Muntazini was a leader in the fight against impunity for serious crimes. The international community should defend his legacy by pushing for meaningful justice in #DRC while ensuring that the Special Criminal Court in #CAR has the resources it needs to continue its work. www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe it: In the middle of a war against Iran, Trump is confused about who is that country’s president. He thinks there’s a new one. Iran has the same president today that it had before the war, Masoud Pezeshkhian.

“Nazism was punished for its crimes, not met with a partial easing of sanctions”. Can’t argue with that

The last line of this story is the absolute best (and best held till the end)

Truly remarkable. Destruction of energy & other infrastructure is one of list of crimes mentioned by #ICC in arrest warrants for crimes in Ukraine and Gaza alike. Trump boasts of such crimes ahead of time –- no doubt to be followed (again) by silence elsewhere

Pete Hegseth strikes two black and two female officers from promotion list. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

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"Russia is close to completing a phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran, according to western intelligence reports that detail Moscow’s efforts to keep its embattled partner fighting" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Democrat Emily Gregory will now be Trump’s state representative in FL after she flipped a district Trump won by 11 points in 2024. She defeated Trump-endorsed Jon Maples.

Tickets still available! Come hear great @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social talking to me on justice themes tomorrow oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

A "military operation." Maybe even a special military operation?

Published BEFORE the attack on the four ambulances....

Americans' sympathy for Palestinians is higher than Americans' sympathy for Israelis for the first time ever. Is that because of big spending by the Palestine lobby? Or is it possible that money isn't everything in politics, and millions of Americans form opinions based on reaction to events?

This is really interesting — and welcome. For years, Germany has argued that its own history means it must stand with Israel in all circumstances, no matter what. Now it has (partly) recognised that defending Netanyahu and alleged genocide = a worse look

“This man fought our war for 10 years." The reward for fighting for Trump's America is discrimination & death. Afghan man who fought w US forces & was legally evacuated to the US after the fall of Kabul dies within a day of being arrested by #ICE officers: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Can we just take a moment to recognise the US "Secretary for War" has explicitly stated the United States intention to violate, among others the: 🚨Hague Convention 🚨Geneva Convention (III) 🚨Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 🚨Article 40- Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions

This, 💯

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

⚡️ 'Murders for the sake of Russian propaganda' — Ukraine identifies 13 collaborators accused of war crimes in Izium. "They thought the occupation would hide their faces, but they were wrong," Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said.

This may not get huge headlines but.. this Belarus story is really interesting, — ways that ICC can investigate/prosecute cases changed significantly/creatively in past few years, meaning leaders of Russia, Myanmar, Israel and now Belarus are all in the frame, despite “non-membership”

One of my favourite BlueSky accounts, for delivering daily one-liners which are far too close to reality

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

By blocking Chevening scholars from coming to the UK the Home Secretary has officially put paid to any arguments that her hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies are anything other than right wing xenophobia. These are the best and the brightest, and she is blocking them.

Good clear analysis of what increasingly looks like a very muddy mess. Lots of potential losers — including most obviously #ICC itself

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell recounting how as 1 woman out of 50 physics undergrads at Glasgow Uni in 1960s, she learned not blush because male students wd whistle & catcall louder every time she entered lecture theatre. (A uni tradition to treat women this way at time. Teacher or student. Every time).

Shamelessly identical. The insolence of the lies was remarkable enough from Outin & Assad in context of no-free-media dictatorships. In a (more-or-less) democracy, it is beyond astonishing

The president wore a red tie and a baseball cap to a ceremony in honor of fallen soldiers.

So powerful, so bleak, so important. No words for the craziness of what is happening now

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Maybe this is too international law of me, but you can’t liberate women by slaughtering school girls.

(March 5, 2026) – Iran should file a declaration granting the International Criminal Court jurisdiction over crimes committed on its territory since the war began on Feb. 28, said DAWN today. Other impacted states in the region should also file similar declarations to maintain a pathway to justice.

Dan, as always, meticulously takes apart the Home Secretary's quite frankly racist liefest in The Guardian

There is remarkably little appreciation of this inside he Washington Beltway.

Trump: “We don’t want people who can’t love our country voting in elections”

wow. Labour Party as „Poundshop Reform”. Stinging and obviously true, as is his description of Starmer as „interim PM” (!).

A Labour leadership with both says "you must listen to these voters who don't share your values and take them seriously" and "you must NOT listen to *these* votes who *do* share your values - their preferred party should be dismissed as extremist" is headed for electoral disaster, and deservedly so.

For the first time more Americans say they sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis. The latest poll shows 41% for Palestinians and 36% for Israelis. A historic shift in U.S. public opinion. news.gallup.com/file/poll/70...

A summary of simple beauty; reasons for hope, so urgently needed

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Including: “Israeli cinema institutions, including Jerusalem and Haifa film festivals, voiced support for Tuttle, praising her “commitment to diversity of voices, non-censorship and creating a space of open debate to all voices”. Surreal that sanest Israeli voices are too often ignored

Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ

Putin is making Russia small again: ”Our model suggests that Russian casualties are now between 1.1m and 1.4m, of whom 230,000-430,000 are dead. That would mean one in 25 Russian men between the ages of 18 and 49 may have been killed or severely wounded since the start of the full-scale war.”

The detail of this thread from Nobel laureate @avalaina.bsky.social is horrifying in so many ways — most obviously for Ukraine, but also losing the moral plot more broadly. Beyond shameless

What an assembly of quotes, thanks @natalkakyiv.bsky.social for putting together. So many dark gems, including “there will be minimal casualties” on Russian side and “we will not attack Ukrainian cities”. Oh and “all Ukraine” will v soon be in Russian hands. Do Russians remember this?!, wow

… a resolution whose opponents include North Korea, Iran and of course Putin’s Russia. Unbelievable (& no longer surprising)

Read @passblue.bsky.social's “Russia’s War on Ukraine: Certain Crimes and Possible Punishments“ 🇷🇺⚡️🇺🇦 passblue.com/2026/02/22/r...

Great review by Joshua Hammer of @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social (superb) Traitors Circle & other resistance books, including: “What does it take to rouse oneself from complacency to engagement… Why hazard imprisonment/death when passivity & silence offer safer course?” So many resonances today

It’s brilliant, full of astonishing moments. (Including, just one among many: gloriously humiliating story of Bruno Kahl, over-confident head of German foreign intelligence who refused to see truths in front of his face)