Rosie Berman
@rosie-berman.bsky.social
she/her | preserving the human element in war & peace | no kings in America | @fletcherschool.bsky.social '21 | all opinions my own
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We need accountability from Venezuela to Minnesota - CIP
The impunity of security forces brought us crises at home and abroad. Only accountability can lead us out.
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What appears unprecedented isn't as unprecedented as we think it is. In my latest for the International Policy Journal at @cipolicy.bsky.social, I write about how the abuses we're seeing under the second Trump admin are an unfortunate consequence of decades of unaccountability for similar 🧵
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Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
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It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
February 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
"If America wants to stand for human rights again, we must start by telling the truth—and by making clear that no badge, no agency, and no president is above the law.”
- @repmcgovern.bsky.social
Proud Team McGovern alum right here.
- @repmcgovern.bsky.social
Proud Team McGovern alum right here.
Press Releases | Congressman Jim McGovern
mcgovern.house.gov
January 27, 2026 at 3:39 PM
"If America wants to stand for human rights again, we must start by telling the truth—and by making clear that no badge, no agency, and no president is above the law.”
- @repmcgovern.bsky.social
Proud Team McGovern alum right here.
- @repmcgovern.bsky.social
Proud Team McGovern alum right here.
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Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 26, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”
Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design"
"What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."
www.motherjones.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:39 PM
ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”
A reminder to everyone glued to the news: If it is not explicitly your job to watch the video, you don't have to. It doesn't make you a bad citizen or a bad activist.
If you're a journalist or researcher or investigator and it is your job, don't forget to take care of yourself.
If you're a journalist or researcher or investigator and it is your job, don't forget to take care of yourself.
What gets lost when atrocity footage becomes shareable content? | Human Security Project
humansecurityproject.org
January 24, 2026 at 5:51 PM
A reminder to everyone glued to the news: If it is not explicitly your job to watch the video, you don't have to. It doesn't make you a bad citizen or a bad activist.
If you're a journalist or researcher or investigator and it is your job, don't forget to take care of yourself.
If you're a journalist or researcher or investigator and it is your job, don't forget to take care of yourself.
What appears unprecedented isn't as unprecedented as we think it is. In my latest for the International Policy Journal at @cipolicy.bsky.social, I write about how the abuses we're seeing under the second Trump admin are an unfortunate consequence of decades of unaccountability for similar 🧵
We need accountability from Venezuela to Minnesota - CIP
The impunity of security forces brought us crises at home and abroad. Only accountability can lead us out.
internationalpolicy.org
January 23, 2026 at 5:39 PM
What appears unprecedented isn't as unprecedented as we think it is. In my latest for the International Policy Journal at @cipolicy.bsky.social, I write about how the abuses we're seeing under the second Trump admin are an unfortunate consequence of decades of unaccountability for similar 🧵
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Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
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Good showing in Pershing Park for the @freedcproject.bsky.social protest of the Trump administration. “Our homes, our rules,” read many of the signs.
January 20, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Good showing in Pershing Park for the @freedcproject.bsky.social protest of the Trump administration. “Our homes, our rules,” read many of the signs.
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When Google cuts off the headline at the proper place.
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
When Google cuts off the headline at the proper place.
I wrote something along these lines for @humansecurityproj.bsky.social last year:
January 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I wrote something along these lines for @humansecurityproj.bsky.social last year:
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tfw you have no elected senators to call and demand impeachment proceedings from because you live in #dc and you have no voting representation 🫠
January 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
tfw you have no elected senators to call and demand impeachment proceedings from because you live in #dc and you have no voting representation 🫠
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Also if anyone is interested in the history of the United States' attempts to topple leaders in South America and install more friendly dictators then you can - and I'm not joking here - download the files from the CIA website.
January 3, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Also if anyone is interested in the history of the United States' attempts to topple leaders in South America and install more friendly dictators then you can - and I'm not joking here - download the files from the CIA website.
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This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
I am sure Suzanne Collins takes no pleasure in being right about the reality TV-ification of political violence
When you have introduced aesthetics into political life
Trump to Fox & Friends on the raid that captured Maduro: "I mean, I watched it literally l like I was watching a television show. If you would've seen the speed, the violence -- it was an amazing thing."
