@inthe307 🏴🇺🇸

@HarmeetKDhillon I want my money back.

There goes the neighborhood

🚨Don't be fooled by 🇨🇳 #PRC + 🇮🇷 #IRGC propaganda. Here are the facts AND law you need to know about 🇺🇸 #USA blockade announced @CENTCOM this weekend: 1. It is NOT a "U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz" as @En_chinaNews claims. That is an outright lie. As CENTCOM declared in the Apr 12 press release, the blockade restricts "all maritime traffic entering and exiting" IRANIAN PORTS (pic 1). There are shipping lanes and ports along & adjacent to the Strait that are outside of Iranian territorial waters (pic 2). When these lanes & ports have been cleared of IRANIAN mines, seafaring traffic in the Strait will presumably be allowed to resume. 2. @DeptofWar has thus far complied with all relevant international law obligations related to announcing & initiating a blockade. As the San Remo Manual indicates (in text that is consistent with DoW doctrine), the blockade must be announced to all relevant belligerent & neutral parties, and the blockade must not bar access to ports & coasts of neutral states (pic 3). For factual circumstances regarding whether these obligations have been met, refer back to point 1 above & pics 1+2 below. 3. As both the San Remo Manual (again, pic 3) and DoD Law of War Manual indicate (pic 4), the blockading State may (indeed must) take measures to CONTROL traffic in the blockaded area. This means visit & search measures are permitted EVEN ON THE HIGH SEAS (e.g. not directly IN the Strait, but also on the Gulf of Oman) if necessary to enforce the blockade (pic 4). 4. Previous #IRGC maritime operations restricting traffic in the Strait of Hormuz were NOT a "blockade" pursuant to int'l law. Although the San Remo Manual assumes readers understand the definition of blockade, the DoD LoW Manual explicitly incorporates a definition. As the LoW Manual notes, a blockade is an "operation by a belligerent State to prevent vessels and/or aircraft of all States, enemy as well as neutral, from entering or exiting specified ports, airfields, or coastal areas belonging to, occupied by, or under the control" OF AN ENEMY BELLIGERENT STATE (also pic 4). Iran's operations involved the opposite of a blockade, e.g. restricting traffic to non-Iranian ports & through non-Iranian territorial waters by ships even of NEUTRAL states. Furthermore, IRGC maintained these restrictions by declaring the intent to attack ALL vessels, even of neutral states, which amounts to threats to commit ACTUAL war crimes. 5. Finally, this means the U.S. blockade not ONLY complies with relevant provisions of #LOAC in the maritime domain, it is also aimed at ending unlawful maritime navigational restrictions imposed by IRAN. So, don't fall for the usual lawfare, lies & propaganda peddled by PRC & IRGC then repeated ad nauseum by Iran's useful idiots throughout the West. Know the facts. Understand the law. And recognize that 🇺🇸 blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is completely CONSISTENT with relevant "principles of international law", while it is the unlawful & reckless restrictions imposed by 🇮🇷 that are ACTUALLY putting "the global market at risk." #TheMoreYouKnow #legaldisinformation

Court Confirms Americans Have Standing To Fight Federal Overreach In Historic Case x.com/TheBrancaShow/…

Posting for the folks who don't know what the terms of the blockade are. It is the Iranian ports, not the Strait of Hormuz.

@mdubowitz I know, it's crazy right?

I was assured CENTCOM had no plan for the Battle of Hormuz. Which makes their actions since Feb. 28 so awkward. Destroy naval assets, degrade missile threats, clear mines, move destroyers through the Strait, enforce a blockade. Maybe the real counter-narrative is this. CENTCOM had a plan. Iran had a short-term act of desperation. And having played that card, they’re going to lose.

Right. Posting again, please 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 because it seems the phrase “Genocide” is still being redefined by people who don’t have a clue. The ICJ did NOT find that there was a Genocide in Gaza, not even a “PLAUSIBLE” one Don’t believe me? Hear it from the President of the ICJ Accounts like @Jvnior are posting misinformation and getting away with it.

@TCNetwork The history of Islam, 1,400 years, says otherwise, Tucker. Open your eyes. Believe them by what they do, not what they say.

The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus. Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist. That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the Son of God offended the president of Iran. It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity. Today's Morning Note newsletter covers Masoud Pezeshkian's condemnation of Trump's “desecration of Jesus,” the Iran War's gutting effects on America's housing market, Colombia's plan to murder Pablo Escobar's hippopotami, and more. Read below. watchtcn.co/4stA1RL

@scotus_wire Correct my memory if I'm wrong, but isn't this the SECOND writ of mandamus issued by the Circuit court in this case? One writ is extraordinary. Two in one case are pretty much unheard of.

Read the ruling here: media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/…

🚨 In a 2-1 vote, a D.C. Circuit panel has issued an extraordinary writ of mandamus, ordering Judge Boasberg to terminate his criminal contempt probe into the Trump administration’s transfer of alleged Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador.

