Randle DeFalco
@randledefalco.bsky.social
Assistant Law Prof researching atrocity Author: Invisible Atrocities (CUP, 2022)
Great summary from my wonderful colleague @elizabethrb.bsky.social reminding us how the post 9/11 “war” on terror set up the architecture of the Trump regime’s ongoing cruelty: internationalpolicy.org/publications...
The War on Terror Built the Foundation for Trump’s Violence - CIP
Congress declined to meaningfully check the blatant illegalities of the War on Terror, instead handing Trump expansive powers.
internationalpolicy.org
Just discovered my book, Invisible Atrocities, is available on paperback AND that it received a quite generous review from @uniofreading.bsky.social's Ben Willis in @globalr2p.bsky.social here: brill.com/view/journal... Now that it's $40, maybe consider it? www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Invisible Atrocities | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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By deleting these posts, UNC administrators have also taken a stance on political and social issues. They have declared that they tolerate bigotry and that the voices of conservative activists matter more than those of the majority of North Carolinians. Cowards! www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
UNC Athletics celebrated Pride month in social media post. Now, it’s deleted.
Pride month posts from both UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Greensboro have been deleted.
newsobserver.com
NYPD Commissioner Tisch will command a force of 35,555 uniformed officers by the end of the year. That's a larger police force than under Mayor Adams. We all want safe communities. More police does not make us safer.
NYPD set to hire 580 extra cops under Mayor Mamdani’s latest budget
The announcement was the latest sign of Commissioner Tisch’s power in the Mamdani administration.
gothamist.com
If you can get down to Delaney to support the strikers please do. My union has a bunch of folks there today and I’ll be heading back down there tomorrow.
Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?
The nonprofit Philadelphia Prison Society, which runs the program, needs $600,000 to keep it running next year.
A bus program has taken families for decades to visit incarcerated loved ones could disappear without funding
inquirer.com
thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended
Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 3mo agoAlabama’s lieutenant governor, who also serves as president of the state Senate, posted a 7-0 Republican gerrymander calling for his party to eliminate both Black Democrats. Every seat on a map like this would be dark red and heavily white
"There will be no live student speakers at CUNY School of Law or at NYU's school-specific ceremonies after former students gave speeches that were fiercely critical of Israel" "Columbia officials said there will not be a student speaker at the university’s main commencement" Disgraceful. Pathetic.
Gothamist@gothamist.com · 3mo agoNYC universities restrict commencement speeches after students criticized Israel gothamist.com/news/nyc-uni...
Justice Blackmun (dissent in Bailey): "The atrocities and inhuman conditions of prison life in America are almost unbelievable" I explore ongoing atrocities at US carceral sites through the lens of ICL in my article: American Carceral Atrocities in the Penn JIL papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver...
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Trump warns 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran fails to meet his deadline An explicit, unequivocal public statement of genocidal intent…. As if aggression wasn’t bad enough
I continue to believe that pregnant people should not be Incarcerated. (And really, should anyone be?)
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 9mo agoPregnant women who are jailed, often for petty crimes, are miscarrying or giving birth in excruciating pain and into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors, according to an investigation from @bloomberglaw.com and NBC News.
Friends and colleagues at Leiden Uni are organizing a discussion on a lesser known and followed case, so do join and learn more. #Genocide #MassViolence www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Uyghur genocide
This Symposium aims to raise awareness among students about the Uyghur genocide currently happening in the Xinjiang region, perpetuated by the Chinese government. We will discuss what are the events t...
universiteitleiden.nl
Andrew Cuomo is a bad man pulling on a dangerous thread because he wants to win a job he doesn’t actually want to do in a place he hates
Delighted to announce my article, American Carceral Atrocities, is forthcoming in the Penn Journal of IL and is up on SSRN (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) The piece theorizes the sprawling US carceral system as a system of ongoing atrocity violence, perpetrated against detainees.
pennlawjil.com
Children’s literature professor fired by Texas university over ‘gender’ content “Texas A&M is a great university … that honors academic freedom and academic responsibility” Lmao
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say
If Israel is willing to target and kill journalists in a hospital with double tap strikes over a camera (a fucking camera, like WTF), what is it doing when it believes there are actual Hamas figures? These war crimes will not stop until those responsible are held to account.
Anna Mehler Paperny@mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 11mo agoIsrael says the double bombing of a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was trying to take out a camera. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
"As of February 2025, the only reasonable inference from the cumulative evidence is that Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide." - @itamann.bsky.social Eleven international law experts were asked: is there genocide in Gaza. Nine said yes. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
International Law Experts: Genocide in Gaza?
Does Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitute genocide? LTO asked eleven international law experts. After 22 months of war, a clear tendency is emerging.
lto.de
www.lto.de/recht/hinter... Spoiler alert: a virtual unanimous “yes”, with the sole uncertainty being the mens rea of individual perps, and whether can be attributed to state of Israel as a whole.
International Law Experts: Genocide in Gaza?
Does Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitute genocide? LTO asked eleven international law experts. After 22 months of war, a clear tendency is emerging.
lto.de
Suit Accuses N.Y.P.D. of Continued Aggression at Protests Over Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n... Courageous and important lawyering including by my wonderful colleague, Elena Cohen!
Suit Accuses N.Y.P.D. of Continued Aggression at Protests Over Gaza
nytimes.com
In response to the formal request of Minister Riyad Mansour, State of Palestine's Permanent Observer to the UN, during the August 10 UN Security Council Meeting, for "an immediate international protection force to save the Palestinian people from certain death," DAWN issues the following statement:
UN General Assembly: Deploy International Protection Force to Gaza
(Washington D.C., August 11, 2025) – In response to the formal request of Minister Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, during the August 10 Emergency UN ...
dawnmena.org
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative at www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-... "a lot of the children have already passed the point of no return where [...] even refeeding could potentially cause death itself.” This is at minimum extermination as a CAH
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
justsecurity.org
The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.” Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
justsecurity.org
