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Follow up: it doesn’t say it’s illegal to fire on incapacitated shipwrecked. It just says it’s illegal to fire on the shipwrecked. Where’d you get “incapacitated” and why are you such an asshole?
Q: "The Pentagon's Law of War manual…says 'Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.' Given that, how was that follow up strike on the two survivors legal?"
Tom Cotton: "They were not incapacitated… They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat."
Tom Cotton: "They were not incapacitated… They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat."
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Follow up: it doesn’t say it’s illegal to fire on incapacitated shipwrecked. It just says it’s illegal to fire on the shipwrecked. Where’d you get “incapacitated” and why are you such an asshole?
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I love how people can just say something and it’s instantly taken as truth, even when their actions throughout history completely contradict those supposed beliefs. I’m exhausted by this whole “originalist” charade — a concept we’ve all known was nonsense for as long as it’s existed.
December 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I love how people can just say something and it’s instantly taken as truth, even when their actions throughout history completely contradict those supposed beliefs. I’m exhausted by this whole “originalist” charade — a concept we’ve all known was nonsense for as long as it’s existed.
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Still think Trump/Russia is a “hoax”?
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
U.S. Flips History by Casting Europe—Not Russia—as Villain in New Security Policy
An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO allies.
www.wsj.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Still think Trump/Russia is a “hoax”?
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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folks, is "let's murder everyone for whatever reason we want" a good policy
WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
folks, is "let's murder everyone for whatever reason we want" a good policy
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This line in the Trump administration National Security Strategy is explicit pro-white prejudice as policy www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This line in the Trump administration National Security Strategy is explicit pro-white prejudice as policy www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
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In their infinite wisdom, the Trump admin including RFK jr’s HHS has RESCINDED Biden’s rule for nursing home staffing minimums. Now nursing homes will be even more under staffed than they are now.
HHS is spinning it as a “clean-up”.
www.naco.org/news/hhs-rel...
HHS is spinning it as a “clean-up”.
www.naco.org/news/hhs-rel...
December 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In their infinite wisdom, the Trump admin including RFK jr’s HHS has RESCINDED Biden’s rule for nursing home staffing minimums. Now nursing homes will be even more under staffed than they are now.
HHS is spinning it as a “clean-up”.
www.naco.org/news/hhs-rel...
HHS is spinning it as a “clean-up”.
www.naco.org/news/hhs-rel...
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
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Perhaps Donald Trump should sign an executive order declaring June 14 (his birthday) to be National Racial Animus Day.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Perhaps Donald Trump should sign an executive order declaring June 14 (his birthday) to be National Racial Animus Day.
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“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
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This account on Twitter has 1.3 million followers. All of these generic MAGA accounts are operated by Russians or people in SE Asia being paid to post. American democracy has been captured by Russia.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This account on Twitter has 1.3 million followers. All of these generic MAGA accounts are operated by Russians or people in SE Asia being paid to post. American democracy has been captured by Russia.
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Having been (obviously) ignored for the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump’s friend who runs FIFA created a FIFA peace prize and gave it to Trump today. You have to appease him like a toddler. Pathetic, but also terrifying, stuff.
December 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Having been (obviously) ignored for the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump’s friend who runs FIFA created a FIFA peace prize and gave it to Trump today. You have to appease him like a toddler. Pathetic, but also terrifying, stuff.
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Straight out of the Nazi playbook.
Fox & Friends and Pam Bondi are now sensationalizing specific instances of Somalis being charged with crimes in Minnesota to demonize the whole population
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Straight out of the Nazi playbook.
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The latest Pulitzer Prize submission from a member of the new MAGA Pentagon press corps.
December 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The latest Pulitzer Prize submission from a member of the new MAGA Pentagon press corps.
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Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
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A masterclass in how to be an honest, no-holds barred journalist.
If only we had more like her
If only we had more like her
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
A masterclass in how to be an honest, no-holds barred journalist.
If only we had more like her
If only we had more like her
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So you gonna drop your lawsuit against us right, Pam?
December 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
So you gonna drop your lawsuit against us right, Pam?
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THIS IS BOTH AMUSING AND ALARMING.
NOTHING IN THIS COUNTRY IS DONE BY PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION, YET EVERY TIME HE DOES THIS, CONGRESS BENDS OVER AND MAKES IT SO.
NOTHING IN THIS COUNTRY IS DONE BY PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION, YET EVERY TIME HE DOES THIS, CONGRESS BENDS OVER AND MAKES IT SO.
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
THIS IS BOTH AMUSING AND ALARMING.
NOTHING IN THIS COUNTRY IS DONE BY PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION, YET EVERY TIME HE DOES THIS, CONGRESS BENDS OVER AND MAKES IT SO.
NOTHING IN THIS COUNTRY IS DONE BY PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION, YET EVERY TIME HE DOES THIS, CONGRESS BENDS OVER AND MAKES IT SO.
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“Postliberalism” is such an end of history ass name for a reactionary ideology
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
“Postliberalism” is such an end of history ass name for a reactionary ideology
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When trying to avoid drowning is "staying in the fight."
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
When trying to avoid drowning is "staying in the fight."
😂🤦♀️😂🤦♀️😂🤦♀️
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
😂🤦♀️😂🤦♀️😂🤦♀️
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You can feel it. The silence is loud.
The President of the United States calls female reporters ugly, and people garbage, and you look the other way.
We see your silence.
Thank you for letting us know who you really are.
The President of the United States calls female reporters ugly, and people garbage, and you look the other way.
We see your silence.
Thank you for letting us know who you really are.
December 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
You can feel it. The silence is loud.
The President of the United States calls female reporters ugly, and people garbage, and you look the other way.
We see your silence.
Thank you for letting us know who you really are.
The President of the United States calls female reporters ugly, and people garbage, and you look the other way.
We see your silence.
Thank you for letting us know who you really are.