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  1. The 4th of July … Some independence facts

     (1) Did you know: It was actually on July 2, 1776, that America gained its independence. So why do we celebrate on July 4? Keep clicking to find out from Kenneth C. Davis, author of the "Don't Know Much About" book series. ( 2) "The fact is,  John Adams wrote home to Abigail on the 3rd that this day, July 2nd will go down in history," Davis explained on "CBS This Morning," "We'll celebrate it with parades and pomp and bells ringing and fireworks. And it was because Congress actually […]

    beaseedforchange.org/2026/07/0

  2. “Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, defended the FBI’s location data purchases. Cotton compared buying location data to law enforcement searching through a person’s trash.”

    Apparently Tom Cotton thinks it’s ok for the federal government to sift through your trash without a warrant. Ask yourself, do you want the government to take a close look at your life?

    arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

    #Privacy #government #FBI #tomcotton

  3. “Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, defended the FBI’s location data purchases. Cotton compared buying location data to law enforcement searching through a person’s trash.”

    Apparently Tom Cotton thinks it’s ok for the federal government to sift through your trash without a warrant. Ask yourself, do you want the government to take a close look at your life?

    arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

    #Privacy #government #FBI #tomcotton

  4. "And the enlisted sailors and Marines on that ship knew immediately it was wrong. They fought it. They went to JAG. And they were overridden. ...

    This is a top-down moral collapse under Pete Hegseth and whoever in the Trump orbit green-lit these illegal strikes. And let’s be clear: if a private citizen killed 85 people with no legal authority, we wouldn’t debate terminology — we’d call it murder."

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder
    /14

  5. "And the enlisted sailors and Marines on that ship knew immediately it was wrong. They fought it. They went to JAG. And they were overridden. ...

    This is a top-down moral collapse under Pete Hegseth and whoever in the Trump orbit green-lit these illegal strikes. And let’s be clear: if a private citizen killed 85 people with no legal authority, we wouldn’t debate terminology — we’d call it murder."

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder
    /14

  6. "And the law — U.S. law, military law, international law — could not be clearer: you document everything. You collect biometrics. You record medical status. You keep chain-of-custody logs. You do not delete evidence. You do convene a competent tribunal. None of that happened.

    Instead, someone — almost certainly above the Admiral level — ordered everything wiped."

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder
    /13

  7. "And the law — U.S. law, military law, international law — could not be clearer: you document everything. You collect biometrics. You record medical status. You keep chain-of-custody logs. You do not delete evidence. You do convene a competent tribunal. None of that happened.

    Instead, someone — almost certainly above the Admiral level — ordered everything wiped."

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder
    /13

  8. "Nick [Paro]— Army sergeant, trained interrogator, expert on detainee procedures — breaks down just how profoundly illegal all of this is. The United States is not in a congressionally authorized armed conflict with Venezuela. No war declared, no authorization, no oversight, no nothing.

    Which means every person seized at sea is legally a civilian until proven otherwise, not some magically self-justifying 'narco-terrorist.'”

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder
    /12

  9. "Nick [Paro]— Army sergeant, trained interrogator, expert on detainee procedures — breaks down just how profoundly illegal all of this is. The United States is not in a congressionally authorized armed conflict with Venezuela. No war declared, no authorization, no oversight, no nothing.

    Which means every person seized at sea is legally a civilian until proven otherwise, not some magically self-justifying 'narco-terrorist.'”

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder
    /12

  10. Blue Amp continues its reporting on a story I noted here yesterday re: two survivors of a US attack on a boat on 17 October who were rescued by the US military. They were then photographed and videotaped in accord with law — but someone somewhere apparently then gave an order to destroy this documentation in contravention of law.

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder #DoubleTap
    /11

    blueamp.co/p/deletegate-blows-

  11. Blue Amp continues its reporting on a story I noted here yesterday re: two survivors of a US attack on a boat on 17 October who were rescued by the US military. They were then photographed and videotaped in accord with law — but someone somewhere apparently then gave an order to destroy this documentation in contravention of law.

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder #DoubleTap
    /9

    blueamp.co/p/deletegate-blows-

  12. "History will also record that Cotton and the other deranged Trumpian psychopaths caused more harm to America than any fleet of drug boats ever could."

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder #DoubleTap
    /10

  13. "History will also record that Cotton and the other deranged Trumpian psychopaths caused more harm to America than any fleet of drug boats ever could."

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder #DoubleTap
    /10

  14. "Even the U.S. military leaders who briefed Congress sheepishly acknowledged the boat carried no missiles, no explosives, and no plausible path toward any U.S. shore. ...

    Some day when a future archaeologist digs up the remains of this once respected republic, he or she will undoubtedly find among the ruins a MAGA plaque, signed by Trump and Hegseth, honoring Tom Cotton for his gallant stand against a capsized and burned speedboat."

