Tom Dannenbaum
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
Professor @law.stanford.edu | @stanfordcisac.bsky.social | @fsi.stanford.edu
International Law: IHL, ICL, IHRL, use of force, ethics
Editor, Just Security: https://shorturl.at/NuHYQ
Bio: https://law.stanford.edu/tom-dannenbaum/
Book: http://bit.ly/3HRrAs4
International Law: IHL, ICL, IHRL, use of force, ethics
Editor, Just Security: https://shorturl.at/NuHYQ
Bio: https://law.stanford.edu/tom-dannenbaum/
Book: http://bit.ly/3HRrAs4
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Tom Dannenbaum
@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social
· Jul 30
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.
www.justsecurity.org
Now @justsecurity.org
I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
Time has run out
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
Time has run out
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
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"They write about missing their friends and teachers, falling behind at school, having unreliable access to medical care when they’re sick — some say they’re sick a lot — and feeling scared about what comes next." https://bit.ly/4qrpPYW
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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February 10, 2026 at 12:10 AM
"They write about missing their friends and teachers, falling behind at school, having unreliable access to medical care when they’re sick — some say they’re sick a lot — and feeling scared about what comes next." https://bit.ly/4qrpPYW
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"An immigration judge has rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Rümeysa Öztürk"
"The sole basis authorities provided for revoking her visa was an editorial she co-authored in Tufts’ student newspaper . criticizing her school’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza."
"The sole basis authorities provided for revoking her visa was an editorial she co-authored in Tufts’ student newspaper . criticizing her school’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza."
February 10, 2026 at 1:53 AM
"An immigration judge has rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Rümeysa Öztürk"
"The sole basis authorities provided for revoking her visa was an editorial she co-authored in Tufts’ student newspaper . criticizing her school’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza."
"The sole basis authorities provided for revoking her visa was an editorial she co-authored in Tufts’ student newspaper . criticizing her school’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza."
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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Trump's war on global justice and the ICC. It took a while but we pulled it together. With @reuters.com colleagues Andrew Marshall, @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social @johnshiffman.bsky.social Anthony Deutsch and @michellenichols.bsky.social www.reuters.com/investigatio...
In Trump’s war on global justice, court staff and U.N. face terrorist‑grade sanctions
Trump’s sanctions on U.N. expert Francesca Albanese and the International Criminal Court froze assets and disrupted war crimes investigations. The clash is part of the broader campaign by his administ...
www.reuters.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Trump's war on global justice and the ICC. It took a while but we pulled it together. With @reuters.com colleagues Andrew Marshall, @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social @johnshiffman.bsky.social Anthony Deutsch and @michellenichols.bsky.social www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”
208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark
Late Friday, two of the nation's most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and ideological spectrum) have overwhelmingly rejected
www.stevevladeck.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:34 PM
“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”
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We just published database: @aclu.org plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota
Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
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Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
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February 5, 2026 at 1:39 PM
We just published database: @aclu.org plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota
Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
🧵
Devastating
Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles
Mostly US citizens
A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it
www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...
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Two more locations in North Darfur (Um Baru and Kernoi) have passed the famine thresholds for acute malnutrition.
The appalling result of criminality met with global inaction.
reliefweb.int/attachments/...
The appalling result of criminality met with global inaction.
reliefweb.int/attachments/...
February 5, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Two more locations in North Darfur (Um Baru and Kernoi) have passed the famine thresholds for acute malnutrition.
The appalling result of criminality met with global inaction.
reliefweb.int/attachments/...
The appalling result of criminality met with global inaction.
reliefweb.int/attachments/...
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I had the opportunity to speak to the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the illegal US intervention in Venezuela.
The UK must decide between "leading on international law" and "the special relationship", if the latter is a reflexive support of now legally unconstrained US Foreign Policy.
The UK must decide between "leading on international law" and "the special relationship", if the latter is a reflexive support of now legally unconstrained US Foreign Policy.
Professor @janinadill.bsky.social spoke on the Foreign Affairs Committee today about lessons from the Trump administration’s approach to Venezuela, emphasising the consequences when states do not stand up for international law. Listen from 11:37:41 👇
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
February 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I had the opportunity to speak to the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the illegal US intervention in Venezuela.
