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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 2h

Fetterman seems to look for opportunities to be ghoulish. He is a disgrace to Pennsylvania and the country.

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 3h

Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks theintercept.com/2025/10/08/v...

Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks

Republicans in the Senate voted down an war powers bill to block Trump's deadly attacks on alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 2h

The NYT journalists who wrote this - Samuel Granados, Genevieve Glatsky and Annie Correal - devote not a single word to the blatant criminality of the Trump Administration extrajudically murdering people.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 2h

"Senate Republicans proved once again that their party is hopeless and rotten on foreign policy." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-hopele...

The Hopeless, Rotten GOP

Supporting Trump’s murder spree is a new low in mindless hawkishness and deference to the president.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 15h

Here is the latest piece of evidence that the Republican Party is absolutely hopeless on foreign policy: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u....

G.O.P. Blocks Bid to Halt Trump’s Attacks in the Caribbean Sea

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 15h

48-51 vote on Schiff-Kaine resolution to block further strikes in the Caribbean.

Resolution does not pass.

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 18h

Petro says that the U.S. is murdering Colombian citizens, too. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20h

Complete nonsense from Secretary Rubio.

The Trump administration is engaged in lawless, premeditated killings without any congressional authorization.

Schiff-Kaine resolution moves to stop that lawless killing.

The resolution would not affect authority to defend against real armed attacks.

The Schiff-Kaine resolution is up for a vote in the Senate today.

This resolution aims to strip President Trump of his constitutional authority to protect Americans by authorizing military strikes against narco-terrorists, the Houthis, and other Iranian proxies. This is dangerous — it puts our children, citizens, soldiers, and allies at risk.

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 21h

The issue, as Sen Kaine well knows, is not that troops pushing buttons from afar are in “harm’s way.” The issue is that a goon regime is murdering people abroad while invading cities at home. You have to make that case — the real case — and trust that enough Americans will care.

Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 22h

Trump used military force to strike 4 ships in the Caribbean, killing 21 people, and has not provided sound legal justification for doing so to Congress. I’m forcing a vote with Senator Adam Schiff on whether the U.S. should put our troops in harm’s way to conduct these strikes.

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Yemen Data Project @yemendataproject.org · 1d

Three strikes in September all in the capital resulted in more than 100 civilian casualties in each incident. Eight strikes in the capital in September marked the heaviest month of bombing in the city since US strikes ended in May and the highest number in Yemen’s capital by Israel in any month.

Yemen Data Project @yemendataproject.org · 1d

The rate of civilian harm in Israeli strikes remains unprecedented.
In Trump's bombing campaign earlier this year the average was 2.07 civilian casualties per strike. In seven years of Saudi-led air raids the rate was 0.76.
In September, the average surged to over 32 civilian casualties per strike.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

Former USAID official here.

The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world.

It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation.

The facts, below. 🧵

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 1d

"The administration is lying about the nature of the threat so that they can pretend that they are acting defensively." daniellarison.substack.com/p/there-is-n...

There Is No 'Imminent' Threat from Cartels

The administration is lying about the nature of the threat so that they can pretend that they are acting defensively.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see Senator Paul co-sponsoring the war powers resolution to block further strikes in the Caribbean.

Senator Schiff has said he will force a vote on the resolution today.

We can't have a policy where we just blow up ships." Kentucky Sen.
@RandPaul
told
@jmathieureports
that he will be co-sponsoring a War Powers Act resolution later this week with eyes on military strikes on vessels allegedly ferrying drugs from Venezuela

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 1d

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Seems to be

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 3d

Got a tip recently about how Trump's tariffs are preventing libraries from sharing books, and causing their loaned books to get stuck or lost in other countries: www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 2d

There is a collection of papers published last year under the title After Charlemagne.

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 2d

"t doesn’t really matter why they are doing it or what they think those crimes will get them. The president is openly trampling on U.S. and international law and killing people because he feels like it." daniellarison.substack.com/p/end-the-pr...

End the President's Caribbean Murder Spree

The president is openly trampling on U.S. and international law and killing people because he feels like it.

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 2d

The “peace president” is at it again: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Trump Calls Off Diplomatic Outreach to Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2d

Going for Operation Venezuela Freedom/Just Cause Dos would be illegal and incredibly daft.

If the administration considers stopping undocumented immigration & deporting Venezuelans to be priorities, trying to do regime change in Caracas would be epic folly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Trump Calls Off Diplomatic Outreach to Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 2d

I know the OLC will usually rubber stamp anything the president wants to do, but this is a new low. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

www.cnn.com

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 2d

Comical professional malpractice is the Bari Weiss guarantee.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2d

Like, any newsroom actually devoting equal resources to covering Hakeem Jeffries and Donald Trump would be engaged in comical professional malpractice.

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