Combating censorship by censoring.

"I've made too many funny jokes to not have a bigger audience than just you," I said to my husband. So here is a thread about how I* will make over 1,000 Christmas cookies and then feed them to my friends and family on Christmas Eve.

This tweet is a masterclass in how to lie, not with statistics, but with language.

This week we wrapped our nearly four-year run of @politico.eu's Living Cities, our long-running exploration of Europeans' relationship with the cities in which they live. In our final issue, we reflect on the state of Europe’s cities and how they can be even greater. www.politico.eu/newsletter/g...

This woman is a hero.

A core question for European Union leaders discussing whether to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine is whether the idea is legally sound. But even if they approve the plan, Russia has limited options for challenging it in court.

Add Gocha Lordkipanidze and Erdenebalsuren Damdin to the sanctions list, bringing the total to eleven. One ICC insider tells me "I am running out of adjectives."

With everything else going on in The Hague, you may have missed the launch of new environmental policy from the prosecutor's office at the International Criminal Court.

President Volodymyr Zelensky, together with 35 leaders, signed off Tuesday, Dec. 16 on the creation of an international body that would decide on compensation claims tied to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but left unanswered the question of how the organization will be funded.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and some 30 other countries are expected to formally approve plans Tuesday to create a compensation body to pay for damages to Ukraine caused by the Russian invasion, but questions remain about where the money will come from.

It turns out I was not on the brink of an emotional and mental breakdown, I just needed a couple of days off without my phone.

The report into Karim Khan, the ICC chief prosecutor currently on leave for alleged sexual misconduct, is finished. Now it goes to a panel of judges. In true ICC form, dropped on a Friday at 1800.

Judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are trying to live and work under the same U.S. financial and travel restrictions brought against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Osama bin Laden.

My November wrap. A lot of really good books but my reading has falling off of a cliff because I've been playing a lot of Switch. Oops.

Judges at the International Criminal Court sentenced a leader of the feared Sudanese Janjaweed militia to 20 years imprisonment Tuesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the catastrophic conflict in Darfur more than two decades ago.

No one has a harder life than this guy.

THE COURTROOM where Slobodan Milosevic, the late Serbian leader, once stood trial for genocide was hardly ornate, but it had a certain bureaucratic authority. In September it closed for the last time. Remaining hearings, the presiding judge announced, would be held in a “modified conference room”.

The French:

Christmas shopping, Dutch style.

Happy Friday.

The deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Friday that the court’s investigation into the invasion of Ukraine cannot be halted by peace talks but could be deferred by the U.N. Security Council.

This country might be divided on a lot of things but not Europapa.

My taste in music is so embarrassing I would rather post my group chats then my wrapped.

It's that time of year. The Assembly of States Parties, the oversight body of the International Criminal Court, is holding it's annual meeting.

Some light reading of the Rome Statue on a Friday evening.

The UK government really looked at Kafka and Bradbury and thought "What if we do both?"

Duterte stays in custody.

I am at the International Criminal Court today for a decision on releasing former Phillipine President Rodrigo Duterte.

A lot of things might be bad this year but my pies are not one of them.

Hang it in the Louvre.

We made autocorrect neurotic and called it intelligence.

“Women, children, the elderly and disabled people fell victim to the horrific acts of abuse and violence committed by the Seleka amongst many victims,” deputy prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang said. Women were raped in front of their husbands and children and detainees were tortured, he said.

Kafka wants a word.

Love having a supportive spouse.

I regret to inform everyone, but mostly I regret to inform myself, that I am writing a book. And worse, I am writing a book on international justice.

I love logging on to this site and seeing dozens of people going "wHy isN'T thE MEdiA COverIng thIS?!1!" while linking to a story published in a major media outlet on a topic that I, and everyone I know, has written about approximately a 19 times.

Closing statements being today at the International Criminal Court in the trial of Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, an alleged commander in a mainly Muslim rebel group from Central African Republic charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.

I am at the annual meeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

I don't know how your weekend went but on Friday, the king told me I was too direct and too well-integrated.

I want clarity on whether the "catch and kill" operations involved journalism or bear cubs. Both is also possible.

A great story by the stellar Stéphanie Maupas, who is entirely too patient with my mocking of The French.

I have made a mistake. I have done a dumb thing. I went to Grokipedia. I do not recommend.

The Auschwitz Memorial is fighting with Elon Musk's AI baby. Get me out of this timeline.

I am gonna start video calling while holding up a copy of today's paper whenever I have an idea for a story.

Meanwhile, in Amsterdam...

Israel has asked the International Criminal Court to remove Karim Khan from the case against Benjamin Netanyahu, and again to revoke the arrest warrants against him and Yoav Gallant, citing a lack of "impartiality."

Clearly a fae wrote this post to cause chaos.

A Belgian farmer is facing off against oil giant TotalEnergies in court on Wednesday, arguing the French company should pay for damage caused by climate change, in the latest lawsuit by environmental activists against big energy companies.

I finally got around to doing October's round up.