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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/01/2026

WELKER: Is the Cuban government the Trump administration's next target? MARCO RUBIO: Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem. Yeah. WELKER: Is that a yes? RUBIO: I think they're in a lot of trouble, yes

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people. This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.

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Craig Martin @craigxmartin.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

JIB/JAB is back for a new season - in Episode 41, I speak with @bcfinucane.bsky.social of @crisisgroup.org about the U.S. killings of alleged drug smugglers, and its implications for the international rule of law: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2025

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized? TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/09/2025

Monday’s internet shutdown in Afghanistan impacted virtually all WiFi connections and telephone services. It disrupted one of the last lifelines for many women and girls and also threw businesses, government offices and airports into disarray. wapo.st/46JVTzD

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

To explain: At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?” Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 16/09/2025

On Sep 2 and 15, Trump ordered the United States Navy to destroy small speed boats in the Caribbean. In both cases, all on board died. MARY ELLEN O'CONNELL on the lawlesssness of these targeted killings. verfassungsblog.de/killing-carr...

Qutoe from our published author Mary Ellen O'Connell: "The killings in the Carribean are President Trump's most dangerous assaults on the rule of law to date."

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 15/09/2025

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Another US strike on a vessel alleged to be smuggling drugs in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific entity and individuals targeted are not identified—simply labelled as "terrorists." 1/n

This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. The Strike occurred while these confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuela were in International Waters transporting illegal narcotics (A DEADLY WEAPON POISONING AMERICANS!) headed to the U.S. These extremely violent drug trafficking cartels POSE A THREAT to U.S. National Security, Foreign Policy, and vital U.S. Interests. The Strike resulted in 3 male terrorists killed in action. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this Strike. BE WARNED — IF YOU ARE TRANSPORTING DRUGS THAT CAN KILL AMERICANS, WE ARE HUNTING YOU! The illicit activities by these cartels have wrought DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES ON AMERICAN COMMUNITIES FOR DECADES, killing millions of American Citizens. NO LONGER. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10/09/2025

The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.

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Mark Klamberg @klamberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Interesting interview with leading scholar on genocide, William Schabas. Btw, he was on the committee when I 2012 defended my doctoral thesis on evidence in international criminal trials. His account below on evidence & genocide matches my thesis spot on. www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This statement is progress. But it's late, and it weirdly pretends the attacks on the #ICC and Judge Prost don't exist or don't come from the regime down South. Canada must speak out against those who threaten our judges and diplomats & be clear about how we will protect them.

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Brianne McGonigle Leyh @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

📣📣 Very excited to share that my new book, Transitional Justice in the United States of America: Justice for All? (Routledge, Transitional Justice Series, edited by Kieran McEvoy), is now out! 🎉🎉

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Full text of the International Association of Genocide Scholars Resolution on the Situation in Gaza: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Melanie O’Brien, the IAGS president and a professor of international law at the University of Western Australia, said the resolution was “a definitive statement from experts in the field of genocide studies that what is going on on the ground in Gaza is genocide”.

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Airwars @airwars.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

1/ Ten years after Russia first intervened in Syria, Airwars has published the final of nearly 5,000 incidents of civilian harm from Russian military strikes in the country, bringing to an end the largest documentation campaign in the organisation’s history. airwars.org/airwars-publ...

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Airwars publishes final of 5,000 civilian harm incidents from Russian actions in Syria

Nine-year project involved tracking of thousands of strikes, and the deaths of up to 25,000 civilians

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

In healthy democracies, discourse is shaped by Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA). These guardrails help societies sort truth from falsehood and keep power in check.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

BREAKING: It’s official. The Trump regime will deploy the National Guard in D.C. Let’s be clear about what this is. This is NOT about homelessness or crime. This is an authoritarian regime using the US military to seize a Democratic city, terrorize its residents, and lock up Black & Brown people.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: President to Deploy National Guard in Washington, D.C.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest. In most of these cases the victim was under 12 years old"

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Dr Julie Fraser @drjuliefraser.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I visited the cape coast and elmina castles while in accra last month w @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social it was from here that the dutch and british conducted their transatlantic trade of enslaved africans to plantations in the americas. What centuries long horror.

