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He/him. ↙️↙️↙️. Bug lorax @ Microsoft. USSR ➡️ MA ➡️ BC
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Disturbingly similar fact pattern to Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, a German U-boat commander, who was tried, convicted, and executed after the war for ordering his crew to shoot the survivors of a Greek merchantman sunk by U-852.
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Everything he is saying here, on its own terms, would be a bright-line crime if done to the survivors of an enemy navy's ship you just sank in a real war.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Pioneer Valley - Wikipedia
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November 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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And if you do that, as we must, it's not just pardons that are null. It's everything. No appointments are valid. No orders were real. No laws were validly signed. It all falls into a constitutional interregnum in which nothing he's done counts as legitimate, akin to the South under the Confederacy.
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
And here, too. But I don't know how everyone has arrived and agreed at that.
75th Anniversary - The Nuremberg Trials
During the Nuremberg Trials, from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946, leading members of the Nazi Party had to answer to an international court for conspiracy, war crimes, and crimes against peace a...
www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Contrast these ledes.

Left, NYT.

Right, Reuters.

www.reuters.com/world/us/off...
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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they have in 2019. Quebec banned visible religious symbols on public officials including teachers. So basically excluding Sikhs and women who wear head coverings from teaching
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The new rules will ban *all prayers in public.* That's a violation of religious liberty.

The restrictions on face coverings *also* seem to me seriously unjust— and even the paternalist justifications seems self-defeating if it leads to women simply being less able to leave the house.
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM