I defy anyone to explain this on neutral legal principles.

Excellent article - balanced, thoughtful, informative - by University of Washington professor Robert Crawford. It takes a deep look at the recent attacks on academic freedom across American universities. robert917.substack.com/p/on-the-dis...

I strongly recommend this article by my colleague Robert Crawford. When you click on the link, you'll be invited to subscribe by entering your email. You can skip all that and go straight to the article by clicking on "No thanks" at the bottom of the message. robert917.substack.com/p/on-the-dis...

Banger of a kicker here by @smotus.bsky.social “AI-generated images should be thought of like ivory carvings — fascinating, even beautiful at times, but morally repugnant.”

I'm pleased to share my article "The Legalist Paradigm in Moral and Political Thought," newly published in Constellations. Abstract: "This article criticizes what I call the 'legalist paradigm,' a recurrent impulse among political theorists and laypeople to onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Obviously not a substitute for Congress doing its job, but now would be a good time for Clinton, W, Obama, and Biden to say something jointly.

(202) 224-3121 is the capitol switchboard for connecting to any senate or house office; even if you've never called; even though the lot of them are useless. no abominable war crimes, no war, no.

Trump said, "A whole civilization will die tonight." He must be removed from office now.

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

The Solicitor General straight up lied.

Thanks, Jamie! Musical try-hard, but we all have to try hard in these times, yes? Can't wait for Saturday.

Political theorist and musical genius Luis Cabrera @luiscabrera-prof.bsky.social has written THE anthem for the No Kings movement. Please attend the next No Kings rally this Saturday and prepare by listening to “No Kings, No Tyrants” a dozen times or more. open.spotify.com/track/3RXNSX...

-Jamie Mayerfeld 1/ "Political theorist Luis Cabrera, who is also a phenomenal musician, has created THE anthem for the No Kings movement. The song is called “No Kings, No Tyrants,” and it’s fantastic." open.spotify.com/track/3RXNSX...

Exactly as critics charge, Trump views ICE as his own private secret police force, there to do whatever he likes, and always shielded with impunity.

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

The Latest Animal Research News: —Ferret skinned alive in MD laboratory; —100,000+ demand end to Wayne State dog experiments; —Beagle rescue planned at Ridglan Farms; —And more: riseforanimals.org/news/news-ma... #animalrights #animalprotection #stopanimaltesting #endanimallabs

Brilliant and important article by Rutgers law professor Adil Haque. www.justsecurity.org/133550/illeg...

They’re still doing this.

Huge. Very sad. Be clear about the evil that is the Putin regime: Sacrificing endless human lives for personal self-aggrandisement.

I am moderating this tonight with truly exceptional panelists -- please do stop by if you have time!

“The simple truth is that fossil fuels were only ever cheap if you ignored the vast collateral costs of political violence. corruption, environmental wreckage & #climate breakdown”. My op-ed in today’s Irish Examiner. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Anti-drone nets now cover streets, sidewalks, and highways in Izium, Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine, designed to tangle the propellers of Russian FPV drones. Drones cause roughly 80% of frontline casualties. 📹: ElBeardsley / NPR

Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.

The New Mexico Department of Health said it believes the "most likely source of infection" was raw milk the mother consumed while she was pregnant.

"power plant" = fossil fuelled power plant. Weird detail to leave out 🤔

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

There’s already documented evidence in Lebanon of Israel using double-tap strikes in the past two weeks. If you dk: it means they bomb a place, wait for first responders and civilians to go to the scene, and then bomb again. www.instagram.com/reel/DVwmNBf...

Translation. “Data centre opens, burning fossil fuel, instead of using renewables and further destroying Ireland’s chance of meeting its legal requirement to reduce carbon emissions by 51% Your welcome.

Democrats are in no danger whatsoever of losing control of #waleg in 2026. So if a good policy proposal didn't pass this year, it's because Dems just didn't want to do it. This also suggests Dems will not lose seats for passing an income tax, just as they didn't in 2024 or 2025 after raising taxes.

1/ Messages hacked from a Russian general's phone illustrate the sweeping scale of corruption at all levels of the Russian army. They highlight a top-to-bottom pyramid of extortion and bribery to obtain promotions and influence, plus scams and theft of military resources. ⬇️

The UK's legal position on the use of its bases in the Middle East is solid with one glaring hole: The US cannot act in collective self-defence with the Gulf States. It is the aggressor. Ergo the UK cannot assist the US in collective self-defence.

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

White House's "War Powers Report" to Congress for attack on Iran.⬇️ Two conspicuous absences: 1. The word "imminent" appears nowhere. There is thus no justification in the Report for proceeding without prior congressional authorization. 2. No reference to wellbeing/protection of Iranian people.

Who killed the schoolgirls in Iran? Somebody knows and isn't telling.

honestly, this goes in the war crimes prosecution file, a pretty clear declaration that the mission is not guided by rules rooted in the law of armed conflict

Rubio declares an emergency to bypass Congress to send $4 billion of arms to Israel. The possible orders include more than 35,000 bombs that are 2,000 lbs. each — which US military officers say are unsuitable for urban combat. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

Transpose this 1970 campaign speech by antisemitic white supremacist Asa Carter into the voice of JD Vance or Elon Musk or Matt Walsh and tell me if you could tell the difference.

This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.

A 21-year-old Moroccan woman was beaten by her family when they found out she was a lesbian. She sought asylum in the US & Trump tried to deport her to Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal. Sometimes we get distracted by how incompetent our country has gotten, we forget how evil it has gotten.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Sen. Jon Ossoff injected the Epstein files into a potent new political argument during a rally in Atlanta over the weekend. | Analysis

@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov You ALL need to read these & have them read allowed to congress.

Read these accounts of ICE in Camp East Montana. Severe beatings resulting in hospital visits, no sunlight for days-weeks, no rec, no phone calls, coercion, punishment in isolation for asking for medication, filthy sanitation, shredding documents. ICE is breaking laws and Congress must act!

These testimonies are beyond horrifying. It is no exaggeration to say the US is committing crimes against humanity. People are beaten, deprived of medications for chronic conditions, deprived of medical care for acute illness, forced to live in filth, given food unfit for human consumption.

Read each of these! Pay Attention! This is not who we are 🤬🤬

It's very hard to read through the testimonies of the prisoners. What is going on is cruel, inhumane and sadistic. There is no way to stop this as far as I can tell until F47 and his entire admin are gone. Then we have much work to do to repair this damage.

Concentration camp prisoners are being beaten, tortured, and denied medical care. The government is concealing the full extent of what is being done and to whom. The people responsible for these camps are committing capital crimes under US law (18 USC 241-242) and we must hold them accountable.