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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and
to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes.
• If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder.

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Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.

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Rep. Chrissy Houlahan @houlahan.house.gov · 24/11/2025

Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 18/11/2025

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.” Damn. Just … damn.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition. It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/10/2025

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This is from Steve Womack, Republican appropriator, on whether Democrats should help negotiate a budget solution: "Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?" The *Republicans* have figured this out!

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Vought’s crusade upends the shutdown fight

It was only a matter of time before Russ Vought shook up the shutdown fight.

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Nate Schaffran @nate-s.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

To me this thread points at an answer to both “how should we respond to the right on trans issues,” and “how do we counter MAGA’s appeal to young men?” The solution isn’t to act contrary to our values: it’s to defend them clearly and forthrightly, and show the other path.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Literally the authoritarian playbook: 1. Call your opponents terrorists. 2. Deploy state power against them. There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

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Nate Schaffran @nate-s.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The people who made these decisions were warned what would happen. They knew what would happen. And they chose this anyhow.

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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 16/09/2025

Charlie Kirk’s murder is horrific. Every American must condemn political violence. After such a tragedy, past presidents have worked to heal and bring the nation together. Trump is using this moment to seize power & silence his political opponents. We cannot be silent.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

You need to know what might be coming. Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2025

Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 31/08/2025

In 2024 Sen. Merkley & I visited the Rafah gate on the Egypt-Gaza border. On the other side was Gaza’s thriving city of Rafah—home to 270K. Today we saw it reduced to rubble. The Netanyahu govt has gone beyond targeting Hamas to waging a war of destruction against all Palestinians. It must end.

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Rafah has been reduced to rubble

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Trump is just handing the future to China, on science and medicine, on clean energy, on soft power. It's truly just insane.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

In the not shocking category, ICE raids suppress employment, including by US citizens: “Persons reporting private sector work in CA decreased by 4.9%, with citizens forming a greater share of the decrease. The state’s downturn in work is comparable with the Great Recession & the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you believe all human beings are created b’tzelem Elohim, in God’s image, then you must speak up now against the daily atrocities in Gaza. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

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In the not-so-distant future, Israel will have to reckon with its war crimes in Gaza | Opinion

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Nate Schaffran @nate-s.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

This is the danger to us all. First they build a secret police force and internment camp network targeting non-citizens. Then they threaten to strip political opponents of their citizenship. If they can do that, then any American who speaks up could end up in Alligator Alcatraz.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This is literally the definition of a white nationalist police state.

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Nate Schaffran @nate-s.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Political consultants have a tendency to re-fight the last war. But while voters in 2024 may have felt Dems were weak on the border, voters TODAY are horrified by Trump‘s campaign to kidnap their neighbors and friends.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 21/06/2025

Senate Republicans want to sell off 3.3 million acres of public land to fund tax cuts for billionaires. This is not about housing. It is a scam that threatens our outdoor heritage, wildlife, and public access. We will fight this land grab every step of the way.

newsweek.com

Map shows public land eligible for sale as MAGA and left unite to oppose

The Senate proposal, which could greatly affect outdoor recreation in the West, is facing strong pushback from conservationists, Democrats and MAGA supporters.

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Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Only Congress has the constitutional authority to authorize war.   Today, I signed onto a bipartisan War Powers Resolution which reaffirms Congress’ sole authority to authorize U.S. military action and holds the President to account.

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Ben Rhodes @rhodesben.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Actions have consequences and Trump is dealing with the consequences of tearing up the Iran Deal for no reason except his hatred of Obama.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

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Nate Schaffran @nate-s.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

They handcuffed our US Senator for peacefully asking questions. Whatever line you drew for yourself between normality and emergency, it has been crossed.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

New figures from CBO about how Americans at different income levels are affected by the GOP's Big Beautiful Bill. Topline finding: Richest decile gets about 2% richer. Poorest decile gets about 4% poorer. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

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Senator Thomas J. Umberg @senatorumberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

As a former colonel and military prosecutor, my opinion is that this letter looks like a preparation for a military assault...like a subterfuge to create some sort of rationale for some sort of invocation of the Insurrection Act. ow.ly/nK4y50W7tcX

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Exclusive: DHS secretary sought military arrests and drones in Los Angeles in leaked letter

The military is generally barred from domestic law enforcement. Granting Kristi Noem’s request would likely require the administration to sidestep those laws by invoking the Insurrection Act.

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Nate Schaffran @nate-s.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This is what I want to hear from my Governor.

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 10/06/2025

Danny is a Vietnam Veteran who served in the 101st Airborne Division. You need to hear his message about Pete Hegseth’s decision to deploy Marines against American citizens.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

“The issue here goes beyond Los Angeles or California: If the president of the United States can, without notice to the governor and without the constitutionally required request of the governor, send the military into our city, he can do so in any city in America at any time and for any reason”

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Update from Shawn Hubler

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hegseth is now threatening to send the Marines to LA to suppress protesters against ICE’s brutal assault on immigrant garment workers. Just process that: Sending in the *military* to crack down on protesters. We’re now at severe risk of martial law. That’s what they’ve wanted all along.

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Nate Schaffran @nate-s.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We’ve seen splits between strongmen and their oligarch backers before: Putin and Khodorkovsky, Orban and Simicska. In those cases, control of state power beat enormous wealth. I loathe Elon, but how this plays out will tell us something about how far down the road to autocracy we’ve gone.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The Washington Examiner (the conservative news outlet) reports that Stephen Miller screamed at ICE officials: "What do you mean you're going after criminals? Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?" Kinda blows up the narrative that they care about public safety.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Just read this sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

The United States canceled an order for lifesaving peanut paste that was meant to keep 500,000 Yemeni children alive.

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Nate Schaffran @nate-s.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Thanks @repgaramendi.bsky.social for calling this out. Not in our district.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 30/04/2025

Every member of Congress must make a choice. Do you stand with a lawless authoritarian who is crashing our economy and giving away the store to billionaires at the expense of American families, or do you stand with the people he’s hurting every day? I know whose side I’m on.

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Nate Schaffran @nate-s.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This is the way. Congressional Democrats may be in the minority, but they still have the power to call attention to the Administration’s abuses— and to remind people that one day the rule of law will be restored.

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