This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
✋ 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.
Gotta splurge on that Panda Express while in line.
Trump is a demagogue who not only targets Democrats with bogus criminal charges, but goes after conservative Republicans like Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
Powell’s “crime”? He didn't bow to Trump.
Today, a judge appropriately blocked the Justice Department from issuing subpoenas.
this is beyond parody, folks. a complete mockery of the DOJ.
First time I got an adult content warning on a post. Just shared the sleeve from Johnnie Blue Skies new vinyl.
Well ok then. Time to give this a spin.
Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the US military can drop bombs on scores of children and face no serious media scrutiny for it. His vile claim that he can't wait for David Ellison to run CNN shows he pines for oligarchic control of media.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2077...
Well ok then. Time to give this a spin.
He had no problem exploiting the 13 US troops who died as we left Afghanistan when he was at Fox. Degenerate
ICYMI — one of Elon’s DOGE guys Justin Fox saying a documentary is “DEI” if it’s about how historical events impact led Black civil rights because it’s “not for the betterment of humankind”
The war is a mess and the immigration policy is a disaster but at least the economy is o— www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/...
Will war on Iran spiral further into WWIII? We speak to renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs about what he calls "a war of aggression and a war of choice by Israel and the United States."
There is a Johnnie Blue Skies Denver Vinyl listening party at Rolling Smoke in Wheat Ridge
Would you play it
If you owned it?
lmao why is the NASA administrator going on Fox and railing against Iran?
(this is a rhetorical question -- the answer is that nobody in the Trump administration has actual job duties)
Palantir Technologies raked in $1.5 BILLION in income last year — including from lucrative taxpayer-funded DHS contracts — and paid ZERO federal income tax.
It's fast becoming the most dangerous and least accountable corporation in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
John Solly, a software engineer and former DOGE member, is the DOGE operative reportedly accused in a whistleblower complaint of telling colleagues that he stored sensitive Social Security Administration data on a thumb drive and wanted to share the information with his new employer.
More ways to funnel govt money to their pals
Whitewater Ramble and Leftover Salmon are pioneers in adding drums.
Omg they’re going w “high oil prices are good, actually.” God bless ‘em.
I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written.
Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do
More contract money to grift for tech billionaires
Seeing this band at Cervantes this weekend