The clock is ticking: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Chalk crime outside of Stephen Miller’s house! And no, I didn’t do it!

On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org celebrates #Lawfare's 15th birthday with the #GreekChorus. 🥳🍾🥂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmUZ...

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

ICYMI: Watch this week’s Trials of the Trump Administration where @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @annabower.bsky.social, @rparloff.bsky.social, and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social discuss Kash Patel’s congressional testimony, the Trump administration attempting to deport Guatemalan minors, and more.

The Situation celebrates 15 years of experimenting with Lawfare and seeing what we can build. Deep thanks to everyone who has been part of this project. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The next jester to mock the mad king will lose his head

Talking Trials of the Trump Administration live on @lawfaremedia.org YouTube now: youtube.com/live/ivnps7R...

I don’t believe Patel

1/ 25 years ago today, September 16, 2000, journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, founder of Ukraiinska Pravda, was abducted and murdered. His fearless reporting exposed corruption and helped shape independent Ukrainian media.

"Trump’s bullheadedly ignorant approach to dealing with problems...every now and then can cut through the layers of nonsense that more sophisticated people smear on top of problems." @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org credits Donald Trump for securing Elizabeth Tsurkov's freedom.

Lawfare has 2 new Public Service Fellows: Loren Voss, the former Director for Defense Policy and Strategy at the NSC and Michael Feinberg, a former Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the FBI. Support the fellowship which allows departing government officials to bring their expertise to Lawfare:

Slow down

On the freedom of Elizabeth Tsurkov. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Heck you radicalized me by letting me sing Happy Birthday in the style of Marilyn Monroe to the former president of Estonia.

You radicalize people by telling them working should be fun. And then they become ungovernable.

The law student to WITAOD cult leader pipeline

I radicalize my students by hiring them to write for @lawfaremedia.org

ICYMI: Watch @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @sranderson.bsky.social, @annabower.bsky.social, @rparloff.bsky.social, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, and @michael-feinberg.bsky.social discuss SCOTUS updates, FBI politicization, a PI restoring Lisa Cook as Fed gov, and more. youtube.com/live/nkaRYic...

Just so you know, there is some subversive #chalkcrime happening in Vienna, Austria

All non-violent tools are in the toolbox for mocking The Situation.

You can do it too….

Also @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org posted video of some of those interruptions this morning:

So apparently HHS Deputy Sec/CDC acting director Jim O'Neill spoke at the rabidly anti-science AAPS annual meeting yesterday to shit on vaccines etc, and got interrupted by hidden speakers playing three songs (Entry of the Gladiators aka the circus song, Witch Doctor, and Billy Joel's Honesty). 1/

Talking tariffs, Lisa Cook litigation, suits by former FBI personnel and so much more live on Trials of the Trump Administration. Join us: youtube.com/live/nkaRYic...

On Rational Security, @sranderson.bsky.social, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @nkorpett.bsky.social, and @becingber.bsky.social to talk through the week’s big national security news, including Russian armed drones entering Polish airspace, the Trump admin's strike on a Venezuelan boat, and more.

Don't miss "Trials of the Trump Administration" tomorrow at 4 pm ET with @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @sranderson.bsky.social, @annabower.bsky.social, @rparloff.bsky.social, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social & @michael-feinberg.bsky.social. Subscribe to our YouTube to get an alert when it starts!

Discussed the Poland drone attack with @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org on Dog Shirt TV yesterday. We had actually discussed this scenario as a likely one previously on the show. I doubt that anyone who follows the war was surprised by this.

Pairs nicely with @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org's latest from yesterday if I do say so myself www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

This happened last night. And that's all the explanation you're going to get. www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/this-happe...

On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & Minna Ålander @alanderminna.bsky.social discuss #Russia's "accidental" #DroneAttack on #Poland and how various actors are responding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IhD...

Good night

This is exceptional. Everyone should read it. At its core it’s inspiring and hopeful about the ability of determined lawyers and judges to use the law to protect those Trump and his followers would harm. But it’s also devastating. I never much believed in evil, but I do now.

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

What do you think, folks? Should today's "The Situation" column be about: (a) Russian drones in Poland? (b) The Israeli strike in Qatar? (c) The release of Elizabeth Tsurkov? or (d) The new lawsuit against Kash Patel?

COMING UP: The fate of hundreds of unaccompanied minor children hangs in the balance as a federal judge, Tim Kelly, weighs whether to block their summary removal from the United States. At 2 p.m. ET, Kelly will hear argument on the children’s motion to enjoin their deportation. Follow along ⬇️ 🧵

Last night, more than a dozen armed Russian drones entered Polish airspace. Read @sranderson.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org's Nov. 2022 piece analyzing the response to a potential armed attack on a NATO member state following a missile landing in Przewodów, Poland.

Miracles and wonder all around us. Colossal Biosciences is working to bring back from extinction amazing creatures like the dire wolf, woolly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger. And RFK Jr. is working to bring back measles, whooping cough and polio. colossal.com/direwolf/

On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social and the #GreekChorus discuss whether or not there's a crisis of #Masculinity and whether or not that's a good thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Gh...

I am preoccupied this evening with gratitude for the freedom of Elizabeth Tsurkov but I would be remiss if I didn’t share this excellent piece of work by the estimable @annabower.bsky.social.

They only gave him one plane. What do they expect?

So very happy to hear that Elizabeth Tsurkov is free. Here is my conversation with her sister, Emma: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

President Trump has just announced that Princeton University PhD student Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023 and held by Kata'ib Hezbollah has been released and is now at the American Embassy in Iraq.

Elizabeth Tsurkov our wonderful activist, she is back

Elizabeth Tsurkov was finally released. She’s a friend and I’m rly relieved to hear that

Over Labor Day weekend, the Trump admin attempted to deport unaccompanied children before a district judge halted their removal. @AnnaBower.bsky.social looks at what Judge Sooknanan had learned from the J.G.G. case, where undocumented immigrants were deported despite ongoing legal proceedings.

I was in her office when DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano discussed why USCG snipers would blow out engines to disable boats, rather than taking out the traffickers themselves. I was the one briefing her on the operations... @jd-vance-1.bsky.social is a disgrace to the Corps & should be impeached.

"Accused of debasing the military by having it commit crimes and then boasting of it, Vance does not bother to deny the premise." In the Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org considers the vice president's tweets defending the targeting killing of civilian drug traffickers.

I admit I am a horrible person because I don't enjoy small children

Russians dropped a glide bomb on elderly people who were waiting in line for their pensions. More than 20 dead. Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for