“Withdrawal of notification of #withdrawal”. It’s official, #Hungary remains a state party to the Rome Statute of the #ICC. treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat...

"Does the US need a new constitution" misses the point. The norms underpinning the post-1965 Constitution have been shredded. The US has a new constitution. It's terrible. The question is "can you salvage this Constitution (through norm change or legislation)" or do you start with a blank slate.

"Project 2029" is great branding, if your goal is leaning into the "Democrats are just moderate Republicans" trope.

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You know things are going well when regime security forces are concerned with providing photo ops.

The double whammy of Trumpist policymaking. Gutting systems of progress and improvement while also transferring money to friends of the regime.

Article 4 is standing in the wings, just waiting to be largely frustrated by unnamed NATO member.

At best, Blair is making the mistake of assuming something is a way because he wants it to be that way. Alternatively, he is just really pissed off that the US went on another catastrophic war of choice in the Middle East and he wasn't able to join. Foreign policy by imperialist FOMO.

Some plays hit the perfect mix of "substantive interest" and "language practice."

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

The Dutch academic calendar is fun because not only is "the end of May" not the end of term, it's actually "the start of one last teaching block." Not a summer term. A block. In the Spring term. Starting in June. 🥲

The United Nations’ top court issued a landmark advisory opinion on the right to strike on Thursday, finding that a cornerstone labor treaty protects the ability of workers to walk off the job.

I am at the International Court of Justice today, waiting for an advisory opinion on the right to strike, clarifying whether employees are lawfully allowed to walk off the job.

2026's "Say what you will about Mussolini, at least the trains were on time" bullshit

Jeb's "please clap" bit was far better because: 1. His tone and posture were 💯 And 2. His schtick didn't depend on the US doing its best to destroy NATO

Finally something Iran, Israel and the US can agree on. More seriously, a signal of sanity in an otherwise pretty insane world.

Amendment L.67's initial sponsors list is an hell of a reminder that some interests (namely, that sweet sweet oil money) cut across armed conflict.

Any future Democratic administration worth a damn will have to hire a legion of lawyers whose sole job is "prosecuting the hell out of anyone who takes or transfers a dime of this money."

To paraphrase an old saying: A switch in time saved nine, a "whatever the hell this all is" might give us 15.

The Supreme Court is rushing all this because the rest of the administration went all in on competitive authoritarianism without doing the proper legwork. So now there are elections coming up and the one big tool the regime has left is "six assholes in dark robes"

Sic semper tyrannis* Terms & Conditions apply, see Supreme Court of Virginia for details.

Pack the court: State edition

TIL that our campus has, for some reason, an official (third party, of course) plant provider 🪴

Silver linings - the canvas debacle is perfectly timed for today's class on cyberspace.

Well, I guess I picked the right semester to move back to paper exams

It's only a "Nobel alternative" if it comes from FIFA, otherwise it's just "sparkling embarrassment."

A question for the UN documents crowd on here (if there is such a thing): what happened to the PV records for the 11th Emergency Special Session (after the 19th plenary)?

"meaning everyone in the state would vote for every representative." Hey, Jason, how are you defining "everyone?"

"Hey kids, unless you eatyour five a day, Plumbert is ready to plunder the hell out of your village."

"The Pentagon was not expecting it" seems pretty at odds with "followed a lengthy and thorough review," which is how the regime is trying to spin it.

It sucks that, no matter how well the Democratic Party does in the midterms, the GOP already flipped a PA Senate seat.

I'm sure moving further to the center right will work this time 🙄

A fun addition to the "are pints acceptable with a workday lunch" debate

Alternatively, where would we be in a world with the VRA? Or a world without Trump v US?

To understand what the Supreme Court is doing, you have to recognize that this is how authoritarians in Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela consolidated power. Scholars call it autocratic legalism. The Court isn’t complicit. It’s an active participant. Roberts is following a script.

Anyways, arming your local second grade teacher is the only feasible response to school shootings

The VRA was a clear act of Congress. 6 GOP Justices said that doesn't matter. There are no legislative solutions - to voting rights or any other aspect of US democracy - without (significant) SCOTUS reform.

"Lock in those polymarket bets, boys."

When you have this delicious spread, who needs leaves anyways.

There's a lesson out there about hit dogs and hollering

Okay. And?

holy hell. One record-eligible sub-2 marathon is insane. Two in the same race is absolutely unreal.

This piece is...deeply unconvincing. It minimizes US threats against Greenland to a stunning degree. The view of US participation in NATO is deeply formalistic (ex. barriers to withdrawal do nothing to ensure genuine art. 5 application).

Summary - Republican Justices: "we're going to do whatever we can to block these environmental rules, precedent and rule of law be damned." Democratic Justices: "but what about the process?" Repubs: "lol, stfu." And then all 9 agreed to keep it hush-hush because "the norms."

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If a 2026/2028 candidate (Congress & Presidency) doesn't have a plan for: 1.) Holding regime members criminal responsible And 2.) SCOTUS reform Then they deeply unfit for the moment.

Eh, this latest Dan Brown novel seems a bit overwrought.

"Fun" fact: the war itself, of which the blockade is a part, is illegal.