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Back in the day, you'd at least sell the commissions instead of just handing them out

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When it comes to foreign policy, the Head of Programming at Fox News outranks the VP.

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Een fantastische concert

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Senate signs off on big pro-financial crimes and money-laundering bill

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2003: here's some (not very) well choreographed BS about why we should go to war. 2025: stfu. Here are some vibes, I guess.

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First "arrest me" Newsom and now Hochul putting money down. You might not (and often shouldn't) like either, but their coming around is a good sign.

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Calling it now - the US will be the first state to withdraw from the UPR process

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? I'll borrow a quote for this one - “almost all nations observe almost all principles of international law and almost all of their obligations almost all of the time” (Henkin, 1976)

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Every former/current marching band kid in the US right now - "shit, they're gonna have to do SO MANY drills after this show"

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This isn't a bad idea. But, uh...You have a spending bill in your chamber right now. You could do something about the Trump side of this, too

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The headline is Israel (again) running roughshod over Article 51 and the attached norms. The b story is the Trump administration having the diplomatic cache of a wet paper bag.

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Apropos of nothing in particular, I've found myself recalling this random line almost every day since I encountered it doing archival research.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Separate from assaulting a Senator, "We're here to violently overthrow the Governor and Mayor" is an impeachable (and arrestable) thing of its own.

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submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

The latest update from the Chairman of the State Duma is, as one would expect, entirely in the service of authoritarianism.

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Golly gee, I sure hope senior officers don't say anything tepidly supportive of the rule of law. That could really do a number on Civil-Military relations.

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the idea of fingerwagging your way into protest discipline is deeply delusional for a number of reasons, chief among which is that the cops' decisions are among the biggest determinants of how protests ago. it's like being perplexed at people for using umbrellas while ignoring the weather

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

If you're going to demand answers...you've gotta like...ask a question.

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American cops are, without a doubt, undertrained. That's also, to a fair extent, irrelevant to what we're seeing here. An officer deliberately aiming a firearm at a reporter and pulling the trigger isn't a matter of training. It's a matter of "the cops want to shoot reporters"

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

Don't carry water for, or to, fascists.

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Wondering which States Parties might stand up for the #ICC against the new round of US sanctions? Check out my 2023 @fpajrnl.bsky.social article with @kylereed.bsky.social on State Party responses to the 2020 sanctions. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-...

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If there is going to be a another jointly signed statement from States on the new US sanctions against the ICC, it will be very interesting to see who is, and who is not, a signatory. #ICC #USSANCTIONS

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Sanctioning individual judges of an international court is an intolerable assault on the international rule of law. An attack on the Court is an attack on all States Parties. All States Parties must act now to resist this and protect the independence of the Court.

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Kink has a place at Pride. Except whatever tf this is. Banish this.

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This is severe, if not shocking, escalation in US hostility toward the ICC. Keep an eye on the member states. If they stay quiet, it's a five alarm fire sort of deal for the Court and international law.

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So, what does the market say? Suspect tea or a dangerous window?

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Stepped away, met a friend for a beer, and here we are. The Night of the Long Tweets is upon us.

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Is it finally here? The long awaited Night of the Long Tweets?

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Does international law matter? If you're making a human rights claim - yes! Want to know more? Well, I have the (open access!) paper for you. I develop a measure of legal frames in human rights arguments and find that IL framing has a measurable effect on an argument's success.

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The linked piece gives decent advice for evaluating opportunities but honestly says little about this question. ECRs say yes to everything because the system is a mess of power dynamics (just how optional is X think) and oft-broken, precarcity fueled, incentive structures.

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But wait, isn't public opinion some fixed thing at whose altar Democrats should sacrifice every value and belief?

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submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

This is (unsurprisingly) a great read on the recent ECtHR letter and, more fundamentally, the fundamental goals and purposes of human rights law.

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"They're listening to Creed stone-cold sober" is actually a damning indictment.

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very exciting new article - by @tomlongphd.bsky.social & Carsten-Andreas Schulz in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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For starters, it means that Gov. Newsom is a sack of crap.

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Hey, NATO? The Article IV violations are coming from inside the house.

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At this point, the safe money is that a US withdrawal from the UPR is more likely than a North Korean one.

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