IT APPEARS TRUMP'S SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, PETE HEGSETH, COMMITTED A WAR CRIME -- OR MURDER.

  MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The WSJ confirms that in the leadup to Pete Hegseth's serial war crimes in the Caribbean, he made clear to commanders that our military code *was not to be followed*—no questions were to be asked of any orders. It led to the resignation of the top commander in the Caribbean.

Graphic depictions of two survivors being killed by a second US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug ferrying boat have provoked outrage where previously there was none – or at least relatively little.

 A firestorm of controversy has greeted a recent Washington Post report which suggested that a deadly attack on a vessel carrying 11 people in the Caribbean was followed with a second assault after the initial strike failed to kill everybody onboard.

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"The rationale has been widely rejected by most legal experts, who have pointed out that the US is not in conflict with an armed group involved in attacking its territory or its assets abroad." 

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 “Even if we buy into their framing that the individuals on these vessels are combatants, it would still be unlawful to kill them if they are hors de combat, which means they’re incapacitated,” said Rebecca Ingber, a professor at Cardozo law school and a former legal adviser to the state department. 

 “It is manifestly unlawful to kill someone who’s been shipwrecked. This is such a longstanding textbook principle of the law of armed conflict. 

 The prohibition is made explicit in the Pentagon’s own Law of War manual." 

 'Members of the armed forces and other persons … who are wounded, sick, or shipwrecked, shall be respected and protected in all circumstances,' it says. 'Such persons are among the categories of persons placed hors de combat; making them the object of attack is strictly prohibited.'

 Significantly – given the allegation that the second strike was conducted in accordance with Hegseth’s order to kill everyone onboard – the manual also addresses the question of illegal orders."

GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 

Not enough people are talking about…

 

Venezuelan airspace being closed... Yes, somehow the Trump Administration has determined the US has a right to unilaterally close any sovereign nation’s airspace we want. Under what authority? Why? No news yet, but stay tuned, I’m sure President Trump will let us know.

 

Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case… Somehow as drug trafficking has become so important we need to bomb single boats in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and close the airspace over Venezuela, it’s okay to pardon a drug trafficking felonious Ex-President who worked alongside Chapo Guzman of Mexico to supply cocaine to Latin American and the US.

 

Sec Def/War Pete Hegseth orders survivors of US air strike bombed again to make sure they are dead… If this is being reported correctly, Hegseth is guilty of war crimes. The Geneva Conventions clearly state that survivors are to be captured and treated humanely. And the US has signed on to and agreed to this. This is one of the major safe guards in place to protect US military personnel abroad.

 

Some Trump voters are struggling to square compassion, Trump’s words and reality… Here’s a story of a conservative Trump supporting mom who is working to care for peaceful immigrants in her town, while the Trump Admin lies about their criminality and works to deport them.

 

President Trump is continuing to cut tariffs… The big question is why is the Trump Admin cutting tariffs? They continue to insist prices are not up. So why sacrifice the income for the US? They continue to say tariffs do not raise prices, so what effect on the US economy can cutting prices possibly have?

 

Regarding the Afghani shooter… Fox News is reporting that National Guard shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal was an elite CIA operative, vetted multiple times across two US Administrations and was legally in the US because the Trump Administration approved him for residency. Many conservatives, including apparently President Trump, are unaware of these facts, as evidenced by him calling a reporter who questioned him about the apparent conflict of his words with reality, stupid.

 

Vinyl Records… Vinyl records, known for years as LPs, are in a bit of a resurgence. In a change of pace, check out the great story I linked above on vinyl recordings of all types. It may be just the tonic you need to forget about politics for a few moments.

 

6 - 7… Are you aware of this? In the last two weeks after returning to the US, I’ve spent some time around middle schoolers and all they talk and dream about is 6-7. Check it out in this crazy clip.

 

Finally… who knew the great John Williams of Star Wars fame, wrote the original theme music for Gilligan’s Island? It’s true and here it is.