January 3, 2026 at 3:35 PM
I am sure Suzanne Collins takes no pleasure in being right about the reality TV-ification of political violence
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Trump's assault on Caracas is his foreign policy in a nutshell: reckless, illegal, and completely counterproductive. These actions won't improve the lives of people in Venezuela or the U.S and our thoughts are with those impacted by this violence. We’re watching the situation closely.
January 3, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Trump's assault on Caracas is his foreign policy in a nutshell: reckless, illegal, and completely counterproductive. These actions won't improve the lives of people in Venezuela or the U.S and our thoughts are with those impacted by this violence. We’re watching the situation closely.
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Whenever foreign policy is about advancing peace and development the line is “we can’t do it because the American public is against it” but when it comes to invading countries—which is way more unpopular—suddenly public opinion goes out the window
January 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Whenever foreign policy is about advancing peace and development the line is “we can’t do it because the American public is against it” but when it comes to invading countries—which is way more unpopular—suddenly public opinion goes out the window
...and this isn't the silliest I've seen them look this week.
I'm not gonna presume everybody's Christian, but I can guess from the states that they're deployed from that most of them are. They should be at home taking silly Santa hat photos with their families.
I'm not gonna presume everybody's Christian, but I can guess from the states that they're deployed from that most of them are. They should be at home taking silly Santa hat photos with their families.
National Guard wearing Santa hats while patrolling in DC.
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
...and this isn't the silliest I've seen them look this week.
I'm not gonna presume everybody's Christian, but I can guess from the states that they're deployed from that most of them are. They should be at home taking silly Santa hat photos with their families.
I'm not gonna presume everybody's Christian, but I can guess from the states that they're deployed from that most of them are. They should be at home taking silly Santa hat photos with their families.
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Really hard to imagine this opinion coming down the way it did if Illinoisans hadn't rallied to protect their neighbors and Pritzker hadn't publicly and forcefully resisted the administration.
December 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Really hard to imagine this opinion coming down the way it did if Illinoisans hadn't rallied to protect their neighbors and Pritzker hadn't publicly and forcefully resisted the administration.
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Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
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In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt.
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt.
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
This past year, I finally got around to reading Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy. Yes, it's as good as everyone said it was. Unfortunately, it's also quite relevant to U.S. politics. In my blog, I reflect on reading Wolf Hall in 2025 and the perilous gap between actions and consequences
Scaramella Goes to War
A mercurial leader obsessed with his own status, power, and virility makes policy decisions based on petty whims and grudges. Uninterested in the everyday act of ruling, he outsources governance to…
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December 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This past year, I finally got around to reading Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy. Yes, it's as good as everyone said it was. Unfortunately, it's also quite relevant to U.S. politics. In my blog, I reflect on reading Wolf Hall in 2025 and the perilous gap between actions and consequences
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Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
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again, the crisis of masculinity people care about shoring up masculinity, not about the health and well being of men. these two things are antithetical. and nothing shows that more clearly than gun violence.
December 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
again, the crisis of masculinity people care about shoring up masculinity, not about the health and well being of men. these two things are antithetical. and nothing shows that more clearly than gun violence.
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DC Cir. will allow the continued deployment of National Guard troops in D.C. while the litigation continues.
Decision rests on idea that D.C. has no sovereignty (or federalism interest) of its own bc it is not a state.
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Decision rests on idea that D.C. has no sovereignty (or federalism interest) of its own bc it is not a state.
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![The District of Columbia, in contrast, is a federal district, not a sovereign State. From its inception, the District has been a creation of Congress. See U.S. CONST. Art. I, § 8, cl. 17 (vesting Congress with the power “[t]o exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District * * * as may * * * become the Seat of Government of the United States”). And not just a federal district, but also the Nation’s Capital—a jurisdiction in which Congress has distinctive power to provide for the defense of the operations and property of the federal government.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreiduu334jmbcannco2umj5xadaxgbhvpktvqbjjkdzdnwxnunung7y@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
DC Cir. will allow the continued deployment of National Guard troops in D.C. while the litigation continues.
Decision rests on idea that D.C. has no sovereignty (or federalism interest) of its own bc it is not a state.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Decision rests on idea that D.C. has no sovereignty (or federalism interest) of its own bc it is not a state.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...