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Maria Lorraine
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Thinking about the American version of the WWII French Resistance: clever, organized, relentless.

Journalist: Medicine.
Wine drinker, cook, gardener, singer.
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Inform Sen. Schmitt
he’s a clueless doofus
confusing illegal and legal orders.

Dept of Defense LAW
Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders,
e.g, to fire upon the shipwrecked.
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Hegseth violated the absolute rule of war that you never attack anyone who is shipwrecked, wounded, or defenseless.

After it was clear the two survivors clinging to the boat wreckage posed no threat,
Hegseth still gave the order “kill everybody.”

Every commander knows &
Is trained not to do this.
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Hegseth violated the absolute rule of war that you never attack anyone who is shipwrecked, wounded, or defenseless.

After it was clear the two survivors clinging to the boat wreckage posed no threat,
Hegseth still gave the order “kill everybody.”

Every commander knows &
Is trained not to do this.
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Reposted by Maria Lorraine
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The bribes or commissions or “favors” are behind all Trump transactions.

Esp. “favors”for tariffs.

Follow the wire transfer hops to shell company/offshore accts to disguise detection.

@whitehouse.senate.gov
@warren.senate.gov

Hire the smartest financial forensics accountants in the world.
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Reposted by Maria Lorraine
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov

This is concerning.
You’ve previously affirmed transgender rights.

Please address what Northwestern has done.

(Big fan.)
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Reposted by Maria Lorraine
I can't nail down a precise number, but 475 to 600 nursing homes around the country are expected to close once the BBB kills their Medicaid funding. When a million MAGA families realize their nan is about to move in with them, they may reconsider their support for Trump.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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The bribes or commissions or “favors” are behind all Trump transactions.

Esp. “favors”for tariffs.

Follow the wire transfer hops to shell company/offshore accts to disguise detection.

@whitehouse.senate.gov
@warren.senate.gov

Hire the smartest financial forensics accountants in the world.
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

This is concerning.

You have previously affirmed transgender rights.

Please address what is going on Northwestern.

bsky.app/profile/chri...
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

This is concerning.
You’ve previously affirmed transgender rights.

Please address what Northwestern has done.

(Big fan.)
bsky.app/profile/chri...
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM