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Even the legal justification for drone strikes on senior members of al Qaeda and associated forces (ostensibly covered under the 2001 AUMF) states that strikes are justified only “when capture is infeasible”
This is contemptible. Not only do we now have confirmation Hegseth has been lying from the jump, but it seems neither he nor his team understand that killing everyone on a target list *becomes* an illegal No Quarter Order if targets try to surrender or are neutralized. Their semantic games are vile.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling ve...
www.nbcnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Even the legal justification for drone strikes on senior members of al Qaeda and associated forces (ostensibly covered under the 2001 AUMF) states that strikes are justified only “when capture is infeasible”
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Prior to his current stint with the FBI, when he was a right wing media voice, Dan Bongino lied to his audience. He admitted it this week. Nothing he said was based on facts or the truth. And sadly, he’s not the only one. My end of week wrap up.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
Danny B. Lets Us in on a Little Secret
The Social Contract Weekly Wrap
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Prior to his current stint with the FBI, when he was a right wing media voice, Dan Bongino lied to his audience. He admitted it this week. Nothing he said was based on facts or the truth. And sadly, he’s not the only one. My end of week wrap up.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
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The President promised prices would go back down. In a healthy economy, they almost never do. The normal pattern is: prices jump, then over time your paycheck catches up. The pain comes when wages don't follow—then it's not “inflation” so much as an affordability crisis.
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The President promised prices would go back down. In a healthy economy, they almost never do. The normal pattern is: prices jump, then over time your paycheck catches up. The pain comes when wages don't follow—then it's not “inflation” so much as an affordability crisis.
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It’s OK to be a bigot if you’re OUR bigot.
CURTIS: All of us need to wake up every morning & say, 'what am I doing to make immigrants feel welcome' regardless of an individual says
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage
C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter
December 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It’s OK to be a bigot if you’re OUR bigot.
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Trump is illegally striking ships in the Caribbean to "go after cartels" only to pardon drug king pins.
It's complete hypocrisy, it's recklessness, and it's lawlessness.
It's complete hypocrisy, it's recklessness, and it's lawlessness.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Trump is illegally striking ships in the Caribbean to "go after cartels" only to pardon drug king pins.
It's complete hypocrisy, it's recklessness, and it's lawlessness.
It's complete hypocrisy, it's recklessness, and it's lawlessness.
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This week, Russia once again showed who truly holds power over Trump.
My latest…
My latest…
Trump Has Turned the U.S. Into Moscow’s Newest Satellite State
This week, Russia once again showed who truly holds power over Trump.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This week, Russia once again showed who truly holds power over Trump.
My latest…
My latest…
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"The unfilled roles include meteorologists, technical experts and scientists who work to deliver accurate forecasts and warnings...In some locations, nearly half of the meteorologist roles were left vacant." Excellent @washingtonpost.com reporting on DOGE wreckage as winter sets in.🎁 wapo.st/48mGeZ1
Winter is coming. Not all weather offices are ready.
Vacancies remain in National Weather Service offices across the country, including in some of the coldest, snowiest parts of the country.
wapo.st
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"The unfilled roles include meteorologists, technical experts and scientists who work to deliver accurate forecasts and warnings...In some locations, nearly half of the meteorologist roles were left vacant." Excellent @washingtonpost.com reporting on DOGE wreckage as winter sets in.🎁 wapo.st/48mGeZ1
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@nytimes.com editorial board: "Many lower courts have responded heroically to Mr. Trump’s ill-founded efforts to centralize power and weaken democracy." But the Supreme Court is "allowing Mr. Trump’s power grabs" instead of stabilizing American democracy.🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
@nytimes.com editorial board: "Many lower courts have responded heroically to Mr. Trump’s ill-founded efforts to centralize power and weaken democracy." But the Supreme Court is "allowing Mr. Trump’s power grabs" instead of stabilizing American democracy.🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o...
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Tom Cotton: "All of these cartels in Latin America do qualify as foreign terrorists, and frankly their activities have killed many more Americans than Al-Qaeda or ISIS has killed."
Gun manufacturers and liquor companies have also killed more Americans. Does that make them domestic terrorists?
Gun manufacturers and liquor companies have also killed more Americans. Does that make them domestic terrorists?
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Tom Cotton: "All of these cartels in Latin America do qualify as foreign terrorists, and frankly their activities have killed many more Americans than Al-Qaeda or ISIS has killed."
Gun manufacturers and liquor companies have also killed more Americans. Does that make them domestic terrorists?
