It's not too late to register! Join @rlswrites.bsky.social @jessicalwaters.bsky.social & me @americanuniversity tonight for what promises to be an illuminating conversation, traversing criminal law, judicial ethics & reproductive rights, with NYT Magazine staff writer Emily Bazelon. Details below:

On Veteran’s Day, this powerful op ed by @marknevitt.bsky.social “Wars don’t end when the last soldier comes home. They echo forward through time, written in our bodies, our soil, our water.” www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...

Settling in for an extended airport stay. I am thanking each TSA worker I meet for showing up. The last guy I spoke to said he’d saved 2 months worth of wages in anticipation of this - but he’s out of luck if they go to a 3rd month.

Reflections on International Law Weekend 2025: An International Law Chats x Just Security Podcast Crossover Episode @abilaofficial.bsky.social #ILW2025 With Chiara Giorgetti, Milena Sterio, @bechamilton.bsky.social, and Megan Corrarino. www.justsecurity.org/123822/podca...

Feeling grateful to be able to join this wonderful conversation right here at my workplace @auwcl.bsky.social today

I'm thrilled to announce that we'll be bringing Emily Bazelon to American University on Nov. 12! Register to join us for what promises to be a fascinating & wide-ranging conversation about the state of criminal law, lawyers & judges in this moment. @rlswrites.bsky.social @jessicalwaters.bsky.social

No surprise given @charliesavage.bsky.social long track record here, but grateful for the most sophisticated piece of journalism yet on this issue. If you read one thing today, make it this: The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

This is chilling. The President is asserting authority to kill completely outside of the law. And plans to keep at it. We are not at war, and he is ignoring the criminal laws that actually apply (eg, murder). No limiting principle stops him from doing this to others he labels "terrorists." 1/3

This is not only bad for a #freepress (though certainly it is that), it is also bad for the US military. Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

It has been a long-fought quest for justice, with the ruling last week that BNP Paribas enabled atrocities in Sudan. Now the bank is appealing, claiming they were "processing normal civil banking transactions": group.bnpparibas/en/press-rel... It is time to re-define "normal" for corporate enablers

“In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

And if you want to check out more of the details behind this for yourself, please see this stellar work by the @justsecurity.org team at: www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Gotta say - talking, cheering, chanting with fellow #NoKings protestors today made me more hopeful than I have felt in ages. Joyous resistance is the real deal.

In brief, this is simple: The military has no authority to detain the survivors of its latest strike for the same reasons it had no authority to target them in the first place: No armed attack = No viable self defense claim = No targeting or detention authority www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Pentagon reporters could be seen leaving the sprawling U.S. military headquarters with boxes after at least 30 news organizations declined to sign a new Pentagon access policy for journalists, warning of the potential for less coverage of the world's most powerful military.

Pentagon Press Association: "Make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom"

And we’re underway @adaptationfutures.bsky.social !

Stage is set for my panel @adaptation futures.bsky.social to discuss Pacific-led ITLOS & ICJ advisory opinions on climate #YearofClimate in International Courts

One of the wonderful things about @adaptationfutures.bsky.social 2025 is the number of breakout sessions & peer learning opportunities that have been built into the programming.

Qs Congress & press need to ask: -What group were those killed associated with? What were their roles? Who were they? -Will you explain the reasoning in OLC's opinion purporting to justify these killings? -Do you believe you have authority to summarily kill US citizens involved in the drug trade?

A wonderful launch for The Art of Climate Conversation with Atamira Dance Company's performance of Ka Tiri o te Moana, which aims to honour Tamarereti as an agent for change and show how his curiosity and courage inspire hapū in present-day climate action and adaptive responses to sea level rise.

Kia ora from @adaptationfutures.bsky.social! Our Head, MikkoOllikainen, opened the conference by reaffirming the AF’s commitment to inclusive, locally led action that empowers vulnerable communities worldwide. #AF2025

So grateful to be in Aotearoa with former #Fulbright colleagues to present at Adaptation Futures 2025. Loss & damage from a Pacific perspective panel underway now.

Myanmar groups to sue Telenor over data sharing with junta reut.rs/4gVkWnU

Mary McCord, former Acting Assistant AG for National Security, and I teamed up on Qs Senators should ask #Bondi at her Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, on strikes that have killed 17 people to date. The implications are serious. Consider a few of the Qs: www.justsecurity.org/121862/ask-b...

So honored to be with you @bechamilton.bsky.social at @auwcl.bsky.social at this amazing program!

Full house here @auwcl.bsky.social to hear @leilasadat1.bsky.social discuss Crimes Against Humanity from the slave trade onwards.

Latest update of the #PressFreedom tracker is now live @justsecurity.org including #pentagonpledge #jimmykimmel

Looking forward to speaking at this International Law symposium with experts including @leilasadat1.bsky.social @alkapradhan.bsky.social organized by our wonderful @auwcl.bsky.social students

The Pentagon Press Gears Up for a Fight “None of us are signing this pledge,” said one reporter. Read Ivan L Nagy. www.cjr.org/news/pentago...

When I watch this video, all I can see is a tool that enables mass atrocities. That someone at the heart of this product development sees it as a great tool for going viral makes me nauseous. This is Platform Enabled Crimes 2.0: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @drewharwell.com

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

This is no run-of-the-mill opinion. Penned by a Reagan appointee, it has been written for everyone. I strongly encourage ppl to carve it the time to sit down with it: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So glad you’re doing this @barbmcquade.bsky.social !

Judge Reinstates Over 500 Voice of America Journalists and Staff www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Terrifying: U.S. Deports Planeload of Iranians After Deal With Tehran, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/w...

My office is reaching out to the White House and Homeland Security for more information. We have been provided no information on the reason or purpose of any military mission. There is no national security threat in Portland. Our communities are safe and calm.

In this post @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social & I trace how the Starmer Government's repeatedly misconstrues its obligations under the Genocide Convention in #Gaza, hiding behind a Court judgement that is years away with a position that we call "legally illiterate" and "morally indefensible".

Excellent as always from @juliaangwin.com putting recent Google lawsuit outcome in political context: Google Wins, We Lose www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

The breadth of indicia listed in this PM is quite something: "anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity ... extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Rather ominous snipe from SecDef in response to a concerned observation by the former Commander General of the US Army Europe about the upcoming meeting of all the US military commanders ordered by SecDef:

I'm thrilled to share a @justsecurity.org project I worked on over summer - Syllabus supplements to bring into your classroom this Fall, as students clamour for conversation about everything that they are witnessing around them in relation to immigration. www.justsecurity.org/120805/immig...

With so much going on, this hasn't yet received the outcry it demands - esp. in the context of the extrajudicial killings at sea now taking place. The idea that reporters can't gather even unclassified info defies belief: www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g...

My favorite part of this excellent piece by Ben Saul, is his appropriately brisk dismissal of the relevance of IHL here since the U.S. "is plainly not involved in an armed conflict with Tren de Aragua or..." The United States’ Dirty War on “Narco Terrorism” at www.justsecurity.org/121115/unite...

“The world doesn’t have to condone entrenched military rule in Sudan. The African Union, for instance, freezes a state’s membership in the event of a successful coup or military takeover... The United Nations and other international bodies could do the same.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

“ … it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Against The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

As I continue to update our @justsecurity.org #freepress tracker, the “self censorship” threat is keeping pace with the “hostile conditions” one. Please help us all & stop obeying in advance. President Says Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses When Hosts Criticize Him www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...