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Well, I'm no JAG, but yes, I think illegal, for following reasons: 1. Civilian vessel 2. Not self-defense 3. No attempt at interdiction (i.e. disable engines) 4. Int'l waters 5. No PID on folks in boat (could be civilians) 6. No declared state of war or hostilities so unclear authorization
War for Ukraine Day 1,286 update has posted.
I want to clarify something in regard to last night's post. It is not that the EU itself, as well as its member states, the US, non-EU NATO allies, non-EU European states, and other allies and partners are not on the front lines of Putin's and Russia's world war. 1/
Once upon a time, an attack of this nature would’ve guaranteed a congressional hearing. Wanna bet on what happens now?
LOL. That's not nice ... but funny as hell.
If you are an American service member and you believe you have been given an illegal or immoral order by your superiors, the GI Rights Hotline can help you to know your options. 877-447-4487
Anytime you block a Nazi, an article about Bluesky dying gets its wings!
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Just confirmation that "It's all about the cruelty".
This was not in self defense and drug smuggling is not a capital offense. These are extrajudicial killings — mass murder on the high seas illegally ordered by the President of the United States. US service personnel do not get to play judge, jury, and executioner.
Donald Trump has recognized the basic truth that a critical mass of Americans will cheer the more brutal you are to people they see as criminals.
And Texas Guardsmen should have it explained to them in no uncertain terms that they have no legal rights in Illinois off a federal installation, beyond whatever Illinois law grants private citizens, because they're essentially tourists.
Not going to repost the snuff video of the DJT folk killing a boat full of people. Were they guilty of something? Maybe. Was death the proper penalty, if they were? Nope. Due process matters, folks. We all deserve the right to be innocent until proven guilty.
I dunno, this sounds like extralegal murder of civilians?
I'm a minor play here and I get FAR more engagement than I ever did cumulatively at Shitter.
I wrote this in November, about some egregious examples of elite acquiescence right after the election and the reasons behind the pervasive accommodation of authoritarian power. Ten months and several authoritarian escalations later, there are still far too few leaders who rise to the moment.
It is frightening that the defense of basic rights and democratic self-government against the authoritarian onslaught depends so much on people who are evidently unable and/or unwilling to grasp who and what we are facing and instead just cling to signaling “bipartisanship” and upholding “unity.”
In a vacuum, that might sound good and noble. But these self-anointed guardians of bipartisanship and “unity” are radically failing the moment because they can’t or won’t grapple with the fact that “normalcy” politics is simply not an adequate response to an acute democratic emergency.
Based on the definition of "antisemitism" used by so many MS Republicans (i.e., any/all criticism of Israel gov't and/or failure to 100% support it), there's a LOT of antisemitism in the Israeli Defense Forces ... www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
HOOCUHDAHNODE?!?!?!?!?!?
Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:
So it turns out Donald Trump really was too frail and elderly for a second term.
Trump claims a video showing people throwing bags out a White House window is "probably AI generated." Doocy then plays the clip for him. Trump still insists it's AI.
I am disappoint.
From just the headline, this doesn't sound good. Still reading/digesting but ... the fucking bastards. H/T watergirl over at Balloon Juice. insideclimatenews.org/news/3008202...
/3 Also, it should be obvious, but in case not: this illustrates that the aims of the anti-trans movement are legitimizing violence against trans people as well as against anyone who doesn’t present like Bobby and Cindy Brady.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
If true, I'm sure this will be a total coincidence ...
In Lumberton, Mississippi, where nearly 4 in 10 people live in poverty, the city's first food pantry will open in early 2026. The pantry will be run by Roof Above Resilience, a nonprofit founded in 2024, and is expected to serve at least 100 families each month. buff.ly/qiomoSr
"... these are stupid, racist, hateful people with bad and stupid ideas ..." You are being far too kind.
The ONLY thing I use Twitter for is to receive the one-way rightwing propaganda from my Republican elected officials ... and to "interact" with them (yeah, I know: They ain't listening.)
THIS is the way.
Councilwoman @jerrigreen4tn , a Democratic candidate for governor, reacts to @marshablackburn backing Trump putting the National Guard in Memphis:
Yeah, I saw that (meaning the memes thing) referenced earlier (one of your posts?) and I immediately thought the same thing: "WHERE THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE HANGING OUT ONLINE?!?!?!"
Do you frequent Nazi sites? If not, that's probably why you're not seeing them.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Centrist pundits are very concerned about Bluesky users not getting the minimum daily requirement of Nazi in their social media diet. Let's compare factual grasp of current events from Bluesky users to Fox viewers and talk about THAT.
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Kennedy really is trying to kill us all.
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
How to report on Nazis. And it's real, I checked thenightly.com.au/editions
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Not to mention cat/kitten wrangler.
THIS.
This white guy approves this assessment. H/T @soonergrunt.bsky.social
This, right here.
Remember: Welfare for people is bad. Welfare for corporations is good.
My take on this? Now that the Trump Admin has given them the greenlight to play fast and loose with deposits, they want the federal gov’t to backstop their bad financial decisions.
Something about this troubled me … and then I remembered the Trump Administration had loosened the requirements on smaller and mid-sized banks to have sufficient reserves on hand to weather economic storms (such as what happened in 2008).
