Andrew Koch

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

This is evil. Is this how a so called "Christian" nation treats the most vulnerable among us? Matthew 25:44-45 makes it very clear our obligation to the downtrodden.

Greenland does not belong to us and it never will. Get over it. Worry about making the country better instead of doing your best to destroy it.

That's just one part of our global supply chain that would be utterly destroyed. The president is threatening to destroy the modern American way of life just to satisfy his fragile ego and petty greed. And the worst part of it is that a good portion of the country is cheering him along.

We know that they have the ability to remotely disable all their equipment, as they have consistently threatened to do that to Taiwan should China invade. What makes you think they wouldn't do it to us if we invade Europe?

As just a single example, try to imagine what would happen to our consumer electronics if the Dutch-based ASML decided to no longer do business with US companies. I'll give you a hint: It means no more modern microchips.

European leaders rally behind Greenland as US ramps up threats Support comes after presidential aide Stephen Miller says ‘no one will fight US militarily over future of Greenland’

Let there be no mistake. Trump is threatening war with Europe. I don't think people fully understand how such an action would cause inestimable harm to the US.

This foreign involvement is going to backfire spectacularly. This will do nothing but hurt the interests of the United States. We are hurting our international image and spending military resources on issues that don't matter when we have larger looming issues on the horizon. Plus, it's just wrong.

To head off the counterargument, past presidents have indeed twisted existing authorizations to suit their purposes, but this goes way beyond what has been done previously. This is a clear overreach by the executive branch. I see no legal justification for this use of military force.

U.S. launches military strikes on Venezuela as Trump escalates pressure on Maduro regime, sources say Trump ordered strikes on sites inside Venezuela, including military facilities, U.S. officials told CBS News, ratcheting up pressure on President Nicolás Maduro.

The open-source intel reports are that there are Chinooks and special forces on the ground. This sounds a lot like an invasion to me. Maduro is not a nice guy, but this is not okay. The authority to invade a country lies with Congress. Congress must weigh in on these actions, one way or another.

So, for the time being, these individuals will have to live with the fact that they failed to have the courage to say no when it mattered, violated their oath, and flagrantly disregarded the Navy's core values.

Unfortunately, the Attorney General would need to bring charges against this (per 18 U.S. Code § 2441), and we know that won't happen. There likely won't even be an investigation. Nevertheless, they know what they did was profoundly wrong, as shown by ADM Bradley's retirement shortly afterwards.

This is why that video on illegal orders was released. This is an illegal order that was given and followed. Everyone in the chain of command who was complicit in this execution of these shipwreck survivors, from Secretary Hegseth to ADM Bradley to the Navy SEALs, should be held accountable.

This is an order that is illegal to verbalize or write, let alone carry out successfully. There is no situation in which it is legal to kill unarmed, shipwrecked survivors (those who are hors de combat). Nobody in the chain of command can claim ignorance, as this is a patently illegal order.

If this is true, and I honestly have little doubt it is based on how they speak about these attacks, this is unambiguously a war crime. It is a clear violation of both the Hague Convention of 1907 and the Geneva Conventions of 1949, violations of which are illegal under 18 U.S. Code § 2441.

While tthe Republicans will hold the ultimate responsibility, the Democrats' lack of a spine is going to be final nail in the coffin for democracy. Perhaps not in this specific case, but ultimately it will continue to allow Trump and company to continue their authoritarian rise.

It certainly looks like the Democrats are going to cave. They managed to last this long, which is surprising to me. What isn't surprising is that they are going to end up accepting a deal that offers them nothing in return. That's par for the course for them.

I was rewatching A Few Good Men and realized that in today's military, Colonel Jessup would be given a pardon and held up as a standard of how military officers are supposed to act. Current leadership seems to think that the ends justify the means and that people must be toughened up by any means.

Iconoclasm at its finest. A major motivation for this is simply to spread hatred and stoke anger. Another article quotes Josh Hawley on this topic, "I saw it today. It looks fantastic. I'm delighted he is doing it, and I love seeing these liberals melt down."

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An illegal action is only illegal if it's unpopular? I suppose that's true when the rule of law breaks down.

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

I suppose now we start to see the arrest of peaceful protestors? How long before we see the next Boston or Kent State massacre?

Estonia requests Nato article 4 consultation after ‘unacceptable’ violation of its airspace by Russian MiG-31s – as it happened Nato condemns ‘reckless Russian behaviour’ after its jets intercept three MiG-31 fighters over Estonian airspace

This seems to be, unfortunately, flying under the radar in the US. It's very concerning.

Trump Escalates Attacks on Political Opponents After Charlie Kirk’s Killing

“I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked,” he wrote on X.

This man is mentally unwell. Hopefully, he can someday get the help that he needs.

Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them”

If we're firing news personalities for hateful speech, can we do this one next? I feel like calling for homeless people to undergo "involuntary lethal injection" and for us to "just kill them" is actually worse than what Matthew Dowd said.

That extends to any legal, even if unpopular, speech conducted as a private citizen (as is everything I post on social media) and not as a representative of the government.

The First Amendment, along with the Hatch Act, permits DoD civilians (and other federal employees) to express themselves during their off-duty time. It is well established that it is illegal to fire federal employees for expressing their views or engaging in constitutionally protected speech.

This is also a great example of the weaponization of the federal government, something they falsely claim to be against.

Hegseth says Pentagon ‘tracking’ service members, civilians who celebrate Charlie Kirk killing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is warning civilian and military employees that the Pentagon is “tracking” any comments from them that celebrate or mock the Wednesday assassination of conservative a…

This is another example of the GOP's war on the freedom of speech and expression. They absolutely HATE that people are still allowed to disagree with them. They are very much in favor of cancel culture. In fact, it seems they are one of its largest supporters.

Shooting at Evergreen High School in Colorado leaves several students hurt; suspect among those injured Three students were critically wounded on Wednesday in a shooting at Evergreen High School in the Colorado foothills. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says one of those students is the shooting s...

Another senseless school shooting.

Adding a screenshot, just so the picture is included. He wants to see Chicago burn.