Holly is at the Van Epps event at a gated mansion estate in franklin… #TN7

"The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."

THIS is EXACTLY the reason your chosen Secretary of Defense should be a fuckton more qualified than simply acting like a tough guy on fox news and watching too many fucking movies. Because that's why he said "kill 'em all" - too many movies. These people do not live in fucking reality.

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.

Posted this on the Other Place and an alarming number of replies were basically like “war crimes are good, actually”

For MAGA, Trump replaces country.

it is impossible to imagine any Pentagon lawyer blessing this action. The concept of hors de combat—literally, out of combat—is a fundamental aspect of the law of war that prevents harming those disabled from combat. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

A leaked 115 page report by current & former FBI personnel describes the bureau under Kash Patel as a “rudderless ship” & says he is “in over his head,” lacking the experience & bearing needed to be an effective FBI director—

Pushing a gambling site for money without disclosing that’s what you are doing.

A fair question. 😕🇺🇸

Just U.S. attorney?

BREAKING: We won! 3rd Circuit affirms illegality of Habba appointment We @democracydefendersfund.org are honored to work on this case with the wonderful folks at Lowell & Associates, Gerald Krovatin & many others 👇

my official diagnosis: his brain has fallen out of his ass.

We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work. “Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

Because of course the guy who was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft got a Presidential pardon...and a job at the DOJ.

Imagine working a 36 hour shift to deliver a chatbot that says Elon Musk is fitter than LeBron and can swim better than Michael Phelps then jumping online to brag about it. Batman couldn’t beat this out of me.

70% in CBS/YouGov's poll said they oppose taking military action in Venezuela 76% in Marquette's poll say the US should not attempt to remove Maduro from power and the US shouldn't get involved in Venezuela

If this is remotely true, then Southern Illinois University Carbondale needs to have an intervention with its Dean of Education who does not seem to understand “education”

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."

"There is no way that [Trump] should have time to have a conversation with me about Indiana mapmaking when that’s not his business, for starters. But secondly, doesn’t he have anything better to do? I can make a big list of things that are more important for him to focus on."

Indeed, it's a confession and admission of guilt to heinous crimes.

"If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder."

Some of us have been screaming about this since the first boat annihilation. There is no Congress-sanctioned War. Every killing has been extra-judicial. No attempts at interdiction. Just MURDER on the high seas - drug traffickers or not. From the excellent @magixarc.bsky.social

trump will pardon or assist any head of state who has been convicted for crimes. acting out of self preservation, basically

We need to start calling him this #SecretaryofWarCrimes

I’m not an expert in the law of war, but an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone would seem to me to be a possible war crime.

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Think about all the evil assholes in this administration. They *all* expect to die of old age, obscenely wealthy, surrounded by family, because that is how the US has allowed *every single previous evil asshole* to live after doing their atrocities. They learned they will never be punished.

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I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.

We have a duty as American citizens who believe that “All men are created equal” to push back against the far right radicals who are trying to divide us.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country

I guess it’s a good thing we were so concerned about the right to speak our opinions being outlawed by a ruling class that we guaranteed it by making it the very first amendment in our Bill of Rights when we formed the country.

Patel clearly reflecting the horrors he’s seen here.

precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened

“We are now receiving conflicting reports about the condition of our two Guard members…”

The 2020 Georgia election case is going to be dismissed in its entirety, with the prosecutor offering less-than-persuasive reasoning. A miscarriage of justice that weakens our democracy.

Other than that, it’s gonna be great. 🤡 @cnbc.com

Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly

National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!) And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc. This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns