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knightly garb
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Mostly gaming with some science, history and occasional smacks at the malefactors building a new American Reich Oránge.
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Donald Trump attempted to bypass the Senate’s constitutional role by installing a loyalist to act as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. From the beginning, I have objected to Trump's maneuvers to keep his preferred nominee in power and the court today affirmed that those maneuvers were unlawful.
Former Trump personal lawyer Alina Habba is unlawfully serving as the US attorney for New Jersey, appeals court says | CNN Politics
A federal appeals court on Monday found Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, is serving unlawfully as US attorney for New Jersey, dealing a legal blow to the Trump administr...
www.cnn.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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He scammed over 1,000 people, most of whom were not wealthy - veterans, farmers, teachers, nurses, small businesses owners. Some lost everything. But he’s a rich Republican, so Trump let him get away with it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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🇺🇸 SEN. KELLY: “We said something very simple and non-controversial, and the president said ‘hang them’ — Hegseth is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in our history, and the president doesn’t understand the constitution.”
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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OTD in 2021 Russian Embassy on Londonograd reported that US & UK were manipulating false claims of a Russian invasion & occupation of Ukraine to spread panic.

Which is why you can believe us now we say we want peace.
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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"If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder."
Here are US military lawyers stating clearly that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's "kill everybody" orders are either (1) war crimes or (2) murder.

Either way, expect prosecutions in the future.

www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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It is time to seriously consider the possibility that this failed president doesn't even know what the term "vetting" means
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is the power of a dictator, not a president.

Everyone who works for him are traitors.
The last president who declared that anything he does is legal was Richard M. Nixon. And we all know how things worked out for him . . .
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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About 40% of SNAP recipients are children. Around half of ALL children in the country are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.

Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Reminder: If Trump believed even for one minute his orders to the military were always going to be lawful, he would’ve endorsed the PSA from democratic lawmakers, not threatened to have them arrested and executed.
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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The trump regime is at the stage where it is happier for you to talk about its treason as it stops you talking about its pedophillia.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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US Republican Congressman Don Bacon calls for the firing of Witkoff due to his apparent Pro-Russian stance.
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Only Trump would order an investigation into someone who told people NOT to break the law.
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This is totally unfair. Witkoff and Kushner had extensive help from the Russian foreign ministry, and they are trying to hog all the credit. SMH.
One man -- Marco Rubio -- serves this country as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.

And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.

🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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No the Democrats in this video aren't "implying" anything. Members of the armed forces ARE required to refuse illegal orders. This is simple. Not controversial at all. And it's super revealing that MAGA is so worried that troops won't carry out an illegal order from Trump.
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.

"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This has been going on for nearly ten years.
Yet another delay while Republicans wait to see if a health care plan will fall from the sky.
White House healthcare proposal “delayed.”

(I know you’re all shocked.)
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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How embarrassing.

Administration sources were all-in on this Russian wishlist until it was revealed that it was an *actual* Russian wishlist and not just the worst possible peace plan for Ukraine.
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM