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% of americans who believe trump’s hush money trial is serious

dem: 90%
ind: 50%
gop: 25%

-yougov

This is a really wild result—a finding that, in a simulated case, federal judges don't follow the law but that law students do—but I wonder if there is an explanation the authors don't identify. 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

Putin and the Russian security services were too busy persecuting LGBTQ Russians, Navalny supporters, and Kremlin critics, when they should have been protecting the lives of Russian citizens enjoying a night out at the theater. The US intel heads up even named the venue.

An officer “in the same unit as those soldiers who shot those hostages”—the Bislamach Brigade—told Barak Ravid “that the orders are basically, from the commanders on the ground, just shoot every man of fighting age.”

Another data point on the irrelevance of official IDF ROE.

There's very little information coming out about how the Moscow terrorist attack was financed and facilitated, but I have three working hypotheses:

theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Read Vanda Felbab-Brown's submitted testimony to the House Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight for the “Strengthening international cooperation to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States' hearing.

brookings.edu/articles/china…

I deeply wish that our first Oscar could be celebrating a beautiful film about Ukrainian happiness, or love…

It pains me that this is the Ukraine the world has to see, but that’s our reality for now, and the world must not look away. Thank you for remembering Mariupol.

BREAKING: The U.S. military has evacuated non-essential personnel from the U.S. embassy in Haiti, a sign of the deteriorating situation there.

I wrote about a really interesting recent trial in Paris! Two mothers of foreign fighters, two journalists, a lawyer, and a stepfather stood trial in Jan. for terrorist financing. They argue that they were not sending money to the Islamic State, but rather, trying to save lives

Macron today produced maps of a poss Russian breakthrough towards Kyiv or Odessa which could oblige the west to act to prevent a Russian victory in Ukraine. In talks w French opposition leaders, Macron said there should be no more “red lines” on Fr involvement in the conflict 1/

Politicians vying to lead Haiti form alliances as gangs take over and prime minister tries to return home:
apnews.com/article/haiti-…

Today, I met with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya – Aleksey Navalny's loved ones – to express my condolences for their devastating loss.

Aleksey's legacy of courage will live on in Yulia and Dasha, and the countless people across Russia fighting for democracy and human rights.

The whole world lost a fearless champion of democracy and freedom in Alexei Navalny. Sending sympathy and solidarity to his friends, family and supporters.

History will record this staggering loss and the shocking human cost of Putin’s reign of terror and corruption.

Мы не имеем никаких оснований верить госпропаганде.
Если это правда, то не «Навальный умер», а «Путин убил Навального» и только так.
Но я им не верю ни на копейку.

Lawfare is now accepting applications for our paid summer internship program. Apply here: lawfaremedia.org/article/intern…

⚡ The FSB's Fifth Service has launched a disinfo campaign in Africa, leveraging Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin's network of operators.

New media and Prigozhin-affiliated 'political technologists' are spreading conspiracy theories across the continent.

theins.press/en/politics/26…

Cited in a SCOTUS brief, my work on this Earth is done.

(amicus brief of former Repub. officials, including @judgeluttig , 2 acting AGs, 2 Dep AGs, George Conway et al.)
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In the latest piece for the Nonstate Armed Actors Briefing Book, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Vibha Bajji, & I delve into the expanding global influence of Chinese criminal networks and the far-reaching implications for the world
brookings.edu/articles/chine…

The threats nonstate armed actors pose to order and stability around the world will intensify in 2024.

Vanda Felbab-Brown & top experts provide a policy toolbox governments should consider in response to nonstate armed actors and illicit economies.
brookings.edu/collection/non…