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[rbarris @rbarris]

I’ll be inclined to accept the idea that global warming has peaked/ceased once we get ten consecutive years without replacing any of the Top-10 hottest global average records. From the look of it, 2025 won’t start that cycle, it will likely be the new #2 or #3.

[rbarris @rbarris]

I’ll be inclined to accept the idea that global warming has peaked/ceased once we get ten consecutive years without replacing any of the Top-10 hottest global average records. From the look of it, 2024 won’t start that cycle, it will likely be the new #1.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This is objectively some of the worst messaging from a politician in history

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

NO WAY: The White House swore Pete Hegseth knew nothing about the Caribbean strikes.

Then a video surfaces of him bragging he watched it happen live.

That’s not mixed messaging, that’s a full-blown cover-up caught in 4K.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson just put all of the responsibility of the Caribbean strikes on President Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth.

"“The Secretary (Hegseth) has been very clear in every statement that we have released about these strikes that they are Presidentially directed and the chain of command functions as it should… At the end of the day, the Secretary and the President are the ones directing these strikes and any follow-on strikes like those directed by Admiral Bradley, the Secretary 100% agrees with.”

[Ford News @FordJohnathan5]

🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS Time line on murdering people in international waters by Trump administration.

- US strikes boats in international waters that two people survived and US ordered a second kill strike.

- Pete Hegseth claims this didn't happen.

- Trump says Pete Hegseth said he never gave the order.

- Pete Hegseth says they watched the strikes live.

- Another source claims the strikes did happen and Hegseth gave the orders.

- Pete Hegseth admits to watching it live.

- Republican House and Senate announces an investigation.

- Press Secretary admits the second strike did happen.

- Pete Hegseth says Admiral Bradley gave the order for the second strike.

- Pete Hegseth admits he authorized Admiral Bradley's order to kill possibly innocent people.

- Former JAG attorneys say this is agaisnt international law and the Geneva Convention. It's a war crime. 🚨

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

It's weird to me that people are just now reacting to this Defense Department execution now. The facts about this strike were known shortly after it, and I made a video about how they were intentionally murdering people, not "stopping the boats"

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

These are just some of the over 150 posts Trump put out on Truth Social last night in the span of an hour. Completely insane conspiracy theories. He was clearly having a mental decline episode and was posting whatever came to mind. It’s going to get worse.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

I spent two years in the Trump administration. During that time, I saw how the president handled national security decisions. One of my biggest takeaways was this:

He fantasized regularly about maiming & killing unarmed civilians. Actually.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.

But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.

The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

[rbarris @rbarris]

@NancyMace Actual immortals can jog, climb, swim, ride a bike

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Kristi Noem says she only has to follow orders from judges she personally agrees with. That’s not how it works, Gestapo Barbie. I can’t wait for the tribunals.

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

From a military perspective, if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order, it’s also a requirement for a senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel him. So there’s that, too.

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

1/2 This has got to be one of most painful responses to watch.

White House simply does not deny second strike was to allow no survivors.

And the 'law' Leavitt cites is utterly irrelevant (self-defense is non-sequitur, it's not armed conflict, and 'no survivors' is a crime).

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Good point. But next level:

Congress can give Admiral Bradley (and Admiral Holsey) immunity to testify.

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

"tumbling": nat gas prices just hit their highest level since 2022, diesel still near the highest since 2024, while gas prices are 2.6 cents lower than a year ago.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Wicker: I've spoken to the secretary of defense and we'll be speaking to the admiral that was in charge of the operation. The secretary did indicate which has now been in the news media that there was a second attack.

Raju: Were there survivors who were killed?

Wicker: I don’t have that information. I do think we'll get that information. And we're going to have available to us all of the audio and all of the video

[rbarris @rbarris]

@JohnFugelsang @conservmillen

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"When senior leaders disparage legal oversight, sideline JAG officers, impede the ability of the press to report, or treat accountability as the enemy, they do more than risk unlawful action. They weaken the moral foundation that makes our military credible in the eyes of the American people and the world. Because a military that abandons its legal and ethical foundations does not protect a nation—it endangers it. A military that trades the Constitution for personal loyalty ceases to be American. And a military that fails to investigate serious allegations of unlawful conduct invites tragedy—strategic, moral, and human."

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

…we don’t even know who the dead people are yet?

How sick do you have to be to have torture fantasies about random venezuelans who may be drug dealers but also may be day laborers or humans being trafficked. This is a disease

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

Rand Paul real fired up about this

“Yesterday they said, ‘absolutely Pete says he didn't do it.’ and then today, they admit that he did it. You think there would be ramifications. Was he incompetent enough not to know that it happened? Or was he lying yesterday?”he tells Semafor

[Alex Ward @alexbward]

JUST IN: Adm. Bradley gave the order for the 2nd strike on Venezuela boat, WH Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt says during briefing.

Says Bradley was within legal right to order the second strike.

So: WH not disputing the second strike, but is disputing Hegseth gave "kill" order.