How is social media being used to shift public perception around the ICC? Benjie Aquino from Redress explains how disinformation campaigns have - and continue to be - used in the Philippines around the alleged crimes against humanity of former Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte.

President Trump said he demolished USAID to reduce waste. In fact, my reporting finds that the demolition of USAID has wasted billions of dollars--and the lives of children like 8-year-old Gy Gael. Sec. Rubio, you still claim aid cuts haven't killed anyone? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Busy week for the ICC: charging suspected war criminals and weathering additional, albeit not wholly unexpected withdrawals by junta governments in the Sahel. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

3 West African Nations to Leave International Criminal Court www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

A growing number of experts, including those commissioned by a U.N. body, have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies. https://to.pbs.org/4nKtTCz

Donald Trump begins with a laugh line: he says he's very happy to be up there without a teleprompter, because the teleprompter isn't working. He's doing crowd work, saying he'll speak from the heart, and that whoever operates the teleprompter is in trouble. The crowd is laughing with him so far.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Protect 60 million acres of our national forests! The Roadless Area Conservation Rule is at risk. Speak up with me ＆ stop the US Forest Service from repealing it. #SaveOurForests #RoadlessRule share.sierraclub.org/s/AIq9VMfc

@cfr.org is seeking applicants for its 2026-27 International Affairs Fellowships. Find out more about unique opportunities to research and work in the US, Europe, Indonesia, and Japan at www.cfr.org/fellowship. CFR IAF fellowships are incredible! Happy to discuss if interested.

Reconnecting with some friends and mentors at APSA 2025 in Vancouver! Go Northwestern Wildcats!

Are you looking for a tenure-track assistant professor job in international studies? If so, please apply to Kenyon College (see details below)! I am on the search committee and happy to answer any questions.

“The United States has imposed sanctions against three Palestinian human rights groups that asked the international criminal court to investigate Israel over allegations of genocide in Gaza.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

BREAKING 🧵: Divided appeals court rules against Trump's tariffs. 4 judges appointed by Bush I, Obama, & Biden (2) say IEEPA doesn't allow tariffs. 4 judges app. by Bush II (2) & Obama (2) - including chief - say it does. 3 judges app. by Clinton & Obama (2) say it doesn't allow *these* tariffs.

In poli sci, "the top 20% of departments produced 75% of all faculty and the bottom 50% accounted for less than 5% of all tenure track faculty members at a research university. 49 programs did not have a single graduate placed in a TT position at a PhD-granting department in the past 10 years."

Further sanctions by the US vs ICC today. Such punitive measures represent a new, especially pernicious form of backlash vs international courts and the legal order. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

How much the US has changed: when the US was leading efforts to end the Bosnian War (‘93-95), it refused to allow indicted Bosnian Serb leaders—who many thought were key to peace—entry to the US for talks. Trump’s mtg in Alaska w/Putin—who faces an ICC arrest warrant—is a 1st (& not a good one).

The case of the 'Niger 8' has, with Zigiranyirazo's death, become the 'Niger 5'. Three men have died since 2021. See @justiceinfo.bsky.social from 2022 - www.justiceinfo.net/en/93462-pun... And @asymmetricalh.bsky.social from 2023 - www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

There is a lot going on right now, but if you can, please call your rep + senators to ensure kids (and others) can still have access to/a choice to at least get lifesaving vaccines. (Children’s) health is a/should be a nonpartisan issue.

By attempting to abdicate any legal responsibility to provide for a healthy environment, the U.S. is running in the opposite direction as the global legal community, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports:

To elaborate a bit on why inviting Putin to Alaska for talks on ending the war without Zelensky (or European allies) represents, among many other things, the death of US diplomacy 🧵1/

No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.

Ukraine's reversal of a law that would have reduced the independence of its anti-corruption agencies is a reminder to other democracies that robust civic engagement can make a difference in policy outcomes, explains @mcfaulmike.bsky.social: ow.ly/UZjn50WAnIc

Is there a right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment based on customary international law? The ICJ failed to answer this question in its climate advisory opinion. Helen Keller explains why the ICJ's remarks are significant, even if they remain vague voelkerrechtsblog.org/a-right-to-a...

