Pathos plant in a blue pot on a inside window ledge with large bright green leaves, extended to adjacent window ledge.
A little moment of zen
My new office plant is *thriving*
Oof....
Thanks! Happy for you ❤
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About to teach the use of force today, in international law course...
Naturally, thinking why didn't I get a PhD in 18th century English literature instead?
One of the great joys of life has been seeing Flavor Flav over the years...
from watching Flavor of Love as a teen to see him become the ultimate champion of women's sports.
Assistant Professor @rjschoner.bsky.social has published her article "Children’s participation in international organizations: Individual petitions in the United Nations" with @andreavilan.bsky.social in the Journal of Human Rights. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Are we going to war?”
Senate Majority Leader:
“I don’t know the answer to that.”
The Article I Crisis, wearing a suit and tie.
We ask: who are these children and what do they petition about? We introduce novel data including topics (migration!), age & legal representation
& conduct interviews
1st paper from our larger project on the Committee on the Rights of the Child! Stay tuned for more...
(DM or email me for a PDF!)
🚨New publication with @andreavilan.bsky.social in The Journal of Human Rights🚨
We explore individual petitions *by children* in the United Nations. We center children as active participants in global governance & find prior concerns over their agency were valid. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Everyone should buy and read this awesome book!
If you're interested in regional organization, IOs, international law, IR theory, governance in the Global South, human rights, self-determination, norms...
👇Just out in Cambridge 👇
New Regional Authorities by Katherine M. Beall
Explores how regional authority become a central, taken-for-granted feature of human rights and global governance.
📚 https://cup.org/45QT3ct
Check out the papers of the 18th PEIO (@the-peio.bsky.social, IE University) at www.peio.me. Please save the date for our next PEIO, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, on January 7-9, 2027. Thanks to Dan Nielson et al. for hosting us! @rwellhausen.bsky.social, @natemjensen.bsky.social
I had the misfortune of meeting this guy on multiple occasions in New Orleans.
His demotion is long overdue. He should be fired alongside so many others.
ABOLISH ICE
Right! just making sure your claim wasn't that the lack of activist mindset was so universal and widespread.
but rather when it does occur, your explanation of lack of "real school"
Look though at women's sports, notably different because "professional athlete" is so much newer for women vs women.
They've gotten here through advocacy and activism, on and off the court. Especially women of color and queer women.
Women's basketball and soccer for example.
A++++++++
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
omg the original post, not as the printout version (for ease of reading)
A mound of chocolate chunk cookies with pools of chocolate and flaky salt on top.
You should make these olive oil chocolate chunk cookies. They’re (accidentally) vegan and (intentionally) delicious!
We are at the point this week where IR scholars are mentioning things like "WWIII"
Ordered :)
Looking forward to reading it!
The EPA is no longer going to consider how many potential lives a pollution regulation would save -- just the costs to industry. This is directly counter to EPA's mission. And it will kill Americans.
Great (depressing) scoop from @maxinejoselow.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
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Reminds me of this map:
The children's rights treaty, all but one...
It’s Friday, and things are bad.
And the semester starts on Monday.
But, this chocolate babka king cake is fabulous. Made better by sharing with good friends.
These are good things.
It should have long scared us all shitless that agents of the state can kill citizens w/ near-total impunity. It should scare us even more that this power now extends to ICE & other federal officials in our cities.
If there was ever a time for mass mobilization to abolish ICE, it is now.
AOC: What we saw today was a horrific act of violence. What we have seen and are now seeing is that ICE has not just become an anti-immigrant force—it is becoming an anti-civilian, paramilitary organization. People are being taken off the streets for exercising their free speech rights.
