David Castor
@k7el.bsky.social
Retired electrical power engineer living on the Olympic Peninsula. Sailing, woodworking, dogs.
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Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.
Reposted by David Castor
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2
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"This moment must be a turning point. It is time to recognize that we have entered a dark, perilous new phase of the drama of the Trump years and it is up to us all that we ensure we are in the last act of that play." @djrothkopf.bsky.social
davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-have-de...
davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-have-de...
We Have Descended into Utter Madness
A new sense of urgency is needed. Our national crisis has grown much more acute.
davidrothkopf.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"This moment must be a turning point. It is time to recognize that we have entered a dark, perilous new phase of the drama of the Trump years and it is up to us all that we ensure we are in the last act of that play." @djrothkopf.bsky.social
davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-have-de...
davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-have-de...
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The Ukrainian front is not about to collapse. But the Russians want you to think that
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 28, 2025
The frontline in Ukraine is not facing imminent collapse despite recent Russian gains and Kremlin assertions.
understandingwar.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Ukrainian front is not about to collapse. But the Russians want you to think that
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
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I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Elk
Osprey
Bobcat
Porcupine
Skunk
Elk
Osprey
Bobcat
Porcupine
Skunk
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Deer 🦌
Swan 🦢
Turkey 🦃
Coyote 🐕
Moose 🫎
Deer 🦌
Swan 🦢
Turkey 🦃
Coyote 🐕
Moose 🫎
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Periodical cicada
Banana slug
Groundhog
Blue heron
Black vulture
Periodical cicada
Banana slug
Groundhog
Blue heron
Black vulture
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Elk
Osprey
Bobcat
Porcupine
Skunk
Elk
Osprey
Bobcat
Porcupine
Skunk
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
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"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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”Kasparov nails it: Western failure to confront russia is the biggest security risk we face.
Ukraine is buying us time, and we’re wasting it.”
• Andrew Chakhoyan •
@andrewchak.bsky.social
5/5🧵
Ukraine is buying us time, and we’re wasting it.”
• Andrew Chakhoyan •
@andrewchak.bsky.social
5/5🧵
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
”Kasparov nails it: Western failure to confront russia is the biggest security risk we face.
Ukraine is buying us time, and we’re wasting it.”
• Andrew Chakhoyan •
@andrewchak.bsky.social
5/5🧵
Ukraine is buying us time, and we’re wasting it.”
• Andrew Chakhoyan •
@andrewchak.bsky.social
5/5🧵
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Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
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Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.
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Every GOP governor of a state who allowed their National Guard to be commandeered for these illegal deployments deserves the same contempt the president is getting.
a young woman who signed up to serve her community and our narcissistic, despotic president decided to use her as a prop for his ego
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Every GOP governor of a state who allowed their National Guard to be commandeered for these illegal deployments deserves the same contempt the president is getting.
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We found 23 new apartment complexes built on Mariupol’s ruins, now sold on Russian sites to Russian families — while Ukrainians fight to reclaim their homes.
See the investigation unfold on YouTube: youtu.be/8_MnE3s_CKs?...
See the investigation unfold on YouTube: youtu.be/8_MnE3s_CKs?...
How Mariupol’s Homes Were Rebuilt — And Resold
YouTube video by Bellingcat
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We found 23 new apartment complexes built on Mariupol’s ruins, now sold on Russian sites to Russian families — while Ukrainians fight to reclaim their homes.
See the investigation unfold on YouTube: youtu.be/8_MnE3s_CKs?...
See the investigation unfold on YouTube: youtu.be/8_MnE3s_CKs?...
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An actual news organization would point out that he has zero power under our Constitution to do such a thing, rather than simply acting as his stenographer and passing along his delusions and fascistic rhetoric.
Sadly, @Reuters is not a news organization. They're a Trump P.R. firm.
Sadly, @Reuters is not a news organization. They're a Trump P.R. firm.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 AM
An actual news organization would point out that he has zero power under our Constitution to do such a thing, rather than simply acting as his stenographer and passing along his delusions and fascistic rhetoric.
Sadly, @Reuters is not a news organization. They're a Trump P.R. firm.
Sadly, @Reuters is not a news organization. They're a Trump P.R. firm.
