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JULIAN ASSANGE FILES CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST NOBEL FOUNDATION OVER “INSTRUMENT OF WAR” PEACE PRIZE
WikiLeaks Founder Alleges 2025 Award to María Corina Machado Constitutes Misappropriation, Facilitation of War Crimes Under Swedish Law, Seeks Freeze of 11 million SEK ($1.18 million USD) of Pending Transfers to Machado
STOCKHOLM — 11:00am CET December 17, 2025
Julian Assange today filed a criminal complaint in Sweden accusing 30 individuals associated with the Nobel Foundation, including its leadership, of committing serious suspected crimes, including the crime of gross misappropriation of funds, facilitation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the financing of the crime of aggression.
The complaint shows that Alfred Nobel's 1895 will explicitly mandates that the peace prize go to the individual who during the proceeding year “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind” by doing “the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
Assange argues that “The political decision of the Norwegian selection committee does not suspend the fiduciary duty of Swedish funds administrators”. “Any disbursement contradicting this mandate constitutes misappropriation from the endowment”.
The complaint, submitted simultaneously to the Swedish Economic Crime Authority (Ekobrottsmyndigheten) and the Swedish War Crimes Unit (Krigsbrottsenheten), states that the suspects, including Nobel Foundation Chair Astrid Söderbergh Widding and Executive Director Hanna Stjärne, converted “an instrument of peace into an instrument of war,” through suspected “serious criminality” including:
1) Breach of trust, gross misappropriation and conspiracy in relation to the pending 11 million SEK ($1.18 million) disbursement of the Peace prize monies to Maria Corina Machado, whose prior and ongoing actions categorically exclude her from the criteria set out in Alfred Nobel's will;
2) Facilitation of war crimes, including the crime of aggression and crimes against humanity, breaching Sweden's obligations under Article 25(3)(c) of the Rome Statute, because the accused are aware of Machado's incitement and endorsement of the U.S. commission of international crimes, and knew or ought to have known that the disbursement of Nobel monies would contribute to extrajudicial killings of civilians and shipwrecked survivors at sea and are in breach of their obligation to cease disbursements.
Assange notes that the members of the Nobel Foundation have previously exercised their supervisory authority over the prizes and their disbursements by withholding Literature Prize disbursements in 2018. “Failure to intervene here, despite U.S. war crimes off the Venezuelan coast and Machado’s key role in furthering aggression” incurs criminal liability.
“Alfred Nobel's endowment for peace cannot be spent on the promotion of war,” Assange states. The accused have concrete legal obligations because they are tasked with “ensuring the fulfillment of the intended purpose of Alfred Nobel’s will, that is, to end wars and war crimes, and not to enable them.”
MACHADO'S INCITEMENT OF THE LARGEST U.S. MILITARY BUILDUP SINCE THE IRAQ WAR MAKE HER CATEGORICALLY INELIGIBLE
The complaint notes how the Nobel announcement and ceremony have occurred in what military analysts describe as “the largest U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean since the Cuban Missile Crisis”—now exceeding 15,000 personnel, including the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. The escalation continues as President Trump announced on December 10, two days after the Nobel ceremony, that U.S. strikes would be “starting by land.” The Venezuela strategy is part of what Trump’s Secretary for War, Peter Hegseth, calls a shift toward “maximum lethality, not tepid legality” and “going on the offence”.
Against this backdrop, Assange states that “Machado has continued to incite the Trump Administration to pursue its escalatory path”, including by entering into a conspiracy to give the U.S. administration access to $1.7 trillion in oil reserves and other natural resources through privatization once Maduro is ousted.
“Using her elevated position as the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Machado may well have tipped the balance in favour of war, facilitated by the named suspects.” Assange states in the criminal complaint.
The complaint lists evidence of this incitement of U.S. military intervention, as well as praising Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conduct in Gaza. Her statements include:
- “Military escalation may be the only way... the United States may need to intervene directly” (30 October 2025)
- Machado called U.S. military strikes on civilian vessels, which have killed at least 95 people to date, “justified” and “visionary”.
- Machado dedicated the prize to U.S. President Trump, because he “finally has put Venezuela... in terms of a priority for the United States national security”
- Historical statements including 2014 testimony before U.S. Congress where she said: “The only path left is the use of force”
The filing cites extensive third-party expert and institutional opposition to Machado receiving the award:
- 21 Norwegian peace organizations declared: “Machado is the opposite of a peace laureate.”
- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel stated: “Giving the prize to someone who calls for foreign invasion is a mockery of Alfred Nobel's will.”
- The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) confirmed Machado “has called for military intervention in Venezuela.”
REQUESTED ACTION
The complaint notes that “There is a real risk that the funds derived from Nobel’s endowment have been or will be intentionally or negligently diverted from their charitable purpose to facilitate aggression, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.”
Assange requests that Swedish authorities:
1. Immediately freeze of the pending SEK 11,000,000 monetary prize transfer and any remaining related budget and secure return of the medal.
2. Investigate the named persons and Foundation officers and associated entities for breach of trust, facilitation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and conspiracy.
3. Seize of board minutes, emails, group chats, financial records.
4. Interrogate Widding, Stjärne and other suspects.
5. Fully investigate domestically or refer the matter to the ICC (Rome Statute Art. 25(3)(c)).
“This complaint seeks the immediate freezing of all remaining funds and a full criminal investigation lest the Nobel Peace Prize be permanently converted from an instrument of peace into an instrument of war,” Assange concludes.
Criminal complaint filing now available here:
https://file.wikileaks.org/files/2025/machado29-dist.pdf

