Donald Clarke

I’m glad people are aware of this, but it isn’t new. People in immigration detention were consistently moved away from their attorneys in the Biden admin. We reported on it then, but very few people cared about migrants when they weren’t a partisan tool.

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Another snippet from Trump's campaign rally style speech to the Navy in Norfolk. The content was totally inappropriate, but more remarkable is the evidence is furnishes of advanced senile dementia. Grandpa can't even remember his own book. He's fading fast.

Again this is so reminiscent of post-2019 Hong Kong. All resistance is terrorism. What to make of that I don’t know

Can you post a relevant link?

Chicago.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

Stephen Miller having any involvement with deadly strikes on Caribbean boats adds to the suspicion that US forces might have killed migrants, not drug traffickers.

Blowing up rather than interdicting and arresting traffickers would still be both illegal and bad strategy. But if migrants even worse.

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

US Magistrate Judge Vaala trying to untangle Lindsey Halligan's first adventure in indicting someone:

Sigh

Whoa! SNAP! How is Trump gonna recover from this?!?! The gloves are OFF.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?

How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Telling the truth about red states will get you roundly condemned but spreading lies about blue cities is just standard operating procedure for Republicans.

It’s especially weird because most red states are living off tax money from blue cities.

if literally everything else is the same except that the upper peninsula of michigan was part of wisconsin and the florida panhandle was part of alabama, clinton wins decisively and Trump becomes a forgotten joke. It makes you think! bsky.app/profile/lisa...

Occam's Razor always rules. Always.

Here's another lovely remembrance of Jerry Cohen from Yu-jie Chen: thechinacollection.org/memory-jerom...

Professorships at GW Law!

2 openings in clinical: IP Clinic and Small Business and Community Economic Development Clinic (www.gwu.jobs/postings/121...)

1 opening for professor of government contracts (www.gwu.jobs/postings/121...)

Jerome A. Cohen, 1930-2025 On Monday night I received the very sad news that Jerome Cohen had passed away that day at 95.

Jerome A. Cohen, 1930-2025
donaldclarke.substack.com/p/jerome-a-c...

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad
2) That’s equivalent to state repression
3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough)
4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real

That really is the logic

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Ross’s job is to somberly inform liberals, more in sorrow than in anger, that daddy will never stop hitting mommy until mommy admits she’s a dumb whore who deserves it.

4th deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean.

As with the others:
-in area US military operates freely
-arrest low risk
-no legal rationale
-violates international law
-no evidence of who US hit

If really traffickers—very much an if—the move is interdiction. Would get evidence and intelligence.

Mr. Trump, who was barred from Twitter and Facebook after encouraging a crowd of supporters that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to block the transfer of power, has since cast himself as a champion of free speech. Upon returning to office, he signed an executive order "ending federal censorship." Craig Shirley, a presidential historian and biographer of President Ronald Reagan, said Mr. Trump's experience was so searing that he did not believe the president would improperly restrain others' free speech, whatever his public exhortations. "We all especially know Biden used government to censor Trump, kicking him off many media platforms, a clear violation of the law," Mr. Shirley said. "As his own First Amendment rights were abridged, my guess is he's especially sensitive to anyone else seeing their First Amendment rights taken away."

I’m sure someone could provide a worse three paragraphs of “analysis” in this moment, but Peter Baker really sets the bar low here — with what he opined, who he decided to rely on as a source, and why he included those absurd claims without refutation.

Word processing in 1984

Next week I may get the chance to put a question to Volker Turk in an on-the-record setting. What should I ask him? Please DM (or whatever it's called in Bluesky) suggestions. (I may lose track if you just post suggestions as a reply to this post.) Be nice, now!

BREAKING. ABC just announced Jimmy Kimmel's replacement.

At her Substack site, @karenattiah.bsky.social lists the posts that got her fired. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

None of them is in the top .0001% of inflammatory things said or written by public figures that day.

If you want to know about the state of British media, these 'formidable obstacles' include assault of a police officer, ABH, football hooliganism, entering the US on a false passport, mortgage fraud, stalking, endangering a grooming trial, defaming a 15 year old refugee and a lifetime of racism.