“Not every lost war is a forever war. But every forever war is a lost war. The longer you fight, the more ground you have to make up. Many times in Iraq and Afghanistan wars people in positions of responsibility chose to escalate or otherwise continue the war instead of conceding that it was lost”

The fact this was announced on Jimmy Kimmel and not a WH presser doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence

Citizenship revocation is an extraordinary measure that is often associated with serious crimes such as treason, sedition, and sometimes terrorism. (Scale and persistence would apply as well). Not disclosing the basis for this decision is not only worrisome, but the mass decision is gobsmacking

Couldn’t think of a better person than @oonahathaway.bsky.social . Now let’s get to work indeed!

Is… is Trump in favour of nuclear disarmament now? (Saying he “decimated” Iran is a level of delusional that may be unprecedented)

It is repulsive because the very foundation of what we had long thought to be true, the international order, has been systemically undermined - with a persistence and consistency that has failed to concern us all into action - for the purposes of profit. This is much bigger than insider trading.

What if this was the point all along

UK and France sign new agreement on small boat crossings www.gov.uk/government/n...

Not to be too politically conflicted, but still: arriving at UK border force at Belfast international, the officer scanned my passport and immediately said “welcome home, Sarah”. Very conflicted. Very conflicted. Missed you, my silly hometown.

25A klaxon 🚨

📣To mark the 14-year anniversary since the Government stripped migrant domestic workers of their essential rights, we stood proudly outside Parliament to demand rights, protection and justice. 🪧 Join our call for the Government to overhaul the current visa and implement one that reinstates rights!

Updating my protest calendar I was reminded that here (France) V-E day is a bank holiday, for understandable reasons, but isn’t in GB, for less understandable reasons. Does anyone have an explanation why? I know I could google but sometimes those posts yield great answers

As the granddaughter of WW2 veterans, this is insulting. But most importantly it’s also entirely false. Tehran isn’t Berlin, it’s not even Dresden. The US is very much the aggressor here, for reasons that triggered WW2 to begin with. Basic high school knowledge.

One thing a lot of (younger but not just) people ask me on a regular basis, besides “what’s a war crime”, is how not to fall into a black hole of despair. I struggle with it myself and I think we all do, especially in the profession, being exposed to the worst of the worst, worse than press coverage

As the investigation into Grok and its exploitation of child sex abuse continues, French prosecutors have now summoned - instead of wanting for questioning - Elon Musk. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

thinking of the pride and full nights of sleep on the part of, for example, the surviving family members of those the US murdered in wedding drone strikes at his direction

The dramatic drop in public approval for the Supreme Court is a major issue for the institution, whose legitimacy depends on the public’s willingness to submit to its rulings. Jesse Wegman details what to do about it (with a little help from The Princess Bride): bit.ly/3OkW9jo

If your starting point is that the lives and rights of trans and non-binary individuals are up for debate, and those seeking to erase them deserve to be listened to, then I would argue that you aren't actually as concerned about a rollback of rights as you claim. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In response, in terms of strategic geopolitics, I suggest an EU blockade of the US blockade for the purposes of accessing the Iran blockade and address the possible deblockading that will ease passage through the other blockades. Adding a land blockade could add to mutual blockade deterrence

Good morning to the 25th Amendment and the 25th Amendment only

Trump was impeached twice already. At which point will we accept all we need is a judge with the courage to actually sentence an already convicted felon?

Reacting to the breaking story that InvestNI is subsidising technology that assists in brutality abroad - in this case, used by ICE for their “little database” of “domestic terrorists”, we should be esp concerned that our past seems obliterated in the name of profit. By @enddbelfast.bsky.social

Hey @sjamcbride.bsky.social absolutely great piece / break / reporting here on Nisos and its Belfast HQ tangled in authoritarian activities. But ICE capturing “dangerous criminals, but also the wholly innocent” is a line that shouldn’t be written. We really need responsibility on coverage

This was the scene in Belfast during the far-right's co-opted fuel protests - an ambulance stuck behind a convoy of £100k tractors rolling into Belfast from affluent North Down. Many working class people who couldn't work from home lost half a day's pay while the far-right & farmers linked up. [1/2]

I can’t stress this enough: low risk low effort for Iran. High risk low reward for the US. There is a losing gambler in the White House.

Oh right.

Re: fuel protests, since we’re here. The far right has always, and will continue to, co-opt legitimate grievance movements to seek legitimacy by proxy. It is unsurprising that in a times of crisis, they rear their ugly heads to continue to do just that - co-opt 🧵

Back when I was still teaching (I miss it), I once graded a paper handed in for an introduction to terrorism legislation post 9/11 class, which at some point read, “… when Barack Obama closed Guantanamo in 2009…” I think about it once or twice a week.

Pope Leo stating plainly “I have no fear of the Trump administration (…) blessed are the peacemakers” was unexpected and very welcome. It’s nice to hear from people who have actually read the gospel. Blessed are the peacekeepers, too. But that’s a different conversation.

Well. I’m sure EU sanctions will come forthwith.

People often say that war is waged by fools with delusions of grandeur but sometimes it is waged by calculated officials with an unquenchable thirst for power. And then there are Trump’s tirades on a social media platform made by and for white supremacists. Tirades that don’t belong to the office.

"Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Sometimes I wonder how much we could have spared ourselves including the irreplaceable cost of human life if only someone decided to turn off the WiFi in the White House www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

3/3. This is my summary of why the Hungarian elections matter the world over. snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...

Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Oh.

anyways I just think this is as good a day as any to be honest about what we're talking about. you can read these for yourselves here: www.battlefields.org/learn/primar...

I’d like to say the sheer scale of human rights violations committed by ICE and the context in which it operates is beyond comprehension, but it isn’t. It is clearly a part of systemic dehumanisation by an agency acting like a paramilitary organisation. What’s staggering is the political cowardice.

Incredible that ER, a medical drama set in Chicago, has a 3 episode storyline about volunteering with MSF during the Congo genocide. Featuring ICRC workers explaining their duty of neutrality, rape as a weapon of war, and the capture of a Croatian doctor who had lost his family in the Balkans War.

Be braced for more. @propertyofthepeople.org is where it’s at.

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

It did include Lebanon until it didn't.

The fact my good friend Zac is in this thumbnail fills me with hope and joy

The threat of imminent nuclear war was leveraged because of access to one (1) strait. Hormuz is bigger and larger than the thread on which we are all treading because of the scale of human madness. A reminder one of the core elements that formed international institutions was nuclear disarmement

Yesterday, someone asked a question as to whether the US had possibly committed war crimes since the war wasn’t “technically” authorised by Congress. I replied asking what they meant (an act of war is an act of war), and never heard back. Looks like there was some handwringing, for some reason

If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Daily 25A reminder

This piece by @attackerman.bsky.social is one of the most emotional I have read coming from him. It’s the moment where the rantings of a mad man become fear paralysis, where we stand on the cliff edge of nuclear war one more time. It didn’t work during the Cold War, is even less unforeseeable now

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg