burner herzog
@oujii.bsky.social
in every city in every nation from lake geneva to the finland station. he/him
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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This is a lot of words to say, “Yikes! That Washington Post story about us illegally killing survivors on the open seas was 100% correct!”
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This is a lot of words to say, “Yikes! That Washington Post story about us illegally killing survivors on the open seas was 100% correct!”
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I interviewed Aftyn Behn, who is running in a special election in TN7 — if you know anyone in the district, please remind them to vote for Aftyn.
She has a real shot to flip the congressional seat. @aftynbehn.bsky.social
jesspiper.substack.com/p/feed-kids-...
She has a real shot to flip the congressional seat. @aftynbehn.bsky.social
jesspiper.substack.com/p/feed-kids-...
Feed Kids. Fix Roads. Fund Hospitals.
Aftyn Behn
jesspiper.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I interviewed Aftyn Behn, who is running in a special election in TN7 — if you know anyone in the district, please remind them to vote for Aftyn.
She has a real shot to flip the congressional seat. @aftynbehn.bsky.social
jesspiper.substack.com/p/feed-kids-...
She has a real shot to flip the congressional seat. @aftynbehn.bsky.social
jesspiper.substack.com/p/feed-kids-...
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There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater
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This is how the New York Times euphemizes Trump’s open embrace of racist xenophobia and white supremacy. And yet it’s better than most of the legacy media. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/us/politics/trumps-response-to-shooting-shows-intensified-anti-migrant-stance.html
Trump’s Response to Shooting Shows Intensified Anti-Immigration Stance
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is how the New York Times euphemizes Trump’s open embrace of racist xenophobia and white supremacy. And yet it’s better than most of the legacy media. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/us/politics/trumps-response-to-shooting-shows-intensified-anti-migrant-stance.html
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When Israelis commit war crimes they are the ones who investigate and decide guilt or innocence, same for the UK police, so by this logic Palestine Action should be able to put their activist on trial and determine guilt.
Or are we going for full double standards?
Or are we going for full double standards?
British state logic;
One activist lost their shit and hit a police officer with a hammer, so that justifies declaring the entire organisation terrorists, suspending their legal rights and arresting over 2000 people for holding signs.
See? Logic.
One activist lost their shit and hit a police officer with a hammer, so that justifies declaring the entire organisation terrorists, suspending their legal rights and arresting over 2000 people for holding signs.
See? Logic.
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
When Israelis commit war crimes they are the ones who investigate and decide guilt or innocence, same for the UK police, so by this logic Palestine Action should be able to put their activist on trial and determine guilt.
Or are we going for full double standards?
Or are we going for full double standards?
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We are setting the scene for the world’s most unsympathetic version of the face-eating leopards, which is really saying something
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We are setting the scene for the world’s most unsympathetic version of the face-eating leopards, which is really saying something
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If I open an article and the splash banner is AI slop, I close the tab. If you don't have the bare minimum of discernment to not do that, what else do you consider "good enough" to publish?
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If I open an article and the splash banner is AI slop, I close the tab. If you don't have the bare minimum of discernment to not do that, what else do you consider "good enough" to publish?
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Journalists, please! When you ask a politician what they think, and they tell you, your next question should always be "Why do you think that?".
Someone ask Kemi why she thinks Rome wasn't a state, or Streeting why he wants to privatise the NHS. Keep asking WHY, not WHAT questions.
Someone ask Kemi why she thinks Rome wasn't a state, or Streeting why he wants to privatise the NHS. Keep asking WHY, not WHAT questions.
November 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Journalists, please! When you ask a politician what they think, and they tell you, your next question should always be "Why do you think that?".
Someone ask Kemi why she thinks Rome wasn't a state, or Streeting why he wants to privatise the NHS. Keep asking WHY, not WHAT questions.
Someone ask Kemi why she thinks Rome wasn't a state, or Streeting why he wants to privatise the NHS. Keep asking WHY, not WHAT questions.
