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“[Secretary of War] Hegseth ordered a lethal attack but not the killing of survivors, officials say… Amid talk of war crimes, the details and precise sequence of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean are facing intensifying scrutiny.” — New York Times

Can we all calm down for a minute? It appears my command to take no prisoners, exterminate all traces of life, and torch any semblance of international law has been misinterpreted. You shouldn’t rush to conclusions until you have all the facts.

Just because I said “Blow up the boat and everyone on it” doesn’t mean I literally wanted to do those things. Ever heard of a rhetorical device? The media can’t handle nuance or irony.

You have to understand, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are a lighthearted bunch. We joke around. We do bits. The Situation Room is DC’s Comedy Cellar. Everyone is cracking wise. So when you hear that I ordered an unprovoked attack based on dubious intelligence, you shouldn’t take anything out of context.

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In the final pages of 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers, author Keith Cameron reveals that the Manic Street Preachers’ most recent album, 2025’s Critical Thinking, provisionally had another title: Dialectics. Eventually deemed too pretentious by the band — although Critical Thinking takes some beating in this regard — […]

‘A work of art, a home, and a place of worship’ – the striking earthen castles at the centre of Batammariba cultural identity

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We all make wrong decisions, but if you’re a ‘maximiser’ rather than a ‘satisficer’, the regret hurts all the more

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Donald Scott was killed in his home by an ad hoc team of raiding cops who were looking for marijuana — but the larger prize may have been his 200-acre Malibu ranch.

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In New York City, it was almost three months until I spotted a Palestinian flag in someone’s window. When I did, I took a picture of it and sent it to a friend: finally. Since moving here in the summer I’ve thrown myself into the city’s leftwing organising scene — one that has been predominantly […]

“Quibbling over the semantics of ‘double-tap’ doesn’t change the reality that the strike was a summary execution of men clinging to the remains of a boat.”

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The war powers legislation would prohibit Trump from launching “hostilities within or against Venezuela” without congressional approval.

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The raid on humanitarian aid providers on the U.S.–Mexico divide late last month was the first where Border Patrol entered structures without a warrant.

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