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Cienfuegos 🇨🇺🇵🇷🇺🇦 🔆 🌻
@madjackstan.bsky.social
Cuba-Rican o Cubariqueño 🇨🇺 🇵🇷| Estadista| Geopolitics and IR Stuff| UKR OSINT| SocDem, but DemSoc | Red-Brown Hate Account | I reskeet a lot | ADHD|
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My reach on socials doesn't = Ryan's, but I feel need to continue drumbeat. THESE WERE ALREADY ILLEGAL strikes. The doubletap makes it MORE OBVIOUS, not MORE ILLEGAL. (ok. it's a bit more illegal; since it opens a whole new category of illegal).
(we tried people at Nuremburg for crimes like this).
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Who are the Ds ready to take this seriously?
So I'm pretty sure a three star knows that an order to strike alleged combatants who are hors de combat is facially illegal, in case anyone's still having any hangups on whether Bradley needs to be in the dock after this
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I understand the reasons some non-Americans have for using this, but this post is correct — you’ll be immediately ignored here if you use it.

If I wrote a post referring to “UKians” all the people living there would ignore me too, and rightly so.
If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Fan of Jeni's ice cream? Well, their workers in Columbus, Ohio are trying to unionize its eight retail stores across the region.
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams workers in Columbus move to unionize
Eighty workers across all eight Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams locations in Columbus filed a petition to unionize with UFCW Local 1059 on Nov. 25.
www.dispatch.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Just in time for "Operation Arrest the Popular War Hero Astronaut"
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25

President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)

news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Another bad indicator for local media (and, frankly, local party communication channels): I live less than two miles from the Florida district referenced here and had no idea there was an election happening.
More elections are already around the corner, mere days.

And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida.

And that's just the tip of a busy election month.

My new guide, just out:
The 25 Elections to Watch This December - Bolts
On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have opportunities to gain further ground in December runoffs and special elections. They’re hoping for upsets in conservative territory, fro...
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
We need to normalize it being normal to be rude when someone who you barely know is asking when you’re getting married after you establish you’ve been dating for a couple years. Like no I actually don’t feel like talking about my life priorities with you.
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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The location ID on twitter revealing that 99% of the horrible shit on that website is just posted by people in India honestly soothed me a lot. Its literally all just fake.
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Genuinely, how do you as a leftist rationalize advocating for Zohran Mamdani, an ethnically South Asian man, while also posting an image of a racial caricature that’s meant to demean people from his background.
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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I maybe be just a small-town political scientist but I reckon that the Trump administration's right hand has no fucking idea what its far-right hand is doing.
"US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan." Welcome to the Topsy Turvy administration in which six or seven people are pursuing their own private foreign policy, and much of it is scripted by a hostile foreign power.
US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Your periodic reminder that @radiofreetom.bsky.social who many of you like to follow, and who writes for the Atlantic, was pushing the great replacement theory before Trump and has never apologized for it. He's part of what got us here.
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Court politics are inherently incoherent.
So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid.

Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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"When I’m trying to make arguments in favor for Israel, I realize I’m talking through a wall of dead children”

Rather than banning cell phones to avoid this wouldn't a better solution be to stop making walls of dead children?
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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"dont you feel like we're spending a little TOO much time discussing the secretive cabal of elite pedophiles who continue to control the country and force insane, wasteful grifts down our throats" get in the fucking sea
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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This morning, the President of the United States publicly called for the execution of six Members of Congress.

Donald Trump must be removed from office. Today.

He is a clear & present danger to this country. Right now. Invoke the 25th Amendment, or impeach & convict him. Now.
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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begging defense analysts to stop writing stuff that assumes that operating a MQ-9 Reaper and operating a $400 FPV drone is pretty much the same thing and works about the same way
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Autocracy 101.
Totally normal for the father of an executive, putatively unconnected with their company, to hold talks with a presidential administration about which journalists they'd fire if that company successfully takes over a third company. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks
Exclusive: Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros Discovery
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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sometimes people's later work is different just because they were in a different place. when he started out, ta-nehisi coates was constrained to saying the most interesting things you were allowed to say at the atlantic, which was great to read because that's like being really excellent at sonnets.
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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take a moment to think about how you were feeling, what they were doing, and what the press coverage about all this was like in February, as compared to now
Gonna go ahead and say it actually feels like it's falling apart.
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Oh my GOD. Holy shit. Holy shit holy shit holy shit.

To non-lawyers: this level of incompetence is BREATHTAKING. It is absolutely incomprehensible. This is a "mistake" that will be taught in criminal procedure classes for GENERATIONS.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Because a post-Madura government would have more legitimacy and would be more stable, if Venezuelans overthrow Maduro. Overthrowing Maduro via a foreign military intervention gives Maduro a degree of legitimacy.
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM