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Put another way, Hegseth approved the idea that someone grabbing a radio and saying "Help, our boat just got blown up." is a legitimate military target.
A relevant case: casebook.icrc.org/case-study/b...
A relevant case: casebook.icrc.org/case-study/b...
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Put another way, Hegseth approved the idea that someone grabbing a radio and saying "Help, our boat just got blown up." is a legitimate military target.
A relevant case: casebook.icrc.org/case-study/b...
A relevant case: casebook.icrc.org/case-study/b...
Given that Admiral Bradley knows the order to attack in the first place was illegal, it's clear he's decided his career is more important than his honor.
He once dreamed of being an astronaut.
He once dreamed of being an astronaut.
A top admiral is expected to tell lawmakers tomorrow that he and his legal adviser concluded that the two survivors of a boat strike in September were attempting to continue their drug run, making them and the damaged vessel legitimate targets for another attack.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers
Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander of the September attack, is set to provide an account of his role for the first time in a closed briefing.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Given that Admiral Bradley knows the order to attack in the first place was illegal, it's clear he's decided his career is more important than his honor.
He once dreamed of being an astronaut.
He once dreamed of being an astronaut.
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The CEOs of Ford and Stellantis, as well as senior executives from other auto manufacturers, standing beside him while Trump goes off on another vicious racist rant about African immigrants. Not one of them had the courage or the dignity to walk away.
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bsky.app/profile/just...
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The CEOs of Ford and Stellantis, as well as senior executives from other auto manufacturers, standing beside him while Trump goes off on another vicious racist rant about African immigrants. Not one of them had the courage or the dignity to walk away.
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bsky.app/profile/just...
There’s every chance that this time next week, Pam Bondi will be rolling out the administration’s plan to obstruct the Epstein files full release.
The likelihood is that tariffs will be struck down tomorrow, then the health subsidies vote, et cetera.
#lameduck
open.spotify.com/track/1jf3wY...
The likelihood is that tariffs will be struck down tomorrow, then the health subsidies vote, et cetera.
#lameduck
open.spotify.com/track/1jf3wY...
The Masquerade Is Over
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December 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
There’s every chance that this time next week, Pam Bondi will be rolling out the administration’s plan to obstruct the Epstein files full release.
The likelihood is that tariffs will be struck down tomorrow, then the health subsidies vote, et cetera.
#lameduck
open.spotify.com/track/1jf3wY...
The likelihood is that tariffs will be struck down tomorrow, then the health subsidies vote, et cetera.
#lameduck
open.spotify.com/track/1jf3wY...
Like modern day Bourbons they forget nothing, the learn nothing...and they slap a coat of gilt fakakta on everything:
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Like modern day Bourbons they forget nothing, the learn nothing...and they slap a coat of gilt fakakta on everything:
Every single thing about this person screams "Take me to an Al-Anon meeting":
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Tell-Nothing Memoir
Can “American Canto” turn scandal into literature?
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Every single thing about this person screams "Take me to an Al-Anon meeting":
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
Unless you are the President of Honduras and have something Peter Thiel can profit from.
Then you're jake.
Then you're jake.
The right's now hegemonic argument that cocaine is actually a chemical weapon and that mere suspicion of having it on your boat justifies an order to kill everyone aboard is astoundingly insane
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unless you are the President of Honduras and have something Peter Thiel can profit from.
Then you're jake.
Then you're jake.
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Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.
Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement
Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.
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There's also this. The consternation inside the chain of command must be really intense.
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"The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows...are illegal. For example, 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥."
-DoD Law of War manual
-DoD Law of War manual
December 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
There's also this. The consternation inside the chain of command must be really intense.
bsky.app/profile/josh...
bsky.app/profile/josh...
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Imagine being a career officer in the chain of command on Trump's boat bombings. You have deep moral and legal concerns about them. Your faith in leadership is shaky. Then you see Pete Hegseth tweet out a sadistic cartoon about it. Must be awful.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Imagine being a career officer in the chain of command on Trump's boat bombings. You have deep moral and legal concerns about them. Your faith in leadership is shaky. Then you see Pete Hegseth tweet out a sadistic cartoon about it. Must be awful.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Admiral Bradley was the first in his class from the USNC to make 4 stars and an absolute legend in the SEALS/spec ops community known for his obvious intelligence and character.
He now has to decide if he's going to let these mediocre shills ruin him or if he's going to blow up his career.
He now has to decide if he's going to let these mediocre shills ruin him or if he's going to blow up his career.
REPORTER: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened, or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order?
LEAVITT: The latter. Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. He worked well within his authority and the law.
LEAVITT: The latter. Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. He worked well within his authority and the law.
December 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Admiral Bradley was the first in his class from the USNC to make 4 stars and an absolute legend in the SEALS/spec ops community known for his obvious intelligence and character.
He now has to decide if he's going to let these mediocre shills ruin him or if he's going to blow up his career.
He now has to decide if he's going to let these mediocre shills ruin him or if he's going to blow up his career.
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"So I listened to her with a kind of anthropological detachment and fascination—essentially as a reporter—as she shared what she learned about him."
sociopath
sociopath
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"So I listened to her with a kind of anthropological detachment and fascination—essentially as a reporter—as she shared what she learned about him."
sociopath
sociopath
Why the parentheses, @pbsnews.org?
The Pentagon’s investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly over a video that urges American troops to defy “illegal orders” has raised a slew of questions, and some criticism, from legal experts. https://to.pbs.org/43Zwxx2
The Defense Department is investigating Kelly over the 'illegal orders' video. Experts doubt they can actually prosecute him
President Donald Trump has accused Kelly and the five other Democratic lawmakers in the video of sedition "punishable by DEATH."
to.pbs.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Why the parentheses, @pbsnews.org?
They're wearing their Putinism on their sleeves these days:
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
They're wearing their Putinism on their sleeves these days:
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“Our union represented the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth, and the eternal, unending nature of time. Sometimes I didn’t know where the worm ended, and our love began.”
More Excerpts from Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto
“Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language.” — Brian Phillips, The Ringer, on Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir, American Canto, ...
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“Our union represented the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth, and the eternal, unending nature of time. Sometimes I didn’t know where the worm ended, and our love began.”
This year's salient Thanksgiving dinner observation about up-zoning suburban New Jersey was "...it would turn this place into Brooklyn".
Meanwhile, Brooklyn:
Meanwhile, Brooklyn:
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This year's salient Thanksgiving dinner observation about up-zoning suburban New Jersey was "...it would turn this place into Brooklyn".
Meanwhile, Brooklyn:
Meanwhile, Brooklyn:
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Well do government intervention in the economy and seizing some means of production like socialists, but for right-wing nationalist and corrupt ends. A “social nationalism,” if you will. We can workshop the name later.
"U.S. Steel-Nippon deal hinged on Trump having a say in future operations. How will he use that power?" www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
"They realize[d] they sold their souls to the government to get the transaction done and they can't do anything about it."
"They realize[d] they sold their souls to the government to get the transaction done and they can't do anything about it."
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Well do government intervention in the economy and seizing some means of production like socialists, but for right-wing nationalist and corrupt ends. A “social nationalism,” if you will. We can workshop the name later.
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We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries.
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries.
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
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Senator Rand Paul remains principled and clear eyed on this set of issues.
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Senator Rand Paul remains principled and clear eyed on this set of issues.
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> winter 25-26: joint patrols
> summer 2026: advisor teams
> fall 2026: “as MPD stands up, we stand down”
> 2027: The Year Of The Police
> FY2028 Posture Statement: “we are turning a corner in the DC AOR”
> summer 2026: advisor teams
> fall 2026: “as MPD stands up, we stand down”
> 2027: The Year Of The Police
> FY2028 Posture Statement: “we are turning a corner in the DC AOR”
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
> winter 25-26: joint patrols
> summer 2026: advisor teams
> fall 2026: “as MPD stands up, we stand down”
> 2027: The Year Of The Police
> FY2028 Posture Statement: “we are turning a corner in the DC AOR”
> summer 2026: advisor teams
> fall 2026: “as MPD stands up, we stand down”
> 2027: The Year Of The Police
> FY2028 Posture Statement: “we are turning a corner in the DC AOR”
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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
It would be nice to live in a country where corruption was a fireable offense.
Alas….
Alas….
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It would be nice to live in a country where corruption was a fireable offense.
Alas….
Alas….
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Brian Beutler’s post from Oct 14:
“Let’s resolve not to be superstitious about it: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller will probably get the blood in the streets they want eventually.”
“Let’s resolve not to be superstitious about it: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller will probably get the blood in the streets they want eventually.”
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Brian Beutler’s post from Oct 14:
“Let’s resolve not to be superstitious about it: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller will probably get the blood in the streets they want eventually.”
“Let’s resolve not to be superstitious about it: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller will probably get the blood in the streets they want eventually.”
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.