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Nature Begins Reclaiming Chuck Grassley

Nature Begins Reclaiming Chuck Grassley

Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords This is evil.

Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.

Trump Has Never Been More Isolated Even Trump’s allies worry that he has become out of touch with what the public wants.

NEW: President Trump has never before been in such an echo chamber

His domestic travel has basically stopped. He sees rich donors and MAGA media, not actual voters

Everyone around him is saying he is right. But polls show more Americans think he is wrong www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This feels like maga on maga leaking. You don’t leak to Miranda Devine at the ny post unless you consider her to be a legit journalist, If you consider her to be legit then…..

Post by Pete Hegseth saying "For your Christmas Wish Lust" and showing a fake book cover of children's character Franklin the Turtle launching rocket propelled grenades at boats in a tropical setting from a helicopter. Franklin is dressed in military gear. The fake book is titled "Franklin Targets NarcoTerrorists"

This is a disturbing post on X by a disturbed individual. Pete Hegseth is a murderer.

Tomorrow is our last chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025. We can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits, but only if we turn enough voters out — please make some calls to help us send @aftynbehn.bsky.social to Congress: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

War Crime...or Murder? Killing shipwreck survivors is patently illegal and morally abhorrent

it is impossible to imagine any Pentagon lawyer blessing this action. The concept of hors de combat—literally, out of combat—is a fundamental aspect of the law of war that prevents harming those disabled from combat.
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Pete Hegseth is finally getting investigated GOP-led committees are looking into a report alleging Hegseth gave an order to "kill everybody" aboard a boat.

Pete Hegseth is finally getting investigated

Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords This is evil.

Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.

Translation: Pete may well go down for this. But I’m not going with him.

We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.

“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.

The Texas Quote of the Day:

"I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any. "

----- former Texas governor Ann Richards, known (partly) for her immaculate silver locks

“I’m back bitches …”

Real men don’t punch down, and they especially don’t punch down at women.

This mashup of Trump’s disgusting attacks on female reporters — the same reporters who consistently show the most courage. And it’s past time for the other reporters in the room to have their backs!

Just once I'd like to hear a TV news anchor say, "Sir, that's not true, and if you keep insisting it is, we're going to end this interview to protect our viewers from further disinformation. And we won't invite you back."

A tweet stating that Trump’s golf trips have cost taxpayers nearly $71 million since January and may exceed $300 million this term. Below the text is a video still of Trump golfing on a lush green course with palm trees, seen from behind as he bends to putt.

He doesn’t care about you.

Maybe I missed it, but has even one Republican in Congress spoken out against Trump’s corrupt pardon of a guy convicted of helping funnel more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S.?

Can’t live with a defeatist mindset. Even it doesn’t work out, you still try and fight for what’s right. It’s the only way we can reclaim what these assholes are trying to ruin.

While this usually isn't the intent, "no one will ever be held accountable for this" doomerism is an excuse not to try.

There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.

A tweet saying a bipartisan, GOP-led inquiry is underway into Hegseth and Trump’s Venezuela boat strikes and related killings. The attached photo shows a man in a suit seen through an orange-tinted blur, appearing in a dimly lit hallway.

“In a rare split with the Trump administration, GOP-led panels in the House and Senate say they want a full accounting in the September military attack.”

Hegseth appears to have crossed a line even the GOP can’t ignore.

DON’T LET THEM FOOL YOU

Black Friday $ sales are higher this year because things are more expensive. So consumers aren’t buying more items, they’re just paying more them.

Sergiy Kyslytsya M @SergiyKyslytsya X.com It's been a good start of the ongoing meeting. Very engaging and so far constructive. Warm atmosphere, conducive to potential progressive outcome. Great leadership of@marcorubio. As in Geneva I appreciate the attitude of @jaredkushner, and how he lays out a vision.

I’d rather question why is Kushner there and why is he laying out a vision? We did not vote him into any gov position nor the senate we voted for has approved his candidacy.

This isn’t a grey zone anymore, it’s 50 shades of grey.

Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.

New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.

Imagine calling a decent person stupid or the R-word and getting cheered for it because “at least they’re being honest.” That is MAGA.

What is wrong with these people? Who raised you?

A screenshot of a tweet by Ken Dilanian quoting concerns that an order to kill boat occupants who are no longer able to fight would constitute a war crime. Below is a collage of nine infrared or night-vision aerial images showing small boats in the water. At the bottom is a caption referencing “Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike.”

During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.

As the Trump administration clumsily moves toward an unnecessary and irresponsible and narcissistic war with Venezuela, I want to take a brief moment to offer this sentiment to those who voted for him over VP Harris because they believed it would keep us out of unnecessary wars:

FUCK. YOU.

There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in people’s mailboxes in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.

• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder.

Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.

Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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President Obama served food at soup kitchens on Thanksgiving.

The orange felon shares staged propaganda photos of himself with troops from 2019 on Thanksgiving because he’s a 5-time draft dodging traitor lying criminal.

How far we’ve fallen.