We've updated the timeline of @realDonaldTrump's first 100 days & made the first major 2025 update to the library.
Depressing, but necessary as America sinks further into authoritarianism.
Oh, and we updated #PhaseTwo...
https://t.co/z7pyAJmWAw
Read it & literally weep...
Stephen Miller wants you to think that the paramilitary force he keeps empowering to kill innocent white Americans, on camera, is the real victim. A world-historical coward who is incinerating Trump’s deformed political movement in real time
We have failed as a society. Completely failed.
It's been wondered in our offices if America can recover, but it's becoming disturbingly clear that America might already be dead.
These two are analogous. It'll piss off everyone, but they are sad endings to encounters in which the officers were reasonable to assess danger and act.
Many people believe the legal threshold for self-defense is lower for government officers than for ordinary citizens. It’s not.
There’s one simple test for evaluating whether an officer’s use of force was unlawful or justified as self-defense.
Ask yourself: If you, an ordinary citizen, did the same thing the officer did, how would your actions be assessed?
If someone were obstructing a street in your neighborhood, and you demanded they move, and everyone were in the same physical positions and took the same actions, would you be justified in shooting the driver of the vehicle?
I can say, unequivocally, that if you did the same thing the ICE officer in Minneapolis did, you would be found guilty of a crime, and your claim of self-defense would be rejected outright.
For the love of God, if any type of police tell you to stop your car, STOP YOUR CAR.
Turn off the car, put your hands on the steering wheel, and wait for instructions.
The White House says it is replacing the lead architect for President Trump's ballroom, following reports of disagreements between the architect and the president.
President Trump and his family are eager to build a museum that they say will be unlike any other presidential library — and which could tell the story of his presidency only as he wants it to be told.
Here’s an inside look at their plan:
https://t.co/kImDgql8UW
None of what Ms. Leavitt says here either answers the reporters question or makes a second strike legal.
Very dark. We need congressional oversight and hearings immediately.
This is a war crime if accurate, and this will get someone sent to the Hague in a just society.
REPORTER: You said that that second strike was in full accordance with the law of armed conflict but the Navy's own manual of law of war says that specifically firing on survivors from a wrecked vessel is an example of a war crime…
Leavitt: 🥴
Seems like there *might* be accountability for once for an obvious potential crime.
This is a "ICC / Hague" level crime and should be investigated as such.
Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Tim Kaine — both on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — say that if Pete Hegseth did, in fact, order a follow-on attack to kill survivors of a September boat strikes, such orders would rise to the level of war crimes.
Kaine: "If that reporting is true, it's a clear violation of the DOD's own laws of war ... And so this rises to the level of a war crime if it's true."
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
https://t.co/uJZZB04nyi