Nonningham

(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.

The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now.

They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!

He won't win back to back Fifa peace prizes without stopping a few more wars.

Read all of the texts between Portland, South Portland police and immigration agent A Homeland Security Investigations special agent reached out to the South Portland police chief and a Portland police major about local protests.

Read all of the texts between Portland, South Portland police and immigration agent

I don't think Schumer has ever had a primary challenger since he first ran for Senate.

They are packing every one of these concentration camps way over the stated capacity.

ICE now has four warehouses for its “mega” detention centers, each which would individually be the largest prison in the country if filled to capacity.

Asylum in one of his concentration camps?

LONGTERM GAIN!

The standpoint of the Democrat party should be:
- Trump is constitutionally ineligible and will NOT be allowed on the 2028 ballot.
- If the RNC nominates him they will not have a candidate on the ballot.
- SCOTUS can pound sand if they think otherwise.

Here’s the line that summoned a verbal ”what?” from me. These people are so completely caught up in seeing everything as capital, they had not considered that human beings would rather not literally navigate mine fields.

Because the US primarily has a supply of light crude oil from fracking. We still need heavy crude oil for many things and we import most of that.

Venezuela was another source of heavy crude.

Fairly certain IRS can also force your employer to garnish wages too.

Trump leaving and a failed state forming is a better outcome than Trump deciding to send in troops or nuke Tehran.

Unfortunately Trump being desperate to win the war will likely lead to Trump nuking them.

If/when Trump gets desperate enough to win the war, he will nuke Tehran.

This. Don't know why everyone else sees it differently.

His struggle isn't explaining DEI. It's that he knows his answer is racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic.

He pulled a grant because it focused on Jewish women during the holocaust! Discriminatory to who exactly? (Nazis)

It's wild how you believe that not one single person other than the candidate has agency to make their own choices.

Do you think the rest of the world are literal robots? Do you even believe YOU yourself have agency and responsibility for your decisions?

Cool story. Well here she is, today, telling all of her 273k followers that it isn't their fault if they make bad choices that hurt people.

You're just a poor lil voter whose knowledge and decisions and actions are completely controlled by someone else!

It's insulting and you don't even realize.

Iran has a stockpile of 80,000+ Shaheed drones and can make 400-500 a day.

The Strait of Hormuz won't be safe until the war ends.

And will this be how you intend to interpret the results of the 2028 democratic primary? Will you declare the loss of your preferred candidate as solely their fault?

"their failure".

Glad we agree on that.

Their choice, their fault.

You can't have it both ways!

Molly and you are both excusing voters who stayed home in past elections, implying they have zero agency or ability to make informed choices.

As if there are zero other ways to be informed about an election and its consequences.

It is inconsistent bullshit.

I have been told repeatedly that if a candidate doesn't win it is solely their fault.

Which is why we must also enact collective punishment if the preferred candidate doesn't do their only job.

"I am too stubborn|naive|uninformed|lazy to think for myself and be responsible for my decisions"

Which is really something coming from people for whom self determinism is a central part of their identity an ideology.

Last July. Art of the Deal.

Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?