BUT TRUMP...!!! APPEARED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES 32 GAJILLION TIMES!!! RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!!! Yeah, doesn't fit the narrative. You're dead right, CP. This was way bigger than the Trump/Pope thing, or much of anything. Right up there with the election rigging of 2020.

The whole Trump/Pope thing is obscuring what went on with Eric Swalwell. The entire establishment--Democrats, Republicans and the media--knew for YEARS about Swalwell's predatory behavior and did NOTHING ABOUT IT. NOTHING. This fact is one of the greatest scandals of our day, and people are treating it as "Ho hum, business as usual." How many more Swalwells are governing us? Be outraged. Be very angry. Call your Congressman/woman and senators. Demand accountability. I'm starting to think every new member of Congress gets an obligatory honeytrap as a "Welcome to the Team" gift, all for future control/blackmail purposes. The rot is deeper than we realize.

@GunOwners @ATFHQ @TheJusticeDept Why did we blank out a name of a public official making a declaration of public policy? Private communication?

🚨BREAKING🚨 DOJ just told Gun Owners of America that @ATFHQ "is considering changes to the frame/receiver rule" once again. This stunning reversal comes less than a week after @TheJusticeDept announced it was adopting the Biden-era rule as its own.

This is bigger than one case. If this contempt theory had survived, any politically charged district judge could issue a rushed, muddy order, then later reinterpret it to threaten executive officials with prosecution. The D.C. Circuit put a needed stop to that.

@wtfcetialpha5 Well, I love the taste of animals.

Visiting the animals at freezer camp

@shortmagsmle Hey, the books you can check out in some libraries now make that really tame by comparison. Of course, some schools celebrate diversity and alternate lifestyles now. Just sayin'...

For a class activity everyone had to go to the library and check out one book about a topic they had an interest in. This was middle school. I got called to the vice principal’s office via PA system a few days later. I had checked out a book from the history section about small arms of WWII. The guy asked me some roundabout questions to see if I was a school shooter type of kid (I wasn’t) and whether things were okay at home (they were). He heavily implied that I could be in some serious trouble, which was terrifying because I was always a pretty obedient student and a “good kid.” I wasn’t a smart ass and I didn’t “own” the guy because I was a nervous and always tried to be respectful, but I did manage to raise the point that the book came from his own library and that it seemed weird to me I could get in trouble for checking something out from a library that he was ostensibly responsible for overseeing. This caused what I now realize to be an uneasy stalemate and he sent me back to class and told me not to tell anyone about the book. There was no further incident. In hindsight, the whole thing was retarded and a well-credentialed professional administrator was basically shut down by a nervous 13-year-old.

@braxton_mccoy Lie until you obtain a position of leverage, then spring into action and subdue/subvert your host.

Please take a minute to understand the concept of "taqiyya." It's happening all around you rn and it's imperative you develop a grounded and realistic view of islam.

@_JesseCinco @AdaptivDefense Makes total sense in that context. Thanks!

@inthe307 @AdaptivDefense This is competition and scored via points earned divided by time to engage all targets so everyone is trying to figure out the fastest and most accurate way to engage every target

My POV of the @AdaptivDefense PCSL stage from the GOAT major match last weekend

Well today is the day… BTW my HS English teacher was actually very nice.

@CynicalPublius Fact!

If you are a Protestant who feels the need to deride individual Catholics as members of a Satanic cult who are all going to Hell, know this: many Catholics think YOU are the ones going to Hell. In my journey out of and back to the Roman Catholic Church, I spent YEARS in multiple evangelical "Word Churches," and I promise you that the cults of personality that arise in those churches are every bit as evil and ungodly as anything one sees in the Catholic Church. When you go out of your way to demonize people who belong to the Church founded by Jesus Christ in AD 33, you serve only the purposes of Democrats, who viciously seek to create hatred between Christians as a means to regaining political power. Members of Christian denominations need to respect each other's beliefs, or at least not demonize them, because to do otherwise is to do the bidding of Barack Obama and David Axelrod (who created this crisis of faith intentionally).

Many will not like reading this, but it's a fact. Having served 4 years on the Education Committee in the Virginia House of Delegates, I can tell you that there is no school district in the Commonwealth, no matter how rural or conservative, that Democrats are not trying to mandate indoctrination that runs contrary to your principles. Thats not hyperbolic, it's reality. They don't call it indoctrination, because they don't see it that way. They see it as correcting the mistakes of your parenting, which in their view is not "progressive or tolerant" enough. And since they don't have enough of their own kids to win elections, they need yours to "think correctly" about these things before they reach voting age. So in their view this is essential to "preserve our democracy." Make sense now? Now someone will read this and ask me "why didn't you fix it?" And the answer is simple...because we never had sufficient votes to get the legislation passed. It wasn't for lack of submitting bills and fighting for them, not a single Democrat would vote for any of it and as long as they controlled just one part of the legislative process they could prevent all of it, because thats how the system works. In my entire 10 years in the General Assembly there wasn't a single year where they didn't at least control one part of the process. But now nothing is preventing them...because they have the votes and they control the entire process.