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Mary Dudziak
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Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ #lawsky 🗃

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Mary Louise Dudziak is an American legal theorist, civil rights historian, educator, and a leading foreign policy and international relations expert. She is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. .. more

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · Nov 2
More of this please.
cinephiliabeyond.org Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · Nov 1
“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement.

After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 5h
From @attackerman.bsky.social on the inhumanity at Alligator Alcatraz.
www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2d
I am so sorry for your loss. It is so hard when a death comes so suddenly. 💔

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2d
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helenczerski.bsky.social Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 2d
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2d
Mountains, clouds, and a dirty window.
Sun shining above snow-capped mountains and clouds, with smudges.

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 2d
A remarkable project - a consortium of scholars from prehistorians to modern history. The Russians are indeed trying to kill an entire country and its culture, Ukrainians and their friends are resisting

uhgi.org

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 2d
Here's a short piece I wrote to explain to smart laypersons what the birthright citizenship clause is for and why it's in the Fourteenth Amendment. Excerpted from my forthcoming book. Ungated:
History Shows Why Birthright Citizenship is so Important
The 14th Amendment aimed to overturn restrictive state laws while making the Constitution more inclusive.
time.com

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 2d
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak, Robert L. Tsai

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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
“The Radical Center in Contemporary Legal Thought” - my latest balkin.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Balkinization: The Radical Center in Contemporary Legal Thought
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 3d
Took favorite 93-year-old to lunch on the Sound.
Calm blue ocean with distant shore a channel through the distant shore and blue sky between clouds. The white sail of a sailboat can be seen in the distance.

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d
How many of us truly understand that the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was part of the civil rights movement?

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 3d
andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-milita...
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement,“ - George Will.

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 3d
Reposting…

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak, Alfie Kohn

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 3d
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 3d
Here's the book:
www.umasspress.com/978162534568...
Making the Forever War
The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global ...
www.umasspress.com

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 3d
If you are pondering how to think about our current era of madness re the use of force, Marilyn Young's work may be of help -- re: lessons not learned, etc.

makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 3d
There are many constitutional questions that are complicated. There are many questions around the Citizenship Clause that are complicated. The citizenship of the children of unlawful entrants and temporary visitors to the US is not complicated.

blog.dividedargument.com/p/complicati...
Complications and Clarity in Birthright Citizenship
The conventional wisdom is right.
blog.dividedargument.com

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 3d
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 4d
So kind of you. At Marilyn's funeral, I kept thinking of all the essays she had sent me to read. Some are very hard to find! I owed it to her to make them more accessible. She was brilliant.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 4d
3/ And, yes, the administration's attempted constitutional and other legal claims unravel if boats are delivering drugs (let alone, cocaine not fentanyl) to Europe instead.

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 4d
How is U.S. military killing these 11 people keeping drugs (fentanyl) out of the United States?

USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.

Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.

Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:

Scoop by @natashabertrand.bsky.social

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Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
www.cnn.com

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 4d
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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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 4d
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 4d
"How do we guard our souls" as we watch the boatstrike video and other acts of inhumanity, @philklay.bsky.social asks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 4d
Thinking about Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience (1849)

“What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”

“Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward”

www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
www.gutenberg.org

Reposted by Alan Richardson, W. Andy Knight, Mary L. Dudziak

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 4d
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 4d
This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come.

CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.
www.statnews.com

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 4d
Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism is on sale at the @umasspress.bsky.social holiday sale! 40% discount when you use the code HOLIDAY for this & other books.
www.umasspress.com/978162534568...
Making the Forever War
The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global ...
www.umasspress.com

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 5d
One of the most important and reliable sources right now. 👇
rgoodlaw.bsky.social Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 7d
I believe folks know the important work we're doing at @justsecurity.org, especially in these challenging times.

But we made this short video as a reminder!

We really need your support this #GivingTuesday.

For tax-deductible gifts: justsecurity.org/donate/

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 5d
I need this book! Thank you for writing it @wellerstein.bsky.social.
wellerstein.bsky.social Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 5d
So, hey, my new book on Truman and the Bomb comes out NEXT WEEK! In this post on Doomsday Machines, I give a rundown of WHAT IT IS ABOUT, and other useful information, including the talk I am giving about it on December 16. doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-most-a...
"The Most Awful Responsibility"
My new book on Truman and the bomb will be released next week
doomsdaymachines.net

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 5d
So, hey, my new book on Truman and the Bomb comes out NEXT WEEK! In this post on Doomsday Machines, I give a rundown of WHAT IT IS ABOUT, and other useful information, including the talk I am giving about it on December 16. doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-most-a...
"The Most Awful Responsibility"
My new book on Truman and the bomb will be released next week
doomsdaymachines.net