Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
@jaxtait.bsky.social
PhD in Natural Law Theory, not a medical doctor. #SSCE
Green Party (views are my own & don't necessarily represent GPEW policy)
#CRPS
Aka Jax
Green Party (views are my own & don't necessarily represent GPEW policy)
#CRPS
Aka Jax
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Well the slope from “let the elderly and disabled die of COVID” to “let’s trash all the rest of our ethics, morals and laws” was basically a short walk on a flat path wasn’t it?
This exactly how fascism always works. They make you feel threatened. They tell you the solution is to stop caring about a particular group of people. They strip those people of their rights. They manufacture another crisis to make you feel threatened. Rinse & repeat. In the end they come for you.
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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or how about these for how it's reaching into and upending people's lives all over the US
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
or how about these for how it's reaching into and upending people's lives all over the US
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The US is also what rampant populist authoritarianism looks like
If you fear state retribution for criticising the state, you are not in a free democracy.
If you fear state retribution for criticising the state, you are not in a free democracy.
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The US is also what rampant populist authoritarianism looks like
If you fear state retribution for criticising the state, you are not in a free democracy.
If you fear state retribution for criticising the state, you are not in a free democracy.
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the US is what rampant militarised populist nationalism looks like. Don't stop paying attention.
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
the US is what rampant militarised populist nationalism looks like. Don't stop paying attention.
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Even Nigel Biggar thinks Israel's actions are disproportionate.
"Deaths caused in pursuit of an impossible aim are futile and unjustified, and I do not believe that the aim of completely destroying Hamas is feasible."
"Deaths caused in pursuit of an impossible aim are futile and unjustified, and I do not believe that the aim of completely destroying Hamas is feasible."
Israel’s acts are not ‘genocidal’
Nigel Biggar explains why he disagrees with the Archbishop of York’s recent claims
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November 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Even Nigel Biggar thinks Israel's actions are disproportionate.
"Deaths caused in pursuit of an impossible aim are futile and unjustified, and I do not believe that the aim of completely destroying Hamas is feasible."
"Deaths caused in pursuit of an impossible aim are futile and unjustified, and I do not believe that the aim of completely destroying Hamas is feasible."
Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello….
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"The vaccine is the safest bet by far. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation caused by the vaccine is far less dangerous than the virus itself, which leaves children vulnerable to blood clots, heart issues, & severe inflammation for up to a year after infection"
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"The risk following vaccination is substantially lower than the risk following infection".
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November 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"The vaccine is the safest bet by far. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation caused by the vaccine is far less dangerous than the virus itself, which leaves children vulnerable to blood clots, heart issues, & severe inflammation for up to a year after infection"
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It's unauthorized use of military force as a matter of domestic constitutional law. It's also international aggression, and violating international maritime law. It's extrajudicial killings, a human rights abuse. And the murdering survivors bit is its own specific LOAC crime on top of all the rest.
November 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It's unauthorized use of military force as a matter of domestic constitutional law. It's also international aggression, and violating international maritime law. It's extrajudicial killings, a human rights abuse. And the murdering survivors bit is its own specific LOAC crime on top of all the rest.
More lethality, less legality.
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A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
More lethality, less legality.
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Hegseth wasn't chosen as merely a Fox News buffoon who then bumbles his way into war crimes out of machismo incompetence. He was chosen specifically because he is, and has been for a long time, a proud, open, and explicit advocate of war crimes as a good thing we should do.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Hegseth wasn't chosen as merely a Fox News buffoon who then bumbles his way into war crimes out of machismo incompetence. He was chosen specifically because he is, and has been for a long time, a proud, open, and explicit advocate of war crimes as a good thing we should do.
I guess this is why the Christian right are keen to reframe anxiety as sin?
Does this work the other way? That i am a serious person because I am so panicked?
Essentially without exception, "how panicked are you right now?" correlates perfectly with "how much of a serious person are you?"
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I guess this is why the Christian right are keen to reframe anxiety as sin?
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A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
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Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
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November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
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James Buchanan blew up the Union in defense of slavery and then let his own Secretary of War assist in the lame duck preparations for treason, and Andrew Johnson was a drunken white supremacist who effectively revolted against Congress, and still neither of them were ever so nakedly lawless.
