"Declaring that no quarter will be given" is specifically prohibited by Art 23 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, which means it is a war crime under US domestic law by virtue of the War Crimes Act (18 U.S. Code § 2441).
Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."
No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.
Indeed. When everyone can turn out plausible looking reams of crap, your advisor's connections are the only thing that will matter 😕
(I believe this is by design)
Huh. So it's unclear who's funding this campaign to pay influencers to attack Kat Abughazaleh.
But the guy coordinating also has a company called Advocators AI, which just won an award for work for…Daniel Biss — her opponent.
One of the campaigns the company boasts about promotes trips to Israel.
Blue whale.
(This probably hinges on the precise definition of 'expel', but I feel confident the whale would be 'outside' shorty after showing up, and I would just have to pick the right spot on its back to ride out the utter destruction of the building 😁)
sometimes i think about the first human to try salting their food. like i wonder if the other tribe people looked at them like "what do you mean you want to put ROCKS in your food????"
because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!
I would like to resume thinking about measles as one does a spider at the zoo, and not as one does a spider in a dark bedroom.
Art by Luigiix - cover of "Demon King Daughter Book 1: Raising the Demon King" by P.J.C. Cahill. This text appears in black, red-outlined text at the bottom of the image. - Top Left (Hideyoshi) - Top Right is a demon man (Torlash) - Middle of the image shows seven characters. From left to right: 1) Kiseki 2) Hasava 3) Issei 4) Seina 5) Nori 6) Himari 7) Yuuto - Bottom, foreground of the image features a mother (Masuyo) and daughter (Kyoka) pair. Masuyo is holding Kyoka on her hip, and they're both smiling happily at each other. Masuyo has neck-length, black hair, a tan skin, brown eyes, and is wearing a black leather jacket over a white shirt, with black pants. Kyoka has very dark, brown skin, short, messy black hair, and vibrantly red eyes. She's wearing a black hoodie, baggy shorts, and puffy white socks sticking out of her simple sneakers.
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The Demon King dies and comes back as a tiny lesbian who loves her family SO MUCH!
Just trying to be happy, her family has to deal with bigotry, bias, and magic!
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if you peep the new issue of vanity fair you can see this chart I worked on mapping all the terrible people whose ideas trickle their way into the White House, along with their various beefs. You could call it the everyone is 12 chart
It's midnight, which means
WOMAN OF SORROW AND BLOOD IS OUT RIGHT THE FUCK NOW
Go buy this magnificently queer Gothic horror & prepare to have your heart smashed by the most beautiful women in the world
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every little part of this is downwind from the continuation of capitalism. the fact it's not working, for anyone, even our intensely miserable and insecure billionaires. you don't need to coin new phrases to describe it because it isn't really an issue with *people* at all. it's an issue with the...
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
Women who look like evil librarians:
Keep up the good work.
#MistWarden #WriteSky
Quiet comes naturally to Michiru. She prefers to let her actions speak for her, whether in sport, or combat. To the extent she is 'loud' (public speaking, etc.) says more about her nearly unshakeable self confidence than any desire for visibility.
#MistWarden #WriteSky
Drew is not quiet by nature, but racism (he's F.N.) has taught him to move and speak deliberately. He keeps his thoughts to himself unless he's with people he trusts (and even then he rarely says all of them).
For #Mistwarden chars, this is YA UF, so they don't get to wear armor 😁
Jessica would love to be quiet, even invisible, but her tendency to drop and/or run into things tends to always get her noticed (and that's _before_ the horrific visions have her shrieking in the middle of math class 😕)
My first piece for @globalvoices.org -- a part of my We Are Noor feminist journalism fellowship -- on the Brazilian far right and how they weaponize legal abortion: globalvoices.org/2026/03/07/h...
A Canadian journalist documents a group of white nationalists who’ve been meeting at a gym in Montréal, unbeknownst to the owner of the business.
What happens after the story comes out? thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
Btw, if it's not clear:
The tactic the right is using rn is to start censoring fetishes and kinks that are generally accepted to be "bad" or "gross" by most people to slowly warm us up to the idea of censoring all sexual expression online.
Don't fall for this by going "this is actually based!!"
Not that this should be an argument because you should care about trans people's rights, full stop, but y'all realize that their reasoning of "we're restricting procedures, not people" can be applied to ANYTHING, right? Abortions, birth control, medication, dealing with disabilities etc.
Drone strikes in Haiti.
Drone strikes. In Haiti.
By private contractors.
They’re killing Haitians for private profit & the world barely pays attention.
The story of Haiti is the story America likes to tell about itself. Except there, it’s true. And the west has never stopped punishing Haiti for it
NEWS: It was never about the children.
Transgender adults now face care restrictions after the ruling of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.
www.advocate.com/news/court-b...
Oh wow. It’s almost like this was never about kids and always about erasing trans people. Fucking sick.
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"
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