Retired professor of international politics and law, Oberlin College. Wrote books on IAEA, UNRWA, Afrikaners after Apartheid (with June Goodwin), and the International Criminal Court. Garage woodworker.
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PM tells cabinet Trump told him not to strike partial deal To āinstead fight the terror group āwith full force.āā¦ Go in with full force and finish this,ā Netanyahu was quoted as saying Trump told him.. www.timesofisrael.com/at-stormy-ca...
"...is whether the regime in Israel that has ruled the state since its inception has lost its right to exist. Has it, in other words, lost its ability to demand that others respect and defer to the decisions its governments make?" foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/i...
Thank you for posting this.
Next up: JD Vance (on the pro- side) versus Jared Kushner (anti-) on application of the 25th Amendment.
A vast gulf exists between Trumpās authoritarian aspirations and rightwing propaganda about his omnipotence on the one hand - and the realities of a complex modern state and society on the other. And in that space, politics continues, possibilities to resist and push back very much still exist.
The Jerusalem Governorate reports reveal videos showed Israeli authorities carrying out excavations and demolitions in the area beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque, affecting Islamic artifacts dating back to the Umayyad period, in the absence of international oversight. english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail....
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan. We all are going to need her clarity and persistence.
Not a good way to build a loyal presidential guard
It's gonna get crowded in there. Right on!
Yes, thanks, of course! Puppy Killer too!
Under the principle of command responsibility, Bondi and Bove (and Miller?) should be detained as well.
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
Also, plans have been a dime a dozen. Remember RAND Corporation's The Arc, 2005. The high-tech Palestinian state. About as inclusive as the 1952-1956 Jordan River plans!
In 2008 I met a climate scientist from Mali who was advocating for this so long that he looked exhausted. Absolutely amazing man. He was working so hard on this. And then I see numbers like this and my heart just soars. Youba Sokona, you (and your peers) really did it. www.ipcc.ch/people/youba...
Agreed. People tend to be more amenable to change when they have participated in generating the plans and actions to be undertaken -- something the imperial actors have never permitted the Palestinian People. Israel has, moreover, consistently destroyed potential popular moderate leaders.
Yes, indeed. But the idea that people will willingly leave and forget the crimes against them and their deceased relatives is fantasy.
It has always been projection. A key element of the right wing's of US and Canada is how thin-skinned they are. So very sensitive, yet accuse everyone else of overreacting to stuff.
Having further outraged millions of Palestinians through supporting Netanyahu's genocide, the US will now not only insult them further by seeking to buy them off, but it will build the mother of all terrorist targets on their land. Sounds like a good plan.
Until a actual agent is held accountable, it will continue. They are untrained, poorly vetted and im sure a percentage is very racist. Add a gun and badge, recipe for disaster. When one of the agents has to stand in front of a judge for their actions, alot will change. Cannot even be identified.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding ā and indicative of a culture where theyāve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
JD Vance on Donald Trump: āIām a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I donāt think heās the person. I donāt think he cares about folks. I think that heās noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.ā { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
The Autumn of the (Drumpf) Patriarch! No longer does Gabriel Garcia Marquez have a monopoly on magical realism! We have our own gringo version right here in the good old USA!
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Long live Saddam.
yāall know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? yāall know why they did it yāall know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else yāall see whatās right in front of you, right?
News flash: We do not want a dictator. Release the Epstein Files. Common sense gun control now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi0Y...
Do bone spurs count?
Norway's sovereign wealth fund cuts ties with Israeli managers, halts active investing www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
Extremist Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: āWater, electricity, and food supplies to the Gaza Strip must be cut off, and those who do not die from bullets will die of hunger.ā
āThis is about whether or not we believe that opposing sanctions against people who are trying to hold war criminals to account is something that we do, or whether we remain silent and do nothing." Reporting by Dylan Robertson, w comments from me & Lloyd Axworthy www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
An Israeli soldier shared a video from Gaza Cityās Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, revealing total devastation with Israeli tanks lined along the ruins.
15-year-old Tasneem Ali Shabit was injured in the bombing of her home in Gaza City, suffering severe bone damage and urgently needing treatment abroad.
Hey @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @blumenthal.senate.gov, Connecticut native, constituent, and Yale public health professor here: this is the right moment. I will literally do anything. Make me wait 10 hours for a 2 minute walk and talk meeting with your lowliest intern, and I will make the case.
oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing
Saddam would be impressed.
Remember when people were outraged at the suggestion that Isra3l would bomb a hospital? This week, they did it twice. First to injure patients and healthcare workers, second to injure the journalists who responded to the first bombing. This is so obviously criminal itās hard to know what to say.
EPSTEIN Epstein Epstein Epstein Government buying stake in private companies: socialism Epstein Epstein Epstein President having stakes in those companies: corruption Epstein Epstein Epstein Worrying about Cracker Barrel logo instead of governing Epstein Epstein Epstein EPSTEIN
Video: Israel is committing genocide, legal and Holocaust scholars agree - https://www.middleeasteye.net/video/video-israel-committing-genocide-legal-and-holocaust-scholars-agree
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because itās beeping. Itās quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
The sandwich is considered free speech. To put it in a bag, however, will cost you a quarter.
I'm one of the 37 targeted below by DNI Tulsi Gabbard. I haven't had a clearance nor worked in government since 2013. This is political theater & a dangerous example of government abusing its powers to punish private citizens for openly exercising their 1st Amendment rights. My full statement:
DC is full of great people - having met a few on a grand jury I was on in the past!
Republicans would lose their minds.š¤Æ
Palestinians in Gaza continue starving.
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
A most stark warning āAfter 500 days under siege, 130,000 children in El Fasher face starvation, mass displacement, and deadly violence." www.unicef.org/press-releas...
It sounds crazy to call the US an autocracy, but that is where we are at right now saideman.blogspot.com/2025/08/was-... I enumerate and elaborate a bit. But the basics are abundantly clear. Fake emergencies, abandonment of rule of law, usurpation from other parts of govt, etc.
Israel kills at least 32 Palestinians since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-least-32-palestinians-dawn-0
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
I really need to know if the sandwich was a ham sandwich
And to be clear: In a constitutional democracy, the appropriate reactions to such an utterance are laughter, mockery, and disdain.
After all the fancy constitutional arguments & faux historical glosses, this is the practical endpoint of the unitary executive theory. Because when presidential power is effectively unchecked, the only thing preventing it from devolving into authoritarianism is the decency of the officeholder.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or canāt afford. Itās about priorities.
At Munich, Neville Chamberlain acted on the basis of one primary miscoception: that Hitler's goals were limited. We now have at least three leaders with unlimited goals: Putin, Netanyahu, and Trump. Action now against the three must proceed with 5his understanding.
Impeach!
So, those of us calling Trump a dictator are not crazy or extreme. He not only does dictator things, he calls himself one. BELIEVE HIM on this one thing, FFS 2/2
Unlike in Kafka's The Trial, we know who the officials and bureaucrats are who are persecuting Mr. Abrego Garcia, using his case to foment wider terror. They need to be impeached, sued, and prosecuted.
šØBREAKING: A federal judge dismissed a Department of Justice lawsuit against every federal district judge in Maryland. The ruling, by a Trump appointee, slammed the Trump administration for an āunprecedentedā effort to āsmear and impugnā judges who rule against it.
West Virginia adopted a law in 2023 that limits health care in prison to only that which correctional officers deem āmedically necessary.ā āI think this has the potential to be extremely abused. I really do.ā
I nominate Mr. Abrego Garcia for a Nobel Peace Prize.
So in sum, Trump signed exec. orders today that are blatantly unconstitutional (criminalizing flag burning), probably unconstitutional (using federal funds to prohibit bail reform), and exacerbating a previous illegal order (expanding the use of the military for domestic law enforcement).
As soon as Trump was elected, @davidcorn.bsky.social warned us that he would need a police state to turn his authoritarian dreams into a reality. With the occupation of DC and threats to invade other US cities, we're seeing Corn's predictions come true in real time.
No doubt.
Maryland dad and union brother Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being quite literally persecuted for his innocence.
Where's the intervention by the US embassy?
6 months ago, in the shadow of the night, Israeli soldiers took 16-year-old American Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim from his family. Heās been imprisoned ever since. Heās suffered from scabies & lost 25 pounds. Remember Sayfollah Musallet, the young American killed by settlers last month? Theyāre cousins.
As I've explained elsewhere, apartheid is often a necessary precondition and precursor to genocide. Ben Gvir & Smotrich are architects of apartheid & among the biggest promoters of genocide. Genocide doesnāt ājust happenā ā Genocide as a Process, not an Event: justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/19/g...
She never saw herself do anything inappropriate either.
There is a limited number of Friday evenings available.
A lying quartet! Todd Blanche on Ghislaine Maxwell on Epstein and Trump!
Itās not only trees, itās the destruction of prehistoric & ancient material history, agricultural history,material & archaeological history Iām inconsolable. This doesnāt begin to scratch the surface Palestine, Prehistory,and the āOrigins of Agricultureā www.palestine-studies.org/sites/defaul...
Where are the strong white men with tears in their eyes?
Thus demonstrating the truism that itās much easier to break things than to put them back together.
Overload. Creating messes faster than anyone can react.
And Epstein.
Once again, republicans are allowed to talk shit about entire parts of our country and get away with it. This is the presidentās son. Replace this with any prominent Democrat and it would be nonstop coverage. Itās more than clear now this is a choice.
Nothingās a distraction from anything else. Itās a whole fascist package.
Donald Trump hired Peter Thielās AI company Palantir to vacuum up Americansā data. Dems in Palantirās home state are now pushing new legislation to block watchdog groups & citizens from filing consumer protection lawsuits against AI giants like Palantir. www.levernews.com/the-plot-to-...
Prost is sanctioned for approving the 2020 Afghanistan investigation, after which Prosecutor Khan, who got his job in part due to the US, basically said he wouldnāt investigate US citizens. America got impunity but sees destroying the ICC as a sick hobby. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Imagine being so depraved that youād try to destroy the ICC just to protect war criminals from justice. This is rogue state, enemy of humanity shit - and should be treated as such.
This is genocidal rhetoric calling people cockroaches. This is exactly the language used in the Rwandan genocide.
His family hates him and is embarrassed by him.
I thought the entire stated point of this was to keep dangerous criminals Off our streets
Daily. The stupidity is staggering
Trigger him. Promote stroke.
He thinks tariffs will get Bolsonaro free in Brazil. What does he plan for Colorado?
The thing is, the situation was never āa minority is right by virtue of their identityā It has always been and still is that you are responsible for being attentive to how power dynamics shape what you notice and donāt notice, how you interpret tone, what you weight as important or devalue, etc
Calling this propaganda machine a "university" is like calling Fox "news" and "Truth" Social.
NEW: ICE is legally required to publish detention statistics every 2 weeks. But the data is complex. That's why the interactive "ICE Detention Map" automatically scrapes & visualizes ICE's data, which shows, among other things, that 71% of detainees have no criminal record. san.com/cc/interacti...