"[F]or her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" read more
Public corruption experts and former prosecutors who have built cases off similar operations said that if he remains in possession of the money as a top official in the administration, even without criminal charges or a conviction, there would still be few avenues for the government to seek the return of the cash. read more
David Wallace-Wells: "ICE goes masked for a single reason " to terrorize Americans into quiescence," a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week. "In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police," he continued. The judge, a Reagan appointee, compared immigration agents to "cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan" and declared that federal efforts to deport outspoken protesters amounted to a "full-throated assault" on freedom of speech." read more
Attorney General Pam Bondi sidestepped a series of simple yes-or-no questions at a Senate judiciary hearing on Tuesday about border czar Tom Homan and the $50,000 in cash he allegedly accepted from undercover FBI agents in a paper Cava bag. read more
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday stonewalled a question at a Senate Judiciary Committee about who ordered FBI agents to flag any documents that mentioned President Donald Trump during a review this year of investigative files about the late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. read more
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Machado "the personification of resilience, tenacity, and patriotism" in a profile for her inclusion in this year's TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world."
For that and more on Machado, see " Venezuelan Democracy Advocate Mara Corina Machado Receives 2025 Nobel Peace Prize" at time.com
MAGA is complaining that the Nobel was given to an "unknown"
Ignorance is a proudly proclaimed and embraced feature of MAGA's Dawpatchlandia.
"Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness."
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties