brianpcf
@brianpcf.bsky.social
Dallas YIMBY
Former USMC
USNA Grad
St. John’s College Grad
Pod host: Combat & Classics
Former USMC
USNA Grad
St. John’s College Grad
Pod host: Combat & Classics
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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This is what happens when you don't teach military history anymore.
Yeah, look, I realize I just wrote something, but the NYT has managed to annoy me enough to get me to write something else.
othermeans.io/p/reforms-of...
othermeans.io/p/reforms-of...
Reforms of the Reckless
On The New York Times Losing Their Minds
othermeans.io
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This is what happens when you don't teach military history anymore.
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Here. I wrote about the social and moral degradation of allowing a military force to engage in war crimes.
othermeans.io/p/the-emergi...
othermeans.io/p/the-emergi...
The Emerging American Achilles
Violence Without the Law
othermeans.io
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Here. I wrote about the social and moral degradation of allowing a military force to engage in war crimes.
othermeans.io/p/the-emergi...
othermeans.io/p/the-emergi...
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The United States is currently controlled by nazi child rapists who are torturing kids and stealing everyone’s money.
The center is not going to hold.
The center is not going to hold.
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The United States is currently controlled by nazi child rapists who are torturing kids and stealing everyone’s money.
The center is not going to hold.
The center is not going to hold.
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An acquaintance of mine was recently detained by ICE. He's lived in the US since he was six. His DACA status lapsed and due to a DUI charge he has not been able to apply for citizenship. He could be deported to his birth place, Namibia. He doesn't know the language.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-do...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-do...
Donate to Support Donovan Hinda's Legal Fight Against ICE Deportation, organized by Danielle Sherrill
Last Saturday evening a beloved friend and integral member of… Danielle Sherrill needs your support for Support Donovan Hinda's Legal Fight Against ICE Deportation
www.gofundme.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
An acquaintance of mine was recently detained by ICE. He's lived in the US since he was six. His DACA status lapsed and due to a DUI charge he has not been able to apply for citizenship. He could be deported to his birth place, Namibia. He doesn't know the language.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-do...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-do...
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It’s about time, we know she has a solid defense agenda.
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It’s about time, we know she has a solid defense agenda.
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This is what anti-authoritarian leaders can do that despotic counterparts can't, b/c it respects people as your peers and that's the core difference. Not a mass of hopeless idiots to be contemptuously manipulated. Self-governing people who can be persuaded, make rational decisions, and have agency.
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is what anti-authoritarian leaders can do that despotic counterparts can't, b/c it respects people as your peers and that's the core difference. Not a mass of hopeless idiots to be contemptuously manipulated. Self-governing people who can be persuaded, make rational decisions, and have agency.
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Also a good day to share The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus before Stephen Miller and Peter Thiel have it replaced on the Statue of Liberty with something about how work will set you free
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Also a good day to share The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus before Stephen Miller and Peter Thiel have it replaced on the Statue of Liberty with something about how work will set you free
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Criminal liability attaches for following an order "which a man of ordinary sense and understanding would, under the circumstances, know to be unlawful, or if the order in question is actually known to the accused to be unlawful." U.S. v. Calley (1974)
So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
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 6:14 PM
Criminal liability attaches for following an order "which a man of ordinary sense and understanding would, under the circumstances, know to be unlawful, or if the order in question is actually known to the accused to be unlawful." U.S. v. Calley (1974)
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“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
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If you plan on talking about anyone following or not following "illegal orders," read this first from Mark Hertling.
He goes into the differences between the oaths taken by enlisted service members and officers, as well as why those differences are important.
He goes into the differences between the oaths taken by enlisted service members and officers, as well as why those differences are important.
What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders
And why it matters there are two military oaths.
www.thebulwark.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If you plan on talking about anyone following or not following "illegal orders," read this first from Mark Hertling.
He goes into the differences between the oaths taken by enlisted service members and officers, as well as why those differences are important.
He goes into the differences between the oaths taken by enlisted service members and officers, as well as why those differences are important.
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“Home Deport”.
$HD
$HD
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“Home Deport”.
$HD
$HD
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Nothing brings the House together like "fuck the Senate."
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Nothing brings the House together like "fuck the Senate."
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An enterprising criminal law professor could write an entire exam on all of the state and federal crimes being violated under this scheme.
An ambitious state prosecutor could make their career out of this.
An ambitious state prosecutor could make their career out of this.
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
An enterprising criminal law professor could write an entire exam on all of the state and federal crimes being violated under this scheme.
An ambitious state prosecutor could make their career out of this.
An ambitious state prosecutor could make their career out of this.
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if you know what this is you probably already bookmarked it and if you don’t know what this is you are in for a treat
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
if you know what this is you probably already bookmarked it and if you don’t know what this is you are in for a treat
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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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I’m at the Epstein Files
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I’m at the Epstein Files
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
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Think reeeeeaaallll hard about why this same thing, an insane drop in housing production, happened in every city in America immediately after the Civil Rights movement
amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Think reeeeeaaallll hard about why this same thing, an insane drop in housing production, happened in every city in America immediately after the Civil Rights movement
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Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.