I’m sure some here will quibble with these stories, or the sources. You cherry picked them, they’ll say, and it shows your bias. Maybe so, but each and every story I’ve highlighted here can be found on traditional news sites, conservative sites, progressive sites and independent sites.

 

Except maybe 6 - 7, but who knows.

 

Enjoy, on to the comments.

I AM SICKENED BY THIS

 

This is what racists and bigots all through history have said about immigrants coming to America. 

We've known for a long time that Trump is an unrepentant racist. 

Listen to how the president of the United States talks about a certain group of immigrants to our country.

I am ashamed to be an American while Trump is president. He does not represent what a majority of my fellow Americans think about immigrants, nor does he share my or my fellow human beings ' human values. There is something desperately wrong with Trump's brain.

 I'm sickened by this.

‪Mark Jacob‬ ‪@markjacob.bsky.social‬

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I wish there was a precedent for what happens when a demagogue picks out a vulnerable minority group and labels them as subhuman. I wonder what the next step is and whether any innocent people get hurt. And I wonder whether the demagogue's followers go on trial when the whole thing is over.

Trump ATTACKS Ilhan Omar as “garbage” in a full-blown racist tirade from the White House podium.

BREAKING: Trump ATTACKS Ilhan Omar as “garbage” in a full-blown racist tirade from the White House podium.

In a jaw-dropping meltdown that showcased the ugliest instincts of his presidency, Donald Trump used his press briefing today to unleash one of the most openly racist rants ever delivered by an American president—attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar, Somali Americans, and Somalia itself in language that would make George Wallace blush.

Yes, this was the rhetoric of ethnic cleansing coming straight from the mouth of the President of the United States.

Standing at the presidential podium, Trump didn’t even pretend to hide it. He called Somalia “barely a country” and smeared Somali immigrants as people who “run around killing each other,” bringing “nothing” to America. Then he crossed into full-blown white-nationalist fantasyland, declaring, “I don’t want them in our country… their country stinks… we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage.”

Yes—the President of the United States called a sitting member of Congress “garbage.”

And his message to millions of Somali Americans? Get out.

Trump ranted about Minnesota as if it were an occupied territory, accusing Somali families—without evidence—of stealing “billions” and contributing “nothing.” He smeared Omar as hating America, hating the Constitution, and hating “everybody.” He even demanded she “go back” to where she came from—his oldest, most recycled racist applause line.

Let’s be clear: Trump wasn’t talking about policy. He wasn’t talking about security. He was talking about race. About who he thinks deserves to be American—and who he thinks doesn’t.

This is the same Ilhan Omar who came to the U.S. as a refugee, became a citizen, built a life, and rose to Congress. Meanwhile, Trump—whose grandparents came here fleeing poverty—spent the morning ranting about “garbage people” while standing in a taxpayer-funded mansion he’s covered in gold plating.

The cruelty, the racism, the projection—it’s all the same Trump playbook. But today, he ripped the mask off completely.

And every Republican who says nothing owns every word of it.

I recommend that you listen to this former Navy Seal Officer:

 

 

 AND THIS.

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Former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy:

 "If this happened as described in the Post report, it was, at best, a war crime under federal law. I say 'at best' because, as regular readers know, I believe the attacks on these suspected drug boats — without congressional authorization, under circumstances in which the boat operators pose no military threat to the United States, and given that narcotics trafficking is defined in federal law as a crime rather than as terrorist activity, much less an act or war — are lawless and therefore that the killings are not legitimate under the law or armed conflict," the attorney wrote.

McCarthy goes even further, suggesting that, "even if you buy the untenable claim that they are combatants, it is a war crime to intentionally kill combatants who have been rendered unable to fight. It is not permitted, under the laws and customs of honorable warfare, to order that no quarter be given — to apply lethal force to those who surrender or who are injured, shipwrecked, or otherwise unable to fight."

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