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georgetakei.bsky.social
During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
A screenshot of a tweet by Ken Dilanian quoting concerns that an order to kill boat occupants who are no longer able to fight would constitute a war crime. Below is a collage of nine infrared or night-vision aerial images showing small boats in the water. At the bottom is a caption referencing “Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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bookowl.bsky.social
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social said it best in 2020
“The Trump administration is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government. The foundation of this edifice was formed not when Trump took office, but decades before, through prolonged engagement with criminal or criminal-adjacent actors linked to hostile regimes, in particular, the Kremlin and its oligarch network.” Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
Trump lied to the nation yet again. He assured us, repeatedly, that this man had never been vetted.

Clearly he knew that was a lie, but he also wanted to use the death of a soldier to advance his own personal political agenda.

He is the scum of the Earth—and that is inarguable.
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
We need to start calling him this #SecretaryofWarCrimes
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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sanho.bsky.social
President Hernandez was serving 45 years in prison for a plot to distribute 400 tons of cocaine before Trump pardoned him. Meanwhile, Trump is murdering fishermen in small boats for allegedly smuggling far smaller amounts.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
“Additionally, I Will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that | greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly.”
Trump: If Tito Asfuro wins for President of Honduras, because the United States has so much confidence in him, his Policies, and what he will do for the Great People of Honduras, we will be very supportive. If he doesn't win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad, because a wrong Leader can only bring catastrophic results to a country, no matter which country it is. Tito will be a Great President, and the United States will work closely with him in order to ensure the success, with all of its potential, of Honduras! Additionally, I Will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that | greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly. This cannot be allowed to happen, especially now, after Tito Asfuro wins the Election, when Honduras will be on its way to Great Political and Financial Success. VOTE FOR TITO ASFURO FOR PRESIDENT, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ ON YOUR UPCOMING PARDON. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP 3 ReTruths 4 Likes 11/28/25, 1:15 PM
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Cowards
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million as a part of a deal with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions in federal funding www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unite...
As part of the agreement, Northwestern University will pay $75 million to the United States through 2028. Northwestern agrees to adhere to federal anti-discrimination laws, ensuring that the university does not preference individuals based on race, color, or national origin in admissions, scholarships, hiring, or promotion. Northwestern shall maintain clear policies and procedures relating to demonstrations, protests, displays, and other expressive activities, as well as implement mandatory antisemitism training for all students, faculty, and staff. Northwestern’s President and Chair of the Board of Trustees shall each certify under penalty of perjury each quarter the university’s full compliance with the agreement. The United States shall close pending investigations and treat Northwestern as eligible for future grants, contracts, and awards.
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Assuming every boat Trump and Hegseth blew up contained the amount of drugs they claim, Hernandez was responsible for bringing more drugs into the US than every one of them had combined. By far. And yet, Trump murders 80+ people and counting while pardoning the narco kingpin.
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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jilldlawrence.bsky.social
"As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors." This seemed nightmarish enough to warrant one of my 3 last @washingtonpost.com gift links for November.🎁 wapo.st/49KbUJ1
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.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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ianbassin.bsky.social
It seems when it comes to fighting narco-traffickers, Trump’s policy is death for the little guy and special treatment for the elites.

Populist my ass.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
HE IS ABOUT TO GO TO WAR WITH VENEZUELA FOR IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA AND NOW HE PARDONS A DRUG KINGPIN CONVICTED IN 2024 OF IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA

WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
Trump plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
www.npr.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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karlykingsley.bsky.social
CISA’s been stripped, we turned DHS into a political megaphone obsessed with immigrant boogeymen, the FBI has been handed to a clown carrying out a revenge tour, FEMA’s been kneecapped, & our intelligence partners no longer trust us. How long until something catastrophic happens?
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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.
mattheweadie.bsky.social Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 1d
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 1:37 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
sky.skymarchini.net Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d
seems suboptimal
Post Pete Hegseth «O @PeteHegseth ••• X.com We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists. 18:45 • 28/11/2025 • 313K Views 1.7K 17 2.7K 17K https://x.com/petehegseth/status/1994553202767700041?s=46
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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karlykingsley.bsky.social
So it wasn’t about the drugs, then? It was just about killing people? Pete Hegseth needs to be tried in The Hague. That’s more than these people got.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a verbal directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere - ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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thedailybeast.bsky.social
Trump’s long-time rival says journalists let him “verbally rape a woman” with his “stupid person” outburst.
Rosie O’Donnell Rages at Reporters Enabling ‘Madman’ Trump
Trump’s long-time rival says journalists let him “verbally rape a woman” with his “stupid person” outburst.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”

also trump:
NYT headline: Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Hondurass president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
TRUMP: If you’re trafficking drugs to the U.S. via the Caribbean I will kill you.

ALSO TRUMP: If you’re doing time because you helped traffic 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S. via Honduras you get a “Full and Complete Pardon.”

www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump + If Tito Astura wins for President of Honduras, because the United States has so much confidence in him, his Policies, and what he will do for the Great People of Honduras, we will be very supportive. If he doesn't win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad, because a wrong Leader can only bring catastrophic results to a country, no matter which country it is. Tito will be a Great President, and the United States will work closely with him in order to ensure the success, with all of its potential, of Honduras! Additionaly, I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly. This cannot be allowed to happen, especially now, after Tito Asfura wins the Election, when Honduras will be on its way to Great Political and Financial Success. VOTE FOR TITO ASFURA FOR PRESIDENT, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ ON YOUR UPCOMING PARDON. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP 3.15k ReTruths 13k Likes 11/28/25, 4:18 PM PRESS RELEASE Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Convicted in Manhattan Federal Court of Conspiring to Import Cocaine into the United States and Related Firearms Offenses Friday, March 8, 2024 For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs Hernández Conspired with Some of the Largest Drug Traffickers in the World to Transport Tons of Cocaine through Honduras to the United States According to court documents, from at least in or about 2004, up to and including in or about 2022, Hernández, the former two-term president of Honduras and former president of the Honduran National Congress, was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world. Hernández abused his position and authority in Honduras to facilitate the importation of tons of cocaine into the United States. In exchange, Hernández received millions of dollars in drug money from some of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking organizations in Honduras, Mexico, and elsewhere, and used those bribes to fuel his rise in Honduran politics. Throughout his time in office, Hernández publicly promoted legislation and the efforts he purported to undertake in support of anti-narcotics measures in Honduras. At the same time, he protected and enriched the drug traffickers in his inner circle and those who provided him with cocaine-fueled bribes that allowed him to obtain and stay in power in Honduras. For example, Hernández selectively upheld extraditions by using his executive power to support extraditions to the United States of certain drug traffickers who threatened his grip on power, and promising drug traffickers who paid him and followed his instructions that they would remain in Honduras. In addition, Hernández and his co-conspirators abused Honduran institutions, including the Honduran National Police and Honduran Army, to protect and grow their conspiracy. Among other things, members of the conspiracy used heavily armed Honduran National Police officers to protect their cocaine loads as they transited through Honduras. Members of the conspiracy also turned to violence and murder to protect and grow their drug trafficking enterprise, attacking and murdering rival traffickers and those who threatened their grip on the Honduran cocaine trade. In total, Hernández and his co-conspirators trafficked over more than 400 tons of U.S.-bound cocaine through Honduras during Hernández's tenure in the Honduran government. Hernández was convicted of three counts: (i) conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison; (ii) using and carrying machineguns and destructive devices during, and possessing machineguns in furtherance of, the cocaine-importation conspiracy, which carries a mandatory consecutive prison term of 30 years; and (iii) conspiring to use and carry machineguns and destructive devices during, and possessing machineguns in furtherance of, the cocaine-importation conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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davmicrot.bsky.social
A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation…
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
UNIVISION Headline: Honduran president planned to shove drugs "right up the noses of the 'gringos'," according to witness in New York drug case Subhead: President Juan Orlando Hernandez allegedly sought access to a cocaine lab run by Geovanny Fuentes, an accused drug trafficker who is due to go on trial in New York in March. By: Jeff Ernst Published January 9, 2021 - 06:09 PM EST.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
Since when do Americans “do business “with their government in this fashion?
martylederman.bsky.social Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 1d
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?

"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Jack Goldsmith who, at times, has been known to have written OLC legal memos that appear to suggest Presidents can do things that most people think are illegal. And even he's saying "yo, this is murder."

(see: www.aclu.org/news/nationa...)
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
Lopez Belloza made it through security but was stopped as she was about to board the plane, Pomerleau said. "They wouldn't tell her why she was being detained. She didn't understand it at all," Pomerleau said. She was then taken to the Burlington ICE field office, then flown to Texas, Pomerleau said. The Department of Homeland Security and Babson College did not immediately respond to a request for comment. After a frantic 48-hour search, her family received a call from her on Saturday from Honduras, a country she had not lived in since she was a child. The federal government had quickly deported her, the lawyers said, and Lopez Belloza had found her way to her grandparents' house and called her father.
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM