🇺🇸🇻🇪 U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have announced that a “lethal kinetic strike” against an assumed narco-terrorist vessel was carried out this morning in the Southern Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela, resulting in the death of six individuals, with this being the sixth strike against such a vessel since August, adding that intelligence confirmed the vessel was “trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known route used by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO).”

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📱 OpenAI CEO announces they will soon allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content.

📝: The AI Bubble is getting so close to bursting that they need to resort to letting people create porn to justify the trillions of USD companies throw at OpenAI and their data centers.

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🇺🇸❌🇻🇪 — Earlier today, three US Air Force B-52 bombers flew within a few hundred miles of Venezuela's capital Caracas, likely to scare Venezuelan authorites; Venezuelan F-16s reportedly took off.

The B-52s stayed within international airspace, and have since flown away from Venezuela.

🇺🇸 — Boeing C-32A carrying Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is squawking emergency code 7700 and has rapidly diverted towards Britain to make an emergency landing.

The altitude descended below 10K feet, likely indicating cabin depressurization.

🇺🇸 — Stratotanker refueling aircraft approaches Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's plane as it descends to make an emergency landing.

🇺🇸🇬🇧 — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's plane has made an emergency landing at Royal Air Force "Mildenhall" base.

🇺🇸 — Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell reports Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's plane made an emergency landing due to a crack in the plane's windshield, and everybody on the plane including Hegseth is safe.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪 — New York Times reports the CIA has been secretly authorized to carry out covert operations in Venezuela, including against President Maduro.

🇻🇪❌🇺🇸❗️ — Venezuelan Bolivarian Air Force's F-16s are reportedly airborne from El Libertador Air Base in Aragua.

🇻🇪❌🇺🇸 — A plane with Venezuelans deported from the United States, which was approaching Maiquetia, was not authorized to land by Chavista Air Force

🇺🇸⚔️🇨🇳 BESSENT: "If some in the Chinese government want to slow down the global economy through disappointing actions and through economic coercion, the Chinese economy will be hurt the most — and make no mistake: this is China vs. the world."

📝: This is basically a war declaration on China

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🇺🇸⚔️🇨🇳 BESSENT: TRUMP NEEDS EMERGENCY POWERS TO PROTECT U.S. ECONOMY

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