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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM EST A Canadian publisher of children's books is now issuing a statement denouncing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he posted an unauthorized AI-generated image of one of its most popular characters. On Sunday night, Hegseth posted a mock book cover image of the character "Franklin the Turtle," which is owned by Kids Can Press, firing a rocket-propelled grenade at several boats from a helicopter. The text at the top of the image reads: "Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists," with "A Classic Franklin Story" written above. Hegseth added the caption: "For your Christmas wish list..." to the post. December 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM EST Fox News host Brit Hume may be a longtime colleague of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (who was a former part-time weekend host on the network), but that didn't stop him from taking a jab at President Donald Trump's top military official. On Monday, as blowback continues to escalate in response to a Washington Post report about Hegseth supposedly ordering that two survivors of a destroyed boat be killed, Hegseth posted a statement to his official X account that appeared to praise Admiral Frank M. Bradley. While the Post's sources said Hegseth gave the order to "kill everybody," the White House clarified that Adm. Bradley -- the commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) -- is the one who actually approved the secondary strike on September 2, 2025 that killed the two survivors. December 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM EST One high-ranking Republican member of the House of Representatives is now saying that President Donald Trump's administration is acting outside its own established legal boundaries, if recent reporting about a September strike is to be believed. The Washington Post reported recently that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Admiral Frank M. Bradley to carry out a secondary strike on survivors clinging to the wreckage of a boat the U.S. military destroyed on September 2, 2025. If true, that would likely be a violation of rules 46 and 47 of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), which ban "no-quarter" orders and firing on anyone who is considered hors de combat ("out of the fight"), respectively. December 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM EST President Donald Trump is now being hit with a new lawsuit by membership-based warehouse retail chain Costco, which is demanding a full refund of all tariffs paid that the president imposed earlier this year. NBC News reported Monday that Costco is laying claim to tariff-related expenses in the event that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) upholds lower court rulings that have deemed the vast bulk of his tariffs illegal. SCOTUS has not yet issued a ruling, though Business Insider reported Monday that the administration is likely to fall back on Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 in the event SCOTUS rules against Trump. December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM EST Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, became the latest notable figure on Monday to hit back against the White House's claims about the "double tap" boat strike, wondering to Semafor if Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was "incompetent" or "lying." Last week, the Washington Post reported that on September 2, U.S. forces fired on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, then fired on it again when it was determined that some of the occupants had survived. This reportedly came as the result of a directive from Hegseth to "kill them all." These strikes, claimed with little evidence to be drug traffickers, had already been a source of major controversy for the Trump administration, but this report saw many experts accusing Hegseth of a war crime and outright murder. December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM EST The White House on Monday confirmed prior reports that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed U.S. forces to fire a second time on survivors of an initial strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. Writing for the New Republic, former U.S. Attorney and constitutional law expert Harry Litman accused Hegseth of breaking a "foundational" rule of warfighting and crossing a "bright legal line." The Trump administration has been engaged in a widely criticized campaign of strikes on boats in the Caribbean, claiming with little to no evidence that the crafts are linked to Venezuelan drug smuggling. According to a report from the Washington Post , on September 2, U.S. forces fired a second time against survivors of an initial strike, in line with an order from Hegseth to "kill them all." Such a strike would, according to legal experts, very likely amount to a war crime, with U.S. laws specifically singling out attacks on "shipwrecked" individuals as a clear example of an unlawful military action. December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM EST One former assistant U.S. attorney is arguing that President Donald Trump's pardon of a convicted drug trafficker doesn't jibe with his stated reason for blowing up boats in the Caribbean Sea. During a Monday segment on MS NOW, Murphy -- who was a Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor during former President Joe Biden's administration -- told host Katy Tur that he was unable to make sense of Trump's recent pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Herna'ndez, and his ongoing strikes on boats his administration alleges are trafficking drugs to the United States. December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM EST The University of Oklahoma has placed a graduate student instructor on leave after they gave a student a failing grade for a gender-roles essay that appeared to be based on an interpretation of Christian Bible theology. The student "publicly contested" the grade and "filed an illegal discrimination claim," according to OU Daily, the university's student-run news outlet. December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM EST President Donald Trump's cratering approval among voters and the overperformance of Democratic candidates in recent elections have supercharged predictions about the GOP's majorities in Washington getting wiped out by a blue wave in the 2026 midterms. Appearing on Fox News Monday, Karl Rove became the latest prominent Republican to express concerns, claiming that the party is "scared to death" of what's to come. Rove is most notable for serving as former President George W. Bush's chief of staff from 2001 to 2007, and is often credited as one of the leading architect's of that administration's War in Iraq. Since leaving the office, he has become a prominent Republican political analyst, known for frequent appearances on Fox News. December 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM EST Former pastor John Pavlovitz writes that "all brutal empires fall," and the MAGA movement is no different, as signs of its inevitable demise are "everywhere." "Every time the pendulum has swung wildly toward barbarism in a society, it has invariably come back with even greater opposite force to bend the arc of the moral universe back toward justice again," he writes. December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM EST Democrats have mobilized around Tennessee State Rep. Aftyn Behn's campaign for Congress in a deep red district, and now Republicans are "desperate" to stop her from overperforming, a Democratic strategist told The Guardian. Behn is a Democrat running to fill the vacant seat in Congress representing Tennessee's 7th District, facing off in a special election against Republican Matt Van Epps, who has been endorsed by President Donald Trump. Van Epps has long been tipped for the win, given that the district is strongly Republican, having swung for Trump by 22 points in 2024. December 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM EST When President Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, he did so with Republican majorities in both branches of Congress. But they're small single-digit majorities, and MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) -- who recently announced her resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives, effective early January 2026 -- is warning that her party is in danger of losing the House next year. The Hill's Sudiksha Kochi, in an article published on December 1, reports that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is "staring down a potential political firestorm" as "a few Republican dissenters" within his caucus "aim to use a rare procedural mechanism to force legislation on a stock trading ban and Russian sanctions onto the House floor." |
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