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Adopted by Lincoln during the Civil War, the Lieber Code was the first codification of the laws of war. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat...

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Death by a thousand papercuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...

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Two researchers explain the disinformation tactics used by Christian fundamentalist groups to attack transgender and gender-diverse people.

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Lawrence Tribe: SCOTUS ruling "completely inimical to the rule of law."

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The 97 year-old, WWII war crimes prosecutor Ben Forencz (1920-2023). They had the receipts, literally. 13-minute interview by 60 Minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ux... Also, a first-person retrospective essay by Ben Forencz. judicature.duke.edu/.../last-liv...

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Worst. Supreme. Court. Ever.

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Actualizing Trump's legislative agenda against trans folks: "She remains at Temple Burn Center and is expected to undergo multiple skin grafts." www.advocate.com/crime/transg...

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What's the chance that Iran folded because they still were left with plenty of refined uranium?

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I asked ChatGPT about topics which are censored. It suggested I used the phrase "content moderation" and answered: chatgpt.com/s/t_685d490c...

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"Si vis pacem, para bellum." -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, ca. 350 AD.

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“The more the government or any institution knows about us, the more power it has over us... When the government knows all of our secrets, we stand naked before official power. Stripped of our privacy, we lose our rights and privileges.” - NC Sen. Sam Ervin, advocating the Privacy Act of 1974

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Projecting his own motives and conduct onto others, again.

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A clever liar, indicted for bribery and for war crimes, who has helped manipulate the US into two wars in the Middle East (so far). Just say no to warmongers.

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Someone asked me today about my plans for the Fall and it took me a moment to realize she meant my plans for the Autumn and not the collapse of civilization.

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Bovear feed supplement reduced methane gas production in cattle by 30-45%. We're saved!

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Rep. Nancy Mace, a fire-breathing MAGA Republican from S. Carolina, smugly deploys coded fascist Christian Nationalist propaganda when she asks Walz, "What is a woman?" Then she lobs nasty insults at him, callling him "a bigot, a mysognist, a sexist" without giving time for him to respond.

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Funny but true. .

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Yet another war for oil... Though the U.S. was clearly subservient to Israel's prerogatives regarding the timing of its bombing of Iran's nuclear production sites, the U.S. had its own motives/interests to check Iran's "Islamic Republic" long before Trump came onto the scene as Netanyahu's bitch.

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Good luck with correcting the internet, Elon!

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Was the U.S. entrapped to attack by Israel's recent direct provocation of Iran?

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Great map showing Trump's cuts to federal grants -- mostly for health and science research -- are spread throughout the country. NOTE: The dark spot in central North Carolina (Rearch Triangle Park et al.) indicates that the area will bear more federal grant cuts than any other part of the country.

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Cruz is another traitor and warmonger.

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No doubt, this is true. Just like the fascist he is. Alito and Thomas would have acquitted everyone at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. #scotus #alito #fascistusa #thomas

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This bizarre order to strip American citizens of privacy and control over one's own person, including health care and reproductive freedom, is a NAZI-FASCIST tactic by puritanical, anti-American control freaks known as FUNDAMENTALIST, EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS. They are in fact EVIL, PIOUS FRAUDS.

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GOP Rep Jim Jordan is once again in the spotlight with the release of the documentary on Ohio State Doctor Strauss’ no sexual abuse of athletes. Wrestlers and a referee claim they told Jordan about the abuse and he shrugged it off. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory www.dispatch.com/story/news/2...

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The U.S. Supreme Court is nothing more than a partisan, "conservative" wasteland, with three Trump justices and the "DEI Justice" Clarence Thomas, joined by the addle-brained culture warrior Justice Samuel Alito. The United States is no longer a safe refuge for freedom and democracy.

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Never have I seen the horror of war so perfectly encapsulated in one families suffering

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Why would anyone vote for a known conman and perv?

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