Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

Karoline leavitt on hot ones- Leavitt: ok now this is spicy Sean: we just started Leavitt: what do you call this one Sean: water

The diehards are starting to decide after much prayerful consideration with their beautiful brides that being in the minority next year sounds like a shit sandwich.

This essay has already generated more hate mail than anything else I've written from the Star Tribune. Which is, I think, telling ... though I'm not sure of what.

Folks from a local elementary school in my area are trying to raise $1300 to cover the December rent of a family that's struggling due to an ICE abduction. You can donate through this local church's Zelle. Pls note that your donation is for the "Kilmer family" (Kilmer is the name of the school):

On the one hand this is heinous, on the other hand under this logic an enterprising Democratic president can declare tech billionaires to be terrorists who are poisoning the American people with their products

This is a deeply unprofessional and illegal partisan statement from the Trump hack who's currently director of the CIA. It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.

The egregious war crimes/murders are among the things they’re doing because they assume they will never be out of power again, but the sweaty response to the reporting of those crimes is the nagging worry that they’re wrong about that

My pho guy closes his shop on Black Friday every year and just cooks hibachi out front all day for anyone that wants it for free

The backstory is that the community is a fishing community and they really wanted the helicopter since you know...fishing is risky.

a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

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Any time an article quotes Stephen Miller they should include a parenthetical about how his mommy and daddy bought him a $450,000 DC condo so he could wind up Jeff Sessions' Chief Racism Officer

Now I see why they wanted to rebrand to the Department of War. No one calls them 'defense crimes'

The current president goes after past presidents because he's a lowlife and can't achieve anything of his own.

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.

Every time someone jumps on socials and says there is no point to mass protest days and visible reaction in the streets, share this chart with them. The approval ratings are tanking not just because they're doing bad things but also because protestors won't let people forget it either.

I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that

We can't convince universities to stop hiring Gordon Gee, so I don't know how we push for there to be any consequences for betraying the country for a few research grants. But it feels like figuring that out will be necessary.

naughty

It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him

In Switzerland it's a pretty big scandal that we have provided presents to Trump (watches, gold, etc.), those involved are today facing a criminal complaint for possible corruption 😅

among other things a trip to costco is an easy way to keep two little kids occupied for a chunk of an afternoon

my daughter announced, with great confidence, that the lit menorah in the city plaza was for people who celebrate harmonica

In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:

I’ve never seen a football player deliver an insult this cutting & succinct before

trump will pardon or assist any head of state who has been convicted for crimes. acting out of self preservation, basically

honestly, if you said the goal of this administration was to make cocaine as cheap and plentiful as possible, it would explain like 75% of their actions

in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States

So I'm pretty sure a three star knows that an order to strike alleged combatants who are hors de combat is facially illegal, in case anyone's still having any hangups on whether Bradley needs to be in the dock after this

OK, who narced?

There's still time to apply!

the people who said "the bombing would stop if Gaza released the hostages" are very quiet lately

Hegseth is a cold-blooded murderer. There's no way to dress it up. He's a criminal. And his was precisely the kind of illegal order that those Dem members of Congress urged the military not to follow. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

2/2 All four of my wife's grandparents were part of great pre-WWI wave of non-Anglo-Saxon immigs that panicked the Stephen Millers of that era (eg Madison Grant — look him up) Her people were Czech. Millions more: Italy, Russia, "the Pale," Greece, Poland, Hungary,etc Miller's people came then too

Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in. This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.

Trumpism and Trumpists are incompatible with American culture and traditions and should be purged.

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

There’s a reason Caesar was forbidden to cross the Rubicon and return to Rome with his army. It’s what separates a relatively free society from a fascist one.

This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news: They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.

I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other

Patricia Smith just won the National Book Award for Poetry for this collection. The first couple of poems had me in a chokehold. Smith is giving me new life right now.

Beautiful start to what's a very complicated day for many of us. Love what you love. Be bitter to what you hate. Roll with whatever is inbetween. If you have none of that, go watch ducks or duck footage 😇 🪶

With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.

The Trump regime granted the suspected shooter asylum earlier this year. Now they are taking his alleged crime out on all Afghan nationals seeking entrance to the US. Another ban. Another excuse for violence and deportation.

Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.

fuck you the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh