A “serious” long-form piece about Paul Weiss under Brad Karp’s leadership losing its way. The primary injustice chronicled is the firm’s mistreatment of a trans partner, who also walked away with $3+ million in severance. Unmentioned: Karp’s campaign against pro-Palestine law students.

How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)

Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...

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What’s with the translate to Hebrew option

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 4d ago

Mohammad Marandi, who served as an advisor to the Iranian negotiation team in talks with the US:

Hi! This weekend we have an easy goal to help a teenager in Gaza continue to survive the bullet in her brain. 0/200 by Monday. And hit "monthly" to sponsor their rent fund! We’re so close to their rent amount entirely covered by sponsors. tiny.cc/HelpRetaj

it's so fucked up in so many ways including the many times where it's like "haw haw you will be so miserable being deported to this hellhole full of mud people" and then the people there actually show them humanity and compassion not possessed by us americans

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 4d ago

These third country deportations are among the most evil acts of the Trump administration. They're trying to extrajudicially punish people for seeking asylum, up to and including with death.

The U.S. struck a family home on Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight on Thursday with a large-scale bomb, according to an analysis of videos, photos and satellite imagery by weapons experts and The New York Times. Iranian officials said the strike killed a boy and his parents.

Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians

The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.

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“A former U.S. military official told CBS that the value of hitting energy infrastructure would be to impact the Iranian military's ability to provide services and effectively govern.” Yeah, that doesn’t meet the test for being a lawful military objective.

THE LORAX: i am the lorax, i speak for the trees BLUESKY REPLY GUY: twenty million animals died last year and you dont speak for them??

Our jurisprudence is such that litigants can sue and recover from Palestinians in U.S. courts for loss of life and property, but Palestinians cannot sue in U.S. courts for the same.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d ago

A new SCOTUS shadow docket request that is (1) over a question of whether Congress can retroactively pass laws that create jurisdiction over a claim and (2) raised in the context of litigation against the Palestinian Authority and PLO that began more than a decade ago. (It is Docket No. 26A141.)

"We've been displaced from place to place. Now we have nowhere left to go." - Mother in Gaza www.bbc.com/news/article...

The continuation of the genocide in Gaza does not manifest in the almost-daily killing of civilians, which while horrible is not evidence for genocide. Rather, it is Israel's refusal to allow the recovery of the most basic conditions of life, which shows the attempt to destroy an entire society. 1/

This is the first post in our new testimonial series, where USAID employees and families share what actually happened to them, in their own words. Not policy. Not legal filings. Just the truth of what this did to real people. usaidemployeesupportfund.substack.com/p/i-took-an-...

I Took an Oath to This Country. It Gave Me PTSD

A USAID employee's diagnosis, a year of survivor's guilt, and one question for every American in a MAGA hat

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This seems right as a matter of law and politics. If there is a will to power, legal ways can be found.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2w ago

after Mamdani’s interview with the New York Times last week, a few people asked me how it was possible that he didn’t know the answer to whether or not he could arrest Netanyahu if the prime minister arrived in NYC, & by my lights the answer is just that diplomatic immunity holds until it doesn’t

if you know the names of pilots, air crew, or ground grew that were involved in this, or any illegal rendition operation, get in touch. nobody who participated in this should be allowed to keep flying, and i am eager to start a public blacklist

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 👉 Young men & boys in shackles are herded by hired thugs from a chartered Eastern 737 to a waiting bus, to be transported to GEO Group's Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington 👀

Thanks to whoever reposted this. Children of Persia is a great organization with a U.S. gov sanctions-exempt license. Very trustworthy org that works in many places including impoverished areas in Iran’s south, the target of current U.S. strikes. Fisherman & villagers are who the U.S. is striking.

Kragdar@kragdar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One excellent organization I know for Iran is Children of Persia. All volunteer-run, they work in Iran’s poorest villages and towns and have a U.S. Treasury dept license (hard to get!) to transfer funds. I know the people who run it. They are worth your donations as well. www.childrenofpersia.org

Uncle in Iran says the country’s south is being destroyed. Trump is following through on his “bridge and power plant day” threats but it’s simply not registering here the way that it should.

Truthout@truthout.org · 3w ago

The U.S. has struck more civilian infrastructure in southern Iran in its sixth consecutive day of attacks on Friday, including key bridges and a tower at a crucial port.

Chambers is an interesting character to say the least and I’m surprised I hadn’t heard of him before. Wonder what “evidence” they have.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 3w ago

Stella Schnabel says Trump administration is falsely accusing James ‘Fergie’ Chambers of contributing to Hamas

the uncomfortable fact of the matter is that this thing exists because Congress created it. It would be better not to leave loaded weapons lying around.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEWS: The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

The US has hit water tanks in southern Iran in triple digit temperatures. 20k people without water. Seems like people think this is deliberate on the part of the US to provoke a parallel Iranian hit on Gulf country water tanks, forcing those countries to join the war on the US side.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3w ago

I don’t see how it could be accidental. US weaponry is precise. The US president threatened to do this. The water facilities were more remote, unlike the school hit early in the war (adjacent to a naval compound, previously part of it). Not even a statement from the US saying accident. War crime.

Woah.

Seamus Hughes@seamushughes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Broke some news tonight that the 30 year old federal court, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, got its first case ever and created a hastily made website. www.courtwatch.news/p/alien-terr...

OMG

Evergreen Intel@vcdgf555.bsky.social · 4w ago

Senator Lindsey Graham is dead.

Referring to Palestine, Egyptian football coach Hossam Hassan: "In the country where kids are being killed, they wear the jerseys of Argentina, Barcelona, City, Real Madrid. These kids love you and they love football. But they are being killed and you're still silent." Preach.

My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.

Fun fact sports leagues in the U.S. generally have an exception from the antitrust laws making it harder than it needs to be to set up a competing league

Mai El-Sadany@maitelsadany.bsky.social · 4w ago

⚽ For years, folks have been saying that FIFA is a corrupt institution that refuses to hold itself to account. Today, everyone saw that in real-time. But what does holding FIFA to account look like in a world like ours? (Genuinely curious and keen for answers/ideas)

In case you missed it, I wrote about the current status of Brand America in the Arab World for the Fourth of July. It's not looking good!

‘Not on an Individual Level, but a Popular One”: The Boycott and Politics and Ethics of Eating Amidst Starvation

Pepsi’s logo, once ubiquitous, is now mostly restricted to sun-bleached refrigerators and old refuse, like this bottle cap. One of the things that has most struck me on my return to Jordan is…

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pausa de hidratación

Ok I now also fully believe they were doing their best to make sure Iran didn’t advance and it was stacked against them from the start

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last mo.

UNREAL. This actually happened ▶️ "President Trump called Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, on Wednesday and asked him to review the suspension of the United States’ top goal scorer, Folarin Balogun,"

In Colorado, democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeated Rep. Diana DeGette, the establishment candidate backed by Pro-Choice Majority Action, a PAC that received most of its funding from EDW Action Fund, a group that received $1 million from AIPAC

Chickens are coming home to roost on Palestine politics in this country

Kragdar@kragdar.bsky.social · last yr.

There’s pretty much a version of this story in a lot of unions and workplaces. A lot of people and institutions have discredited themselves—a self-cancellation if you will. We’ll see what’s next.