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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1h

we have a president whose m.o. is to lie and propagandize and both a legacy media and a supreme court predisposed to defer. it's a toxic combo and we see it day after day.

Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 7h

This Veterans Day, Americans may like to know a wide coalition of Dutch political parties in Limburg are fighting back against the removal of 2 panels commemorating black veterans at Margraten US WOII cemetery ↘️ www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/call...

Calls for permanent memorial in Limburg to black US liberators - DutchNews.nl

Provincial councillors in Limburg have called for a permanent memorial to black American servicemen to be erected next to the US war cemetery in Margraten after it emerged that panels commemorating th...

www.dutchnews.nl

Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 7h

I wrote something last month about how this and the similar Russian case were USG cooperation in transnational repression: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/08/t...

Trump Is Supporting Transnational Repression

Instead of sheltering pro-democracy dissidents, America is now returning them for arrest.

foreignpolicy.com

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 19h

there is a way in which this is perfectly consistent with trump's (and maga's) refusal to hear -- let alone consider -- any criticism. they can stick their fingers in their ears & they can skip out on meetings, but that doesn't change the reality of abuses they are perpetrating.

ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The Trump administration is setting a dangerous precedent.

The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.

US skips human rights review by UN body as countries appeal for its return next year

The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member countries, on orders of the Trump administration — which has turned its back on the Human Rights Council.

apnews.com

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 21h

spoken like a true nobel laureate

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "I stopped 8 wars in the last 9 months. I don't want to be in wars. If I am in a war, we're gonna win the thing fast and it'll be violent."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "I stopped 8 wars in the last 9 months. I don't want to be in wars. If I am in a war, we're gonna win the thing fast and it'll be violent."

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 22h

pretty much

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 22h

💯

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 22h

i think it's important to write these pieces still. it's just that they have to be grounded in the reality that this admin doesn't want debate, doesn't want good or provocative ideas, unless they advance trump's financial or political interests.

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 22h

it just amazes me that people still write think pieces about what the admin should or shouldn't do without acknowledging that normal, rational, national-interest thinking (as hollow as that even was) has nothing to do with the way this admin views things.

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 22h

there is no separation at all between trump admin governance & donald trump's personal/family greed & ambitions. this is in part why all discussion of admin "policy" that neglects this baseline fact is so hollow & naive, & mystifying that ppl still write about policy without this framing.

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

highly recommend @qjurecic.bsky.social's piece in the atlantic. i think it's crucial to understand, as she notes, how overtly political trump admin repression is. it's not abt some bipartisan sense of threat. it's censorship to squash debate, civic space, criticism. the extremes of authoritarianism.

The Third Red Scare

The Trump administration is cracking down on Americans’ freedom of speech with a new viciousness, but the First Amendment won’t go down without a fight.

www.theatlantic.com

ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The Trump administration is setting a dangerous precedent.

The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.

US skips human rights review by UN body as countries appeal for its return next year

The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member countries, on orders of the Trump administration — which has turned its back on the Human Rights Council.

apnews.com

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.

Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.

The American people need more from their leaders.

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

those who cave, if they do, will never have a quiet lunch in public again. shame and shun.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

2/ The Senators who want to vote yes on basically any terms appear to be shaheen, Hassan, king and Fetterman. Slightly less clear but I think pushing that way are Peters and Durbin. You’ll note that four of these six are retiring. Others who seem on the fence include the two sens from Georgia and …

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

yikes.

on one flight from dushanbe to fergana the pilots invited me to join them in the cockpit the entire trip. cool but can you imagine?

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

2/ The Senators who want to vote yes on basically any terms appear to be shaheen, Hassan, king and Fetterman. Slightly less clear but I think pushing that way are Peters and Durbin. You’ll note that four of these six are retiring. Others who seem on the fence include the two sens from Georgia and …

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

if they could get me from
nyc to LA fast, i’d be on ‘em

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

this is really unfortunate news to read while waiting to board a ua flight at ewr.

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

this is a big and extremely dangerous deal. pegasus has been a tool of repression around the world.

is this the pivot to attacking american journalists, lawyers, civil society activists?

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: NSO just hired former Trump ambassador to Israel.

They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America.

Your rights and freedoms are in danger.

NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

harrowing actually. started with a near miss. a third of the seats were non operational.

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: NSO just hired former Trump ambassador to Israel.

They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America.

Your rights and freedoms are in danger.

NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

last time i had a flight like this it was on aeroflot from fergana uzbekistan to moscow, 1992. and it was unnerving to say the least.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like this is real. About 40% of the flight at 8k feet, then bumped up to 10k, and then finally went up higher, but only to 20k feet. Much slower than normal flight and likely burned a lot more fuel. But the view out the window was probably impressive.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d

congrats! impressive!

Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 2d

The US government is trying as hard as it can to ensure that Americans starve. The USG is threatening states that are trying to help.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the unbelievable "undo" letter USDA sent: www.fns.usda.gov/snap/updated...

SUBJECT: Updated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) November Benefit Issuance
This memorandum is a follow up to the guidance shared on October 10, October 24, November 4, November 5, and November 7, 2025, regarding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for November 2025.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted the U.S. Department of Agriculture an administrative stay of the orders issued by the District Court of Rhode Island in Rhode Island State Council of Churches, et al. v. Rollins, 25-cv-569. Pending any explicit direction to the contrary from Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), States must not transmit full benefit issuance files to EBT processors. Instead, States must continue to process and load the partial issuance files that reflect the 35 percent reduction of maximum allotments detailed in the November 5 guidance.

To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized. Accordingly, States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025. Please advise the appropriate FNS Regional Office representative of steps taken to correct any actions taken that do not comply with this memorandum.

Per 7 CFR 271.7(h), failure to comply with this memorandum may result in USDA taking various actions, including cancellation of the Federal share of State administrative costs and holding States liable for any overissuances that result from the noncompliance.

We are committed to keeping you as up to date as possible and appreciate your continued partnership to serve program beneficiaries across the country. State agencies with questions should contact their FNS Regional Office representative.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: The Justice Department formally appeals U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction, which restricts the use of force against protesters and journalists.

NOTICE OF APPEAL
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION
CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB et al. ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. )
KRISTI NOEM, Secretary of U.S. ) Department of Homeland Security, in her )
No. 25-cv-12173
Hon. Sara L. Ellis,
) United States District Judge
Defendants hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit this Court’s preliminary injunction order, see ECF Nos. 250 & 256, including this Court’s Opinion and Order granting class certification, see ECF Nos. 252 & 256, to the extent the Court’s grant of a class-wide preliminary injunction depends on that decision.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like this is real. About 40% of the flight at 8k feet, then bumped up to 10k, and then finally went up higher, but only to 20k feet. Much slower than normal flight and likely burned a lot more fuel. But the view out the window was probably impressive.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 3d

if you are in NYC and have any interest in diplomacy, climate change, int'l negotiations, & america's role in the world (and the perception of it), i urge you to catch kyoto. unusually perceptive, makes negotiations over bracketed text seem exciting!

In ‘Kyoto,’ Seeking to Save the Earth but Veering Off Course

www.nytimes.com

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 3d

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 4d

YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.

I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.

To hack Americans. 1/

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 4d

YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.

I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.

To hack Americans. 1/

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