@becingber.bsky.social
Law prof at Cardozo Law. Former U.S. State Dept a few times over. Writes on international law, war powers and national security, presidential power and bureaucracy.
@jamalgreene.bsky.socialReposted by @becingber.bsky.socialA massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
@jeangalbraith.bsky.socialReposted by @becingber.bsky.socialOne interesting feature of the new U.S.-Denmark-Greenland agreement is the provision about how long it will last. THREAD
@becingber.bsky.socialFWIW the biological and chemical weapons conventions may in some respects be better analogues.
@becingber.bsky.socialToday’s Daily is a great example of what I’d love to see journalism do more: tell the story of how hard we worked to reach international cooperation on the most important issues. It can be done. It works. It can also be unraveled so quickly so it’s worth remembering what it took and why we did it.
@tessbridgeman.bsky.socialReposted by @becingber.bsky.social1/NEW: Our latest Collection @justsecurity.org:
"Questions for Congress"
In a multi-crisis moment with competing demands, we're collecting key oversight questions for #Congress.
Authors may also include key documents to subpoena, witnesses to interview, etc.:
Check back often 👇
@becingber.bsky.socialLooking forward to this discussion!
@becingber.bsky.socialThe mini storage billboard is going to be epic
@tessbridgeman.bsky.socialReposted by @becingber.bsky.social1/ @rgoodlaw.bsky.social & I are honored to announce that veteran, multi-award winning reporter @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social will be publishing Dispatches from Guantanamo with us at @justsecurity.org –regular updates as the capital trials in the military commissions get underway.
@husky-du.bsky.socialReposted by @becingber.bsky.socialI have a joke about time travel but you didn't like it.
@altnoaa.bsky.socialReposted by @becingber.bsky.socialI have a joke about entropy, but it gets worse every time I tell it.
@becingber.bsky.socialNo spoilers but .. how do you think it goes in a world where humankind increasingly relies for their every need on technology they can no longer understand or fix? (This is fiction, of course. From 1909.)
@becingber.bsky.socialI have a joke about Occam’s razor but you guys will overthink it.
@becingber.bsky.socialIn 1909 E.M. Forster wrote a short story, a warning about a world in which humans would cease to understand their own technological creations. It’s a quick read; here’s the PDF. (Apropos of nothing … )
@becingber.bsky.socialJust popping in to add that it would also be pretty unusual for a party in power to say, “we COULD enact this positive policy agenda that will make your lives better right now, but we won’t until you reelect us.”
@becingber.bsky.socialSo real
@justsecurity.orgReposted by @becingber.bsky.socialThe universal view of experts, @becingber.bsky.social explains, is that the Trump administration's killings at sea are murder under domestic law, extrajudicial killings under international law, and given their systematic nature, may well be crimes against humanity.
@rcls-nyu.bsky.socialReposted by @becingber.bsky.social@becingber.bsky.social on the "legal leaps" used to justify the administration's killings at sea.
@justsecurity.orgReposted by @becingber.bsky.socialThe question for government lawyers - and courts - in national security cases is often "how much to accept the president's version of reality as fact," @becingber.bsky.social explains.
@becingber.bsky.socialI don’t know of a single expert who can defend the legality of these boat strikes. Today marks the one anniversary of the first of what is now 227 murders by the U.S. Govt.
@becingber.bsky.socialWhether or not that was intended from the jump, the frog is boiling.
