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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 5h

Final thought and then I need to go to bed: when I said Obama did “exactly this” I meant what Schiff describes in that clip. Putting people on a secret list and then killing them with no due process. Schiff could just as well be describing the Obama era CIA program. To say nothing of JSOC.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 5h

Nope. I’m saying Obama killed a whole lot of people in a whole lot of places who had nothing to do with terrorism and who posed no threat to this country. And by and large the Democratic Party defended him. Please don’t fool yourself into thinking Miller and Hegseth are unaware of this history.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 5h

My point is Obama laid the foundation for it with his reckless and illegal targeted killing campaign. They were killing people even when they didn’t know their names or anything about them. They killed so many totally innocent people in this way. I agree it’s extremely bad to do this.

onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 5h

I hope I’m wrong, but I fear litigation related to these Trump strikes in the future that involves a lot of GOP judges and justices citing back to Obama era state secrecy and executive power claims as they deny victims justice. So I guess we will see how close these cases are when we get there.

onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 5h

If they’re lying it’s not entirely different.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t believe the AUMF authorized those killings. But the position you’re arguing makes the Dems look even worse: Congressional Dems had many opportunities to say “We didn’t mean you could do THAT” and they didn’t. And here we are, with Trump doing targeted killings of “terrorists”

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 5h

Well I don’t believe that. I think they targeted him and then lied about it.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 5h

The AUMF did not and does not give the president the authority to kill US citizens without due process outside of a war zone, when there is no imminent threat, because no law passed by Congress can do that, because it’s unconstitutional.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 5h

Congress authorized Obama to drone strike a 16 year old US citizen because his dad was a baddy?

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 6h

It’s not only discussed in a footnote. And yes, the court was wrong, too. Courts are frequently wrong, especially re terrorism and executive power overreach.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 6h

The med bed thing plus this has me convinced Miller is feeding him an orgy of AI slop depicting US cities fallen to antifa super soldiers

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 6h

You are accepting the Obama admin’s interpretation of the AUMF and I do not. Nor did the ACLU in that litigation.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 6h

Search this ACLU legal filing for the phrase “AUMF” and tell me what you find. privacysos.org/sites/all/fi...

privacysos.org

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 6h

I do not believe the AUMF authorized the President to kill US citizens outside of declared war zones, no.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 6h

And that gave the president the power to assassinate US citizens anywhere in the world without due process? Well, good for Trump then. He should be all set. (My point is that no, that’s wrong. Obama was wrong and Trump is wrong.)

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 6h

There was no war on Yemen authorized by Congress.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 6h

There was no congressional authorization. It is the exact same thing: the president killing who he wants without due process, outside declared war zones, using secret evidence. Obama was killing people even when he didn’t know their names, based on “signatures”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 6h

That’s not true. www.aclu.org/cases/al-aul...

Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta - Constitutional Challenge to Killing of Three U.S. Citizens | American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit in 2012 challenging the government’s targeted killing of three U.S. citizens in drone strikes far from...

www.aclu.org

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 8h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 18h

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

jessica.substack.com

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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 8h

Goosebumps watching this. Chicagoans fighting for this country. Mass collective action is the only thing that can keep fascism away.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 8h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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