The Intercept @theintercept.com · Jun 10

In a Capitol Hill briefing, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking. interc.pt/4xgem3f

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@ranjit52.bsky.social · Jun 11

And is there any 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙛 that they were involved in human trafficking? Also, if they're so concerned about it, why are they so, intent on hiding the 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙭 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 found inside the 𝙀𝙥𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙞𝙣 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙨?

Cartire (But also, the Seahawks are still Champs!) · Jun 10

Cant have human trafficking if you kill all the humans being trafficked. Checkmate, Liberals!

Polly Curley · Jun 10

"But they're poor brown people so they had it coming..." is the official position of Pete Kegsbreath and Tom Homan.

zamora_in_503 · Jun 10

The video game regime strikes again. The most unqualified administration ever assembled.

@mmbren.bsky.social · Jun 11

All the more reason for killing them would be the thinking of the Trump Administation.

HarleyQuinn · Jun 10

It wouldn’t surprise me if they were. People aboard these boats could easily be there against their will.

Jessica Leigh · Jun 10

When will the murders stop?!

franklespeak 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 · Jun 11

👆🏼 as if the it needs to be said that extrajudicial killings should never been used, this kind of crap only further underscores it

@cotton2025.bsky.social · Jun 10

Stop killing people! How hard is it to stop killing people? Just choose not to end a strangers life today.

SwiftFischer · Jun 10

To the fucking Hague with every single one of the people involved in this strike (and all the rest as well)

Hip Model K · Jun 10

I shoot first and ask questions later. Of course, I don’t get a lot of answers that way.

Tracklayer 🏳️‍🌈 UK 🇹🇭 · Jun 11

Oops, but I guess it's ok. It will mean ICE won't have to do it. Human trafficked people are just the same to them.

Chad Forrest · Jun 11

Will trump and co.’s trial be called the Nurhamburger trials?

MI-Forest · Jun 11

WAR CRIMES and republicans are responsible!

Dean Booth 🦆🐇 · Jun 11

Or maybe it was schoolgirls on a class field trip. Or maybe members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir… If you aren't required to produce evidence, you can claim anything.

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@locolou.bsky.social · Jun 11

I'm sure the correct word is murder...

AuntieG (She/Her) 🖕🏽 · Jun 10

Yea, bullshit

@mrdude001.bsky.social · Jun 10

Murdering suspects. Destroying evidence. Were there innocent people on board? Well yes, all people should be presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.

Brian Smith · Jun 10

So, as we've been saying: Murder.

@krownjules.bsky.social · Jun 11

My God, what have we done? This regime is literally the Death Star.

Art Vandelay · Jun 11

The administration needs jail time.

@velcrolove.bsky.social · Jun 11

I think they want us to think there are traffickers on the boat, to make the matter look gray. Killed both bad guys and victims. HOWEVER, there might be a case that none of them were traffickers and they were all murdered .

JMcN · Jun 11

That would be a crime.

@Mary-The-Cat.bsky.social ( I'm MaryPG Keating) · Jun 11

Gone too far to turn back now, God help us all. Dehumanisation is complete.

Informed Takes · Jun 11

Murdered persons. Killed by a racist regime.

nwpassage · Jun 10

Common murderers. Young Americans will be haunted forever for murdering innocents in the name of racism.

jack · Jun 10

war crimes. those are called a war crimes.

Mannycat · Jun 11

Meidas_Lea 🟦🟧🇺🇸🦅❌ · Jun 11

USPS is not going to send ballots to any state that did not send voter rolls to DOJ. youtube.com/shorts/Ex7yn...

noYOUhush · Jun 11

correct me if i’m wrong : American borders & ports are controlled BY AMERICANS not other countries 🇺🇸👀 the ongoing cognitive dissonance when it comes to this “war on drugs” is straight out of the Pink Panther* movies *look it up with that pc in your hand 24/7

Jamey · Jun 11

Yeah man, we fucking knew that already.

🎸🇺🇦🟧♊💙🏴‍☠️🇨🇦 · Jun 10

Call it what it is. Murder.

🦇 Batsy Cline 🦇 · Jun 10

Time will tell on their power minds. Making war just for fun. Treating people just like pawns in chess. Wait 'til their judgement day comes, yeah.

Jason · Jun 10

These are war crimes whether victims were on the boat or not!

Reg Vickers · Jun 11

We all knew Kegsbreath and Trump were lying their asses off when they falsely claimed they had perfect intelligence on the boats and what they were carrying.

monkeyrotica · Jun 10

Soon.

CRobertBuchanan · Jun 11

Did you mean to say that a high-ranking officer in Trump's Pentagon admitted to state-sanctioned murder and war crimes? Can you please try to be a news organization that meets the moment rather than obfuscating terror and murder with banal descriptions of horrors?

DrDRoPC · Jun 10

Not much different than human trafficking immigrants, death by the GoP.

Oldman Teeps · Jun 10

Go figure… the Epstein administration, and administration comprised of rapists, is killing the victims of human trafficking… AGAIN

Ɛ0Ɛ0K NYC · Jun 11

we are the enemy

James Who Lives in Queens · Jun 11

Bet tRump really enjoys those kills.

accidentalflyer 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 · Jun 10

Nuremberg for MAGA couldn't come fast enough.

Paul 🌱 · Jun 13

More Epstein victims

C Switzer · Jun 10

There were rumours about that before. Either way, it’s still murder.

@jthrankson.bsky.social · Jun 11

Whenever I read articles like this or testimony like this I am forced to remind myself that THIS IS MY GOVERNMENT AND THEY ARE MURDERING PEOPLE ON MY BEHALF😞 We are complicit 😢

Michael Buckelew · Jun 10

Peter Belowski · Jun 11

Hegseth & little donny should be hauled away in chains to face 200 counts of murder. No proof of criminal activity. Even if there was, these are extra-judicial killings. Capital punishment is NOT appropriate for such drug offenses. At least some were most certainly innocent.

Brandon - trans rights are human rights, period. He/Him. · Jun 10

Anyone, ANYONE else would call this MURDER and state-sponsored TERRORISM.

RicSilvestre 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 · Jun 11

To @ec.europa.eu, @europarl.europa.eu, @kajakallas.bsky.social the fact that the #EuropeanUnion does not condemn these extra judicial killings from the #Trump Administration is a shame to you, and to us all. Unacceptable! @reneweurope.bsky.social & @aldeparty.bsky.social you should also.

Impeach Trump! · Jun 10

Great job, America. Kill victims of horrible crimes, instead of helping them. Oh, that’s right. The federal government & the GOP don’t care about trafficking victims, whether they’re on our soil or on a boat. DESPICABLE!

@scienceprof.bsky.social · Jun 11

pete hegseth response?

Majla · Jun 10

Executed for wanting a better life.

Obama shouldn’ta made that joke · Jun 10

Yeah, no shit you don’t smuggle drugs with 9 guys on a boat

Michael "Admiral Memo" Moore · Jun 11

You're just figuring this out?

Me-Shell, myself and I · Jun 11

And who's going to prison

‪Samurai · Jun 10

When this happened I had a mental breakdown because I just watched my government blow up innocent people but everyone in the hospital just kept looking at me like I was the crazy one.

@matteork.bsky.social · Jun 10

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@rico911.bsky.social · Jun 10

JFC. These war crimes need to be prosecuted all the way to the top.