Saw an unmarked ICE vehicle parked yesterday in a spot that is usually occupied by an identifiable CBP patrol. No license plates, visible cage inside, and the agents had the windows rolled up (even tho it was nice out/not AC weather) and were eating Chick-Fil-A. Vile but also pathetic

"international law in practice is better understood as a constantly shifting line of acceptable behavior. We may now be reaching the point where that line has shifted so far from the founding intentions of international law that the system itself is on the brink of collapse" Recommend:

the Guardian

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi

The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge...

#PolicingTheCampus

"Tempering extremism in the United States therefore requires constraining elites more than constraining majorities" Long-ish but worth a read IMO

Boston Review

The Dead End of Checks and Balances - Boston Review

Far from the cure to Trumpian authoritarianism, the U.S. constitutional system is driving our democratic decline.

#uspol

Local #LosAngeles media #LATaco on #HomeDepot at the center of #ICE action, and a call to boycott (works in reader mode)

The Home Depot Boycott Is What You Think It's About, But Also Much More ~ L.A. TACO

While L.A. activists accuse the home improvement retailer of being complicit in immigration raids at its stores, a nationwide boycott is being call...