Chevron is currently the only major U.S. company authorized to operate in Venezuela under a restricted U.S. Treasury license, despite broad sanctions on the country's oil sector. This exception allows Chevron to produce and export Venezuelan crude primarily to the U.S., while prohibiting any cash payments (including taxes or royalties) to the Maduro government.No Taxes or Royalties in CashThe current license (issued/renewed in mid-2025) explicitly bans direct monetary transfers to Venezuela's government or PDVSA for taxes, royalties, or dividends. Instead, arrangements involve oil swaps or in-kind compensation, where Chevron may provide diluents or allocate portions of produced crude to PDVSA (which PDVSA then sells independently). This structure is designed to prevent cash from flowing to the Maduro administration, though critics argue it still indirectly benefits the regime by sustaining production and providing oil that PDVSA can monetize elsewhere.Chevron's Role in Refining and ExportsChevron's joint ventures account for a significant portion of Venezuela's oil output—historically around 20-25% (roughly 150,000–250,000 barrels per day in recent periods, depending on fluctuations). Venezuela's total production is approximately 900,000–1 million bpd in late 2025, so Chevron handles about a fifth to a quarter, not precisely a third. The crude is exported almost exclusively to U.S. refineries (Chevron processes some itself and sells the rest), as the license restricts sales to the U.S. only.Broader Context of U.S. PolicyThis setup stems from U.S. efforts to balance energy security, debt recovery (Chevron is recouping billions owed by PDVSA), and pressure on Maduro, while avoiding full disruption that could boost influence from China, Russia, or Iran. Recent escalations (e.g., tanker seizures and blockades on non-Chevron vessels in December 2025) have paralyzed much of Venezuela's non-Chevron exports, highlighting the special treatment for Chevron. The "Mafia" analogy reflects a common critique that U.S. sanctions create carve-outs benefiting American companies while punishing others.Sources include Reuters, NYT, and OFAC documents from 2025, confirming the no-cash-payments rule and Chevron's dominant role in U.S.-bound flows. The exact "third" figure appears overstated, but the core claims about operations and zero cash royalties/taxes hold up under the restricted license.

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In short, 30 straight headlines from the last 24 hours [take a deep breath in…exhale…]
1. FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he will step down in January
2. Ex-Harvard Medical Morgue Manager Who Sold Body Parts Gets 8-Year Sentence
3. Fani Willis, testifying before Georgia Senate panel, defends 2020 election probe
4. Kansas school breaks early due to illnesses
5. Senate passes $901 billion defense bill that pushes Hegseth for boat strike video
6. Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center in Colorado
7. Federal appeals court allows National Guard deployment in Washington to continue for now
8. Moderate Republicans buck leadership and back Democrat effort to extend ACA subsidies
9. Texas widow receives immigration approval letter months after husband's death in ICE shooting
10. HHS cuts millions in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics
11. Longtime children’s pastor Joe Campbell arrested on child sex abuse charges
12. U.K. issues ultimatum to Russian oligarch to hand Chelsea sale proceeds to Ukraine
13. Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in scheme to overturn 2020 election
14. Nick Reiner appears in L.A. court after being charged with murder in deaths of his parents/Rob Reiner's two children speak out after brother's hearing in parents' murder
15. Ex-Marine planned attack in New Orleans that would 'recreate' Waco, officials say
16. FCC leader Brendan Carr to face Senate questioning for first time since Kimmel controversy
17. Ramaswamy calls on conservatives to reject Groypers
18. In Senate testimony, FCC chairman says his agency isn’t independent
19. Immigration Agents and Protesters Face Off in Frigid Minnesota/ ICE Arrests Disrupt Schools, Prompting Fear Among Families
20. Trump Revised Chevron’s Venezuela Deal. Maduro’s Oil Trader Profited
21. N.Y. Governor Will Sign Right-to-Die Bill for the Terminally ill
22. DOJ must release Epstein files by Friday or risk repercussions, law's co-author says
23. With Rights and Resources Uncertain, Young, Child-free Women Seek Sterilization
24. Arctic is again the hottest it's been in 125 years, NOAA report says
25. FDA approves label change for Depo-Provera, adding brain tumor warning
26. Members of secretive California religious group charged with murder in 2 deaths
27. Two families sue Meta over teens' deaths by suicide, citing 'sextortion' scams
28. Google sues alleged Chinese scam group behind massive U.S. text message phishing ring
29. Measles outbreaks won't end in 2025 as cases mount in Utah, Arizona and South Carolina
30. White House installs plaques mocking former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden
All of those were from the last 24 hours; I gave 30 instead of 24 today because they are the straight-up headlines.
I thought I was getting better; turns out — I’m not.
And neither is this country.
I cried so hard I couldn't catch my breath and I threw up trying to read all of these stories.
While searching I watched a video of a latino man in New Orleans being detained by other Latino men; he was screaming, crying 'ayudame! ayudame, por favor.'
He was pleading... "help me, please.. help me."
And everyone carried on about their life... as if this were normal...this is not normal.
This is evil.
All I keep saying to myself is....
What have we done?
Links to sources will be 📌’d in the comments for each.

Occupy Democrats

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BREAKING: BUSTED! Trump’s promised $1776 checks to US servicemembers just got exposed as nothing but a propaganda scam, as they were already going to get that money ANYWAY!
Last night, Trump raised eyebrows around the nation when he declared that “1,450,000 military service members will receive a special, we call, warrior dividend before Christmas. A warrior dividend. In honor of our nation’s founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776. And the checks are already on the way.”
The non-brainwashed among us wondered how he was going to do that, since the President cannot just unilaterally start spending the public’s money willy-nilly — it has to be approved by Congress.
Well, now we know what’s really going on. A DefenseOne reporter received confirmation from a senior official that the “warrior dividends” are going to come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members — meaning, this money is what they were going to get ANYWAY.
It will be interesting to see how he explains it to the troops when they suddenly get a check for $1776 but no money for their rent this month. As usual, everything with Trump is snake oil, a mirror trick, or a straight-up fabrication.
Unfortunately for him, he cannot hide from the truth, no matter how big he builds his wall of lies.

Prof Zenkus
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5 Democrats just handed Trump a blank check to do whatever TF he wants in Venezuela. Once again, Democrats show that they, like Republicans, are a party of endless war and bottomless military budgets.

In short, 24 headlines from the last 24 hours [take a DEEP breath…]
1. MAGA infighting erupts at TPUSA Fest in AZ w/ 30k attending: Ben Shapiro crashes-out on Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Steve Bannon, Megyn Kelly as 'frauds and grifters;’ Erika Kirk urges unity, endorses Vance for 2028
2. Larry Bushart (61, retired law enforcement) sues Perry County after he was jailed 37 days w/ $2M bond for posting DJT photo “we have to get over it”-meme in FB comments following Charlie Kirk killing; seeks damages as he lost his job
3. DJT pushes $1,776 “warrior dividend” for troops as funded by tariffs; reports show the money is repurposed from military housing aid already approved by Congress as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
4. Study warns AI data centers may emit as much CO₂ as NYC and use more water in a year than the world’s bottled supply, amid surging demand and little corporate transparency
5. US strikes 2 more alleged drug boats in E. Pacific, 5 killed; Total strikes - 28; (11 Caribbean, 17 E. Pacific); Total extrajudicial killings - 104
6. Brown Univ shooter found dead from apparent suicide in NH; identified as Claudio Valente (48, former Brown student & Portuguese national); tied to murder of MIT professor in Boston; vehicle identified using Flock [controversial AI-powered traffic camera company]
7. DJT announces “Patriot Games” athletic competition for high school students next year; Gov. Gavin Newsom and Dems mock it as a dystopian, Hunger Games–style spectacle
8. ‘You can tell the pro-illegal immigration radicals are losing the argument when they [resort] to @ICEgov voodoo dolls:’ LA AG Liz Murrill(GOP); after an ICE agent “voodoo doll” found tied to a tree in NOLA as federal immigration raids continue
9. WI jury found Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of felony obstruction for helping an undocumented immigrant evade ICE agents in April; acquitted her on related concealment charge; faces up to 5 years
10. DJT’s handpicked board votes to rename Kennedy performing arts center the Trump Kennedy Center; Rep. Joyce Beatty says she was forcibly muted during board call later claimed “unanimous” vote to rename the Trump-Kennedy Center
11. DJT signs executive order reclassifying marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, easing research and some regulations—does NOT legalize cannabis nationwide
12. “It’s a lie”: Migrants promised $1K to voluntarily leave US; payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived; payments handled in-part by Soterex, created 4 days after DJT announced payments, but has no record of govt contracts
13. Despite promise given to end govt shutdown, Senate adjourns for holidays without passing funding package or voting on ACA subsidies (which will now expire, jacking up prices for millions) just weeks before another partial govt shutdown Jan. 30
14. TikTok reaches DJT-backed joint venture deal to stay in US: ByteDance keeps ads, e-commerce, and marketing; Oracle will retrain algorithm; 7-member board; deal valued at $14B, closes 22 Jan
15. Day after DJT terminates multimillion-dollar grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, DJT moves to end gender-affirming care for minors, banning Medicaid funding for puberty blockers, hormones, or surgery
16. Despite DJT claims prices are “rapidly” falling, federal data says otherwise: US inflation rose 2.7% to Nov, unemployment hit 4.6%, and tariffs add ~$1,700/yr per household, with weak job growth
17. Trump Media, owner of Truth Social, will merge with fusion power firm TAE Technologies in $6B deal, aiming to power AI datacenters with utility-scale fusion energy, as DJT pushes Big Tech to plug data centers right into power plants
18. DJT sues another 3 states + DC for voter data, bringing total states sued to 26; 10 states are either in full compliance or working toward it; data sought includes names, DOB, addresses, DL #’s and partial SSN’s
19. DJT announces largest-ever US weapons package of $10B to Taiwan, angering China who have said they would take Taiwan by force if necessary
20. Dems release new Epstein photos ahead of DoJ transparency deadline today; images show passages from Lolita—a novel about a man’s sexual obsession with a 12yo girl—written on women; more powerful men pictured
21. Fed judge denies request to close FL’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center, ruling detainee from suit failed to show irreparable harm; lawsuits over legality, environment review & attorney access will continue
22. LA Home Depot installs 3 high-pitch noise machines to deter day laborers, causing headaches/nausea; advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots; HD denies connection
23. DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt DJT’s immigration crackdown; dozens of felony cases reduced or dismissed when videos and evidence contradicted initial allegations; all 5 trials ended in acquittals
24. Starting 12/16, Meta began testing a system where certain FB users without paid Meta Verified subscription can only share 2 external links per month, effectively limiting free link sharing and pushing users to pay for the subscription
📌All of the above were from the last 24 hours.
I am still in bed with the flu, slowly making my way back to normal. Illness has a way of forcing stillness—and stillness has a way of sharpening thought.
I may be a lawyer now, but the teacher in me has a lesson or two left. Today’s lesson is a feeling I’m sure you’ve experienced, even if you didn’t know the word for it: Schadenfreude.
Pronounced SHAH-den-froy-duh—from the German schaden (“harm” or “damage”) and freude (“joy” or “pleasure”)—it literally means 'harm-joy.'
Schadenfreude is the pleasure derived from another person’s misfortune.
It’s an old word for an old instinct. But lately, I see it everywhere.
Not just in politics or on social media, but in quieter places—in casual conversations, in the way headlines are consumed, in the subtle satisfaction taken when someone else stumbles.
What’s striking isn’t that it exists. It always has.
What’s striking is that it’s become expected. Normalized. Even celebrated.
Misfortune is no longer simply tragedy—it’s content.
Commentary. Entertainment. A punchline. And once pain is packaged that way, empathy becomes optional, compassion conditional, and cruelty convenient.
A society that rewards this kind of pleasure changes how it sees itself.
Pain stops being a shared human experience and becomes a tool—a way to draw lines, to decide who deserves dignity and who doesn’t.
And here’s the quiet truth we avoid:
One day, the laughter won’t be aimed at “them.”
It will land closer to home.
One day, it may be someone you love.
One day, it will be you.
Refusing to participate—to resist the pull of that satisfaction—doesn’t mean ignoring wrongdoing or abandoning justice.
Evil still deserves exposure.
Harm still demands accountability.
Justice is not compromised by restraint; it is strengthened by fair, firm, and consistent focus.
Choosing not to cheer when another falls, while still standing for what is right, makes you deliberate.
It makes you human.
It makes you a witness who refuses to let cruelty masquerade as strength.
I fight this battle every day; sometimes losing. We all do.
But every time we choose not to laugh at another's pain, not to look away—we push back, quietly but meaningfully, against a culture that too often mistakes cruelty for courage.
And that choice still matters; at least to me, because what good is winning anything, if you've lost everything you fought to uphold in the process — including yourself?
I want to be one of America’s better angels—watching, guiding, standing where cruelty would otherwise take hold; lifting the fallen, guarding the innocent, and reminding the world that justice and mercy can coexist.
If you’re still here reading this, it means you care too. It means you haven’t given in to indifference, haven’t mistaken cynicism for wisdom, haven’t let the world completely harden your heart.
Stay with me. Stand with me.
Because the world needs more witnesses, more hands willing to steady what is shaken.
And every time you choose empathy over mockery, justice over vengeance, humanity over harm—you become one of those better angels too.
This world, these next 24 hours, and the next, and the next... will need us. And more than anything - I don't want to become them.
So breathe deep....exhale; then, repeat as necessary.
Links to sources will be📌’d in the comments for each.
See you tomorrow!
~Ms. G, J.D.

From Robert Reich's post today.

