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Ali Adair
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Former journalist, hate corruption, MArch, AIA Assoc, LEED AP BD+C, Climate change is real, y'all
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It needs neither
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Ross Douthat has stumbled upon performative Christianity, the calling card of the American right.
December 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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...looking forward to chilling and hanging at a cabin she and my father just had finished building on Lake Huron in Northern Michigan. She never had a chance for that. Mom was a public school teacher in Detroit before raising 11 kids took too much of her time. Let us each seized the moment today.
December 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Brilliant interview. The only thing that surprises me is that so few people in the US notice the incredible scene where a son in law of a sitting President is openly soliciting a bribe. From a mass murderer. To betray our allies.

When did we become so weak in our heads and hearts?
December 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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You don’t have to be an economist, politician or a 5 star general to know the only real peace deal is for Russia to just pack it up and stop bombing Ukraine. 🇺🇦
December 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Ukraine & America’s Credibility Crisis
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The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway
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#DEFENDDEMOCRACY

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Ukraine and America’s Credibility Crisis — with Anne Applebaum
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December 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Barack Obama and Franklin D. Roosevelt both emphasized that "We are the government, You and I".

“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~

#DEFENDDEMOCRACY

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December 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Ukraine & America’s Credibility Crisis
• with Anne Applebaum •

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They discuss Europe’s response, Russia’s strategy, and what this moment signals for the future of democracy.