Gun manufacturers and liquor companies have also killed more Americans. Does that make them domestic terrorists?
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People love rich people and want to be rich themselves. Rich people have nothing to fear from the public and they know it.
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
People love rich people and want to be rich themselves. Rich people have nothing to fear from the public and they know it.
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By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
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Bob Kagan: "I think we’re at a moment of a real break and a real discontinuity. We sort of take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades...The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945."
youtu.be/VkhhjWAoi60?...
youtu.be/VkhhjWAoi60?...
Bob Kagan on whether we are entering into a new period of history
YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Bob Kagan: "I think we’re at a moment of a real break and a real discontinuity. We sort of take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades...The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945."
youtu.be/VkhhjWAoi60?...
youtu.be/VkhhjWAoi60?...
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The fake patriots of the European right
Trump and Putin’s fifth column
nickcohen.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Working families need and deserve access to affordable health care. They need us to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits.
Working families need and deserve access to affordable health care.
YouTube video by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich
youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Working families need and deserve access to affordable health care. They need us to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits.
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel is laying the groundwork for more scrutiny of childhood shots www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c...
RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel is laying the groundwork for more scrutiny of childhood shots
RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel is laying the groundwork for more scrutiny of childhood shots.
www.statnews.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel is laying the groundwork for more scrutiny of childhood shots www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c...
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ACIP might have made for good TV. But it carries great weight and significance, @doritreiss.bsky.social writes: www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a...
RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory panel is beset by incompetence, bias, and procedural chaos
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) meetings used to be a geek’s dream: hours of long, maybe dreary presentation of extensive data
www.statnews.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
ACIP might have made for good TV. But it carries great weight and significance, @doritreiss.bsky.social writes: www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a...
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“What we have witnessed at the CDC is not reform. It is the hollowing out of an institution Americans rely on in every emergency”
@drdebhoury.bsky.social
time.com/7338714/dr-d...
@drdebhoury.bsky.social
time.com/7338714/dr-d...
I Left the CDC 100 Days Ago. My Worst Fears About the Agency Are Coming True
"Things have not improved," writes Dr. Debra Houry. "They have worsened. And Congress has still failed to act."
time.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“What we have witnessed at the CDC is not reform. It is the hollowing out of an institution Americans rely on in every emergency”
@drdebhoury.bsky.social
time.com/7338714/dr-d...
@drdebhoury.bsky.social
time.com/7338714/dr-d...
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“The WHO estimates that use of the two vaccines could prevent up to half a million child deaths from malaria by 2035 if scaled up in moderate- and high-transmission areas.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/malaria/who-...
WHO celebrates progress against malaria, but warns that hurdles remain
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“The WHO estimates that use of the two vaccines could prevent up to half a million child deaths from malaria by 2035 if scaled up in moderate- and high-transmission areas.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/malaria/who-...
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“Support crossed party lines: 90% of self-identified Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, 65% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, and 71% of non-leaning independents recommended the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
Three-fourths of Americans support hepatitis B vaccine for newborns, poll finds
When asked about what age they would recommend the vaccine, 35% chose birth and 16% said 1 month, for a total of 51% by 1 month.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“Support crossed party lines: 90% of self-identified Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, 65% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, and 71% of non-leaning independents recommended the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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Well, Senators Bill Cassidy and Thom Tillis, you wanted RFK Jr. to “go wild” at HHS.
Congratulations. You’ve achieved your goal. He is well on his way to completely destroying the US vaccine program.
Congratulations. You’ve achieved your goal. He is well on his way to completely destroying the US vaccine program.
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Well, Senators Bill Cassidy and Thom Tillis, you wanted RFK Jr. to “go wild” at HHS.
Congratulations. You’ve achieved your goal. He is well on his way to completely destroying the US vaccine program.
Congratulations. You’ve achieved your goal. He is well on his way to completely destroying the US vaccine program.
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Their goal is to get rid of vaccines, let people fall sick, and make money off selling quack therapies
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Their goal is to get rid of vaccines, let people fall sick, and make money off selling quack therapies
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In voting to eliminate the universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ACIP ignored decades of evidence confirming its strong safety profile and effectiveness. Its decision will result in more hepatitis B infections and more people with chronic liver disease.
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In voting to eliminate the universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ACIP ignored decades of evidence confirming its strong safety profile and effectiveness. Its decision will result in more hepatitis B infections and more people with chronic liver disease.