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audhd, nonbinary, anti-capitalist, secessionist. break the US into 6-12 countries.
more coming soon (hopefully).
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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · Sep 10
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
If the actions of the US military are justifiable, why would this need to be a question?

“That assertion… appears to be part of the effort to shoehorn the fight against cartels into a law-of-war framework, analysts said.”

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The Washington post Headline: U.S. troops not liable in boat strikes, classified Justice Dept. memo says Lede: The Trump administration laywers said that U.S. military personnel engaged in lethal action in Latin America would not be exposed to future prosecution, according to four people familiar with the matter. November 12 at 10:54 AM 2025 The decision to pursue an opinion, drafted in July, reflects the heightened concerns within the government raised by senior civilian and military lawyers that such strikes would be illegal. The strikes, now totaling 19, with a death toll of 76, began in September, though interagency discussions regarding the use of lethal force to combat drug cartels started early in the Trump administration. Top officers, including Adm. Alvin Holsey, the head of Southern Command, sought caution on such strikes, according to two people, who like several others interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter's sensitivity. Holsey wanted to make sure any option presented to the president was fully vetted first, one person said. In October, he abruptly announced he was resigning at year's end, which will be about a year into what is typically a three-year assignment. A Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell, has previously denied that Holsey had "hesitation or any concerns" about the mission. A spokesperson for Holsey said he had no information to provide about such discussions. "The [boat] strikes were ordered consistent with the laws of armed conflict, and as such are lawful orders," said a Justice Department spokesperson in response to a request for comment. "Military personnel are legally obligated to follow lawful orders and, as such, are not subject to prosecution for following lawful orders." The opinion, which runs nearly 50 pages, also argues that the United States is in a "non-international armed conflict" waged under the president's Article Il authorities, a core element to the analysis that the strikes are permissible under domestic law. The armed-conflict argument, which was also made in a notice to Congress from the administration last month, is fleshed out in more detail by the OLC. The opinion also states that drug cartels are selling drugs to finance a campaign of violence and extortion, according to four people. That assertion, which runs counter to the conventional wisdom that traffickers use violence to protect their drug business, appears to be part of the effort to shoehorn the fight against cartels into a law-of-war framework, analysts said.
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
Even if the files by some magical measure of luck bring Trump down, much of the damage done is irreversible as long as MAGA still maintains their vast control.

It isn’t *just* Trump! He is just the cult of personality that brought it all together.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Headline: How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters by Jeremy Kohler November 12, 5:30am ET Under Justice Department standards and requirements, people seeking pardons generally must wait five years after their release from incar-ceration, demonstrate good conduct and remorse, and file petitions through the Office of the Pardon Attorney. But Trump's actions in his second term show he has largely abandoned that process. Those who have followed the rules are still waiting. They include small-business owners with decades-old fraud cases, veterans seeking to regain the gun rights that were stripped away with their convictions and people working jobs far below their experience because of the stigma of a criminal record. In his second term, the break from the formal process has only widened: Only 10 of the roughly 1,600 people granted pardons had filed petitions to the Office of the Pardon Attorney, and even within that small group, some did not appear to meet the Justice Department's standards and requirements. A huge chunk of the pardons, roughly 1,500, were people convicted for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. The rest have come largely through back channels. In some of the more striking cases, Trump's pardons erased not only criminal convictions for defendants tied to large-scale corruption and financial crimes but the restitution judges had ordered or that defendants had agreed to pay.
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
Are y’all happy now? A scant piece of Trump/Epstein “evidence.”

And you know what the end result is going to be?

Trump’s continued authoritarian rule, an invasion of Venezuela and much, much, much more abuse of immigrants at the hands of ICE.

There will be no deus ex machina.
The Washington post Headline: House Democrats release Epstein email that claimed Trump 'spent hours' with victim Lede: In the 2011 email, the disgraced financier wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump had "spent hours at my house" with one of Epstein's victims and that encounter "has never once been mentioned" by police. November 12 at 9:40 AM 2025
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
Department of War.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The Washington post Headline: U.S. aircraft carrier nears Latin America as Venezuela orders mobilization Lede: Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said that Venezuela would put the entire country's military arsenal at the ready, including militia and almost 200,000 soldiers. November 11 at 9:24 PM 2025 The Ford and its three accompanying warships arrived in the region Tuesday, the Navy said in a news release. The ships were not yet in the Caribbean Sea but had crossed into the U.S. Southern Command's jurisdiction, a vast area that also includes part of the Atlantic Ocean and drug smuggling routes in the Pacific used by cartels based in Colombia and neighboring Ecuador. "These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle transnational criminal organizations," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement. The development, though forecast weeks ago, appeared certain to deepen the sense of unease felt in some corners of Congress since President Donald Trump began to ruminate about a potential regime change in Venezuela. Last week, administration officials hoping to quash bipartisan legislation aimed at restraining the president's ability to unleash military force there told lawmakers no active preparations were underway for such an attack — a declaration that persuaded enough Republicans to vote down the measure.
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
Looks like the councilors of Limburg want to make their own permanent replacement.

But also, yes, the Trump administration is not being very subtle in its attempts to cleanse the history (and future) of the US.

www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/call...
Provincial councillors in Limburg have called for a permanent memorial to black American servicemen to be erected next to the US war cemetery in Margraten after it emerged that panels commemorating their part in the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945 have been removed. NRC reported at the weekend that the two panels were taken away from a permanent exhibition at the cemetery, one of which said that black American soldiers had fought on two fronts: against Nazi occupation and racism. The panels were removed at an unknown time earlier this year, after The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing US think tank, accused the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) of defying Donald Trump's crackdown on diversity. programmes. Segregated army The plaques commemorating black soldiers were included the following year. One of them honours the one million black servicemen who fought in Europe during the Second World War, many doing menial tasks such as grave digging in the segregated US army. The other tells the story of George H Pruitt, a 23-year-old soldier who drowned in June 1945 - a month after the war ended - while laying a telephone line across a river near Bremen, Germany, during the reconstruction.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
I am glad the UK is taking some amount of stand, but this is absolutely a sign of the direction we are headed in as Trump ramps up his war of aggression on the Americas.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Headline: Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break Natasha Bertrand, CNN Updated 10:09 AM EST November 11, 2025 The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The UK's decision marks a significant break from its closest ally and intelligence sharing partner and underscores the growing skepticism over the legality of the US military's campaign around Latin America. For years, the UK, which controls a number of territories in the Caribbean where it bases intelligence assets, has helped the US locate vessels suspected of carrying drugs so that the US Coast Guard could interdict them, the sources said. That meant the ships would be stopped, boarded, its crew detained, and drugs seized. The intelligence was typically sent to Joint Interagency Task Force South, a task force stationed in Florida that includes representatives from a number of partner nations and works to reduce the illicit drug trade. But shortly after the US began launching lethal strikes against the boats in September, however, the UK grew concerned that the US might use intelligence provided by the British to select targets. British officials believe the US military strikes, which have killed 76 people, violate international law, the sources said. The intelligence pause began over a month ago, they said. The UN's human rights chief, Volker Türk, said last month that the strikes violate international law and amount to "extrajudicial killing." The UK agrees with that assessment, the sources told CNN.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
We don’t need to change people’s minds.

We just need to comfortably remind them of the concept of fact checking.
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
So apparently if you have a phone near an ICE agent (who is likely unidentifiable as an ICE agent unless, ironically enough, they are masked up) they are free to accuse you of following their “operation.”

Yeah, this is a healthy society! Good job, USA!

www.latimes.com/california/s...
Headline: Fullerton police stop man pointing gun at female driver, only to learn he is ICE agent By Brittny Mejia and Rachel Uranga Nov. 10, 2025 11:26 AM PT • A plainclothes ICE agent pointed his gun at a female driver in Santa Ana, claiming she was following his operation. Fullerton police intervened. • The agent's justification - that the woman was following the operation - echoes a growing tactic as immigration agents confront people recording or documenting their activity. • The incident is one of many nationwide raising concerns about plainclothes agents being mistaken for criminals and vice versa, prompting the FBI to urge proper identification.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
I don’t see what Bernie’s so worried about.

TrumpRX got the popular diet pills on there last week!!

What other healthcare could Americans possibly need??
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Welcome to the hellscape Republicans been fawning over since Reagan.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
While I would absolutely believe this, it does not appear to be true.

Seems to be making some rounds, though. Be sure to not live in a glass house.

www.qwant.com?t=web&q=pilo...
Screenshot of web search results, the top ones being fact check sites because the quote isn’t true.
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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brianvan.bsky.social
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
Democrats won where democrats win in 2025 while Trump’s administration/Supreme Court prepare to discount democratic victories (in both senses) in 2026 and 2028.

This false confidence is what will destroy us.

We need to:
1) Break the two party system
2) Break the US into 6-12 countries
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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tallgirl6234.bsky.social
Yes!!!!! This is such a wonderful moment in history.
Hit for six: why India’s Women’s Cricket World Cup win is victory for equality
Sacrifices made to reach final – defying social stigma, lack of resources and juggling jobs between training – makes victory still more extraordinary
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Mamdani is already cleaning up the NYPD!
Screenshot of a tweet from Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) on Twitter. The tweet reads: “CONFIRMED: Spoke to at least 6 NYPD officers and they told me that many of the rank and file have already started to put their early retirement papers in and are actively looking for departments in North Carolina, Tennessee and Florida. All thanks to Zohran Mamdani getting elected..” Below the tweet are three images in a collage: 1. Zohran Mamdani smiling and looking to the side on a city street, wearing a dark blazer and white shirt. 2. An NYPD SUV parked at an intersection in Times Square with people walking nearby. 3. A group of NYPD officers standing in uniform indoors, hands folded in front. Timestamp: 9:22 PM · 11/6/25 · 215K Views.
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
Y’all need to stop being so overconfident based on a handful of elections this week.

Trump is actively working to discount any votes that will go against him in 2026 and his third term in 2028.

With the Supreme Court/ICE/National Guard: Mamdani will feel the weight of victory on day 1.
Headline: This is how the Trump coalition unravels Lede: The 2025 elections illuminate a nightmare scenario for the Republican Party. By Eric Levitz | November 5, 2025 4:45 pm EST The Republican Party has had better days. In Tuesday's off-year elections, the GOP lost every major race by a mile. Democratic candidates won the Virginia governor's race by around 15 points, the New Jersey gubernatorial election by 13, and Georgia's statewide public commissioner elections by more than 25 points. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Supreme Court justices retained their seats in a landslide.
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
Genuinely don’t know why air traffic controllers kept showing up to work.

If my boss said to me, “hey, your work is really important, but I am not going to pay you and probably no back pay,” then I am going to fuck off.

And I say this as a person who takes work responsibilities *super* seriously.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Headline: FAA Disruptions Could Rise to 20% if Shutdown Continues Lede: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says as the air-traffic controllers miss paychecks, more might start to miss their shifts
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
What if Major League Baseball was just Red Sox vs Yankees?

That’s it. Those two teams playing against each other every single game.

Would that be a good sport?

Yet Americans, supposedly fans of the marketplace of ideas, are ok with just Democrats vs Republicans.

Break the two party system.
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
Weird, Peter Thiel is spot on!

“if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it," Thiel wrote.

Thanks to the greed and gullibility of our elders, the cruelty and relentlessness of American Capitalism is quite clear to our eyes every single day.
Headline: An email from Peter Thiel on why people may turn on capitalism is going viral Lede: Peter Thiel once offered a simple theory for why millennials are more supportive of social-ism. His once-private email is being shared once again after Zohran Mamdani's victory. By Brent D. Griffiths Nov 6, 2025, 1:45 PM ET "When 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist, we need to do better than simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid or entitled or brainwashed; we should try and understand why," Thiel wrote in a Jan- uary 2020 email to top Facebook leaders, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg, and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. "from the perspective of a broken generational compact, there seems to be a pretty straightforward answer to me, namely, that when one has too much student debt or if housing is too unaffordable, then one will have negative capital for a long time and/or find it very hard to start accumulating capital in the form of real estate; and if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it," Thiel wrote.
November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
This sure seems like a clear indication that the Trump administration plans to hit NYC very hard with ICE and the National Guard once Mamdani takes office.

www.wired.com/story/maga-r...
WIRED Headline: 'New York City Has Fallen': MAGA Responds to Zohran Mamdani's Victory With a Racist Freak-Out Lede: Republican lawmakers, right-wing influencers, far-right extremists, and conspiracy theorists pushed anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric after Zohran Mamdani's victory. DAVID GILBERT 11.05.25 09:11 AM White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump administration's immigration policy, meanwhile posted a screenshot from a 2023 report on the Nyc.gov website that showed around 50 percent of New York households contain at least one immigrant, without adding a comment. Screenshot of Stephen Miller tweet. Quote in next image. Household and Family Types Family Household Types by Immigration Status (%) Almost 50 percent of New Yorkers live in family households with at least one immigrant. Over one million children, equaling 62 percent of all children in New York City, live in a household with at least one foreign-born family member. Of the one million New Yorkers who live in mixed-status households, 265,500 or 27 percent are children. 80 percent of these children, are U.S.-born citizens. Mixed status households demonstrate that all New Yorkers are impacted by federal policies that separate families. nyc.gov
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
Savor the victory, but the fight hasn’t even begun.

