Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people. This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols But don’t call Republicans Nazis and white nationalists www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

JIB/JAB is back for a new season - in Episode 41, I speak with @bcfinucane.bsky.social of @crisisgroup.org about the U.S. killings of alleged drug smugglers, and its implications for the international rule of law: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized? TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Monday’s internet shutdown in Afghanistan impacted virtually all WiFi connections and telephone services. It disrupted one of the last lifelines for many women and girls and also threw businesses, government offices and airports into disarray. https://wapo.st/46JVTzD

To explain: At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?” Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“

On Sep 2 and 15, Trump ordered the United States Navy to destroy small speed boats in the Caribbean. In both cases, all on board died. MARY ELLEN O'CONNELL on the lawlesssness of these targeted killings. verfassungsblog.de/killing-carr...

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Another US strike on a vessel alleged to be smuggling drugs in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific entity and individuals targeted are not identified—simply labelled as "terrorists." 1/n

The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.

Interesting interview with leading scholar on genocide, William Schabas. Btw, he was on the committee when I 2012 defended my doctoral thesis on evidence in international criminal trials. His account below on evidence & genocide matches my thesis spot on. www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...

This statement is progress. But it's late, and it weirdly pretends the attacks on the #ICC and Judge Prost don't exist or don't come from the regime down South. Canada must speak out against those who threaten our judges and diplomats & be clear about how we will protect them.

📣📣 Very excited to share that my new book, Transitional Justice in the United States of America: Justice for All? (Routledge, Transitional Justice Series, edited by Kieran McEvoy), is now out! 🎉🎉

Full text of the International Association of Genocide Scholars Resolution on the Situation in Gaza: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

Melanie O’Brien, the IAGS president and a professor of international law at the University of Western Australia, said the resolution was “a definitive statement from experts in the field of genocide studies that what is going on on the ground in Gaza is genocide”.

1/ Ten years after Russia first intervened in Syria, Airwars has published the final of nearly 5,000 incidents of civilian harm from Russian military strikes in the country, bringing to an end the largest documentation campaign in the organisation’s history. airwars.org/airwars-publ...

In healthy democracies, discourse is shaped by Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA). These guardrails help societies sort truth from falsehood and keep power in check.

If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.

BREAKING: It’s official. The Trump regime will deploy the National Guard in D.C. Let’s be clear about what this is. This is NOT about homelessness or crime. This is an authoritarian regime using the US military to seize a Democratic city, terrorize its residents, and lock up Black & Brown people.

"The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest. In most of these cases the victim was under 12 years old"

I visited the cape coast and elmina castles while in accra last month w @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social it was from here that the dutch and british conducted their transatlantic trade of enslaved africans to plantations in the americas. What centuries long horror.

Essential reading by anyone who can get in front of a principal in their govt & raise hell. Thanks to authors @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social & Alex de Waal @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-... Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative

The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber has found that Hungary failed to comply with its obligations under the ICC Statute by not arresting Benjamin Netanyahu when he was in Hungary. The Court refers the matter of Hungary’s non-compliance to the Assembly of States Parties.

Since the start of the Gaza war, leading Israeli legal scholars have written numerous letters raising concerns over grave international law violations. We are publishing these letters for the first time in a collected English edition, with a summary by Kai Ambos. verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans voted to defund UNICEF and lie about it so that they don't have to acknowledge that they just voted to kill children. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

New indictment for crimes committed in #Syria by the former regime. Biggest UJ trial in #Germany since the al-Khatib / Koblenz case, this time concerning #Yarmouk neighborhood. As we are witnessing very worrying escalation of violence in today`s Syria, justice for past crimes remains quite relevant.

Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions which go beyond military necessity and likely war crimes www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Unbothered. In her lane. Focused. Flourishing.

Brave and important warning by a group of Israeli scholars regarding "the plan to concentrate the population of Gaza in a so-called 'humanitarian city'": "If implemented, the plan would constitute a series of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and . . . could amount to the crime of genocide."

This is how a white supremacist police state operates.

Prof @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social l leads the Open-Source Global Justice Investigations Lab at Utrecht University where researchers, students, journalists, open-source investigators, and activists work together on the pursuit of human rights, truth and transparency. 2/2 www.uu.nl/en/research/...

"Many of us disregard how much has shifted in the last 20 months. But we are ignoring the collapse of the international system that has defined our lives for generations at our own collective peril."

Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.

The Republicans have lowered the bar for sending people off to foreign torture centres from being a suspected terrorist to being a suspected immigrant.

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

Cutting Medicaid and food and nutrition programs while pushing his latest corrupt grift: a $249 perfume. Tells you everything you need to know about Trump's priorities: Donald Trump first, everyone else (except his sweet-smelling billionaire buddies) last.

Guardian - Barack Obama and George W Bush criticize today's closure of USAID, as a study warns the shutdown of the agency will result in "a staggering number" of avoidable deaths.

Look what I just received in the mail! Can't wait to dive into it. Huge congratulations to @rachelkillean.bsky.social and @laurendempster.bsky.social

Meanwhile, in Sudan, due to USAID cuts - “babies starved quietly” - “older siblings died begging for food.” - it has become “harder to contain cholera outbreaks,” killing those weakened by hunger - 5 million “may lose access to lifesaving health services” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

My colleagues spent 2 months interviewing 34 victims of torture including 7 women who had been detained by the Taliban. This detailed & harrowing report is the outcome. We hope it will help us advocate for protection & resettlement for victims & pressure to prevent torture. @rawadari.bsky.social

Read @oonahathaway.bsky.social excellent piece on the unlawfulness of the strikes on #Iran: ”Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

A must read analysis. I can't recommend this highly enough. True expertise on the most pressing issues now. By @briannarosen.bsky.social @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and Nima Gerami

Zeven witte mannen gaan even bespreken hoe het nou precies zit met Iran.

Through a powerful blend of creative interpretation and ancestral memory, an Alabama town reckons with its past and begins to write a new chapter of shared truth.

Germany hands Syrian doctor life for torturing dissidents, media report www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Even if you only care about citizens and not people living here since they were teenagers, this does incredible harm to two American citizens and helps no one at all. Except Miller and other ghouls who get off on violence to dark skinned people. www.military.com/daily-news/2...