A presidential memo saying officers carrying out Caribbean boat strikes can’t be prosecuted is a confession the attacks are war crimes. Virtually every lawyer across the political spectrum identifying them as blatant, unambiguous violations of the laws of armed combat is because they’re war crimes.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Honestly can't tell what's sports bsky and what's politics bsky anymore

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

EVERY house we looked at in altadena had a high fire risk, so we looked and bought in Pasadena even though there was less inventory. EVERY house i looked at in Altadena burned in Eaton, four weeks after we closed. Eaton missed our house by five blocks. the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.

President Hernandez was responsible for smuggling 500 TONS of cocaine into the United States! He was the top dog; the Pablo Escobar figure! He wasn’t just “selling drugs in that country.”

yeah we're basically gonna have to invent a new kind of jail for these guys

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

Excited for the sequel, “Fuck like a brand”

This is gonna seem like a nitpick, but I think it's significant: It's not a professor, it's a graduate TA. Thinking back on my time as a TA thirty years ago, universities use TAs as cannon fodder, asking them to hold certain rigorous lines but reliably failing to support them.

Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Just before he went into politics, Dr Oz was invited to speak at a Walk for Women’s Health we attended. He talked about cancer screening…more specifically his colonoscopy. Not breast or ovarian cancer. It was cringey. Read the room, bud.

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are: 1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways. 2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.

FDA is approving a new form of nalmefene for “prophylaxis” for “opioid exposure,” specifically citing fentanyl. “Fentanyl exposure” is not a thing. Fent has to be intentionally ingested to cause OD. It’s being made by a “blockchain-focused digital finance company” whose “biotech arm” is only this…

An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.

Tomorrow is International Men's Day. So if you're one of those dickheads who asks on International Women's Day "why isn't there an International Men's Day" then A) tomorrow is your day, mark your calendar. B) fuck you. That is all.

One of the biggest flexes I ever had was asking some junior financial analysts watching their phones on a bus if they needed $20. They said for what and I said headphones. They got so mad.

but that last part did happen. imo it is particularly important to emphasize that the oil majors + big three did, in fact, directly reshape much of public transit in major cities and this included the literal dismemberment of public transit systems. was it the only thing? no did it happen? yes

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

Clumsy ‘cause I’m falling in love (with Cu) #chemsky #chemchat 🧪

welcome to the club, wolves

that’s right

there was a moment in 5th grade when a teacher (a very nice one) wanted me to do a demonstration of nuclear fission with toothpicks stuck in gumdrops (and then breaking of the toothpicks?) to symbolize energy release? I very weirdly refused to do it because I did not see the analogy?

I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.

Nothing Meta offers is of benefit to anyone other than Meta, and everything they offer was either invented by someone else and bought, or was a blatant rip-off. Nevertheless, the most disgusting part of that statement is the gratuitous genuflection to "the Administration."

on top of Abbott's other crimes, that ffi ligature is fucking killing me

And the owner of the paper will repurpose the opinion section the journalist wrote for to propagandize for the regime trivializing his death, while pretending he’s all about “personal liberties.” One might think this included the personal liberty not to be dismembered with a bone saw

We live in hell

Find you a man whose bone-sawed his journalistic opposition, and you can have Trump look as pleased as this.

Also PSA: this is THE circumstance where you SHOULD simply repeat what your female colleague just said and was dismissed

Jim Jordan begged someone to not rat out the sexual assault that was happening at Ohio State. He was crying on the phone. Groveling. This man threw out all his dignity to try and cover for horrifying crimes of sexual abuse. Think about that for a moment.

I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.

It's 2004. We're ~3 months into my freshman year of college. GWB has just won reelection, in no small part due to fearmongering over gay marriage. I find a gay classmate sobbing in the stairwell about "why do people hate me so much?" It's 2015. 11 years later. Gay marriage is legal nationwide.

Illegally, without Congressional approval

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

This storyline has been old for decades, yet it seems like every day there's another new installment.

Given the recent Wapo opeds I've read I'm genuinely surprised they haven't said the MBS did the right thing by having Khashoggi killed.

I did this last time got a nice little pint and shoot that def cost more than what I paid for it

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, one of the greatest comic strips of all time, was born on this day, November 18, 1985 -- December 31, 1995. And Calvin's dad remains a beacon of inspiration to cyclists everywhere.

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Oath of the Engineer: "In my profession I take deep pride. To it I owe solemn obligations. ... I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. ... In the performance of duty, and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give the utmost." Oath of the Software Engineer: Fuck it we ball

THINGS. HAPPEN. Things ………… happen. Things *****HAPPEN*****???

i'm not sure how this flies if you don't click through, but trust me

NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting www.404media.co/airlines-wil...