Practical Ethics Institute Inc.

01/25/2026

The agents who shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti ought to be arrested by MN state police and charged with murder, or at least negligent homicide. And the higher-ups authorizing and condoning these lethal encounters, warrentless detentions etc. should face legal consequences as well.

A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.

01/19/2026

Idiotic arrogance + pettiness + lawlessness = dangerous global menace. If the VP and cabinet weren’t such sycophants, they could invoke the 25th Amendment and send Trump out to pasture. Republicans in the House and Senate could impeach and remove him, but too many of them are moral cowards.

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01/06/2026

Thugs like Trump and Miller ignore the fact that their oath to uphold the Constitution entails upholding all treaties that we’ve ratified constitutionally, including the UN Charter and the Geneva Conventions.

In a CNN interview, the Trump aide also echoed the president’s intent to run Venezuela as he laid out a case for the United States to control weaker states by flexing its military might.

01/05/2026

How frustrating that we’re prosecuting a foreign leader who overthrew an election, when our own Senate failed to convict Trump for inciting a violent mob to overthrow the results of the 2020 election that he knew he’d lost.

01/04/2026

How many of our troops want to risk their lives and kill Venezuelans to satisfy Trump’s hunger for more oil?

The White House had pointed to drug trafficking and migration as reasons to crack down on Nicolás Maduro. But oil emerged as central to President Trump.

01/03/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/opinion/venezuela-attack-trump-us.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

We know that Mr. Trump’s warmongering violates the law.

12/05/2025

“As a matter of plain reality, an unarmed speedboat, even if it is carrying co***ne, is not a warship. And none of the 11 people aboard — not merely the two initial survivors, but also the nine people the U.S. military killed in its first strike — were fighting anyone.”

Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal?

11/21/2025

Trump and Hegseth may already be guilty of war crimes in their targeted killing of unidentified people on boats. But their contempt for the laws of war could all too easily push military personnel into committing atrocities as well:

President Trump was reacting to a video that reminded members of the military that they are not supposed to obey illegal orders.

08/27/2025

An important conversation:

The journalist Radley Balko explains the mechanisms Trump is using to create a personal army.

08/24/2025

Trump’s ongoing threat to the integrity of our elections:

The president and his allies should not be trusted to ensure the integrity of the vote.

08/22/2025

From the Declaration of Independence, 1776, among the grievances against King George: “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.”

It remains unclear whether the National Guard soldiers will be armed as they walk through the city.

08/16/2025

A traitor, sexual predator and convicted felon shakes hands on American soil with a war criminal, thief and murderer. Trump remains Putin’s useful idiot.