@dharmadad.bsky.social
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Useful explainer for media covering the boat strikes. Here’s the gist:
It’s not an armed conflict, so the boat strikes are murder.
If it were an armed conflict, targeted killing of civilians is a war crime.
EVEN IF these are combatants in an armed conflict, killing the shipwrecked is a war crime.
It’s not an armed conflict, so the boat strikes are murder.
If it were an armed conflict, targeted killing of civilians is a war crime.
EVEN IF these are combatants in an armed conflict, killing the shipwrecked is a war crime.
Excellent explainer by the inimitable @tessbridgeman.bsky.social, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social, and @mikeschmitt.bsky.social
Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors: An Expert Backgrounder
An expert backgrounder on the reported Hegseth "no quarter" order to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2.
www.justsecurity.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Useful explainer for media covering the boat strikes. Here’s the gist:
It’s not an armed conflict, so the boat strikes are murder.
If it were an armed conflict, targeted killing of civilians is a war crime.
EVEN IF these are combatants in an armed conflict, killing the shipwrecked is a war crime.
It’s not an armed conflict, so the boat strikes are murder.
If it were an armed conflict, targeted killing of civilians is a war crime.
EVEN IF these are combatants in an armed conflict, killing the shipwrecked is a war crime.
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"Re: 'There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!': No there aren't, my side is the 'People Who Don't Fuck Children' side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?" — John Scalzi
"Re: 'There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!': No there aren't, my side is the 'People Who Don't Fuck Children' side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?" — John Scalzi
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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"Re: 'There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!': No there aren't, my side is the 'People Who Don't Fuck Children' side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?" — John Scalzi
"Re: 'There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!': No there aren't, my side is the 'People Who Don't Fuck Children' side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?" — John Scalzi
It makes me just think, what the actual F@c$! Congress just gives this guy a pass - and the Supreme court seems to already granted him lawlessness
October 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It makes me just think, what the actual F@c$! Congress just gives this guy a pass - and the Supreme court seems to already granted him lawlessness