Torrent Frets On Fire Pack' title='Torrent Frets On Fire Pack' />Follow These People on Twitter to Help You Understand the TrumpRussia Connection. Its a lot, rightIts a lot. It is a firehose of news. How are we supposed to live our lives, cook a meal, uncrimp our hunched over necks Even when I shut my computer, it still flashes its little light in the corner, ready to alert me to the horrors of the world like some kind of pulsing Hellmouth. But one doesnt want to be uninformed So here is my solution, sort of, when I can restrain myself from nervously tapping and clicking my phone for new news, kind of like one does with a rosary, if a rosary also had the power to deliver jolts of terrified adrenaline I head on over to Twitter. But, instead of traveling aimlessly down that endless media highway, absorbing the random thoughts of random people of my totally un curated Twitter feed and thinking dimly thats interesting about how children should be bored in the summer or wow, that headline has the suffix according to science, so it must be true, or I dont think thats what treason means, Ive made a Twitter list that limits me to legal and political media types who seem to actually understand the TrumpRussianational security issues that are dominating the news. In addition to the accounts that everyone followsThe New York Times, The Washington Post, Maggie Haberman, Preet Bharara, etc. I glance at this short list a few times a day to keep me up to date. Take a look NB This wont necessarily reduce the amount of time you spend onlinethese people are prolific tweeters, writers, lawyers, and podcasters, and even just this smallish group could send you down some winding Twitter rabbit holes. Have other suggestions Leave them in the comments and Ill adjust my list on Twitter. Benjamin Wittes is the co founder and editor in chief of Lawfare, which is devoted to the discussion of hard national security choices itself worth following lawfareblog. He was an editorial writer for the Washington Post for nine years and is now a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. His feed serves as both informationentertainment on its own and as an excellent shunt toward other legal tweeters. Chafetz is law professor at Cornell and author of the forthcoming Congresss Constitution Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers. According to Steve Vladeck, the editor in chief of Just Security see below, hes particularly good on the powers and role of Congress. Abramson is an attorney and professor of English at UNH and is apparently devoting his every waking moment to explaining stuff on Twitter. He has 1. 18. K followers, so I guess a lot of other people need these explanations, too. I like his lengthy threads explaining complicated matters in short sentences, because heyif I had any kind of attention span I wouldnt be on Twitter in the first place. Heres the start of an epic thread tweet, this one on criminal versus non criminal investigations A site dedicated to law, rights, and national security. Its co editor in chief, stevevladeck, a law professor at UT, is also worth following, as are others associated with Just Security, like Ryan Goodman at rgoodlaw. Torrent Frets On Fire Pack' title='Torrent Frets On Fire Pack' />Vladeck calls Goodman good for random criminal statutes. I like Just Security for commentary on international events, especially when my attention is so glued to Washington. Goldsmith is a Harvard Law prof, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a co founder of Lawfare. His laconic commentary isnt especially hilarious, but then, what is hilarious about national security these daysBut his annotations on current events media alert me to what stories arent getting enough attention, as well as longer form commentary for perspective. Finally, a brief shout out to Matt Tait pwnallthethings. The solar eclipse is rapidly approaching and, for the towns that happen to be in the narrow 70mile band of best observation, this means gearing up for quite the. Magic Photo Editor Full Version With Key. Tait writes primarily about cybersecurity, but Benjamin Wittes notes that he also follows Tait for stuff in the legalpoliticalsecurity area too. And with that, I leave you with this tweet. Torrent Frets On Fire Pack' title='Torrent Frets On Fire Pack' />Kilauea Mount Etna Mount Yasur Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Piton de la Fournaise Erta Ale.