Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Great post, @yusrasuedi.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/simplela...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. Calculus Social, Economic, and Political Thought Performance for Radio Non-Western Literary Criticism Basic Lifesaving/Lifeguard Training

"All the stories about alien abduction and spaceships? They already happened. Entire mass populations moved; forcibly dematerialised. How much more alien do you think it gets than slavery?" Kodwo Eshun in The Last Angel of History

Looking for specialist medical negligence solicitors in the UK. Is there anyone here who could help or who could make a referral? Thank you!

"The present-day crisis of international law stems from the fact that states, especially the larger ones, do not regard its rules as binding upon them." Miodrag Sukijasović, American Journal of International Law 1971. Gentle reminder that international law is always in crisis.

Read @yusrasuedi.bsky.social's newest explainer: The U.S. has only stepped back from parts of the UN system, and withdrawn from one treaty: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The U.S. remains bound by the UN Charter. open.substack.com/pub/simplela...

"Unapologetic defiance of law is much more dangerous – for the law and hence for global stability – than violations couched in, however implausible, legal apologia, as previous US military interventions often were." www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

Revisiting this article from last year: 'As we spoke about the condition of international law writ large, he slipped into the past tense: “It was a way of challenging brute uses of force, and that is no longer there.”' www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

Not to make this about Kelsen but Kelsen warned us that "national law monism" (the view that one's own legal system is the only valid legal system) is the legal theory of imperialism and militarism.

open.substack.com/pub/simplela... Excellent explainer from @yusrasuedi.bsky.social

This should preface every bit of news coverage and commentary on what the US did today in Venezuela

What??!!!

If this doesn't come with a UNGA Uniting for Peace resolution and global condemnation then the prohibition on the use of force is finished and the UN will go the way of the League of Nations. Ask the international lawyers in your life how they are because right now I wish I weren't 10 years sober

Shaking in anger at what I am seeing in the news. Patently illegal and absolutely terrifying

I think this feels particularly shocking because no matter how much you stretch the law this has absolutely no basis of legality whatsoever. No terrorists, no "threat" requiring anticipatory self defence. Nothing.

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💯 'Time is well overdue for international policy bodies to acknowledge the totality of evidence on the science of masks and masking and to show leadership in providing such messaging to policymakers, clinicians, and the public.' @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social et al journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Just because you’re a professor and you hold the opinion that masks don’t work doesn’t make you a “top scientist”.

I urgently need help with a case of discrimination against a disabled person. Apple Store Battersea, London. Please get in touch with me ASAP. Please reshare @goodlawproject.org?

I urgently need help with a case of discrimination against a disabled person. Apple Store Battersea, London. Please get in touch with me ASAP. Please reshare

Trump's Ukraine-Russia Peace Plan violates international law in several ways. My thoughts, in 2 minutes: www.simplelaw.blog/p/4-ways-tru...

The prototype nation-state isn’t a territory that contains only its ancestral people. That type of polity has been very rare in history. The prototype nation-state oppresses a different group in the same territory. The one-people model is a theoretical simplification, like a frictionless surface.

This version of a deal would signal that it’s aok to invade neighbouring territory if they’re considered to be part of your sphere of influence. Might as well hand over Taiwan to China right now.

Team Mongolia 😍 www.primetimer.com/news/the-rea...

'The constitutional question, or what I’m now calling the post-constitutional question, isn’t just “what kind of leader?” It might be “how do we act responsibly, horizontally, without waiting for leaders?”' open.substack.com/pub/theordin...

im beginning to think it was a mistake to stake our entire economy on chatbots and fake internet money

"It felt like the flags were creating no-go zones... You add on top of that real autonomous working, that real bravery of working in people’s homes, with an environment … [where] it feels like it’s an area that’s designed to exclude them.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Amazing news from Yusra! Give her blog a read

"Yet according to a UN Women survey in early 2025, global cuts to foreign aid budgets make it harder for women to make these vital contributions to peace and security." theconversation.com/involving-wo...

"It is an unprecedented lawsuit in the UK and globally, as the first civil claim to directly link polluting companies to deaths and personal injuries that have already happened in the global south." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"We must start by asking better questions: who is represented in anatomical imagery today? Whose bodies are missing? And whose stories are never told?" The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent theconversation.com/the-dark-his...

Weekend reading sorted @glexareen.bsky.social

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Oxford English Dictionary World English Editor Danica Salazar talks about Philippine English, language inequality, and ‘world Englishes’ open.spotify.com/episode/4cFP...

"Implementing a peace agreement should be built on the trust and partnership that was fostered through the hard-won agreement" Statement of the government negotiating panel for talks with the MILF on current concerning developments in the BARMM

The Third Party Monitoring Team sounds the alarm on the Bangsamoro Peace Process, saying trust between the parties is at an all-time low since the signing of the peace agreement in 2014. mindanews.com/top-stories/...

I can relate to every moment described in this thread. A TV show on appellate practice would just be a bunch of lawyers staring at their computers, interspersed with lunch break and coffee break

"Their terraces were part of a deliberate political and cultural strategy. They were built in response to threat, not as a product of isolation. They show how upland communities adapted and asserted control over their future in a rapidly changing world." www.rappler.com/voices/thoug...

This is alarming!

As someone who studies political discourse and who believes, genuinely, in the promise of cross-party democratic deliberation, I say this repeatedly: You CANNOT deliberate with someone who doesn’t believe you have a right to exist. It doesn’t matter how “civilly” they want to destroy you

My latest @justsecurity.org

I'd watch this

Dan Gatmaytan on the bizarre turn of events in the Philippine Senate yesterday www.facebook.com/ONENewsPH/vi...

It's out and available open access! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pathology...

Important piece by @pstamase.bsky.social on impeachhment law and practice in the Philippines, very timely in view of impeachment of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte (daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte)

"this ruling serves as a critical reminder that Indigenous self-determination is not solely about participation — it is also about the right to remain apart." www.ejiltalk.org/from-the-rig...

Above all, Duterte is in The Hague because of the families of victims. Marcos action was the last domino but not the most important.

This Women's Month, I'm missing my former colleagues in the GPH-MILF peace negotiations. Immensely proud of everyone here!