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Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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

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Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative

It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber has found that Hungary failed to comply with its obligations under the ICC Statute by not arresting Benjamin Netanyahu when he was in Hungary. The Court refers the matter of Hungary’s non-compliance to the Assembly of States Parties.

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 23/07/2025

Since the start of the Gaza war, leading Israeli legal scholars have written numerous letters raising concerns over grave international law violations. We are publishing these letters for the first time in a collected English edition, with a summary by Kai Ambos. verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

Quote: “We publish these documents also to make clear that we – as international lawyers – are all together in the struggle for international law, in Gaza and beyond.”

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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges

Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Unbothered. In her lane. Focused. Flourishing.

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Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Brave and important warning by a group of Israeli scholars regarding "the plan to concentrate the population of Gaza in a so-called 'humanitarian city'": "If implemented, the plan would constitute a series of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and . . . could amount to the crime of genocide."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This is how a white supremacist police state operates.

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Rechtsgeleerdheid Universiteit Utrecht @uurechten.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Prof @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social l leads the Open-Source Global Justice Investigations Lab at Utrecht University where researchers, students, journalists, open-source investigators, and activists work together on the pursuit of human rights, truth and transparency. 2/2 www.uu.nl/en/research/...

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Open-Source Global Justice Investigations Lab

Working together with societal partners across disciplines and levels, this project combines digital innovation with new media literacy in order to train students to identify, document, verify, analys...

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

"Many of us disregard how much has shifted in the last 20 months. But we are ignoring the collapse of the international system that has defined our lives for generations at our own collective peril."

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The Republicans have lowered the bar for sending people off to foreign torture centres from being a suspected terrorist to being a suspected immigrant.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 02/07/2025

Cutting Medicaid and food and nutrition programs while pushing his latest corrupt grift: a $249 perfume. Tells you everything you need to know about Trump's priorities: Donald Trump first, everyone else (except his sweet-smelling billionaire buddies) last.

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Trump unveils $249 ‘Trump Fragrances’

President Trump has launched a new line of fragrances called “Victory 45-47” on his Truth Social website, which are available for purchase in early December.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Guardian - Barack Obama and George W Bush criticize today's closure of USAID, as a study warns the shutdown of the agency will result in "a staggering number" of avoidable deaths.

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Obama calls Trump’s USAID closure a ‘travesty’ as report warns of extra 14 million deaths by 2030

Former presidents Obama and George W Bush and singer Bono send emotional message to staff as organisation closes

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Brianne McGonigle Leyh @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Look what I just received in the mail! Can't wait to dive into it. Huge congratulations to @rachelkillean.bsky.social and @laurendempster.bsky.social

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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Meanwhile, in Sudan, due to USAID cuts - “babies starved quietly” - “older siblings died begging for food.” - it has become “harder to contain cholera outbreaks,” killing those weakened by hunger - 5 million “may lose access to lifesaving health services” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal

The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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Shaharzad Akbar شهرزاد اکبر @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

My colleagues spent 2 months interviewing 34 victims of torture including 7 women who had been detained by the Taliban. This detailed & harrowing report is the outcome. We hope it will help us advocate for protection & resettlement for victims & pressure to prevent torture. @rawadari.bsky.social

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C. Lamont @intlaw.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Read @oonahathaway.bsky.social excellent piece on the unlawfulness of the strikes on #Iran: ”Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

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Opinion | Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters.

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Lotfi El Hamidi @lotfielhamidi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Zeven witte mannen gaan even bespreken hoe het nou precies zit met Iran.

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NPR @npr.org · 20/06/2025

Through a powerful blend of creative interpretation and ancestral memory, an Alabama town reckons with its past and begins to write a new chapter of shared truth.

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A former plantation becomes a space for healing, art and reparative history

Through a powerful blend of creative interpretation and ancestral memory, an Alabma town reckons with its past and begins to write a new chapter of shared truth.

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