NewportWonk
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Views are entirely own +anti-racist, anti-bigotry, pro: #democracy, US #Constitution + #ruleoflaw
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4/ Also why is Bradley saying they were not visibly injured but were still on the list of approved targets.
Hors de combat is hors de combat. List doesn't affect that.
WWII Germans could have a list of American soldiers who can be killed. But if they're shipwrecked, killing them is a war crime.
Hors de combat is hors de combat. List doesn't affect that.
WWII Germans could have a list of American soldiers who can be killed. But if they're shipwrecked, killing them is a war crime.
December 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
4/ Also why is Bradley saying they were not visibly injured but were still on the list of approved targets.
Hors de combat is hors de combat. List doesn't affect that.
WWII Germans could have a list of American soldiers who can be killed. But if they're shipwrecked, killing them is a war crime.
Hors de combat is hors de combat. List doesn't affect that.
WWII Germans could have a list of American soldiers who can be killed. But if they're shipwrecked, killing them is a war crime.
Treating what lawyers says is either murder or war crimes like just another “bad week” in political imagery…
is not journalistic and partly why we’re in these shitty times
is not journalistic and partly why we’re in these shitty times
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Treating what lawyers says is either murder or war crimes like just another “bad week” in political imagery…
is not journalistic and partly why we’re in these shitty times
is not journalistic and partly why we’re in these shitty times
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[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
How about this:
“We the people” and “liberty and justice for all”
Damn, this isn’t hard - just do the damn job, keep records, collect evidence and insist on impeachment for all these corrupt officials (that’s the peaceful way out of this clusterf*%*k)
“We the people” and “liberty and justice for all”
Damn, this isn’t hard - just do the damn job, keep records, collect evidence and insist on impeachment for all these corrupt officials (that’s the peaceful way out of this clusterf*%*k)
We could go on forever about how much this slogan sucks.
And you could wonder all day why Jeffries—instead of trying to impress donors, CNBC, and Fox News by attacking socialism—can’t simply defend Democrats’ vastly superior economic record of delivering for all Americans.
And you could wonder all day why Jeffries—instead of trying to impress donors, CNBC, and Fox News by attacking socialism—can’t simply defend Democrats’ vastly superior economic record of delivering for all Americans.
Democrats’ New Slogan Is a Donor-Class Disaster
It’s time to start the 2028 primary and step over this donor-coddling nonsense.
www.theframelab.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
How about this:
“We the people” and “liberty and justice for all”
Damn, this isn’t hard - just do the damn job, keep records, collect evidence and insist on impeachment for all these corrupt officials (that’s the peaceful way out of this clusterf*%*k)
“We the people” and “liberty and justice for all”
Damn, this isn’t hard - just do the damn job, keep records, collect evidence and insist on impeachment for all these corrupt officials (that’s the peaceful way out of this clusterf*%*k)
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More of this nationwide please!
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
More of this nationwide please!
Tax billionaires’ wealth at at least 90%
Maybe then they’ll get an appreciation for all this country (and tax payers) have given them, to allow them to prosper
Maybe then they’ll get an appreciation for all this country (and tax payers) have given them, to allow them to prosper
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Tax billionaires’ wealth at at least 90%
Maybe then they’ll get an appreciation for all this country (and tax payers) have given them, to allow them to prosper
Maybe then they’ll get an appreciation for all this country (and tax payers) have given them, to allow them to prosper
Still b. S. -passing the criminal hot potato back and forth
Simply listing someone is a narcoterrorist still does not give license to simply kill them
USA is not at war (so not combatants)
They have not attacked USA (so not legit military target)
Stopping criminals is a law enforcement function
Simply listing someone is a narcoterrorist still does not give license to simply kill them
USA is not at war (so not combatants)
They have not attacked USA (so not legit military target)
Stopping criminals is a law enforcement function
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Still b. S. -passing the criminal hot potato back and forth
Simply listing someone is a narcoterrorist still does not give license to simply kill them
USA is not at war (so not combatants)
They have not attacked USA (so not legit military target)
Stopping criminals is a law enforcement function
Simply listing someone is a narcoterrorist still does not give license to simply kill them
USA is not at war (so not combatants)
They have not attacked USA (so not legit military target)
Stopping criminals is a law enforcement function
