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Pete Hegseth: "[Trump] changed the rules of engagement [and] untied the hands of war fighters…We don't need burdensome rules of engagement that make it impossible for us to win these wars."

A half dozen senior Republicans in Congress have now made clear that pending congressional hearings, they have no intention of expending political capital in support of Pete Hegseth. The odds that he's going down have just doubled.

Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now. Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers. Shameful.

Megyn Kelly has revealed that she is a fully formed monster.

Trump, Hegseth, and their flaunting of the rules of law.

Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us

FYI: the EXAMPLE of what a war crime is in the DoD Law of War manual is EXACTLY what Hegseth did. bsky.app/profile/jjin...

Andy McCarthy, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, completely destroyed the notion that Democratic lawmakers Fox News has called the "Seditious Six" did anything illegal. Trump often praises McCarthy as he's a frequent guest on Fox News.

👏👏👏 I don’t shop at Amazon, Sam’s Club, or Walmart. Costco is my go to big box store. This is why.

Reporter: “You said that the follow-up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?” Leavitt: “The strike conducted on September 2 was conducted in self-defense to protect Americans and vital United States interests…And in accordance with the law of armed conflict.”

"a country she said she had never been to...." www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...

Two months ago I wrote about why my law firm is litigating 63 voting and election cases. Today it is 65 cases covering more than half the country. Eleven of them involve redistricting. Where are the big law firms? Why isn't legacy media covering this? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...

👏👏👏 Finally a journalist who can ask the right question the right way!! 👏👏👏

Republicans are ready to sacrifice the children of people other than themselves on the altar of war in order to steal resources for themselves.

🚨BREAKING: Alina Habba, a former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, has been unlawfully serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor for months, an appeals court panel unanimously ruled Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New in PN: Trump's ugly Thanksgiving meltdown "Trump is always vile & erratic, but spewing slurs on Thanksgiving feels like an escalation even for him. It suggests he’s desperate to find his Reichstag Fire — a violent incident he can use to rally his supporters & as an excuse to target his foes."

🩸🩸🩸 NEVER FORGET: Instead of honoring our Constitution's key principle of a Peaceful Transfer of Power, POS Donald Trump Abused his Power on Jan 6th by inciting this violent & deadly attack on our country's Capital and should be in prison for life 🩸🩸🩸

“In a statement of the former JAGs Working Group, the former military lawyers analyzed … relevant international and domestic law, concluding that ‘both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both.’”—the Contrarian Just as Congressmen warned.

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I don’t consider ICE to be a law-enforcement organization. I consider them to be an organized crime syndicate. Nothing more, nothing less.

Dear Senator Cassidy, “We” didn’t. WE didn’t pardon anyone. HE did. The President of the United States pardoned him. Come on Bill, say his name. Who’s our president? Say his name. Best, Your Former Congressional Colleague

Racists all.

So…the original 13 colonies. Got it.

Throwback from 2014. You know, when the dangerous dark fellow was in charge.

Sadly relevant today.

Congratulations, America (and Democracy Defenders) 😃

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."

Universal healthcare would save Americans $450B ANNUALLY but requires dismantling systemic racism & that scares too many unmelinated folks so we continue to suffer as is.

Give not a millimeter to Russia. Not a single grain of Ukrainian soil.

Trump’s recent decision to deny disaster aid to two electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost local residents tens of millions of dollars. It will hit a working-class region that voted overwhelmingly for Trump last year, helping him win the crucial swing state.

Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”

Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?" Mark Kelly: "It seems to." Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?" Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."

Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"

LOTS of good thinking in here on many subjects. Please read.

"… in the present instance, it was perfectly clear to the accused that killing defenceless people in the life-boats could be nothing else but a breach of the law. As naval officers by profession they were well aware …."

Cc @jaketapper.bsky.social

Real men don’t punch down, and they especially don’t punch down at women. This mashup of Trump’s disgusting attacks on female reporters — the same reporters who consistently show the most courage. And it’s past time for the other reporters in the room to have their backs!

The Trumps are using the Oval Office as their own personal ATM machine, and anyone who says otherwise is lying to you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

True. Van Epps has shifted his event tomorrow from Pucketts to a right wing billionaire’s mansion in Franklin to avoid any protests on the eve of the election. Says it all, really. #TN7

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“It’s a mockery of due process. It’s a mockery of our constitutional rights.”

DHS’s internal watchdog system has been “gutted” the staff of Office for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties (CRCL) was cut from about 150 down to only 9 people. The cuts leave around 550 active investigations

Headlines in 1921 completely whitewashed the Tulsa Race Massacre. Today, the GOP continues America's total lack of accountability for racial violence.  Viola Fletcher carried the truth of Tulsa in her memory and testimony. While justice sadly did not arrive in her lifetime, we inherit her fight.

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

Bookmark this for the investigations to come: the Trump team’s boat bombings trace back to at least 2018. That’s when White House officials asked me & others about whether they could do something like this. We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.

Multiple climate-related stressors affect the ocean, including heating, acidification, deoxygenation and variations in salinity, over the past 60 years, reaching the deep ocean. Additive and synergistic effects degrade the vast ocean ecosystem. Industrial fishing makes matters worse.