This is your periodic reminder that saying “future trial at The Hague” requires ratification of the Rome Statute. (Assuming they mean the ICC and not the ICJ).

This reminds me - on a much smaller scale, but still chilling - of that photo of a smiling, happy Priti Patel joining in an immigration raid. There is something truly repulsive in being entertained by others’ suffering, through state enforcement.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

The relationship with the OLC at times is “not normative”, and citing the issue of torture during the rendition programme. It may seem small, it may seem technical and internal - but JAGs seem to have pushed back. Authority demands leadership.

We all know that there has been failures on that level, we’ve all (at least most on my list) have worked on that. But there’s something very telling about public and grandiose statements about threats demanding deployment and what can and should happen in response.

Trump’s public statements being chaotic and often out of bounds as commander in chief was necessarily going to strain any relation he would have with JAGs - or at least most of them - as anything must be fact based, because so is the law.

A lot of discussion regarding the targeting of KSTs - the infamous imminent threat outside of an active theatre - “you can’t target someone just because you put a terrorist label on their head”. Effectively, this is a conversation about consistent military leadership in times of instability.

Another JAG comment on the deployment of the National Guard in CA - citing the Posse Comitatus, which I’ve done before - “needs to rest on assessed threat, and not facts that are found on TruthSocial”, which reflects the most recent ruling citing the Trump decision as “untethered to the facts”.

The apparent disinterest in this overt, blatant authoritarianism can’t be justified by self-interest alone. The unwillingness to dissent even in the most basic of ways needs to be examined in the broader light of what we expect from constitutional enforcement

And perhaps he should follow the day to day on that just a thought

At a talk with JAGs / former JAGs and very interesting to hear how they worked under Trump 1 (“not sure how we were supposed to react to a 2am tweet”) and the importance of reading the Constitution before claiming to serve it. Quite timely.

“ongoing willful negligence in tackling paramilitary violence which is increasingly taking the form of white-supremacy is making the North a more dangerous place, where paramilitarism is arming, recruiting & expanding.” @enddbelfast.bsky.social enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/p...

Thank you Hannah, so do you. I’m glad we are still capable of feeling, though. Nothing worse than desensitization. As long as we do, we don’t give up. 💜

It’s really hard not to give in to hopelessness in moments like those. I’ve written about it at length trying to really focus on what justice would look like, could but most importantly should look like. So many also were under the age of 3. I’m glad, however, that a news outlet published it.

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The push could signal the bloc’s first serious consideration of resuming deportations to Syria. More on what’s on the table here 👇

It looks like Macron continues to be further and further embattled as his former prime minister, Édouard Philippe, now also calls for his resignation and for early presidential elections. l.leparisien.fr/qlGD

An enterprising journalist that could prove that his aides and advisors are showing Trump fake shit that led to him signing EOs and making policy decisions would be a huge deal. Maybe the biggest story in the history of the Presidency? Bigger than Nixon. Too bad the newspapers quit being newspapers

I am very intense about cheese incorporation. It’s never enough. There’s never enough cheese. Never enough…

The tide can turn, even one person at a time

Murray & O’Donoghue have argued, 'This is an express legislative commitment by the UK, building on the UK’s existing status as a party to the ECHR. Under Article 2 of the British-Irish Agreement it is a “provision” to be implemented and maintained on an ongoing basis.' /5

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Despite being alterted to warning signs, the Home Office failed to assess the mental health of Leonard Farruk, who look his own life after being moved to the Bibby Stockholm, a coroner has found.
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Abd-Al-Rahman has been convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated between April 2003 and March 2004 in Darfur www.icc-cpi.int/news/trial-j...

Well. The ASP is going to be eventful this year. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...