There is no point along the chain of command—from then-VADM Bradley down to the crew member triggering the missile—where anyone has any excuse whatsoever for giving or following that order.

A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.

Another day another Tricia McLaughlin lie debunked.

Secret Police do secret police stuff. Burn ICE to the ground and salt the damned earth.

Being in the room when then CSA Ray Odierno shit all over this company with his whole chest was prescient.

It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.

ICE and DHS are separating young children from their parents and disappearing them. 6 year old Yuanxin was separated from his father after a routine immigration check in on Nov. 26th. Yuanxin's father was not told where his son was being sent. Yuanxin'swhereabouts are still unknown.

drugs come in to the country because people in the country want drugs. there is no number of fishermen you can murder that will change that reality. this, fundamentally, is the problem with "lethality": we can already solve all the problems you can solve just by killing people

NEW: Pentagon recalls Hegseth to active duty for violating most of the UCMJ www.duffelblog.com/pentagon-rec...

Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

3/ Russia launched another combined missile and drone strike primarily targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure in Kyiv Oblast overnight on November 28 and 29, killing at least three civilians and injuring at least 52.

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:

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.

Make them define “Americanism.” For all Americans to see. Particularly those who will be excluded.

Weird that this was the straw, but 👌 www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

ICE is staging in a garage on Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan ahead of what neighbors believe is a planned large-scale raid of Canal Street this afternoon. Estimated 20-25 agents inside, with more steadily joining, some taken by surprise and caught with their masks down.

This is a lot of words to say, “Yikes! That Washington Post story about us illegally killing survivors on the open seas was 100% correct!”

Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.

Long read, but definitely worth it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“It makes you question yourself: Is this what I voted for?” Mr. Ripka said. Yes. Yes it is. Where the Waters Are Rough, a Fishing Town Confronts Trump’s Priorities www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...

For some reason, I did not realize till now that the Sec Army / acting head of ATF / lead negotiator for 🇺🇦 surrender initiative was just as unqualified as his boss. At least he’s not a drunken abuser of women though.👍 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...

Blue ridge Mountains are beautiful this time of year

This is exactly the sort of thing that is going to require people to go to jail for a very long time if we are to avoid this ever happening again. We're going to be told we need to move on. We've been told that every time since ~1865. Which is why the crises keep happening. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

It is a shame that Brazil’s judges are so activist that none of them stepped in to change the laws for Jair Bolsonaro. by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh)

lol sign worked

"Just following orders" isn't gonna save you, guys

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This is actually a significant possibility

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

100% forking percent this

It's now 75 hours since the deliberate massacre of civilians by Russia in Ternopil and emergency services are still working on site. 7 people are still unaccounted for. Another body was found during the night, so now 32 killed including 6 kids, with a further 94 injured. #RussiaIsATerroristState

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This morning in Ternopil, Russia killed 25 civilians, including 3 children. 73 more were injured, and these numbers may grow. Bucha. Mariupol. Izium. Kherson. We know that worse horrors await under Russian occupation. Ukraine will never surrender, because surrender means death.

Oh hey, I found the war on christmas

It's honestly pretty funny how he (and his lawyers and the DOJ) aren't even sure of what possibly incriminating evidence is in there but he knows he's guilty so they're all trying to cover up something indeterminate

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

she was doing okay for a while there and then 😵‍💫

Pretty accurate.

It’s stunning how little we expect out of our police. Why would banning this officer from working games keep the general public safe in places where he’s not surrounded by cameras & bigger dudes? Why should he be trusted with a gun & badge at all? www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...

I don’t know how much more of a wake up call the UK, or EU, needs… Are they waiting to see if we actually invade Greenland before revisiting their 🇺🇸 policies??

Veterans Day Whiskey post: Stop thanking veterans for the freedom that you’re currently in the process of losing. That was not our job. We protected the nation’s interest, and maybe your prosperity. It was YOUR job to protect your freedom; with your votes. 77M of you chose not to.

Had a Veterans Day event at my older sons school, with everything I’d expected: 1. BMP2s on screen during the Army song. 2. A meandering speech by a professional veteran E6, during which he insulted California, insinuated we all served mainly so Americans could say “Jesus” & told lamest mil jokes.

Well crap

The first smart and responsible thing this UK government has done.

I remember the first few security cooperation and humanitarian response courses we did after the destruction of USAID, where military students would ask if this would be an "opportunity" for DoD to expand onto USAID's portfolio. Some students were absolutely convinced that was the plan. It wasn't.

I don’t know who needs to hear this (yes I do), but people who crossed the U.S. border and immediately presented themselves to the first border official they could find and requested asylum did, in fact, “do it the right way” & are, in fact, legally here until an order of removal is issued.

Applies to sooo many people and organizations this year…