Having lied so many times about the integrity of American elections, Trump and this Administration should not be given the benefit of the doubt by anyone examining their claims of election fraud or irregularities. Let them offer real proof and call them out when they don't.

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it's essential for all reporting on this administration to be premised on one unassailable foundation: propaganda, bad faith and lies are its main tools. no speech, 'documentation', lawsuit by them can avoid this basic fact. not at this point. treat all assertions as untrue until proven otherwise.

given what we're hearing from rubio & others, everyone should be prepared for them to ramp up attacks on civil society, anything seen as left or coded as opposition, certainly in run-up to mid-terms. this is part of the context in which blanche, weaponizer of DoJ, must be rejected.

this U.N. special rapporteur is using their position to attack trans rights. It’s an abuse of the position, an anti-rights agenda, and it’s condemnable. boo.

gender-affirming care?

BBC closing montage ends with something like: ‘the wait and the pain goes on for England’.

i am in a very very crowded and very very quiet Oxford pub

Reminder that the ICC is not currently investigating U.S. nationals, but it is investigating mass atrocities in Sudan.

rubio lives in a fictional world in which the us still has normative & diplomatic power. he can claim this all he wants but who’s he gonna partner with? putin? xi? netanyahu? duterte? go ahead.

By popular demand (one person who DM’d me), an obituary for Lindsey Graham, focused on a lesser-known episode from the Lindsey Lore that has long defined him for me.

bad faith is the governing principle. brilliant judicial marker.

Pin this. It will be a pivotal moment in Trump's move to steal the 2026 and 2028 elections. It will present lies that will be used to justify illegal actions to selectively disenfrachise voters. The next four months look like a historic threat to our democracy.

I think rubio is mostly upset that the ICC, not the US, drives the global justice conversation.

rubio lives in a fictional world in which the us still has normative & diplomatic power. he can claim this all he wants but who’s he gonna partner with? putin? xi? netanyahu? duterte? go ahead.

beltway brain is all about graham but I’d be surprised is this is a big subject around american tables today. i suspect his role in american public life will get a footnote, a passing reference at best, in the histories of our dark era.

important 🧵on threats to academic freedom. I suspect many/many academics will have similar stories rn.

a 100% disingenuous argument. for one thing, this is politicized/weaponized use of investigative powers. but just as important, demanding access to sources - esp b/c it's about trump's greed/embarrassment - is a direct assault on journalism & the public's right to know.

having a gerontocracy means that lots of politicians/judges unwilling to cede power (& surrounded by ppl who want to keep their perks) will die in office. graham wasn't that old but public policy should recognize the disruption it causes & require greater transparency & responsibility.

whoa, shocking big news. the honest obits will be brutal, as graham leaves behind not a mixed but a belligerent bad faith legacy.

Gift link. Everything about this story is outrageous, albeit unsurprising.

🧵A quick note to translate what's really happening in this NYT op-ed: Eric Schmidt has always had contempt for non-tech people, reflective of a deeper orientation in the industry. This is more of that. Short 🧵🧵🧵

reposting for my people a good eight hours behind

🚨 NEWS: The European Commission finds addictive design of Instagram & Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act "Meta did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users, including minors and vulnerable adults" ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

this is where I get to work this month.

*highly* recommend this @doctorow.pluralistic.net essay thread. & read Muskism alongside it for the receipts on elon's deep belief in this demotion of human dignity/agency.

in september 2024 @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social hosted a symposium asking whether int'l law would survive (we toyed with 'thrive', too optimistic). the journal is out & i've been meaning to direct ppl to it & my foreword. escholarship.org/uc/jitcl & my foreword here: escholarship.org/uc/item/2jx4...

never forget this, the lengths to which evil people will go to stop truth from getting out & to stop journalists from telling us what they learn & know

Kissinger: “Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer." (laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.” A #FOIA that chills Kissinger? Good!

The new UN Freedom of Expression Rapporteur is from the truly excellent Mexican office of the global free expression group Article 19. This is great news. I look forward to seeing what he accomplishes! @article19law.bsky.social @article19.bsky.social

is there any evidence to date that Rutte's obsequious posture toward Trump has produced policy shifts favorable to Europe/NATO?

europeans see what the far right is about. they see trump & the disaster he is for them & the world. they and we should be calling out him & his allies nonstop, on everything, from the aggression inherent in trumpism to their propaganda & theft of 'free speech' to their oligarchic visions.

“You are not dealing with an administration that has processes, you are dealing with a single volatile individual.” This is truth. "Volatile", in fact, gives him too much credit. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/europe...

🇺🇳 NEWS --> the UN Human Rights Council today approved new special rapporteurs, including Leopoldo Maldonado, an inspired choice for freedom of expression. Polo, director of @article19mxca.bsky.social for many years, has helped lead the fight for media freedom and journalist protection in Mexico. 🙌

SpaceX stock drops below IPO opening price despite flood of bullish Wall Street ratings "SpaceX's ambitions — and potential impact on humanity — are bigger than any company's we've ever seen" says JPMorgan Chase

do footballers take drama classes?

Judge Ray, a Trump appointee: "These records would not lead to info that could be used to charge anyone with anything, at least not any viable charge. That is because the statute of limitations for any possible crime arising from the 2020 Election has long expired." www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/p...

professors @serenamayeri.bsky.social & amanda shanor show the best of law faculty leadership. 🙏 ✊

Biden's solicitor general is the latest former administration officials cashing in to defend prediction markets. But none of them have any financial market experience, and the ones that do reject the claim that they can evade state gambling laws. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:

lol, but really, a lot of ppl feel this way. trump just poisons everything.

I wanted to share my thoughts on the proposed OMB rule change that would radically transform federal grant-making into an overtly partisan political process. It's highly alarming, and would be devastating for American science (among many other things).

while on topic, did you know FIFA has a 'human rights policy'? did you also know that they awarded broadcasting rights in myanmar to . . . wait for it . . . a telco owned in large part by the military regime?

the cathedral in strasbourg has a grim plotline

on the one hand: omg. on the other: there is a neat line from birchers to birthers to maga, so this is historically clarifying

spinoza, the musical 🤔, would seem to have a pretty niche audience (which is where you'd find me, but still)

this remains one of my favorite headlines of all time

if you could see my plaid shorts, you'd *really* know it was 1976

all you fascists bound to lose

i guess he lives on planet trump, the one where power/domination must come at any cost

He did the hard work of defeating Viktor Orbán. But Hungary’s new prime minister faces the harder task of undoing the damage his predecessor wrought. Can he do it while avoiding the traps Orbán left in his wake? @kimlanelaw.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...