Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman.bsky.social
I'm an activist, a legal scholar, a philosopher, a progressive. I use social media to think out loud and to build community and coalitions. Also at [email protected]. Blog at https://heidi-says.ghost.io.
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If you want to know why Pete Hegseth is confident he'll face no consequences for blatant war crimes, just look at the list of people who attended Dick Cheney's funeral.
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If you want to know why Pete Hegseth is confident he'll face no consequences for blatant war crimes, just look at the list of people who attended Dick Cheney's funeral.
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King: Are you saying Geneva Conventions shouldn't be followed in the future?
Hegseth: Rules about how we treat prisoners, etc., in the geneva convention is important but we have to acknowledge that how was fought when they were drafted is not the reality of how war is fought now..
Hegseth: Rules about how we treat prisoners, etc., in the geneva convention is important but we have to acknowledge that how was fought when they were drafted is not the reality of how war is fought now..
January 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
King: Are you saying Geneva Conventions shouldn't be followed in the future?
Hegseth: Rules about how we treat prisoners, etc., in the geneva convention is important but we have to acknowledge that how was fought when they were drafted is not the reality of how war is fought now..
Hegseth: Rules about how we treat prisoners, etc., in the geneva convention is important but we have to acknowledge that how was fought when they were drafted is not the reality of how war is fought now..
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King: Should the law incorporating the Geneva Conventions not be on the books?
Hegseth: We must follow rules, but we don't need burdensome rules of engagement that make it impossible for us to win these wars
Hegseth: We must follow rules, but we don't need burdensome rules of engagement that make it impossible for us to win these wars
January 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
King: Should the law incorporating the Geneva Conventions not be on the books?
Hegseth: We must follow rules, but we don't need burdensome rules of engagement that make it impossible for us to win these wars
Hegseth: We must follow rules, but we don't need burdensome rules of engagement that make it impossible for us to win these wars
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The law wisely does not permit the feds just to turn off the funding spigots w/o following legal requirements, and certainly not without explaining themselves. Why, you might ask? Well, to prevent the feds from acting like the mob and shaking down Unis to push them around for partisan ... 3/x
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The law wisely does not permit the feds just to turn off the funding spigots w/o following legal requirements, and certainly not without explaining themselves. Why, you might ask? Well, to prevent the feds from acting like the mob and shaking down Unis to push them around for partisan ... 3/x
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Trump wants the US to replay the rise of Russian kleptocracy in the 90s, complete with obscene enrichment of himself & his oligarchs while immiserating the rest of us.
In the ~35yrs since the USSR fell, RU has become the most economically unequal society on earth:20+% of HH lacking indoor plumbing.
In the ~35yrs since the USSR fell, RU has become the most economically unequal society on earth:20+% of HH lacking indoor plumbing.
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Trump wants the US to replay the rise of Russian kleptocracy in the 90s, complete with obscene enrichment of himself & his oligarchs while immiserating the rest of us.
In the ~35yrs since the USSR fell, RU has become the most economically unequal society on earth:20+% of HH lacking indoor plumbing.
In the ~35yrs since the USSR fell, RU has become the most economically unequal society on earth:20+% of HH lacking indoor plumbing.
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Still haven't read the full agreement because I deserve nice things occasionally. But there's really a need for a propublica-type investigation into the social network of these boards, presidents, & donors with the admin. At the same time, exploring the similarities and differences across deals.
I would love to see detailed reporting about how these deals come together. This one looks like an inside job even more than Columbia’s.
I’ll look at it in more depth later but Northwestern’s agreement seems more campus-specific than previous deals and imposes restrictions on campus conduct beyond what others ave agreed to. Northwestern seems to have surrendered autonomy to a shocking extent. www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Still haven't read the full agreement because I deserve nice things occasionally. But there's really a need for a propublica-type investigation into the social network of these boards, presidents, & donors with the admin. At the same time, exploring the similarities and differences across deals.
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The fact that TPUSA posted the entirely reasonable comments from the instructor here as coming from the “TRANS PROFESSOR” gives away the game.
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The fact that TPUSA posted the entirely reasonable comments from the instructor here as coming from the “TRANS PROFESSOR” gives away the game.
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
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November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Also, too, largest known oil reserves in the world and right-wing exiles in Miami pushing regime change like they're developing exploding cigars for Castro
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Also, too, largest known oil reserves in the world and right-wing exiles in Miami pushing regime change like they're developing exploding cigars for Castro
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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This would, if proven out, become the very picture of white-nationalist foreign policy: a lawless murder-at-sea spree, leading into unprovoked brutality against a Latin American people, for the sake of justifying ethnic cleansing here at home.
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This would, if proven out, become the very picture of white-nationalist foreign policy: a lawless murder-at-sea spree, leading into unprovoked brutality against a Latin American people, for the sake of justifying ethnic cleansing here at home.
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Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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Look, everybody! Northwestern is run by a bunch of shitbird cowards!
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Look, everybody! Northwestern is run by a bunch of shitbird cowards!
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November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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5/ Administration explanation to Congress seems to be a bold-face falsehood: claiming double-tap strike was to clear debris, not to kill survivors.
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
5/ Administration explanation to Congress seems to be a bold-face falsehood: claiming double-tap strike was to clear debris, not to kill survivors.
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
"That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive."
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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Trump is delusional and mentally deficient
Trump posts an image of him holding a sign that reads, “Trump 2028, yes!”
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Trump is delusional and mentally deficient
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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Nothing says Thanksgiving quite like insisting that immigrants have no place here, and that new arrivals to North America “non-compatible” with the civilization they found here must be driven out.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Nothing says Thanksgiving quite like insisting that immigrants have no place here, and that new arrivals to North America “non-compatible” with the civilization they found here must be driven out.
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The New York Times reports that German Chancellor Merz found out about the U.S. “peace plan” from newspapers — the Americans hadn’t told him anything and he was shocked to read it.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The New York Times reports that German Chancellor Merz found out about the U.S. “peace plan” from newspapers — the Americans hadn’t told him anything and he was shocked to read it.
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Air Force vet….right beside you🙋🏻
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Air Force vet….right beside you🙋🏻
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I’m a veteran of the United States Navy, and I fully and completely support Senator Mark Kelly.
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I’m a veteran of the United States Navy, and I fully and completely support Senator Mark Kelly.
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Same! I am a former Navy JAG who did criminal and administrative tribunal defense.
I 200% support Capt. Kelly and state emphatically that the did NOTHING wrong, and that there is absolutely no basis upon which charge him.
Which is why we haven’t heard the basis for a charge under the UCMJ.
I 200% support Capt. Kelly and state emphatically that the did NOTHING wrong, and that there is absolutely no basis upon which charge him.
Which is why we haven’t heard the basis for a charge under the UCMJ.
I’m a veteran of the United States Navy, and I fully and completely support Senator Mark Kelly.
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Same! I am a former Navy JAG who did criminal and administrative tribunal defense.
I 200% support Capt. Kelly and state emphatically that the did NOTHING wrong, and that there is absolutely no basis upon which charge him.
Which is why we haven’t heard the basis for a charge under the UCMJ.
I 200% support Capt. Kelly and state emphatically that the did NOTHING wrong, and that there is absolutely no basis upon which charge him.
Which is why we haven’t heard the basis for a charge under the UCMJ.