i'm old enough to remember when blockading the strait of hormuz was enough for donald trump to justify wiping out an entire civilization

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

i would like my government supervisors to know that i now think slim fit is good, dress sneakers are great, and "fun socks" are cool

Yesterday I wrote about how Turning Point put many of us on the Professor Watchlist What I didn't write about was the years of harassment from the right, including rape, deportation & death fantasies that played out in my messages, comments in the stories about me & voice mails. That’s his legacy.

WOinActie steunt de verklaring van de @knaw-nl.bsky.social . www.knaw.nl/nieuws/verkl...

The article on SLAPP suits I penned for Australian Quarterly, looking at the growing trend of legal bullying by corporations and calling for strong anti-SLAPP laws in Australia, is now available in full on the Greenpeace website, republished with permission. www.greenpeace.org.au/article/time...

@philpaiement.bsky.social and @cohelongo.bsky.social show how the ICJ advisory opinions removed crucial barriers and point out where more work is needed to hold States accountable for their impacts on the global climate voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/strengthe...

Yesterday, the @voelkerrechtsblog.org published a piece by @cohelongo.bsky.social and I commenting on the ICJ's climate change adivsory opinion : voelkerrechtsblog.org/strengthenin...

Late July, but the Anthropocene group at Tilburg Law School are still together, live streaming the ICJ advisory opinion on climate change.

I actually believe we can have nice things. Homes, and neighborhoods, food on the table, free time. A planet to live on. Theater and dance, and guitar that will break your heart. The trick is, we just have to keep fighting for them because some people want servants, too.

The UNFCCC has long decided that climate change and biodiversity loss are linked and require enhanced cooperation between CBD, UNCCD and UNFCCC as called for in the Global Stocktake says ) Christine Adam, Director, Legal Affairs Division, UNFCCC @iucnwcel.bsky.social 4th Congress

@eckes-uva.bsky.social and I wrote a @verfassungsblog.de post on the silencing effect of the Energy Transfer v Greenpeace lawsuit before the N. Dakota court which resulted in a finding of $660 million of damages for Energy Transfer, one of the principal companies behind the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Some of the first early access pieces of 2025 are published on our webpage, including two great pieces in an upcoming special issue on the Rights of Corporations in the Technocene, edited by Jaakko Salminen and Eduardo Gill-Pedro.

#TeslaTakedown is so successful, Trump wants to label protesters "domestic terrorists."

The US-Europe split continues to widen in new and unprecedented ways: “Norwegian fuel company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced it will cease supplying fuel to U.S. military forces in Norway and American ships docking in Norwegian ports, citing dissatisfaction with recent U.S. policy towards Ukraine.”

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

Listening to Eyal Weizman & Francesca Albanese talk about how the Genocide Convention applies to Israel's actions in Gaza. This event was cancelled by original host, the Free University of Berlin, & almost couldn't find a new venue. Standard in Berlin these days

The post-journalism administration. Willful ignorance as virtue. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

Interesting to see that Shell have revised their CCS assumptions down quite significantly, for both their 'ambitious' scenarios and their 'archipelagos' ('evolving policy') scenarios Fundamentally still absurd relative to the reality, but interesting. Shell deleted their CCS target in March last yr

Corruption out in the open. They do the bare minimum to hide it. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

Might annex my local Tesco, because my bilateral deficit with it is huge.

If terminating one’s federal govt job is ‘ruining their life’ what does Vance think he has done to the other 10s of thousands of federal employees the last two weeks?

Trump sanctions ICC workers with financial penalties and visa restrictions for investigating international crimes allegedly committed by US citizens or allies. Not Rechtsstaat, but Obrigkeitsstaat. US & Israeli exceptionalism, loud and clear. nos.nl/artikel/2554...

Just watching the NOS evening news in NL. The news discourse around Israel-Palestine has evolved so much over the past year and a half. It is shocking and relieving to hear the news speak clearly and directly about the threat of ethnic cleansing and the Nakba history. Unbelievable.

UK Conservative Party seems prepared to support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

De NOS: hold my beer

A stinging critique of @tilburg-university.bsky.social in @brabantsdagblad.bsky.social. Tony van der Meulen tears into the Exec Board's refusal to consider ending ties with universities in Israel: "Is this otherworldliness, lack of character or stupidity? Or is shittiness also a scientific term?"

Striking to see how quickly Defense-oriented goals are transforming European universities. Sometimes outside the boundaries of law, it seems. Thanks to the coverage from @verfassungsblog.de and Janina Reimann. verfassungsblog.de/bayern-bunde...

So much disdain for rights consciousness. He must hate the Miranda warning too. Trump’s Border Czar Whines That Many Immigrants Are Smarter Than ICE newrepublic.com/post/190813/... via @newrepublic.com

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

An incredibly disappointing day for @tilburg-university.bsky.social as the University Board ignores its own experts, who advised that TiU suspend ties with Israeli partner universities due to the heightened risk of their participation in HR violations and failure to ensure academic freedom.

Eerder deze maand heeft @milieudefensie.bsky.social haar eisen in de klimaatrechtszaak tegen ING aangepast. In @fd.nl leggen Christina Eckes en ik uit hoe deze eisen de uitspraak van Milieudefensie tegen Shell weerspiegelen en waarom de rechter een legitieme rol heeft. fd.nl/opinie/15432...

So thankful that the NRC is covering this crucial story: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... "De hoed van Melania Trump brak met veel conventies"

You can follow updates about the journal Transnational Legal Theory on Bsky now @transnationallt.bsky.social . Like this announcement of the latest special issue on ‘Critical approaches to EU Law’, edited by Ivana Isailovic!!! Many thanks to Ivana for putting this together.

Great upcoming event at @tmcasser.bsky.social on the Milieudefensie v Shell decision.

The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?

In NRC las ik het volgende interessante artikel: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... "Milieudefensie zet klimaatzaak tegen ING door. ‘Lessen uit de Shell-zaak zijn meegenomen'"

What the last two weeks has made super clear: It's not just Facebook v. the Digital Services Act (always was); and its not Marjorie Taylor Greene v. the DSA (she doesn't care!) It's the USA v. the EU This is geopolitics all the way down.

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

What is 'the work'? Building policies, tech & systems that build a less-destructive energy system? Yes. Tracking and disrupting the political, economic, spiritual, social paradigms that enable centuries of unabated energy accumulation? Also yes. Hard to trust anyone who dismisses either.

My new colleague @cohelongo.bsky.social and I are starting off the new year with a fresh blog post covering the Dutch state's arguments during the ICJ Advisory Opinion hearings on climate change last month! You can find it here: www.nederlandrechtsstaat.nl/trouw-aan-ee...

In case they skip over it in the obituaries, Jimmy Carter was the first and so far only US president to name the oppression of Palestinians as apartheid. He even wrote a whole book about it. bookshop.org/p/books/pale...

I'm enamored by Mount Eerie's latest album. And the song 'November Rain' offers a pointed critique of property law and second homes. open.spotify.com/track/6xhhOK...

"Just half a pound of the stuff may remove as much carbon dioxide as a tree can". What the f**k does that even mean? A mature tree removes ~25 kg of CO₂/year. This "new powder" is a sorbent with a capacity of 0.96 mmol/g, so that's 0.0096 kg of CO₂ per 0.5 lbs. You'd need 1305 lbs to equal a tree.

Great conversations today on strategic climate litigation in EU law @uvalawschool.bsky.social organized by Christina Eckes and her colleagues.