krm
@kmcn13.bsky.social
Prof Emeritus of Lit and American Studies
Editor, The City in American Lit and Culture, Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature, Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles, Author, Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of the American City
Editor, The City in American Lit and Culture, Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature, Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles, Author, Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of the American City
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It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him.
So there’s that, too.
So there’s that, too.
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him.
So there’s that, too.
So there’s that, too.
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A nation that allows criminals to be pardoned by the very person who orders their crimes, is a organized crime syndicate masquerading as a nation.
November 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A nation that allows criminals to be pardoned by the very person who orders their crimes, is a organized crime syndicate masquerading as a nation.
Important brief thread
It's good that Republicans acknowledge this was unlawful. But this framing is problematic. For one thing, it's not a war (or armed conflict), so it's not a "war crime." Moreover, even if there *were* an armed conflict against the (unnamed) cartel in question ... [1]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Important brief thread
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
Historians suggest the Nazis might have committed a genocide
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Historians suggest the Nazis might have committed a genocide
But unlike Hunter Biden this is only about trillions of dollars and has White House approval.
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
But unlike Hunter Biden this is only about trillions of dollars and has White House approval.
Erdoganism
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Erdoganism
Nope, he should come up to the Hill as SecDef and explain the ultimate source of the orders.
Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Nope, he should come up to the Hill as SecDef and explain the ultimate source of the orders.
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Biden: served others on Thanksgiving.
Obama: served others on Thanksgiving.
Mamdani: served others on Thanksgiving.
Trump: Played golf at his resort and trash-tweeted.
Vance: Gave a speech trashing the tradition of turkey dinner.
Tell me again about this party of traditional values….I’ll wait.
Obama: served others on Thanksgiving.
Mamdani: served others on Thanksgiving.
Trump: Played golf at his resort and trash-tweeted.
Vance: Gave a speech trashing the tradition of turkey dinner.
Tell me again about this party of traditional values….I’ll wait.
November 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Biden: served others on Thanksgiving.
Obama: served others on Thanksgiving.
Mamdani: served others on Thanksgiving.
Trump: Played golf at his resort and trash-tweeted.
Vance: Gave a speech trashing the tradition of turkey dinner.
Tell me again about this party of traditional values….I’ll wait.
Obama: served others on Thanksgiving.
Mamdani: served others on Thanksgiving.
Trump: Played golf at his resort and trash-tweeted.
Vance: Gave a speech trashing the tradition of turkey dinner.
Tell me again about this party of traditional values….I’ll wait.
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So a single Afghan man that Americans trained in combat tactics has supposedly shown himself incompatible with "Western Civilization" and now all Afghanis are unwelcome. Cool. Someone tell Trump about all the angry white male Americans shooting folks in bunches. Toss them, we're really in business.
November 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
So a single Afghan man that Americans trained in combat tactics has supposedly shown himself incompatible with "Western Civilization" and now all Afghanis are unwelcome. Cool. Someone tell Trump about all the angry white male Americans shooting folks in bunches. Toss them, we're really in business.
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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
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Many years ago, the late Haitian President René Préval told us this would happen if nothing was done to stop American weapons streaming into Haiti.
He was right.
He was right.
Additional U.S. Marines being sent to Haiti to defend the embassy from gang attacks face a grim reality: They're increasingly being targeted by American-made, military-grade firearms.
Gangs wielding American guns await US Marines heading to Haiti
www.stripes.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Many years ago, the late Haitian President René Préval told us this would happen if nothing was done to stop American weapons streaming into Haiti.
He was right.
He was right.
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“Past demonstrations have not been big enough. Past calls to action have not been urgent enough. Each of us has to ask, what more can we do—even if we feel we have done a great deal—and then we must do it.”
I wish David were wrong. I fear he is right.
I wish David were wrong. I fear he is right.
The past decade has seen grave threats and unmistakable decline. But the past few days and weeks reveal that we have entered in a new and more perilous chapter here in the U.S. It must be a call to a new kind of action. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
We Have Descended into Utter Madness
A new sense of urgency is needed. Our national crisis has grown much more acute.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“Past demonstrations have not been big enough. Past calls to action have not been urgent enough. Each of us has to ask, what more can we do—even if we feel we have done a great deal—and then we must do it.”
I wish David were wrong. I fear he is right.
I wish David were wrong. I fear he is right.
Maybe Bondi couldn't, but Roberts will.
Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of George W. Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC):
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Maybe Bondi couldn't, but Roberts will.
Let's hope so
Can someone explain to me why the first felon of the United States is "closing" air space in another country, that doesn't want or need the United States there?
I know he thinks he can do whatever he wants all over the world.
But surely someone is going to stop him, since congress won't.
#SheShed
I know he thinks he can do whatever he wants all over the world.
But surely someone is going to stop him, since congress won't.
#SheShed
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Let's hope so
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Each July 4th Americans celebrate a successful war of anti-colonial liberation.
Each Thanksgiving Americans celebrate the colonists who occupied North America against the will of the original inhabitants.
The rest of the year is spent not thinking about the tense relationship between those 2 things.
Each Thanksgiving Americans celebrate the colonists who occupied North America against the will of the original inhabitants.
The rest of the year is spent not thinking about the tense relationship between those 2 things.
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Each July 4th Americans celebrate a successful war of anti-colonial liberation.
Each Thanksgiving Americans celebrate the colonists who occupied North America against the will of the original inhabitants.
The rest of the year is spent not thinking about the tense relationship between those 2 things.
Each Thanksgiving Americans celebrate the colonists who occupied North America against the will of the original inhabitants.
The rest of the year is spent not thinking about the tense relationship between those 2 things.
Who forgot to give him his meds?
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Who forgot to give him his meds?
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
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I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
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The owner swallowed her pride one month ago.
Houston Thanksgiving tradition gives update after desperate plea
The owner swallowed her pride one month ago.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The owner swallowed her pride one month ago.
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Exterminate the brutes
The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Exterminate the brutes