(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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13 and 14 year olds raped? Sex with your daughter? Arrest this convicted rapist and felon immediately
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Trump DOJ expands crackdown on overseas voters over ID
The latest outreach confirms that the message California officials received last month was not isolated.
🚨BREAKING: Emails obtained by Democracy Docket show the Justice Department contacting multiple states about overseas voting compliance ahead of the 2026 midterms, emphasizing ID verification rules that could complicate voting for Americans abroad. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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I have absolutely no doubt that come the midterms the GOP in Texas is going to do every single thing it can to suppress votes, including causing as much confusion as possible on Election Day. The GOP cannot afford to lose the midterms in Texas so be prepared for all kinds of shenanigans.
13.03.2026 17:30
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Again, we ask: Why?
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Once again—New Mexico is leading the way by protecting free and fair elections! NM becomes the first state in the nation to ban armed federal agents at the ballot box. This is how you do it! 🗳️🇺🇸💪
14.03.2026 14:57
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He sounds more and more like a terrified child, desperately thumping his chest and stomping his feet in hope of scaring away the monster he’s created.
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Opinion | The Trump Administration Floats a New Way to Humiliate the Legal Profession
This move against state bars is of a piece with the administration’s broader strategy against universities, the media and law firms — any organization capable of challenging the president’s power. And few things threaten it more than holding it to the the truth. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
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“So damaged is the department’s reputation for truth-telling at this point, one judge noted despairingly, that ‘the court is left with little confidence’ that government lawyers ‘can be trusted to tell the truth about anything.’ ”
Deborah Pearlstein/Director/Princeton Program in Law & Public Policy
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Religious Freedom Concerns Sink Vaccine Exemption Bill in South Carolina
Lawmakers halted a proposal to bar unvaccinated children from schools as the state faces its largest measles outbreak in two decades.
www.governing.com/policy/relig...
#SC failed to pass this.
Non-vaccinated children are allowed to attend school with vaccinated ones.
If you live in or near SC, have anything to do w/ parenting, medicine, education (&/ or policy), or own a functional brain, you’re urged to fight this.
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I back this.
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THIS 👇 TOO........
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America wouldn’t be in the shape it is in if Trump had been put in prison the first time he raped a woman or a child. But sure, tell me how great America is for women and children. Go ahead.
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OUTRAGEOUS!
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I’ll do you one better: there are more people in the world now than when hitler was alive, so Trump is literally the most hated person in history. That’s not hyperbole; 77 million idiots in the US voted for him but there are 8 billion people in the world, so over 99% of the world hates him. FACTS.
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Judge Barbra Streisand presiding.
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Just for fun, here are some images of the same DOGE douche (Justin Fox) at the raid on the US Institute of Peace via the MPD body cam footage I obtained:
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a man in a suit and tie holds an american flag in his hands
ALT: a man in a suit and tie holds an american flag in his hands
Good morning!
Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—
💰His net worth is up $2 billion, to $6.3 billion
💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million
💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million
💰19-year-old Barron is worth $150 million
And Jared became a billionaire last year.
Have a great day!
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It would be awesome if someone in the press would ask Trump and/or Vance this question.
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'Mind boggling' corruption: Kushner seeks $5 billion from foreign governments for his firm
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is trying to raise more than $5 billion from foreign governments for his private equity firm while working as “one of the U.S. government’s chief negotiators in the Middle East,” the New York Times reports.
According to the Times, who spoke with five people familiar with the discussions, Kushner is trying to raise money for his investment firm Affinity Partners. Representatives form the company “have already met with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund,” which is led by Kushner pal Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. PIF had already invested $2 billion in the firm “soon after the first Trump administration ended.”
The fundraising “[shows] the blurring of the lines between public service and private profit-seeking” in Trump’s administration, the Times reports. Kushner, who traveled as an official U.S. delegate to the the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, used the trip to “[discuss] his plans to raise billions in new investments for Affinity in private meetings with international business leaders, two people with knowledge of the conversations said,” according to the report.
The fundraising is a change from Kushner’s previous claim that he would table his efforts to work for his father-in-law. In December 2024, Kushner told a posdcaster that Affinity “[doesn’t] have to raise capital for the next four years.”
As the Times notes, Kushner, who founded Affinity in 2021, “leaned heavily on his government contacts” when he began the company after Trump’s first term.
According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Kushner’s appointment as Special Envoy for Peace on Feb. 19 started the clock on a 30 day requirement for him to file a public financial disclosure report.
“Kushner’s previous unofficial role raised substantial conflict of interest concerns given Kushner’s business and investments in the very countries and conflicts that he had been working on — and because Kushner had no defined position, he was not subject to any ethics laws, security clearance process or Senate confirmation,” CREW wrote on Wednesday.
Indeed, the blatant “greed and corruption of the Trump family” has stunned political observers, including University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato, who wrote on X Saturday that Kushner’s fundraising “is almost beyond belief.”
Political historian Brian Rosenwald agreed, calling the revelation “mind boggling.”
“[A]ny of dozens of things they do would've been a presidency ending scandal for any other president,” Rosenwald said.
'Mind boggling' corruption: Kushner seeks $5 billion from foreign governments for his firm
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Guaranteed they have no strategy here. Expect high casualty rate.
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What he says…
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Donny doesn't want to go gentle into that good night, he wants to take us all with him. He's like that twisted parent that kills their kids to "save" them. He doesn't think the world can continue without him. He's convinced himself.
It's not divine, it's evil.
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Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
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