@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 01:08:27
“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.”
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March
and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-12-05 23:36:21
One of these boats has The Epstein Files on it, and by golly we're going to blow up each and every last one of them until we're certain The Files are destroyed. Double-tap if we have to; how many pages can a guy clinging to the side of a boat hold? More than one, that's for sure!
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-02 03:05:35
Facing war crimes allegations, Pete Hegseth posts AI image of Franklin the Turtle firing missiles at drug boats (Alex Woodward/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-franklin-meme-drug-boats-b2875907.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p131#a251201p131
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 02:42:58
Two sides of the same presidency played out simultaneously along the National Mall on Thursday afternoon.
At one end, Donald Trump was telling the world to give peace a chance at a meeting with African leaders.
It was possible, he said, “to begin healing old wounds and transcending past differences and creating a future where every child of God can live in dignity, prosperity and peace.”
At the other end of the mall, top officials from his Defense Department were being grill…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-02-01 19:03:27
My #silentsunday contribution is not mountains this time.
This is a memory to our visit to #scotland. Kylemore Abbey to be precise. We have this photo printed on the wall. And to me it's indeed "silence" that I feel with this photo
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-02 22:15:44
A sickening moral slum of an administration (George F. Will/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/02/trump-hegseth-rubio-ukraine-venezuela-boats/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p123#a251202p123
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-02 02:12:59
The US military struck five alleged drug-smuggling boats over two days,
killing a total of eight people
while others jumped overboard and may have survived,
US Southern Command said in a social media post on Thursday.
Similar attacks have occurred in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
A video of Tuesday's attack posted by Southern Command on social media shows three boats travelling in a close formation, which is unusual
The military said…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 03:03:53
Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.
“Every boat kills about 25,000 people,” Trump said in a speech last week.
“Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000 American people, and the destruction of families,”
he said in a speech Sunday.
“Probably saved at least 100,000 lives, American lives
– Canadian lives
– by taking …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-01 00:01:00
US military strikes three more alleged drug boats, killing 3 and possibly leaving survivors (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/us-military-strikes-three-more-alleged-drug-boats-killing-3-and-possibly-leaving-survivors-00708795
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p86#a251231p86
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-03 15:34:42
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it had started an immigration enforcement operation in New Orleans today.
The department said the offensively titled "Operation Catahoula Crunch"
would target
“criminal illegal aliens roaming free thanks to sanctuary policies”.
New Orleans is the latest Democratic-run city (albeit in a Republican-led state) to see federal immigration agents on its streets.
Most recently, the Trump administrationtargete…