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Gift link. Folks in the DOD and military are actively trying to underbus Hegseth.
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.
wapo.st
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Gift link. Folks in the DOD and military are actively trying to underbus Hegseth.
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"Two Palestinians were seen leaving a building, with their hands raised in the air.
"After the officers took control, they are seen ordering them to lie on the ground at the entrance to the building, before one officer shoots them to death at close range."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"After the officers took control, they are seen ordering them to lie on the ground at the entrance to the building, before one officer shoots them to death at close range."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Officers involved in killing of surrendered Palestinians released after investigation
After Officers Were Filmed Shooting Palestinians Who They Had Already Detained at Close Range in Jenin, the IDF Declared That the Incident Was 'Under Review', While National Security Minister Ben-Gvir...
www.haaretz.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"Two Palestinians were seen leaving a building, with their hands raised in the air.
"After the officers took control, they are seen ordering them to lie on the ground at the entrance to the building, before one officer shoots them to death at close range."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"After the officers took control, they are seen ordering them to lie on the ground at the entrance to the building, before one officer shoots them to death at close range."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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"The Pentagon has not fulfilled a bipartisan request from lawmakers to see unedited footage."
"The Pentagon has not fulfilled a bipartisan request from lawmakers to see unedited footage."
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"The Pentagon has not fulfilled a bipartisan request from lawmakers to see unedited footage."
"The Pentagon has not fulfilled a bipartisan request from lawmakers to see unedited footage."
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5/ Administration explanation to Congress seems to be a bold-face falsehood: claiming double-tap strike was to clear debris, not to kill survivors.
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
5/ Administration explanation to Congress seems to be a bold-face falsehood: claiming double-tap strike was to clear debris, not to kill survivors.
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
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4/ Hiding the evidence from the American public:
"Later in the day, President Donald Trump released a redacted 29-second surveillance drone video showing the attack. The video does not include any footage of the subsequent strike on the survivors."
And to Congress? ...
"Later in the day, President Donald Trump released a redacted 29-second surveillance drone video showing the attack. The video does not include any footage of the subsequent strike on the survivors."
And to Congress? ...
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
4/ Hiding the evidence from the American public:
"Later in the day, President Donald Trump released a redacted 29-second surveillance drone video showing the attack. The video does not include any footage of the subsequent strike on the survivors."
And to Congress? ...
"Later in the day, President Donald Trump released a redacted 29-second surveillance drone video showing the attack. The video does not include any footage of the subsequent strike on the survivors."
And to Congress? ...
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3/ "Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,' said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law."
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
3/ "Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,' said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law."
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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 6:13 PM
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
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For context, Trump is just 2 (yes, two) points higher now than he was in the Gallup poll conducted almost entirely after the Jan 6 riot.
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
For context, Trump is just 2 (yes, two) points higher now than he was in the Gallup poll conducted almost entirely after the Jan 6 riot.
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
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Back to back in my feed: video exists of two Venezuelans boat strike survivors struggling in the water being blown up by the US military, and video exists of two Palestinians with their hands up ordered to lie on the ground and being executed by the Israeli military.
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Back to back in my feed: video exists of two Venezuelans boat strike survivors struggling in the water being blown up by the US military, and video exists of two Palestinians with their hands up ordered to lie on the ground and being executed by the Israeli military.
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Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
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Governor Tim Walz just delivered a masterclass in clapping back. After Trump's disgusting slur, Walz dared him to release his MRI results. This brilliantly shifts focus to Trump's clearly unhinged mental state and lack of transparency. What a response
Tim Walz Fires Back at Trump With Pointed Dare After President Hurls Slur in Late-Night Thanksgiving Tirade
Tim Walz clapped back at Trump with a health jab after the president’s late-night anti-immigration tirade during which he hit the Democrat with a slur.
www.mediaite.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Governor Tim Walz just delivered a masterclass in clapping back. After Trump's disgusting slur, Walz dared him to release his MRI results. This brilliantly shifts focus to Trump's clearly unhinged mental state and lack of transparency. What a response
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i actually was briefly made insane by this atlantic article (and the attached NYT piece linked in it) about how there was no plan to deal with the fact that businesses still need pennies despite the fact that we don't make them anymore
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
i actually was briefly made insane by this atlantic article (and the attached NYT piece linked in it) about how there was no plan to deal with the fact that businesses still need pennies despite the fact that we don't make them anymore
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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We keep our Christmas ornaments in my grandfather’s old suitcase, still covered with the remnants of stickers applied as he traveled.
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We keep our Christmas ornaments in my grandfather’s old suitcase, still covered with the remnants of stickers applied as he traveled.
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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Again.
We don't know that he was US trained, or that he was a child soldier, or that he was in a death squad. All of those things are possible, but people are jumping to all sorts of conclusions based mostly on a single anonymous and very sketchy source.
bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
We don't know that he was US trained, or that he was a child soldier, or that he was in a death squad. All of those things are possible, but people are jumping to all sorts of conclusions based mostly on a single anonymous and very sketchy source.
bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Again.
We don't know that he was US trained, or that he was a child soldier, or that he was in a death squad. All of those things are possible, but people are jumping to all sorts of conclusions based mostly on a single anonymous and very sketchy source.
bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
We don't know that he was US trained, or that he was a child soldier, or that he was in a death squad. All of those things are possible, but people are jumping to all sorts of conclusions based mostly on a single anonymous and very sketchy source.
bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
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Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!
The Gävlebocken cam is live folks, this is not a drill
The Gävle Goat LIVE 2025 | Lofi Christmas mix
YouTube video by Gävle Goat LIVE
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November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!
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Said Whiskey Cake recipe, from baker Greg Patent of Montana Public Radio. That five pounds of rich, dense batter will really put your stand mixer through a strenuous workout: www.mtpr.org/arts-culture...
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Said Whiskey Cake recipe, from baker Greg Patent of Montana Public Radio. That five pounds of rich, dense batter will really put your stand mixer through a strenuous workout: www.mtpr.org/arts-culture...
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Trumpism and Trumpists are incompatible with American culture and traditions and should be purged.
November 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Trumpism and Trumpists are incompatible with American culture and traditions and should be purged.
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I’m so excited for @kellylink.bsky.social and @gavingrant.bsky.social, who are getting ready to BUY the building they’ve been renting for their beautiful bookstore Book Moon, in Western Mass. Support them if you’re able!
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’m so excited for @kellylink.bsky.social and @gavingrant.bsky.social, who are getting ready to BUY the building they’ve been renting for their beautiful bookstore Book Moon, in Western Mass. Support them if you’re able!
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This is like Nick Cave’s sound suits hooking up with Hassan Hajjaj for a party at the end of the Anthropocene.
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is like Nick Cave’s sound suits hooking up with Hassan Hajjaj for a party at the end of the Anthropocene.
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Used to be that big news organizations would fight each other to get big scoops on an admin as scandal-plagued as this one. With Bezos taking over at WaPo and other similar situations elsewhere, that’s much less of a concern than staying in the admin’s good graces — and the rest of us suffer.
In another era, the political media would be shoveling dirt onto Trump's political grave as a hopeless lame duck and shifting their focus to the 2028 Presidential race. But in this era they'll keep rooting for the Reichstag Fire or other event to keep pretending he's popular
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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That's actually extremely bad. Usually what happens when a presidential approval rating dips into the 30s and 20s is less declining party approval* than pushing marginal party IDers to ID instead as independents.
*W notably did have declining GOP approval tho as a result of immigration reform
*W notably did have declining GOP approval tho as a result of immigration reform
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
That's actually extremely bad. Usually what happens when a presidential approval rating dips into the 30s and 20s is less declining party approval* than pushing marginal party IDers to ID instead as independents.
*W notably did have declining GOP approval tho as a result of immigration reform
*W notably did have declining GOP approval tho as a result of immigration reform
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In another era, the political media would be shoveling dirt onto Trump's political grave as a hopeless lame duck and shifting their focus to the 2028 Presidential race. But in this era they'll keep rooting for the Reichstag Fire or other event to keep pretending he's popular
New Gallup poll shows Trump's approval hit a new low for his second term:
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
news.gallup.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
In another era, the political media would be shoveling dirt onto Trump's political grave as a hopeless lame duck and shifting their focus to the 2028 Presidential race. But in this era they'll keep rooting for the Reichstag Fire or other event to keep pretending he's popular
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A spot-on comparison, but another one keeps coming to mind whenever Miller spouts vile gutter racism: Verband Nationaldeutscher Juden. Or Der Deutsche Vortrupp. Given the opportunity, he'd have fit right in.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associa...
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A spot-on comparison, but another one keeps coming to mind whenever Miller spouts vile gutter racism: Verband Nationaldeutscher Juden. Or Der Deutsche Vortrupp. Given the opportunity, he'd have fit right in.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associa...
