Brianne McGonigle Leyh

Trump Administration Live Updates: President to Deploy National Guard in Washington, D.C.

BREAKING: It’s official. The Trump regime will deploy the National Guard in D.C.

Let’s be clear about what this is.

This is NOT about homelessness or crime.

This is an authoritarian regime using the US military to seize a Democratic city, terrorize its residents, and lock up Black & Brown people.

"The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest. In most of these cases the victim was under 12 years old"

I visited the cape coast and elmina castles while in accra last month w @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social it was from here that the dutch and british conducted their transatlantic trade of enslaved africans to plantations in the americas. What centuries long horror.

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

The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber has found that Hungary failed to comply with its obligations under the ICC Statute by not arresting Benjamin Netanyahu when he was in Hungary.

The Court refers the matter of Hungary’s non-compliance to the Assembly of States Parties.

Quote: “We publish these documents also to make clear that we – as international lawyers – are all together in the struggle for international law, in Gaza and beyond.”

Since the start of the Gaza war, leading Israeli legal scholars have written numerous letters raising concerns over grave international law violations.

We are publishing these letters for the first time in a collected English edition, with a summary by Kai Ambos.

verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans Gutted A Program That Saved Millions Of Kids. I Know Because I’m One Of Them. Congress this week voted to eliminate funding for the United Nations Children's Fund — an organization that has been proven to save lives — including my own.

Republicans voted to defund UNICEF and lie about it so that they don't have to acknowledge that they just voted to kill children. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

New indictment for crimes committed in #Syria by the former regime. Biggest UJ trial in #Germany since the al-Khatib / Koblenz case, this time concerning #Yarmouk neighborhood.
As we are witnessing very worrying escalation of violence in today`s Syria, justice for past crimes remains quite relevant.

Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions - BBC News Investigation by BBC Verify using satellite images and verified footage to show the extent of destruction in Gaza, where the Israeli military have carried out demolitions to raze entire towns and subu...

Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions which go beyond military necessity and likely war crimes www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Unbothered. In her lane. Focused. Flourishing.

Brave and important warning by a group of Israeli scholars regarding "the plan to concentrate the population of Gaza in a so-called 'humanitarian city'":

"If implemented, the plan would constitute a series of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and . . . could amount to the crime of genocide."

This is how a white supremacist police state operates.

Open-Source Global Justice Investigations Lab Working together with societal partners across disciplines and levels, this project combines digital innovation with new media literacy in order to train students to identify, document, verify, analys...

Prof @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social l leads the Open-Source Global Justice Investigations Lab at Utrecht University where researchers, students, journalists, open-source investigators, and activists work together on the pursuit of human rights, truth and transparency. 2/2 www.uu.nl/en/research/...

"Many of us disregard how much has shifted in the last 20 months. But we are ignoring the collapse of the international system that has defined our lives for generations at our own collective peril."

Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.

The Republicans have lowered the bar for sending people off to foreign torture centres from being a suspected terrorist to being a suspected immigrant.

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

Trump unveils $249 ‘Trump Fragrances’ President Trump has launched a new line of fragrances called “Victory 45-47” on his Truth Social website, which are available for purchase in early December.

Cutting Medicaid and food and nutrition programs while pushing his latest corrupt grift: a $249 perfume.

Tells you everything you need to know about Trump's priorities: Donald Trump first, everyone else (except his sweet-smelling billionaire buddies) last.

Obama calls Trump’s USAID closure a ‘travesty’ as report warns of extra 14 million deaths by 2030 Former presidents Obama and George W Bush and singer Bono send emotional message to staff as organisation closes

Guardian - Barack Obama and George W Bush criticize today's closure of USAID, as a study warns the shutdown of the agency will result in "a staggering number" of avoidable deaths.

Look what I just received in the mail! Can't wait to dive into it. Huge congratulations to @rachelkillean.bsky.social and @laurendempster.bsky.social

Meanwhile, in Sudan, due to USAID cuts
- “babies starved quietly”
- “older siblings died begging for food.”
- it has become “harder to contain cholera outbreaks,” killing those weakened by hunger
- 5 million “may lose access to lifesaving health services”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

My colleagues spent 2 months interviewing 34 victims of torture including 7 women who had been detained by the Taliban. This detailed & harrowing report is the outcome. We hope it will help us advocate for protection & resettlement for victims & pressure to prevent torture. @rawadari.bsky.social

Opinion | Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters.

Read @oonahathaway.bsky.social excellent piece on the unlawfulness of the strikes on #Iran:

”Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

The Day After U.S. Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Program: A Policy and Legal Assessment An expert policy and legal assessment of the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and what comes next.

A must read analysis. I can't recommend this highly enough.

True expertise on the most pressing issues now.

By @briannarosen.bsky.social @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and Nima Gerami

Zeven witte mannen gaan even bespreken hoe het nou precies zit met Iran.

I just watched this and couldn't believe my eyes. Absurd.

A former plantation becomes a space for healing, art and reparative history Through a powerful blend of creative interpretation and ancestral memory, an Alabma town reckons with its past and begins to write a new chapter of shared truth.

Through a powerful blend of creative interpretation and ancestral memory, an Alabama town reckons with its past and begins to write a new chapter of shared truth.

Germany hands Syrian doctor life for torturing dissidents, media report A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor found guilty of torturing dissidents in Syria to life in prison on Monday, local media reported, the latest win for victims of the Assad regime under universal jurisdiction rules.

Germany hands Syrian doctor life for torturing dissidents, media report www.reuters.com/world/middle...