Gluon Spring
@gluonspring.bsky.social
Duck Duck Goose gold medalist; salt hobbyist; genome scientist by trade.
Erdős number: 2
CA (Forged in TX)
Patriotic, as it turns out 🇺🇸
Erdős number: 2
CA (Forged in TX)
Patriotic, as it turns out 🇺🇸
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Gluon Spring
@gluonspring.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hydrogen bomb test Hardtack I Poplar: Detonated July 12, 1958, from a barge off of Namu island in the Bikini Atoll. 9.3 megatons yield. Aircraft in video: Martin RB-57D.
The end will be very beautiful from certain vantage points.
The end will be very beautiful from certain vantage points.
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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
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"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
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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
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"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
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I worked these issues with Todd.
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I worked these issues with Todd.
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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College freshman headed to Texas deported despite court order – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth share.google/mW3eL2ciVF2M...
Freshman deported despite emergency court order
A freshman headed home to Texas for Thanksgiving was deported, defying a court order. Her college dreams now hang in balance.
share.google
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
College freshman headed to Texas deported despite court order – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth share.google/mW3eL2ciVF2M...
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
Who is the fastest moving most aggressive Democratic prosecutor in the country? We need to have that person ready on day one of the next admin to head up the DOJ.
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Who is the fastest moving most aggressive Democratic prosecutor in the country? We need to have that person ready on day one of the next admin to head up the DOJ.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
94% swear free!
Only half a percent fucks by volume!
Almost fit for children.
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@gluonspring.bsky.social has swears! They've used 204 profanities in their last 3,430 posts.
🥇 "shit" (44 times)
🥈 "hell" (24 times)
🥉 "fuck" (19 times)
🥇 "shit" (44 times)
🥈 "hell" (24 times)
🥉 "fuck" (19 times)
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Only half a percent fucks by volume!
Almost fit for children.
Almost fit for children.
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A reminder that the current SECDEF caught the eye of the president by championing the pardoning of American war criminals — men whose own units testified against them, and who were convicted by military juries
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A reminder that the current SECDEF caught the eye of the president by championing the pardoning of American war criminals — men whose own units testified against them, and who were convicted by military juries
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
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How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
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Straight up war crime
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Straight up war crime
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It's one thing when lefties like me claim that the U.S. committed murder. It's another when the former Assistant AG for the OLC and former Spec. Counsel to the Gen. Counsel to the DoD claims the U.S. committed murder.
Jack Goldsmith does so here:
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Jack Goldsmith does so here:
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
It's one thing when lefties like me claim that the U.S. committed murder. It's another when the former Assistant AG for the OLC and former Spec. Counsel to the Gen. Counsel to the DoD claims the U.S. committed murder.
Jack Goldsmith does so here:
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Jack Goldsmith does so here:
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
94% swear free!
@gluonspring.bsky.social has swears! They've used 204 profanities in their last 3,430 posts.
🥇 "shit" (44 times)
🥈 "hell" (24 times)
🥉 "fuck" (19 times)
🥇 "shit" (44 times)
🥈 "hell" (24 times)
🥉 "fuck" (19 times)
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
94% swear free!
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honestly i think it would be cleaner to charge them with murder. just straight murder. we are not in a state of hostilities
i think we have to throw everyone involved in this down to the seal officer in charge in prison for war crimes honestly
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.
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
honestly i think it would be cleaner to charge them with murder. just straight murder. we are not in a state of hostilities
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Part of the rise of populism in the US is that a ton of folks (not entirely wrongly) feel like government does not deliver. Sometimes for electoral-organization reasons like gerrymandering. Sometimes for SCOTUS reasons. Sometimes for organization-of-government reasons. But that A5 again blocking it
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Part of the rise of populism in the US is that a ton of folks (not entirely wrongly) feel like government does not deliver. Sometimes for electoral-organization reasons like gerrymandering. Sometimes for SCOTUS reasons. Sometimes for organization-of-government reasons. But that A5 again blocking it
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The reason SCOTUS is a mess is directly because that is where constitutional change effectively occurs now, which created the political project to stack it. Countries with more flexible constitutions just don't have this problem.
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The reason SCOTUS is a mess is directly because that is where constitutional change effectively occurs now, which created the political project to stack it. Countries with more flexible constitutions just don't have this problem.
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
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I'm just really fucking goddamn mad right now and I'm just some goddamn rando
But how many of us are goddamn randos
But how many of us are goddamn randos
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I'm just really fucking goddamn mad right now and I'm just some goddamn rando
But how many of us are goddamn randos
But how many of us are goddamn randos
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i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
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Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
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Alarm as Tennessee libraries shut down for Republican 'book purge'
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.For Popular Information, Rebecca...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.
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This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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 8:12 PM
This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
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Here’s the thing: if you treat all soldiers as intrinsically war criminals, you rob the notion of “war crime” of any meaning. It’s all simply war - which is exactly how people who order war crimes want you to think.
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Here’s the thing: if you treat all soldiers as intrinsically war criminals, you rob the notion of “war crime” of any meaning. It’s all simply war - which is exactly how people who order war crimes want you to think.
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Pete Hegseth is Secretary of Defense *because* he championed war criminals. Literal war criminals convicted of heinous offenses in US courts martial. Got Trump to pardon some in term 1.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Pete Hegseth is Secretary of Defense *because* he championed war criminals. Literal war criminals convicted of heinous offenses in US courts martial. Got Trump to pardon some in term 1.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
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Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America