I don’t want to alarm you, and I hesitate to even mention this, but I couldn’t sleep knowing that Trump has the power to launch a nuclear bomb.
As commander-in-chief, he is the only person in the United States with the authority to launch a nuke. No one else need be consulted before he does. No one else can veto such an order. Not even the vice president or secretary of defense has the power to stop it.
I hope to god he doesn’t. I don’t think he would.
But what if he’s provoked? What if he feels that his manhood or his authority or his status is being threatened? What if he just wants to demonstrate to Americans and the world how strong he is?
Again, I doubt this will happen, but the risk is not zero. Here’s a man who thinks Rob and Michele Reiner were murdered because they had a “raging obsession” with him. A man who, according to his current chief of staff, has the personality of an alcoholic with delusions of omnipotence.
It’s a risk that neither the United States nor the rest of the world can afford to take.
I don’t think I’m being alarmist. If anything, I worry that we’ve become so inured to Trump’s madness that we’re not alarmist enough.
Trump must be removed from office as soon as possible.
Either Section 4 of the 25th Amendment must be invoked — because he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” — or he must be impeached and convicted under Section 4 of Article II of the Constitution for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Today was the first day I started to feel back to normal after a week+ of sickness. My kids and I watched Avatar: Fire and Ash — we are fans of the series; we’ve even ridden banshees twice among the Hallelujah Mountains of Pandora in Animal Kingdom.
I know I am a sentimental savage; my aunt says I look like the type of woman who would cry her way through a battle, and she’s not wrong.
I am not the woman to harden myself to survive—I would survive BECAUSE I feel. #neytiri
This wicked empathy has lived in me since childhood, lodged like the lump in your throat you get when you try to keep from crying.
I learned early how to hide it, how to play it off as toughness or humor or silence. But some stories bypass those defenses.
This one did. I cried.
Lately, I find myself asking the same question again and again:
Why me?
Why do I feel this much, when others seem able to feel nothing at all?
Why do I care?
How can they not?
Why, when Hometree fell in the first film, did it feel like something inside my own body collapsed—like the sound traveled through the screen and reviberated into my bones?
Why, when the sacred tulkun are hunted for their anti-aging amrita, did it feel like a piece of my soul was being pulled out, slowly, deliberately, for someone else’s profit?
Why, did I come home and cry while typing this, as if the grief and loss itself had followed me through the door?
And then it hits me.
Because I am a historian, and we have all read this story before; one version or another.
It is different when you know—really know—that no matter what hopeful ending Hollywood places before us, this was NOT how the story ended when colonizers came to colonize. There were no credits. No swelling music. No return to balance.
We are living in the consequences and repercussions — in the very bloodlines that carry trauma like an inherited language.
In the land that still remembers what was taken from it.
In borders drawn by violence, in wealth built on extraction, in systems designed not to heal but to control.
We live in the aftermath. In the long shadow of decisions made generations ago and renewed, again and again, by convenience and greed in excess today.
The story did not end; it metastasized.
It learned to wear suits instead of armor, contracts instead of chains, regime-change instead of just bombs.
We now live in a world where the sacred is treated as expendable, where the earth is something to be used up rather than belonged to, where entire peoples are told—implicitly, constantly—that their suffering is unfortunate but necessary — that this is simply the cost of the way things are.
And the cruelest part is not that it happened.
It’s that we keep pretending it’s over.
We see it in poisoned water and stolen land. In children taught history as a closed chapter instead of an open wound. In the way empathy is dismissed as weakness and numbness to cruelty is mistaken for strength.
This is not ancient history, ladies and gentlemen.
This is present tense.
We are living inside the unresolved ending — the smoke never cleared….they just forced us to breathe the fire and ash.
There were great ones once. Leaders. Protectors.
Toruk Makto figures in the flesh—the Indigenous chiefs, elders, warriors of spirit and land.
And where are they now?
Some were killed.
Some were erased.
Some were turned into footnotes, or mascots, or myths people feel comfortable loving ONLY when they are safely fictional.
Thing is… fiction lets us mourn without responsibility; reality… demands more.
We understand it when it is painted blue and set on another planet.
We nod along when the sacred mother of the world has a different name, a different face.
But when it is here—when it is this land, this water, THESE bodies—we dare call anyone else foreign when we don’t know who we are.
As if we have forgotten where we come from.
As if we have forgotten where we will return.
As if we have forgotten we are connected.
And that forgetting is the true violence of our time.
It is heartbreaking—for those who still have a heart.
For those who feel the floor collapse when the tree falls.
For those who recognize the pattern and cannot unsee it.
For those whose empathy refuses to calcify into indifference.
So for that, I suppose one should be thankful.
Because in a world that rewards numbness, feeling anything is a form of resistance.
Because a heart that still breaks for suffering is proof it has not been conquered by those who benefited its apathy.
This is why some of us still feel it. In our bones. In our grief. In the way certain stories hurt more than others, not because they are fiction, but because they are memory we carry in our very DNA.
Because they echo something older than us, something unfinished, something asking to be answered.
Because here is the part we cannot keep pretending away:
You do not get to love the Na’vi and excuse their enemies.
You do not get to cheer for the defenders of the sacred and then, in real life, put on the uniform of the machine that destroys it.
You do not get to identify with the hero on screen and become the villains off it.
History is unforgiving of that kind of split allegiance; and Karma… never forgets, in this life or the next.
Every era asks the same question, just dressed differently:
Who are you standing with when power comes for land, for bodies, for dignity?
Who do you protect when the cost of conscience… is comfort?
Who do you become when obedience is easier… than courage?
Because just as there were those who enforced the orders, there were also those touched something greater than themselves who refused them.
Just as there were uniforms, there were people who tore them off.
Just as there were collaborators, there were resisters—people who gave everything they had: their safety, their futures, their lives—so that someone else might live with theirs intact.
Those people are not abstractions.
They are ancestors of spirit speaking through me right now, meant for your eyes to read.
They are the reason the story still breathes at all.
This is the side of history you are choosing now, not later. Not in retrospect. Not when it is safe to say you would have done the right thing.
You choose it in what you justify.
In what you normalize.
Feeling is not weakness. It is alignment.
It is the body recognizing the truth before the mind negotiates it away.
And for those of us who still feel—who cannot watch the tree fall without mourning, who cannot watch the hunt without rage, who cannot watch the uniform without asking who it serves—we are not naive.
We are remembering our assignment.
And the assignment is to remember, and then LIVE like you do.
Deep breath in… hold it… exhale; then, repeat as necessary.
See y’all next year.
~Ms. G, J.D.

