Jacob Bogle
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Curator of AccessDPRK, OSINT, and satellite archeology wonk. 🇺🇲🏳️🌈 Open to collaborations.
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551 years ago, Peter von Hagenbach was the first person tried and convicted of war crimes. He tried to use "following superior orders" as a defense. And just like the Nazis over 400 years later, that defense was rejected.
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
551 years ago, Peter von Hagenbach was the first person tried and convicted of war crimes. He tried to use "following superior orders" as a defense. And just like the Nazis over 400 years later, that defense was rejected.
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Important context that should always be noted in coverage, and too often isn't, because they're deliberately obfuscating this: "designated [foreign] terrorist organization" has nothing to do with legal authority for the use of force. It bans material assistance and triggers financial sanctions.
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Important context that should always be noted in coverage, and too often isn't, because they're deliberately obfuscating this: "designated [foreign] terrorist organization" has nothing to do with legal authority for the use of force. It bans material assistance and triggers financial sanctions.
This is going to turn into a very big problem eventually
We can read 4000 year old texts. We can't open 20 year old digital documents
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is going to turn into a very big problem eventually
You know the war on drugs is a meaningless farce when the President is murdering fishermen while offering to pardon a guy who trafficked literal *tons* of cocaine into this country
Trump to pardon ex-Honduran president serving 45 years for drug trafficking on.ft.com/4iBRcNJ
Trump to pardon ex-Honduran president serving 45 years for drug trafficking
Clemency for Juan Orlando Hernández comes ahead of fraught elections in Central American country on Sunday
on.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
You know the war on drugs is a meaningless farce when the President is murdering fishermen while offering to pardon a guy who trafficked literal *tons* of cocaine into this country
The babies have bonded! (3 year old Staffy & 5 month old German Shepherd)
November 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The babies have bonded! (3 year old Staffy & 5 month old German Shepherd)
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Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
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So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
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 6:08 PM
So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
I don't see Zelensky firing agents & prosecutors or calling this a hoax. Notoriously corrupt Ukraine is now leading the way in the fight against corruption in America's absence
Investigators from Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office have launched searches in the government quarter this morning, targeting Andriy Yermak, head of the President's Office. www.kyivpost.com/post/65149
Yermak Confirms NABU Search at His Home, Vows Full Cooperation
NABU and SAPO are conducting searches involving Andriy Yermak, while lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak is urging the public to “defend” the investigators if needed.
www.kyivpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I don't see Zelensky firing agents & prosecutors or calling this a hoax. Notoriously corrupt Ukraine is now leading the way in the fight against corruption in America's absence
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Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.
I think this is the most northern classical fortification in the world & the only star fort north of the Arctic Circle. Vardøhus Fortress, Norway, is over 260 miles above the Arctic Circle. Built in 1738, this remotest of outposts was actually occupied by Germany during WWII. #FortressEarth
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I think this is the most northern classical fortification in the world & the only star fort north of the Arctic Circle. Vardøhus Fortress, Norway, is over 260 miles above the Arctic Circle. Built in 1738, this remotest of outposts was actually occupied by Germany during WWII. #FortressEarth
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New: Visual Investigation
Is North Korea's 'princess' walking a path toward succession?
asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a young daughter.
Using AI facial recognition technology, Nikkei analyzed 14,115 hours of Korean Central Television footage.
Is North Korea's 'princess' walking a path toward succession?
asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a young daughter.
Using AI facial recognition technology, Nikkei analyzed 14,115 hours of Korean Central Television footage.
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
New: Visual Investigation
Is North Korea's 'princess' walking a path toward succession?
asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a young daughter.
Using AI facial recognition technology, Nikkei analyzed 14,115 hours of Korean Central Television footage.
Is North Korea's 'princess' walking a path toward succession?
asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a young daughter.
Using AI facial recognition technology, Nikkei analyzed 14,115 hours of Korean Central Television footage.
If sending a few hundred DoD personnel to the jamboree to help keep people safe threatens national defense capabilities, then we might as well just let China take over. Wtf are we even doing?
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If sending a few hundred DoD personnel to the jamboree to help keep people safe threatens national defense capabilities, then we might as well just let China take over. Wtf are we even doing?
Cool fact, the ancient city of Ur (ca 2100 BC) had mud brick walls up to 88 feet thick.
That's thicker than any single wall of Constantinople or Nanjing.
That's thicker than any single wall of Constantinople or Nanjing.
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Cool fact, the ancient city of Ur (ca 2100 BC) had mud brick walls up to 88 feet thick.
That's thicker than any single wall of Constantinople or Nanjing.
That's thicker than any single wall of Constantinople or Nanjing.
The regime is now threatening to court martial Sen. Mark Kelly, and then ends the post by repeating that US armed forces members are required to follow...legal...orders.
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The regime is now threatening to court martial Sen. Mark Kelly, and then ends the post by repeating that US armed forces members are required to follow...legal...orders.
My latest for NK Pro. Progress on the largest hydroelectric project in North Korea was derailed for months following a catastrophic blowout
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
My latest for NK Pro. Progress on the largest hydroelectric project in North Korea was derailed for months following a catastrophic blowout
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In 1990, 943 million people in China lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. In the US more than 4 million Americans live on less than $3 a day, 3x as many as 35 years ago.
China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not – by choice
Despite the US’s economic success, income inequality remains breathtaking. But this is no glitch – it’s the system
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In 1990, 943 million people in China lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. In the US more than 4 million Americans live on less than $3 a day, 3x as many as 35 years ago.
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We talk of refusing unlawful orders, but really that's a very high bar. It's only for orders that are manifestly unlawful, something *obviously* illegal on the face of it. And the core example of that is refusing an order to wantonly murder noncombatants, which is exactly what they are doing.
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We talk of refusing unlawful orders, but really that's a very high bar. It's only for orders that are manifestly unlawful, something *obviously* illegal on the face of it. And the core example of that is refusing an order to wantonly murder noncombatants, which is exactly what they are doing.
Not to mention that the feds have been able to read (without subpoena) any emails older than 6 months for nearly the last 40 years. So few seem to realize this, and major attempts to reform keep failing in the Senate
It is important for you to realize that you have probably never once in your life sent a private email. That’s just not how email works. Sure, turn off whatever Gmail features you want, but you’re just playing whack-a-mole with the technical realities of email as a concept.
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Not to mention that the feds have been able to read (without subpoena) any emails older than 6 months for nearly the last 40 years. So few seem to realize this, and major attempts to reform keep failing in the Senate
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This is a level of blood libeling of immigrants (and their citizen children, being lumped in as 'illegals') comparable to the demonization of Tutsis in the time immediately preceding the Rwandan Genocide, or the libels against Jews in the buildup to the Holocaust.
Their intentions are clear.
Their intentions are clear.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is a level of blood libeling of immigrants (and their citizen children, being lumped in as 'illegals') comparable to the demonization of Tutsis in the time immediately preceding the Rwandan Genocide, or the libels against Jews in the buildup to the Holocaust.
Their intentions are clear.
Their intentions are clear.
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From the Department of Tragic Irony:
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
Nuremberg - Explore the Nuremberg Trials!
The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images and full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg Trials documents,…
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
From the Department of Tragic Irony:
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
Possible small fort/fortified settlement north of Kusong/Kuju near the village of Ijung-ni (이중리) in North Korea. Stylistically it looks ca. 11th century or earlier. @ 40.020100° 125.231302°
It would be ancient site #462 located by #AccessDPRK
It would be ancient site #462 located by #AccessDPRK
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Possible small fort/fortified settlement north of Kusong/Kuju near the village of Ijung-ni (이중리) in North Korea. Stylistically it looks ca. 11th century or earlier. @ 40.020100° 125.231302°
It would be ancient site #462 located by #AccessDPRK
It would be ancient site #462 located by #AccessDPRK
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Notice that when Tunneled J. ("I've got a country to run") Dump quotes someone speaking to him, he always has the speaker addressing him as "Sir." I was raised to use ma'am and sir liberally but there are the occasional people even a polite Southerner should disrespect. asiatimes.com/2025/11/will...
Will Trump emulate Thailand, Cambodia by punishing lèse-majesté? - Asia Times
Donald Trump has a problem with comedian Seth Meyers and it fits a consistent pattern of hyper-sensitivity to criticism and satire. Early this month,
asiatimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Notice that when Tunneled J. ("I've got a country to run") Dump quotes someone speaking to him, he always has the speaker addressing him as "Sir." I was raised to use ma'am and sir liberally but there are the occasional people even a polite Southerner should disrespect. asiatimes.com/2025/11/will...
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In 2011 authorities quietly began building a new power plant in the hopes of solving Pyongyang's energy shortage. Then, just as quietly, it demolished the site last year.
mynorthkorea.blogspot.com/2025/11/gone...
mynorthkorea.blogspot.com/2025/11/gone...
Gone But Not Forgotten: The Kangdong Power Plant
With little fanfare, Pyongyang began work on a new coal-fired power plant located in the village of Samdung, Kangdong (39.002934° 126.159251...
mynorthkorea.blogspot.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
In 2011 authorities quietly began building a new power plant in the hopes of solving Pyongyang's energy shortage. Then, just as quietly, it demolished the site last year.
mynorthkorea.blogspot.com/2025/11/gone...
mynorthkorea.blogspot.com/2025/11/gone...
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If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
In short, Trump wants Ukraine to fully surrender. It's a wildly pro-Russsian proposal
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
In short, Trump wants Ukraine to fully surrender. It's a wildly pro-Russsian proposal