#Via George Pearkes /peark.es‬
1:55 PM · Feb 25, 2026

"uuhhhhhhh not good

*FOUR US SPEEDBOAT PASSENGERS SHOT DEAD BY CUBAN COAST GUARD:AFP

This is all the background I can get from the AFP wire:"

"ALERT Four passengers of US speedboat shot dead by Cuban coast guard: interior ministry

Feb. 25 (AFP) -- Four passengers of US speedboat shot dead by Cuban coast

guard: interior ministry
lis-jb/cb/acb
-0-Feb/25/2026 18:49 GMT"

#Via George Pearkes /peark.es‬
2:07 PM · Feb 25, 2026

"Full text of the Cuban statement, which claims the boat fired on Cuban coast guard first (I'm not saying reality was different, I have no idea, but as always with these kinds of stories we should not take anything as hard fact in real time):"

#Via Jordan H. / jordanehoser
2:05 PM · Feb 25, 2026

"Statement from the Cuban Ministry of the Interior of the event:"

#Via Kathryn Brightbill ✒️
@KEBrightbill
7:04 PM · Feb 26, 2026

"Welp, the shootout in Cuba was ten Florida Cuban guys who talked themselves into trying to invade Cuba.

I would wager that the reason the Trump administration has kept their sabre rattling to a minimum over this is because Marco Rubio knew as well as anybody that this was going to turn out to be Floridians Floridaing too close to the sun."

https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/cuba-identifies-6-detainees-deceased-man-from-shootout-with-florida-registered-boat/

@_L1vY_ @KEBrightbill Bay of Pigs, only Little Marco sized
@_L1vY_ Well done. Like before, dead Piglets.

@lawyersgunsnmoney @_L1vY_ @KEBrightbill

My immediate thought, also!

Well that makes us both geniuses, doesn't it, since great minds think alike?

I wish. Don't know about you. :)

@_L1vY_ @KEBrightbill I wouldn't put it past Trump, Rubio and De Santis to have planned this and bribed those ten Florida Cubans to attempt to "invade" Cuba so Trump has an excuse to invoke emergency powers and prevent the midterm elections from taking place. He's already got Maduro in his back pocket for that, though...
@_L1vY_
This draft dodger really wants to go to war. To bad Pvt. Bone Spurs had a medical deferment when their was a real war going on.
@ballista11 It's just so unnecessary, so ego-driven. Playing with all our lives. 😤