Rebecca Ingber

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A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

One interesting feature of the new U.S.-Denmark-Greenland agreement is the provision about how long it will last. THREAD

1/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 👇

Looking forward to this discussion!

1/ @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. #GTMODispatches

I have a joke about time travel but you didn't like it.

No 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.)

I have a joke about Occam’s razor but you guys will overthink it.

In 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 … )

So real

The 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.

@becingber.bsky.social on the "legal leaps" used to justify the administration's killings at sea.

The 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.

I 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.

The Just Security Podcast: Murder on the High Seas Part VI With co-hosts @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and Rachel Goldbrenner, and guests @becingber.bsky.social and @bcfinucane.bsky.social Co-hosted by Just Security and @rcls-nyu.bsky.social

This week marks one year of the US lethal boat strikes campaign in the Caribbean & eastern Pacific. Co-hosts @rcls-nyu.bsky.social & @justsecurity.org take up the major Qs in new podcast episode. W/ @becingber.bsky.social @bcfinucane.bsky.social @tessbridgeman.bsky.social Rachel Goldbrenner Listen👇

As the grim anniversary approaches, we convened to discuss the past year’s expanding campaign to use force against those suspected of trafficking drugs. With @tessbridgeman.bsky.social, @bcfinucane.bsky.social, and Rachel Goldbrenner of @rcls-nyu.bsky.social

...that violates international law and that could well turn out to be a massive mafia-style shakedown scheme to benefit the anti-democratic forces in Venezuela and the US, the president's friends and supporters, possibly the president and his family?

...but we don't know where the money's going, how it is going to benefit the US, if it is going to benefit the US, who's privately going to benefit, what side deals have been struck with the corrupt leaders of their country or ours, & we are supposed to celebrate this act of aggression and theft...

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As I wrote with @becingber.bsky.social in @justsecurity.org earlier this summer, these US attacks on third-state merchant vessels themselves constitute violations of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. At least according to the USG's own legal position. www.justsecurity.org/142005/block...

The unitary executive

Given the resumption of the US blockade of Iran, I'm reposting my @justsecurity.org piece with @becingber.bsky.social from June. www.justsecurity.org/142005/block...

Love this piece by @corrarino.bsky.social

Really insightful article on the law of blockade and international law by the brilliant @becingber.bsky.social and @bcfinucane.bsky.social via @justsecurity.org Both have tremendous experience at State Department and deep academic expertise. 👇 www.justsecurity.org/142005/block...

The war with Iran is expanding to new fronts. @bcfinucane.bsky.social and I explore a longstanding tension between the traditional law of naval warfare and the UN Charter. -- Historically largely theoretical, but recent attacks on vessels flagged to third states are bringing it to a boiling point.

Must-read by @becingber.bsky.social Law profs in my feed especially, pay attn to the final paragraph: democracyproject.org/posts/the-wa...

The war on international law didn’t start with Trump. It’s been long in coming — and largely successful. My latest on what’s at stake, how we got here, and how we might start to rebuild:

The Machine Stops, E. M. Forster, 1909 Should be essential reading for every human.

[2/2] Watch or listen to Episode 5 of The Just Security Podcast’s series, “Murder on the High Seas,” with @becingber.bsky.social, @bcfinucane.bsky.social, Rachel Goldbrenner, and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and co-hosted by @rcls-nyu.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x05c...

The ongoing campaign of killings at sea would be front page news every day if it weren’t for… all the other things. It still should be. And is ramping up. @becingber.bsky.social @bcfinucane.bsky.social @rachelgoldbrenner.bsky.social and I get you up to speed with our latest podcast installment 👇