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Ewald Scharfenberg

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Miami-based Venezuelan journalist. "Ne te quaesiveris extra". Director https://armando.Info

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In the 1930s, Harry Chandler's LA Times ran regular columns on eugenics. The Human Betterment Foundation (backed by Chandler) included PSAs like this one. By showing a clipped vine from infecting a tree, it endorsed forced vasectomies to stop impure bloodlines from undesirables.

03.03.2026 18:40 👍 1343 🔁 405 💬 176 📌 45
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NOEM: I would disagree with the judge

CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree?

NOEM: A what?

CROCKETT: A law degree

NOEM: No I do no-

CROCKETT: Okay

04.03.2026 20:52 👍 32514 🔁 8344 💬 1202 📌 679
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after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

03.03.2026 17:55 👍 24793 🔁 6086 💬 1098 📌 759
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Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?

Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.

Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?

Noem: My condolences to their families

Raskin: You lied about them.

04.03.2026 16:15 👍 21480 🔁 6392 💬 1068 📌 474
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The Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger is Not What a Free Press Looks Like The takeover is a threat to our economy and our democracy. State Attorneys General can stop it.

The Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger is Not What a Free Press Looks Like... critical piece on free press from @neeratanden.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

03.03.2026 19:54 👍 120 🔁 39 💬 5 📌 4
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Trump Administration, in Apparent Reversal, Tries to Continue Fight Against Law Firms

BREAKING: The Trump administration indicated on Tuesday that it planned to renew its defense of executive orders that it had leveled against law firms, a sharp reversal a day after indicating that it would drop that fight in court, according to people familiar with the matter.

03.03.2026 17:23 👍 33 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 4
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Always the first to flee while everyone else suffers the consequences.

02.03.2026 10:54 👍 11916 🔁 4012 💬 589 📌 218
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30 years.

This video should be on every network.

26.02.2026 13:27 👍 15936 🔁 8468 💬 1012 📌 918
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Netflix Stock Spikes as Paramount Bid for Warner Bros. Gains Steam

bit.ly/3MQbirZ

25.02.2026 21:06 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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El oro de Guayana llegó incluso a Silicon Valley con sello suizo Un esquema comercial utilizó documentación engañosa para mover unas 90 toneladas de oro venezolano, valoradas en 3.000 millones de dólares, contribuyendo a perpetuar la catástrofe ambiental y de derec...

A Swiss gold refinery, which serves as a supplier to tech giants such as Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia, received shipments of Venezuelan blood gold from Curaçao for years and processed them.

armando.info/el-oro-de-gu...

22.02.2026 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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James Uthmeier just needs $400 per hour to feed his family | Column Florida’s attorney general joins the University of Florida to teach two hours a week for $100K.

The political whoring and self-dealing of Florida’s attorney general in his tawdry scramble for loot is quite something: James Uthmeier joins the University of Florida to teach two hours a week for $100K www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...

20.02.2026 13:57 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Los amigos de Petro y del petróleo venezolano Antes de caer rendida ante las órdenes de Washington, Delcy Rodríguez también otorgó dos Contratos de Participación Productiva (CPP) para la explotación de crudo venezolano a personajes del círculo am...

A company owned by a friend of Gustavo Petro, called Colven —established just months after the Colombian president took office— was awarded a pair of exploitation contracts in two oil fields in the basin of the Venezuelan states of Barinas and Apure.

armando.info/los-amigos-d...

15.02.2026 22:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘The Oil Is Coming Out!’

President Donald Trump praised Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Friday while taking questions from reporters outside the White House.

13.02.2026 22:52 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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LGBTQ Pride flag removed from NYC Stonewall National Monument after Trump admin directive Apparently following orders from a Jan. 21 memo from the U.S. Department of the Interior, the large pride flag was removed over the weekend.

www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/10/l...

10.02.2026 17:48 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 4
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Crisis in Venezuela | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series What’s next for Venezuela after the dramatic fall of Nicolás Maduro?

What’s next for Venezuela after the dramatic fall of Nicolás Maduro? FRONTLINE and @apnews.com investigate the legacy of corruption in Venezuela, the challenges to democracy, the conflict with the U.S., and the fight over who will control the oil-rich country. Premieres Feb. 10 on PBS and online.

06.02.2026 19:16 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2

Navarro has repeatedly (and falsely) claimed that "illegals" were taking the jobs of Americans, including in this very interview.
If that's the case, then why is he now warning that job growth will slow amidst mass deportations? Shouldn't this be boom times for native-born workers?

10.02.2026 16:14 👍 3488 🔁 930 💬 197 📌 53
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BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions on Jeffrey Epstein from a House committee, citing Fifth Amendment rights. (via @apnews.com)

09.02.2026 15:41 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

They are saying Kid Rock handed his Grammy to lil’ Kyle Rittenhouse during the halftime show.

(Not true. Kid Rock has never won a Grammy).

09.02.2026 01:50 👍 7581 🔁 843 💬 167 📌 45
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La casta chavista jugaba a los vaqueros en Fuerte Tiuna Aunque no hubiera quien les llamara ‘pitiyanquis’, familiares de la ahora cautiva pareja presidencial y del ministro de Defensa, junto a la claque empresarial que se formó al cobijo del régimen, se af...

Until that early morning, the first lady's children and other members of the Chavista royal family -despite all their antiimperialist mottos- had Fuerte Tiuna as their American "wild west" theme park, home to one of their favorite hobbies, "Team Penning."

armando.info/la-casta-cha...

08.02.2026 17:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela's main military headquarters on the outskirts of Caracas, where Nicolás Maduro was staying with his wife, was the main target of the US commando operation on January 3.

08.02.2026 17:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?

DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines

BASH: Oh, come on

08.02.2026 14:29 👍 19538 🔁 5042 💬 1858 📌 647
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

“The NSA detected evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close toTrump…Gabbard took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to Wiles…One day after Gabbard told the NSA not to publish the report.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

07.02.2026 17:35 👍 439 🔁 188 💬 33 📌 17
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NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

07.02.2026 15:01 👍 6113 🔁 2168 💬 665 📌 231
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Longevity guru Peter Attia keeps CBS News role despite showing up in Epstein files The physician and influencer was named as a paid contributor for the network on Jan. 28.

Longevity guru Peter Attia keeps CBS News role despite showing up in Epstein files

04.02.2026 22:52 👍 34 🔁 20 💬 13 📌 11

My position at The Post was eliminated, along with many other journalists of color hired after the 2020 racial reckoning.

04.02.2026 15:31 👍 1449 🔁 397 💬 33 📌 10
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Trump Plotting to Bring Resurrected Statue to the White House A statue of Christopher Columbus is set to be installed on the south side of the White House lawn.

The president's endless White House makeover will now see a statue of "hero" Christopher Columbus installed.

04.02.2026 17:02 👍 23 🔁 10 💬 22 📌 20
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

04.02.2026 14:34 👍 7502 🔁 2658 💬 236 📌 228

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

04.02.2026 14:24 👍 19453 🔁 5623 💬 416 📌 287
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Hasta Citgo lavó dinero del narcotráfico Desde la filial de Pdvsa se emitieron contratos para blanquear capitales.; en paralelo, el colapso del viaducto 1 de la autopista Caracas-La Guaira forzaba a los carteles a implementar un puente aéreo...

Documents recently unsealed in federal courts in New York detail how the Venezuelan state, under Nicolás Maduro, placed itself at the service of drug trafficking cartels.

armando.info/hasta-citgo-...

25.01.2026 20:14 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0