While Trump is creating the Project 2025-guided chaos in almost every aspect of American society, we cannot lose sight of the horrors he’s inflicting offshore. Because they could and almost certainly would lead to further awfulness here at home.
In case you missed it, Trump and his war-criminal-loving secretary of war, Pete “WhiskeyLeaks” Hegseth, just launched their fourth military strike on civilian boats in the Caribbean. As The New York Times reported, Hegseth claimed, without offering evidence , that the four men he just killed were smuggling narcotics. “He also asserted that they were “affiliated” with one of the cartels and gangs that the Trump administration has designated as foreign terrorist organizations, but did not specify which.” The body count has now reached 21, ac