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By 4pm, the light was softening over the Pacific, and the crew of the Don Maca were finishing a long day hauling in lines of swordfish and albacore. Down in the hold, the mood had settled into the familiar rhythm of a fishing day drawing to a close.

“We were just working, waiting for the last trawler to return,” said Jhonny Sebastián Palacios, one of the fishers. “Everything was perfectly fine.”

From nowhere, an explosion ripped through the boat. “There was a sudden crash – boom! It came from a drone,” he said.

The blast tore through the vessel, shattering glass, and injuring several crew members. “I ran upstairs and saw the boat destroyed … The whole ship was stripped bare,” he said.

A group of Ecuadorian fishers have described how they were attacked in a double drone strike and then detained at gunpoint by soldiers on a US-flagged patrol vessel, in a rare first-hand account by victims of Donald Trump’s militarized campaign against alleged drug-trafficking boats off South America.

The Pentagon and the White House did not respond to requests for comment. US Southern Command said it had “no information to provide regarding any US government personnel involvement in any of the incidents” laid out.

The House Ethics Committee released a list Monday of current and former lawmakers who have been accused of sexual misconduct and its probes into those lawmakers since 1976.
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Here are the lawmakers on the list:

Former California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, who was investigated in 2026.

Former Texas GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales, who was investigated in 2026.

Florida GOP Rep. Cory Mills, who is still under investigation.

Former Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was under investigation in 2024.

Former New York GOP Rep. George Santos, who was investigated in 2023.

Former North Carolina GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who was investigated in 2022.

Former Guam Democratic Rep. Michael San Nicolas, who was investigated in 2022.

Former New York GOP Rep. Tom Reed, who was investigated in 2021.

The late-Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, who was listed twice for investigations, in 2020 and 2014.

Former California Democratic Rep. Katie Hill, who was investigated in 2019.

Former Nevada Democratic Rep. Ruben Kihuen, who was investigated in 2018.

Former Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Patrick Meehan, who was also investigated in 2018.

The late-Texas GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold, who died in 2025 and was investigated in 2018.

Former Arizona GOP Rep. Trent Franks, who was investigated in 2017.

The late-Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers, who was investigated in 2017. He died at the age of 90.

Former Democratic New York Rep. Eric Massa, who was investigated in 2010.

Former Democratic California Rep. Gary Condit, who was investigated in 2001.

Former Illinois Democratic Rep. Mel Reynolds, who was investigated in 1995.

Former Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, who was investigated in 1990.

The late-Illinois Democratic Rep. Gus Savage, who was investigated in 1990.

Former Democratic California Rep. Jim Banks, who was investigated in 1989.

The late-Ohio GOP Rep. Donald “Buz” Lukens, who was also investigated in 1989.

The late-Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Gerry Studds. who was investigated in 1983.

The late-Republican Illinois Rep. Dan Crane, who was investigated in 1983.

The late-Democratic Ohio Rep. Wayne Hays, who was investigated for an alleged affair with a staffer in 1976.

Period. Full stop. Not “one of the worst.” Not “among the most troubled.” THE most corrupt, callous, and incompetent administration in American history. She said it flat, she said it calm, and then she did the thing Democrats keep forgetting they’re allowed to do. She backed it the **** up with evidence.

Here’s the full quote. Read it in her voice:

Joel Mowbray
@joelmowbray
🚨 EXCLUSIVE—Tucker Carlson and his brother Buckley want Trump to ID every Jew & Christian who supports Israel to "root them out" of government.

One of first Nazi laws was banning most Jews from government.

The Carlson brothers' proposed "update" is to also purge Christian Zionists.

The only enemy of the people they mentioned by name in this bizarre segment was
@SebGorka
, Trump's most trusted counterterrorism advisor in the White House.

Gorka is a staunch American patriot and a fierce anti-Communist.

So why does Tucker want him gone?

Because Gorka also believes that a close relationship with Israel enhances U.S. national security.

The Carlson brothers' proposed purge would also cover Stephen Miller (
@StephenM
),
@SusieWiles
, and basically every single one of Trump's most loyal advisors.

Of course, such a purge also would have included their late, great father, Amb. Dick Carlson, a mentor of mine, who held numerous government roles and had worked with the CIA.

In the 13 months since their Dad died, Tucker and his brother Buckley have repeatedly vilified — and outright questioned the loyalties of — anyone who was like him, a Christian who supported the Jewish state.

And both Tucker and Buckley have flirted with Holocaust denial, particularly in recent months.

Buckley is a fanboy of and proudly interacts with a whole host of open anti-Semites, as well as white nationalists and Holocaust deniers.

Tucker, for his part, talks a lot about the Holocaust, but refuses to acknowledge that six million Jews were murdered.

He also shockingly claimed that Hitler had never called to "exterminate" the Jews — despite ample evidence that Hitler had (obviously) done so.

And the first time Tucker interviewed his brother three months ago, Buckley proudly discussed how his top news source was the Unz Report, which is perhaps best known for publishing David Irving and other Holocaust deniers.

Now the Carlson brothers are peddling ideas originated by the Nazis, calling for the purge from government service almost every Jewish Republican and (by their own admission) the majority of Christians.

Tucker and his defenders would surely retort that the brothers aren't saying ALL Jews or Christians, just those that are "Zionists."

Well, the 1933 Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ALSO contained exceptions for some Jews: veterans of WWI and those in place since 1914.

Those exemptions, of course, didn't last long.

It was only a few years before the Nazis closed those "loopholes," then Aryanized the rest of society.

Of course, as someone who frequently invokes history, Tucker knows all of this — and what happened next.

So why would he and his brother even go down this path?

Spoiler alert to Megyn Kelly: it's not merely to criticize "Israel."