Blanche K
@blanchekolaczek.bsky.social
Indecision married with a lack of vision.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Hegseth wasn't chosen as merely a Fox News buffoon who then bumbles his way into war crimes out of machismo incompetence. He was chosen specifically because he is, and has been for a long time, a proud, open, and explicit advocate of war crimes as a good thing we should do.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Hegseth wasn't chosen as merely a Fox News buffoon who then bumbles his way into war crimes out of machismo incompetence. He was chosen specifically because he is, and has been for a long time, a proud, open, and explicit advocate of war crimes as a good thing we should do.
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild
Black bear
Nene
Manatee
Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa
Moose
Black bear
Nene
Manatee
Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa
Moose
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild
Great White Shark
Baboon
Southern Right Whale
Cape Cobra
Badger
Great White Shark
Baboon
Southern Right Whale
Cape Cobra
Badger
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild
Bald Eagles
Bottlenose dolphins
Snapping turtles
Foxes
Opossums
Bald Eagles
Bottlenose dolphins
Snapping turtles
Foxes
Opossums
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild
Black bear
Nene
Manatee
Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa
Moose
Black bear
Nene
Manatee
Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa
Moose
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“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
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And reminding everyone that he tried to shut up Democrats who talked about following the law.
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
And reminding everyone that he tried to shut up Democrats who talked about following the law.
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There can be no bygones for these people in the name of unity or healing or whatever. They must answer.
Hegseth's not the only war criminal here. "The [USSOCOM] commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets... He ordered the second strike."
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
There can be no bygones for these people in the name of unity or healing or whatever. They must answer.
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DHS's stated justification for Abak's abduction is that he has a criminal case in Turkey, but the circumstances of that case form a substantial part of the basis for his asylum application, and he's followed the asylum process to the letter.
ICE Takes Kurdish Asylum Seeker The Day Before His Wife Became A US Citizen: 'I Cannot Do This Alone'
At the time of his detention, Enes Abak had a pending asylum petition and an upcoming immigration court hearing. His wife is now fighting for his release. "We were following every letter of the law," ...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
DHS's stated justification for Abak's abduction is that he has a criminal case in Turkey, but the circumstances of that case form a substantial part of the basis for his asylum application, and he's followed the asylum process to the letter.
I loved this book and can support this review. A book about what humanness is. . A woman-centered book. Read it.
Book Advent #1: "We Lived on the Horizon" by @erikaswyler.bsky.social Come for the dystopia, stay for the class commentary. This is a really lovely book about power, hierarchies, and the stories we tell (ourselves). I loved the elegant, elegiac prose. 📚💙
We Lived on the Horizon: A Novel
A Novel
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November 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I loved this book and can support this review. A book about what humanness is. . A woman-centered book. Read it.
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Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
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the agreement also terminates the Deering Meadow Agreement, made in light of the pro-Palestinian encampment in April last year, and promises to "develop training materials to socialize international students to the norms of a campus dedicated to free inquiry and open debate."
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
the agreement also terminates the Deering Meadow Agreement, made in light of the pro-Palestinian encampment in April last year, and promises to "develop training materials to socialize international students to the norms of a campus dedicated to free inquiry and open debate."
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in this agreement, NU formally says it will define "sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities" by sex assigned at birth.
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
in this agreement, NU formally says it will define "sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities" by sex assigned at birth.
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How can this be squared with US policy in Mexico, Ecuador and Venezuela, who uses lethal military power against low-ranking figures in the cartel system? Trump to pardon ex-Honduran president serving 45 years for drug trafficking
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
How can this be squared with US policy in Mexico, Ecuador and Venezuela, who uses lethal military power against low-ranking figures in the cartel system? Trump to pardon ex-Honduran president serving 45 years for drug trafficking
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He was a key figure in the largest drug cartel in Central America. He was taken by the US, indicted, tried and convicted and is now serving a lengthy sentence in a US prison. And now, for no apparent reason, Trump has decided to issue him an unconditional pardon.
Donald Trump to pardon former Honduran president serving 45 years on drug charges
Clemency for Juan Orlando Hernández comes ahead of fraught elections in Central American country on Sunday
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November 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
He was a key figure in the largest drug cartel in Central America. He was taken by the US, indicted, tried and convicted and is now serving a lengthy sentence in a US prison. And now, for no apparent reason, Trump has decided to issue him an unconditional pardon.
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Congratulations to the Secretary of Defense for ordering a hundred murders right before the president established the precedent that pardons are invalid.
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Congratulations to the Secretary of Defense for ordering a hundred murders right before the president established the precedent that pardons are invalid.
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Trump, who is bombing boats said to carry drug runners, pardons the former president of Honduras who was convicted of supporting one of the largest, most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world. @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social Annie Correal Jeff Ernst www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Trump, who is bombing boats said to carry drug runners, pardons the former president of Honduras who was convicted of supporting one of the largest, most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world. @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social Annie Correal Jeff Ernst www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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Pete Hegseth appears to have made a policy directive encompassing a war crime, but he isn’t in the US Navy chain-of-command
Hegseth deserves what’s coming to him, but the man I want to hear from right now is JSOC Command head Admiral Mitch Bradley
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth deserves what’s coming to him, but the man I want to hear from right now is JSOC Command head Admiral Mitch Bradley
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Pete Hegseth appears to have made a policy directive encompassing a war crime, but he isn’t in the US Navy chain-of-command
Hegseth deserves what’s coming to him, but the man I want to hear from right now is JSOC Command head Admiral Mitch Bradley
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth deserves what’s coming to him, but the man I want to hear from right now is JSOC Command head Admiral Mitch Bradley
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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The White House just released a propaganda portal on their official website to spread easily debunked lies and attack reporters, media outlets and his political enemies.
Government sponsored propaganda is a feature of fascism, not a bug in Democracy.
Government sponsored propaganda is a feature of fascism, not a bug in Democracy.
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The White House just released a propaganda portal on their official website to spread easily debunked lies and attack reporters, media outlets and his political enemies.
Government sponsored propaganda is a feature of fascism, not a bug in Democracy.
Government sponsored propaganda is a feature of fascism, not a bug in Democracy.
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We will rue the day that we facilitated it.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3901...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3901...
The fall of Ukraine means the end of the post-1945 Western order
What makes the Russian annexation of parts of Ukraine so unusual is that it is a straightforward land grab.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
We will rue the day that we facilitated it.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3901...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3901...
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"There is a reason that the countries backing Ru are... the ones that loathe America and everything it stands for: Belarus, Iran, North Korea.. How extraordinary to see the US lining up with them. The new order that these autocracies seek is darker and grimmer than anything we have known....
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"There is a reason that the countries backing Ru are... the ones that loathe America and everything it stands for: Belarus, Iran, North Korea.. How extraordinary to see the US lining up with them. The new order that these autocracies seek is darker and grimmer than anything we have known....
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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The media treated Biden's pardon of Hunter for trumped-up gun possession charges as more scandalous - far more scandalous - than Trump's pardon of war criminal serial killer Eddie Gallagher. And here we are:
Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The media treated Biden's pardon of Hunter for trumped-up gun possession charges as more scandalous - far more scandalous - than Trump's pardon of war criminal serial killer Eddie Gallagher. And here we are:
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BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)
The Defense Secretary has endangered them all for his bloodlust and vanity. Beyond shameful.
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The Defense Secretary has endangered them all for his bloodlust and vanity. Beyond shameful.