Francis Wilkinson
@franciswilkinson.bsky.social
Political Columnist, Bloomberg.
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It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
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There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
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Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hagueseth
Chicken says she has some leads on a suspect but nothing solid just yet.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Chicken says she has some leads on a suspect but nothing solid just yet.
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the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.
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It's something that a grown man fascist would do.
Punishing all Afghanis for the crimes of one is not something a grown man president would do but here we are.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
Trump administration pauses all immigration applications from Afghans after National Guard shooting in D.C.
Federal immigration authorities said Wednesday they have paused processing requests from Afghan nationals, after a man from Afghanistan was identified as the suspect in the D.C. National Guard shootin...
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's something that a grown man fascist would do.
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"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.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"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.
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What explains why Haitians don’t need protective status and wealthy Afrikaner white South Africans do? Ethnonationalism. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The decision could affect more than a half million Haitians living in the U.S.
www.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
What explains why Haitians don’t need protective status and wealthy Afrikaner white South Africans do? Ethnonationalism. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It’s not because he’s worried about his seat. Don’t put in the paper that he’s worried about his seat.
California Republican suddenly supporting a national partisan gerrymandering ban. IT’S GAME THEORY BABY THINK OF THE STRATEGERY, WE PLAYING DEFECT-DEFECT NOT DEFECT-COOPERATE, IT’S TIT FOR TAT, CONSIDER THE INCENTIVES
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It’s not because he’s worried about his seat. Don’t put in the paper that he’s worried about his seat.
I guess when you have an unlimited grift budget you don’t even bother with 30-second propaganda spots. You just go the full .60.
this extremely fashy Trump cult of personality ad featuring Kristi Noem ran this morning on Fox & Friends
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I guess when you have an unlimited grift budget you don’t even bother with 30-second propaganda spots. You just go the full .60.
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A lingering leadership vacuum has left the federal government’s whistleblower and public employee protection agency hobbled during a historically busy time, prompting government accountability groups to look to make it easier for federal workers to bring their complaints to the courts.
Watchdog Agency ‘in a Coma’ Faces Uncertain Future Under Trump
A lingering leadership vacuum has left the federal government’s whistleblower and public employee protection agency hobbled during a historically busy time, prompting government accountability groups to look to make it easier for federal workers to bring their complaints to the courts.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A lingering leadership vacuum has left the federal government’s whistleblower and public employee protection agency hobbled during a historically busy time, prompting government accountability groups to look to make it easier for federal workers to bring their complaints to the courts.
Concentration Camp Barbie does not do terror at a discount. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Here’s What It Can Cost to Detain and Deport Just One Person
After one man was sent to multiple detention centers across the country and spent over 4 months in custody, his journey shows deportation under the Trump administration is anything but straightforward...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Concentration Camp Barbie does not do terror at a discount. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
This is why I read the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is why I read the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Brazil and France put their criminals in jail.
Nicolas Sarkozy convicted of illegal campaign financing in failed 2012 re-election bid
Nicolas Sarkozy convicted of illegal campaign financing in failed 2012 re-election bid
Former French president only released from prison earlier this month in connection with separate conviction
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been convicted of illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid, after the country’s highest court rejected his final appeal.
Sarkozy, who was the country’s rightwing president between 2007 and 2012, was convicted of hiding illegal overspending for his unsuccessful re-election campaign that was shaped by vast American-style rallies. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Brazil and France put their criminals in jail.
This happy-go-lucky professional liar is about to get a big promotion.
Hassett: "On one of the Sunday shows, the anchor criticized the fact Walmart said the Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper by about $10. Then he said, 'Oh yeah, but they substituted generic stuff,' as if having a generic something is a crime for ordinary folks! It shows how out of touch these people are."
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This happy-go-lucky professional liar is about to get a big promotion.
“The transcripts show that Witkoff is a sycophant serving Putin’s interest and that the transcript that Americans have been claiming was their own plan was, as everyone smart insisted, in fact Russia’s plan.” www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/26/t...
The Dim Philby Leaks - emptywheel
The release of transcripts showing that the Ukraine "piece" plan that Trump claimed to be his own was in fact simply the Russian plan could have the same effect the discovery of Mike Flynn's back chan...
www.emptywheel.net
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“The transcripts show that Witkoff is a sycophant serving Putin’s interest and that the transcript that Americans have been claiming was their own plan was, as everyone smart insisted, in fact Russia’s plan.” www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/26/t...
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Trump has never met a war criminal he didn’t admire and want to defend
Where are the headlines about this?
The US has turned the life of this French judge into a nightmare - because he applied justice to Israel.
This is gangsterism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The US has turned the life of this French judge into a nightmare - because he applied justice to Israel.
This is gangsterism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones
Three ICC judges have been put on a sanctions list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’, says Guardian columnis...
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Trump has never met a war criminal he didn’t admire and want to defend
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This work painted in 1901 on Rügen in the Baltic sea, shows the growing influence of Monet's sense of light and Paul Signac's stylistic technique on Wassily Kandinsky, it also shows him anticipating the tensions and relationships between pure colours in a partly abstract seascape
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This work painted in 1901 on Rügen in the Baltic sea, shows the growing influence of Monet's sense of light and Paul Signac's stylistic technique on Wassily Kandinsky, it also shows him anticipating the tensions and relationships between pure colours in a partly abstract seascape
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1 Can't emphasize this enough. EU is home to multiple "second-tier" great powers — who are only "second-tier" because they chose not to make large investments in military capabilities — and is itself an economic & diplomatic great power. NATO is the most powerful security confederation in history.
It sure seems like Vance leads a faction that is enamored of 🇷🇺's cultivated cultural conservative "soft power", reflexively anti-Atlanticist, and stupid enough to think that wedging 🇷🇺-🇨🇳 is a) realistic and b) worth trashing our relationship with the world's third largest economy.
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
1 Can't emphasize this enough. EU is home to multiple "second-tier" great powers — who are only "second-tier" because they chose not to make large investments in military capabilities — and is itself an economic & diplomatic great power. NATO is the most powerful security confederation in history.
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they’re working overtime to delegitimize a single video that said nothing more than a basic legal fact — service members have a duty not to follow unlawful orders. If that simple truth feels so threatening to them, the real question is: why? #holdfast #SteadyState
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
they’re working overtime to delegitimize a single video that said nothing more than a basic legal fact — service members have a duty not to follow unlawful orders. If that simple truth feels so threatening to them, the real question is: why? #holdfast #SteadyState
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Unprecedented presidency-ending scandals & crimes now happening twice a day
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Unprecedented presidency-ending scandals & crimes now happening twice a day
Regime thugs terrorize citizens.
Andrea is one of over 170 U.S. citizens who have detained by ICE. It should never have happened, and we will hold Kristi Noem and the Trump Administration accountable.
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Regime thugs terrorize citizens.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM