What if this Venezuelan murdering scheme is more than just Trump being a bully with manhood issues? Of course, it could be about trying to steal their oil, which one of his supporters already admitted to. With a supposed drug justification when there is no evidence of that, and even if there were, murder is not the way to deal with it.

But at the same time the murderous Trump administration is trying to say it if because of concern about drugs, he pardoned a known drug trafficker, Juan Orlando Hernandez. A White House official and Hernandez's attorney, Renato Stabile, confirmed December 2 that the pardon has been issued. Stabile said Hernandez was released early December 2 from a federal prison, where he was serving a 45-year sentence "for cocaine importation and related weapons offenses," according to the Justice Department.

Hernandez was convicted in March of 2024 after a three-week jury trial in New York City. He was "at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world," helping to bring more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S., the Justice Department said in a news release last year after his conviction.

Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions.

The most flagrant Trump action along these lines occurred in March 2025, when he issued an executive order that terminated collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal government employees. This measure, the largest single union-busting action in American history, ended union representation and protections for 1 out of 14 unionized workers in the United States.

To the Editor:

As a resident of German Village and Chair of the German Village Society’s Historic Preservation Committee, I am writing out of deep concern for the ongoing and unnecessary destruction of historic sandstone curbs in our neighborhood. These curbs, hand-cut in the 19th century by immigrant stonemasons, are not just stones. They are part of the original streetscape that gives German Village its nationally recognized character.

In recent months, contractors working on behalf of the City of Columbus have demolished these curbs during ADA ramp installations — without public notice and without obtaining a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA). Every homeowner in German Village is required to secure a COA for any sidewalk, curb, or exterior work affecting historic materials. Yet the City has proceeded as though it is exempt from the very rules that residents must follow.

The result is permanent loss. Once these sandstone curbs are removed and replaced with modern concrete, they cannot be recreated. Their historic craftsmanship and material integrity are gone forever.

On Wednesday, December 3rd, organizers for March For Mumia, the epic march from Philadelphia to Frackville, Pennsylvania, will host a press conference to explain the purpose of their march and their demands to mark the halfway point of their twelve day 103 mile march.

It will take place at 11:30AM at the Berks County Courthouse, located at 633 Court Street, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Abu Jamal's personal physician Dr Ricardo Alvarez will be among the participants. Representatives from local organizations supporting AbuJamal such as Building Justice for Berk, Berks Stands Up and Berks for Palestine, are also expected to participate.