The UK must decide between "leading on international law" and "the special relationship", if the latter is a reflexive support of now legally unconstrained US Foreign Policy.
The UK must decide between "leading on international law" and "the special relationship", if the latter is a reflexive support of now legally unconstrained US Foreign Policy.
It’s a privilege to be working with Bridget Conley and Dyan Mazurana on the intersection of starvation and sexual & gender-based violence.
Here we introduce a series of insightful pieces from attendees of a conference hosted by @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social
worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/introdu...
Here we introduce a series of insightful pieces from attendees of a conference hosted by @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social
worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/introdu...
Introduction to blog series on Gender Based Violence & Starvation - World Peace Foundation
This essay introduces the key ideas and challenges involved in examining SGBV and starvation, and introduces the nine essays in the series.
worldpeacefoundation.org
February 2, 2026 at 4:16 PM
It’s a privilege to be working with Bridget Conley and Dyan Mazurana on the intersection of starvation and sexual & gender-based violence.
Here we introduce a series of insightful pieces from attendees of a conference hosted by @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social
worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/introdu...
Here we introduce a series of insightful pieces from attendees of a conference hosted by @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social
worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/introdu...
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The Secret Egyptian Air Base Behind Sudan’s Drone War www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/w...
The Secret Egyptian Air Base Behind Sudan’s Drone War
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:33 AM
The Secret Egyptian Air Base Behind Sudan’s Drone War www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/w...
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"A ceasefire in name only. Another dark day with 30 people reportedly killed only today.
Enough. People in Gaza deserve a genuine ceasefire - a much overdue ceasefire."
- UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
Enough. People in Gaza deserve a genuine ceasefire - a much overdue ceasefire."
- UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
January 31, 2026 at 5:56 PM
"A ceasefire in name only. Another dark day with 30 people reportedly killed only today.
Enough. People in Gaza deserve a genuine ceasefire - a much overdue ceasefire."
- UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
Enough. People in Gaza deserve a genuine ceasefire - a much overdue ceasefire."
- UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
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A note from our editors:
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
A note from our editors:
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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The constitutional prohibition on using federal law to abridge the freedom of the press is unusually explicit and really does mean what it says.
January 30, 2026 at 3:34 PM
The constitutional prohibition on using federal law to abridge the freedom of the press is unusually explicit and really does mean what it says.
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The arrests of Lemon and Fort are intended to deter journalists from doing work we need them to do, and that the First Amendment was meant to protect. DOJ should drop these prosecutions or the courts should throw them out. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
Knight Institute Condemns Arrest of Journalists Reporting on Minneapolis Protests
knightcolumbia.org
January 30, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The arrests of Lemon and Fort are intended to deter journalists from doing work we need them to do, and that the First Amendment was meant to protect. DOJ should drop these prosecutions or the courts should throw them out. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
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If not for rhetoric Tom Homan dislikes, federal agents would not have murdered civilians In Minneapolis.
When someone says something you don’t like on television, as a federal agent, what else can you do but shoot a prone man in the back?
When someone says something you don’t like on television, as a federal agent, what else can you do but shoot a prone man in the back?
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:49 PM
If not for rhetoric Tom Homan dislikes, federal agents would not have murdered civilians In Minneapolis.
When someone says something you don’t like on television, as a federal agent, what else can you do but shoot a prone man in the back?
When someone says something you don’t like on television, as a federal agent, what else can you do but shoot a prone man in the back?
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight - the closest it has ever been to catastrophe in its almost 80-year history.
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
January 29, 2026 at 2:39 PM
The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight - the closest it has ever been to catastrophe in its almost 80-year history.
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
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I joined forces with @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social.
We explain deep connections between senior administration officials' smearing Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and ICE protestors as "domestic terrorists" and how this fits into the draconian NSPM-7.
Important for more people to wake up to this.
We explain deep connections between senior administration officials' smearing Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and ICE protestors as "domestic terrorists" and how this fits into the draconian NSPM-7.
Important for more people to wake up to this.
The Smearing of Alex Pretti and NSPM-7
How administration officials' labelling Alex Pretti and Renee Good as "domestic terrorists" fits in with NSPM-7.
www.justsecurity.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I joined forces with @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social.
We explain deep connections between senior administration officials' smearing Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and ICE protestors as "domestic terrorists" and how this fits into the draconian NSPM-7.
Important for more people to wake up to this.
We explain deep connections between senior administration officials' smearing Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and ICE protestors as "domestic terrorists" and how this fits into the draconian NSPM-7.
Important for more people to wake up to this.
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It has come to this.
(Also, like countless other journalists in MSP, the @startribune.com has been doing exceptional work under extraordinary circumstances.)
(Also, like countless other journalists in MSP, the @startribune.com has been doing exceptional work under extraordinary circumstances.)
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:48 PM
It has come to this.
(Also, like countless other journalists in MSP, the @startribune.com has been doing exceptional work under extraordinary circumstances.)
(Also, like countless other journalists in MSP, the @startribune.com has been doing exceptional work under extraordinary circumstances.)
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I would add that Canada should declare all ICE personnel and agents persona non grata by invoking Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
There are currently ICE offices in four Canadian cities: Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Calgary.
cc @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
There are currently ICE offices in four Canadian cities: Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Calgary.
cc @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
What can Canada do to stop the #ICE attacks in the United States? Beyond offering solidarity, we can:
☑️ Demand that Canada prevent the sale of armoured vehicles to ICE
☑️ Demand the companies like @Hootsuite end any contracts with ICE
We can do this, and we must.
cc: @mark-carney.bsky.social.
☑️ Demand that Canada prevent the sale of armoured vehicles to ICE
☑️ Demand the companies like @Hootsuite end any contracts with ICE
We can do this, and we must.
cc: @mark-carney.bsky.social.
January 26, 2026 at 7:01 PM
I would add that Canada should declare all ICE personnel and agents persona non grata by invoking Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
There are currently ICE offices in four Canadian cities: Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Calgary.
cc @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
There are currently ICE offices in four Canadian cities: Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Calgary.
cc @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
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Judges at the International Criminal Court say that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial, after postponing an earlier hearing over concerns about the octogenarian’s health.
January 26, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Judges at the International Criminal Court say that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial, after postponing an earlier hearing over concerns about the octogenarian’s health.
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What can Canada do to stop the #ICE attacks in the United States? Beyond offering solidarity, we can:
☑️ Demand that Canada prevent the sale of armoured vehicles to ICE
☑️ Demand the companies like @Hootsuite end any contracts with ICE
We can do this, and we must.
cc: @mark-carney.bsky.social.
☑️ Demand that Canada prevent the sale of armoured vehicles to ICE
☑️ Demand the companies like @Hootsuite end any contracts with ICE
We can do this, and we must.
cc: @mark-carney.bsky.social.
January 26, 2026 at 6:13 PM
What can Canada do to stop the #ICE attacks in the United States? Beyond offering solidarity, we can:
☑️ Demand that Canada prevent the sale of armoured vehicles to ICE
☑️ Demand the companies like @Hootsuite end any contracts with ICE
We can do this, and we must.
cc: @mark-carney.bsky.social.
☑️ Demand that Canada prevent the sale of armoured vehicles to ICE
☑️ Demand the companies like @Hootsuite end any contracts with ICE
We can do this, and we must.
cc: @mark-carney.bsky.social.
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I’ll try to live-blog for @lawfaremedia.org the TRO/preliminary injunction hearing in MN v. Noem this morning at 10am ET/ 9am CT. MN seeks to pause, reduce, or restrict DHS’s Operation Metro Surge, citing the 10th Amendment. Relief sought is below:
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Proposed Order to Judge – #17 in State of Minnesota v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00190) – CourtListener.com
PROPOSED ORDER TO JUDGE re 5 MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order filed by City of Minneapolis, City of St. Paul, State of Minnesota.(Carter, Brian) (Entered: 01/12/2026)
storage.courtlistener.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:36 PM
I’ll try to live-blog for @lawfaremedia.org the TRO/preliminary injunction hearing in MN v. Noem this morning at 10am ET/ 9am CT. MN seeks to pause, reduce, or restrict DHS’s Operation Metro Surge, citing the 10th Amendment. Relief sought is below:
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