Ray Vazquez

Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.

I guess I should update my first post of the day to "potential war crime".

www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal...

This is what I'm talking about. I realize I suck at posting and there have been plenty of other things I should be talking about. I will talk about those as I try to not suck at posting but I'm talking about this now.

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

I refer you to 50 USC §CuzIWanna

The fact that the President of the United States announced a war crime in the middle of a news conference and then follow it up with a more detailed confession of said war crime on social media and there's barely a reaction to it goes to show how numbed we are as a society to this barbarism.

@heybloxburg.bsky.social Trying to help my daughter out with a bug we found. When she tries to buy a new plot, she gets a “E_PlotPurchaseFailed” error. She has enough money to complete the transaction but it always fails. Any ideas?

I believe that’s partly due to Thomas Keller (of French Laundry fame) was a consultant so they could get it right.

Sounds exactly like how I settle in to a beach vacation.

A photo of a bumper sticker on the back of a red car that says “Jeeves/Wooster ‘16” with the caption: “If I’m voting for a bumbling, classist idiot, at least I’m going to vote for the one who’s not malicious about it and has someone to get him out of a jam as a running mate.”

Had to dig this one out of the archives:

I’m not gonna argue since everyone has their own tastes. Plus you’ve got some leeway built in with broad categories like “cheeseburger”. But two specifics that will always stand out to me are Dinic’s roast pork with sharp provolone and the muffaletta from Central Grocery in New Orleans.

Reminds me of The Amazing Johnathan!

“Idea” not “use”. Clearly posting mid-morning coffee is not a good use either.

My therapist’s version of this is “Just because you survived running through the fireworks factory with a lit candle does not make it a good use.”

Beastie Boys opening for Madonna on the Like a Virgin tour. I was in 4th grade and only went because my mom was chaperoning my sister’s friends and couldn’t get a sitter.

Funnier answer is Young MC opening for Milli Vanilli. Young MC was the reason I went in the first place. 🤣

Maybe the planes were already in the air before they agreed and so not subject to Trump's verbal cease fire agreement? Did he write it down? These things can be tricky, I hear.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Ugh, & he's got it backwards. What Jesus said is "Do unto others as you would have done unto you." The responsibility is on you to do good so that in theory others would do good to you. The more important ones are "Whatsoever you do to the least of my people, you do to Me." & "Turn the other cheek."

Maybe not "dead" dead but at least "dead inside" dead and in the end, isn't that better?

Oh, and forgot @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. As the old saying goes: "What do you call a leader who's not leading? Just somebody out for a walk."

Maybe @aoc.bsky.social can walk down the hall and knock on some doors. She's gotten pretty good results from knocking on doors. 🤩

The empty Bluesky feed of House Democrats (@housedemocrats.bsky.social).

The empty Bluesky feed of Senate Democrats (@senatedemocrats.bsky.social).

I wanted to see if I could grab a list of all the Dems in Congress to follow. Maybe see if they had some starter packs or something. I found a metaphor instead. cc: @schumer.senate.gov @repdangoldman.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov + whoever in Sen. Gillibrand's office should be signing her up here.

Casting the Democrats as Ozymandias was not on my 2025 bingo card but their audition has been on point so far.

It's writing like this that makes me love this guy. Also his sartorial sense is always on point. Folllow @jamellebouie.net and learn from someone who knows what's what.

a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

I’m assuming 1512 = All Elections Are Bad?

Not that I necessarily need to add more books to my every grow queue but would you say these are accessible reads or more scholarly?

This one never won me over as much as Red Alert.

I never got my invite so I had to wait until today for this place to be open. Guess I'll be looking for a new set of accounts to follow too. I may as well take advantage of the reset and be a little more picky.