“When it comes to Israeli intransigence regarding Palestinians, the prime minister alone is not the problem,” argues @dahliasc.bsky.social. “The problem is Israeli society, politics, and culture as it has evolved over decades.”

86% of International Association of Genocide Scholars who voted supported res that “Israel’s policies & actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in article II of the United Nations convention for the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I sound insane when I say this but I truly believe a big part of the Trump admin’s approach to energy policy is driven by gender anxiety. They think coal and oil are manly and renewables are effeminate.

I had a fantastic conversation with A.J. Manuzzi and John Allen Gay about my new book "Why Democracies Fight Dictators" on the Security Dilemma podcast! Check out the episode here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

"Perhaps no method of extermination is more prevalent across genocides than starvation." To understand genocide in Gaza & elsewhere, we need to talk about it as a process not an event. Perhaps the most important op-ed I've written for @theglobeandmail.com: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

IR Book of the Week! "Why Democracies Fight Dictators" by @madisonschramm.bsky.social. International politics is not a domain of cold calculation. It invokes emotions. Anger is especially prominent, and helps explain why democracies choose to fight dictatorships.

Why do democracies fight dictators like Nasser & Saddam? In her new book, @madisonschramm.bsky.social shows how personalist autocrats provide a focal point for emotional imprinting, predisposing leaders in liberal democracies to view personalist dictators as hostile academic.oup.com/book/60422

B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel: Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip www.btselem.org/press_releas...

"Doctors say the damage to children's bodies in Gaza after months of hunger is already irreversible."

“Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.” Joint Statement from 115 NGOs on mass starvation in Gaza via ReliefWeb reliefweb.int/report/occup...

Netanyahu’s atrocities are not limited to Gaza. He has also unleashed terrorist settlers in the West Bank who attack civilians and recently beat a young American to death. Even Trump’s ambassador, Mike Huckabee, called this a “terrorist act.” NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

Yet again, we're seeing horrific reports of the killing of seven children in Gaza this time as they were waiting for water at a distribution site. UNICEF calls for an immediate and lasting ceasefire, aid at scale and release of hostages.

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

hey climate folks, you can pre-order my book now! out October 7 - just in time for #COP30 press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

There will now be 10,000 new ICE agents & 100,000 new detention beds--and few safeguards protecting people from constitutional violations by the feds. Time for states to pass laws allowing people to sue fed agents. Read about it these "converse-1983" statutes here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.

This is a deeply troubling report, and a painful read for all who care about Israel’s moral standing and Jewish values. These incidents demand thorough and transparent IDF as well as independent investigations into potential war crimes.

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Gender and Political Expression among #International #Relations #Scholars & the Public By Irene Entringer García Blanes, @drshaunagillooly.bsky.social‬, Emily Brooke Jackson, R Merriman-Goldring & Susan Peterson doi.org/10.1017/S153...

WHAT?????

In a June Democratic mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani received more votes than 22 sitting US Senators received in their most recent general elections.

aside from being very dangerous, this is very clearly a breach of the UN Charter; it sounds like aggressive war. there’s a tendency to think violations don’t matter bc international law is hard to enforce but this is a cardinal principle of international cooperation *& it matters to other countries*

Reminder: International Relations scholars had to pay $10s of thousands to get their voice against the Iraq war heard in the @nytimes in 2002. They were still ignored. Now the same people who were given free space in the media to push for a ruinous war then are still at it today.

A group of women in Kenya rebelled against trading sex for a fisherman's catch to sell. They got their own boats, had success — but in past years have faced floods and now fears about HIV medications.

Monstrous. There is simply no moral universe in which this can be justified.

This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I’m reading a bunch of work on autocracy and democratic backsliding. I’m struck that scholars in this tradition don’t get called “political” or “biased” despite their clear normative stance. Yet, race and gender scholars—who were the canaries in the coal mine for backsliding—do.

Enough. We demand rapid, safe, and unimpeded access to starving civilians in Gaza. We have a plan. We have thousands of trucks of food at the border. Let us in. Let us work. bit.ly/3S7M0oo

This would be an obvious act of ethnic cleansing under international law.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat

The war in Gaza has killed or injured 170,000. Children are starving to death. Trump is encouraging the ethnic cleansing of 2.2 million people. Why is there no discussion in the US government about why we are spending billions of taxpayer dollars starving children in Gaza?

From classroom to control room: #UofT students join Global News on election night 🗳️ uoft.me/bzJ

this is a right so fundamental that prince john, a man later played by a medieval animated tiger with a psychological complex, had to guarantee it in the year 1215

“The Situation Now Is So Beyond Imagination” www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...