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We’re Too Close to the Debris
Scheer Post Jan 8, 2026

We’re Too Close to the Debris

by Heather Vogell and Agnel Philip, graphics by Lucas Waldron for ProPublica When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry. Each time SpaceX did a test run of Starship and its booster, dubbed […]

Trump Vows to “Indefinitely” Control Venezuela’s Oil
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Democracy Now Video Jan 8, 2026

Trump Vows to “Indefinitely” Control Venezuela’s Oil

Marco Rubio, Senate Complicity, and the Open Return of Empire
Scheer Post Jan 8, 2026

Marco Rubio, Senate Complicity, and the Open Return of Empire

By Joshua Scheer The Oil Belongs to the United States? Let’s begin—and end—with the thought that says everything about this moment: the oil belongs to the United States. It is a sentence so brazen, so logically bankrupt, that it barely disguises what U.S. policy toward Venezuela has become—a naked assertion of imperial entitlement dressed up […]

ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Minneapolis Mother, Renee Good
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Democracy Now Video Jan 8, 2026

ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Minneapolis Mother, Renee Good