"The U.S. should immediately accept this offer. It costs the U.S. nothing to continue respecting the treaty’s limits after New START expires next year." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-us-sho...

Important analysis from @sinatoossi.bsky.social: “The lesson in Iran is that international law and institutions no longer matter, so Tehran must act on its own national interests.” thebulletin.org/2025/10/why-...

Gary Larson actually visited Jane Goodall in Tanzania and got attacked by a famously belligerent chimp named Frodo: www.cracked.com/article_4363...

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Conjures Up ‘Terrorist’ Designation to Justify Killing Civilians The U.S. military justified the slaughter of alleged drug traffickers by claiming links to "designated terrorist organizations." theintercept.com/2025/10/01/t...

I told Middle East Eye that Trump’s Gaza plan is the same old US play “to cook up a plan with Israel and then present it to the Palestinians as a fait accompli… counterproposals by a Palestinian party are immediately characterised as rejection, obstructionism.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/colonia...

BREAKING: Israel has begun intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is carrying 500 people from around the world seeking to bring aid to Palestinians starved by Israel's siege. The crew includes 24 Americans, EU Members of Parliament, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, and Greta Thunberg.

The whole world agrees that Israel and the US are committing a genocide. Now Palestinians are being asked to accept a deal that gives the US and Israel full control with no guarantees of peace. Israel has broken the ceasefire in Lebanon hundreds of times and attacked 6 countries in 2 yrs.

Nothing about the Argentina bailout makes sense - not a top US trade partner, not a source of migrants or drugs, chronic defaulter on loans - so of course the explanation is some billionaire who’s connected to the right people.

William Hartung argues "The administration’s perspective on the role of the military is not just misguided. It is unacceptable if the United States is to retain a democracy worthy of the name." @inkstickmedia.com @quincyinst.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/the-us-milit...

"The U.S. should be reducing its commitments in the Middle East instead of deepening them. Pledging to defend Qatar is a mistake." daniellarison.substack.com/p/pledging-t...

The president just invented a new security commitment out of thin air: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

This plan is a farce, intended to give Israel everything it wants quickly and then manufacture reasons to never give Palestinians anything.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

I know this is the old battle but the attempts to normalize this shit is exactly why it was good to yell at everyone involved with Tom Cotton's oped in 2020

The president gathering his generals to instruct them to attack his political opposition makes the shutdown debate about healthcare seem petty and inconsequential.

This is the worldview of a dumb grunt with anger issues who's mad he didn't get to shoot brown people indiscriminately, and can't be bothered to reflect on whether maybe his betters had good reasons for not letting him do that.

"The U.S. should not seek regime change in Venezuela. The U.S. has no right to topple the Venezuelan government or remove its leader." daniellarison.substack.com/p/pursuing-r...

Support for Israel in the U.S. Dramatically Declines, Times/Siena Poll Finds

“This is an American Israeli genocide,” says Diana Buttu. Donald Trump “could have easily ended this, but he’s choosing not to.”

It's a golden age, all right...for criminals www.yahoo.com/news/article...

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Do they have fact checkers at the New Yorker? Ben-Gurion, who green-lit multiple expulsion campaigns including Operation Dalet in 1948 and who dreamed of taking the West Bank by securing British backing for the liquidation of the Jordanian monarchy, would be shocked by ethnic cleansing?

Even the US Army's official history portrays Wounded Knee as a massacre in which "soldiers also employed artillery despite the presence of numerous noncombatants... including women and children..." theintercept.com/2024/11/28/a...

Miller was reportedly opposed to bombing targets in Mexico, but he seems to be leading the charge when it comes to murdering people at sea. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The U.S. and Israel did most of the work to kill diplomacy with Iran, but Britain, France, and Germany went out of their way to finish the job." daniellarison.substack.com/p/killing-ir...

Any such US attack on Venezuela would of course be flagrantly illegal. 1/n www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

They’re getting ready to add international aggression to their list of crimes.

Preview of Hegseth's speech:

It's going to be so, so stupid: www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

Nothing improves readiness like forcing most of your top officers to fly thousands of miles to listen to a TV show host spout worthless talking points.

The US military is already repeatedly following orders to kill boatloads of civilians in the caribbean. I'm not sure what more "following orders" Hegseth could get out of a full huddle of every general & admiral, so my gut instinct is less "big plan to do crimes" and more "stupid business book idea"

So Hegseth called this big meeting for an extremely stupid reason. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"Hegseth likes to call himsef Secretary of War, but he should really be called the Secretary of War Crimes." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-secret...

This is how empty the UNGA was as Netanyahu was talking. Ouch.

When drug boat operators -- impoverished fishermen trying to get by -- were caught in the past, they got a few years in prison. Now Trump is executing them without trials. A must-read and an exceptionally smart take from my colleague Matt Sledge @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/26/t...

"Trump has never blocked the Israeli government from doing anything it wanted to do." daniellarison.substack.com/p/a-hollow-t...

Just call him the Secretary of War Crimes apnews.com/article/woun...

SecDef is an all seasons war crimes appreciator. Unfortunately, that is now a fact that must be accounted for in considering the lawfulness of current US military operations.

Don't look at focus group responses. It's not worth the pain.

Sounds like a colossal waste of time and resources. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In an alternate reality in which the USG sought to uphold the rule of law and hold its partners to the same standards—the USG might do something to stop these attacks. Instead in this reality, the USG is conducting its own lethal strikes on boats full of civilians. edition.cnn.com/2025/09/24/w...

"Trump’s new position on the war in Ukraine is every bit as unhinged as anything he said in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly." daniellarison.substack.com/p/trumps-har...

Rogue state behavior www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

No, drug smuggling is not an "imminent, immediate threat" to the United States that would legally justify premeditated killing. Although I do wonder whether that formulation appears in whatever legal permission slip may have been concocted by the administration.

Harris still doesn't get it. People didn't protest at Trump rallies because they knew there was no chance of changing his position. They made the mistake of thinking that Harris might be receptive to their message.

Israel is deliberately depriving people of aid in #Gaza. MSF’s new report shows how restrictions blocked medical supplies, sometimes even forcing our teams to perform procedures without anesthesia. Read the report: ow.ly/YZ8v50WZFBs

My statement on Trump's unconstitutional and idiotic Antifa EO. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... cc: @apnews.com @reuters.com @thebulwark.com @theunpopulist.net @normative.bsky.social @radleybalko.bsky.social @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com @kevincollier.bsky.social @stevanzetti.bsky.social

Designating Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” is legally meaningless. But ominous. Designating narcos as “terrorists organizations” didn’t authorize use of force, but nonetheless paved the way for lethal strikes in the Caribbean on “terrorists.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...