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Craig Martin @craigxmartin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Must-read paper on the developments to date in the effort to establish a treaty on the prohibition, prevention, and punishment of crimes against humanity, by @leilasadat1.bsky.social, who has been central to that effort:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

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Professor Leila Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social · 5d

So great to be with you @bechamilton.bsky.social and @alkapradhan.bsky.social … you are trailblazers!

Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to speaking at this International Law symposium with experts including @leilasadat1.bsky.social @alkapradhan.bsky.social organized by our wonderful @auwcl.bsky.social students

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Professor Leila Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social · 5d

So honored to be with you @bechamilton.bsky.social at @auwcl.bsky.social at this amazing program!

Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 5d

Full house here @auwcl.bsky.social to hear @leilasadat1.bsky.social discuss Crimes Against Humanity from the slave trade onwards.

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ABILA (American Branch of the ILA) @abilaofficial.bsky.social · Jul 7

The next episode of our podcast, International Law Chats, is live!

Chiara Giorgetti and Milena Sterio interviewed our Chair, @leilasadat1.bsky.social, about her longstanding efforts to establish a treaty on Crimes Against Humanity. Listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/1bcl...

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Professor Leila Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thanks @craigxmartin.bsky.social for the shout out!

Craig Martin @craigxmartin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Must-read paper on the developments to date in the effort to establish a treaty on the prohibition, prevention, and punishment of crimes against humanity, by @leilasadat1.bsky.social, who has been central to that effort:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · Jul 26

The ruling from the International Court of Justice last week is genuinely a big fucking deal. It makes it a legal obligation for countries to address climate change. Yes, even the ones not signed on to Paris. Yes, even the U.S. More from me & @rishpardikar.bsky.social drilled.media/news/ijc-1

Landmark Ruling Gives Paris Climate Agreement Teeth

A rare unanimous ruling from the International Court of Justice creates a pathway to hold all governments, even the climate-denying ones, legally liable for climate risk.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Jul 26

It’s way too late, but the truth has a way of coming out. Forget the airdrops and scrap GHF — let the UN organizations resume their humanitarian delivery operations NOW to stop the ongoing starvation:

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · Jul 26

This woman does the best she can and I'm glad she stepped up and got in officers faces.

A few quick notes about "warrants" and due process when law enforcement arrest people, and how this squares with the current TRO that ostensibly blocks profiling by race, language, occupation, and location

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 This woman tries to call the family of the man being disappeared and ICE will not allow her to get a phone number. One of the “undercover” mobsters nearly backed into her.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 26

From the LinkedIn of the woman—a white lawyer from Carlsbad, CA—who filmed this encounter and shared the video:

know we're not supposed to share things like this on Linkedn, but I'm going to share it anyway because it was horrifying and it's happening everywhere and it needs to be shared.
This morning when I was driving home after dropping my son off at summer camp, I saw a swarm of ICE agents as I drove past our local Home Depot. It looked like they were tying up some workers, and my first reaction was to pull into the parking lot.
I couldn't think. I couldn't process. I couldn't reason. I just jumped out of my car and started filming.
I then watched as these two people were disappeared into unmarked vehicles, with one of the ICE vehicles trying to back into me when I wasn't looking.
Another woman tried to help. An ICE agent tried to slap her phone down when she tried to get a phone number to call this man's family. They wouldn't let her. Instead, they whisked him away and accused her of obstructing justice.
I'm currently lying awake in bed at 11pm thinking about how these men won't return home to their families tonight, and their families will probably never know what happened to them.
I've been through some traumatic events in my life, but I've never witnessed anything like this.
This was down the street from my son's elementary school in our little peaceful coastal town.
You may not see it on the news, but you'll hear it from me because it needs to be shared.

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Professor Leila Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks for the opportunity @abilaofficial.bsky.social

ABILA (American Branch of the ILA) @abilaofficial.bsky.social · Jul 7

The next episode of our podcast, International Law Chats, is live!

Chiara Giorgetti and Milena Sterio interviewed our Chair, @leilasadat1.bsky.social, about her longstanding efforts to establish a treaty on Crimes Against Humanity. Listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/1bcl...

