A very good piece on why the left can't jettison the concept of international law altogether, despite its limitations and structural arrangement which at times has repeatedly legitmized colonialism and might-makes-right.
Sounds like a silver lining to me.
NOTUS screenshot "Help Congress rein in the Supreme Court. Ganesh Sitaraman Vanderbilt Law School The Supreme Court — a body of nine unelected judges who, once confirmed, can serve for life — plays an increasingly powerful role in shaping the laws that govern our country. In recent decades, on topics as varied as labor, employment law, health care and immigration, the court has served as the final arbiter on issues that should be, at least constitutionally speaking, in Congress’ hands. For 30 years, Congress has been able to rein in the power of federal agencies through the Congressional Review Act, a law that allows federal regulations to be overturned with a simple majority and a signature from the president. A similar check should be extended to an increasingly heavy-handed Supreme Court when it considers matters of statute. Congress could have, for example, 30 days to decide whether to respond to a court ruling, and another 30 days for a committee to propose a clarification or revision of the statute — under a fast-track process. This reform would put our most representative branch — Congress — back in charge of the public policy decisions that impact us all. Ganesh Sitaraman is a professor at Vanderbilt Law School and director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator."
Rein in the power of Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS through the Congressional Review Act, a law that allows Cong to overturn fed regs with a simple majority & a signature from the president. Interesting court reform idea for next Dem majority from @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social www.notus.org/perspectives...
Pin reminder pop-ups appear to be a confusing counterexample on on this point.
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
we’ve had two truly enormous crises under Trump and the first one was covid which everyone apparently gave him a pass for despite the fact that he made it worse
but this one is completely, obviously, unquestionably his fault and would not have happened without him
Targetted strikes.
time.com/7383099/iran...
fun fact: at $90/barrel, the impact of the war is equivalent to a ~$50/ton carbon tax, right where the biden administration estimated the social cost of carbon
A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.
Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.
Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.
NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach
This gets at the Burkean argument for international law: power politics are beset with unknowns and unintended consequences. Faced with that, following international law is a good way of avoiding some of the most obvious pitfalls. “An inheritance from our forefathers,” paid for in blood.
At least a trace of valuable journalism remains at the New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...
Six years ago this week, an unplanned disaster engulfed the world. Trump catastrophically mismanaged it. The economy collapsed and 1m+ died.
Now reelected, he’s on the verge of topping that, only this time the disaster is entirely of his own making.
The results may be even worse.
Sanchez is correct in refusing to allow the US to use joint military bases to carry out their war crimes against the people of Iran. He demonstrates real spine here, and models leadership to the rest of Europe.
If only there had been some way to get rid of Iran’s stockpile of uranium peacefully, without going to war. Oh, wait….
RIP
wild that we spent years with a debate in Europe about whether governments can make the case to their populations to endure higher energy prices as part of collective solidarity against Russia etc only to watch Trump say "fuck it" and skyrocket energy prices overnight with no justification at all
March 2nd, massive anti US and Israel protest in the Philippines decrying the illegal war of aggression in Iran and killing of civilians. Protestors tried to reach the US embassy, stopped by riot police.
Human Rights Watch: The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor
www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.
Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in its genocidal war on Gaza.
On International Women's Day, we look at the number of women and girls Israel killed in Gaza in 2025.
#Infograph
This scene plays out many times every day and now in Iran and Lebanon as well. As a mom, it shatters me to see children so utterly traumatized, to see doctors and nurses trying to calm them while managing other patients.
I can not accept this as legitimate on any level. There is NO reason. NONE.
I just saw a video of a little girl in Gaza who'd been brought to a hospital, I assume w/her mother, who was killed in an attack. She did not understand what was going on. She was maybe 4 and hysterical to the point of not being able to breathe. She moved from person to person crying 4 her mother.
What does gas cost in DC? It’s well over four dollars here and has been for years.
RIP Walid Khalidi.
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1649...
Spoiler alert: yes, he will. It’s in his 🧬
“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”
We need competent anti-imperialists
