Margiem
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You can extrapolate this tactic all the way down to local police. No matter how absurd, they’ll frame any victim of their violence as the aggressor. Even if unarmed and drowning.
I cannot imagine the level of moral bankruptcy to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay 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 8:59 PM
You can extrapolate this tactic all the way down to local police. No matter how absurd, they’ll frame any victim of their violence as the aggressor. Even if unarmed and drowning.
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Yeats— and very appropriate tonight.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
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December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Yeats— and very appropriate tonight.
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Two things the Democrats shouldn’t be shy about saying plainly these days: the Supreme Court is illegitimate and Pete Hegseth is a psychopath.
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Two things the Democrats shouldn’t be shy about saying plainly these days: the Supreme Court is illegitimate and Pete Hegseth is a psychopath.
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"Two survivors, shirtless, clung to the hull, tried unsuccessfully to flip it back over, then climbed on it and slipped off into the water, over and over."
"Then Adm. Frank M. Bradley ... gave an order for a follow-up strike. Three flashes of light filled the video screen. And the men were gone."
"Then Adm. Frank M. Bradley ... gave an order for a follow-up strike. Three flashes of light filled the video screen. And the men were gone."
NYTimes adds: "But the video did not show any radios or satellite phones, according to the people familiar with the briefings, and a surveillance plane apparently did not spot any nearby boat."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"Two survivors, shirtless, clung to the hull, tried unsuccessfully to flip it back over, then climbed on it and slipped off into the water, over and over."
"Then Adm. Frank M. Bradley ... gave an order for a follow-up strike. Three flashes of light filled the video screen. And the men were gone."
"Then Adm. Frank M. Bradley ... gave an order for a follow-up strike. Three flashes of light filled the video screen. And the men were gone."
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And the sick fuckers in charge just watched them there, suffering, and then, after almost an hour of premeditation and deliberations, murdered them too.
There is no context, no explanation, no rationalization that will ever make this anything other than a My Lai level event.
There is no context, no explanation, no rationalization that will ever make this anything other than a My Lai level event.
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
And the sick fuckers in charge just watched them there, suffering, and then, after almost an hour of premeditation and deliberations, murdered them too.
There is no context, no explanation, no rationalization that will ever make this anything other than a My Lai level event.
There is no context, no explanation, no rationalization that will ever make this anything other than a My Lai level event.
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Imagine what those two men must have been feeling in the 41 minutes where they were shirtless, clinging to the hull of a severed boat with the body parts of their friends in the water around them, no means of communication, in the middle of the ocean. The terror of it.
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Imagine what those two men must have been feeling in the 41 minutes where they were shirtless, clinging to the hull of a severed boat with the body parts of their friends in the water around them, no means of communication, in the middle of the ocean. The terror of it.
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Evil exists.
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Evil exists.
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Last week, I spoke to SCOTUS scholar @leahlitman.bsky.social in an interview about how the Texas map case posed a test for the Roberts court.
It'd show "immense hypocrisy" to uphold Texas maps, but void Louisiana's, she said.
ICYMI at All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/texas-loui...
It'd show "immense hypocrisy" to uphold Texas maps, but void Louisiana's, she said.
ICYMI at All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/texas-loui...
Texas and Louisiana maps pose test for Roberts Court
SCOTUS scholar Leah Litman says it would show "immense hypocrisy" to uphold Texas maps, but void the Bayou State's.
www.allrisenews.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Last week, I spoke to SCOTUS scholar @leahlitman.bsky.social in an interview about how the Texas map case posed a test for the Roberts court.
It'd show "immense hypocrisy" to uphold Texas maps, but void Louisiana's, she said.
ICYMI at All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/texas-loui...
It'd show "immense hypocrisy" to uphold Texas maps, but void Louisiana's, she said.
ICYMI at All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/texas-loui...
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I'm satisfied that the have PC against Brian Cole, though I think IF THIS IS ALL it is a lower standard of certainty than on most Jan6 cases.
But IF THIS IS ALL the case is going to be VERYYY susceptible to 4A challenge on the cell dumps.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/04/w...
But IF THIS IS ALL the case is going to be VERYYY susceptible to 4A challenge on the cell dumps.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/04/w...
What's Not Being Said about the Alleged Pipe Bomber - emptywheel
The arrest affidavit for Brian Cole, now accused of laying the pipe bombs discovered on January 6, includes only purchase records and location information. There's not a single data point between the ...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I'm satisfied that the have PC against Brian Cole, though I think IF THIS IS ALL it is a lower standard of certainty than on most Jan6 cases.
But IF THIS IS ALL the case is going to be VERYYY susceptible to 4A challenge on the cell dumps.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/04/w...
But IF THIS IS ALL the case is going to be VERYYY susceptible to 4A challenge on the cell dumps.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/04/w...
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BREAKING: The December 8-9 evidentiary hearing for vindictive and selective prosecution in the Abrego case has been CANCELLED. Previously, Abrego's attorney filed a motion to dismiss without the evidentiary hearing over the news about Costa Rica. A sealed order was filed yesterday.
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
BREAKING: The December 8-9 evidentiary hearing for vindictive and selective prosecution in the Abrego case has been CANCELLED. Previously, Abrego's attorney filed a motion to dismiss without the evidentiary hearing over the news about Costa Rica. A sealed order was filed yesterday.
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I hate everything about this.
“.. the administration began pushing for a network of ‘Trump Industrial Parks,’ according to an administration official, with manufacturing infrastructure built on federal land.”
@wsj.com
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December 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I hate everything about this.
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Addressing the claim that America was built by "hard working people" by reminding everyone that America was *actually* built on the backs of enslaved Africans and on the genocide of Indigenous people.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Addressing the claim that America was built by "hard working people" by reminding everyone that America was *actually* built on the backs of enslaved Africans and on the genocide of Indigenous people.
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I have been trying to buy blinds for some windows in my office for five months now. This right here is the problem.
And so I have paper ones up, and I don’t care how they look, and they will stay there until someone makes this whole thing easier on my executive function.
And so I have paper ones up, and I don’t care how they look, and they will stay there until someone makes this whole thing easier on my executive function.
there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I have been trying to buy blinds for some windows in my office for five months now. This right here is the problem.
And so I have paper ones up, and I don’t care how they look, and they will stay there until someone makes this whole thing easier on my executive function.
And so I have paper ones up, and I don’t care how they look, and they will stay there until someone makes this whole thing easier on my executive function.
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Pete Hegseth is a sadistic serial killer.
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Pete Hegseth is a sadistic serial killer.
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41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.
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Unbelievable.
“There was no boat. There was wreckage. There was no radio. There were two guys clinging to a tiny non-awash portion of the keel of a capsized boat,” said one lawmaker
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“There was no boat. There was wreckage. There was no radio. There were two guys clinging to a tiny non-awash portion of the keel of a capsized boat,” said one lawmaker
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Video shows second strike hit before survivors could flip boat, lawmakers say
The footage was shown on Capitol Hill, where Adm. Frank M. Bradley, who oversaw a deadly attack on alleged drug smugglers, faced a day of difficult questions about the operation.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Unbelievable.
“There was no boat. There was wreckage. There was no radio. There were two guys clinging to a tiny non-awash portion of the keel of a capsized boat,” said one lawmaker
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“There was no boat. There was wreckage. There was no radio. There were two guys clinging to a tiny non-awash portion of the keel of a capsized boat,” said one lawmaker
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I mean, this is an execution
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First degree premeditated murder with a conspiracy count attached: u r doin it.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
First degree premeditated murder with a conspiracy count attached: u r doin it.
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I’ve been trying to put words to what I’ve been feeling today between the insane Admirals testimony and the reports of the boat bombing video and SCOTUS and Pete Hegseth’s sociopathic homoeroticized sadism murders.
The word is sickened. I am sickened. It is sickening. This nation is so fcking sick.
The word is sickened. I am sickened. It is sickening. This nation is so fcking sick.
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I’ve been trying to put words to what I’ve been feeling today between the insane Admirals testimony and the reports of the boat bombing video and SCOTUS and Pete Hegseth’s sociopathic homoeroticized sadism murders.
The word is sickened. I am sickened. It is sickening. This nation is so fcking sick.
The word is sickened. I am sickened. It is sickening. This nation is so fcking sick.
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Hegseth is getting off on killing people. He is enjoying it.
So, by the way, is Tom Cotton. That’s what he told us when he called these murders “righteous.”
So, by the way, is Tom Cotton. That’s what he told us when he called these murders “righteous.”
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Hegseth is getting off on killing people. He is enjoying it.
So, by the way, is Tom Cotton. That’s what he told us when he called these murders “righteous.”
So, by the way, is Tom Cotton. That’s what he told us when he called these murders “righteous.”
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Imagine watching two men clinging to wreckage the middle of an ocean and then dropping a bomb on them.
Who you have to be to do that is someone without any empathy, conscience, dignity or capacity for shame. You have to be someone utterly bereft of a moral code.
No one like that should ever serve.
Who you have to be to do that is someone without any empathy, conscience, dignity or capacity for shame. You have to be someone utterly bereft of a moral code.
No one like that should ever serve.
December 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Imagine watching two men clinging to wreckage the middle of an ocean and then dropping a bomb on them.
Who you have to be to do that is someone without any empathy, conscience, dignity or capacity for shame. You have to be someone utterly bereft of a moral code.
No one like that should ever serve.
Who you have to be to do that is someone without any empathy, conscience, dignity or capacity for shame. You have to be someone utterly bereft of a moral code.
No one like that should ever serve.
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Military leaders sat in an office for 42 minutes watching two men on the verge of drowning mid-ocean, clinging to wreckage, with no aid or ability to call for help. They sat there deciding whether to execute them, and then they did it.
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Military leaders sat in an office for 42 minutes watching two men on the verge of drowning mid-ocean, clinging to wreckage, with no aid or ability to call for help. They sat there deciding whether to execute them, and then they did it.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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SPLIT IN HALF?
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
SPLIT IN HALF?
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
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House member @shrithanedar.bsky.social is introducing articles of impeachment that include murder and conspiracy to commit murder against Hegseth.
We all need to lean hard into getting it to the floor. We shouldn’t have to, but Jeffries is useless.
We all need to lean hard into getting it to the floor. We shouldn’t have to, but Jeffries is useless.
Yeah, a House member needs to send up that impeachment flag. This is illegal, immoral, dangerous behavior — that is also likely unconstitutional as well.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
House member @shrithanedar.bsky.social is introducing articles of impeachment that include murder and conspiracy to commit murder against Hegseth.
We all need to lean hard into getting it to the floor. We shouldn’t have to, but Jeffries is useless.
We all need to lean hard into getting it to the floor. We shouldn’t have to, but Jeffries is useless.