@dougwalter5.bsky.social
Among my activities is serving on Boards of Directors. Currently [for ID only], I'm part of the boards for Davis Community Network, Coventry Carolers of California, and in the past have been with Cooperative Grocers Network and Davis Food Co-op.
Someone more knowledgeable than I am about these things explained the other side of "no quarter." When warriors said it, they meant no mercy given and *none expected*. I'd like to see Hegseth explain why it'd be all right for the Iranians to murder American POWs since he never expected otherwise.
Former Army JAG here. No quarter orders are a violation of the law of war and Geneva conventions.
This is the same order reportedly given during the Caribbean boat strikes. Secretary Hegseth is establishing a pattern of issuing illegal orders. (1/2)
the country is at war and the president is leaving DC this afternoon for a weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers
Senate Democrats are pressing for an investigation into moves to ease Russia oil sanctions; thank you for speaking up, @slotkin.senate.gov. (I called Republican fuckwad Tim Scott's office and his derp-y staffer of course was like "I don't know what that letter is")
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
"While the new portable solar panels don't usually deliver enough electricity to power an entire house, they do offer a new source of competition to utilities. There are safety risks ...[b]ut safety experts also say those issues can be managed."
www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...
It’s almost like Putin and Netanyahu control our foreign policy.
"[T]he bill aims to tackle a major affordability issue for voters ahead of the midterm elections. But it is uncertain if it can pass the House as is, and ...Trump has signaled he's not as interested in the package as he is in passing separate voting legislation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
⬇️ Why were we dragged into a war? ⬇️ Why haven't 100% of the Epstein files been released? ⬇️ Why haven't the ICE executioners of Pretti & Good been apprehended? ⬇️
For guests, Epstein’s island was a Caribbean dream; for victims, a nightmare with no escape. CNN's Kyung Lah reports on what files released by the Department of Justice reveal.
#EpsteinCoverUp
Franklin Foer:
"The lesson that the Trump administration seemed to learn from the failed planning for postwar *Iraq* is that planning isn’t worth the effort at all."
No military question has been studied more thoroughly than war with Iran. Trump ignored it.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
“All six U.S. crew members have been confirmed dead after their military refueling plane crashed in Iraq while taking part in Iran war operations, the U.S. military said Friday.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
This is your reminder to vote as early and securely as you can
Early voting makes the fascists' attempts to steal the midterms harder
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This morning's perfect proof that Hegseth is a buffoon: 'The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. “The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping,” he said. “It is open for transit should Iran not do that.”'
🧵 The Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, was formed by Biden's defense secretary Lloyd Austin, intended to minimize risk to civilians during war.
Hegseth scrapped the office to favor lethality.
It could have prevented the tragic death of nearly 200 Iranian children.
Incomplete story? Only quotes are from staff report & right wing spox, talking about how fees discourage new building. Okay, but the point it to get new tenants and end blight. So no one had anything to say about retail, or residential rents, or conversions, or...?
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"At a time when tariff uncertainty is driving the cost of imported goods up for all, freight costs are increasing dramatically on the back of the administration’s crackdown on thousands of immigrant truck drivers. ...ICE officers have been targeting truck stops."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Al Jazeera reporting that the US has lost a refueling aircraft in Iraq, which an Iraqi armed group is taking credit for and which the U.S. is denying. 6 French soldiers in Erbil were also injured in a drone attack by Iraqi armed groups. First time non local or US soldiers have been injured.
#Iran
#Iraq
This is even dumber and more arrogant than "Iraq will greet us as liberators"
Senator Murphy: "You cannot bomb a nation into submission. You cannot impose regime change from the air. Bombing elementary schools hardens resolve. Trump learned nothing from Iraq and Afghanistan."
Murphy is right, you cannot impose regime change from the air. They can make another Afghanistan
Two tankers destroyed in Basra.
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
It is remarkable how much clearer the air is in Silicon Valley than it was ten years ago. Electric cars have made a huge difference
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My policy has been to go to the doctor pronto for any bleeding from an orifice. So far (hooray!) all alarms have not indicated anything going on.
I am way over 50.
Trying to use less plastic?
Big Oil and the plastics industry are spending billions to make sure everyone else uses more.
“I think what stood out most is the deliberateness and intentionality over the years of pushing plastic into our lives,” said @bethgardiner.bsky.social. “It was such a shock."
"All three victims were affiliated with the university, Shelton said, without elaborating. No names were immediately released, and Shelton said police still were trying to contact the dead victim’s family."
Pathetically ignorant, or just pathetic?
The rot started at the top, when the Senate confirmed RFK Jr as head of HHS.
