Bec Hamilton

European journalists need to give this story attention. A public broadcasting institution that for 60 years has served hundreds of millions of citizens -- many children and citizens in rural areas -- is ended in a few months on purely political grounds. Some lessons about power, media and democracy.

Opinion | Netanyahu Is Choosing to Starve Gaza

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/o...

cpb.org/pressroom/Co... Press Release | Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding | CPB

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

"As a matter of moral, legal, and basic human imperative, States with any leverage at all over the Israeli government must use that leverage now to bring this abomination to an end."

Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

Essential reading by anyone who can get in front of a principal in their govt & raise hell. Thanks to authors @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social & Alex de Waal @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-... Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... President Garber, a Bad Deal With Trump Will Not Protect Us | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Climate-Vulnerable States Vindicated in the Hague With this unanimous opinion, the ICJ has taken a clear stand in favor of a coherent and equitable international legal response to climate change.

Thrilled to be publishing the fabulous @cohelongo.bsky.social again @justsecurity.org Her analysis of the #ICJ #Climate AO is a must-read: www.justsecurity.org/117723/icj-c...

Treaty and Custom in the ICJ’s Climate Change Opinion The International Court of Justice has released its long-awaited Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change. Delivered yesterday by a unanimous Court, the Opinion marks a t...

Excellent post by @aratojulian.bsky.social & Justina Uriburu - www.ejiltalk.org/treaty-and-c...

I have never had so much hate mail as in the past 5 months, and it is all in response to talking about press freedom. There’s a lot of people out there who *really * hate journalism. Or maybe just truth.

Handwritten hate mail, delivered by post, complete with return address, is a new development in my life.

For live tweeting follow @duycks.bsky.social

Home UN Web TV is available 24 hours a day with selected LIVE programming of United Nations meetings and events as well as with pre-recorded video features and documentaries on various global issues.

ICJ climate AO being delivered now. Watch here: webtv.un.org/en Home | UN Web TV

What an important point by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social back in February and ever more relevant.

"Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 ... So questions should be asked about why she didn't take up the [Epstein] case -- or launch a probe -- when she was attorney general in Florida."

The Budget Bill and the Future of DHS and ICE Host David Aaron is joined by Steve Cash to discuss institutional constraints on the FBI and law enforcement agencies compared to DHS.

What Just Happened: The Budget Bill and the Future of DHS and ICE

With @davidaaron.bsky.social and Steven Cash

Listen now: www.justsecurity.org/117346/podca...

Shadow report of USG progress on atrocity prevention to be released 10am 7/24

Why does it matter that European Court of Human Rights found systematic Russian abuses in #Ukraine - with no enforcement?

In snippet, @bechamilton.bsky.social explains

Shaping narrative and public understanding
Follow-on effects with international institutions

Full video: youtu.be/DRSeHg08PA4?...

Such a treat to chat with @rgoodlaw.bsky.social & @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social about this blockbuster decision (hopefully our conversation will help guide those working their way through all 500 pages of it!) #Ukraine

Glad to see #ICC arrest warrants issued against Taliban leaders for crime against humanity of gender persecution in Afghanistan. Unquestionable on the merits. But damn it be nice if it wasn't coming from an institution that has failed to resolve its own gender issues: www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Will to Resist: What Dartmouth Teaches Harvard About Protecting American Freedom An essay on Harvard v Trump and the landmark case when Dartmouth College Trustees fought government coercion to the Supreme Court.

Brilliant piece.

Great storytelling of a key moment in American history

When the trustees of Dartmouth showed the will to resist a government attempt to control and coerce the college.

Direct lessons for #Harvard today

By Bruce Swartz

Image is Daniel Webster arguing Dartmouth case before SCOTUS

That anyone, let alone lawyers, can use the terms “voluntary” or “consent” in a context of violence like this, that there was an actual video of, is devastating. Most domestic violence victims encounter the legal system with no such evidence in hand to refute their abuser’s claims of consent.

Opinion | What Sean Combs Got Away With

Grateful to @rlswrites.bsky.social for seeing & saying what our legal system could not: What Sean Combs Got Away With www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...

Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit

Another day, another item for the #pressfreedom tracker. Filing this one under the "currying favor" trend: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

This is an amazing and important graphic and close monitoring of the damage being done to #pressfreedoms and to independent media.

Analysis and deeper dive here at @justsecurity.org: www.justsecurity.org/112792/trump...

Thanks to the brilliant @bechamilton.bsky.social

For those who care about our information ecosystem, please bookmark the #pressfreedom tracker graphic in article below. I'm updating monthly to track how press freedom is being eroded over time. It is a defense mechanism against normalization. @penamerica.bsky.social @danamilbank.bsky.social

Katharine Houreld (@khoureld.bsky.social) Muckraker, traveler, adventuress. East and Southern Africa Bureau Chief for the Washington Post. Email: katharine.houreld at washpost.com

Grateful to @khoureld.bsky.social for the dedicated reporting from Sudan to document the devastating human cost of USAID’s demise. A heartbreaking but necessary read: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

KBJ: "Make no mistake: Today’s ruling allows the Executive to
deny people rights that the Founders plainly wrote into our
Constitution, so long as those individuals have not found a
lawyer or asked a court in a particular manner to have their
rights protected."

Wow was that fast--an immigrant advocate group already filed an amended complaint seeking class action relief in its birthright citizenship case in federal court in Maryland

Cumulative Civilian Harm in Gaza: A Gendered View We need to reconceive of the consequences of violence in Gaza for civilians as composite, aggregate, collective, and layered harms.

I’ll be adding this to my NSL syllabus. Important piece from @niaolainf.bsky.social @justsecurity.org Cumulative Civilian Harm in Gaza: A Gendered View at www.justsecurity.org/115407/cumul...

Tonight’s action is a violation of Art. 2(4) of the UN Charter and has no domestic legal basis either. No matter where you look, we are operating in a legal void.