This was going to be my pick.

The secretary of defense-who renamed his agency the department of war and insists on the need for lethality at every turn jokinglu posted a meme of a turtle blowing up boats after questions were raised about his orders, but sure the admiral who carried out those orders to the letter was acting alone

The NYT giving people involved in all of this anonymity to protect themselves from accountability and so they can try to get others out of war crimes, murder charges, or both is a choice.

I think this is true but our zombie both sides media insists on extending maximal charity to any argument from republicans, and the thing is that this is indisputably a war crime *even granting their bullshit arguments*.

Not as good as hanging this on Trump, but it's still important to make sure that this kind of ridiculously illegal behavior remains indefensible.

I agree, but have been hesitant to use it. I think this is standard punctuation in the UK generally for quotations. It’s just in English that we insist upon putting closing quotation marks after the end of the sentence.