Nina Turner
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The reason The Democratic Party won’t release the 2024 election autopsy?
The coroner is the murderer.
The same people responsible for leading the party to failure are still leading. That’s not compatible with change

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🇺🇸 NewsNation: U.S. President Donald Trump will make an announcement alongside Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan on December 22 at 4:30 PM ET.

Greta Thunberg was arrested on December 23, 2025, in central London during a protest outside the offices of Aspen Insurance, which activists claim provides services to Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems.She held a placard reading: "I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide." Police arrested her under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 for displaying an item in support of a proscribed (banned) organization—Palestine Action, which the UK government designated as a terrorist group earlier in 2025.Two other protesters were arrested earlier at the same demonstration on suspicion of criminal damage after spraying red paint on the building.The protest supported several remand prisoners linked to Palestine Action (detained pre-ban for alleged actions like break-ins and damage at arms-related sites). Some have been on a rolling hunger strike since November 2, 2025, with reports of hospitalizations and deteriorating health. Their demands include bail, dropping charges or fair trials, lifting the ban on Palestine Action, and shutting down Elbit facilities in the UK.Thunberg has previously voiced support for the hunger strikers, calling them "political prisoners" and urging escalation to pressure the government.

Nearly 2026, the year of revolt or fascism. My take, in part, of where we are. There are signs of Trump's base crumbling, somewhat. Those who don't give a **** if he raped children will always support him with a vengeance. Trump will use evermore violence to have his way, domestically and abroad. He is without question the worst president we have had. Unfortunately, the antidote is not the Democrats. Both parties are criminal enterprises. A third party in theory could save us. The most recognized other party, the Green, has had a history of gaining no traction. It is irrelevant. It will require a tidal wave of public participation in support of a candidate of and for the people, and I argue it matters not the party or lack of party that would matter. The message and overwhelming support is the key. Said candidate would likely emerge out of nowhere, because, of established figures, I don't recognize a real leader.

If Trump suppresses the off year vote successfully, we have a dire future. Likely a bloody one. Maybe regardless.

I've suspected it all along, but I don't believe th election will be overturned.

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December 25 at 10:30 PM
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Piper For Missouri
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I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
Let me start off by saying that I am not an economist — I don’t even have a finance or accounting degree and I’m really bad at math in the first place.
But I do pay attention. I notice things and I am quick to see a pattern. I observe the world and the people in charge of it. I listen to the words they say and then measure those words against their actions.
You don’t need to be an economist to look around and see that the Trump administration is going to cause economic disaster — a recession or a depression. And it is by design. It is a feature, not a bug.
How do I know this?
I live under a GOP Supermajority. I have lived under their boot for two decades. They have economically damaged my state and it wasn’t by accident. They did it to sell off the state and workers and land to the wealthy. They created a desperate situation in Missouri and that desperation equates to bounty for the oligarchs.
The new Gilded Age. Make America desperate again.
I’ve spent my life in rural parts of rural states. I am uniquely qualified to speak on this issue. I have seen it first-hand. You have heard of Project 2025. Missouri has been running the pilot project for almost two decades.
Many Missourians are now poor and sick and abused and desperate.
The wealthy have thrown **** at the walls in red states to see what sticks. They found the winning formula, wrote it into a plan called Project 2025, and now bring it nationwide.
They have installed the wealthiest man in the world to dismantle the country for himself and his fellow oligarchs. They plan to burn the country down to pay rock-bottom prices for the ashes.
A fire sale.
The plan is to make the US a version of Missouri. And just over 40 days in, we can see that the plan is working.
Let me show you: the small rural American farmer is almost non-existent. He was wiped out decades ago.
In 1988, 32% of the nation's hog production came from family or small operations that produced fewer than 1,000 hogs per year. By 2000, that same size category only produced 2% of the nation's hogs.
Two percent.
Now, almost every pork product eaten in the US is produced on a factory farm. Wealthy corporations moved in and created a monopoly in the market. That monopoly is neither more healthy for Americans nor better for local economies.
Wealthy corporations put most family hog operations out of business and that means farming folks had to go to town for work…for a corporation. They depend on the availability of jobs in town instead of their own farm to pay the bills. When those town jobs dry up, the desperation ensues.
And now we have a trade war, so if your family farm happened to survive the last few decades, Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico — and their retaliatory tariffs — will devastate your family farm. Guess where I found that exact plan? Project 2025.
Shrink American farmers’ access to foreign markets, restricting growth opportunities for producers.
The oligarchs wrote it in black and white.
But, as I have written, most rural folks aren’t farmers. So what other things have I noticed being burnt to the ground in rural America?
Public schools.
Missouri is 49th in the nation for educational funding. The state only supplies 32% of the funding schools need to open their doors, turn on the lights, and pay teachers. The rest of school funding must be found in decimated rural towns that often don’t have a stoplight, much less a grocery store or businesses that can make up the funding shortfall.
Because of that, over 30% of Missouri schools run a four-day week. Almost every four-day district is in rural Missouri. We run four-day weeks not for convenience or student achievement but to recruit and retain teachers.
Missouri pays starting teachers at the lowest rate in the country. That is by design.
This short week can also be a nightmare for folks trying to find daycare one day per week, especially hitting women hard. Several Missouri parents — overwhelmingly moms — are forced to work around the day off as childcare is not easy to find in our small communities.
It makes it difficult to make ends meet with one income and rural Missouri loses population each decade because most folks can’t live in an area without jobs and daycares and five-day school weeks.
Again, by design. Make folks desperate.
Missouri Republicans have defunded schools to hasten the hollowing out rural parts of the state. It’s working, but just to hurry the process along, these lawmakers pulled even more more state funding from defunded schools to siphon it to private religious schools.
Guess where I found the plan to destroy rural schools? Project 2025. The playbook my lawmakers have been following for two decades was written out nearly word for word.
That has been the plan all along. Empty out rural America.
Why in the world would anyone want to destroy rural America either by creating conditions to hurt small farmers or close rural schools? Because they want to sell off rural parts to the highest bidder. Because if they can drive people out of rural spaces, or make them so desperate that they’ll accept any job at any pay rate, they can bring in large corporate farms and there is no one to protest the environmental impacts or force them to pay their fair share in taxes.
This is what the oligarchs and the tech bros working for them envision for the entire country.
Curated failure. Carefully chosen and organized chaos to create the desired effect. They did it to enable the selling of the country and workers and land to the wealthy.
I have witnessed it from the inside. I live in Missouri and no amount of letter writing has cured my state or persuaded my lawmakers, but one thing has slowed them down…organized action.
Showing up in numbers that can’t be hidden or explained away. Marching in the streets. Testifying by the hundreds. Making lawmakers accountable with constant contact. Letting them know we see them and we know.
Public action.
They want us poor and sick and abused and desperate. They did it in red states and now want the same for the entire United States.
Refuse them. Throw sand in the gears. Take up space. Get in the way.
It’s the only way.
~Jess
From "The View from Rural Missouri" March, 2025
Link: https://open.substack.com/.../i-know-exactly-what-they...