Racist and so very cruel
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Racist and so very cruel
Trump regime now trolling American people by abusing AI tech, violating IPR, and targeting individuals who disagree with their evil, inhumane and unlawful policies
Lawless regime
#IMPEACH
Lawless regime
#IMPEACH
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Trump regime now trolling American people by abusing AI tech, violating IPR, and targeting individuals who disagree with their evil, inhumane and unlawful policies
Lawless regime
#IMPEACH
Lawless regime
#IMPEACH
This National Security Strategy is absolute amateur hour
(like the rest of what the Trump regime tries to do)
Many “wants” + assumes bases of US power + influence will continue as have for 80+years due to hard work (while simultaneously wrecking pillars of US hard + soft power)
Worse than foolish
(like the rest of what the Trump regime tries to do)
Many “wants” + assumes bases of US power + influence will continue as have for 80+years due to hard work (while simultaneously wrecking pillars of US hard + soft power)
Worse than foolish
The Trump administration has quietly released its National Security Strategy — apparently late on Thursday. Usually there's a rollout and fanfare for these things: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This National Security Strategy is absolute amateur hour
(like the rest of what the Trump regime tries to do)
Many “wants” + assumes bases of US power + influence will continue as have for 80+years due to hard work (while simultaneously wrecking pillars of US hard + soft power)
Worse than foolish
(like the rest of what the Trump regime tries to do)
Many “wants” + assumes bases of US power + influence will continue as have for 80+years due to hard work (while simultaneously wrecking pillars of US hard + soft power)
Worse than foolish
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
Moral cowardice is a black hole
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Moral cowardice is a black hole
Damning details of what amounts to murder (as USA is not at war with Venezuela or drug smugglers)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
An Explosion, Then Survivors: Military Officers Show Lawmakers Video of Sept. 2 Boat Attack
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Damning details of what amounts to murder (as USA is not at war with Venezuela or drug smugglers)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Racism really making a comeback in Washington
(Not fooling anyone)
(Not fooling anyone)
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship.
Supreme Court to rule on Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship
Lower courts across the country have blocked the policy.
www.politico.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Racism really making a comeback in Washington
(Not fooling anyone)
(Not fooling anyone)
Congress, too, has blood on its hands
allowing this to go on and on for months without an effort to impeach
allowing this to go on and on for months without an effort to impeach
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Congress, too, has blood on its hands
allowing this to go on and on for months without an effort to impeach
allowing this to go on and on for months without an effort to impeach
Joking — again — about what amounts to a war crime at best, more likely just straight up murder
Dishonorable, heinous, inhumane and unbecoming (or used to be) behavior by US officials
Smears all who serve in the military and veterans with such filth
#impeach
Dishonorable, heinous, inhumane and unbecoming (or used to be) behavior by US officials
Smears all who serve in the military and veterans with such filth
#impeach
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Joking — again — about what amounts to a war crime at best, more likely just straight up murder
Dishonorable, heinous, inhumane and unbecoming (or used to be) behavior by US officials
Smears all who serve in the military and veterans with such filth
#impeach
Dishonorable, heinous, inhumane and unbecoming (or used to be) behavior by US officials
Smears all who serve in the military and veterans with such filth
#impeach
Vile racism is the cornerstone of all Trump regime policies
(plus $$$-making corruption…for white bros)
(plus $$$-making corruption…for white bros)
The Trump administration's statements echo white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes, who has repeatedly called for a shutdown of all immigration and boasted of the right's shift “against mass migration.”
Trump's calls for "remigration," a form of ethnic cleansing, echo Nick Fuentes' calls to roll back immigration
www.mediamatters.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Vile racism is the cornerstone of all Trump regime policies
(plus $$$-making corruption…for white bros)
(plus $$$-making corruption…for white bros)
Epic corruption
Apologies for yelling, but—
ERIC TRUMP'S NET WORTH HAS INCREASED BY ABOUT $360 MILLION IN THE PAST YEAR.
ERIC TRUMP'S NET WORTH HAS INCREASED BY ABOUT $360 MILLION IN THE PAST YEAR.
New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Epic corruption
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump has issued 1500+ pardons and counting…a who’s who of drug kingpins, crypto scammers, violent insurrectionists, terrorism financiers & corrupt politicians.
In Trump’s oligarchy, the rich and powerful can pay their way to reside above the law.
In Trump’s oligarchy, the rich and powerful can pay their way to reside above the law.
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Trump has issued 1500+ pardons and counting…a who’s who of drug kingpins, crypto scammers, violent insurrectionists, terrorism financiers & corrupt politicians.
In Trump’s oligarchy, the rich and powerful can pay their way to reside above the law.
In Trump’s oligarchy, the rich and powerful can pay their way to reside above the law.
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Trump’s overarching goal seems to be to clinch dubious business deals with America’s geopolitical rivals at the expense of US national security. That is the unmistakable message from this Demetri/FT story and last week’s WSJ expose on Witkoff/Kushner & the Russians
www.ft.com/content/6101...
www.ft.com/content/6101...
US halts plans to sanction Chinese spy agency to maintain trade truce
Decision sparks concern among China hawks that Donald Trump is sacrificing national security
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Trump’s overarching goal seems to be to clinch dubious business deals with America’s geopolitical rivals at the expense of US national security. That is the unmistakable message from this Demetri/FT story and last week’s WSJ expose on Witkoff/Kushner & the Russians
www.ft.com/content/6101...
www.ft.com/content/6101...
Why not…when 20% of US naval forces are now lurking around Venezuela for no good reason
Trump regime is leaving Europe to Putin
And Asia to Xi
undermining US global power + decades-long alliances
Foolish
Trump regime is leaving Europe to Putin
And Asia to Xi
undermining US global power + decades-long alliances
Foolish
Exclusive: China massing military ships across region in show of maritime force, sources say reut.rs/4pPveJz
Exclusive: China massing military ships across region in show of maritime force, sources say
China is deploying a large number of naval and coast guard vessels across East Asian waters, at one point more than 100, in the largest maritime show of force to date, according to four sources and intelligence reports reviewed by Reuters.
reut.rs
December 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Why not…when 20% of US naval forces are now lurking around Venezuela for no good reason
Trump regime is leaving Europe to Putin
And Asia to Xi
undermining US global power + decades-long alliances
Foolish
Trump regime is leaving Europe to Putin
And Asia to Xi
undermining US global power + decades-long alliances
Foolish
It is evil: immoral, unethical + inhumane
They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
It is evil: immoral, unethical + inhumane
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8/ A public service reminder:
This entire exercise is an absurd, imaginary world for legal experts.
That's because the truth is:
It's not an armed conflict.
The laws of war thus don't apply.
The more restrictive rules of human rights apply.
It's extrajudicial killing under that law.
This entire exercise is an absurd, imaginary world for legal experts.
That's because the truth is:
It's not an armed conflict.
The laws of war thus don't apply.
The more restrictive rules of human rights apply.
It's extrajudicial killing under that law.
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
8/ A public service reminder:
This entire exercise is an absurd, imaginary world for legal experts.
That's because the truth is:
It's not an armed conflict.
The laws of war thus don't apply.
The more restrictive rules of human rights apply.
It's extrajudicial killing under that law.
This entire exercise is an absurd, imaginary world for legal experts.
That's because the truth is:
It's not an armed conflict.
The laws of war thus don't apply.
The more restrictive rules of human rights apply.
It's extrajudicial killing under that law.
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Bottom line:
ALL of the strikes are extrajudicial killings under international law, murder under domestic law.
That's true of a first strike on any of these boats, & also of Sept 2 strike killing shipwrecked survivors (which would *also* be illegal in an armed conflict, but the US isn't in one).
ALL of the strikes are extrajudicial killings under international law, murder under domestic law.
That's true of a first strike on any of these boats, & also of Sept 2 strike killing shipwrecked survivors (which would *also* be illegal in an armed conflict, but the US isn't in one).
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Bottom line:
ALL of the strikes are extrajudicial killings under international law, murder under domestic law.
That's true of a first strike on any of these boats, & also of Sept 2 strike killing shipwrecked survivors (which would *also* be illegal in an armed conflict, but the US isn't in one).
ALL of the strikes are extrajudicial killings under international law, murder under domestic law.
That's true of a first strike on any of these boats, & also of Sept 2 strike killing shipwrecked survivors (which would *also* be illegal in an armed conflict, but the US isn't in one).