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As one of the fifteen or twenty genuine Liberal Internationalists in the US, all of whom are active on this site, I do think we really need to confront the fact that a genuine liberal-democratic "rules based" international order cannot be underpinned by arbitrary and hegemonic US military might.

06.03.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 675 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 7
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Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say β€œSend me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

07.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 21939 πŸ” 5393 πŸ’¬ 603 πŸ“Œ 351
Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of
misinformation fueled his primary loss:
"The truth didn't matter"
The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his
alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset.
BY GABBY BIRENBAUM
MARCH 6, 2026, 4:25 P.M. CENTRAL
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Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of misinformation fueled his primary loss: "The truth didn't matter" The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset. BY GABBY BIRENBAUM MARCH 6, 2026, 4:25 P.M. CENTRAL REPUBLISH SHARE

"Fire hurts," complains arsonist

www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...

07.03.2026 04:15 πŸ‘ 4770 πŸ” 666 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 30

Soon doing a hell of a lift here

07.03.2026 02:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mama Mia: Here We Go Again is the best sequel of all time, solely on the metric of improvement over the original.

07.03.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Grok mixtape the White House real footage with β€œSpringtime for Hitler” instead

07.03.2026 02:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The problem is the four people we have have no interest in finding or growing these people.

07.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Between Platner and everything else, this scene from Succession keeps on giving

07.03.2026 01:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI have no intention of starting a war with you” I say as I airstrike your entire government into dust, sink your whole navy, destroy your air force, and demand your unconditional surrender

07.03.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 526 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 3

Not ending soon lol

07.03.2026 01:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social

06.03.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And found the full case: www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7351...

06.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
U.S. v. New

I found the name it was US v Capt Huet Vaughn

Case is cited here in U.S. v New

www.armfor.uscourts.gov/opinions/200...

And here’s an article about it

www.baltimoresun.com/1991/08/11/o...

06.03.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And the courts have routinely found yes, the troops must follow those orders. There was a pretty famous case about it in the gulf war.

06.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Gas going through the roof

Gas going through the roof

What have we learned Palmer meme

What have we learned Palmer meme

06.03.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was (and still am) a big ai skeptic but then I tried Claude it and it helped me accomplish something I’d been working on for months in like forty minutes and I was all β€œoh yeah, this thing can cook”

06.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The thing about words is, you can never definitively prove you do care with what you say: maybe it's hollow, meaningless, a lie.

But you can absolutely prove you don't care with words.

And this is one of those times.

Some high level portion of our PAO structure does not care about this man.

06.03.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yeah this will be over β€œsoon^tm”

06.03.2026 21:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Georgia Democratic Party: organized, well run, fearless.

Florida Democratic Party: sniffs glue

06.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Wow this is worthless meme

06.03.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"grok make me a sigma male video edit interspersed with airstrikes on iran"

06.03.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Please don’t spread misinformation. Tomahawks fly at low altitude. It’s climbing like a THAAD interceptor (we are out of interceptors).

06.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 1070 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1

President Trump announces that to combat climate change he is facilitating crude oil prices going to $500/barrel.

06.03.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5

Judging from the prose, the Pentagon appears to be using AI to announce the death of soldiers. If it’s not AI, it’s a person who simply does not care.

06.03.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 1519 πŸ” 576 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 25
06.03.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Their media illiteracy is terminal I fear

06.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway I love the concept law, like using it to help people, hate being a lawyer and detest most of them

06.03.2026 11:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of my favorite things to explain to non lawyers is that the pinnacle of our profession in academia is having students who have never been lawyers review professor’s submissions who may or may not have been practicing lawyers.

06.03.2026 11:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking more of the horrific strike because some jagged cut corners: I hope I never meet you and I hope you sleep terribly the rest of your life

06.03.2026 08:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to know why we stood up an office specifically to deal with CIVCAS (disbanded). Why we study the laws of war. Why we restrict ROE. Why we keep JAGs close in the targeting process. Why some of us who had to make hard decisions can still sleep at night. It was all there to prevent THIS.

06.03.2026 07:43 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0