@now-citizen
Sent here for 6 months on an E1 visa in 1991. Been through the H1(B). Met an amazing American woman and married. Still took years to get Green Card and then Citizen. Had to pass a test which many US born could not. Voted.
The Strait of Hormuz crisis isn’t a surprise. Trump cut Middle East experts out, shrank the circle to loyalists, ignored warnings about Iran’s leverage, and now his team is spinning the disaster with talking points instead of admitting the failure.
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Thanks @kenwhite.bsky.social for pointing this out - beautiful building www.gensler.com/projects/her...
A federal judge on Saturday ordered that Rep. Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, be granted more information and be allowed to participate in a planning meeting about the future of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, temporarily resolving a minor standoff with President Trump.
BREAKING: Court orders Trump admin to provide Kennedy Center closure & renovation docs to trustee & our client @repbeatty.bsky.social bef. Mon. Board meeting--& allow her participation
Big win for @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG. PI briefing to follow to STOP shut down & demolition!
Donald Trump won 48% of the Latino vote in 2024, more than any previous Republican presidential candidate. Many now feel buyers’ remorse
I also can’t define the clitoris.
Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
(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.
I'm sure you know how search engines work, but all the same: Jürgen Habermas was a German philosopher and social theorist who died today at the age of 96. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BC...
Here is my best Habermas story.
I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"
Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump Maggot Hagerman, just another SLEAZEBAG writer for The Failing New York Times, insists on writing false stories about me, even though she fully knows and understands that the exact opposite of anything she says is usually the truth. In any event, I'm thinking of adding Maggot, and some of her "associates," into my Florida based Lawsuit against The Times which, very happily, seems to be proceeding nicely. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT 5.86k ReTruths 25.1k Likes 3/13/26, 4:32 PM
She hasn’t published a story in eight days. Sounds like he knows something bad is coming!
Chuck Schumer just walked the GOP into a 2026 campaign trap. 🪤 Republicans blocked funding for TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard six times in one day. These aren't just votes—they’re future campaign ads.
Watch the fallout: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/this-great...
"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?
can this be a solution?
Several election experts, including some who watched the audit of Maricopa County’s election in person in 2021, said any investigation based on the data would be fatally flawed.
Perhaps DOGE would have been able to fulfill its promise to root out waste, fraud, and abuse if it looked more closely at Donald Trump’s cabinet, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:
In his math, I guess that means we have only destroyed HALF.. #Iran #ETTD
Trump to the UK, 6 March: "We don't need them any longer... We don't need people to join wars after we've already won!"
Trump six days later: Publicly begs for the UK to send warships.
Perhaps he has received a set of written questions in preparation for publication
No more
The Globe and Mail
by @deAdder
Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won.
You broke it Don, you fix it.
HYPOTHETICAL Legal Advice to SecDef Hegseth on “No Quarter” Statement (from General Counsel)
By Daniel Maurer, retired Judge Advocate
"... may be construed as ... a war crime. This may expose you to criminal liability under 18 U.S.C. 2441(c)(2) ... We recommend that you publicly retract."
I worked in Office of General Counsel at Department of Defense. This by Dan Maurer, former JAG, is spot on.
Hypothetical Legal Advice to SecDef Hegseth on “No Quarter” Statement (from Office of General Counsel)
Warns of criminal liability
Gives legal precedents
Recommends retraction of statement
Japan is eyeing Ukrainian combat drones for its Self-Defense Forces after seeing their range and EW resistance in action against Russia. Tokyo is also exploring tech transfers for domestic production.
HUR special forces took out the railway ferry Slavyanin and hit the vessel Avangard, both key to Russia's Kerch crossing for shipping weapons and ammo. The port of Kavkaz in Krasnodar region was also struck.
Senate Republicans are holding TSA agents' paychecks hostage.
All because they want more money for ICE with no reforms or accountability.
People have been killed by ICE agents, yet Republicans wrongly think more funding is the solution—and our TSA workers are paying the price.
⚡️ Ukraine claims 'successful' strike on 2 Russian ships ferrying weapons, equipment through Kerch Strait.
Ukraine's military intelligence agency described both ships as a "key part" of Russia's Kerch ferry service.
Judge Barbra Streisand presiding.