Larry Reid Live

White People (the racist ones sick with Whiteness) dropping bombs on Africans should have Black Americans speaking out. But many of you believe the propaganda that this was because Christians were being targeted there. This is smoke and mirrors. I told you guys this was going to happen and that the real reason is Nigerian minerals. Find the post and post under this for proof for my haters. We seen this play before. Remember Gadafi?
Because we practice White Eurocentric version of Christianity in the West - many of us have been made docile or white-souled and can’t see what’s up.
It’s time to deconstruct and decolonize your faith.
It’s been timeand youre late Ii you ask me. But Its really never too late.
I know some can’t hear me now but you soon will and you’ll see. What happened to Nigeria is what will hit the 90% in this country while the top 10% moving along nicely. 2026 it’s gonna hit hard!

Christians are under attack in Israel, no outrage from USA.

Yes.

Rubia Garcia, J.D.
My Journal entry Christmas Eve:
I think I know why this feels like the most un-Christmasy Christmas, ever.
It doesn’t feel like Christmas because this is unlike any Christmas we have ever collectively lived through in history.
Part of it is the Santa problem.
We were raised on a myth: that someone good was watching, that behavior mattered, that rewards and consequences were real, that someone powerful cared enough to keep a list and check it twice.
We believed—fully, sincerely—until the moment we didn’t.
And none of us forget that moment.
The quiet realization.
The sinking feeling.
The understanding that the adults were lying, maybe not out of cruelty, but out of convenience.
That Santa wasn’t real, but the system depended on us believing he was.
That moment—that loss of innocence—is America now.
Because we know better.
Beyond the shadow of a doubt, we know better.
We know the country is broken.
We know the people in charge are not benevolent caretakers but convicted criminals, abusers, profiteers—people protected by power, money, and indifference.
We know the list isn’t about who’s been good or bad; it’s about who’s useful and who’s disposable.
And once you know that, once the myth collapses, you can’t just sing the songs the same way.
You can’t pretend the magic is still intact.
We are told the economy is strong while people are paying more for less—spending the same money on less groceries, thinner gifts, and fewer choices.
Families are stretching paychecks that no longer stretch, swallowing shame that was never theirs to begin with.
The math doesn’t lie, even when politicians do.
And all the while, power parades itself in gilded rooms, ceremonial nonsense, petty plaques, planes, ballrooms, hollow symbolism—all ornaments on a rotten tree—meant to distract us from the FACT that the people making decisions are NO LONGER answerable to the people living with the consequences, which is us.
This isn’t a shared sacrifice.
This is extraction, dressed up as inevitability.
It’s Christmas while jobs disappear.
While families remain separated.
While violence—real, sustained, domestic violence—has been normalized on American soil for months.
And none of this happened in a vacuum.
We were prepared for it.
Conditioned.
Trained to look away when suffering was framed as distant, foreign, necessary.
Gaza was a rehearsal, IMHO.
We warned you: ****, we tried to warn you…if you accept genocide over there, don’t be shocked when the same depth of depravity comes home.
And now, look at us; warehouses as concentration camps on American soil.
And the targets have only widened—from the “worst of the worst” to basically any Person of Color or anybody inconvenient.
It doesn’t feel like Christmas… because fear has replaced safety, and fear CAN NOT coexist with joy.
It’s Christmas while we’re being asked to swallow contradictions so large they should choke us all.
Regime change sold as drug policy, again.
Violence justified as protection.
Mercy applied upward while punishment rains downward.
People who lost everything are told to be patient, while those convicted of enormous harm walk free, pardoned, insulated by power and proximity.
We’re told not to notice the hypocrisy, not to connect the dots, not to ask why the rules only bend one way.
But Christmas.. oh, these damn holidays... lies are hardest to maintain when families are forced into the same room.
The Epstein revelations, not as rumor or conspiracy, but as an open wound the country is being forced to look at.
Not just about one man, but about systems that protected abuse, rewarded silence, and punished exposure.
What’s surfacing isn’t just criminality; it’s ROT.
A growing, undeniable understanding that the United States is being run by people compromised by crimes so grotesque they shatter faith itself.
