This is the big story: 1) The President ordered a killing campaign outside of the law. 2) He got OLC to make up a fake war to justify killing real people. 3) And he got the military to carry out the killings. Purporting to justify those killings is aiding in covering up that plain reality 👇 2/2

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

Drones over French nuclear submarine base last night.

(1/3) It’s time for one of our favorite annual traditions, end-of-year book recommendations from the Just Security community! www.justsecurity.org/126111/just-...

Ex-DEA agent who worked on the case against former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernandez calls his release "devastating": “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

"While Hegseth did not make an appearance in the briefing room, he and his wife made time to sit for a chummy interview inside the Pentagon with former Trump official-turned-podcaster Katie Miller, where she asked about his favorite chicken wings and the current shows they are binge-watching"

"If the United States were in an armed conflict (it is not), it would be illegal to target shipwrecked survivors at sea." Expert Q&A on the U.S. Boat Strikes with @tessbridgeman.bsky.social, @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, & @rgoodlaw.bsky.social: www.justsecurity.org/126156/exper...

Must read by @marknevitt.bsky.social on why killing survivors at sea is a moral & strategic disaster for all of us: "If America chooses a path where killing defenseless survivors becomes acceptable, American servicemembers will pay the price for that choice." www.justsecurity.org/125998/boat-...

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1) @washingtonpost.com reported Thursday on a controversial policy downgrading how nooses and swastikas are labeled in the Coast Guard. 2) Admin officials attacked The Post, falsely alleging the reporting of "fake crap." 3) The CG said it would review policy language. 4) The CG reversed course.

The Post is keeping an updating map and list of the Trump administration’s extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific (Gift link) wapo.st/4oNn8RJ

Breaking News: A Tennessee judge temporarily blocked the deployment of the National Guard in Memphis, which was ordered by the state’s Republican governor.

Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...

We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

ICE vs the clergy

Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????

Anyhow this morning I'm just remembering Stormy Daniels's testimony about Trump during the Manhattan trial www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I think the situation room is for a particular kind of situation, not for situations generally, even though I agree that this is a situation.

The two questions I would like every one of these toadies to be asked is: (1) How can you possibly know it isn't true? Were you one of Epstein's regular guests also? and (2) Since you CAN'T be sure it isn't true, does it bother you even a little that you may be running interference for pedophiles?

What's up with this headline? "Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct" More importantly, Epstein alleged that Trump engaged in the same conduct he did. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

POTUS + OLC have tried to create an alternate reality within the US executive branch in which the US is involved in make believe armed conflicts with alleged drug smugglers and therefore premeditated killing is somehow permissible. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

OK I don't mean to be hyperbolic but this might affect conservatively 65% of my diet

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

"One former law enforcement official familiar with the matter, who spoke to Bloomberg on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivities surrounding the case, said the probe lasted 18 months and turned up at least tens of millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions."

Trump's "sense that he controls the truth...is leaving him blind to where the real world is refusing to be shaped to fit his vision." I had fun writing for @elmirab.bsky.social's Interruptrr newsletter this week: interruptrr.substack.com/p/trump-v-re...

The Ranking Member of HFAC seems underwhelmed by today's closed briefing on the maritime strikes. bsky.app/profile/hous...

BREAKING: Six people were killed in a new U.S. strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat, Defense Secretary Hegseth says.

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

"Why is carrying drugs on a speedboat 1,500 miles from Florida...an imminent threat of death? Why is trafficking cocaine — not fentanyl — an armed attack on the United States?" Must read from @charliesavage.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

This is chilling. The President is asserting authority to kill completely outside of the law. And plans to keep at it. We are not at war, and he is ignoring the criminal laws that actually apply (eg, murder). No limiting principle stops him from doing this to others he labels "terrorists." 1/3

I wrote about Trump’s missile strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, and about the secret Justice Department opinion that underwrites them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

2018: Why are we having all these people from Haiti and Africa come here? Why can’t we have more people from Norway? 2025: Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 white South Africans — and virtually no one else @mradamtaylor.bsky.social and @teoarmus.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

"If factually and legally unpersuasive domestic deployments of troops aren’t going to be a red line for the Supreme Court, what the heck will be?" @stevevladeck.bsky.social on why Trump v. Illinois is a make-or-break moment for the Supreme Court: www.stevevladeck.com/p/184-the-ma...

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

This is critical. Rep Adam Smith ties bombings to troops in cities. "How far are we away from Trump deciding to use the US military to do a kinetic strike on people within the US because he sees them as a threat, by whatever definition he wants to throw out there?" newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Reportedly a 6th lawless US strike in the Caribbean. This time reportedly with survivors. If true, will the US military rescue the survivors? Will the US military seek to detain the survivors, and if so, on what legal basis? A phony war with real violence. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

This is a very good paragraph. From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... By Nancy A. Youssef

So many institutions have caved to unreasonable and anti-democratic demands lately. I am not remotely surprised to see the Pentagon Press Corps standing united and strong. So proud of my former colleagues and friends.

Did I miss any updates on the investigation into the motive of Charlie Kirk’s killer? It feels like that just disappeared as a story, which is strange considering his exaltation within GOP and making his murder into a national event. I’d think we’d be getting hearing about it frequently

This is not morally or legally different than lining up two dozen men and shooting them in the face.

This is a necessary and unsettling read from Just Security: "A label that once guided [internal] document handling now operates as a filter on what journalists can report without fear of potential prosecution."

The President is announcing more extrajudicial killings today. A reminder that the administration has provided no limiting principles and these killings are completely untethered from the law (there was no "armed attack," there's no "armed conflict," and these aren't "unlawful combatants").