"It is not about esoteric issues of international law. It is about real people, real stories and a real group of human beings. The Rohingya of Myanmar. They have been targeted for destruction." #ICJ hearings into alleged genocide in Myanmar begin: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

"A world in which the powerful no longer feel the need to justify themselves is not merely unjust. It is barbaric . . . . That world does not have a legal order at all. It has only force, guided by one man’s whims."

Gift link to my piece with @oonahathaway.bsky.social on our slide to a nihilistic future. www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

What if the thousands of Iranian protesters killed or injured just weren’t complying with law enforcement orders?

Free idea: Have corporations protest ICE since they definitely have First Amendment protection

Not only is this grossly immoral -ignoring the rights and will of other peoples- imperialism -appropriating that belonging to others-, but also frankly cringe and ludicrous: a Trump tower in Greenland in the image, reeeeally!? (talk about flattering and pandering to egocentrism)

US President Donald Trump shared a photo of a fake Wikipedia profile page on Truth Social showing him as the ‘Acting President of Venezuela’. This was not reflected on Trump’s real Wikipedia page.

Criminal madness

Todos necesitamos a alguien que entienda lo que no decimos.

🔴 NEW: Israel has authorized the use of electronic tracking devices on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, allowing real-time surveillance of civilians placed under administrative movement restrictions, a new IDF directive states. It applies to civilians who have not been charged, tried, or...

Those who cheer the deranged idea that a superpower can plunder and get whatever it wants because of its might are arguing exactly like a teenager bully or a criminal would in their own context. And they pretend to be ethical. Shameless

Kathy Hochul and Zohran Mamdani are showing what ‘pro-family’ means | Arwa Mahdawi

FFS. ICE is targeting Native Americans!

US Authoritarian Regime Executes Unarmed Civilian as Ruler Grows More Erratic, Isolated What if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries? From @premthakker.bsky.social. Read it here: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...

Today at @atrupar.com's Public Notice: the right-wing dehumanization machine is speeding up. - No remorse for Good's killing - No empathy - Doubling down - Continues expansion of ops in Mpls - Fueled by and for the right-wing outrage content mill www.publicnotice.co/p/renee-good...

the right doesn't worship god the way we understand the concept, they worship basically a pagan deity of violence and money

Honestly, reality became a ridiculous version of the dystopian genre

Just Hobbesyan? More like fully dystopian

Pope Leo in State of the World address: “War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading.  The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

🔥"The principle...which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined...peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one’s own dominion. This gravely threatens...civil coexistence". -Good denunciation of the MAGA madness

Exclusive: US officials discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources familiar with the matter reut.rs/4ptL77G

Pandering to narcissism as the new foreign 'policy'

ICE agents killing people in the streets. The naked extortion of a sovereign state. The National Guard unleashed in American cities. The Justice Department weaponized to prosecute political opponents. The tyranny is on full display — and it's waking America up.

Absolute impunity

A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.

Further proof that we are doomed

She's right. Even though Trumpian attacks on international legality and what it can promote -coexistence and cooperation, as Scelle mentioned- dramatically defy it, the acquiescence and, truth be told, complicity in the face of most serious attacks by others also undermined it

Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement https://theonion.com/insecure-frustrated-bully-with-something-to-prove-cons-1819575405/

"The nearest modern equivalent to the patrimonial leader is the mafia boss — a point that Weber connects to Trump’s love of mafia movies. Trump represents a version of political authoritarianism that we’ve barely seen for centuries"

US Senate to vote on bid to stop Trump from taking further military action in Venezuela

"The bottom line is this - their plan is insane" Sounds like a good summary of the Trump administration

“The U.S. under Trump is an outlaw nation, threatening excellent neighbors like Canada, blasting people in fast boats to pieces, bullying friends and foes alike…We are becoming the kind of nation against which America used to defend others.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-the...

Pacific Islands environment programme says US must follow formal exit process reut.rs/4ptfOtW

🇺🇸 A US immigration officer shot and killed an American woman on the streets of Minneapolis, leading to huge protests and outrage from local leaders who rejected White House claims she was a domestic terrorist. ➡️ u.afp.com/SXGx

UN human rights report released on today concludes that in the occupied West Bank, Israel is violating int law prohibiting racial segregation and apartheid, warning that the discriminatory practices have accelerated dramatically since late 2022 amid growing violence, repression and impunity.

Meanwhile ... UN Human Rights report finds Israel is an apartheid state michaelwest.com.au/un-report-is...

US to withdraw from various UN entities, such as the office on children in armed conflict But what does withdraw mean? Not read the reports? Stop funding it? x.com/kyledcheney/...

The UN entities the US is leaving:

BREAKING: The US has seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker with links to Venezuela, the US European Command said. Follow live updates: reut.rs/49gBmUk

The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller

A cartoon by Ivan Ehlers. #NewYorkerCartoons

Breaking News: The U.S. military was attempting to intercept a Russian-flagged oil tanker that defied a blockade on Venezuela, Russian state media reported.

Un año de logros históricos y retos para la salud mundial | "Las desigualdades persisten, los recortes de la financiación continúan y las poblaciones más vulnerables del mundo siguen expuestas a riesgos considerables".

"I’d be worried if they didn’t love anybody"

Pope Leo on Feast of Epiphany, and Closing of Jubilee Year: “A distorted economy tries to profit from everything. We see how the marketplace can turn human yearnings of seeking, traveling and beginning again into a mere business.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

“Remove justice and what are states but gangs of bandits on a large scale?” Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book IV, Chapter 4)

Oh dear 😂

🌀 Perspective from Montaigne: “There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”

To all Trumpians who claim to be Christians and are gloating over their country getting away with everything they want by might -taking over resources…-, while claiming moral superiority against other countries…