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Even if we were at war with Venezuela, and even if the boat folks were smuggling drugs, that DOES NOT MAKE THEM COMBATANTS. I am begging people to consult international law experts. They're out there! They want to talk!

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If you follow me and ever reach the point where you want to tell me to post less and shut the fuck up, you can always just unfollow me or, better yet, you can block me. Like I blocked this former follower.

They seem nervous

One of them should sue the administration for making their degree worth less.

Aside from the extremely dubious question of whether the occupants of the Venezuelan boat even qualified as “combatants,” ordering a second strike from an aircraft for the sole purpose of killing defenseless people was absolutely an illegal order.

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

Specific plans to fight “Government by organized money” should be part of every democrat’s campaign.

Or the famous Madison Square Garden address he gave days before being reelected in a landslide m.youtube.com/watch?v=IjST...

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."

The only person with five Tony Awards for Best Play, the only person with four Tonys for Best Play, the only person with three Tonys for Best Play. Our greatest writer for the stage, & his own directed film adaptation of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead w/Gary Oldman & Tim Roth is a gem.

"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record. Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal

"…less legality" was right there

This is explicitly confirming the allegation: that he's ordering the killings for their own sake. The logical implication of which is hit them again if there are any survivors, which is both exactly what the Post reported and a cold-blooded textbook war crime.

"Hagueseth"

6/ 🚨 Per CURRENT and former US officials, there are strong reasons to believe some people on board the Sept 2 boat were people being trafficked. (That is consistent with prior NYT reporting)

2/ "Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats 'amounts to murder,' said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign."

5/ Administration explanation to Congress seems to be a bold-face falsehood: claiming double-tap strike was to clear debris, not to kill survivors. "That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

"Ah, nothing. I'm just a gutter racist, see."

Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.

Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!

I need movie recommendations

The emails reveal the special training given to FBI personnel working on what it called the “Epstein Transparency Project.” In some instances they referred to it as the “Special Redaction Project.” The training entailed PowerPoint slide presentations and video instruction on how to review the files.

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

in which the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management discovers how anachronistic & damaging “the poverty line” metric is in the USA— www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

really baffled at elon's decision to confirm that most of twitter is just a poorly organized foreign influence operation

Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.

Not only are generations fake, they’re also something we basically invented a few decades ago. Compare when generations occurred (shaded areas) with when we settled on their names. From this week’s newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...

Annual reminder that the reporters covering Lee Harvey Oswald's funeral ended up burying him because they were the only ones besides his family to show up. Even the minister skipped it.

Supreme Court, via Alito, has temporarily stayed the TX gerrymandering ruling

Truth Social users are not happy with Trump on this one. “A Great Fuck'n Honor??? Have you lost your fucking mind?????”

Here’s a video clip of the moment to which I referred earlier of Mamdani and Trump talking about FDR and the New Deal in the Oval Office:

remember 'only Andrew Cuomo can handle Trump'

What an a**hole. Rebecca Quick accomplished a rare feat here, she made Jeffries look sympathetic. Unfortunately, it took extreme unprofessionalism to do it. Wonder if she regularly interrupts, condescends to, and rolls her eyes at her guests.

Also crucial from Rep Chrissy Houlahan: One reason she and other Dems did the video about Trump's illegal orders is that they're hearing from inside the military and intel services of actual live fears that they're being given unlawful commands: newrepublic.com/article/2034...

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

I found the leak at the White House

honestly a toss up whether I’m more disturbed by his casual invocation of war for oil or by his getting the effect of Venezuelan war on oil prices totally backwards

If you're interested in this topic you can watch this interview I did on Substack or read this (co)author's book: The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony asharangappa.substack.com/p/class-48-h...

It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.

Anyone who thinks our beef with Venezuela is about drugs is in for a crude awakening