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"Tired and emotional." (Opinions solely mine. Reposts/likes ≠ endorsements, sillypants.) He/him.
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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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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...
do you deliver to Queens?
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
do you deliver to Queens?
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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