Civilians across the region facing bombs and destruction and death because some men free of the consequences decided to open hell.
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Civilians across the region facing bombs and destruction and death because some men free of the consequences decided to open hell.
The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran are either false or unproven. Here's a fact-check. nyti.ms/46tj8P5
It is sickening to think about what might happen next. Thinking of the people in the path of this folly, and of the people of Ukraine, who could have really used those munitions in year 5 of their brave resistance to Russian aggression. 9/9
As an editor, I really appreciate it when people declining to review suggest potential reviewers. We (editors) don't know everybody and this is super helpful.
the complete lack of backbone from numerous - though not all - academic institutions has been one of the biggest disappointments of the Trump 2 era.
“Trump’s use of the military and federal security forces to consolidate his domestic authority will, in the long run, undermine American power,” argue @dandrezner.bsky.social and @profsaunders.bsky.social.
Seems like a both/and situation to me, Mark 😂
🧵 New paper out in AJPS! "Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state"
With @lbp2106.bsky.social, @wilsonprichard.bsky.social, @cdsamii.bsky.social, and Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."
The #ICJ will hear the case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya from January 12-29, the first time the ICJ considers a genocide in a decade & one that will set precedents for South Africa’s case against Israel over the war in Gaza: www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Don’t do the crimes and you never have to worry about it! I’m not worried about the ICC because I’m not going around committing crimes against humanity. Seems easy to me 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
Me, to the people who say the ICC isn’t a threat because everything is about power: ok then why do all these powerful people act like they’re scared of the ICC?!?!
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
Americans oppose the change to 'Department of War' and it's not especially close. @robertralston.bsky.social and I found that relatively few think the change will make America safer, focus the department's mission, or make it more lethal.
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
Those of you at universities might share our recent report on public opinion with their leadership.
There are takeaways that are highly relevant to their choices in the current moment. In particular, there is broad, bipartisan, but latent, support for higher education.
edbarometer.org
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
We are a group of journalists across newsrooms in Chicago, collecting video related to use of force, stop & frisk, and traffic stops conducted by federal agents and the National Guard.
Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago.
Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email chicagojournalists@protonmail.com.
Did he just declare war on Chicago? Knuck if you buck, old man.
A Facebook friend posted this earlier today and as someone from the Chicago area, I felt this in my chest:
Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.
Hands off our city, jagoff
Chicago forever
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
ANALYSIS Trump Sends Mixed Messages With His Newly Rebranded Department of War President Trump's renaming of the Defense Department comes amid his overt campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize. 4 MIN READ ARM Haiyun Jiang/ The New York Times
Pardon the peak Blueskyism, Nate Silver, but I looked to see how the Times was covering Trump’s declaration of war against Chicago and all I found was this.
And my reaction is what the fuck.
Do not come, Donald Trump.
You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.
