Julie Kedzie

(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.

If you are a reporter and you ask Trump a question where he has to think about the answer, he just insults you. That means it was probably a good and important question.

Do I Have the Right to Film ICE? Despite government attacks against protesters and the press, documenting interactions with law enforcement and federal agents is protected by the First Amendment. Here’s what you need to know.

Yes.

ICE agents don't get to carve out a First Amendment exception for themselves.

Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

Is the premise of this story that the mayor should make lighthearted video content about an ongoing criminal investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

The American right is heavily invested in the myth that progressives only oppose the war in Iran because we do not want freedom for Iranians

Gmork from The Neverending Story “I have been trying to help it”

Gmork from The Neverending Story: “Because people who have no hopes”

Gmork from The Neverending Story: “are easy to control”

Concede nothing to the Nothing. (We skipped that one part)

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.

“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year”

Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.

then show the real footage you cowards

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

This is the Republican Party now.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are currently stranded in a war zone because the President raped little kids.

yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)

A few $ helps pay the interns or for gas so Colin can drive out to western Kansas to talk to farmers. Your support makes far more of an impact in this race than all the high profile ones.

Races like these don’t get the huge $ or attention from the party or the press because everyone thinks they’re unwinnable. But we know better and we are scrappy. Help us fight! 👊🏻

Home - Colin for Kansas Running to win the Kansas First District for people, not parties

Apropos of everything, if you want to do something tangible that I promise REALLY makes a difference, throw some quarters at @colinmcroberts.bsky.social ‘s campaign to unseat a MAGA bootlicker in the heat of ruby-red Kansas. colinforkansas.com

The USA’s largest export is mass shootings.

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

"That's the way it is." -- President Trump

"A squirter makes its way through." Sec Def. Hegseth

They're talking about U.S. military personnel killed in action.

I hate how accurate this tweet is.

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

guys I’m literally ten days into Lent, and this is the SECOND person on the list who appears to have died after experiencing seizures in ICE custody when they’d never had seizures before

so many cases where ICE never releases an official cause of death. what tf is happening behind closed doors

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

“All that I ask is that you lie to us. We don’t need much. We can work with any old bullshit. Just give us something to pretend to believe in.”

oh thank god they took out a bunch of extremely dangerous [checks notes] little girls

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

The King is mad