Richard Gorrie
@richardgorrie.bsky.social
Historian and educationalist. One foot in the Eighteenth Century and one in the 21st. Ouch. Keep It Complex.
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If you can excuse murdering people hanging on to a blown up boat to save their lives, it's a short step to excusing murdering peaceful protesters because you disagree with them.
Kent State 2.0 is on its way.
Kent State 2.0 is on its way.
December 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you can excuse murdering people hanging on to a blown up boat to save their lives, it's a short step to excusing murdering peaceful protesters because you disagree with them.
Kent State 2.0 is on its way.
Kent State 2.0 is on its way.
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This is why military service members should refuse to follow illegal orders. Because when the shit hits the fan, Trunp and Hegseth will deny everything and blame you. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Reporter: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order
Leavitt: The latter is true
Leavitt: The latter is true
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is why military service members should refuse to follow illegal orders. Because when the shit hits the fan, Trunp and Hegseth will deny everything and blame you. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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it should surprise no one that netanyahu would intentionally turn a blind eye to events leading to the 7 oct. massacre of israelis.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
it should surprise no one that netanyahu would intentionally turn a blind eye to events leading to the 7 oct. massacre of israelis.
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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try to imagine the media firestorm if the military was conducting strikes and obama, clinton, or biden said "i dont know anything about it" and how the media just shrugs at trump saying the same thing.
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
try to imagine the media firestorm if the military was conducting strikes and obama, clinton, or biden said "i dont know anything about it" and how the media just shrugs at trump saying the same thing.
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Mark Kelly: "My concern is with the service members -- we're gonna put these individuals in a really tough place. They may find our down the road that they did something that's illegal. It's not fair to them. That's why need presidents and secretaries of defense who understand the Constitution"
November 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Mark Kelly: "My concern is with the service members -- we're gonna put these individuals in a really tough place. They may find our down the road that they did something that's illegal. It's not fair to them. That's why need presidents and secretaries of defense who understand the Constitution"
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It sucks that governing is basically juggling a million balls in the air at once that are really hard for most people to perceive, and the anti-governing coalition basically just gets to promise simple, magical solutions to every problem that definitely will not work
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
It sucks that governing is basically juggling a million balls in the air at once that are really hard for most people to perceive, and the anti-governing coalition basically just gets to promise simple, magical solutions to every problem that definitely will not work
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This could be the cold open for the next SNL. 🤦🏽♂️
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This could be the cold open for the next SNL. 🤦🏽♂️
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If y’all really are going to investigate Hegseth and trumps’s Venezuelan murders PLEASE GO FASTER! Trump has declared Venezuelan airspace closed which means they are getting ready to murder a lot more people. We are not at war with Venezuela!
www.mississippifreepress.org/wicker-direc...
www.mississippifreepress.org/wicker-direc...
Wicker Directs Inquiry Into Hegseth's Reported 'Kill Them All' Order, Vowing 'Vigorous Oversight' of Boat Strikes
Sen. Roger Wicker is vowing "vigorous oversight" amid reports Hegseth ordered the U.S. military "to kill everybody" in a boat strike.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If y’all really are going to investigate Hegseth and trumps’s Venezuelan murders PLEASE GO FASTER! Trump has declared Venezuelan airspace closed which means they are getting ready to murder a lot more people. We are not at war with Venezuela!
www.mississippifreepress.org/wicker-direc...
www.mississippifreepress.org/wicker-direc...
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GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
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Adam Smith himself wrote about how the rich and powerful have no interest in helping the country, their interest in politics and policy is solely about enriching themselves to the detriment of everyone else.
www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/ad...
www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/ad...
Who would have guessed that David Sacks would be doing unethical shit in the White House? Not a single guy in that cohort who’s not a raging sociopath www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Adam Smith himself wrote about how the rich and powerful have no interest in helping the country, their interest in politics and policy is solely about enriching themselves to the detriment of everyone else.
www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/ad...
www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/ad...
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The Trump administration believes that the rich and powerful should be pardoned for their crimes, even after judges and juries determined their guilt.
But if you’re a non-white guy in a fishing boat, there’s no need for a trial or even an arrest. Murder from above, no questions asked.
But if you’re a non-white guy in a fishing boat, there’s no need for a trial or even an arrest. Murder from above, no questions asked.
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The Trump administration believes that the rich and powerful should be pardoned for their crimes, even after judges and juries determined their guilt.
But if you’re a non-white guy in a fishing boat, there’s no need for a trial or even an arrest. Murder from above, no questions asked.
