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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Everyone get indoors, may everything else wash away.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026

New in PN: A vote away from undoing the civil war "The only role for a functional SCOTUS would have been to deny a cert request by saying, 'Did the lower court stutter?' Instead, we came within one vote of letting the worst people in the country run roughshod over one of America's sacred compacts."

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A vote away from undoing the civil war

The birthright citizenship ruling was a wake-up call, not a victory.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I wrote about how Trump may have burned his bridges by rounding people up en masse and putting them in camps before the administration had managed to suppress dissent.

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Shut them down, round them up

Trump's goons got the oppression flowchart backward. Now they aim to fix it.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It’s worth mentioning in every news story that this deal is substantially worse for the US, and far more lucrative for Iran, than the Obama nuclear deal Trump blew up almost a decade ago.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Reminder: Antifa is not a thing.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The funny thing about “knives out for ODNI” is that it’s DHS that should be abolished and the earth underneath salted.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Last week, I had the great honor of giving the annual Uma and Ashis Nandy Lecture at UC San Diego - entitled "Worst of the Worst: The Long War on Rights." For those interested in the connection bw post-9/11 policies and the descent into fascism, link is below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=77qI...

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“Worst of the Worst: The Long War on Rights” - The 2026 Uma and Ashis Nandy Lecture at UC San Diego

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The headline here is that the US govt publicly (last week in open court in front of media and observers) used detainee letters to their families, obtained only via @icrc.org functions, as evidence in favor of using torture-acquired evidence in a death penalty trial. @icrc.org, any thoughts?

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Granting ICRC access to detainees was a standard risk mitigation measure I used to recommend for U.S. work with military partners. Israel’s refusal to grant ICRC access after Oct 7th was a major red flag—especially after the Biden administration pressed the issue. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

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Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Listening to the 9/11 prosecution team once again defend/ promote torture - even though everyone knows they’re losing any chance at a trial - really highlights the accountability vacuum that got us to the present day. The current anti-law DOJ stands on the shoulders of the Gitmo MC prosecution team.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This was such a pleasure to moderate, and to learn from @davidakaye.bsky.social an @knundy.bsky.social about an issue that affects everyone around the world. Recording will be up in a few days!

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

And also this is accurate. The WHCD has long outlived its (dubious) purpose.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Oh he’s speaking now? I think I will just wait like a responsible person and see what the actual facts end up being. As always, whenever it is possible to say in this country full of deadly weapons, I am glad no one was hurt.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I am honored to have former UNSR @davidakaye.bsky.social and the formidable advocate @knundy.bsky.social joining me next Thursday for an IBA Rule of Law Forum discussion about safeguarding the right to freedom of expression - please join us! Registration (free) below👇🏾 www.ibanet.org/conference-d...

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Enforcement or erasure: freedom of speech | International Bar Association

A webinar presented by the IBA Rule of Law Forum, supported by the IBA Human Rights Law Committee and the IBA Judges' Forum. Many international lawyers have noted increasing limits on freedom of speec...

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It is still a war crime to threaten violence with the intention of instilling terror in civilian populations, TACO or not. It's in the Geneva Conventions and it's in the DoD Law of War Manual. That crime has already been committed.

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Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Here in the U.S. right now we painfully dependent on the willingness of other nations to uphold their international legal obligation not to assist in the commission of an internationally wrongful act. Feeling grateful to UK & Portugal: www.ft.com/content/e7b1...

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UK signals it will not let US use British bases to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure

Downing Street reiterates that Iran conflict ‘isn’t our war’

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I told CNN: Trump's threats to civilian infrastructure are illegal Iran should keep civilians away from threatened sites All States must deny the U.S. use of their territory or airspace for illegal attacks, and demand an immediate end to this lawless war. video.snapstream.net/Play/1ocivPG...

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Connect the World - Adil Ahmad Haque

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Somehow “chickens out” (as in the possibility that today will be TACO Tuesday) seems like the wrong term for “delays carrying out a threat to commit war crimes.”

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This is absolutely black and white - the US president is ordering war crimes and crimes and humanity.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

You think the Pope has someone particular in mind?

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I cannot believe this is not the bottom - and yet, it still does not feel like we’re close.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

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Missing Airman Raises Concerns That Iran Could Gain Leverage Over the U.S.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I am never not on message. Coming at you from spring break at Machu Picchu. #CloseGitmo

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/04/2026

People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/04/2026

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

$1.5 trillion for the Pentagon.

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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

New memo by Trump's 36-year-old OLC chief, Elliot Gaiser, says Congress's Constitutional power to make laws necessary and proper to regulate how the U.S. government works is actually just a power to "assist" the president--so laws are valid if they increase Trump's power but not if they restrict it.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is the point - rational people are back cheerleading the court on its skepticism re *birthright citizenship*, literally one of the most straightforward issues it has had to address so far, while the Court consistently burns down institutions/ marginalizes people for the regime in other cases.

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Dehumanization and bloodlust gone wild.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

So it's been a very long day at Gitmo, a place where there are only long days.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I am here to remind everyone that defense at Gitmo milcomms revealed that Robert Mueller oversaw the insidious collaboration of FBI with the CIA-run torture program, even while publicly (falsely) insisting that the FBI “walked away.” Obits of public figures should be accurate.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This was a grotesque insult for a well-deserved, historic win.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

If you're a service member being ordered to prep for deployment for the War in Iran and you have moral and/or ethical misgivings on all this, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the G.I. Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

DC folks actually sort of need to demand that heads roll over this. It’s a real problem if law enforcement in the capital is so pathetic, weak, and supine that their instinct is to act as stormtroopers for illicit federal power grabs.

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Benjamin Duerr @benjaminduerr.com · 08/03/2026

Why international law is still the world’s best defence. By former ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and her chief of staff Sam Sasan Shoamanesh

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Why international law is still the world’s best defence

Should we permit the foundations of international law to erode, the world would slip once more into anarchy and chaos.

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