Michael Struett
@mstruett.bsky.social
Political Scientist with interest in International Organizations, International Law, and the International Criminal Court.
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‼️Friends,this is very important. Please share this& send the information to media.
The United States stopping the supplies of critically important air defense missiles and other weapons is a matter of life& death⤵️
📹: one of the recent massive Russian attack on #Kyiv.Turn the sound on, if you can.
The United States stopping the supplies of critically important air defense missiles and other weapons is a matter of life& death⤵️
📹: one of the recent massive Russian attack on #Kyiv.Turn the sound on, if you can.
July 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
‼️Friends,this is very important. Please share this& send the information to media.
The United States stopping the supplies of critically important air defense missiles and other weapons is a matter of life& death⤵️
📹: one of the recent massive Russian attack on #Kyiv.Turn the sound on, if you can.
The United States stopping the supplies of critically important air defense missiles and other weapons is a matter of life& death⤵️
📹: one of the recent massive Russian attack on #Kyiv.Turn the sound on, if you can.
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In which I have a radical www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In which I have a radical www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
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🧵20th Anniversary of #Darfur ICC Referral: Urging Comprehensive Justice for #Sudan🧵
1/ Two decades later, impunity for crimes in Sudan continues to embolden rights abusers to commit crimes during the current hostilities without fear of prosecution.
hrw.org/news/2025/03...
1/ Two decades later, impunity for crimes in Sudan continues to embolden rights abusers to commit crimes during the current hostilities without fear of prosecution.
hrw.org/news/2025/03...
Sudan: 20th Anniversary of Darfur ICC Referral
Two decades after the United Nations Security Council referred crimes in Darfur to the International Criminal Court (ICC), impunity for crimes in Sudan continues to embolden rights abusers to commit f...
hrw.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🧵20th Anniversary of #Darfur ICC Referral: Urging Comprehensive Justice for #Sudan🧵
1/ Two decades later, impunity for crimes in Sudan continues to embolden rights abusers to commit crimes during the current hostilities without fear of prosecution.
hrw.org/news/2025/03...
1/ Two decades later, impunity for crimes in Sudan continues to embolden rights abusers to commit crimes during the current hostilities without fear of prosecution.
hrw.org/news/2025/03...
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Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky knows that if we do not hang together, we will all hang separately: "despite the risks of speaking out, silence itself comes as at enormous cost. Giving in to a bully only makes things worse."
Opinion | Trump is targeting law firms and academia. Why don’t they speak up?
If law schools or firms stood united against Trump, there would be less reason to fear retribution.
wapo.st
April 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky knows that if we do not hang together, we will all hang separately: "despite the risks of speaking out, silence itself comes as at enormous cost. Giving in to a bully only makes things worse."
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NEW: For decades, the Wilson Center in DC has produced valuable research on foreign policy for US policymakers and the public. Today, its 130 workers were put on leave and will be fired because of Trump and Musk ordering a shutdown. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
April 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
NEW: For decades, the Wilson Center in DC has produced valuable research on foreign policy for US policymakers and the public. Today, its 130 workers were put on leave and will be fired because of Trump and Musk ordering a shutdown. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
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Others have tried to capture the economic effects of the tariff bomb. Here’s another: Trump has destroyed US diplomacy. Forget the liberal international order. US diplomacy as we knew it is over. Thread: 1/
April 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Others have tried to capture the economic effects of the tariff bomb. Here’s another: Trump has destroyed US diplomacy. Forget the liberal international order. US diplomacy as we knew it is over. Thread: 1/
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Monday - Roll back tariffs
Tuesday - Reinstate tariffs
Wednesday - Roll back tariffs
Thursday - Reinstate tariffs
Friday - Roll back tariffs
Saturday - Golf
Sunday - Golf
Tuesday - Reinstate tariffs
Wednesday - Roll back tariffs
Thursday - Reinstate tariffs
Friday - Roll back tariffs
Saturday - Golf
Sunday - Golf
March 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Monday - Roll back tariffs
Tuesday - Reinstate tariffs
Wednesday - Roll back tariffs
Thursday - Reinstate tariffs
Friday - Roll back tariffs
Saturday - Golf
Sunday - Golf
Tuesday - Reinstate tariffs
Wednesday - Roll back tariffs
Thursday - Reinstate tariffs
Friday - Roll back tariffs
Saturday - Golf
Sunday - Golf
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A single rose is OK for Valentine's Day IF it is 130 light years across like the Rosette Nebula. Reprocessed from last February. I hope I can return to it soon because I didn't know how to take flats back then and my cooled camera was in for service. I used my Sony Alpha7 III. #astrophotography
February 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A single rose is OK for Valentine's Day IF it is 130 light years across like the Rosette Nebula. Reprocessed from last February. I hope I can return to it soon because I didn't know how to take flats back then and my cooled camera was in for service. I used my Sony Alpha7 III. #astrophotography
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Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges.
