David Kaye

i fear that, too

speech police, in italian, at a book store in venice

🫢 i admit it. never not cool to see my book in the wild, esp in italian in venice.

how is this not a clean alignment with putin? the EU can no longer, and shouldn’t anyway, tolerate trump bullying. transatlantic security and community depend on it.

Thanks to @burklecenter.bsky.social for hosting an engaging salon with many good friends last night on my new book on why the US-Iran relationship remains so hostile.

Just one more example of authoritarian, anti-democratic, dangerous bullshit

Lots of bad age-gating and rights-denying bills to be marked up tomorrow.

huh. i mean, the US has seized *iranian* oil going *to* venezuela in the past. but this? maybe i'm wrong, but i think this is new and entirely a part of the threats and other uses of force.

would seem like a pretty big pretext to me

niche international law skeet

piracy is how we got universal jurisdiction. pirates were the original hostes humani generis (enemies of all mankind).

indeed

An excellent & very disturbing overview of the scope & scale of domestic surveillance systems deployed in the US 🇺🇸 by @peter.andringa.me @financialtimes.com 👇

Ostensibly for deportation, these can (& likely are) being fine-tuned for deployment on critics of the Trump regime -- a chilling prospect

i bet it will be downplayed in media coverage because nobody apparently died. but that would be a mistake. lawless is lawless.

seizing oil tankers is illegal too by the way. it’s not just a pressure tactic. it’s actually unlawful use of force, whatever nonsense trump puts forward.

The UDHR, Digital Authoritarianism, and Human Rights after Trump "A simple return to an imagined world of pre-Trump human rights is not enough."

five years ago @katieporteroc.bsky.social and i published this in @justsecurity.org to mark Human Rights Day. didn’t have time to write this year but, even though it imagined the then-imminent post trump world that biden admin really failed to capitalize on, it’s still relevant.

I wrote this 👇 before Bari Weiss became head of CBS News, before Trump suspended Kimmel and cut funds to the Corp for Public Broadcasting, before Jared and Ellison tried to nab Warner/CNN. Not exactly encouraging! If we were watching this media takeover in any other country we'd call it tyranny.

comprehensive and vital 🧵 on AI in the NDAA. spend time with it - huge potential impact and risk

let’s talk solutions, not xenophobia, not buying into the far right’s anti-migrant framing

“At a time when the federal government has abandoned its responsibility to uphold human rights, local leadership must step forward. Los Angeles County will continue to do the work—to protect, to document, and to lead. We will not be silenced. Instead, we are joining nations across the globe in honoring our shared humanity and the fundamental rights for all people” Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, Second District.

👏 LA County wants the UN Human Rights Council to hold the trump admin accountable for its assault on human rights. mitchell.lacounty.gov/world-human-...

He will make it up, just like he made up the lie that my team censored 22 million tweets. Except this time, he’ll be making up lies about people living outside of the US, pretending they are “linked to the CIA” —his usual bullshit trope, which has real consequences in some countries. He won’t care.

🤷‍♂️ never say never

🤷‍♂️ never say never

US proposes social media disclosure requirement for visitors from visa-free countries Change would affect citizens of states including UK, France and Australia

Can't wait for the tourism industry's response to this. Chilling and stupid.

US proposes social media disclosure requirement for visitors from visa-free countries - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

seriously, hegseth would face consequences more than the other two. but everyone in the chain of command may be on lists, maybe subject to investigation, transfer to court willing to prosecute, etc.

needless to say none of this is new. ever since jesse helms got wind of this thing, international justice, the right and a quiescent dem establishment have bullied the world for the sake of exceptional american impunity.

will actual accountability follow? 🤷‍♂️ but the norms are real and some simple ‘sanction the mf’ers’ bullying exercise can’t change that.

these people are so dumb.

there will be investigations. and this goes beyond trump and hegseth. everyone involved in decisions to use force unlawfully will be subject to justice, whether by ICC or national courts.

their crimes will follow them forever.

Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash

1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Gov. Pritzker Signs Bill to Protect Immigrants from Unjust Federal Actions HB 1312 enacts protections for immigrants as the Trump Administration terrorizes Illinois communities

The Illinois Bivens Act is now law - people can sue under state law for ICE’s constitutional violations. Which state is next? When the feds fall down on their obligations to protect people’s rights, it is time for states to step up.

gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

Why is the Iranian American relationship so broken?

Virtually every American administration since Carter has tried diplomacy with Iran, but why doesn't it stick?

To discuss, @janekinninmont.bsky.social is joined by Dalia Dassa Kaye.