Ntina Tzouvala
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It's been a slow start for international law in 2026 (lol) but you may nevertheless want to join this online discussion on the 20th of January.
The Zoom details are available here: uva-live.zoom.us/meetings/665...
And the paper can be accessed here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Zoom details are available here: uva-live.zoom.us/meetings/665...
And the paper can be accessed here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
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If there is an argument then this is the argument. But lol I can’t find where this obviously false stat is coming from. And if the government does believe more than half the families in the UK are using it as their primary news source then woah maybe time to up the scrutiny of it!
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
If there is an argument then this is the argument. But lol I can’t find where this obviously false stat is coming from. And if the government does believe more than half the families in the UK are using it as their primary news source then woah maybe time to up the scrutiny of it!
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My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It's been a slow start for international law in 2026 (lol) but you may nevertheless want to join this online discussion on the 20th of January.
The Zoom details are available here: uva-live.zoom.us/meetings/665...
And the paper can be accessed here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Zoom details are available here: uva-live.zoom.us/meetings/665...
And the paper can be accessed here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 5, 2026 at 9:01 PM
It's been a slow start for international law in 2026 (lol) but you may nevertheless want to join this online discussion on the 20th of January.
The Zoom details are available here: uva-live.zoom.us/meetings/665...
And the paper can be accessed here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Zoom details are available here: uva-live.zoom.us/meetings/665...
And the paper can be accessed here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
What if this Venezuela ordeal is indeed about a crucial global commodity, but that commodity isn't oil, but cocaine? prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
prospect.org
January 5, 2026 at 8:02 PM
What if this Venezuela ordeal is indeed about a crucial global commodity, but that commodity isn't oil, but cocaine? prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
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50-60 million acres of this land is held in trust for sovereign Native nations. This was written by a professor who teaches at the most highly ranked law school in the country and who should have mentioned this.
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
President Trump’s New Housing Policy Should Include Massive Privatization of Federal Land
The U.S. government currently owns 28% of the land in the United States, which is way too much.
reason.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:37 PM
50-60 million acres of this land is held in trust for sovereign Native nations. This was written by a professor who teaches at the most highly ranked law school in the country and who should have mentioned this.
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
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"The Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement [121 member States] categorically condemns the act of aggression perpetrated by the United States . against . Venezuela ... which included armed attacks against civilian and military locations"
January 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
"The Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement [121 member States] categorically condemns the act of aggression perpetrated by the United States . against . Venezuela ... which included armed attacks against civilian and military locations"
+1
I have no idea what's going on. And I will be vindicated by history.
January 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
+1
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One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen.
- No reference to UN Charter legal justification
- Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned)
- Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal
- Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
- No reference to UN Charter legal justification
- Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned)
- Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal
- Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
January 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen.
- No reference to UN Charter legal justification
- Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned)
- Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal
- Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
- No reference to UN Charter legal justification
- Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned)
- Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal
- Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
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It's genuinely wild to kidnap a foreign head of state and it be genuinely unclear to what end (even what cynical self-serving end) you have done this. I am finding this new world hard to adjust to. At least we never need "stupid or evil?" debates again, can always just say "yes" and be done with it.
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
It's genuinely wild to kidnap a foreign head of state and it be genuinely unclear to what end (even what cynical self-serving end) you have done this. I am finding this new world hard to adjust to. At least we never need "stupid or evil?" debates again, can always just say "yes" and be done with it.
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This is the best explanation I've seen about the role of Guyana's oil in what just happened in Venezuela—something @fjquintana.com also alluded to on here yesterday. I still think that only gets you about 40-60% of the way to invasion without Rubio or Miller manipulating Trump for their own ends.
Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...
The U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana Oil Triangle
The U.S. interest in Venezuela isn’t just about the oil there, but also about the oil next door in Guyana, and the U.S. oil companies that have staked their future on it.
drilled.media
January 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM
This is the best explanation I've seen about the role of Guyana's oil in what just happened in Venezuela—something @fjquintana.com also alluded to on here yesterday. I still think that only gets you about 40-60% of the way to invasion without Rubio or Miller manipulating Trump for their own ends.
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It is both true that Trump's intervention is about the oil AND that it makes no sense as a capitalist matter.
Trump likes the IDEA of taking oil from other countries and has for literal decades. But, as usual, he has no notion of the practicalities.
Trump likes the IDEA of taking oil from other countries and has for literal decades. But, as usual, he has no notion of the practicalities.
January 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
It is both true that Trump's intervention is about the oil AND that it makes no sense as a capitalist matter.
Trump likes the IDEA of taking oil from other countries and has for literal decades. But, as usual, he has no notion of the practicalities.
Trump likes the IDEA of taking oil from other countries and has for literal decades. But, as usual, he has no notion of the practicalities.
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"Oil" is not playing the vulgar Marxist role of a profit-motivated industry pulling the strings. Rather, "oil" is a concept in Trump's mind, an object of ideology for him personally.
January 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
"Oil" is not playing the vulgar Marxist role of a profit-motivated industry pulling the strings. Rather, "oil" is a concept in Trump's mind, an object of ideology for him personally.
this is so funny to me
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
this is so funny to me
If you want to know how bad this situation is, I am out here doing doctrinal analysis. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Trump accused of blatant breach of international law - ABC listen
Law experts and politicians are labelling US President Donald Trump's actions in Venezuela a clear breach of international law.
www.abc.net.au
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 AM
If you want to know how bad this situation is, I am out here doing doctrinal analysis. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
January 4, 2026 at 10:52 PM
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
for part of the left it will always be a mix of 1960 and 2003 and this seems like a problem to me personally.
The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane
January 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
for part of the left it will always be a mix of 1960 and 2003 and this seems like a problem to me personally.
A bunch of people in New York can truly do the funniest thing
So like, what if Maduro is somehow acquitted?
January 4, 2026 at 9:51 PM
A bunch of people in New York can truly do the funniest thing
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vibes-based international chaos
January 4, 2026 at 6:53 PM
vibes-based international chaos
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Organising rests on the insight that the psyche can flow from action, that what is sometimes needed to become the sort of subject who feels empowered to stand up to the boss or the police or the state, is to act, in some small way, as if you already were that subject www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Organising rests on the insight that the psyche can flow from action, that what is sometimes needed to become the sort of subject who feels empowered to stand up to the boss or the police or the state, is to act, in some small way, as if you already were that subject www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Good thing then that the EU condemned this unequivocally lol
US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
Danish ambassador posts ‘friendly reminder’ about defence ties after provocative Maga post over territory
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Good thing then that the EU condemned this unequivocally lol
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but don't worry, i'm sure the PrOtEcT tHe GirLs crew will be all over this
This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
January 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM
but don't worry, i'm sure the PrOtEcT tHe GirLs crew will be all over this
There is a non zero chance that this is just all happening so that they can produce content and that’s legitimately the most terrifying scenario
I think what gets me about the Galeano thing is that the left is once again imputing the imperial designs and strategy of midcentury America to a gang of illiterate drunks and pedophiles who neither know nor care about anything but the next content cycle
January 4, 2026 at 1:42 PM
There is a non zero chance that this is just all happening so that they can produce content and that’s legitimately the most terrifying scenario