Trump admin drug interdiction policy: Some we murder. Some we let go home. Some we pardon.

day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

If you have to get your syllabus approved by an apparatchik before you can teach a class, you're not a university anymore you're a regime indoctrination center.

Essential read. Also, if you’re looking for an intro to civ-mil and civilian control in particular, you could do worse than chasing the links in this excellent piece.

For this situation specifically, Bradley was the only one in the entire chain who could have refused at essentially zero risk to himself. So no, he shouldn’t get credit for saying “but Pete told me to” when it all comes out.

No one would ever mistake me for a Jeffries defender but this headline really did him dirty. What he DID say is that even though the Republicans will shut down impeachment he expects future criminal prosecutions

JUST SECURITY: “.. If actually issued, these orders irresponsibly and unlawfully placed all those involved in the attack in serious legal jeopardy. If the reporting is accurate, those orders should, as a matter of law, have been refused.” @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...

HERTLING: “.. a military that abandons its legal and ethical foundations does not protect a nation — it endangers it.” @markhertling.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegse...

“That sounds illegal”

Fired US Immigration judge Tania Nemer files federal civil suit against Atty Gen Pam Bondi alleging sex discrimination Suit: "According to the final agency decision, the President may now fire female federal workers like Ms. Nemer—because of their sex—and the law would have nothing to say about it"

Worth remembering now Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944 "The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."

We had a higher ed system that was the crown jewel for the world, and by the time these knuckle-dragging freaks are done, it'll be a roadside bible colleges and fake law schools

Insane. Can I take Geology 101 and reject the final exam with "God made the world in 7 days" and get a good grade? Same thing. If I took a religious studies course on Christianity and submit a citation-free essay ignoring the question, just asserting "Jesus is a false prophet", I'd expect to fail

people are entitled to their religious freedom, but not to a passing grade in a university psychology course because you espouse poorly formulated Christian beliefs bsky.app/profile/kiss...

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

For JD Vance's mini-me Dan Driscoll, the official US position includes "war crimes 'r us."

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

The MAGA cult is so far gone that they truly believe Dear Leader should be allowed to kill their own children.

“Is this shit legal?” How ICE is disappearing people and holding them in a “black hole” where nobody knows where they are, even as they’re hospitalized

“People in Appalachia are used to being let down by the government, but this time we had the money. It was still taken away, and people feel betrayed.”

Oh that last line is especially interesting.

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.

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

The U.S. housing market is going to face a price correction “worse than 2008,” according to housing analyst Melody Wright, who expects home prices to drop in half as soon as next year, per Newsweek.

“The only way to stop drug trafficking is blowing up boats and pardoning the drug dealers.” —Senile Satan

How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear? "Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Kinda puts the whole administration-wide-freak-out-about-a-video-urging-members-of-the-military-not-to-break-the-law thing in a different light.

I’d really love someone to explain to me how the admin’s Latin America policy is consistent regarding narcotrafficking. (Please don’t reply to this saying it’s consistent because he supports right-wingers. That’s not what I’m asking!) open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

sea law is far more stringent than the law of land warfare

Now, the CDC Museum's future is on the rocks. The museum doesn't have a director even though a former supervisor is trying to keep the doors open. One of the museum's most popular programs is Disease Detective Camp, a summer program for high school students 👇

Starting to question the counter-narcotics rationale for the boat bombing scheme. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

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

The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law. The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.

Nazi Ace Adolf Galland, on proposed Luftwaffe policy to shoot allied pilots who had parachuted from their aircraft: "I should regard it as murder, and if ordered to do so would do everything in my power to disobey such an order." If you don’t know why I am posting this right now, you will soon.

This is actually a relevant factor here: it's been pretty clear SOUTHCOM, whose commander resigned, has been pushing back, at least somewhat. They're putting it under the operational command of SOCOM specifically because that's the most already rotten place you'll find people happy to do crimes.

Dude who took health insurance and food stamps from more Americans than any Speaker in US history wants you to know how tough he's got it.

“violent fantasy became an obsession, according to former Trump administration officials…“Fucking kill them all,” Trump would say. “An eye for an eye.” Other times he’d snap at his staff: “You just got to kill these people…Other countries do it all the time.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Reminder that all the "pardons" granted to Jan6ers whose convictions were still pending were auto-pen pardons.

This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever

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.

The Tennessee Holler wrote to X: "Wowwww..so dirty- Mailers with the wrong Election Date. @aftynfortn Behn making Republicans get desperate." The correct info is — Tennessee Special Election: 12/2/2025

Election Day for Tennessee’s Special Election is December 2. Spread the word and help counter the misinformation. 🤝 www.newsweek.com/democrats-in... #Tennessee #AftynBehn #Nashville

Declaring “no quarter” is a war crime. Even assuming an armed conflict exists.

3/ "Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,' said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law."

2/ "Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats 'amounts to murder,' said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign."

“The researchers showed that raising body temperature to fever levels is effective at stopping human-origin flu viruses from replicating, but it is unlikely to stop avian flu viruses.”

“Might” is doing heroic work here