The International Court of Justice climate judgement was – in many ways – better than expected. Here are 11 takeaways about what ICJ judgement and what it means for the protection of the climate:

‘A shot in the arm for climate litigation’: 13 things we learned from the ICJ’s advisory opinion on climate change www.the-wave.net/shot-arm-cli...

“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one. There were many people who worried for me.”

—Andry José Hernandez Romero

The moment has arrived!

The final version of "Birthright Citizenship and the Dunning School of Unoriginal Meanings," co-authored by @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and me, is live on the Cornell Law Review Online website.

Check it out! publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/20...

"Advisory opinions are technically non-binding but are considered authoritative because they summarise existing law...They are expected to be used in future litigation and to bolster political negotiations."

After a long campaign spearheaded by Pacific Islanders

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“You tried to disappear me, but I'm here in the halls, advocating for myself and actually speaking about myself,” Khalil said, noting the absence of Palestinian voices within a place so determined to dictate Palestinian fates. “So I'm here to actually defend myself and to advocate for my people…”

The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.

The so-called “adverse foreign policy charge is patently unconstitutional and the administration cannot attempt to remove him on that ground, plain and simple,” Baher Azmy said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

@butchware.bsky.social for CA governorship.

I'm a US citizen and a veteran. But it doesn't matter. No one deserves to be treated this way. It's inhumane and it's wrong. I hope no one goes through what I did. I want to do as much as I can so this doesn't happen to anyone.
-George Retes, Unjustly detained on July 10th by ICE

Attorneys with three publicly funded legal services providers for low-income New Yorkers went on strike Friday morning after failing to reach an agreement with management on raises.

📞 Calling all volunteers, organizers, and freedom fighters!

Want to support the fight to abolish immigration detention? Become a hotline volunteer!

Hotline volunteers further our mission of creating a world without cages by providing critical support & solidarity to people inside ICE detention.

…and that’s exactly why we must dismantle it now. Organize to defend your neighbors. Fight for local sanctuary policies. The deportation machine only wins if we stop resisting. [2/2].

[1/2] Trump firing immigration judges is an attempt to convert our immigration system into a deportation pipeline. The pretense of “justice” was always thin in immigration courts, but now? The U.S. government wants only cages, not judges, counsel, nor fairness. But the system isn’t yet fully built…

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Worth flagging that that 700% number is total BS and should be ignored.

1. They are coding non-assaults as assaults (as in Lander’s specific case).

2. They are greatly expanding their enforcement operations, which, numbers go up when you do that.

3. They themselves are assaulting people.

“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought.

Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too.

What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.

Just listened to this interview of former mayoral candidate @indiab.bsky.social and it occurred to be that there is no @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social without an India Walton. Our socialist movements are gaining momentum folks.

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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued an opinion saying that nations have legal obligations to try to reduce the impacts and eliminate the human causes of global warming.

Celebrate freedom by helping people be free

249 years ago today, a group of genocidal slave-owning settlers declared their ‘independence.’

Without irony, they decried the British treating them like slaves, and demanded freedom

History and morality have rendered their verdict:

Humanity needs a Declaration of Independence from the US Empire