Break the two party stranglehold on American politics.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Guardian US news Headline: Democrats have racked up election wins across America - but they would do well not to misread the results Lede: Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York and gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey have given Democrats a night better than they dared hope for But while losing elections is bad, misreading the results can be worse. When Democrats narrowly lost the House of Representatives in 2022 but outperformed expectations, they took it as a sign that all was well with the status quo. Instead of challenging Joe Biden, they let him run for a second presidential term and paid the price. Democrats would do well not to over-interpret Tuesday's blowout. The party locked out of power always tends to be energised. Trump lost New Jersey and Virginia three times. In New York, Mamdani could not have chosen a more beatable opponent than the scandal-plagued Cuomo. In Virginia, Earle-Sears was no Glenn Youngkin, the Republican who skilfully kept Trump at arm's length without alienating him four years ago. And although Democrats have done well in special elections all year, the party's brand is still under water. In July its approval rating hit a 30-year-low. Last week a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos opinion poll found that 68% of Americans think Democrats are out of touch - more than the 63% who see Trump in the same way. Tuesday alone was never going to solve the riddle. In New York the charismatic Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, electrified young progressives to become the city's first Muslim mayor and give the left one of its biggest victories in years. But in New Jersey and Virginia it was Sherrill and Spanberger, two don't-frighten-the-horses centrists with national security credentials, who prevailed. Progressives and moderates were both given fodder to make a case that they have the antidote to Trumpism. The reality, of course, in a wildly diverse country of 50 states and 340 million people, is not one or the other, but all of the above. The maxim that all politics is local has taken a beating in recent years, but is not entirely dead.
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
This win is exactly why we need to break the United States into 6 to 12 countries.

Tonight New Yorkers will celebrate their democratic will!

Tomorrow Fox News will be telling people in Idaho why Trump *needs* to send the National Guard into NYC.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL LIVE Election Day 2025: Mamdani Wins New York Last Updated: November 4, 2025, 9:36 pm EST
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
Remember that confused look on Joe Biden’s face as he stood, a false “transitional” president, ill equipped to handle the moment, on the 2024 debate stage.

That is the face of the Democratic Party.

They will not save you.

Break the two party stranglehold on American politics.
jbendery.bsky.social Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 7d
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
“Will Europeans trust a MAGA army to protect them?”

Given how the US has begun cutting off arms sales to Europe in it’s America First/war on Venezuela/continental Americas, I don’t think you should be counting on much support from across the pond.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Headline: THE U.S. IS QUIETLY PAUSING SOME ARMS SALES TO EUROPE Lede: As part of the "America First" agenda, the Department of Defense is stockpiling weapons. By Vivian Salama SEPTEMBER 19, 2025 The comments surprised some State officials, but they soon learned that it wasn't just Denmark having its access cut off. Current and former administration officials told me the Pentagon has identified some weapons as being in short supply, and is moving to block new requests for those systems coming in from Europe. It wasn't immediately clear to those I spoke with how long the hold will last, how many weapons are on the list, or if it could expand to include even more weapons. Few exemptions will be granted. There have been concerns about Patriot shortages for months: The U.S. has only about 25 percent of the missile interceptors needed for the Pentagon's military plans, according to Defense Department officials. But the Patriot doesn't really have a European equivalent, which makes it a valuable and highly sought-after system across a continent newly concerned about aerial attacks, a risk driven home today after Estonia, a NATO member, said that Russian military jets had violated its airspace.
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
mxttqhuman.bsky.social
Remember, under capitalism *all* workers are exploited.

This is not scary hyperbole, this is basic economic fact.

With all other factors being equal, *profits* can only exist by squeezing the worker.

But we keep accepting it cause we watch TV and hope one day that will be us in the fancy house.
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM