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A photo of a woman smiling next to a bouquet of yellow roses and above it a quote from her: ‘If you’re caught up in something that’s very detrimental to society, I think that you should die.’ Naomi Villalba, 75, Dallas

There is something so deeply disturbing about this:
Just the NYTimes checking in with ordinary Americans about whether the government killing people it accuses of a crime with no trial is okay or not.
That combo of quote and photo alone is some straight-up dark @stephenking.bsky.social fantasy

Did not realize it was different. So confusing how this is all marketed. Or I’m just not paying enough attention. :) Thanks!

Isn’t it? Is that not what I have via Crave?

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...

🚨🚨🚨This collapses the one 'argument' Hegseth had against it being a war crime:

"The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat .. DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE RADIO OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers."

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Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...

This is straight-up murder

For a little under an hour — 41 minutes, according to a separate US official — Bradley and the rest of the US military command center discussed what to do as they watched the men struggle to overturn what was left of their boat, the sources said.

Ultimately, Bradley told lawmakers, he ordered a second strike to destroy the remains of the vessel, killing the two survivors, on the grounds that it appeared that part of the vessel remained afloat because it still held cocaine, according to one of the sources. The survivors could hypothetically have floated to safety, been rescued, and carried on with trafficking the drugs, the logic went.

41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

8/ A public service reminder:

This entire exercise is an absurd, imaginary world for legal experts.

That's because the truth is:

It's not an armed conflict.
The laws of war thus don't apply.

The more restrictive rules of human rights apply.
It's extrajudicial killing under that law.

The CEOs of Ford and Stellantis, as well as senior executives from other auto manufacturers, standing beside him while Trump goes off on another vicious racist rant about African immigrants. Not one of them had the courage or the dignity to walk away.
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We're doing pogroms in America now

We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.

All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

I want us to hang on to the fact that the people who were murdered were just civilians out in boats, most likely fishermen, who had never even heard the sketchy conclusions of American officials for which they were executed, much less had a chance to defend themselves.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

From the people who brought you "oh so it's racist to say that white people are better than black people?" comes "find me a single place in the law where it says not to commit murder."

Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of George W. Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC):

"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."

"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

“THE ORDER WAS TO KILL EVERYBODY”

When the admiral overseeing the first U.S. boat strike saw survivors clinging to the wreckage, he followed Hegseth’s order

"Murder" and "war crime" former JAG says

@alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social report

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Straight up war crime

Senators call on prime minister to ban advertising for sports betting | CBC News Two senators are calling on the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting in Canada. A letter to the prime minister from Charlottetown Sen. Percy Downe and Waterloo Sen. Marty Deacon as...

I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Cw: suicide
This article is devastating.

Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.

Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.

" A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about."

Sending a message to journalists in the room and all around the world ...

ΤΟΥ STORY The purpose of a toy is to bring happiness to a child ΤΟΥ STORY 2 Toys must accept that their child will someday outgrow them ΤΟΥ STORY 3 Toys can find new purpose with a new child ΤΟΥ STORY 4 Toys can abandon children, create their own purpose, and pursue relationships with other toys ΤΟΥ STORY 5 Toys can learn how to create new toys without the involvement of a child ΤΟΥ STORY 6 Toys construct a secret, self sustaining society parallel to human civilization ΤΟΥ STORY 7 The great human/toy wars begin THOUSANDS OF YEARS LATER Cars 1-3

Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films

Children’s Aid fired three workers after 12-year-old boy’s harrowing death, Ontario murder trial hears Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney are on trial for first-degree murder, with defence lawyers trying to show that systemic failures were responsible for the 12-year-old boy’s death.

Children’s Aid fired three workers after 12-year-old boy’s harrowing death, Ontario murder trial hears

This prosecution is shining one hell of a spotlight on what look like some egregious systemic failures in Ontario’s child protection systems.

The Supreme Court of Canada Wants You to Call 911 if Someone Is Overdosing Police can't arrest a person for drug possession if they call for help and stick around, a new ruling finds.

Supreme Court of Canada's "ruling clarified that people who make a potentially life-saving call — along with the people who are overdosing and others at the scene — are protected from being arrested or charged for drug possession, even if police [..] see drugs."
#Canada #Courts #Drugs #Policing

Hegseth announces another deadly US strike on alleged drug boat Pentagon secretary says two people killed in attack on boat in eastern Pacific, bringing total killed to 66 in 16 strikes

Missed this amid the Cheney/election news but this is the 16th strike since September 2 and at least 66 people are dead. This is notable in part because it's the first since the Nov. 3 60-day mark under the War Powers act.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Proof of said whitewashing: I have been singularly focused on baseball for over half my life and have never had a real job outside of baseball. I had never heard this story.

Never.

Not once.

Girlfriend.