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."

Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared. "no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"

This, my friends, is the one.

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Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.

A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.

Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right

Sadly in the final act, Chekov gets fired

If they make another Star Trek movie, can we have James Gunn direct it? Not because of his directorial skills; I just think it’s about time a narrative included Gunn’s Chekov.

TIRED: “learn to code!” WIRED:

I told you we’d be back

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

just thinking about this again

They're literally doing the meme

I think you should know that Trump put the same gold-framed painting of Reagan in the Oval Office as can be seen in the office of the colonel in the movie “MacGruber.”

"Vibe ops" is coming, isn't it?

AI is great.

since people give the nyt so much crap for milquetoast headlines, someone should acknowledge that this one is pretty 💅 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

This basically says that individuals should not under any circumstances buy stock in a TX incorporated company. “Boards don’t have to be responsible to shareholders”. Legalized looting.

EVERY TIME YOU SAY IT IS ANTISEMITIC TO BE AGAINST KILLING PALESTINIANS, YOU'RE SAYING IT IS JEWISH TO MURDER *THAT* IS THE ANTISEMITISM

hear me out what if we *neither* unconstitutionally accepted jets from a foreign nation *nor* kept throwing the jets we already have in the ocean?

This -- though it is delivered with the characteristic haughty NYT condescension -- is just flat wrong. It's revealing, though. The enemy that has taken up residence in their heads is not fascism, not the threatened violence of the state, but "social media," ie, their readers talking back.

The Los Angeles Police Department posts a net loss of $3.3 billion a year every year — and they don't even deliver a single piece of mail

The corruption here isn’t even my biggest concern. The security risk!?! The security risk is astronomical and totally unfixable. Listening devices? Tracking devices!? Software backdoors!? Intentional AND unintentional!? Unmeasurable risk.

Spotted on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!

Let’s be clear. Stephen Miller is likely “actively looking at” chopping people up with an ax for fun, too, so the real question is: “Why does Stephen Miller want this particular headline right now?”

this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions

One of the greatest travesties of this administration so far. Absolutely appalling.

me: I'm done with the pope posts conservatives: we are having the worst day of our lives, woke marxist pope will give your kids gun control & health care in their sleep me: I would like a few more pope posts

I am a modded version of a messaging app, Signal I’ve conversations confidential, archival, and criminal I know the DoD guys, and I make their chats transmissible From Pentagon to Tel Aviv, data protection: minimal

STEPH

This is really, really, really well done.

The most daming claim in this statement IMO: Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created… Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds. Correct usernames and passwords. 2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Time to tap the "All the President's Men" sign^H^H^H^H^H screencap again, I guess.

oh my god

When a whistleblower deliberately leaks things they believe should not be secret, they go to Wikileaks. When a DUI hire's chat group accidentally leaks secrets without realizing they're doing it, that's #WhiskeyLeaks

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.

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