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Lovely to wake up to an episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social and hear @becingber.bsky.social laying out the domestic and international law use-of-force frameworks: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Three initial reactions to U.S. attack on Iran: US destroyed enrichment infrastructure but no evidence stockpiles destroyed. Khamenei wont accept unconditional surrender. Retaliation likely. More countries will be thinking about getting the bomb. has shattered the non proliferation regime.

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My very apolitical friend just said to me ‘No one f*cks with North Korea. Why do you think that is?’ Yep. There’s a clear message for a lot of Global South and Middle Eastern countries tonight. Sadly. And it isn’t a nonproliferation message.

submitted 2 days ago • 130 comments

I'm a 46-year-old middle-aged man. Republican presidents and congressional majorities have supported legislation creating larger deficits and more debt than Democratic ones for my entire life.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Doesn't look like Lander assaulted anyone to me. Here's a bunch of 18 USC 111 caselaw in the 2d circuit and SDNY: www.courtlistener.com?q=%2218%20U....

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The government’s pleadings in Newsom v. Trump before the 9th circuit seem to both overstate what happened in LA and wildly understate the Whiskey Rebellion, which it describes as “a protest against the government’s taxes, not an effort to change the country’s leader.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The government’s pleadings in Newsom v. Trump before the 9th circuit seem to both overstate what happened in LA and wildly understate the Whiskey Rebellion, which it describes as “a protest against the government’s taxes, not an effort to change the country’s leader.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Trump take strawberries. "The [ICE] raids spread chaos in Oxnard, which grows much of the nation’s strawberries . . . . Growers reported that 30 to 60 percent of workers stopped reporting to the fields in the days after the raids." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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🤔

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Late to this but: COME ON LAST OF SEASON 2. JESUS

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From Judge Breyer's order: "A 'violent crowd' boxed in officers, threw fireworks, rocks, and mangos, and trapped one officer in her car, surrounding it, shaking it, and throwing stones at it. Santacruz Decl. Ex. 20." The Mango Rebellion.

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Good piece by @radiofreetom.bsky.social. He’s right that Israeli’s 1967 preemptive strike is in the casebooks as a paradigmatic example of self-defense but he omits that another one, Osirak in 1981, is likewise in the casebooks for the opposite proposition. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

No one showed up to watch the Sherman take squeak down the road

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Well, this is a big deal. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

#Israel's explanation of #IranUnderAttack implies 2 violations of Int. Law: Using force to "roll back a threat" is preventive, not covered by self-defence. Nuclear scientists, unless they R members of the Iranian armed forces, are not legitimate targets of attack under IHL.

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New thread #3 A US defense official tells the WP this attack, which Israel says will continue over multiple days, will provoke a significant Iranian response that the Israelis will then ask the United States to help counter.

submitted 11 days ago • 94 comments

Holy shit

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Tom’s exactly right. Deploying federalized National Guard and USMC to LA is a boundary-pushing exercise that intends to normalize the unnecessary presence of military forces on American streets. It’s a step toward consolidating power and quashing dissent.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Yes. And also, he's trying to get people acclimated to troops in the streets. In a divided country, he only needs slivers of support - or voter disengagement - in the right places to keep on going.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

It’s been a particularly dystopian day, so here’s a picture of Gio cuddling a stuffy.

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Governor Newsom: "I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops ... and return them to my command. ... This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed." The letter:

submitted 15 days ago • 118 comments

Gonna keep tapping the sign.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Demonstrating that returning people erroneously removed from the United States is perfectly possible.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

This is the way the old world order ends – not with a bang but a neigh. Welcome to the interregnum.

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

If half of this is accurate it’s fucking huge.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

💯

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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?...

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@PressTV: Foreign Minister of Syria's HTS-led administration Asaad Al-Shaibani and the US' new Syria envoy, Tom Barrack raise the American flag at the American embassy in Damascus for the first time in 13 years. Follow Press TV on Telegram: https://t.co/e1DDcujXMQ

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Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Three times in the last four days I’ve been attacked by a mockingbird while walking the dog. Twice, I’ve been pecked. Im beginning to think Atticus was mistaken.

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Ed Smylie, famed NASA engineer who saved Apollo 13, remembered—along with duct tape—in @economist.com: economist.com/obituary/202...

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As Israel rushes to harden its military position in Syria, it should also take care to avoid turning Turkey into an enemy, write David Makovsky and Simone Saidmehr. “Israeli leaders have to balance security considerations with a long-term strategy.”

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To nobody's surprise, the GAO found that arms transfers policies currently in place "do not fully address the risk that recipients may use transferred U.S. defense articles to commit human rights abuses.” Those policies should be reformed, not abandoned: www.justsecurity.org/113384/civil...

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Bruce Springsteen calling out Don the Felon hits different—when The Boss says you're out of tune with the country, maybe it’s time to face the music. 🎸🇺🇸 #Springsteen #OutOfTouch

submitted 39 days ago • 39 comments

Feels like someone may have lost sight of the categorical imperative

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