This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
February 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges.
This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.
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What the health & scientific world "have experienced in the past few weeks is like a death in the family. We are angry, shocked, & saddened, but we must not despair". This a telling account of what is happening in the #US, but I am saddened that the author felt it had to be written anonymously.
Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system
People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...
www.bmj.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What the health & scientific world "have experienced in the past few weeks is like a death in the family. We are angry, shocked, & saddened, but we must not despair". This a telling account of what is happening in the #US, but I am saddened that the author felt it had to be written anonymously.
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📢 Good to see the EU Parliament adopt a strong resolution on #Rwanda-backed #M23 offensive in #DRCongo.
MEPs demand:
🚩Sanctions on RDF commanders
🚩Suspension of minerals deal
🚩End to military aid to Rwanda
🚩Prosecution for war crimes
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
MEPs demand:
🚩Sanctions on RDF commanders
🚩Suspension of minerals deal
🚩End to military aid to Rwanda
🚩Prosecution for war crimes
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
MEPs want to suspend EU-Rwanda deal on critical raw materials | News | European Parliament
The Rwandan government must withdraw its troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s territory and cease cooperation with the M23 rebels, Parliament says.
www.europarl.europa.eu
February 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
📢 Good to see the EU Parliament adopt a strong resolution on #Rwanda-backed #M23 offensive in #DRCongo.
MEPs demand:
🚩Sanctions on RDF commanders
🚩Suspension of minerals deal
🚩End to military aid to Rwanda
🚩Prosecution for war crimes
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
MEPs demand:
🚩Sanctions on RDF commanders
🚩Suspension of minerals deal
🚩End to military aid to Rwanda
🚩Prosecution for war crimes
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
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The New Mexico Department of Health has declared a measles outbreak in Lea County. The decision came after two adults in the county tested positive for the disease, bringing this week’s total of unrelated cases up to three.
The cases border Texas’s Gaines County, where measles is spreading…
The cases border Texas’s Gaines County, where measles is spreading…
February 15, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The New Mexico Department of Health has declared a measles outbreak in Lea County. The decision came after two adults in the county tested positive for the disease, bringing this week’s total of unrelated cases up to three.
The cases border Texas’s Gaines County, where measles is spreading…
The cases border Texas’s Gaines County, where measles is spreading…
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Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.
February 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.
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The insurance industry is likely to be the canary of the coal mine for taking climate change seriously
Insured losses from natural disasters topped $140 billion in 2024, up from $106 billion in 2023, reports Munich Re, the world's largest insurer.
“Climate change is taking the gloves off. Hardly any other year has made the consequences of global warming so clear.”
www.munichre.com/en/company/m...
“Climate change is taking the gloves off. Hardly any other year has made the consequences of global warming so clear.”
www.munichre.com/en/company/m...
January 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The insurance industry is likely to be the canary of the coal mine for taking climate change seriously
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I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥.
January 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥.
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A group of Dutch people in Russia and Ukraine are spreading disinformation for the Kremlin. They are sending Russian propaganda to their home country via blogs, videos and social media. One of them, Pascal Hillebrand, is fighting as a soldier in the Russian invasion, he writes on social media. 🤬
Deze Nederlanders strijden voor Rusland: ‘From Donbas with love’
Een groep Nederlanders vecht voor Rusland door propaganda en desinformatie te verspreiden in hun thuisland. Eén van hen ligt letterlijk in de loopgraven.||Een groep Nederlanders in Rusland en Oekraïne...
