This is completely mad and completely accurate

“Three weeks into the Iran war, reality has passed through the looking glass, out the other side, and is now selling tickets to the gift shop. What follows is not satire. Satire requires exaggeration, and …”

Peter Girnus 🦅 on X: "I am a Conference Services Coordinator in the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management at the United Nations in New York. My job is the room. When the Security Council meets, I prepare the room. I set up the horseshoe table. I test the translation headsets. I" / X I am a Conference Services Coordinator in the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management at the United Nations in New York. My job is the room. When the Security Council meets, I prepare the room. I set up the horseshoe table. I test the translation headsets. I

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Twelve Erased Women: Experiments in Excavating (the Better Half of) British International Thought Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

"Twelve Erased Women: Experiments in Excavating (the Better Half of) British International Thought" by Immi Tallgren @itallgren.bsky.social
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Ukraine and Russia begin second round of US-led peace talks in Abu Dhabi Major obstacles to viable deal remain after Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Moscow of violating energy truce

Thinking about the past few years… who remembers the Women, Peace and Security agenda? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

In case someone was still wondering…
The illegality is blatant but seems to be irrelevant, at least for now.

Introduction to CRIA prize forum Published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2025)

Delighted to write the introduction to the @cambridgecria.bsky.social forum on @itallgren.bsky.social's wonderful prize-winning book, Portraits of Women in International Law.

Congratulations Immi and all the contributors! 👏

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Please, someone wake me up from this nightmare!

Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran In its resolution S35/1, on the deteriorating situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Human Rights Council on 24 November 2022 decided to establish an independent international ...

Iran FFM has released powerful report & further findings following its 2 yr inv into repression of "Woman, Life, Freedom” protests following death of Jina Mahsa Amini. It makes crucial rec's on accountability & reparations www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies... incl resort to universal jurisdiction.

Looking forward to this event and meeting again the formidable Nahed Samour. Should you wish to join, please note that the registration closes tomorrow (25th Feb). allevents.in/helsinki/sem...

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

🎙️ Such a pleasure to be interviewed by Miranda Melcher for the New Book Network. 📡 🤓 Check out our conversation about histories of international thought "without men" here:
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It is getting harder and harder to look at these moves and find evidence of cost cutting. Cancelling contracts with the Institute of Education Sciences is what you'd do if you wanted to control the information environment around schools, which is a fundamentally different goal.

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

With our Tracker, we are now following 41 cases

1. Immigration and citizenship
2. Structure of government/personnel
3. Federal assistance
4. Civil liberties
5. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility
6. Removal of information from government websites
7. Actions against FBI employees

Trump’s Gaza Takeover Would Be Illegal Under International Law, Experts Say Forcing Palestinians to leave the enclave would be “a straightforward crime against humanity,” an Oxford professor said. It would be a further violation to take over the territory.

This piece is strongly worded and correct but still understates the seriousness of the US constantly making noises about its own territorial aggrandizement--as against Canada, Greenland, Panama, and now Gaza. 1/

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AHA–OAH Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooli...

The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️

All empires fall, one day. Let’s hope this caricature of a greedy idiot is the beginning of an end.

Great progress to report: with weekly lessons and daily Duolingo my Korean is just exploding. ’The ant’s newspaper” - must be very useful in Seoul? Yesterday I learned ”on the cucumber”… Seoul here I come! #Korean

Where to find feelings of accomplishment and enthusiasm these scary days? I started to study a totally new language. Teaches humbleness - I have been repeating the alphabet for a week. Just today managed my first sentence: “yes, I have a dog”!

A new morning, and I’m trying to settle in here for real. Have to stop using X and FB/Meta, their leaders/owners make me nauseous, since a long time. So, what’s going on? How are you doing? What are you up to?

Israel gegen Iran: Das Ende der Selbstverteidigung Im Konflikt zwischen Israel und dem Iran geht es aus völkerrechtlicher Perspektive ausnahmsweise darum, wann das Recht eines Staates auf Selbstverteidigung erlischt: nämlich dann, wenn ein Angriff vor...

"Vergeltung" oder "Abschreckung" sind keine völkerrechtlichen Kategorien. Gastkommentar von mir zur Eskalation zwischen dem Iran und Israel für @derstandardat.bsky.social
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Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Uncontrolled Crossings This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe.   Using original source material from severa...

Published today!
Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Uncontrolled Crossings - By Anne Montenach, Professor of early modern history at the University of Aix-Marseille

Warmest congratulations, Anne, from @deborahsimonton.bsky.social and me

#c18th 🗃 #skystorians

This is a incredibly well-written, thoughtful, clear, and honest paper that resonated so deeply with me- and so many other women. Thank you Dr. Riley. I have so many stories. I sometimes balance my desire to punch these dudes in the mouth with knowing they have tiny pe...rspectives. It helps.

When the Big Screen Isn’t Big Enough: Oppenheimer and Voices of the Manhattan Project There’s a lot more to the story of the atomic bombs than Oppenheimer showed.

From local Indigenous communities to downwinders to the hibakusha, there are many stories still to discover after watching Oppenheimer, writes Alexandra F. Levy in Perspectives on History. 🗃️

Temporary home street - Firenze by night.

A great new book, What is Structural Injustice?, co-edited by Jude Browne & Maeve McKeown was just published by OUP. It's Open Access. It includes a brilliant list of authors. I have a chapter on 'Structures of Injustice, the Law, and Exploitative Work'.

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Morgen online & vor Ort: "Sexualisierte Belästigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt an der neoliberalen Hochschule". Vortrag von Heike Pantelmann i. d. Ringvorlesung "Geschlecht, Ethnizität, Kultur: Macht, Gewalt & Wissenschaft", 17:30, Uni Innsbruck, Campus Innrain HS 4.
www.uibk.ac.at/de/geschlech...

I vaguely remember Philip Roth explaining how his (childhood) family used to gather together eat Chinese every Xmas, to get off the decorations, music…

Es ist absurd hier… collective hysteria!

Hei! A new arrival, again… what is happening here and how?