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December 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Citations: 1 Melissa Corrigan & David Shuster, ❝EXCLUSIVE: US Navy Deleted Video of October Boat Attack Survivors — Leaked document reveals effort to coverup aftermath of Oct 17 strike❞, Blue Amp Media, 06-Dec-2025. — https://www.blueamp.co/p/exclusive-us-navy-deleted-video-of?triedRedirect=true 2 Phil Stewart, ❝Video shows final, confused moments of survivors of US boat strike in Caribbean, say sources❞, Reuters, 05-Dec-2025. — https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/video-shows-final-confused-moments-survivors-us-boat-strike-caribbean-say-2025-12-05/ 3 ❝2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers❞, Wikipedia, accessed 07-Dec-2025. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_military_strikes_on_alleged_drug_traffickers 4 Geoffrey Corn & Ken Watkin, ❝Attacking Drug Boats: Bending or Breaking the Law?❞, War on the Rocks, 03-Dec-2025. — https://warontherocks.com/2025/12/attacking-drug-boats-bending-or-breaking-the-law/ 5 Joseph Gedeon & Chris Stein, ❝US airstrike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour before second deadly attack, video shows❞, The Guardian, 05-Dec-2025. — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/us-airstrike-survivors-clung-to-boat-wreckage-for-an-hour-before-second-deadly-attack-video-shows 6 ABC News reporting on Sept. 2 and Oct. 16 boat strikes and survivor handling (various pieces, Dec-2025). — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/new-details-emerge-controversial-sept-2-strike-alleged/story?id=128090044
December 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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🔃 {𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿} My notes about the article… ⤵
{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿} My notes about the article… Factual Record Blue Amp’s investigation, by Melissa Corrigan and David Shuster, reports that after an October 17 strike on an alleged drug vessel, two survivors were recovered and brought aboard the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7).1 Ship personnel, including the public affairs officer, initially insisted on following standard detainee procedures: documenting the onboarding of the wounded men with photos and video, in line with standing policy and law-of-war guidance on treatment and processing of captured individuals.1 According to a leaked internal document cited by Blue Amp, an order came down less than two hours later directing that all such imagery be deleted, after consultation with JAG. Sailors allegedly recorded their objections in writing but complied with the order.1 The document reportedly justifies the deletion on the basis that the two men had been classified as ❝unprivileged belligerents❞ — a category used by the U.S. to describe individuals who are neither lawful combatants nor protected civilians, and which has long been criticised as a legal grey zone.1,6 Blue Amp places the incident within the wider 2025 campaign of U.S. strikes on alleged narcotics-trafficking boats, noting that on 2 September two survivors of an earlier strike were reportedly killed in a second ❝double-tap❞ attack, whereas on 16-17 October survivors were rescued and detained.1,2,5 Raw Story’s piece largely amplifies the Blue Amp reporting and reactions from legal commentators and former GOP representative Adam Kinzinger, who called the alleged deletion order ❝absolutely incredible and wrong❞. How this Fits into the Boat-Strike Scandal Separate reporting by Reuters and others has already established that the September 2 Caribbean strike involved an initial attack that killed most of the crew and left two survivors clinging to wreckage for around an hour before a second strike killed them — with the video now under congressional scrutiny and widely described as deeply troubling.2,3 The October incidents form the second act in the saga. A Reuters-summarised timeline and other outlets note that on 16 October a semi-submersible was struck, leaving two survivors who were actually rescued and detained on a U.S. Navy ship, then repatriated; on 17 October another strike in international waters killed three men aboard an alleged ELN-linked boat.3,5 Blue Amp’s leak effectively fills in what happened after the October 17 strike: two survivors taken aboard Iwo Jima, onboard documentation initiated, and then a top-down command to erase that record.1 In parallel, legal experts such as Geoffrey Corn and Ken Watkin have been arguing that the entire ❝war on drug boats❞ rests on a legally faulty premise: treating narcotics trafficking as an ❝armed attack❞ justifying wartime self-defence, and rebranding suspects as ❝enemy belligerents❞ rather than ordinary criminal targets.4,6 Legal and Ethical Stakes Under the law of armed conflict and the U.S. Law of War Manual, shipwrecked or otherwise incapacitated persons are ❝hors de combat❞ and may not be attacked if they are not actively hostile or attempting escape. Killing such survivors —as in the September 2 double-tap— is widely described by experts as at least potentially a war crime.2,3,6 The October 17 episode is different in form but not necessarily in spirit: survivors are rescued, nominally processed under detainee rules, and then, if Blue Amp’s document is accurate, deliberately scrubbed from the visual record on the theory that ❝unprivileged belligerents❞ are not entitled to the basic documentation normally used to ensure traceability and humane treatment.1,6 Deleting contemporaneous photo/video of detainee onboarding clashes with the very compliance architecture militaries rely on: documentation is how forces prove they followed procedure, provided medical care, and honoured legal protections. Ordering deletion looks less like routine classification hygiene and more like anticipatory damage control.1,6 The broader campaign already blurs the line between law enforcement and war. As Corn and Watkin argue, stretching the concept of ❝armed conflict❞ to cover cartel boats risks normalising wartime rules —and wartime levels of tolerated killing— in situations that international law still treats as policing problems.4,6 Synthesis — What the Leak Actually Shows Taken together, the public video of the September 2 double-tap, the October 16-17 survivor episodes, and the deletion allegation paint a pattern: a campaign launched under an aggressive ❝kill them all❞ political narrative, framed as war rather than law enforcement, with transparency and record-keeping repeatedly constrained when outcomes look ugly.1‑3,5,6 The leaked order does not by itself prove additional killings or torture, but it strongly suggests institutional awareness that full documentation of survivor treatment would be politically or legally damaging — enough to override standing protocol and push sailors into disobey-then-comply territory.1,6 Even on the most charitable reading, the Navy appears to have erased evidence that would help reconstruct exactly how two wounded detainees were handled in U.S. custody. In a scandal already defined by missing or withheld video, that choice compounds mistrust and undercuts the claim that this is a rules-bound, legally vetted operation.1‑3,6 Known Gaps & Uncertainties The leaked document is anonymous and has not yet been released in full to the public; much depends on its authenticity, the exact chain of command behind the deletion order, and whether any copies of the imagery were retained in other systems.1 Public reporting does not yet clarify whether the two October 17 survivors are the same individuals mentioned in other outlets’ timelines, or precisely what happened to them after repatriation. The wiki-style strike chronology is still being updated in near real time.3,5 Congress and military investigators have not formally weighed in on the deletion claim; if they corroborate the order, the next question will be whether it violated record-keeping laws, obstruction statutes, or specific DoD directives on detainee documentation.
December 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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'Good grief': Bombshell doc leak exposes military 'cover up' of boat strike survivors
A new report about a military cover up had one former GOP lawmaker calling the debacle "absolutely incredible and wrong."Melissa Corrigan and David Shuster, the latter having previously exposed GOP co...
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December 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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In a draft of this piece, the final section heading was:

“First, They Came for the (Alleged) Drug Smugglers.”

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America Unbound in the Caribbean
The real costs of Washington’s use of force.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM