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It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
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#b2911 17:40 Berlin Leipziger Platz - Palästina Versammlung: Behinderung von Pressearbeit durch Teilnehmende der Versammlung (Kamera zustellen und Beleidigungen).
Zwei Teilnehmer der Versammlung behindern wiederholt die Pressearbeit, in dem sie die Sicht der Kameras 1/2
Zwei Teilnehmer der Versammlung behindern wiederholt die Pressearbeit, in dem sie die Sicht der Kameras 1/2
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#b2911 17:40 Berlin Leipziger Platz - Palästina Versammlung: Behinderung von Pressearbeit durch Teilnehmende der Versammlung (Kamera zustellen und Beleidigungen).
Zwei Teilnehmer der Versammlung behindern wiederholt die Pressearbeit, in dem sie die Sicht der Kameras 1/2
Zwei Teilnehmer der Versammlung behindern wiederholt die Pressearbeit, in dem sie die Sicht der Kameras 1/2
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When an allegedly US draft peace agreement includes a clause about the US mediating between NATO and Russia, and if the president keeps talking about NATO as if the US isn't part of it, this shouldn't be much of a shock. The US is ceasing to be a NATO ally.
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
When an allegedly US draft peace agreement includes a clause about the US mediating between NATO and Russia, and if the president keeps talking about NATO as if the US isn't part of it, this shouldn't be much of a shock. The US is ceasing to be a NATO ally.
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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This was always the deal. It had nothing to do with American interests, let alone democracy.
It had everything to do with obliging Russian imperialism, so that American oligarchs could get paid. Sacrificing Ukraine for profit.
Bottomless corruption, making the world safe for dictatorship.
It had everything to do with obliging Russian imperialism, so that American oligarchs could get paid. Sacrificing Ukraine for profit.
Bottomless corruption, making the world safe for dictatorship.
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This was always the deal. It had nothing to do with American interests, let alone democracy.
It had everything to do with obliging Russian imperialism, so that American oligarchs could get paid. Sacrificing Ukraine for profit.
Bottomless corruption, making the world safe for dictatorship.
It had everything to do with obliging Russian imperialism, so that American oligarchs could get paid. Sacrificing Ukraine for profit.
Bottomless corruption, making the world safe for dictatorship.
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I call this a technology of coercion because it is almost entirely an upper-elite phenomenon being forced on unaccepting organizations, which frames how I approach “might as well learn how to use it” discourses
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I call this a technology of coercion because it is almost entirely an upper-elite phenomenon being forced on unaccepting organizations, which frames how I approach “might as well learn how to use it” discourses
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Wie Trump in Russland reich werden will.
Was hier nicht steht: Putin geht es nicht ums Geschäft (das hätte er ohne Krieg leichter haben können), sondern um US-Rückendeckung für seine Version des alten Nazi-Projektes zur Eroberung/Umvolkung Mittel-/Osteuropas.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Was hier nicht steht: Putin geht es nicht ums Geschäft (das hätte er ohne Krieg leichter haben können), sondern um US-Rückendeckung für seine Version des alten Nazi-Projektes zur Eroberung/Umvolkung Mittel-/Osteuropas.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Wie Trump in Russland reich werden will.
Was hier nicht steht: Putin geht es nicht ums Geschäft (das hätte er ohne Krieg leichter haben können), sondern um US-Rückendeckung für seine Version des alten Nazi-Projektes zur Eroberung/Umvolkung Mittel-/Osteuropas.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Was hier nicht steht: Putin geht es nicht ums Geschäft (das hätte er ohne Krieg leichter haben können), sondern um US-Rückendeckung für seine Version des alten Nazi-Projektes zur Eroberung/Umvolkung Mittel-/Osteuropas.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Anyone willing to amplify propaganda for a terrorist state should be held to account.
RT, Russia Today, where George Galloway frequently appears, isn’t just Russian state TV. They were an integral part of the torture system, including in my own case.
RT, Russia Today, where George Galloway frequently appears, isn’t just Russian state TV. They were an integral part of the torture system, including in my own case.
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Anyone willing to amplify propaganda for a terrorist state should be held to account.
RT, Russia Today, where George Galloway frequently appears, isn’t just Russian state TV. They were an integral part of the torture system, including in my own case.
RT, Russia Today, where George Galloway frequently appears, isn’t just Russian state TV. They were an integral part of the torture system, including in my own case.
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This confirms everything I've been saying about Trump's "peace efforts" for almost a year now. Read and free yourselves of any doubt about this administration.
Oh, it also would be strategic suicide by the US on many levels.
Oh, it also would be strategic suicide by the US on many levels.
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This confirms everything I've been saying about Trump's "peace efforts" for almost a year now. Read and free yourselves of any doubt about this administration.
Oh, it also would be strategic suicide by the US on many levels.
Oh, it also would be strategic suicide by the US on many levels.
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Exactly. The operator isn't getting an order to "kill these drowning men," they're being told "strike grid coordinates XYZ"
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
Someone made the point - I think Adam Kinzinger - that the problem is it’s one thing to refuse to murder someone if ordered. It’s another to refuse an order where you yourself don’t have the full context and couldn’t possibly - but someone above you does/did
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Exactly. The operator isn't getting an order to "kill these drowning men," they're being told "strike grid coordinates XYZ"
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
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“The strikes are so above board that we shitcanned the SOUTHCOM JAG lawyer for raising concerns!”
a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“The strikes are so above board that we shitcanned the SOUTHCOM JAG lawyer for raising concerns!”
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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
"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 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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i think a major challenges for the next "reasonable" American government, will be that the American people voted for "this" twice.
forging any sort of partnership will be challenging if everyone is afraid that the American people will vote for a trump copycat who will cock everything up.
forging any sort of partnership will be challenging if everyone is afraid that the American people will vote for a trump copycat who will cock everything up.
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
i think a major challenges for the next "reasonable" American government, will be that the American people voted for "this" twice.
forging any sort of partnership will be challenging if everyone is afraid that the American people will vote for a trump copycat who will cock everything up.
forging any sort of partnership will be challenging if everyone is afraid that the American people will vote for a trump copycat who will cock everything up.
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Here is that Commander who was "just following orders."
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Here is that Commander who was "just following orders."
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Absolutely. Doing this remotely with drones or bombs is no different than pulling up in a boat and shooting them in the water. If this isn’t an illegal order, hard to imagine what could be.
And unlike some of the finer questions of “was the president’s inherent Art 2 powers in play”, shouldn’t offing people who are hors de combat be clearly known to be an illegal order all the way down the line to the lowest Seaman?
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Absolutely. Doing this remotely with drones or bombs is no different than pulling up in a boat and shooting them in the water. If this isn’t an illegal order, hard to imagine what could be.
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one thing that democrats are really quite good at is correcting and "fixing" the mistakes of their previous bite at the apple. It goes as far back as Clinton correcting for the legislative failures of Carter!
I find the 'the Democrats won't do anything' doomer line annoying, because the Democrats will be who you make them - look how much the GOP changed over the past decade!
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
one thing that democrats are really quite good at is correcting and "fixing" the mistakes of their previous bite at the apple. It goes as far back as Clinton correcting for the legislative failures of Carter!
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A reminder that the current SECDEF caught the eye of the president by championing the pardoning of American war criminals — men whose own units testified against them, and who were convicted by military juries
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A reminder that the current SECDEF caught the eye of the president by championing the pardoning of American war criminals — men whose own units testified against them, and who were convicted by military juries
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
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My family came to the U.S. before the Immigration Act of 1924 banned Japanese and cut Eastern European immigrants.
Since then, our family fought for our country in WWII, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
We are the land of the free and the home of the brave because of those who became Americans.
Since then, our family fought for our country in WWII, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
We are the land of the free and the home of the brave because of those who became Americans.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My family came to the U.S. before the Immigration Act of 1924 banned Japanese and cut Eastern European immigrants.
Since then, our family fought for our country in WWII, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
We are the land of the free and the home of the brave because of those who became Americans.
Since then, our family fought for our country in WWII, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
We are the land of the free and the home of the brave because of those who became Americans.
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Es war eine Frage der Zeit, bis Gujer auch anfängt, auf einen pro-Putin-Kurs einzuschwenken. Was er hier schreibt, stimmt nicht, und vor allem: Russland hat nicht einmal Bereitschaft erklärt, den furchtbaren Witkoff-Plan zu unterstützen. Russland WILL KEINEN FRIEDEN.
www.nzz.ch/meinung/trum...
www.nzz.ch/meinung/trum...
Die Teilung der Ukraine ist unausweichlich, denn das Land braucht jetzt Frieden
Ein Plan für eine Waffenruhe in der Ukraine liegt in zwei Versionen vor. Jede ist besser als das endlose Sterben, und keine bedeutet eine Kapitulation.
www.nzz.ch
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Es war eine Frage der Zeit, bis Gujer auch anfängt, auf einen pro-Putin-Kurs einzuschwenken. Was er hier schreibt, stimmt nicht, und vor allem: Russland hat nicht einmal Bereitschaft erklärt, den furchtbaren Witkoff-Plan zu unterstützen. Russland WILL KEINEN FRIEDEN.
www.nzz.ch/meinung/trum...
www.nzz.ch/meinung/trum...
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A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
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If your starting point is that you are more afraid of escalation than you are concerned about Russian sabotage, then you have effectively decided that you aren't willing to run the necessary risks to deter Russian grey-zone activity.
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
If your starting point is that you are more afraid of escalation than you are concerned about Russian sabotage, then you have effectively decided that you aren't willing to run the necessary risks to deter Russian grey-zone activity.
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Not sure what he may have in mind. I rather suspect that this is basically face-saving bluster and that in effect he's bowing to what is becoming the inevitable
Vladimir Putin said that his government is drafting reciprocal measures in case the EU decides to use the cash value of frozen Russian assets to finance a €140 billion reparations loan to Ukraine.
Putin warns EU ‘theft’ of frozen assets will trigger retaliatory measures
Russian leader says the use of the assets will be a “theft” and a stress test for Europe’s economy.
www.politico.eu
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Not sure what he may have in mind. I rather suspect that this is basically face-saving bluster and that in effect he's bowing to what is becoming the inevitable
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Ok grandpa let’s take you to the hague
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Ok grandpa let’s take you to the hague
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everyone in the EU /did/ back Ireland in a geopolitical bind, it /did/ proactively participate in maintaining peace in it, and now you act like that didn't happen and you owe us nothing? great, thanks.
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
everyone in the EU /did/ back Ireland in a geopolitical bind, it /did/ proactively participate in maintaining peace in it, and now you act like that didn't happen and you owe us nothing? great, thanks.
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idk if you noticed but when the brits were doing their little brexit psychosis everyone in the EU, including Poland, worried a /lot/ about the GFA, and continues to worry a lot, /on your behalf/
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
idk if you noticed but when the brits were doing their little brexit psychosis everyone in the EU, including Poland, worried a /lot/ about the GFA, and continues to worry a lot, /on your behalf/