This is the most corrupt, lawless administration in the history of the United States and there’s no close second.
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
James Buchanan blew up the Union in defense of slavery and then let his own Secretary of War assist in the lame duck preparations for treason, and Andrew Johnson was a drunken white supremacist who effectively revolted against Congress, and still neither of them were ever so nakedly lawless.
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By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good, // All causes shall give way: I am in blood // Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, // Returning were as tedious as go o'er: // Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; // Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd. — Macbeth
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 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good, // All causes shall give way: I am in blood // Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, // Returning were as tedious as go o'er: // Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; // Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd. — Macbeth
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It would be (and has been in some of the other cases) no less murder even if they were drug smugglers, of course. But in this case it's apparent they probably weren't even. They blew up a boat full of people, and then murdered survivors in cold blood, who probably weren't even the claimed targets.
November 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It would be (and has been in some of the other cases) no less murder even if they were drug smugglers, of course. But in this case it's apparent they probably weren't even. They blew up a boat full of people, and then murdered survivors in cold blood, who probably weren't even the claimed targets.
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Historical precedent of note...
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Historical precedent of note...
"They're honorable officers, & they are bound by the Uniform Code of Military Justice not to obey unlawful orders"
Note the connection with disobeying lawful orders discussions. As @asharangappa.bsky.social observed quite recently, broad presidential immunity was rested partly on beliefs that lower-level officers would disobey unlawful commands.
In fact, the example at SCOTUS oral argument was SEAL Team 6.
In fact, the example at SCOTUS oral argument was SEAL Team 6.
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"They're honorable officers, & they are bound by the Uniform Code of Military Justice not to obey unlawful orders"
In war, ordering your subordinates to kill injured people who are not posing a single threat to anyone is a war crime, as is obeying such an order.
I’m not an expert in the law of war, but an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone would seem to me to be a possible war crime.
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In war, ordering your subordinates to kill injured people who are not posing a single threat to anyone is a war crime, as is obeying such an order.
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This would be an unambiguous war crime even in a proper war against a real enemy’s navy.
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 7:37 PM
This would be an unambiguous war crime even in a proper war against a real enemy’s navy.
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Yes, LOAC is taught at West Point (and ROTC, and OCS, and to enlisted service members at basic training)
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Yes, LOAC is taught at West Point (and ROTC, and OCS, and to enlisted service members at basic training)
US SecDef Hegseth personally ordered the murder of unarmed civilians from a country 🇺🇲 is not at war with. This is why decorated war hero Senator Kelly felt it necessary to reiterate basic training 101: It is your duty to disobey an illegal order.
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.
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 9:12 PM
US SecDef Hegseth personally ordered the murder of unarmed civilians from a country 🇺🇲 is not at war with. This is why decorated war hero Senator Kelly felt it necessary to reiterate basic training 101: It is your duty to disobey an illegal order.
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Hagueseth
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.
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 6:14 PM
Hagueseth
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White Evangelicals have a long history of falling in line when presented with charlatans and manipulative, vainglorious narcissists masquerading as saviors. White Evangelical churches are hotbeds for sexual predators.
Why evangelicals couldn't care less about Trump's Epstein scandal
They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.
www.motherjones.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
White Evangelicals have a long history of falling in line when presented with charlatans and manipulative, vainglorious narcissists masquerading as saviors. White Evangelical churches are hotbeds for sexual predators.
#BirdFlu viruses, whose natural hosts have higher body temperatures, are not controlled by the fever response when they cross into mammals.
This thermal tolerance is linked to the PB1 gene, which is often carried over from birds when a new pandemic virus emerges.
This thermal tolerance is linked to the PB1 gene, which is often carried over from birds when a new pandemic virus emerges.
Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans
Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, one of the body’s ways of stopping viruses in their tracks, according to new ...
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November 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
#BirdFlu viruses, whose natural hosts have higher body temperatures, are not controlled by the fever response when they cross into mammals.
This thermal tolerance is linked to the PB1 gene, which is often carried over from birds when a new pandemic virus emerges.
This thermal tolerance is linked to the PB1 gene, which is often carried over from birds when a new pandemic virus emerges.