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Jun 9

All four of my grandparents were immigrants, and two barely spoke English. Well, my Irish nana also spoke what we think was English

ikebaha.bsky.social @ikebaha.bsky.social · Jun 8

Mexicans named this city Los Angeles, and 60 percent of us here now are foreign born or the children of immigrants. It's a shame you guys don't understand America is built by and for immigrants, and that carrying more than one flag is by definition, to the core, VERY American

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is a substantially better statement than Newsom and Bass's. Notice that she says that the protests *are* peaceful rather than scolding the protestors *to be* peaceful. That's a meaningful distinction, and puts her on the side of the street demanding justice, not ICE's side.

Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · Jun 8

My statement on what's unfolding in Los Angeles.

A statement from Kamala D. Harris:

Los Angeles is my home. And like so many Americans, I am appalled at what we are witnessing on the streets of our city. Deploying the National Guard is a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos. In addition to the recent ICE raids in Southern California and across our nation, it is part of the Trump Administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division.

This Administration’s actions are not about public safety —they’re about stoking fear. Fear of a community demanding dignity and due process.

Protest is a powerful tool — essential in the fight for justice. And as the LAPD, Mayor, and Governor have noted, demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful.

I continue to support the millions of Americans who are standing up to protect our most fundamental rights and freedoms.

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · Jun 9

Bill Kristol (!) putting the blame where the blame lies. Miller and Trump took the fight to LA, and to the country. Not the other way round.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Jun 8

You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse.

Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jun 9

Gov. Gavin Newsom demanded on Sunday that President Trump pull California National Guard troops off the streets and away from the demonstrations unfolding in Los Angeles.

Newsom Formally Asks Trump to Pull National Guard Out of L.A.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, in a letter to the Trump administration, called the deployment of troops “unlawful” and a “serious breach of state sovereignty.”

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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · Jun 9

Deploying the National Guard—over the objections of state leaders and local law enforcement—is a dangerous escalation.

This isn’t about enforcing law and order, it’s about seizing power and control. Americans won’t tolerate this slide into authoritarianism.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · Jun 9

There is no climate justice without justice for oppressed people.
I wish the climate scientists vocal on climate mitigation all had the level of moral clarity that Greta Thunberg has.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jun 9

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.bsky.social · Jun 7

There's no way you can look at Ukraine hitting a lawful military target, used for bombing Ukrainian cities, and think that justifies retribution against those same cities, without believing almost wholly in the Russian framing of the war.

Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · Jun 7

President Trump: "They [Ukrainians] gave the reason to go and bomb the hell out of them last night."

Trump argued that Ukraine's recent Spiderweb drone operation against Russian airfields gave Russia justification for its retaliatory strike on civilians. ⤵️

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Professor Leila Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social · Jun 1

Oh dear, this is definitely the worst non-apology ever….

Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · May 31

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · May 31

Page One in Des Moines.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · May 31

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Professor Leila Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social · May 7

So brave…

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Diane Marie Amann @dianemarieamann.bsky.social · May 6

Honored to have taken part in yday's conference launching effort to embed #ChildJustice in new #CAHtreaty, & to join other #intlaw experts & groups in endorsing paper below, authored by @veroaubert.bsky.social, Zoe Bertand, Janine Morna & @zamahrw.bsky.social

Zama Neff @zamahrw.bsky.social · May 5

The world is moving towards an international treaty on crimes against humanity. A huge opportunity to enhance justice for children - governments should consider kids now. We have some ideas in a new paper released today: cahtreatynow.org/justice-for-... @hrw.org @veroaubert.bsky.social

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · May 1

In 100 days, Trump has managed to more than double inflation expectations to 6.5% from 2.8%. The last time Americans expected this much inflation was in 1980, when inflation was nearly 10% and the country was in a recession.

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · May 2

The thing about Faculty Deans is that those who desperately want the job should not get it and those who should get it absolutely do not want it.

A bit of dilemma.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 1

The best part of this is that aside from every other best part of you at the bottom you see there might easily have been video of waltz verifying his pin which is amazing

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