Sam Ferguson
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"Pretty dumb for a smart guy." | he/him | center-left social democrat being pushed farther left by the day | turbo nerd
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
It is thoroughly unsurprising that Sec. Hegseth seems to have ordered the U.S. military to attack personnel who were effectively hors de combat (a status protected by the Geneva Conventions, among other domestic and international statutes). (1/3)
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It is thoroughly unsurprising that Sec. Hegseth seems to have ordered the U.S. military to attack personnel who were effectively hors de combat (a status protected by the Geneva Conventions, among other domestic and international statutes). (1/3)
Raisins are nice.
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Raisins are nice.
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"Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things." - Thomas Paine
November 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
"Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things." - Thomas Paine
It will shock you all, I'm sure, to find out that the President of the United States does not, in fact, have the legal authority to close another nation's airspace.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/p...
Trump maintains pressure campaign on Venezuela, saying its airspace should be considered closed | CNN Politics
The United States continued its pressure campaign against Venezuela on Saturday as President Donald Trump issued a broad directive on social media, warning airlines, pilots and criminal networks to av...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It will shock you all, I'm sure, to find out that the President of the United States does not, in fact, have the legal authority to close another nation's airspace.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/p...
Listen here, Tim Apple. I don’t tell you how to keep your demons at bay, alright?
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Listen here, Tim Apple. I don’t tell you how to keep your demons at bay, alright?
This is tied for first place as the funniest joke ever committed to film.
"Werewolf..."
"Werewolf?"
"There."
"What?"
"There wolf. There castle."
youtu.be/9Gt3QY2Aa2I?...
"Werewolf..."
"Werewolf?"
"There."
"What?"
"There wolf. There castle."
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Young Frankenstein (1974) - Werewolf? There wolf, There castle (HD, ENG sub)
YouTube video by Andrea YT
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November 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
This is tied for first place as the funniest joke ever committed to film.
"Werewolf..."
"Werewolf?"
"There."
"What?"
"There wolf. There castle."
youtu.be/9Gt3QY2Aa2I?...
"Werewolf..."
"Werewolf?"
"There."
"What?"
"There wolf. There castle."
youtu.be/9Gt3QY2Aa2I?...
Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz spent 10 years in Spandau Prison after World War II for ordering the Kriegsmarine to kill survivors of vessels sunk by U-boats.
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US military carried out second strike killing survivors on a suspected drug boat that had already been attacked, sources say | CNN Politics
The US military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board, sources familiar with the ma...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz spent 10 years in Spandau Prison after World War II for ordering the Kriegsmarine to kill survivors of vessels sunk by U-boats.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
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EMERGENCY VIDEO: Pete Hegseth at the Center of Disturbing New Boat-Strike Controversy
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
EMERGENCY VIDEO: Pete Hegseth at the Center of Disturbing New Boat-Strike Controversy
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
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November 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
EMERGENCY VIDEO: Pete Hegseth at the Center of Disturbing New Boat-Strike Controversy
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
Of all of the U.S. executive administrations that have been lucky their predecessors were too cowardly to push for ratification of the Rome Statute, this one will be the luckiest.
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Hegseth declines to comment on report that boat survivors were killed as a result of his orders to military
According to The Washington Post, the boat strike initially left two survivors. A second strike was reportedly ordered to comply with Hegseth's directive.
abcnews.go.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Of all of the U.S. executive administrations that have been lucky their predecessors were too cowardly to push for ratification of the Rome Statute, this one will be the luckiest.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/heg...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/heg...
If you've designed the UI for a streaming video platform and some version of "Continue Watching" is not the very top-most line in your interface, you've committed a mortal sin. (1/2)
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If you've designed the UI for a streaming video platform and some version of "Continue Watching" is not the very top-most line in your interface, you've committed a mortal sin. (1/2)
Okay, I realize this is far from the most egregious thing in this pile of xenophobic manure...but as your favorite Cold War pedant, I have to say: THAT'S NOT WHAT 'THIRD WORLD' MEANS, YOU STUPID FUCK.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Okay, I realize this is far from the most egregious thing in this pile of xenophobic manure...but as your favorite Cold War pedant, I have to say: THAT'S NOT WHAT 'THIRD WORLD' MEANS, YOU STUPID FUCK.
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The face I make when Luthen asks me to remove a listening device from a sculpture while Director Krennec is in the room.
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The face I make when Luthen asks me to remove a listening device from a sculpture while Director Krennec is in the room.
During the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq in the 2000s, the insurgents who flooded into that broken country were only there because we were there. Didn't justify their acts of violence, but it did make it at least a little bit our fault.
Draw what lesson you wish from that.
Draw what lesson you wish from that.
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
During the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq in the 2000s, the insurgents who flooded into that broken country were only there because we were there. Didn't justify their acts of violence, but it did make it at least a little bit our fault.
Draw what lesson you wish from that.
Draw what lesson you wish from that.
Well that's just poorly-timed.
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Well that's just poorly-timed.
I'm not completely sure what's going on, but I'm confident of a bad outcome.
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I'm not completely sure what's going on, but I'm confident of a bad outcome.
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"It has been the scheme of the... Church and all the other invented systems of religion to hold man in ignorance of his Creator, as it is of government to hold him in ignorance of his rights. The systems of the one are as false as those of the other, and are calculated for mutual support." - Paine
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"It has been the scheme of the... Church and all the other invented systems of religion to hold man in ignorance of his Creator, as it is of government to hold him in ignorance of his rights. The systems of the one are as false as those of the other, and are calculated for mutual support." - Paine
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Such classic gaslighting it's an instructive moment. The question is not whether generic is better or worse, it's that a list with more expensive brand names is not the same as a list with cheaper generics. Perverting that truth into an attack on those calling it out is Manipulation 101.
Hassett: "On one of the Sunday shows, the anchor criticized the fact Walmart said the Thanksgiving dinner is cheaper by about $10. Then he said, 'Oh yeah, but they substituted generic stuff,' as if having a generic something is a crime for ordinary folks! It shows how out of touch these people are."
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Such classic gaslighting it's an instructive moment. The question is not whether generic is better or worse, it's that a list with more expensive brand names is not the same as a list with cheaper generics. Perverting that truth into an attack on those calling it out is Manipulation 101.
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
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November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
I don't agree with Mark Kelly on everything. I wish he was a little less friendly with big oil, and I wish he was a little more open to Medicare for All (among other things). But I respect him. (1/4)
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
Pentagon says it might recall Sen. Mark Kelly to military service for court martial over ‘illegal orders’ video | CNN Politics
The Pentagon said Monday that it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired US Navy captain, in light of “serious allegations of misconduct” the department has received against him, and co...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I don't agree with Mark Kelly on everything. I wish he was a little less friendly with big oil, and I wish he was a little more open to Medicare for All (among other things). But I respect him. (1/4)
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
300 high school students in Oregon have more courage than the collective body of U.S. political leadership.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
300 high school students in Oregon have more courage than the collective body of U.S. political leadership.
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
This past week, I was briefly hospitalized for an infection (I'm fine, please don't worry). I received excellent care, and was back home after a couple of days. I was able to do this without facing financial ruin because I have a set of privileges many Americans live without. (1/8)
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This past week, I was briefly hospitalized for an infection (I'm fine, please don't worry). I received excellent care, and was back home after a couple of days. I was able to do this without facing financial ruin because I have a set of privileges many Americans live without. (1/8)