Israel pretends a tunnel gives it license to attack a Gaza hospital, ignoring legal requirements to use alternatives if possible (attack the tunnel elsewhere) and avoid disproportionate harm to civilians (depriving Palestinians of healthcare during a war). nytimes.com/2025/06/08/wor…

Israel treats it as a crisis because a few humanitarians try to curb Netanyahu's strategy of starvation and deprivation in Gaza by "bringing urgently needed goods, including baby formula, flour, rice, diapers, medical supplies and children’s prosthetics." trib.al/6kRPmwe

It keeps happening: At least four were killed and others injured by Israeli fire on Sunday "about a kilometre from a food distribution point in Gaza..., the latest casualties of a new system to provide supplies that…is unethical, chaotic and dangerous." trib.al/CUX2wLT

The British government’s long efforts to keep details of its intelligence agencies’ involvement in the CIA’s notorious post-9/11 torture program hidden will face an “unprecedented” challenge this week as two cases are brought before a secretive court. theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

Pope Leo has criticised the emergence of nationalist political movements and their “exclusionary mindset." He asked that God “open borders, break down walls [and] dispel hatred" -- the opposite of so many populist leaders today. theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

California Governor Gavin Newsom provides the latest example of how Trump sees efforts to placate him as weakness, an invitation to more outrageous action. Classic bully behavior. Only firm and principled opposition can deter autocracy. trib.al/yo79NQN

Trump is emulating Putin's early days by pretending that each step he takes, no matter how wacko or destructive, is part of a master plan, and that he needs to enhance his power endlessly to implement his brilliant design. nytimes.com/2025/06/09/opi…

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is back on U.S. soil, but his lawyers still want Trump officials to face criminal contempt charges for having spent much of the past three months “engaged in an elaborate, all-of-government effort to defy court orders.” nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/…

Pakistan’s blasphemy laws perpetuate religious discrimination and are used to target the poor and minorities in unlawful evictions and land grabs: @HRW report. hrw.org/news/2025/06/0…

International Criminal Court deputy prosecutors are preparing cases against Israeli ministers Ben Givr & Smotrich for war- crime settlement expansion. The sexual-abuse allegation against the chief prosecutor could slow them down. It needs quick resolution. observer.co.uk/news/internati…

Trump's criminal sanctions against the International Criminal Court show the court still matters. He wants to exempt Israelis and Americans, leaving a discredited court. With Argentine jurist Sylvia Fernandez, I discuss the need for an effective court: youtube.com/watch?app=desk…

Trump with his new travel ban "targeted countries with Black, Brown and Muslim populations. There is no clear national security basis for the ban, but there is a clear pattern of targeting people of color." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Not that @ElonMusk needs defending, but Trump openly admits planning to flout the First Amendment when he warns of “serious consequences” if Musk finances candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the president’s "Big Beautiful Bill." nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/…

The Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders discovers it's easier to whip up hysteria against asylum seekers (a dwindling problem in any event) than to govern, so he quits. trib.al/CBn1GCY

Trump has abandoned the “rules and traditions that would constrain a president from employing the power of his office to personally steer federal contracts to allies and away from enemies.” More remarkably, “he has no hesitation about saying it out loud." trib.al/X0AMdgO

"Trump's blue-collar base remains...patient that his [elusive] economic 'Golden Age' will materialize. But so far, the clearest financial rewards of Trump's tenure are flowing upward — to wealthy donors, family members, insiders and the president himself." axios.com/2025/06/08/tru…

The only "emergency" in Los Angeles is that Trump so cavalierly called in the National Guard (without California's governor asking) as a political ploy to advance his controversial agenda of mass deportations. trib.al/0dJMLT7

There is no "invasion" of migrants, just as there is no "insurrection" among protesters. These are just terms Trump is deploying to justify his mass deportations without due process and his deployment of the National Guard where it isn't needed or wanted. nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opi…

Trump is not only using the power of the presidency to enrich himself. His corruption is harming Americans by selling their interests for his profit. We will all be worse off as he stuffs his wallet. trib.al/7qUxdan

Why would Trump want the diversion of calling in the unneeded and unwanted National Guard? Maybe because his tax-cuts-for-the-rich, healthcare-cuts-for-the-poor proposed legislation isn't delivering anything to his base. trib.al/F4VKNhs