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[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Reminder: there is no domestic or intl legal basis for the murders that Trump ordered (and Rubio backed) in the Caribbean. No war. No authorization. Apparently many innocent fishermen killed. Sanctioning the ICC won't make that crime disappear after they leave power.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

When we take back power, here is what we should do:

✅ HR 1: Tax billionaires to pay for free childcare & universal healthcare. (reconciliation)
✅ HR 2: No aid to Israel, cut bloated war budget
✅ HR 3: Freedom to Vote Act w/ Truth & Accountability Commission for corruption

[Greg Ip @greg_ip]

Scott Bessent, at his confirmation hearing in Jan/2025 to be Treasury Secretary: "the tragedy going on in Ukraine is one of the greatest tragedies of my adult life ... I believe that the sanctions [on Russia] were not fulsome enough. I believe that the previous administration was worried about raising US energy prices during an election season... if I'm confirmed and if President Trump requests ...I will be 100% on board for taking sanctions up."
Mark Warner (D-VA): "I very much appreciate your willingness and I hope you will be an advocate for keeping those sanctions on and actually advancing them even further."
https://t.co/kceZaeZdKf

[Brendan Hartnett @BrendanHartnett]

🚨🚨 In deleted tweets, Trump's new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia shared vaccine conspiracy theories, called for upending constitutional norms, and encouraged the president to run for a third term in office.

My latest @BulwarkOnline: https://t.co/MBM9wjvc8g

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

In 2016, I was the Clinton campaign general counsel.

In 2022, Trump sued me and others for RICO. The case was dismissed. Trump and his lawyers were sanctioned.

Now, he has asked SCOTUS to take the case.

I will never back down. I will never stop fighting. When we fight we win.

[Int'l Criminal Court @IntlCrimCourt]

The ICC strongly rejects US sanctions against the institution:
🎥 Video Statement by the President of the #ICC, Tomoko Akane
Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/DJ9dqlzo82

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Starting Oct 19, the Trump administration is rolling back Biden-era airline passenger protections, and airlines will no longer have to provide stranded passengers with meals, hotels, or other assistance for delays or cancellations.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

THIS SPEECH WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY…

Any country that sides with the US will forever lose its credibility to speak on human rights and international law.

[Dean Withers @itsdeaann]

The left is fighting for affordability & livable wages.

The right is fighting for public executions.

Midterms are just around the corner. Vote accordingly.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

The International Criminal Court has NEVER indicted or prosecuted an American citizen in its 24 years of existence.

Never. Not one single time. Marco Rubio is looking straight into the camera and telling you a bold faced lie.

This has NOTHING to do with “protecting American sovereignty” and everything to do with protecting Israel.

The Trump Administration is willing to expend every ounce of soft power and shred every other diplomatic relationship we’ve ever built in order to do the bidding of the rogue, genocidal state of Israel and the Zionist lobby.

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

Dear Republican lawmakers,

Who the FUCK do you think you are? You sit by silently, letting Trump burn this country down for Putin’s benefit. From Thom Tillis’s faux book tour outrage to the rest of the party’s complicity—you are ALL responsible. Where's Murkowski? Hiding under an igloo?

We aren't the same nation anymore, and it’s alarming to watch red flags fly over the White House while you call Democrats "Communists." How can you even be serious. You do jack shit while the world watches in horror.

You know the truth about his ties to Epstein, his foreign ties, his misuse of tax dollars for vanity campaigns over healthcare, and his food policies since they gutted the food inspectors and started taking bribes to serve tainted food, instead.
You saw him on life TV suggest Iran take out two American cities.

You see the corruption. You know the truth. You refuse to act—so we will stop you at the polls.

[The Space Coast Rocket @CoastRocket]

WE COUNT THE ENEMIES WE KILL. WE RARELY COUNT THE ONES WE CREATE.

Nidal Hasan was a patient on my floor in the surgical trauma ICU at Brooke Army Medical Center.

I wasn't there when he arrived. I had just left for my deployment to Mosul, Iraq. But the nurses and doctors who cared for him were my peers and my friends, and I know exactly what that required of them, because every one of us had done some version of it before. Before anyone tells me what strength looks like, understand what that work demands.

I have cared for a drunk driver who wiped out an entire family and landed in our ICU himself. I have cared for gang members who shot up a block while children were stepping off a school bus, then ended up on our unit with bullets of their own. I have kept alive people who murdered their own families and failed at taking their own lives. And in Iraq, I saved the lives of the very enemy fighters who had just tried to kill us and miraculously survived our response.