“Since the spring of 2024, the United States, Israel, and several European countries have increased pressure, threats, and sanctions in an attempt to prevent Benjamin Netanyahu from being indicted by the ICC.” www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

“The international community should just go ahead and kill us if they can’t provide enough food.”

🧵One year since the impunity wall in #Guinea started cracking. On July 31, 2024, a Guinean court convicted ex-president Moussa Dadis Camara, and others, in a landmark trial for crimes against humanity, including rapes and killings of protesters in 2009. justsecurity.org/103451/guine...

The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.” Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.

In just 5 months, Trump’s second term has nearly matched Biden’s entire 4-year record on US airstrikes. A new @aljazeera.com article draws on ACLED data to reveal a sharp rise in US air attacks under Trump’s second term: 529 strikes across 240 locations. 🔗 Read: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

"We need to stop bombing children, we need to allow the humanitarian supplies into Gaza, the commercial supplies into Gaza, and we need to be allowed to do our jobs as humanitarian community to reach children who are desperately in need," said Rachael Cummings with Save the Children.

Just contributed and you can too! donate.wfpusa.org/page/UNWFP?s...

NEW: Every year, the Elie Wiesel Act requires the president to report to Congress on how the government is preventing mass atrocities. This year, that report never came. In its absence, at least 10 former US federal employees who worked on atrocity prevention released a Shadow Report.

"We are calling for a rapid, immediate influx of basic goods into Gaza. The situation is so dire: we need so much more food, we need medical equipment, we need supplies." Jacob Kurtzer, communication coordinator for the ICRC in Israel and the occupied territories👇🏽 ms.spr.ly/63329sDgaW

Food-distribution points in Gaza have practically become death traps, Hussein Ibish argues. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation may not have intended to create these conditions, but it now perpetuates them without correction and with full awareness.

[AFP] Assad trial in France: no... but maybe France's highest court rejected the arrest warrant against Bashar al-Assad on the grounds of presidential immunity. However, it stated that Bashar could be prosecuted in the future as he’s now been removed from power. www.justiceinfo.net/en/148334-as...

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.

Awaiting the delivery of the #judgement and #sentence of Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona at the #ICC. A 🧵 (1/?):

BREAKING - IDF Soldiers arrested in Belgium ‘Belgium has officially opened a criminal investigation — marking a major breakthrough in the application of universal jurisdiction.’ @hindrajabfoundation.be mailchi.mp/hindrajabfou...

Trump Order on ICC Likely Violates First Amendment, Judge Rules: “The ruling’s scope is limited to 2 American activists, but it represents a striking, if tentative, blow to the president’s efforts to penalize and isolate the world’s highest criminal court.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...

Twenty-five years ago, Congress mandated that the U.S. State Department have an office tracking the scope of human trafficking and working to combat it. Last week, the Trump administration drastically cut that office's staff. John Yang has more.

Big news: Germany arrests Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hirshi on an #ICC warrant. He’s alleged to be one of the most senior Mitiga Prison officials, & charged w crimes against humanity & war crimes, incl murder, torture, rape & sexual violence, allegedly committed in Libya. www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...

“Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting amid rising corruption reflects a broader effort by the Trump Administration to dismantle any institutions that might hold it accountable.” @bilalb.bsky.social Read our statement on funding cuts to NPR & PBS: rooseveltinstitute.org/press-releas...

“The moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,” one of the two Guard officials said. “This is not what the military of our country was designed to do, at all.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

Wednesday marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the first ever human-controlled nuclear explosion. On July 16, 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer and a team of scientists detonated an atomic bomb on the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project.

I'm watching Mike Waltz's confirmation hearing for US ambassador to the UN. He was nominated by Donald Trump in May following his decision to bench Elise Stefanie, who'd sailed through her confirmation hearing in January. Waltz is the first man being publicly interviewed for this job since 2007.

Are you interested in when and why women are included in civil war negotiations--either as part of belligerent delegations or as part of a broader civil society process? You should read this new article by @miriamjanderson.bsky.social @liamswiss.bsky.social and myself. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

These are part of the emergency rations used to save displaced people facing starvation. This is a horrific and cruel waste. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Breaking news: US inflation climbed to 2.7% in June, surpassing expectations and signalling that Donald Trump’s tariffs are hitting prices https://on.ft.com/4kDrqIo

On Monday, President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Russia if the country doesn't end its war with Ukraine in 50 days. “We’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.