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Kathryn Rutz

@kathryngr

I read, write, mother, breathe, and believe there is another way. I worked in scholarly #publishing for years, + nonprofit comms. Human rights are inalienable. #blue

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This is Jeanine Pirro answering one question today.

13.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 5437 πŸ” 1302 πŸ’¬ 1077 πŸ“Œ 301
(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors
or surrender accepted;
(2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such
that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted;
(3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable
ability to accept surrender would exist;
(4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate
forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and
(5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

βœ‹ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.

Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:

Denial of quarterβ€”even the declaration of no quarterβ€”is a war crime.

And recognized as such by the US Government.

From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

13.03.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 13352 πŸ” 5891 πŸ’¬ 546 πŸ“Œ 531
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Seems we already knew this during Trump's first term.

12.03.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 1968 πŸ” 843 πŸ’¬ 133 πŸ“Œ 46
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It’s almost like Putin and Netanyahu control our foreign policy.

13.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 9197 πŸ” 3735 πŸ’¬ 545 πŸ“Œ 246
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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is β€œfilled with false and defamatory claims.”

HOLY SHIT.

A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.

Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

13.03.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 17709 πŸ” 7159 πŸ’¬ 723 πŸ“Œ 521

An effective long term strategy for those who care about independent and credible news would be to fund nonprofits to enable nonpartisan journalism. We can see where CNN is going, we need more ProPublicias.

13.03.2026 12:41 πŸ‘ 1890 πŸ” 422 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 22
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Verified photo with date from the Epstein Files. Who are the children, what happened to them?

13.03.2026 12:20 πŸ‘ 973 πŸ” 636 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 51

Your daily reminder that not a single Epstein client has been arrested.

#TrumpEpsteinFiles

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@TheChiefNerd

SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

@TheChiefNerd SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price

electricity water clean air knowledge

you name it

they should be treated like the common thieves they are

13.03.2026 08:13 πŸ‘ 6199 πŸ” 1983 πŸ’¬ 617 πŸ“Œ 232
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β€œ'The administration thoughtlessly terminated people with crisis experience, and now they’re left without depth in the bench in the middle of a wide scale and broadening crisis,' said a former official with more than a decade experience in evacuation operations..."

www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/p...

11.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 6164 πŸ” 2284 πŸ’¬ 244 πŸ“Œ 103
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Chump Goes To War,On A Hunch ?

11.03.2026 09:56 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6

The Epstein files are missing the timeline between 1999-2002. What could the DOJ be hiding? Odd indeed.

11.03.2026 11:14 πŸ‘ 868 πŸ” 278 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 10

There are more instances of United States Citizens being detained by ICE than there are of illegal immigrants voting in elections.

11.03.2026 11:44 πŸ‘ 6419 πŸ” 2152 πŸ’¬ 109 πŸ“Œ 62
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A newly-surfaced document published in the DOJ's Epstein database reveals that an inmate once told the FBI that he overheard prison guards talking about covering up Epstein's death on the morning the ... TikTok video by MS NOW

I swear. Julie K Brown of the Miami Herald has done more to uncover the truth in the Epstein files than any federal or state agent.

Below- notes from a prison inmate who heard guards discussing the cover up of Epstein’s death in prison. Source MS now www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8VJ8eTg/

10.03.2026 08:12 πŸ‘ 2799 πŸ” 1145 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 21
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πŸ˜• πŸͺ

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Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

10.03.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 24992 πŸ” 8650 πŸ’¬ 983 πŸ“Œ 517
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Are we still looking for waste, fraud, and abuse? I think I found some.

10.03.2026 10:48 πŸ‘ 5658 πŸ” 2414 πŸ’¬ 340 πŸ“Œ 157
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Wow, what a perfect summary; I couldn't have said it any better….

10.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 193 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

09.03.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 9124 πŸ” 2942 πŸ’¬ 596 πŸ“Œ 140

So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.

That's $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

Thousands of lives lost.

People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

09.03.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 15394 πŸ” 5638 πŸ’¬ 664 πŸ“Œ 278
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Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world.

We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.

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The Middle East is on fire. Gas prices are soaring. Jobs are disappearing. Senile Satan is golfing again.

08.03.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 11204 πŸ” 4225 πŸ’¬ 1007 πŸ“Œ 347
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08.03.2026 12:49 πŸ‘ 20815 πŸ” 7270 πŸ’¬ 1190 πŸ“Œ 474
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BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(πŸŽ₯ Vahid Online)

08.03.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 9513 πŸ” 5715 πŸ’¬ 962 πŸ“Œ 1051
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There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

07.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 14893 πŸ” 6348 πŸ’¬ 1137 πŸ“Œ 470

Knowing myself as I do, I'm confident that had I ever seen a dog-shit video about the military like the one the White House just put out, I would have never enlisted. I wouldn't have wanted a f*cking thing to do with anyone viewing war like a Saturday morning cartoon.

07.03.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 2803 πŸ” 688 πŸ’¬ 121 πŸ“Œ 25
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Subpoena all of it. And him, too. The FBI found this witness credible enough to interview her four times. Enough with this cover up.

07.03.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 4087 πŸ” 1273 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 30

β€œEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

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