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Trump Family-Linked Alt5 Sigma Ousts Top Execs
Alt5 is on 3rd CEO in 6 weeks (Tony Isaac now Acting CEO, Steven Plumb CFO). Board dissolved a special committee investigating internal matters.
Alt5 (where Eric Trump is advisor) holds approx $1.3 billion WLFI tokens
www.coindesk.com/business/202...
Alt5 is on 3rd CEO in 6 weeks (Tony Isaac now Acting CEO, Steven Plumb CFO). Board dissolved a special committee investigating internal matters.
Alt5 (where Eric Trump is advisor) holds approx $1.3 billion WLFI tokens
www.coindesk.com/business/202...
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Trump Family-Linked Alt5 Sigma Ousts Top Execs
Alt5 is on 3rd CEO in 6 weeks (Tony Isaac now Acting CEO, Steven Plumb CFO). Board dissolved a special committee investigating internal matters.
Alt5 (where Eric Trump is advisor) holds approx $1.3 billion WLFI tokens
www.coindesk.com/business/202...
Alt5 is on 3rd CEO in 6 weeks (Tony Isaac now Acting CEO, Steven Plumb CFO). Board dissolved a special committee investigating internal matters.
Alt5 (where Eric Trump is advisor) holds approx $1.3 billion WLFI tokens
www.coindesk.com/business/202...
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reminder if you are still in clean-up mode today, don’t overwork your garbage disposals.
today the busiest day of the year for plumbers. fats, starches, and bones do not belong in a disposal or drain.
reduce food waste, compost where you can, and don’t treat your drains like a trash can.
today the busiest day of the year for plumbers. fats, starches, and bones do not belong in a disposal or drain.
reduce food waste, compost where you can, and don’t treat your drains like a trash can.
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
reminder if you are still in clean-up mode today, don’t overwork your garbage disposals.
today the busiest day of the year for plumbers. fats, starches, and bones do not belong in a disposal or drain.
reduce food waste, compost where you can, and don’t treat your drains like a trash can.
today the busiest day of the year for plumbers. fats, starches, and bones do not belong in a disposal or drain.
reduce food waste, compost where you can, and don’t treat your drains like a trash can.
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It really sticks in my craw how the admin is unwilling to even issue a single communication that is not overtly framed as a political attack. And all of the beltway pundits who insist on bipartisanship above all else from Democrats see these attacks as priced in and unworthy of their attention.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It really sticks in my craw how the admin is unwilling to even issue a single communication that is not overtly framed as a political attack. And all of the beltway pundits who insist on bipartisanship above all else from Democrats see these attacks as priced in and unworthy of their attention.
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I like how you move past the fact that the shooter was granted asylum under *this* administration as quickly as possible in order to maintain the Trump fiction that this is somehow Biden's fault.
Sulzberger does it again.
Sulzberger does it again.
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I like how you move past the fact that the shooter was granted asylum under *this* administration as quickly as possible in order to maintain the Trump fiction that this is somehow Biden's fault.
Sulzberger does it again.
Sulzberger does it again.
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It literally comes from crank academics who figured White people came off Noah’s ark, which landed in the Caucasus mountains in the bible, and headed west and north
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It literally comes from crank academics who figured White people came off Noah’s ark, which landed in the Caucasus mountains in the bible, and headed west and north
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Elton John
Bob Dylan
Jerry Jeff Walker
Creedence Clearwater
James Brown
Elton John
Bob Dylan
Jerry Jeff Walker
Creedence Clearwater
James Brown
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Crowded House (x2)
Hozier
Elton John
Fleetwood Mac
Blue Rodeo (x3)
Crowded House (x2)
Hozier
Elton John
Fleetwood Mac
Blue Rodeo (x3)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Crowded House (X3)
Don Williams
The Cranberries
The Tragically Hip
Branford Marsalis
Crowded House (X3)
Don Williams
The Cranberries
The Tragically Hip
Branford Marsalis
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Elton John
Bob Dylan
Jerry Jeff Walker
Creedence Clearwater
James Brown
Elton John
Bob Dylan
Jerry Jeff Walker
Creedence Clearwater
James Brown
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Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
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There’s a reason Caesar was forbidden to cross the Rubicon and return to Rome with his army. It’s what separates a relatively free society from a fascist one.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
There’s a reason Caesar was forbidden to cross the Rubicon and return to Rome with his army. It’s what separates a relatively free society from a fascist one.