🇻🇪 NEWS: Venezuela announced on Sept. 17 the seizure of 3,700 kilograms of cocaine and the arrest of five people in what Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello called a “false flag” operation aimed at framing Venezuela for drug trafficking and justifying foreign aggression. Among those captured was Levi Enrique López, who Cabello said was an American DEA agent and trafficker.
López reportedly is from El Morro de Puerto Santo in Sucre state, a region long tied to Caribbean drug routes, and has family ties to a man jailed for drug trafficking in 2022. Authorities said the boat carrying the cocaine originated in Colombia and was connected to the group “Los Orientales.” Caracas framed the bust as proof of its commitment to combat narcotics and pushed back against U.S. accusations that senior Venezuelan officials run a “narco-terrorist state.”
Tyler Robinson and his family don’t look like trans liberals to me. Tyler’s family is registered republicans, his father is a minister and former law enforcement, they have family members in the military. Oh and Tyler’s parents introduced him to weapons at an early age.
Using the latest dataset from CDC and a numeric scale for gun laws, we can clearly see the impact of gun laws on firearm mortality. The population-weighted correlation is an astounding r = -0.8, which is quite significant.
There is no internet.
No signal. No sound. No world beyond this cage.
I walked thirty minutes through ruins and dust. Not in search of escape, but for a fragment of signal, just enough to whisper, “We are still alive.”
Not because anyone is listening,
but because to die unheard is the final death.
Gaza is silent now.
Not with peace, but with obliteration.
Not a silence of stillness, but of smothering.
They severed the last cable.
No messages leave. No images enter.
Even grief has been forbidden.
I passed the corpses of buildings, of homes, of men, some breathing, some not.
All of them erased by the same hand that erased our voices.
This is not a siege of bombs alone.
It is a siege of memory: a war against our ability to say, “We were here.”
The bombing never stopped, especially in Jabalia.
They shell the streets where children beg for food.
They shell the lines where mothers wait for flour.
They shell hunger itself.
No food. No water. No exit.
And those who try, those who reach for aid, are struck down.
People die here, and no one knows.
Not because the killing paused, but because the killing of connection succeeded.
The internet was our final breath.
It was not a luxury; it was the last evidence of our humanity.
Now it is gone.
And in the dark, they massacre without consequence.
I found this faint eSIM signal as a dying man finds a flicker of flame.
I stood beneath a broken sky, risking death, not for rescue, but to send this.
A single message.
A last resistance.
If you are reading this, remember:
we walked through fire to say it.
We were not silent.
We were silenced.
And when the cables are restored,
the truth will bleed through the wires,
and the world will know what it chose not to see.