The CEOs of Cadence, Hancock Whitney, Renasant and Trustmark banks here in MS had an op-ed in the rightwing Magnolia Tribune recently, and they were basically lobbying for increased FDIC protection by:
I honestly don't know where some folks like you find the time. Author, college professor, raconteur, ...
Down here, it feels like summer has been over almost a week. Unseasonably cooler, more like October temps.
Fuck Kyrsten Sinema. And I don't mean literally. I mean like she did her constituents. She had every opportunity to effect real change in the US Senate ... but then abandoned any shred of decency she may have had, sold her soul and cashed in.
This white guy wants to know: WTF is that idiot?
How is this constitutional? How is it legal?
This is immoral and wrong and almost certainly illegal and unconditional and every Democrat should be denouncing or and fighting it.
NEW: Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the only two Black jurors had voted not guilty. By @richardawebster.bsky.social, @veritenews.org
Even given their kowtowing, lying for, excusing and defending Donald Trump, you'd think the members of our Republican congressional delegation (Sens. Roger Wicker & Cindy Hyde-Smith; Reps. Mike Ezell, Trent Kelly, Michael Guest) would want to assure their constituents Trump is okay. They haven't.
What…is going on
Even with Mississippi IP addresses blocked on BlueSky, we STILL get more engagement here than we do on Threads or Facebook and more than we did on X before we left it.
"Blueskyism" helped the Mississippi Free Press overcome algorithmic suppression on other platforms (Facebook, Threads) and ride out plummeting engagement on Twitter following Musk's X takeover. Thank God we took our eggs out of the X basket when we did.
Trump’s mysterious disappearance from public raises new questions about Joe Biden’s advanced age
War for Ukraine Day 1,285 update has posted.
For those on Twitter, hit 'em up: @grgibert @MidDaysGerard @RichardCrossSTM @MorningsCross On Facebook: MorningswithRichardCross grgibert
So for those of you who listen in, feel free to text their C-Spire text line tomorrow during either/both Richard Cross's show (6 am to 9 am) and Gerard Gibert's show (10 am to 1 pm) and ask them why they sanction bigotry: 601-879-4395
And let's not forget their flagship host Paul Gallo (now deceased) and his involvement in the TANF scandal - SuperTalkFM was gifted over $600K to promote "welfare reform". www.wlbt.com/2022/12/17/s...
X (Twitter) has made it difficult to search the site but IIRC several MS politicians have spoken approvingly about Douglas Carswell. Still looking for verifiable evidence of that. In any case, SuperTalkFM receives MS taxpayer funding to run, among other things, public service announcements.
More appearances: Apr 3, Aug 14, Mar 10
Now, lest SuperTalkFM hosts claim otherwise, I have the receipts: Left to right - Jun 8, Jul 16, Jun 3, Jan 2. All this year. More in the next post (sorry, no alt text).
It should come as no surprise to absolutely anyone the statewide rightwing propaganda network a.k.a. SuperTalkFM features outright bigots on their shows. One of their favorite guests is Douglas Carswell, CEO of "Mississippi Center for Public Policy". Seems Mr. Carswell is quite the Islamophobe:
Someone please kill me right now.
Oh, FFS.
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
That was my initial thought.
This is how to cover this. NPR did a spot on the award and said nothing about 2020 and Giuliani’s lies.
I have no idea what Facebook's algorithms think of me and my posting, but I find their recommendations hilarious. Question: Should I "friend" them so I can troll the shit out of 'em?
This is worth watching
You're not fooling anyone, Satan!
‘One Mississippi’ event aims to promote community connections in Bay St. Louis Organizers say the One Mississippi festival in Bay St. Louis on Sept. 28 aims to “show the world what real community looks like.”
Man oh man I do love these things with either some sour dough bread or a ciabatta roll ... but DAMN they're not good for me!
"... so I expect wall-to-wall coverage ..." Surely you jest.
The mental fitness of elderly Presidents has been such an important issue for the media lately, so I expect wall-to-wall coverage of how President Trump has once again thrown a fit about one of his own signature policies, showing no awareness of how it arose or who executed it.
Get out today, if you can! There are hundreds of Labor Day events where you can stand up for workers and against the cruelty and destruction of this billionaire-consumed regime. www.mobilize.us/aflcio/map/...
Putting a scientific & quantitative illiterate eugenicist who believes himself inherently and always more correct than the experts is… Unlikely to turn out well. Fuck understatement: RFK Jr. is a deluded idiot who is already killing people and is on track to slaughter so many more.
Congratulations to Donald Trump!
He REALLY owned the stupid libtards!!!!
Mark is right, although I confess I am a hypocrite here, for I wholly support the "remigration" of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. They have failed to assimilate to our cultural norms and instead have tried to impose their foreign backwards ways upon us, and so must be removed to protect our heritage.
Wait. Isn't Musk, by MAGA definition, a "furriner"?
If you need a 101 on alt text bsky.app/profile/numb...
This is bound to piss of a lot of MS MAGAs. Good.
Marshall Ramsey: FEMA cuts READ MORE: While Trump overhauls FEMA, Mississippi tornado survivors await assistance
Mississippians, note that NOT A SINGLE REPUBLICAN MEMBER of MS' Congressional delegation has ONCE uttered a single peep of criticism of Kennedy. Not a one. Why?
And, this is a feature, not a bug, as far as they're concerned. "Educational freedom is nothing but "school choice" rebranded. It's a means of crippling public ed and diverting public ed funding to institutions that do not have to abide by the same requirements.
