More and more I want the consequences for the billionaires, politicians, appointees, and lackeys who are committing crimes for Trump to be devastatingly financial.
Take all their money. ALL OF IT. And garnish their wages forever. Let them live off of whatever UBI gets passed in the next admin.
McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…
"I ASSUMED the US Military had an active plan to open the Strait." How can people who are paid to understand geopolitics be so bafflingly naive?
Get ‘em, Andry
This is also how they came to the “ignore the groups” and “fund the police” elite consensus too if wonder why I adamantly refuse to fall for the bullshit.
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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.
Don’t pretend this isn’t normal in our country. Whether it’s antisemitism anti-Muslim anti black anti Asian. All those sick prejudices are exacerbated by gun access in the violent country we have fostered.
Trump is the best example of what the American Empire is at its core.
Happening now: The Bay showed UP for Alysa Liu’s celebration rally in Oakland 🤟🥇
If a Senator doesn't know enough to vote no on the Save Act, they'll be voted out next election. We don't have patience left for the bullshit.
Family sues over fatal shooting of mentally impaired burglar armed with shower head. "Travis Pratt was 25 when he was shot by Kentucky State Police Trooper Bruce Kelley and Knott County Sheriff’s Deputy Wesley Bolen on Sept. 9, 2024, in Littcarr." www.kentucky.com/news/local/c...
Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
Untitled (2023) by Romanian-born "Rococo" embroidery artist, Nastasia Manolache (date of birth unlisted), based in Germany and founder of her own company, Sina Crafts.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
WARREN: Has Rubio made any request for transcom to help evacuate Americans out of Middle East?
REED: State made a request on Feb 28 & we have provided some assistance
W: When we called them yesterday, they said they haven't asked you for assistance. Can you explain that?
R: I cannot explain that
I'd like to live in a country where kindness is a political virtue and politicians talk about and center people at a disadvantage and who can't stand up for themselves
I don't want a politics thats all about beating up our enemies
I’m sorry, the suffering is infinite and things are genuinely fucking dire, but it is truly hilarious that the nazis ran into the middle east while screaming “logistics and diplomacy are fake and gay” and now they’re trying to ask everyone else to fix the strait of hormuz because tfw no more THAADs
"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."
That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.
Not everything is about Joe Biden
University administrations went batshit over the protests in 2023, and now students who may be inclined towards activism have reasonable suspicion that their administration would work with the government to throw them in jail or removed from the country
I’m really not a fan of “where are the student protesters?” discourse. You probably don’t see as much because university administrators, law-enforcement at all levels, many state govts, and the current federal govt have made it very clear that speech on a college campus is effectively criminalized
Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."
Meanwhile, in Vermont…
People are getting gassed for protesting ICE. Yep, that’s still going on. America sure is great, isn’t it?
#Vermont #ICE #SouthBurlington
it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"
HUGE.
I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written.
Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do
A massive vote winning campaign slogan is “I am going to guillotine all the scumbags in the Epstein files and imprison all the criminals starting wars”, just letting the politicians who have Blue Sky accounts know.
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
