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...

Trump applauding ABC for cancelling Kimmel

Here’s the Carr interview that preceded ABC’s decision to pull Kimmel

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Re-upping this morning esp. for journalists & other non-international lawyers wanting to know what it means for an international commission to determine that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

Just did a quick Q&A @justsecurity.org for journalists & others wondering what today's report that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza does (& does not) mean justsecurity.org/120762/coi-genocide-israel-gaza/ Please share with anyone covering the report.

President Trump today: “We knocked off, actually, three boats, not two, but you saw two.” Podcast discussion about this new policy by top experts ⤵️ @tessbridgeman.bsky.social @bcfinucane.bsky.social @becingber.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2074610/epis...

“ History will judge how the world responds…The facts are reported daily…The law is clear. The stakes, the survival of a people, could not be higher.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/opinion/un-palestinians-israel-gaza-genocide.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

#Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza, theUN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel said in a new report, urging all States to fulfil their legal obligations to end it. ➡️ bit.ly/4mjBAi2

JUST IN: Maurene Comey sues DOJ over her abrupt firing as a top prosecutor in SDNY, seeks reinstatement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Incredible resource just out from the @justsecurity.org team

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

Congratulations @colbertlateshow.bsky.social As a Washington Post colleague emailed me last May, "winning a Pulitzer is the best revenge!!" So is an #Emmy

Channel your outrage about @washingtonpost.com firing @karenattiah.bsky.social into support for her work

Huge loss for any remaining @washingtonpost.com readers. @karenattiah.bsky.social I’m so sorry. Your readers will follow you anyway, but the Post misses out on your willingness to keep covering what human rights atrocities even after the news cycle moved on. Shame on them.

Click on the link in @bcfinucane.bsky.social post below. You see a document - formalized, regulated, a $4.76M transfer through JP Morgan Chase. For me at least, pairing it with that first CECOT transfer video is more unsettling than either one in isolation.

I swam 12.5 miles/20km in 5 hours 20 mins today & raised nearly $3K to Charlie’s Place, which serves people experiencing homelessness in D.C. Please share & donate time or money if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/swim-for-c...

Count down to my swim-raiser for Charlie’s Place, where I volunteer to support people experiencing homelessness in DC: www.gofundme.com/f/swim-for-c...

What Has the Trump Administration Gotten From Law Firms and Universities? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Lightning quick analysis from @bcfinucane.bsky.social on the - as expected - legally deficient justification…

Honestly, given the assault on the meaning of words under this administration I has been steeling myself for the Department of Peace: Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Excellent testimony here by @davidakaye.bsky.social

You can call a mouse an elephant, but that don’t make it so.

4/ If law of armed conflict does not apply (and it does not), then... DoD has long-standing view that assassination and murder are part of customary international human rights law that applies to U.S. military action beyond U.S. borders. 2024 Operational Law Handbook⤵️ tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

This is important. The first 24 hours of press coverage fumbled the ball. But the US just murdered 11 people in international waters. Analogies to the US’s (highly suspect, morally and legally) targeted killings of suspect terrorists don’t work. This crossed their own lines, and they know it.

For anyone who has been using Claude - New terms & conditions come in Sept. 28: www.anthropic.com/legal/consum...

A drone attack has hit a convoy of 16 trucks carrying desperately needed food to Sudan‘s Darfur region www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.

p. 94 of this transcript is the most vile example of victim-blaming: www.justice.gov/storage/audi... That Maxwell gets this platform is beyond infuriating, especially when the victim that Maxwell claims was "responsible" for Epstein's behavior "in its entirety" is no longer here to defend herself.

I am so honored by the opportunity to give the keynote address to the Class of 2029 @ American University Commencement tomorrow. Doing the final touches on my speech now. To those on campus in the morning - come join us in the Bender Arena to celebrate an incredible incoming class!

BREAKING: DC government will retain control over its police department, by agreement. Any requests from feds go through mayor. However, a new order from Bondi will be forthcoming, worded properly, and that is expected to seek the services of the MPD in carrying out immigration enforcement.

Judge Reyes says she will not be deciding on a national emergency or federal purpose today (hearing on these will be next week)

DOJ Civil Rights Division Chief Harmeet Dhillon is now going after GW, asking them if they want to settle: www.justice.gov/crt/media/14...

Not the scholarship you’re used to from me, but this is important. With thanks to colleagues in Aotearoa, we now have the first empirical data on the impact of a law change I helped secure 20 (!) years ago to prohibit NZ clinics using anonymous donors: www.fertstert.org/article/S001...

#FreePress trend lines over the past month continue to head in the wrong direction for the health of our democracy. Glad I started tracking from the outset because it would be overwhelming to start compiling at this point....

1/ The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) — the primary tool for accessing public records in the U.S. — is under mounting strain across the federal government, explains Amanda Teuscher of @weareoversight.bsky.social. See her analysis and rundown of FOIA office closures, denials, and delays here:

Grateful to @skynewsrss.bsky.social Yousra Albagir for the persistence of her Sudan reporting. The situation in El Fasher is dire. Aid conveys reach the outskirts of the city, but then are blocked. Men with guns are starving hungry children: news.sky.com/story/sudan-...

European journalists need to give this story attention. A public broadcasting institution that for 60 years has served hundreds of millions of citizens -- many children and citizens in rural areas -- is ended in a few months on purely political grounds. Some lessons about power, media and democracy.

cpb.org/pressroom/Co... Press Release | Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding | CPB

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump. Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt. Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

"As a matter of moral, legal, and basic human imperative, States with any leverage at all over the Israeli government must use that leverage now to bring this abomination to an end."

Essential reading by anyone who can get in front of a principal in their govt & raise hell. Thanks to authors @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social & Alex de Waal @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-... Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative