Bec Hamilton

“Both @milleridriss.bsky.social & @maryannefranks.bsky.social are feminist scholars with impeccable academic credentials, who have mastered the tough art of making scholarship accessible to a mainstream audience. Both also use their knowledge to advance real-world change”🧪
@bechamilton.bsky.social

I agree.

Operation Southern Spear: Why the Crews, Drugs, and Boats are Not Targetable A deep dive on the international law applicable to the U.S. military's lethal operations against suspected drug boats

For must-read Sunday, a tour de force @justsecurity.org - one stop, legally rigorous & also accessible explanation of the legal landscape: www.justsecurity.org/126553/opera...

The Situation: On Shame What is the morally serious person supposed to feel?

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

This is the big story:

1) The President ordered a killing campaign outside of the law.
2) He got OLC to make up a fake war to justify killing real people.
3) And he got the military to carry out the killings.

Purporting to justify those killings is aiding in covering up that plain reality 👇

2/2

X gets $140 million EU fine for breaching content rules but TikTok settles Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching online content rules, the first sanction under landmark legislation that onc...

First sanction issued by the EU under the DSA came out this afternoon: Against X for $140B) see www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.

The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.

"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"

Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."

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To be clear - I have no quibble with the basic legal analysis here - just the application to the facts in Sudan

Legal Limits for the ICC’s Jurisdiction over International Crimes Committed in Sudan On 3 November 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced investigations into crimes allegedly committed in Darfur since the outbreak of hostilities in April...

Sorry, but anyone claiming that the RSF is a “new actor” does not know enough about Sudan to be opining on it. www.ejiltalk.org/legal-limits...

Opinion | Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul

If you read one thing today, make it this: Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o... (It also reinforces by strong belief that we need novelists, artists, playwrights - as much as we need lawyers in this moment)

Shout this from the rooftops. Stop talking about laws of war. This is straight up murder. Period.

Violence, racism and antisemitism – it all starts with women How misogyny acts as a Trojan horse for the extreme right.

SPA's @milleridriss.bsky.social ends her essay in the Sydney Herald with prescient words: “We can either engage in these conversations with the young men in our lives, or we can let the internet do it for us. There are plenty of influencers and profiteers waiting in the wings.” Read: bit.ly/4pNFG4n

I hear from so many of you that you rely on our Early Edition to get you oriented for the day. Please help us keep this, and so much else @justsecurity.org going for #givingTuesday justsecurity.org/donate/

Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors: An Expert Backgrounder An expert backgrounder on the reported Hegseth "no quarter" order to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2.

www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...

Media Offenders Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...

An awful addition to the list for those of us tracking this Administration’s attacks on #pressfreedom www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

Don’t Call This a ‘Peace Plan’ If the U.S.-Russia plan for Ukraine goes forward, Donald Trump will be remembered as the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century.

This is not a plan for peace. It is a plan for Russian victory and Ukrainian capitulation, argues Christian Caryl.

Please join me in calling on Harvard to revoke Summers' tenure: "It’s time Harvard fight for justice and protection for survivors and students, not predators and their accomplices" docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you care about a #freepress make sure you are following @jameeljaffer.bsky.social this morning as the AP case is argued in the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=svW7... [Sign up for all things knightcolumbia.org while you're at it]

As I shared with her "..it came very close to killing me to fight for just one high-net-worth individual to no longer have unfettered access to young women — already a pretty low bar — and meanwhile, he was just one person in an overall structure that seems designed to enable yet more of the same.”

Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up

The Epstein/Summers emails made last week especially tough week for some of us - a reminder that serial offenders only survive within an enabling culture. @rlswrites.bsky.social gets it. Plse read & share her powerful piece @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

“Mr. Epstein reaped the benefits of smarts by association in hanging around them, of the reputation cleanse of affiliation with Harvard professors and a former Treasury secretary, and of getting to cosplay as statesman” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Great resource: www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

I'm grateful for this, at least. It remains insane that this was not the absolute first step in this unravelling: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

How the Conflict in Sudan Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe After a coup devolved into open warfare, countries across the region have pursued their own policy and commercial interests by backing one side or the other.

Excellent call by @ichotiner.bsky.social to interview Kholood Khair for this NewYorker piece on #Sudan. Kholood has the perspective & expertise that the public needs to hear in this moment. Please read: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Thank you

Meanwhile, continuing to teach Harvard students is still fine?? thehill.com/business/561...

Sorry- correction - prior report was actually released 2020 after 2019 outcry

Note - excerpt from prior post was in the 2019 report Harvard commissioned on its relationship to Epstein. Now, in the face of a new public outcry, we get another response that they will investigate: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi.

But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile.

Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open.

Cretin behavior.

Screenshot of Larry Summers from the Harvard Kennedy School website

More specifically Summers is still, as of Tuesday night, the Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Charles W. Eliot University Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.