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So, to recap:

Washington Post story breaks on Hegseth.

Pentagon says fake news.

White House confirms the story roughly 12 hours later - and defends it.

Press Sec confirms that Hegseth personally ordered the execution of the two stranded men.

This isn’t going well.
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I would love to know how two fisherman floating on debris from the boat they were just blown off off were such a danger. This Administration has committed war crimes. It is time to stop disguising it.
Reporter: You said that the follow-up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors? 

Leavitt: The strike conducted on September 2 was conducted in self-defense to protect Americans in vital United States interests
December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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In other words, I don’t have a good answer to your question so I’m going to pretend that my lame answer to a totally unasked question will suffice. 😉😂😃🤡💩🤡💩🤡💩
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Sen. Mark Kelly: “President Trump is trying to silence me. Threatening to kill me for saying what is true. And he sent his Secretary of Defense after me. And it's not going to work.”
December 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The critical thing here is that Leavitt is distancing Hegseth from the final act of delivering the ultimate order for the strike that killed the two men in the water. She only acknowledges that Hegseth directed the initial destroying of the boat.

That raises new Qs:

newrepublic.com/article/2037...
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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This is why military service members should refuse to follow illegal orders. Because when the shit hits the fan, Trunp and Hegseth will deny everything and blame you. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Reporter: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order 

Leavitt: The latter is true
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Reporter: Why won't the administration confirm or deny whether or not there were a survivors after that initial first strike? What imminent threat would survivors pose who were clinging presumably to the wreckage of that boat?

Leavitt: You guys are not listening fully to the statement I provided.
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Jeffries: "It even appears that the Trump administration was ready to put forth a plan that would at least have been worthy of consideration, and that Mike Johnson tanked it. So now Mike Johnson wants to act like he's the Speaker of the House?"
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Breaking: Sen. Jacky Rosen of the Foreign Relations Cmte. says, if reports are true, "Hegseth likely committed a war crime when he gave an illegal order that led to the killing of incapacitated survivors of the U.S. strike in the Caribbean."

Rosen adds: "He should resign immediately."
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Admiral Bradley can take the hit for an administration that doesn't give two shits about him or the military in general, or he can drop his retirement papers and out every single political appointee involved. We'll soon see what kind of officer and leader he is.
REPORTER: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened, or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order?

LEAVITT: The latter. Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. He worked well within his authority and the law.
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I looked Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon dead in the eye and asked, “Do you think you can shut down the Department of Education?”

She said, “No, I don’t have the legal authority to do that.”

Yet here we are.

Linda McMahon should resign.
December 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Tim Kaine — both on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — say that if Pete Hegseth did, in fact, order a follow-on attack to kill survivors of a September boat strikes, such orders would rise to the level of war crimes.
December 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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If your doctor decided you needed an MRI (indicating concern about something serious) and you claim that you didn't ask why or what part of your body he wanted to look at, you are:

1. Really stupid; or

2. Dangerously detached from reality; or

4. Lying; or

4. All three. 🎯
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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FYI: the EXAMPLE of what a war crime is in the DoD Law of War manual is EXACTLY what Hegseth did. bsky.app/profile/jjin...
⚖️ DoD Law of War Manual, page 1075:

"For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal."

ogc.osd.mil/Portals/99/d...
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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📌I don't know a single person who ever had an MRI and didn't know what it was for.
So, either Trump is in such cognitive decline that he can't remember these things, or he is somehow even sicker than he looks, and is hiding this information.

Either way, this is a MAJOR story, because he is unfit.
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Fired US Immigration judge Tania Nemer files federal civil suit against Atty Gen Pam Bondi alleging sex discrimination

Suit: "According to the final agency decision, the President may now fire female federal workers like Ms. Nemer—because of their sex—and the law would have nothing to say about it"
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Affirmed - Alina Habba illegally appointed.
BREAKING: We won! 3rd Circuit affirms illegality of Habba appointment

We @democracydefendersfund.org are honored to work on this case with the wonderful folks at Lowell & Associates, Gerald Krovatin & many others 👇
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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NEWS: A unanimous Third Circuit panel rules that Alina Habba is not U.S. Attorney, cannot be Acting U.S. Attorney, and cannot have the powers delegated to her. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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NEWS: A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that Alina Habba is disqualified from serving as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey — calling her appointment unlawful and void. The 3rd Circuit panel upheld a prior decision that her tenure violated federal appointment law.
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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About that phone call being perfect…
If this were your dad, you’d be texting the siblings: “We need to talk.”
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM