Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
Whatโs its key example? Wait for it . . . Itโs "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
Whatโs its key example? Wait for it . . . Itโs "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Riddle me this, how in the fuck is this making our communities any safer? This ICE agent sprays this disabled woman directly in the face in St Paul, Minnesota with pepper spray and then throws her to the ground. I hope she sues the hell out of ICE for thisโผ๏ธ#Abolish ๐ง๐ง๐ง
26.11.2025 15:50 โ ๐ 3254 ๐ 2116 ๐ฌ 417 ๐ 276"Ukraine is the David standing to Goliath. The whole world must be their slingshot." ~ Bono
Please share/repost if you believe democracies have a duty to support the integrity of Ukraine's internationally recognized borders against Putin's war of aggression.
#SlavaUkraini #StandWithUkraine #NAFO
This is the scandal. Trump isnโt targeting dangerous people. Heโs targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
26.11.2025 14:10 โ ๐ 8318 ๐ 3386 ๐ฌ 367 ๐ 195The law forced them to cover people with preexisting conditions, banned lifetime limits, and made them actually spend most of your premiums on care instead of CEO bonuses. Thatโs what they hate.
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Carry a few No-Doz when traveling
26.10.2025 12:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0a doctored photo of the back of a $20 bill featuring the White House being demolished by an excavator
ok who did this? โน๏ธ
22.10.2025 21:52 โ ๐ 4230 ๐ 1340 ๐ฌ 76 ๐ 48Iโm sorryโฆthey look terrified. I hope they can enjoy it when they get used to it.
03.10.2025 21:29 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Consider the theory that this has been a russian operation to bring down their enemy the US and it all makes sense
06.09.2025 14:45 โ ๐ 260 ๐ 36 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 3The โproblemโ with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
04.09.2025 19:44 โ ๐ 26799 ๐ 7834 ๐ฌ 581 ๐ 459"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." โ Michael Okuda
How quick we forget.
๐ณโฆis this what voting will be likeโฆ๐ณ
01.09.2025 16:56 โ ๐ 1027 ๐ 523 ๐ฌ 111 ๐ 30โน๏ธIt's taken me time to wrap my head around this. The goal of this administration is to deliberately & negligently kill off its population. I believed at first they were incompetent but I was wrong: they are malign and evil and we are suffering a calculated campaign by our leadership to eradicate us.
29.08.2025 02:43 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1You donโt really think of AI as being bad for the environment
After all, itโs only computers. How could that possibly be so bad
But the truth is, itโs VERY harmful
Dear White People,
We should be out in the streets daily being disruptive.
No one is coming to rescue us!!!!
We have to do it on our own!!!!!!!
We must risk our own comfort!!!!!!!!!
No burning! Just unplug โem.
15.08.2025 17:13 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0They are killing us!
26.07.2025 01:17 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Theyโre killing us. Pro-Death. This is not ok.
11.07.2025 15:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Read the full post on r reรญchโs Substack!
24.06.2025 20:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Pro-Death.
17.06.2025 01:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 011 million:
16.06.2025 06:06 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0BREAKING: An ICE vehicle just RAMMED into a civilian car in Boyle Heights.
Then they gassed it.
Then they dragged out the driver.
All three people in that car are U.S. citizens.
This is militarized racial profiling on steroids.
"blame lies with their leaders, who demonstrated a stunning lack of situational awareness and careless disregard for one of their institutionโs guiding professional norms. They failed to prepare their soldiers to act like professionals.โ From the great @heidiurben.bsky.social
12.06.2025 01:06 โ ๐ 75 ๐ 25 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1Salvadoran restaurant workers rendering aid to an LA sheriff's officer who got pepper-sprayed. ๐ค
10.06.2025 04:16 โ ๐ 4872 ๐ 1490 ๐ฌ 239 ๐ 164I donโt want to hear shit from any Republicans about Joeโs cancer diagnosis (implying he wasnโt up to the job) when their guy was in office with ALZHEIMERโS.
I donโt care when Ronald Reagan was actually diagnosed, his son saw the signs and Iโm betting his wife and closest advisors did too.
To change this would require an AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. Unfortunately, even โbiasedโ NPR doesnโt mention this. Sheesh!
15.05.2025 22:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I can't begin to describe the depth of my disdain for this man.
12.05.2025 02:43 โ ๐ 46 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1Elon Musk may or may not fulfill his promise to step back from DOGE.
But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system โ the likes of which we have never seen in the United States.
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