I can't believe he's still promising this ...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar · 13hTrump: "We will pass a truly great healthcare plan that will stop all payment to big insurance companies"
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Kate Brannen
@K8brannen
Senior Contributing Editor at @Just_Security, Non-Resident Journalism Fellow at @RCLS_NYU. Formerly: @ForeignAffairs, @ForeignPolicy, and @Politico.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar · 13h0:22 @K8brannen reposted
Reminder: there is no domestic or intl legal basis for the murders that Trump ordered (and Rubio backed) in the Caribbean. No war. No authorization. Apparently many innocent fishermen killed. Sanctioning the ICC won't make that crime disappear after they leave power.
Secretary Marco Rubio@SecRubio · Oct 9Today, the Trump Administration is sanctioning the ICC.
This action should encourage our Allies within the Court to work for solutions to end this threat to U.S. sovereignty forever.
This action should encourage our Allies within the Court to work for solutions to end this threat to U.S. sovereignty forever.
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@K8brannen reposted
"The Philadelphia Police Department said earlier on Friday that it had been notified by Anthropic that its technology had submitted a false homicide tip to the agency’s website. The tip was dated July 18 and claimed that the submitter had information about an unsolved case, the department said." nytimes.com/2026/10/09/tec…
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@K8brannen reposted
American energy dominance ends up in begging Putin for diesel from refineries that the U.S. until yesterday helped destroy, in a last-minute hope that prices will come down by mid-terms.
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Trump gave Putin two giant gifts today:
He sanctioned the court that has charged Putin with war crimes (specifically the crime of unlawfully transferring Ukrainian children to Russia), while lifting sanctions on Russian diesel, putting $$ in Putin's pockets.
He sanctioned the court that has charged Putin with war crimes (specifically the crime of unlawfully transferring Ukrainian children to Russia), while lifting sanctions on Russian diesel, putting $$ in Putin's pockets.
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@K8brannen reposted
"Anthropic contacted the State Department on Thursday to report that one of its testing models had submitted 19 non-immigrant visa applications in August" 👀
Marc Caputo@MarcACaputo · 15hScoop: The White House is mandating that AI companies notify & correct security incidentsfollowing Anthropic's "fraudulent" use of govt systems
The State Dept was targeted by an Anthropic model —but nothing was compromised
@m_ccuri, @inafried & I
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@m_ccuri, @inafried & I
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@K8brannen reposted
NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.”
Jack Jenkins@jackmjenkins · Oct 9NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.
Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.”
Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.”
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@K8brannen reposted
This Army report released this week is worth reading for content but also it's stamped ``CUI'' for ``Controlled Unclassified Information'.'' Why, you ask? It's DoD's often-abused method to keep info from the press. Its a factor in the DoD press pass case
cnn.com/2026/10/08/us/…
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@K8brannen reposted
(Reading extremely bad polls)
“…what if we killed a guy on TV?”
“…what if we killed a guy on TV?”
Seung Min Kim@seungminkim · Oct 8WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.
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@K8brannen reposted
Republican lawmakers also criticizing the idea - Hegseth already had few friends on the Hill, from either party
Seung Min Kim@seungminkim · 21hLIMA, Ohio (AP) — Vance expresses doubts about Pentagon plan to livestream Ford Hood shooter execution, says he wouldn't watch.
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@K8brannen reposted
Vance on the scheduled public execution of the Fort Hood shooter, which the Pentagon said would be live-streamed: "Well, first of all, I see these announcements. I don't know that that's actually going to happen…”
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@K8brannen reposted
This is absolutely wild per Status — ABC News completely retracted this story like two days ago just totally nuked it. No note, no explanation , no comment. It had been shared by tons of top lawmakers and democratic officials.
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@K8brannen reposted
JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM
"As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."
"As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."
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@K8brannen reposted
They also need criminal defense lawyers. Time to revisit my @TheAtlantic and newsletter on criminal liability for those in charge. It’s not just a PR problem.
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Jim VandeHei@JimVandeHei · Oct 9Scoop: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event…They assume one in ‘27…
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"The company argued that how people treated Claude could affect how Claude treated people." nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/…
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@K8brannen reposted
This could cripple the ICC. Or it could spur a European tech decoupling from the United States, crippling Visa, MasterCard, Microsoft, Amazon and various other U.S. companies making billions of €€€ in the European markets.
Department of State@StateDept · Oct 9US imposes sanctions on International Criminal Court
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I hate so much of the language used to discuss AI: alignment, compute (as a noun), pace the frontier.
The words are meaningless, lack precision, obscure what's being discussed, and are just plain ugly.
But the worst offender might be "sandbox."
The words are meaningless, lack precision, obscure what's being discussed, and are just plain ugly.
But the worst offender might be "sandbox."
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@K8brannen reposted
NEW: DOJ's civil rights division, down about 300 career lawyers, has hastily hired a new crop of 130 people -- some w/ criminal records, minimal experience, tarnished work histories, hyperpartisanship and downright bizarre public statements.
My latest:
nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/…
My latest:
nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/…
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@K8brannen reposted
SCOOP: President Donald Trump's administration is announcing sanctions TODAY on the International Criminal Court, just hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Peace Prize, a severe step in its year-long pressure campaign to dismantle the court W/@steveholland1
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@K8brannen reposted
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War’s decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan’s actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: ‘do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people."
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