Oh my god #KeepEyesOnSudan

Kyiv carries on without light.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

The laws of war are not mere niceties. They are lessons from centuries of blood agreed upon to keep the world more stable. Violating them isn’t hero cop who cuts through red tape to get things done, it’s psycho cop who crosses lines in ways even the rule benders find appalling and must be stopped.

If Trump and Orban were interested in understanding war, they’d know sustained offense is harder than defense, and that rewarding Russia’s aggression likely won’t bring peace, it’d encourage more aggression. But they’re interested in seeing Putin succeed and validating their own culture war views.

This.

Real talk: the Military Ethics people are gonna need a Come to (Insert Divinity) soon. I'm deeply unhappy at how we have conducted ourselves. And I take responsibility here. MTF.

Isn’t this the same guy who said no more exceptions to the no facial hair rule?

The purge begins. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

virtue signalling is good actually

More illegal attacks. Even if the people on these boats were known drug traffickers— with 100% certainty — execution without a trial is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

War is peace. Truly Orwellian.

My insistence that the President get congressional authorization for military force isn’t really about weakening the executive. I think what really weakens the executive is going out on a limb & committing US forces without having the debate necessary to get Congress & the public firmly on board.

Russia’s war coming home to roost.

History straight up repeats.

I told my class this week that the US will be paying for this war deep in this century as the costs of health care for vets will mount to be perhaps double or even more than the actual cost of the invasion itself.

I would pay money to see this.

We’ve got heating! At last. Maybe such news isn’t a big thing in your part of the world, but here, it means a lot – after all russia’s attempts to freeze us.

Lithuanian railways will stop allowing Russian oil products to pass from Belarus to Kaliningrad, in compliance with new US sanctions. /1 www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-e...

⚡️Lithuania will stop transporting Russian oil to the Kaliningrad region as new US and UK sanctions against major Russian energy firms Rosneft and Lukoil come into effect. united24media.com/latest-news/...

Ukraine transferred a Russian serviceman to Lithuania for war crimes prosecution for the first time since the full-scale invasion, with a Vilnius court ordering detention on 30 October. The military police sailor faces torture charges involving a Lithuanian citizen.

Halloween is not a traditional Lithuanian holiday, but #Vilnius is having some fun tonight nonetheless :)

Never been a problematic theory before....

Lukashenko’s buddies sending more contraband by weather balloon tonight…

From an International Studies Association email about whether it’s safe to travel in the United States. I don’t disagree with the legal assessment but It’s sentences like this one that make me — an institutionalist to the core — want to burn this entire motherfucker down.

Tonight the Night of the Murdered Poets was commemorated in #Vilnius. #ForOurFreedomAndYours

More illegal attacks. The rule of law means everyone (even drug traffickers) are entitled to their day in court. Summary execution is murder. www.bbc.com/news/article...

#Lithuania largest airport is closed again tonight — the fourth time this week (and the third day in a row) — because of weather balloons carrying contraband flying over from #Belarus. lrt.lt/naujienos/ve...

If you’re wondering why Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund, is in Washington this weekend, this is why: new sanctions might be too much for the Russian economy to bear. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/24/r...

This this this. No society built on lies can survive for long— and certainly no democracy.

And he’s not wrong. The Trump administration is threatening an unnecessary and illegal war so that some guys in the administration can feel manly (and perhaps also to distract Americans from the mess they’re making at home).

#InOurName #Profession

It really is that simple.

This. #Profession

A good summary of an administration driven by feelings and ratings rather than by facts and logic.

I hope it is clear that no one is more tired of this war than Ukrainians are, and no one wants it to end more. Being attacked, especially by a country that razes our cities, abducts our children, and leaves torture chambers and mass graves everywhere it occupies, even briefly,

This week’s news was depressing (as always nowadays). But I spent some time in my forest, which was good.

I keep thinking the administration will hit moral rock bottom and they keep finding new ways to add another basement level.

Russia's FSB just accused Britain of planning sabotage on Russian infrastructure—days after Russian drones violated European airspace ISW says this as part of Russia's "cognitive warfare campaign" to confuse Europeans about who's actually attacking NATO states euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/17/i...

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵 Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

This doesn’t make America safer.

Guess what I’m having for dinner!

Friendly neighborhood just war theorist here. None of these are just causes for the use of military force, and none of them are what the Christian just war tradition would describe as “right intent.” /1 www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean under what legal authority? The White House never stated one, but it leaked. Apparently the answer is a lawyer wrote down something that amounts to drugs are weapons so the president can kill whoever he says is moving drugs, without evidence or review.