Convicts.
Abusers.
Pedophiles.
Now, both IN and OUT of the church now.
All the way to the White House.
Period.
It doesn’t feel like Christmas because innocence—the very THING the season claims to protect—has been repeatedly raped by institutions that demanded our trust.
And yet, perversely, this is exactly why it DOES feel like Christmas in the most uncomfortable way possible.
Because the holidays have always been when the dark things come to light, aren't they?
When families gather and the unspoken becomes too unbearable to contain.
Truth is... “what goes on in this house, stays in this house” has destroyed generations.
The tension at the table.
The silence after certain names are mentioned.
The careful choreography of avoidance.
That isn’t just a family dynamic—it’s now a collective American one.
The secret everyone knows, but will never want to talk about because it’s rude to call out your abuser over turkey.
You take it; year after year.
This country is the same family with generational trauma it refuses to name.
The lies about the Black and Indigenous holocausts.
The lies about class, merit, fairness.
The lies about the election… the lies about **** of no consequence.
The lies just to lie at this point.
Trauma layered on trauma, buried beneath patriotism and platitudes.
Millions of Americans are walking around with unhealed wounds of their own—assaults, molestations, violations minimized or hidden to “keep the peace.”
Adults who never learned how to be adults because they were taught silence instead of accountability—and then passed that on to their children.
You cannot heal what you refuse to speak, and this nation has made a cult religion out of avoidance.
The Santa myth taught us something though - once you know the truth, you can’t un-know it.
You can’t go back to believing just because belief was comforting.
You can’t keep lying to the kids forever without eventually teaching them that lies.. are love.
That’s where we are now—caught between the lie that keeps things quiet and the truth that might finally set something right.
That is the crux of it.
This doesn’t feel like Christmas because Christmas demands truth before healing.
Because you can’t keep pretending at the dinner table everything is fine while the house is on fire.
Because eventually the children grow up and ask the questions you hoped would never be spoken. Because some of us want to heal.
And now the country is at that table, staring at its own reflections, realizing that pushing the goalposts won’t save anyone.
The myth is gone.
The American spell is broken.
There is no American Presidential ideal anymore than there is a Santa Clause.
There is no unseen protector.
There is only us, standing in the wreckage, deciding whether we tell the truth or keep lying to posterity because it’s easier than healing and rebuilding something real.
And that’s why this year hurts.
Because the country is no longer a child at 250 years old; and this is the first Christmas where we can no longer pretend we are.
The only question left is whether we finally choose to face the truth together—or keep mistaking silence for peace.
And the truth is America is currently being run by a cabal of convicts and corrupt politicians, pedophiles and their protectors.
So, Merry ******* Christmas America 🥂
They are running things—yes.
But they only keep running them because too many people still hope someone else will fix it.
Nothing changes until we stop behaving like frightened children waiting for permission.
Hope without action is just another sedative.
This is the moment America grows up—or doesn’t.
Growing up means calling abuse what it is.
Naming corruption without euphemism.
Protecting the vulnerable instead of appeasing the powerful.
Breaking with traditions that exist solely to keep harm hidden.
It means choosing disruption over decorum.
Truth over politeness.
Solidarity over silence.
So if this feels like the least Christmasy Christmas ever—maybe that’s good.
That means the illusion is finally cracking.
And once the lie is visible to all of us, pretending not to see it is no longer innocence—it’s consent.
Because just like you never forget the day Santa wasn’t real, you NEVER forget who chose order over justice and asked you to absorb the damage quietly…you never forget the people who asked you to endure the abuse in silence rather than risk the discomfort of truth…and you’ll never forget those who preferred your silence over accountability—your pain over their inconvenience.
There is no American myth left to hide behind.
Only responsibility now.
It’s time for US to grow the **** up, stop waiting to be protected, and BECOME the people who should have shown up for us the way we deserved.
Because WE are the only ones standing between OUR children and what comes next.
RG