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January 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A group of Dutch people in Russia and Ukraine are spreading disinformation for the Kremlin. They are sending Russian propaganda to their home country via blogs, videos and social media. One of them, Pascal Hillebrand, is fighting as a soldier in the Russian invasion, he writes on social media. 🤬
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Today: discussion on the implications of the ICJ provisional measures order in the Gaza genocide case with Ruvi Ziegler, Victor Kattan, Cathryn Costello and myself.
Register here to attend online us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register here to attend online us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Bonavero Discussion Group: Implications of the International Court of Justice’s Provisional Measures in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the G...
www.law.ox.ac.uk
February 27, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Today: discussion on the implications of the ICJ provisional measures order in the Gaza genocide case with Ruvi Ziegler, Victor Kattan, Cathryn Costello and myself.
Register here to attend online us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register here to attend online us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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The article I wrote with Michael Barnett and Alex Vandermaas-Peeler is now up open access in the Review of International Studies. We trace how victimhood because a status position in world politics, using cases from, welp,
Israel, DRC and Bosnia.
Israel, DRC and Bosnia.
Constructing victims: Suffering and status in modern world order | Review of International Studies |...
Constructing victims: Suffering and status in modern world order - Volume 50 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
January 12, 2024 at 1:32 PM
The article I wrote with Michael Barnett and Alex Vandermaas-Peeler is now up open access in the Review of International Studies. We trace how victimhood because a status position in world politics, using cases from, welp,
Israel, DRC and Bosnia.
Israel, DRC and Bosnia.
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A particularly striking example of how divorced the public discourse on “antisemitism at Harvard” is from the actual situation at Harvard: the person who wrote this has never taught a class at Harvard Divinity School. I teach Judaism at Harvard Divinity School, and I teach about all these topics…
December 29, 2023 at 1:21 PM
A particularly striking example of how divorced the public discourse on “antisemitism at Harvard” is from the actual situation at Harvard: the person who wrote this has never taught a class at Harvard Divinity School. I teach Judaism at Harvard Divinity School, and I teach about all these topics…
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What the Polish elections might mean for Poland (and Europe), by yours truly:
goodauthority.org/news/how-his...
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How historic voter turnout upended illiberal rule in Poland
Polish voters turned out in record numbers this Sunday to renounce the illiberal government of the Law and Justice Party (PiS). After eight years of
goodauthority.org
October 19, 2023 at 1:58 PM
What the Polish elections might mean for Poland (and Europe), by yours truly:
goodauthority.org/news/how-his...
goodauthority.org/news/how-his...
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Why are so many governments silent about the critical role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Israel/Palestine?
Israel is not a member, but Palestine is, and the ICC prosecutor has been investigating crimes there since 2021.
www.hrw.org/news/2023/10...
Israel is not a member, but Palestine is, and the ICC prosecutor has been investigating crimes there since 2021.
www.hrw.org/news/2023/10...
Countries Should Back ICC Investigation on Israel-Palestine
Horrific crimes are being committed with devastating consequences for civilians in the escalating hostilities between Israel and Palestinian armed groups. But governments have largely been silent abou...
www.hrw.org
October 26, 2023 at 6:05 AM
Why are so many governments silent about the critical role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Israel/Palestine?
Israel is not a member, but Palestine is, and the ICC prosecutor has been investigating crimes there since 2021.
www.hrw.org/news/2023/10...
Israel is not a member, but Palestine is, and the ICC prosecutor has been investigating crimes there since 2021.
www.hrw.org/news/2023/10...
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When your ideas aren’t good enough to win so you have to rig the race:
North Carolina GOP advanced a new congressional gerrymander with 10 safe GOP seats, 3 safe Dem seats, & 1 GOP-trending swing district in a key swing state
It would be among America's most extreme gerrymanders & replace a court-drawn map that went 7D-7R in 2022 davesredistricting.org/join/e595a26...
It would be among America's most extreme gerrymanders & replace a court-drawn map that went 7D-7R in 2022 davesredistricting.org/join/e595a26...
October 24, 2023 at 2:11 AM
When your ideas aren’t good enough to win so you have to rig the race: