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“Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.” Thomas Sowell 🚫No DM’s. 🚫No MAGAs. I will block you. She/her Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
The war is going so well that the secretary of defense is spending his morning yelling at cnn
“Trump’s “Russia first” Iran policy will get more US servicemembers killed. Here’s why.”
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Will he be wearing his funeral baseball cap?
Play a couple of rounds of golf to help him get over the dead military personnel.
Dancing the night away while average Americans worry about filling their gas tanks.
What a guy.
After 6 U.S. fuel tanker crew members died. He doesn’t give a shit.
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
Trump on Kilmead, asked when he will end his Iran war:
"When I feel it. When I feel it in my bones"
Holy shit. We’re screwed.
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“Take a listen to this clip featuring Lawrence Wilkerson, retired US Army Colonel and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson has been around the block a few times and has some bitter experience with these kinds of misadventures.”
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War has a way of exposing the difference between power and strategy. The United States has enormous power. What remains unclear right now is whether anyone running this war has a strategy.
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Oh, honey . . . just because you played dress-up at a fake "military academy" that your parents sent you to because you were such an unmanageable, obnoxious teenager doesn't mean you were in the miliary. You had that duty, but lied to get out of it.
And as a fun related legal fact, the failure of a commander to punish war crimes by his subordinates is also a war crime under the doctrine of command responsibility.
Published by the Naval War College in 2021:
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"Declaring that no quarter will be given" is specifically prohibited by Art 23 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, which means it is a war crime under US domestic law by virtue of the War Crimes Act (18 U.S. Code § 2441).
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.
Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:
Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.
And recognized as such by the US Government.
From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.
Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.
But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
“Susan Collins has received more than $105,000 in political donations from Palantir.
Susan Collins is one of the Top 3 recipients of Palantir funds in Congress.
Susan Collins has those schoolgirl’s blood on her hands.”
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On a Thursday in America…
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The Russian envoy claimed Washington now understood the “systemic role of Russian oil and gas in ensuring the stability of the global economy.”
Black smoke could be seen in Dubai’s financial district where witnesses reported hearing explosions on Friday morning.
Authorities there said a building was hit by debris from an intercepted missile.
Highly recommend that once in a while you check out what the international news community is reporting on this war.
Peep this from yesterday. See the difference?
Trump started an unauthorized war in Iran. The Strait of Hormuz closed. Gas prices spiked. You knew that part. Here's what nobody's talking about yet: a third of the world's traded fertilizer moves through that same chokepoint. Spring planting is happening right . . .
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Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly
A win! The funding bill for DHS failed in the Senate!
“IRAN? CUBA? Nope, Burlington Vermont. ICE breaks down door to drag out 3 residents—throws flash grenades & tear gas at protesters. Neighbors block agents' vehicles—to prevent them from leaving with people they detained. This is what ICE is actually doing . .”
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Elon Musk is now worth $845 billion.
Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.
See the problem here?
JFC!!! 🤬
Another hush money payment.
CHRIS HAYES: “are you a yes, or no on the supplemental appropriations bill to continue to fund this war?”
SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: “I’m a hell no on any more money for this war.” 🔥
I appreciate Senator Van Hollen’s clear-cut answer here. No gameplaying!