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A central issue at trial for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam was whether an Army lieutenant, or the Army captain who was his superior, was responsible for the order to leave no survivors.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
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 6:47 PM
A central issue at trial for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam was whether an Army lieutenant, or the Army captain who was his superior, was responsible for the order to leave no survivors.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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Every time someone jumps on socials and says there is no point to mass protest days and visible reaction in the streets, share this chart with them. The approval ratings are tanking not just because they're doing bad things but also because protestors won't let people forget it either.
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Every time someone jumps on socials and says there is no point to mass protest days and visible reaction in the streets, share this chart with them. The approval ratings are tanking not just because they're doing bad things but also because protestors won't let people forget it either.
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Every time I read an FDR speech it breaks my heart to see someone who assumes his audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Every time I read an FDR speech it breaks my heart to see someone who assumes his audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more.
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America has gone full Nazi and it’s time to call out those accountable: Democrats not getting on board purging around a dozen trans athletes from the NCAA
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
America has gone full Nazi and it’s time to call out those accountable: Democrats not getting on board purging around a dozen trans athletes from the NCAA
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
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Man remember when that "Deciding To Win" manifesto came out a month or two back that people like the Pod Save America hosts and David Axelrod and James Carville signed off on that said M4A was an unpopular nonstarter that should be jettisoned?
none of those people should work again
none of those people should work again
🚨NEW: A new poll Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
A Massive Shift In Health Care Politics
As both parties are legislating criticism of socialism, Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.
substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Man remember when that "Deciding To Win" manifesto came out a month or two back that people like the Pod Save America hosts and David Axelrod and James Carville signed off on that said M4A was an unpopular nonstarter that should be jettisoned?
none of those people should work again
none of those people should work again
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h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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Hope NU enjoyed making this blackmail payment in exchange for me making sure no alum I know ever donates a dime. (Haha I've been too broke to ever do more than donate to WNUR)
BREAKING from New York Times: Northwestern is nearing a $75 million deal with the Trump administration to free up federal funding and close out ongoing antisemitism investigations
The find would be the second largest after Columbia's $200m payment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
The find would be the second largest after Columbia's $200m payment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hope NU enjoyed making this blackmail payment in exchange for me making sure no alum I know ever donates a dime. (Haha I've been too broke to ever do more than donate to WNUR)
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This was murder purporting to be a war crime from the first jump internationalpolicy.org/publications...
Trump’s Wag The Dog Moment - CIP
If you want to break up a drug cartel, blowing up a boat does little to accomplish that, unless you believe cartels only own one boat.
internationalpolicy.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This was murder purporting to be a war crime from the first jump internationalpolicy.org/publications...
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Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
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The central delusion of Thatcherism is the idea politicians can destroy the postwar settlement and replace it with nothing, which in practice turns out to always be panicking governments shoring up the systems they vandalised fuck out of, using sticky tape and wood glue.
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The central delusion of Thatcherism is the idea politicians can destroy the postwar settlement and replace it with nothing, which in practice turns out to always be panicking governments shoring up the systems they vandalised fuck out of, using sticky tape and wood glue.
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I really am not sure where to even begin with this but maybe just at the absolute deep-down bog-standard basic question of: if AI is the ultimate energy efficiency weapon, why are AI-building tech companies *becoming more inefficient every year??*
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I really am not sure where to even begin with this but maybe just at the absolute deep-down bog-standard basic question of: if AI is the ultimate energy efficiency weapon, why are AI-building tech companies *becoming more inefficient every year??*
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Average Democrat Senator: “my respectable colleagues across the aisle and I disagree on the method, but not the goal, and working together we can elevate our nation.”
Charles Sumner: “my colleagues across the aisle are rapist racists who spit in the eye of god”
Charles Sumner: “my colleagues across the aisle are rapist racists who spit in the eye of god”
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Average Democrat Senator: “my respectable colleagues across the aisle and I disagree on the method, but not the goal, and working together we can elevate our nation.”
Charles Sumner: “my colleagues across the aisle are rapist racists who spit in the eye of god”
Charles Sumner: “my colleagues across the aisle are rapist racists who spit in the eye of god”