Not even just like we love money more than your life corrupt. But like, we fete Nazis and dictators more than soccer corrupt.

This doesn’t make sense, right? The question isn’t about (or it’s not just about) why the planes took off. It’s why they didn’t turn around.

It sounds like she is saying she decided before the court order that they absolutely would not turn around, even if ordered to by the court.

(This is not going to please Boasberg, to put it mildly.)

I wish I could say "the work, at least, will continue" with a straight face. But the people driving this project are (mostly early-career) researchers who U.S. face funding shortages across the board. In-progress work will be lost on fundamental bio, climate change, and pandemic risk assessment /4

I'm devastated by what the field has lost in terms of pandemic prevention research and infrastructure, but even more for the (to date, 60+) PhD students and postdocs on the project, many of whom face an immediate funding cliff at the end of the year. NSF had the funds for them and just didn't pay /3

We started building Verena in 2019. Three years into being an NSF Center, we are/were a preposterously productive research team; the open science organization for pandemic prevention; a training hub that was creating new paths into the field; and a community that means a lot to all of us. /2

6/ CNN confirms:

"The survivors were also waving at something in the air, the sources said Bradley told them, although it’s unclear whether they might have been surrendering or asking the US aircraft they had spotted for help."

By @natashabertrand.bsky.social

5/ source (Gift Link):

Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Well, that’s been the fairly explicit reasoning all along, right? They had to be killed bc they were trying to stay alive.

It’s obv that they were carrying out orders to leave no survivors. There’s no other way to interpret this.

4/ Even worse on these officials account, it seems if the third view is correct, that was a reason to kill the survivors.

You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️

A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.

3/ "But some lawmakers viewing the video rejected that interpretation. There were no other unknown aircraft or boats in visual range, and no other boats involved in drug trafficking could have rescued them."

And even worse, if I am understanding this logic correctly, ...

2/ What Adm. Bradley and Gen. Caine told Congress raises credibility concerns.

"The military officers briefing Congress on Thursday said the survivors could have been trying to beckon to other alleged drug traffickers in a plane or boat to come get them...."

But ... get this ...

2/2

Once, in recent years, I had occasion to sit *immediately* behind John Roberts, like 18 inches directly behind him, at a ceremony. When it was over he was instantly whisked away, before I could ask, or say: WTF???