OH my. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA2a...

🧵: Given all the reporting about what Trump & his team are or may be doing regarding Venezuela, I want to take a few moments & explain the point of planning & operations. I'm going to try to stay lite on the process & just deal with the point. 1/

Donald Trump hates me, and the feeling is mutual. I believe he is a criminal and an authoritarian who is trying to destroy our democracy and the rule of law. I spend a considerable amount of my time fighting against him and his enablers in court and in public discourse.

These are not people who make this kind of statement lightly.

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

Goldsmith was head of George W. Bush's DOJ OLC and is a respected conservative, not afraid of executive power. He's not John Yoo, but then I think even Yoo has expressed doubts about the legality of these strikes

The Chicago way.

"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"

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So far, Trump has pardoned: Changpeng Zhao (founder, Binance) - pled guilty to money laundering. Facilitated millions in transactions for terrorist organizations such as Hamas. Ross Ulbricht (founder of the Silk Road) - the dark web Costco of illegal drugs. 1/3

BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)

Maga math

Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says

I get the impulse to make the point, but "don't call it a war crime because it's not an actual war" isn't really how that works. Multiple kinds of illegality can overlap. There are onion layers of unlawfulness about all this, and some fall under the rubric of war crimes regardless of other aspects.

I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg gives Trump admin one week to file affidavits from all officials involved in decision to carry out Alien Enemies Act deportation to El Salvador despite Boasberg's order to turn the planes around. 'Contempt prosecution' could follow www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

You want a goddamned heart breaking headline?

MOM: *pulls first rodeo out of my backpack* what the hell is this ME: it-it's not mine i swear

Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

It just keeps rattling around in my skull that Trump's 'peace plan' is a clear signal to China that Taiwan is theirs for the taking if they do it fast enough.

That... is a lot. We actually requested his extradition to the US to face charges. SOOO transparently transactional a human being.

New study finds that down-ranking hostile political content in people’s social media feeds decreases political polarization. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Important 🧵. I want to make a couple of points. 1) SOCOM should be dismantled because it doesn't understand it's job. Officially it's a global, not geographic, combatant command. Its job is to manage the global SOF enterprise, including be the joint proponent for most, but not all SOF functions. 1/

Rest well, Troubadour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=382T...

This is actually a relevant factor here: it's been pretty clear SOUTHCOM, whose commander resigned, has been pushing back, at least somewhat. They're putting it under the operational command of SOCOM specifically because that's the most already rotten place you'll find people happy to do crimes.

NEWS: The United States committed a war crime by killing individuals who clung onto the side of a boat in the Caribbean, posing no threat to the United States. As someone who studied international law, Hegseth’s order to ‘Kill Them All’ was a denial of quarter. Subscribe to support:

OK, who narced?

“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”

really went dark for the sequel

Back to back in my feed: video exists of two Venezuelans boat strike survivors struggling in the water being blown up by the US military, and video exists of two Palestinians with their hands up ordered to lie on the ground and being executed by the Israeli military.

Just unreal

This cannot be stressed enough.

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

Hegseth is a war criminal and I think it doesn’t get the attention it deserves because he’s also stupid and it’s hard to reconcile the gravity of his crimes with his clownish persona www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Just another Thanksgiving and another reminder there will never be another Rick Danko as long as we live. That fragile seeming magnificence is a rare gift to us all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1cH...

c'mon, people. I hate poetry as much as the next person, but this isn't a good thing.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

The reason for the season - www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1CI...

“I am the law!” Roy Justus on McCarthy’s authoritarian style, May 1954.

Estimated FY2026 tariff revenue: $207 billion. Estimated FY2026 individual income tax revenue: $2.6 trillion.

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

Arrakis, a desert, planet, can you believe it? Some people call it Dune, I call it Arrakis. The SPICE must flow, and quite frankly, it will be flowing much faster than under the failed DUKE LETO. Maybe he was a nice guy, maybe not,I think he was jealous of me! We're looking into that very strongly.

Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender

@tracyquannyc.bsky.social this is basically my dad’s trajectory (b. 1936 d. 2018).