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International lawyers: US-Israel strikes on Iran are illegal

European government officials: are the strikes illegal? WhO cAN sAy? Certainly not us.

The media: Iran takes illegal escalating action across the Middle East

When you’re in your 30s you just start saying shit like “I love having people over because it gives me an excuse to clean!”

Working on Restoring Justice kept me grounded this past year, so I share it w/ excitement & some nervousness.

Written w/ Meredith Elizalde, whose son Nick was killed in a shooting at his high school, we argue for a right to restorative justice.

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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

Wow!

Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.

This is a *big* legal win.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026. 7um Jing FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35 There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Is my chapter done? No, but my apartment is SO CLEAN

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting “They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."

“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.

www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

Digital surveys may have hit the AI point of no return A new study shows bots can be indistinguishable from humans in survey responses.

New Article Alert By me @fastcompany.com 🚨
"Digital surveys may have hit the #AI point of no return."
Quantitative surveys can now be taken by AI that undetectably mimics humans. This can compromise results that will impact decisions based on these outcomes. A way forward? Qualitative Research!

Gotta start from scratch, let’s pack it in guys

Aaaaand wow we got here so much faster than I thought we would

Absolutely no one:

Me, every time I hear the song Lover: FEBRUARY. It should be leave the Christmas lights up till FEBRUARY because everyone leaves their lights up till January and February is the same number of syllabus and ends in the same vowels and then it would make freaking SENSE

📢 On behalf of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, I'm delighted to announce that today marks the launch of our new @opiniojuris.bsky.social symposium:📢

*Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*

Totally doing this

I feel like it’s similar to how ppl organize their desktop/documents folder but with even more detail

You can tell a lot about a person based on how they organize their Zotero

Guys I think my nervous system forgot what it felt like to consume good news what a week

LINA KHAN IS BACK BABEY

And then sometimes federalism is *chef’s kiss*

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Help Dr. Badah and His Family Reach Safety Through France's PAUSE Programme العربية   Français   Türkçe  Română  Український

Our Palestine working group has been mobilizing to get Dr. Wail Badah and his family out of Gaza. We need to raise €30,000 to get them accepted to France's PAUSE programme. We are super close to the goal! Lille University will hire him as a visiting researcher

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They’re everywhere! 🫠

Poly sci brain: Do it
Lawyer brain: ew no
Poly sci brain: DO IT
Lawyer brain: pls no
Poly sci brain: 👀

Me: …epistemic

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Live footage of a lawyer trying to write a methods section

“No worries at all!” I write back when there are in fact many worries

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Getting ready to explain to my MAGA relatives that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism this holiday season after explaining that no, public school nurses’ offices were not performing sex changes last year…

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