionen-zurueck-907831459170

Experts are condemning the U.S. military strike that killed 11 people on a boat in the Caribbean on Tuesday,
saying that the bombing was in violation of international law.
The Trump administration has claimed
— without providing evidence
— that the casualties of the strike were members of Tren de Aragua,
a Venezuela-based gang that it has designated a foreign terrorist organization

Experts Say Trump Administration’s Deadly Boat Attack Amounts to Extrajudicial Killings
“Trump is claiming the right to conduct extra-judicial assassinations,” a civil rights attorney posted on X.

Convicted [Triple] Murderer Freed by Trump in Venezuelan Prisoner Swap Is Free in U.S. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/americas/trump-venezuela-convicted-murderer-swap.html

In situ growth of a type-II ZnO/ZnS heterostructure:From stability to band-offset
P. R. A de Oliveira, I. Coelho, G. Felix, P. Venezuela, F. Stavale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14499

In situ growth of a type-II ZnO/ZnS heterostructure:From stability to band-offset
We have successfully obtained a ZnO/ZnS heterostructure by heating a ZnS(001) single crystal in a controlled impurities-free oxygen atmosphere. Combining X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and atomic force microscopy (AFM), we explore the stability, electronic structure, and morphology of that interface. Our XPS measurements reveal a binding energy shift of the core-level peaks, indicating a band-bending effect due to the formation of a hybrid ZnO/ZnS interface. In addition, AFM measuremen…

Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman warns US faces Venezuela-style collapse under Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/paul-krugman-2673800091/

In May, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip
temporary legal protection
from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the United States.
Overnight, TPS holders , found themselves without status—despite following all the rules.
Trump’s termination of TPS for Venezuelans is part of the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
“A single act of stripping immigration status in one fell swoop,”
said Ahilan A…

Trump is making thousands of rule-abiding immigrants undocumented
Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.

Key to whether Trump can tilt America decisively into authoritarianism will be his efforts to assert control over the armed forces.
“Trump’s ramping up of the effort to politicize the military can still go in multiple directions,” Levitsky said.
“It could be really ugly and bad, because the only way that you can get from where we are to real authoritarianism like Nicaragua or Venezuela or Russia is if Trump has the military and security forces on his side,
and he’s taken s…

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