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder
    /9

  15. "Even the U.S. military leaders who briefed Congress sheepishly acknowledged the boat carried no missiles, no explosives, and no plausible path toward any U.S. shore.

    Some day when a future archaeologist digs up the remains of this once respected republic, he or she will undoubtedly find among the ruins a MAGA plaque, signed by Trump and Hegseth, honoring Tom Cotton for his gallant stand against a capsized and burned speedboat."

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder
    /9

  16. "One of the saddest jokes of our time is that Arkansas, a state once primarily known for rice, Wal-Mart founders, and the Clintons, has now given our nation a U.S. Senator whose chief distinction is an instinct for the most primitive idea in any room.

    I am talking, of course, about Republican Tom Cotton."

    ~ David Shuster

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder #DoubleTap
    /8

    blueamp.co/p/the-double-tap-do

  17. "One of the saddest jokes of our time is that Arkansas, a state once primarily known for rice, Wal-Mart founders, and the Clintons, has now given our nation a U.S. Senator whose chief distinction is an instinct for the most primitive idea in any room.

    I am talking, of course, about Republican Tom Cotton."

    ~ David Shuster

    #Trump #Hegseth #TomCotton #Arkansas #WarCrimes #murder #DoubleTap
    /8

    blueamp.co/p/the-double-tap-do

  18. @aaron.rupar

    "TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized "

    So #TomCotton saw "lots of evidence" in the form of two men standing atop the hull of a split-in-two, capsized, open-hull power boat

    For 41 minutes

    And then the decision was made to double-tap them and kill them beyond all doubt

    Murder, in other words

  19. @aaron.rupar

    "TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized "

    So #TomCotton saw "lots of evidence" in the form of two men standing atop the hull of a split-in-two, capsized, open-hull power boat

    For 41 minutes

    And then the decision was made to double-tap them and kill them beyond all doubt

    Murder, in other words

  20. Why is it that the most rabid Biden critics are also the very worst Americans?

    SEN. TOM COTTON (R-AR) | DEMOCRACY SCORECARD accountability.gop/profile/sen

  21. "I'd love to know how Senator Cotton (Hegseth-Bradley) was able to detect these shipwrecked people were trying to 'stay in the fight' versus clinging to dear life in an effort to survive."

    ~ Ryan Goodman

    #Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #TomCotton #WarCrimes #murder
    /6

    bsky.app/profile/rgoodlaw.bsky

  22. "I'd love to know how Senator Cotton (Hegseth-Bradley) was able to detect these shipwrecked people were trying to 'stay in the fight' versus clinging to dear life in an effort to survive."

    ~ Ryan Goodman

    #Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #TomCotton #WarCrimes #murder
    /6

    bsky.app/profile/rgoodlaw.bsky

  23. While Rep. Himes of Connecticut says that the video of the murder of two men clinging to the remains f a bot was "one of the most troubling things" he'd seen, Arkansas Sen. Cotton says it was "righteous." to which Tim Miller and Jonathan V. Last respond with mockery:

    "Righteous! Righteous! We must kill 'em! Kill 'em all!"

    Some people have moral compasses. Others don't, sadly.

    #Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #TomCotton #WarCrimes #murder
    /5

    thebulwark.com/p/tom-cottons-d

  24. While Rep. Himes of Connecticut says that the video of the murder of two men clinging to the remains f a bot was "one of the most troubling things" he'd seen, Arkansas Sen. Cotton says it was "righteous." to which Tim Miller and Jonathan V. Last respond with mockery:

    "Righteous! Righteous! We must kill 'em! Kill 'em all!"

    Some people have moral compasses. Others don't, sadly.

    #Trump #Hegseth #FrankBradley #TomCotton #WarCrimes #murder
    /5

    thebulwark.com/p/tom-cottons-d

  25. we totally believe you /s

    A #Navy admiral told lawmakers Thurs that there was no “kill them all”order from #Hegseth as #Congress scrutinizes an attack that killed 2 #survivors of an initial strike on an alleged drug boat in #InternationalWaters near #Venezuela.

    Adm Frank Bradley “was very clear that he was given no such order…. He was given an order that, of course, was written down in great detail,”said Sen #TomCotton, who heads the #Senate #Intelligence Cmte.

    #law
    apnews.com/live/donald-trump-n

  26. we totally believe you /s

    A #Navy admiral told lawmakers Thurs that there was no “kill them all”order from #Hegseth as #Congress scrutinizes an attack that killed 2 #survivors of an initial strike on an alleged drug boat in #InternationalWaters near #Venezuela.

    Adm Frank Bradley “was very clear that he was given no such order…. He was given an order that, of course, was written down in great detail,”said Sen #TomCotton, who heads the #Senate #Intelligence Cmte.

    #law
    apnews.com/live/donald-trump-n