Every one of those patients got our best. Not because we felt anything for them, but because of who we were. You set aside anger, grief, prejudice and every personal feeling you have, because a life in front of you is a life in front of you. That's the oath. That's the duty.

So when Hasan came through those doors, my colleagues did what we had always done. They preserved the life of a man who murdered thirteen people and would have killed them too, given the chance. He killed those men and women in one of the very same buildings many Soldier's like myself have been in when I was stationed at Fort Hood.
He is alive today because they did their jobs. That was not sentiment. It was a hard, tangible expression of the values this country claims to stand for. Our principles had to mean something even when the person benefiting from them had violated everything we believed in.

Now the Pentagon plans to livestream his execution by firing squad on Dec. 3, and our leaders apparently believe turning his death into a public spectacle will demonstrate American strength. I think it demonstrates how little they understand the enemy they claim to be fighting. We kept Nidal Hasan alive, now our leaders want to make him a martyr.

Hasan walked into Fort Hood expecting to die. He believed his death would be rewarded. At his trial, he called no witnesses and offered no defense, and his own court-appointed lawyers worried he was seeking execution. He failed at martyrdom once. Now we're about to hand it to him, in high definition, for every extremist with an internet connection to replay, manipulate and celebrate.
We supply the footage. They supply the meaning.
Long after the politicians finish congratulating themselves, that video will still exist. Their moment of bravado becomes somebody else's recruiting material for decades. And this failure to think past the immediate display of power reaches far beyond one execution. We count the enemies we kill. We rarely count the enemies we create.

Look at the school in Minab, Iran, where multiple investigations attributed the strike that killed more than 100 children and their teachers to us. You cannot bury people's children beneath the rubble of their classrooms and expect a speech about American intentions to decide how they remember you. No denial brings those children home. No claim of good intentions makes their parents forget whose weapons killed them.
If those were our children, we would remember for the rest of our lives. We would demand accountability. Many of us would want vengeance. We would tell their stories to the next generation. We know this because we did exactly that after September 11.

Why do we imagine other people love their children less, grieve less deeply, or remember less clearly?

We have developed a horrifying talent for creating more terrorists than we will ever stop. We inflict suffering, evade responsibility, and then act as though the anger that follows came out of nowhere.

Think back to the first time you saw one of those al Qaeda videos of an American being beheaded. Remember the sickness in your stomach. Remember the rage. Remember thinking that only savages would film a killing and send it out for the world to watch. Now ask yourself what the rest of the world will see when the camera is ours.
Terrorist organizations stage executions for the cameras. Authoritarian regimes make death a public spectacle to feed fear and rage. Watching our own leaders reach for those same tools should force us to confront how much of ourselves we are surrendering in the name of defeating them.

The line separating us from the people we condemn has to live in our conduct. A flag cannot hold it for us. Neither can a uniform, a title, or a declaration that we are the good guys.
On that ICU floor, on a bloody street in Mosul, and in trauma bays across this country, people like my colleagues hold that line every day under circumstances most will never face. They keep monsters alive because their duty and their humanity are bigger than their hatred of what those monsters have done.

Execute him if that's the sentence. But do it the way a confident nation does; quietly, lawfully, and without giving him the stage he always wanted. Let him be forgotten.

I expect our leaders to show at least as much discipline as the nurses who had to care for him.
They keep telling us they are defending what makes America different. Every day, they make that difference harder to see.

Robert W. Burns III is the editor and publisher of The Space Coast Rocket, an Army veteran and a retired trauma nurse. The views expressed in this column are his own.

[Jay Kay 🇺🇸 @jayjkkay]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files.
You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself.
You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil.
You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide.
You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations.
You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one.
You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies.
You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered
U.S. citizens.
You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas.
You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies.
You said nothing.

It's time to start talking!

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.

[Evan Dyer @EvanDyerCBC]

As often happens in this administration, a carefully-crafted justification is undone when Trump simply blurts out the truth on live TV.
Rubio’s written and video statements said ICC sanctions were to protect Americans — no mention of Israel.
Trump: “He’s trying to defend Bibi.”

[Council of DC @councilofdc]

This is clearly not acceptable

[Joe @electionsjoe]

The image in this picture showing New York City instead of Texas really is all you need to know about the intelligence of the Paxton campaign.

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

The man who was shot by ice in nyc yesterday could have a rap sheet a mile long and I would still be like, “hey maybe ICE shouldn’t pull up on someone in a hi-vis vest with a long gun and shoot a bunch of bullets into a car with a child inside of it.”

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

What are we doing here? As a country?