Professor, author, editor, and fan of comics, movies, and music
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The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
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To be fair, the sun was in my eyes.
Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
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It builds opposition automatically.
Every day you occupy, you convert another neutral person into a resistor of your regime.
ICE hasn't figured that out yet.
But their occupation builds the resistance organically. ✊🏼
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Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
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The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.
This is not protection. This is occupation.
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The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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An Anderson Cooper investigation of Trump’s acceptance of white S. African refugees, which is “guaranteed to provoke Trump and inflame his MAGA base.”
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When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
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But shooting unarmed civilians in split seconds, no problem for them at all
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