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Landry Ayres offers a "collection of clips on the White House's brutal boat strikes—and what they reveal about this president's governing ethos."
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The Trump Administration’s Killing Rampage on Open Seas: A Video Roundup
Our mid-December collection of clips on the White House's brutal boat strikes—and what they reveal about this president's governing ethosLandry Ayres (The UnPopulist)
"Here’s what we’ve been reminded of by yesterday’s [seizure of a Venezuelan vessel]: The U.S. government has the ability to seize boats, sailors, and cargo without killing anyone. The Coast Guard does this routinely and has for years. The military is able to coordinate with and support law enforcement in such efforts. Steps can be taken ahead of time to ensure such efforts are legal."
~ William Kristol
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The Caribbean Killings Were Unnecessary. Trump Just Proved It.
If we can seize an oil tanker, why did eighty people have to die?William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"If Pete Hegseth believes the strike was lawful and necessary, why is he so afraid to let the country see the video? Until that question is answered, his refusal will worsen his standing, if that is even possible."
~ Mark Mansour
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Why Congress Must Compel Hegseth To Release The Entire Video
he is literally getting away with murderMark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)
"Defense Department officials were keen to make sure survivors didn’t end up in a U.S. court where the administration’s insistence that the men were an immediate danger to the U.S. because they were trafficking drugs would come under legal scrutiny.
Shocked, lawyers for the State Department refused, and the two men were sent back to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador."
"Yesterday, Damien Cave, Edward Wong, and Maria Abi-Habib of the New York Times reported that lawyers for the Pentagon proposed sending two survivors from an October strike against a small boat in the Caribbean to the notorious CECOT terrorist prison in El Salvador, where prisoners previously rendered there reported widespread torture and abuse."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
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December 10, 2025
Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor of the day seventy-seven years ago, December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly announced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"The strong take what they want, the weak suffer what they must. That was the world prior to the end of World War II. And that world led to endless wars, terrible poverty, mass death, 70 million people died in World War II at the culmination of that way of looking at the world. No rules, just power. That’s the world that Trump wants to create…."
~ Rep. Adam Smith
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Venezuela, Western Dominance, & Regime Change: Rep. Adam Smith's Striking Updates
"The capsized bow of the boat...probably wasn't any bigger than your average kitchen table."The Contrarian
"It’s not just in tension with longstanding Defense Department guidance on what is lawful and unlawful—it’s a paradigmatic example of the latter. If there are facts that vindicate the decision to pursue it, they are far from evident in the public record currently available. Until that changes, the issue demands further scrutiny."
"For much of the world, the entirety of the Trump administration’s military campaign against alleged narcotics traffickers is a serious violation of international law. But even if one accepts every unorthodox element of the Trump administration’s international legal justification, the second strike pursued on Sept. 2 is still a problem."
~ Scott R. Anderson and Natalie K. Orpett
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The Troubling Defense of the Second Strike
Even absent an order to “kill everybody,” the Trump administration’s actions—like its broader military campaign—raise serious legal concerns that demand further scrutiny.Default
"Donald Trump says that he never said that he would commit to releasing the video of the boat strikes."
Parnas then offers a video of Trump saying he had never committed to releasing this footage, and then Parnas offers another clip, noting
"This is him five days ago saying he would release the video."
"Congress inserted language into the annual defense bill withholding a quarter of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget until the Pentagon hands over unedited videos of U.S. strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats, escalating scrutiny of a controversial Sept. 2 follow-up strike that killed survivors and prompting calls for a full investigation as lawmakers dispute what the footage shows."
~ Aaron Parnas
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.
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The #DeleteGate Scandal: What Really Happened on the USS Iwo Jima
New revelations in #DeleteGate expose unlawful military orders to delete evidence of rescued survivors from U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean.Melissa Corrigan, she/her (Blue Amp Media)
"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
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Two Drowning Men, Three Missiles, and Tom Cotton’s Moral Void
Tom Cotton defends a U.S. “double-tap” strike that killed drowning survivors—revealing the MAGA era’s moral collapse and dangerous contempt for human life.David Shuster (Blue Amp Media)
"CNN reported: 'The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname.' The boat was not headed to the U.S., so Trump’s attenuated logic that it threatened the homeland collapses."
"Attention has focused on the United States’ shocking, illegal, and reprehensible action in murdering unarmed civilians whose ship our military had already destroyed. No justification exists for killing shipwrecked civilians. …
Throughout last weeks, even more disturbing facts emerged."
~ Jennifer Rubin
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The second strike isn’t the only problem
Extrajudicial killings may lead to another regime-change warJennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)
"Instead, Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, who was overseeing Special Operations on that day, told Congress that the intelligence he received said the boat was on its way to meet a larger vessel bound for Suriname, a small South American country to the east of Venezuela, to transfer drugs to it. Bradley told the lawmakers that the military could not find the second, larger vessel."
"On Friday, Natasha Bertrand of CNN reported that the boat the U.S. military struck on September 2 was not, in fact, headed for the U.S., a claim from the president that had always seemed doubtful because of how far away from the U.S. the small boats the U.S. has been hitting are."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
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December 7, 2025
“I think it’s really important that this video be made public,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said today on Face the Nation. Himes was referring to a video of the September 2 U.S. military strike on a small boat with 11 people on it.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"The 'double-tap' boat strike scandal seems to get more complicated by the hour. Not because the facts of what took place that September day are complicated, but because it’s getting difficult to keep track of all the lies, distortions, and whiplash-inducing story revisions the Pentagon and its Republican allies have floated the last few weeks."
~ Andrew Egger
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All Gas. No Brakes. Trump Quakes.
It’s dark out there, literally and politically. But there is hope, too.William Kristol (The Bulwark)