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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/11
« Last post by SVPete on December 11, 2025, 05:07:45 PM »
I'm no genius, but there would have to be 4 "suspects" in that Su-24/34 ejection incident: pilot; navigator (weapons officer?); ground crew person; electrical or mechanical malfunction.

That the plane was in a shelter suggests that it was in European Russia, i.e. in an area within range of Ukrainian drones.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/11
« Last post by Zathras on December 11, 2025, 05:01:01 PM »
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Fatal ejection incident on Russian airbase leaves two dead

By Dylan Malyasov- Dec 8, 2025

Two Russian military airmen were killed in an incident involving the unexpected activation of an ejection system while their aircraft was parked in a shelter, according to Russian defense blogger Ilya Tumanov, the founder of the “Fighterbomber” Telegram channel.

“Yesterday, in one of the bomber aviation regiments, the ejection system was triggered on a plane standing in a shelter,” Tumanov wrote. “The pilot and navigator sustained injuries incompatible with life.”

Tumanov did not specify the location of the incident or the aircraft type involved. However, he said a government commission is now working at the site to investigate.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/defence-blog.com/fatal-ejection-incident-on-russian-airbase-leaves-two-dead/%3famp

A two man crew on a fighter bomber means it was either a SU-24 or SU-34. Still it's one hell of a way to go.
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The U.S. Seized an Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela. So, What's Next?

https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/12/11/heres-what-we-know-about-the-oil-tanker-seized-off-venezuelas-coast-n4946952

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As we reported on Wednesday, the United States seized a large oil tanker about 100 mile off the coast of Venezuela, ramping up the pressure against Nicolás Maduro and his illegitimate narco-regime. Donald Trump confirmed the news during a meeting at the White House, stating that it was "a large tanker...the largest one ever seized actually."

It's the first time the U.S. has seized Venezuelan oil cargo since sanctions began in 2019. On Wednesday evening, Attorney General Pam Bondi released further details, including a video of the mission that she posted on X. She said:

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Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations. This seizure, completed off the coast of Venezuela, was conducted safely and securely — and our investigation alongside the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the transport of sanctioned oil continues.
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The ship itself was registered to Triton Navigation, a corporation registered in the Marshall Islands. In 2022, the Treasury Department sanctioned it for supporting Iran’s Hezbollah's oil smuggling network. Thomarose Global Ventures Ltd., a Nigerian-based firm, acts as beneficial owner and operator for Triton. The ship flies a Guyana flag, but Guyana's Maritime Administration says it knows nothing about it. The ship also spent a portion of the last couple of years spoofing its AIS signal, making it harder to track. For example, it would claim it was in Guyana when it was really in Venezuela.
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According to Reuters' sources, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have a target list of ships and have been planning this operation for months. ...
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The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is "targeting Nicolas Maduro’s illegitimate regime in Venezuela, sanctioning three nephews of Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores; a Maduro-affiliated businessman; and six shipping companies operating in Venezuela’s oil sector. Additionally, OFAC is identifying six associated vessels that have engaged in deceptive and unsafe shipping practices and continue to provide financial resources that fuel Maduro’s corrupt narco-terrorist regime."

One way of looking at this is that Trump is conducting an undeclared war against Venezuela. A response to this claim that I find persuasive is that Trump is actively counter-attacking an asymmetric undeclared war by Venezuela and partners against the US.
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Explosive new court documents unsealed Tuesday detail the alleged judicial misconduct of the Wisconsin judge presiding over a politically-driven criminal case targeting the attorneys who represented the 2020 Trump campaign in the battleground Badger State. Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Hyland had outside help from a former judge with a “grudge,” according to the court filings.

Hyland, in so many words, told defendants to go pound sand. He will not remove himself from the case and the march to a perfectly-timed election-year trial will go on. To the people who feel more than ever that it will be impossible to get a fair trial in far-left Dane County, the judge effectively said, Trust me.

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How does Troupis’ legal team know that Remington wrote the order? They enlisted the services of Georgetown professor Natalie Schilling, an internationally-recognized forensic linguistics expert who has logged a lot of hours on cases involving authorship attribution. And Schilling, according to the affidavit she signed, found Hyland’s “sardonic” order brimming with Remington’s “distinct style.” She compared several court documents written by Remington to the Hyland order and discovered that style was “parroted throughout.”

“Reviewing some of the retired Judge’s prior orders, they all had the same flavor: they were written in the first person, they had the same structure, and often had the same sardonic tone,” Schilling wrote.

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What tipped Troupis’ legal team off? Bugni said he shared Hyland’s order within his office. His colleagues quickly suspected that the judge had not written the ruling. Bugni added that an attorney who represented Troupis in a related civil case told him he suspected Remington wrote it, based on the “style and tone.”

The initial suspicion proved even more credible, Bugni wrote, when Remington’s son, a law clerk, appeared in the order’s metadata. 


https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/10/documents-wisconsin-judge-in-trump-electors-case-didnt-write-his-own-ruling/
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent issued the following statement today regarding the ongoing refusal by several Democrat-led states to conform to key provisions of the July 4th bill that President Trump signed into law to deliver historic tax relief for American families and workers:

President Trump’s tax cuts bill is the most pro-worker, pro-family legislation in a generation. It puts more money directly into the pockets of hardworking Americans through No Tax on Tips for dedicated service industry staff, No Tax on Overtime for linemen and factory workers, and a new tax deduction for seniors who depend on Social Security.

Yet in a blatant act of political obstructionism, liberal strongholds like Colorado, New York, Illinois, and the District of Columbia are deliberately blocking their own residents from receiving these historic benefits at the state level. This partisan stonewalling is a direct assault on the very families and workers liberal politicians claim to champion. By denying their residents access to these important tax cuts, these governors and legislators are forcing hardworking Americans to shoulder higher state tax burdens, robbing them of the relief they deserve and exacerbating the financial squeeze on low- and middle-income households.


https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0331
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Judge Jeanine Pirro.

She's great but has that annoying NY voice. I guess Trump is used to that since he comes from NYC. :-)
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Con artist, you say?

"if you like your health care plan, you can keep it".

Yeah, what's with the con artist label?

Trump said he would crack down on illegal immigration. He is.

Trump said he would impose tariffs, and renegotiate trade deals. He is.

Trump said he would cut regulations. He is.

And so on.
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Taking 67 Rover's post a step farther, at least two of those women, Noem and Bondi, are credibly potential R Party 2028 Presidential or Vice-Presidential candidates. While choosing them for their abilities - not as tokens - Trump also boosted their national visibility.
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I didn't read it all, but from the title and first sentence it seems that the DUmbAss Quiet Em is not pleased that the people that it hates AND constantly refers to as fascists and Hitlers aren't bending over backwards to make it and its overlords happy. Life's that way sometimes.
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You left out my personal favorite: Harmeet Dhillon   :blowkiss:

Judge Jeanine Pirro.
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