Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Terrific

“Ted Cruz would unplug your life support to charge his phone.” Peggy Noonan

steph and wemby sharing a moment postgame

I've never seen a president fight so hard NOT to feed citizens.

"exododus" The New York Post: Come for the shameless propaganda, stay for the embarrassing illiteracy.

“.. The American intervention to prop up the Argentinian peso has failed. Despite the United States intervening .., the Argentine peso lost 10% of its value in the first two weeks of October, pushing the overnight interest rate to 157%.” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social $ARGT

It looks even worse by video 😢

The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’ talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

Today's utter idiocy from Robert Kennedy, jr.

This is not reassuring. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

Rancid sell-out thoughts from Marc Benioff www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Everyone needs to read this.

Quantico. Different century. Same shit.

1/6: There is no force in American politics that is more reckless and destructive than the current president of the United States.

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available... jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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Perfect description

This is real. At first I assumed it was a The Onion style fake headline, but nope. It's an actual NY Times story from 1939.

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

This is where we are now.

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

oh you’re a “postliberal?” you believe in the alliance of throne and altar? you believe in aristocracy and race? wow how cool and rebellious, you’re just like a Russian nobleman from the 1800s, not like a bog-standard American conservative at all

Amazing, unusually direct rebuke to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh from Judge Burroughs. She is, of course, entirely correct.

And WHO is paying???

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Learn to decipher the codespeak.

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

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If you didn't manage to see this calmly furious and defiant statement by @govpritzker.illinois.gov yesterday, please find 12 minutes to see or hear it today. Best, strongest statement by sr official of where we stand and what is needed now. Civil duty to see it. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Say what you want about Newsom, his motives and some of his tactics, but any Dem who gets what matters most rn is light years ahead of a lot of its leadership.

Again, if you actually pay attention to the kind of material that Vance and Miller and their neo-Nazi toadies interact with online it is extremely obvious why they’re invading DC. But our press has consistently decided the implications are too alarming and so they must pretend not to see it

Important The Atlantic article with much relevance to the present situation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“Are we staying or leaving?” yelled one counselor, Ainslie Bashara, age 19. “Stay in your cabin!” a staffer shouted back. She evacuated when water invaded, leading her girls to safety while campers in another cabin were begging for help.

Nigeria's foreign minister on why they refuse to take deportees from the US: “We already have enough problems of our own. We cannot accept Venezuelan deportees in Nigeria, for crying out loud." Then he quotes Flavor Fav: "I can't do nothin' for you, man.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

Just because Trump, Republicans, and right wing media are embracing a nickname for this Everglades facility, should mainstream media do it too? I’m not alone in saying hell no. Call this swamp thing what it is: an American concentration camp. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Walking him like a dog.

Governor Tim Walz, "The way our nation moves forward is not through hate. It is not through violence. It is through humility, and grace, and compassion.

Seeing a lot of confusion in the comments about why he’s only charged with 2nd degree murder. To clarify, in MN, prosecutors can charge up to 2nd degree right away, then have to ask for grand jury approval to charge 1st degree. That is a separate step that will definitely happen.

@davidnoriega.bsky.social reporting on @msnbc.com that LA Sheriff officers are the aggressors in current actions near the Federal building in Los Angeles www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out. (2018) www.politico.com/magazine/sto...