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[bighilllex @bighilllex]

@generalgdubs @lauren_w67 Men are too emotional for leadership positions.

[bighilllex @bighilllex]

The Apocalypse is here! Reconsidering driving to town for dinner - when you find out all the Virginia Waffle Houses are closing for the night! Thanks
#WinterStormFern #besafe

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Donald Trump, meet Donald Trump.

[bighilllex @bighilllex]

Well that’s rude ⁦@PepperidgeFarm⁩ Sold out in less than a minute. How few free cookies did you offer for National Cookie Day?

[Phil Ehr @PhilEhr]

Under the laws of war, you never attack anyone who is hors de combat: shipwrecked, wounded, defenseless, or already in your power. Those two men clinging to the wreckage were exactly that.

Ordering their death anyway crosses an even brighter line: the ban on no quarter - the absolute rule that you do not kill people who cannot fight back. Every commander knows this. Every officer is trained on it. These aren’t obscure legal theories. They’re the bedrock of lawful command.

Yet the Secretary of Defense still gave the order: “kill everybody” - after the first strike, after operators saw survivors in the water, after it was clear they posed no threat. A second missile was launched just to finish the job. Hegseth didn’t make a tough call. He made an unlawful one.

[bighilllex @bighilllex]

True

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Ehr’s explanation is blunt because the law is blunt. The rules of war do not magically disappear because the targets are traffickers or because a Cabinet secretary wants a clean headline. Once operators saw survivors clinging to wreckage, those men became hors de combat. They were no longer lawful targets. Ordering a second missile to kill them is not just a bad judgment call. It is a violation of the most fundamental restraints in the law of armed conflict, taught to every cadet, every midshipman, every officer, every enlisted operator.

The Trump administration and Dumb Dumb Pete can try to wave this away as toughness, but toughness does not require executing defenseless men. It requires adhering to standards even when adrenaline and politics push in the other direction. If the reporting is accurate, a secretary of defense issued an unlawful kill order, a commander resigned rather than be complicit, and the Pentagon silenced its press corps. That is not strength. That is a scandal growing by the hour, and Congress cannot look away.

[Sebastian Smith @SebastianAFP]

President Trump wants to pardon a guy convicted of helping to bring 400 tons of cocaine to the US while bombing people in boats supposedly to stop drugs.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is the Court documents from a case that was filed in 2016 by Jane Doe in New York against Trump & Epstein! She was only 13 at the time these alleged allegations happened. Before this case could be heard in Court her & her family’s life was threatened & she didn’t proceed!

[bighilllex @bighilllex]

Message Tim Kaine and tell him what you think!

https://t.co/qFjBayI3ZG

[bighilllex @bighilllex]

Yep.

[Free Syria Media Hub @Free_Media_Hub]

@realDonaldTrump

[G’sdon’tbreak @omgyallrhaterz]

@krassenstein Everyone that’s helped Trump do this should be worried what happens when the rule of law & law & order get restored because it will.

[bighilllex @bighilllex]

DEI helps everyone.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

This is the power of justice, access and inclusion. We all benefit when we all support each other.

op: chronicallyjenni (via IG)

[bighilllex @bighilllex]

So true.

[ML Smith @maria48308]

Veterans . . .

[bighilllex @bighilllex]

Hah

[bighilllex @bighilllex]

Except the USA

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

[Ned Price @nedprice]

Trump is using his friend Orban to shield him from having to impose sanctions on his friend Putin. And the allegation that NATO has wasted his time is especially rich — his always-extending ultimatums and performative summitry have gone on for 8 months with nothing to show.

[Ned Price @nedprice]

On a single Saturday in September:

--Trump instructed his AG to go after specific political enemies.
--We learned that his DOJ ended an investigation into his border czar, who was caught on camera taking a $50k cash bribe.
--His Pentagon top brass threatened to expel journalists who report info not cleared by them.
--His WH spoke to a shady deal that will see TikTok in the hands of a consortium of GOP mega-donors.
--Trump threatened "bad things" if we don't re-take Bagram AFB.
--His most senior counterterrorism official is in a Twitter spat with Laura Loomer.

None of this is normal. All of it is so dangerous and corrosive to our democracy.

[bighilllex @bighilllex]

😕

[David Doney @David_Charts2]

@NBCNews Yet another gift from Republicans. Working towards a kakistocracy.

[bighilllex @bighilllex]

@LarrySabato @Brendanwynn Yes.