It will not surprise anyone that Stephens’ “case” is exceptionally flimsy.

Without a hint of irony, another recent Bret Stephens' column was headlined: "Do Dumb Ideas Ever Die?"

New footage shows the aftermath of Israel’s strike on a busy traffic intersection near Tehran’s Tajrish Bazaar in the June war. Cars & surrounding infrastructure destroyed, streets flooded, many killed or injured, people trying help each other at the scene.

Remember when Steve Forbes ran for president? It's a good thing he never came close to being elected. www.forbes.com/sites/stevef...

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Good for Ecuador: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

"There should be no new deals with the butcher of Yemen. The U.S. should be reducing its cooperation with the Saudis, not enhancing it." daniellarison.substack.com/p/trumps-sau...

Worth pointing out that researchers say there's no concrete evidence of an actual organization or cartel by that name. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

The lawless killing spree at sea continues.

The military murdered three more people: www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

“There is no such thing, so Maduro can hardly be its boss," Phil Gunson, an analyst at the International Crisis Group think tank, told AFP of the so-called "Cartel de los Soles." Listen to my colleague Phil.

A potential prelude to military action against Venezuela—even though the FTO designation as such confers no authority to use force. (And this supposed cartel may not even exist.) A regime change campaign in the guise of counterterrorism.

Also, in the course of other atrocities in Yemen, his forces bombed a *school bus full of kids* with a U.S. PGM.

He misspelled Criminal Aggression and Murder.

There are reasons the U.S. Constitution doesn’t leave decisions over the use of military force to the whims of one man. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...

An immersion program that helps preserve an Alaska Native language has been a boon to children displaced by last month's severe flooding in western Alaska.

“It really strikes me that OLC was given an assignment. ‘We need a legal justification to do the following’ and then they just cooked something up," said @bcfinucane.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/11/14/b...

he thinks he's being so sneaky and he did the exact same thing in June this year with Iran

I can’t remember a plausibly threatened invasion by the US that has received less attention and alarm by the press.

“It’s serial murder, and it should be treated accordingly.” daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-us-is-...

it's hard to keep up with the daily outrages and abuses, but the lawless use of force by this administration - everything from this below to bombing Iran to domestic deployment - is pervasive & criminal.

“I don’t know what’s more insane – that the ‘President of Peace’ is starting an illegal war or that he’s giving a get out of jail free card to the U.S. military,” said a senior defense official. theintercept.com/2025/11/14/b...

NEW — Rashida Tlaib and 20 other members of Congress have introduced a resolution to officially recognize Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. It notes that between 10/23 and 11/25, the US sent $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel and authorized $30,000,000,000+ in new weapons deals.

A slim majority of Americans is opposed to the military murdering civilians: www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

Step one: the president lies and invents a conflict out of thin air. Step two: the lawyers use the president's lie as the basis for their bogus opinion. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

"It should go without saying, but U.S. attacks on civilian boats are not protecting our hemisphere. These attacks are terrorizing and murdering people in our hemisphere." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-us-is-...

Now up to 80 murders: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

I’ve heard that, when it’s full, you can actually see Dear Leader’s visage in the moon

Whatever strained and implausible justifications the OLC opinion may purport to provide for the killing spree at sea, the public statements of the administration recently have boiled down to: Just follow orders. That appears to be the operative rule the administration wants to establish.

DoD on legality of the boat strikes: "Military personnel are legally obligated to follow lawful orders and as such are not subject to prosecution for following lawful orders." "Lawful orders" in this formulation being a function of what POTUS and his pliant OLC say. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

DHS claimed that Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building, while DEA experts put the number of members of this gang in the US at approximately zero. Now Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.

The Kakistocrats!

I realize most Americans don't give a shit, but to people in places like Venezuela or Palestine or Iran, making jokes about the prospect of war on them or their families as a political distraction is fucking awful. It's not funny or clever. Families are under the bombs there. Not a punchline.

Underscoring how exceptionally lawless the maritime strikes are.

The whole world can see that these boat strikes are murder. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

this opinion will be public at some point, and when it is, it will remind everyone of how right-wing govt lawyering has twisted & deformed law to enable atrocities, from 'enhanced interrogation techniques' to murder on the seas.

NEW: The classified opinion by Trump's Office of Legal Counsel says the US personnel taking part in lethal strikes on boats would not be exposed to future prosecution, per sources. “It sounds like an admission that there is no legal basis for these strikes” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Systematic torture of Venezuelans who were renditioned to El Salvador, only 3% of whom were convicted of serious crimes, and many of who were legally in migration proceedings, per interviews by @hrw.org & @cristosal.bsky.social. CECOT is Trump’s Abu Ghraib.

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.

"Trump has very little popular support for attacking Venezuela, but there isn’t much of an effort being made to stop him." daniellarison.substack.com/p/where-is-t...

Hegseth is an idiot and a disgrace, but you would think that a guy obsessed with the "warrior ethos" would be more welcoming of guys who claim to worship Odin.

Acc to UNICEF Israel is denying the entry of essential items, including syringes to vaccinate children and bottles for baby formula, because they "are considered dual-use by Israel." Sadly the gencoide is not over - it has just slowed. www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-11...

And also: Colombia president orders suspension of intelligence sharing with US www.reuters.com/world/americ... French foreign minister says US military operations in Caribbean violate international law www.reuters.com/world/americ...

From Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders: One month into the Gaza ceasefire, conditions remain desperate for Palestinians www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/one-m...

He's right. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

“Most of those advocating this path simply avoid mentioning the amount of devastation in Gaza and the way that most inhabitants have been reduced to bare survival.” Brutal honesty from Nathan Brown on the lies of the “ceasefire” and Gaza’s “forever misery” carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

Bari Weiss asking “what’s the point of standards” for a major news organization is almost comically on the nose.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”