SteveG
@trenchdiggr.bsky.social
Engineer, mountain biker, PC gamer, scifi and music lover. truth matters. alternative facts are lies. Jesus was woke.
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Reporter: You said that that second strike was in full accordance with the law of armed conflict but the Navy's own manual of law of war says that specifically firing on survivors from a wrecked vessel is an example of a war crime that's forbidden under U.S. Law and the law of armed conflict…
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reporter: You said that that second strike was in full accordance with the law of armed conflict but the Navy's own manual of law of war says that specifically firing on survivors from a wrecked vessel is an example of a war crime that's forbidden under U.S. Law and the law of armed conflict…
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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An all-hands-on-deck effort, tens of millions in funding and a breakthrough herbicide are helping but not halting a destructive force slowly enveloping the best sagebrush left on Earth.
"I think you have to kind of accept that we're going to have cheatgrass forever," one weed specialist said.
"I think you have to kind of accept that we're going to have cheatgrass forever," one weed specialist said.
Inside Wyoming’s fight against cheatgrass, the ‘most existential, sweeping threat’ to western ecosystems - WyoFile
An all-hands-on-deck effort, tens of millions in funding and a breakthrough herbicide are slowing but not halting a destructive force steadily enveloping the best sagebrush left on Earth.
wyofile.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
An all-hands-on-deck effort, tens of millions in funding and a breakthrough herbicide are helping but not halting a destructive force slowly enveloping the best sagebrush left on Earth.
"I think you have to kind of accept that we're going to have cheatgrass forever," one weed specialist said.
"I think you have to kind of accept that we're going to have cheatgrass forever," one weed specialist said.
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Everyone at Google should look at how their company was once a verb and has now become a heaping plate of nonsense and revolt against the dipshits forcing this on everyone
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Everyone at Google should look at how their company was once a verb and has now become a heaping plate of nonsense and revolt against the dipshits forcing this on everyone
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It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.
November 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.
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Boom.
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Boom.
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The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet
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The FDA has provided no evidence of this. Something of this gravity would ordinarily be published in a journal reviewed by others. That’s the mostly likely reason they didn’t. It wouldn’t withstand scrutiny.
FDA commissioner says data showed 10 child deaths due to COVID shots reut.rs/4prwtyZ
FDA commissioner says data showed 10 child deaths due to COVID shots
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said on Saturday that data showed 10 children had died because of COVID-19 vaccination shots.
reut.rs
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The FDA has provided no evidence of this. Something of this gravity would ordinarily be published in a journal reviewed by others. That’s the mostly likely reason they didn’t. It wouldn’t withstand scrutiny.
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Trump, long an enthusiastic advocate of extrajudicial killings and war crimes, "has been lusting for this kind of violence for years, maybe decades. And he has made no secret of it. This is what he wanted, and this is what he is doing right now. Expect much more." [@sykescharlie.bsky.social]
"The Order Was to Kill Everybody."
Pete Hegseth's murders. And our War Crimes President.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump, long an enthusiastic advocate of extrajudicial killings and war crimes, "has been lusting for this kind of violence for years, maybe decades. And he has made no secret of it. This is what he wanted, and this is what he is doing right now. Expect much more." [@sykescharlie.bsky.social]
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🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
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November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
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During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
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2/2 link:
Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
2/2 link:
Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
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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
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At some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
At some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.
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A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
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NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
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BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.
Somebody should compile a list of Trump admin illegalities, and assign a "Watergate factor" to each. Equivalent to Watergate severity would be a 1, twice as bad as Watergate a 2, half a Watergate 0.5, etc.
Sum it all up and I'd bet Trump is at 50x Watergates now.
Sum it all up and I'd bet Trump is at 50x Watergates now.
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Somebody should compile a list of Trump admin illegalities, and assign a "Watergate factor" to each. Equivalent to Watergate severity would be a 1, twice as bad as Watergate a 2, half a Watergate 0.5, etc.
Sum it all up and I'd bet Trump is at 50x Watergates now.
Sum it all up and I'd bet Trump is at 50x Watergates now.
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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I sure hope Kamala Harris has a lawsuit ready to go demanding that the unedited 60 Minutes Trump interview be released.
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I sure hope Kamala Harris has a lawsuit ready to go demanding that the unedited 60 Minutes Trump interview be released.
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Don’t laugh at this. Don’t dismiss it. They’re serious. Prepare for it. And get ready to fight against it.
October 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Don’t laugh at this. Don’t dismiss it. They’re serious. Prepare for it. And get ready to fight against it.
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Article notes that Pendleton PAO, which had previously suggested (though not explicitly) that over-I5 firing was routine, has not responded to requests for any specific examples of such fires in the past. CalTrans says they dont know of any.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/21/k...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/21/k...
Key Camp Pendleton document has no approved artillery firing locations west of I-5
State says it has no record of any over-freeway fire prior to Saturday’s amphibious capabilities demonstration that temporarily closed the freeway.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Article notes that Pendleton PAO, which had previously suggested (though not explicitly) that over-I5 firing was routine, has not responded to requests for any specific examples of such fires in the past. CalTrans says they dont know of any.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/21/k...
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/21/k...
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Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say
Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say
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Barron has bone spurs and can’t fight in the Chicago war
October 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Barron has bone spurs and can’t fight in the Chicago war
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I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges
Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...