Yet the Secretary of Defense still gave the order: “kill everybody” - after the first strike, after operators saw survivors in the water, after it was clear they posed no threat. A second missile was launched just to finish the job. Hegseth didn’t make a tough call. He made an unlawful one.
01.12.2025 04:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ordering their death anyway crosses an even brighter line: the ban on no quarter - the absolute rule that you do not kill people who cannot fight back. Every commander knows this. Every officer is trained on it. These aren’t obscure legal theories. They’re the bedrock of lawful command.
01.12.2025 04:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Under the laws of war, you never attack anyone who is hors de combat: shipwrecked, wounded, defenseless, or already in your power. Those two men clinging to the wreckage were exactly that.
01.12.2025 04:10 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Congress must investigate. The Senate must finally take up Additional Protocol II, and every American should understand the stakes:
The United States does not give “no quarter.” And if someone tried, the law requires us to say no.”
01.12.2025 04:07 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congress must investigate. The Senate must finally take up Additional Protocol II, something military lawyers have demanded for decades, and every American should understand the stakes:
The United States does not give “no quarter.” And if someone tried, the law requires us to say no.
01.12.2025 04:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Veterans like me spent our lives enforcing the rules that keep our troops honorable and our country safe. I will not sit quietly while political appointees or politicians try to normalize war crimes.
01.12.2025 04:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Service members are taught from day one that an order directing the commission of a crime must be refused. The Manual for Courts-Martial makes clear that no service member can rely on a superior’s order when a person of ‘ordinary sense and understanding’ would know the order is unlawful.
01.12.2025 04:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It was honor to headline the Remove the Regime veterans rally just steps away from the capitol. Veterans sounded the alarm for a reason. We’re not seditious. We’re competent.
#Veterans #NationalSecurity
01.12.2025 01:38 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
To the elected officials who voted to withhold pay from service members & veterans who will still show up to shake hands and take photos with us on #VeteransDay: We’ll be charging for the photo-ops this year. We take zelle, cashapp, and Venmo (just for you)
#Shutdown #Military
30.10.2025 20:46 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Military families shouldn’t have to refresh their bank accounts during a shutdown wondering if their pay will arrive. Service members keep their promise to this country. Congress must keep theirs. #veterans #shutdown
30.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
ONR is the backbone of America’s future naval power. One bad appointment can cripple weapons development, innovation, and national security for years. The Fleet needs tested leadership, not experiments. We can’t afford to see the Navy dragged down like federal research has been.
30.10.2025 19:17 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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27.10.2025 00:47 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Giménez yells “Cuba Libre” but turns a blind eye to the regime’s enablers right here in Miami. He lied about Crowley and helped protect the networks that keep the dictatorship alive.
Destroying the regime means not giving an inch - suffocate it until it dies.
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Today at 3PM CST/4PM EST, join the @DNC’s Veteran Military Families Council for a conversation with U.S. Representative @juliejohnsontx.bsky.social
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14.10.2025 19:50 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Today at 3PM CST/4PM EST, join the @DNC’s Veteran Military Families Council for a conversation with U.S. Representative @juliejohnsonTX .
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14.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
This is my district. Gimenez must go. You should have more engagement with this
13.10.2025 13:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by 23yFlagler
Lo SACAN de cena por OPONERSE al congresista Republicano Carlos Giménez
youtu.be/INxNMNbZ4kY
13.10.2025 07:03 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The rich exiles who began the exodus decades back are the ones who came over with their wealth--and those who followed their advice and came across weren't as lucky because they hadn't exploited the people to earn their riches.
12.10.2025 22:55 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Dang! Keep fighting Phil!
13.10.2025 01:42 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by 23yFlagler
Lo SACAN de cena por OPONERSE al congresista Republicano Carlos Giménez
KICKED OUT of dinner for RUNNING AGAINST Congressman Carlos Gimenez
youtu.be/INxNMNbZ4kY
12.10.2025 21:51 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by 23yFlagler
Lo SACAN de cena por OPONERSE al congresista Republicano Carlos Giménez
KICKED OUT of dinner for RUNNING AGAINST Congressman Carlos Gimenez
youtu.be/INxNMNbZ4kY
12.10.2025 21:51 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Why does Florida not get rid of this nincompoop. There’s better representation
12.10.2025 21:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Doing both. I am both shocked, disappointed, and ready to beat this guy.
12.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was approached by a security officer and escorted outside, where an armed officer informed me I needed to leave. When I asked for an why, the officer responded, “I don’t know. I wish I could tell you. You have to go, they don’t want you here.”
12.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 128 🔁 70 💬 3 📌 3
FL-26: Mario Diaz-Balart (R): 31.6%
FL-27: Maria Elvira Salazar (R): 39.5%
FL-28: Carlos Gimenez (R): 37.0%
That's right: Nearly 40% of FL-27's ENTIRE POPULATION relies on #ACA exchange coverage.
That's nearly 300,000 people in Salazar's district alone.
28.08.2025 00:54 — 👍 35 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0
🚨🚨 WE NEED EVERYONE IN THE DC AREA OUT TONIGHT TO SUPPORT FLARE!! THIS IS A BLATANT ASSAULT ON FREE SPEECH, PART OF A NATIONAL CRACKDOWN ON PROTEST SITES TARGETING THE MOST EFFECTIVE PEACEFUL ACTIVISTS CALLING FOR THE REMOVAL OF THIS ILLEGAL REGIME. WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!!
03.10.2025 18:55 — 👍 51 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 9
American legal scholars cannot justify Trump’s orders to destroy fast boats in the Caribbean, even one who wrote the Guantanamo “torture memo”. Trump may not pay the price, but Hegseth and Naval officers may soon be prosecuted in foreign jurrisdictions.
#NationalSecurity #Venezuela #SOSVenezuela
03.10.2025 00:42 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Summary executions on the high seas in violation of international law subject all involved to criminal prosecution.
03.10.2025 00:42 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Gimenez feels big and brave with a rogue Commander-in-Chief. Professional Naval officers know better. Sooner or later, truly innocent people will be targeted and killed. The way out of this mess is for Congress to decide if we’re at war with drug smugglers.
03.10.2025 00:42 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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