David Kaye

actually int'l law/institutions are in crisis, no question, & there is vast hypocrisy & abuse against those with less power. but the description is glib b/c it's vibrant & effective in a wide array of areas & regions.

with hegseth talking war crimes, there needs to be a massive counter-messaging operation by service, OSD and academic lawyers to ensure military personnel understand that the law of armed conflict applies whatever trump/hegseth say.

International law is a funny thing. With no real means of enforcement, it’s essentially a set of reciprocal expectations. It only works if states believe others will follow the rules, too. Anything that departs from those expectations weakens that system.

this piece feels gullible, like it was written for the wrong war, as there's no humanitarian impulse to trump's aggression. but also i dislike the glibness here, since int'l law - sets of *obligations* - is often enforced, even if use of force is a serious outlier. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w...

The Mirage of a New Middle East War with Iran won’t reshape the region the way America wants.

My latest in @foreignaffairs.com on day after challenges and the unrealistic expectations in Washington about what will follow this reckless war

Reupping.

Not only did Trump minimize possibility of terrorist attacks on US. But White House nixed a law enforcement bulletin ABOUT those threats.

End-of-mission statement by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria.

UN Commission of Inquiry completes Syria mission in midst of regional clashes, encouraging respect for human rights.

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the one gloss i might add to this is that "Silicon Valley" itself does not capture how the world largely reads this as "American"

an iphone app with a map showing current air raids/alerts in ukraine

a colleague from ukraine has what looks like a weather app but it's for russian air attacks. obvious such a thing would exist, and horrible that such a thing should exist.

team trump plays into every stereotype of cowboy americans, a kind of george w bush style on steroids. cheney's 'gloves are off' quips seem quaint in comparison, even though that hid a major turn to brutality & inhumanity.

‘Cavalier and demeaning’: the Trump team’s hyper-aggressive war rhetoric White House boasts of the military’s lethality and prowess but critics pan the language as callous and cruel

very/very good - and incidentally, as i hear from europeans, this is a very common reaction to the chest-thumping aggression they hear from trump/USG officials, not just re iran but across the board.

Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch Italian authorities are making progress in their investigation into a wide-ranging spyware scandal in Italy involving Paragon spyware. But the mystery of who hacked two Italian journalists with Parago...

More spyware fallout in Italy 🇮🇹 following WhatsApp & Apple notifications & @citizenlab.ca investigations

Prosecutors' team confirms journalist @fcancellato.bsky.social's phone hacked with Paragon spyware

@lorenzofb.bsky.social with details; stay tuned for more
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We thank @aoc.bsky.social for speaking the truth about age verification in the House E&C hearing today! As she stated plainly, and we agree, age verification is a smoke-screen for censorship. It is NOT about kids safety!

"Trump says he should have role in picking Iran's Leader," headline in New York Times

some day a future president will be forced to apologize for the crimes of her predecessor

The Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, threatened in a post on X that “the southern suburbs of Beirut will become like Khan Younis”.

We now announce war crimes casually and in advance, it seems.

As @amostoh.bsky.social and I explain, the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic should not distract from the broader crisis at hand: Congress's failure to regulate some of the riskiest uses of AI - namely, amplifying surveillance and automating the use of lethal force.

This is a lie every bit as egregious as those that were used in an attempt to justify the Iraq war. Moreso in that even more people know it is untrue.

Chotiner: It’s like the domino theory, but in reverse. Landsman: Yeah, yeah. Exactly.

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1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

starting to see destruction porn here and elsewhere which, as always, shows hegseth's 'destruction' but hides all the horrible 'death'

each thing hegseth says is more insane, lawless and incriminating than the last.

democratic governments set up decision-making processes to make decisions on the basis of full knowledge of risks, costs, challenges. when you adopt an ideological or personalist one where thoughtfulness is taken as disloyalty, affirmation the highest value, well you end up here, with disaster.

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

Kafka quoted at duty free

the fragrances are . . . Kafkaesque?

FT story from couple weeks back suggesting heathrow seems crowded because British and European travellers walk on opposite sides abd keep bumping into each other

consider this a timeline interruption of sorts. source: FT

this is unsurprising from a government that has a record of repressing human rights defenders and freedom of expression

Here’s the latest.

from www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

When asked about a worst-case scenario for the future of Iran, Mr. Trump said that it would probably be “you go through this and in five years you realize you put somebody in who’s no better.”

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Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye discusses U.S. strike on Iran This segment aired on the KTLA 5 Morning News on March 2, 2026.

Great questions from local news in LA as I explain all the challenges arising from this war on Iran:

Three very good threads this morning. Here is the first!

also: the framers didn't think in terms of congress' role only in the context of "offensive war".