Elmo: “We all feel scared sometimes, but courage is when you feel scared but you still help others” @katharinehayhoe.com: “The most important thing to share, science actually shows, is that others care and there are solutions that work”

Guardian Environment@environment.theguardian.com · 2w ago

At Climate Week, Elmo recalls a storm on Sesame Street: ‘Courage is when you still help others’

Weird how this keeps happening. So strange.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Siri, how can I take that Boston Globe headline and make it worse

"Most would say only that Trump is leading in national embarrassment. It is sad and dangerous that at such a perilous moment, the United States is saddled with a president who excels mainly in disseminating self-promoting fantasies..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s UN speech was delusional and dangerous | Kenneth Roth

It is sad and dangerous that at such a perilous moment, the United States is saddled with a president like Trump

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Hi all! It's ILW time again - we'll be posting a new panel every day up until the conference. I look forward to seeing lots of you in NYC!

ABILA (American Branch of the ILA)@abilaofficial.bsky.social · 3w ago

Can Customary International Law Rescue and Revolutionize the International Legal Order? | Friday, October 23 at 10:30 AM With Ingrid Brunk, Amb. David Lametti, Brian D. Lepard, Omri Sender, and @matigre.bsky.social. Register for #ILW26 here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2026-reg...

Two small announcements: One, I was locked out of my personal email account for a while, but I'm back in! If you tried to contact me there, I'll get back to you this week. Two, I'm very pregnant, and it sure is an odd time for that. Excited for mat leave soon, at least.

WHO removing Us Flag

There is evil and then there is this

Jay Kirell@jasonkirell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

One of the big media failures of the past decade is the ongoing search for the deeper side of Trump. There isn't one. His ideology, such as it is, is personalist, transactional, and zero-sum. That's as vain, vulgar, and wrong as you can get. He likes gold shit and applause. There's nothing beneath.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9mo ago

10 years of this shit

"You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.

"We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries." - one of the many absolute nonsense statements in the US' 2025 National Security Strategy. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

🌍 Workshop: Responding to Eco-Anxiety and Climate Trauma The emotional impact of the climate crisis is increasingly felt in human rights research and education. Explore eco-anxiety and coping strategies. 📅 16 October | 🕐 12:00–17:00 |📍 Radboud University More info: www.asser.nl/nnhrr/news/r...

water is wet

CNN@cnn.com · last yr.

Elon Musk’s X is the “go-to platform for antisemitic posters,” according to a new year-long study shared exclusively with CNN: https://cnn.it/3Wbsj0W

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron@mattcameron.bsky.social · last yr.

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

WHO rejects Trump’s claims of link between Tylenol and autism

WHO rejects Trump’s claims of link between Tylenol and autism

Body says research has found ‘no consistent association’ and urges pregnant women to follow doctors’ advice The World Health Organization (WHO) is pushing back against contested claims by the Trump administration that acetaminophen use during pregnancy heightens the risk of autism, further underscoring that no scientific consensus supports such a connection. “Extensive research, including large-scale studies over the past decade, has found no consistent association,” the agency said in a Wednesday statement. Continue reading...

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From Ambition to Action? The Sustainable Development Goals Ten Years On #ILW25 With: Perpétua Chéry, @freyadw.bsky.social, Giovanna E. Gismondi, John H. Knox, and Vanessa Racehorse. Register for ILW25 here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2025-reg...

Happy to be representing @abilaofficial.bsky.social at ASIL-Abroad in Singapore! Thank you to the @asilorg.bsky.social for an excellent first day.

The next episode of International Law Chats is live! Alison, Chiara, and Milena interviewed Rez Gardi (R-SEAT, University of Auckland) about the global refugee crisis and the importance of refugee-led representation in international affairs. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0Z3y...

Unbelievable: ICE arrests workers on the front line fighting the Bear Gulch Fire in Washington's Olympic Mountains. Thank ICE when you breathe in that smoke this week. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social @conradswanson.bsky.social @isabellabreda.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

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Request from the Int Commission of Jurists for Pres Iwasawa to investigate Sebutinde's statement & to remove her form the #SAf v #Israel case. #ICJ #intLaw www.icj.org/icj-communic...

ICJ communication to the International Court of Justice urging the investigation of the Court's Vice-President | ICJ

The ICJ has sent a communication to the President of the International Court of Justice (the Court), Justice Yuji Iwasawa, to urge the Court to c

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Gavin Newsom is anti-trans and I will never, ever vote for him.

IllCaesar@illcaesar.bsky.social · last yr.

Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader? I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.

The next episode of our podcast, International Law Chats, is live! Alison MacDonald and Chiara Giorgetti interviewed a Panel of Experts about the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion ‘Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change.’ Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2yBV...

International Law Chats Ep. 5 - The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change with Experts

International Law Chats - an ABILA Podcast · Episode

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Is sea level around the US accelerating? If you actually do the analysis, instead of just repeating talking points from decades ago, the answer is yes. tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE

Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

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One of my final days in Germany, on a Mosel river cruise! We move (cat included) to South Korea in just a few days ☺️🇰🇷

One of the best things I get to do at my job is help choose Emerging Voices - aka, fascinating young scholars - and provide them with the funding to travel to and stay in New York City. Read about this year's brilliant speakers below!

ABILA (American Branch of the ILA)@abilaofficial.bsky.social · last yr.

Announcing: our 2025 Emerging Voices! This year saw a record number of applicants, making the selection process incredibly difficult. Read about Kazım Berkay Arslan, Annika Knauer, Emmanuel O. Osayande, and Naida Softić here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/announcing-2...

Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.

Counterpoint:

Gaza is starving

Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.

thehandbasket.co

Noah Samsen@nsamsen.bsky.social · last yr.

This is from TODAY. Utter lunacy

ANNOUNCING: #ILW25 Opening Plenary speaker - Elinor Hammarskjöld! Elinor Hammarskjöld is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs. ABILA President Michael Scharf will interview Ms. Hammarskjöld on October 23, 2025. Get tickets here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2025-reg...