SonicPhil

SonicPhil

@sonicphil.bsky.social

Just trudging my way through...

371 Followers 129 Following 135 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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…its clear that Trump and his administration view children as dispensable and just a means to an end.

When will our representatives care enough to hold Trump and his posse of pedophiles accountable?

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20 White House cabinet members have directed at least $30 million in spending that benefitted President Trump since 2023.

Only three out of 23 members have not in some way helped pad Trump’s political coffers, pet projects or personal bottom line. 🧵

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Hegseth: "President Trump holds the cards. He'll determine the pace, tempo, timing of this conflict. His hand firmly on the wheel as well as on the throttle setting ... today will be yet again the highest volume of strikes America has put over the skies of Iran and Tehran. Ramping up and only up."

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Posted at the home of lies and crime...

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(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors
or surrender accepted;
(2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such
that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted;
(3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable
ability to accept surrender would exist;
(4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate
forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and
(5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

✋ 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.

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Someone please arrest him! While you're at it...

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Fox leaping in the snow.

Something to remind you
It's a world worth saving

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Vance was ‘skeptical’ voice in White House on Iran strikes White House officials revealed that the vice president made his opposition known in the leadup.

JD Vance may be a cretin, but that doesn't mean he is stupid.

Iran is going badly, and he's trying to salvage his political future by leaking his 'skepticism' and 'opposition' to the war.

On the plus side: This move also shows an increasingly fractured WH and GOP.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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GOP combs Talarico’s archives to cast him as radical leftist Talarico has suggested he would communicate some of his views differently today, but stood by the principles behind the comments Republicans are using to tar him as an extreme liberal.

The fact that the radical right has to use AI & try to dig up some negativity on Talarico (where there's none) shows how desperate these people truly are!

“God is nonbinary”: GOP activates over Talarico’s past comments characterizing him as too radical for Texas www.texastribune.org/2026/03/12/j...

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The latest reason for going to war The reasons keep changing

open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

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BREAKING: The usually snarky White House account has not responded to Iran’s attacks on social media! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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" 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be."

John Keating/Robin Williams

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Sorcerer (1977), Dir. William Friedkin

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Trump’s Propaganda Machine Gets Caught: Fox News Busted For Fake Footage, AOC Slams Corporate Media, Anthropic Sues The Regime, and A Kristi Noem Defender Gets Roasted In The Senate Plus, my receipts caused a total MAGA meltdown

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The constituency of Americans who see DEI as detrimental to the country is vanishingly small, the sort of constituency that can easily be ignored if politicians want to ignore it.

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More signs that republicans are going to lose big in the midterms and they know it. This is why they want to pass things like the Save act, they know the only realistic way they keep power is by disenfranchising voters

Source : www.propublica.org/article/elec...

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Just throwing anything at the wall at this point

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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

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Trump’s Pay-to-Pardon Scheme Corporate executives who defraud nursing homes? Pardoned.Reality TV stars who evade millions in taxes? Pardoned.Thousand

Last year, lobbying firms raked in over $5 million from clients hoping to secure a pardon from Trump.

Turns out his pay-to-pardon scheme is quite lucrative. Watch. https://youtu.be/NflcWXdV-B0?si=0fAnSic2HAFVRmfN

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for fuck’s sake, this is just what we need — another vanity project so a power-mad, broken-inside piss-baby can feel good about his own loser self.

it’s called the ‘Shield of the Americas.’

I know, right? it sounds exactly like something a ten-year-old boy would doodle on the cover of his notebook while he’s supposed to be paying attention in class. but it’s more than just a stupid name. it’s sort of a Sargent Fuckface’s Lonely Fascists Club Band.

oh look, Donny and his Latin American despot besties have banded together to drop more bombs on Venezuelan fishing boats. how awesome. it's called the 'Shield of America' and I mock the shit out of it in today's post. thank you for your attention to this matter. link is here: bit.ly/47jiVhG

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Yes. He's gotta go.

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 284. 1/12/26 … Sen.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 284. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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