But if you’re a non-white guy in a fishing boat, there’s no need for a trial or even an arrest. Murder from above, no questions asked.
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By McGill Assoc. Provost Indigenous Initiatives, Celeste Pedri-Spade
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
Thomas King: As we learn another ‘hero’ is non-Indigenous, let’s not ignore a broader cultural problem
Indigenous people are more than stories. We deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, and accountability is measured by actions that build trust and repair harm.
theconversation.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
By McGill Assoc. Provost Indigenous Initiatives, Celeste Pedri-Spade
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
"These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."
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it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
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As former Bush OLC leader Jack Goldsmith writes, the DOD manual prohibits killing shipwrecked enemies. If reporting is correct, killing helpless men clinging to boats was a war crime.
 open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
 open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
As former Bush OLC leader Jack Goldsmith writes, the DOD manual prohibits killing shipwrecked enemies. If reporting is correct, killing helpless men clinging to boats was a war crime.
 open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
 open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
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A brutal 10-hour attack on Ukraine. This is not the language of diplomacy, nor the language of a country that claims to be conducting peace negotiations.
- Sandu
unn.ua/en/news/this...
A brutal 10-hour attack on Ukraine. This is not the language of diplomacy, nor the language of a country that claims to be conducting peace negotiations.
- Sandu
unn.ua/en/news/this...
"This is not the language of a country that claims to negotiate peace": Sandu on Russia's massive shelling of Ukraine
УНН Politics ✎ Moldovan President Maia Sandu condemned another massive shelling of Ukraine, which took place on the night of November 29. She
noted that Russian dron…
unn.ua
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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A brutal 10-hour attack on Ukraine. This is not the language of diplomacy, nor the language of a country that claims to be conducting peace negotiations.
- Sandu
unn.ua/en/news/this...
A brutal 10-hour attack on Ukraine. This is not the language of diplomacy, nor the language of a country that claims to be conducting peace negotiations.
- Sandu
unn.ua/en/news/this...
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the uniformed officers who accepted the orders and the operators who carried them out are also in jeopardy. We all get hours of LOAC refresher annually plus large blocks of instruction at staff college and war college
there is no gray here...very black and white case every officer would recognize
there is no gray here...very black and white case every officer would recognize
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
the uniformed officers who accepted the orders and the operators who carried them out are also in jeopardy. We all get hours of LOAC refresher annually plus large blocks of instruction at staff college and war college
there is no gray here...very black and white case every officer would recognize
there is no gray here...very black and white case every officer would recognize
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Hegseth wants to be in the same league as Netanyahu goons who commit war crimes. Hegseth also lobbied Trump to pardon war criminals.
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
What is a 'double tap,' and why has Israel's use of it outraged so many?
Israel bombed a Gaza hospital, waited 7 minutes and then bombed it again, killing people who rushed to help. It's not the first time that has happened.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Hegseth wants to be in the same league as Netanyahu goons who commit war crimes. Hegseth also lobbied Trump to pardon war criminals.
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
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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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In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
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
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
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Suddenly, the applause he gave on that red-carpeted airport tarmac makes a lot more sense. 🤡
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with 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 10:00 PM
Suddenly, the applause he gave on that red-carpeted airport tarmac makes a lot more sense. 🤡
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“To believe anything about Epstein coming from Trump and his cronies requires a complete suspension of common sense, which is why it’s good to remember that the simplest explanation is often the correct one: they’re lying.” — @justinglawe.bsky.social
MAGA's Epstein gaslighting is unsustainable
To believe anything they say requires a complete suspension of common sense.
www.publicnotice.co
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“To believe anything about Epstein coming from Trump and his cronies requires a complete suspension of common sense, which is why it’s good to remember that the simplest explanation is often the correct one: they’re lying.” — @justinglawe.bsky.social
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Wow this woman from Maine is on ACA & she’s at the office of her Rep.Angus King letting him know that she may lose her life & its because he refused to fight for her & millions of Americans when he gave in to the Republican Party & Trump! Her new premium will be $49,000 dollars!
November 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Wow this woman from Maine is on ACA & she’s at the office of her Rep.Angus King letting him know that she may lose her life & its because he refused to fight for her & millions of Americans when he gave in to the Republican Party & Trump! Her new premium will be $49,000 dollars!
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The head of the Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee has pledged“vigorous oversight”after a Washington Post report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members during the first US strike against suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean earlier this year
November 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The head of the Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee has pledged“vigorous oversight”after a Washington Post report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members during the first US strike against suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean earlier this year