Hans Schattle
@hansschattle.bsky.social
Political science professor @ Yonsei University
American in Seoul, South Korea
Democracy, citizenship; media; politics of East Asia, Europe and the United States
American in Seoul, South Korea
Democracy, citizenship; media; politics of East Asia, Europe and the United States
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Hans Schattle
@hansschattle.bsky.social
· Jul 10
South Korea's ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol rearrested
Yoon is in detention for a second time over his failed martial law declaration last year.
www.bbc.com
Here's how the rule of law works, when it comes to presidents who abuse power and violate the constitution.
South Korea's ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol already faces criminal charges of insurrection, in connection with his failed martial law decree last year.
South Korea's ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol already faces criminal charges of insurrection, in connection with his failed martial law decree last year.
The South Korean workers arrested and detained in the Hyundai raid are preparing a class action lawsuit accusing ICE of unlawful detention, racial profiling, human rights violations and excessive use of force. Says one worker: "We were locked up without knowing why, and the fear was overwhelming.”
Koreans detained in Georgia battery plant raid preparing class action lawsuit against ICE
Korean workers detained during an immigration raid at a Georgia EV battery plant in September are preparing a class-action lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ABC News repo...
koreajoongangdaily.joins.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The South Korean workers arrested and detained in the Hyundai raid are preparing a class action lawsuit accusing ICE of unlawful detention, racial profiling, human rights violations and excessive use of force. Says one worker: "We were locked up without knowing why, and the fear was overwhelming.”
One should always use scare quotes for "Truth Social," given the endless stream of lies posted there.
This entire article points out that there is no plan. His own Treasury Secretary says he doesn’t know anything about it. So why does media keep running these kind of headlines? He keeps making these Truth Social posts and media keeps running stories as if it is something real.
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One should always use scare quotes for "Truth Social," given the endless stream of lies posted there.
All year I've been waiting for a group of Republicans in Congress to show some backbone and join the Democrats in standing up for the American people and the essentials of American constitutional democracy. Very disappointed that instead some Democrats have done the reverse and caved into Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
All year I've been waiting for a group of Republicans in Congress to show some backbone and join the Democrats in standing up for the American people and the essentials of American constitutional democracy. Very disappointed that instead some Democrats have done the reverse and caved into Trump.
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Leo Garcia Venegas’s experience shows why Trump’s immigration raids are unconstitutional. (Gift article)
I hope his name goes down in legislative history as the case that forever protects us all from this unlawful and reprehensible policy.
I hope his name goes down in legislative history as the case that forever protects us all from this unlawful and reprehensible policy.
Opinion | He’s a citizen with a Real ID. ICE detained him anyway. Twice.
Leo Garcia Venegas’s experience shows why Trump’s immigration raids are unconstitutional.
wapo.st
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Leo Garcia Venegas’s experience shows why Trump’s immigration raids are unconstitutional. (Gift article)
I hope his name goes down in legislative history as the case that forever protects us all from this unlawful and reprehensible policy.
I hope his name goes down in legislative history as the case that forever protects us all from this unlawful and reprehensible policy.
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DHS and the White House pushed out sadistic videos celebrating this. The United States kidnapped people and dumped them in a foreign torture prison without any sort of process, and many of whom likely committed no serious crime. People in government need to be prosecuted for this.
Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
DHS and the White House pushed out sadistic videos celebrating this. The United States kidnapped people and dumped them in a foreign torture prison without any sort of process, and many of whom likely committed no serious crime. People in government need to be prosecuted for this.
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🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump violated the Constitution and federal law by ordering hundreds of National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, earlier this year, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump-Appointed Judge Rules His Portland Military Takeover Was Unconstitutional
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump violated the Constitution and federal law by ordering hundreds of National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, earlier this year, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Even though it mustered only 356 words to justify putting Trump's spiteful anti-trans passport policy back into effect, #SCOTUS managed to show us two of the flawed analytical moves it keeps making *only* in Trump cases to provide cover for granting emergency relief.
My latest, via "One First":
My latest, via "One First":
189. The Breezy Inequity of Trump v. Orr
The Supreme Court's latest grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration illustrates in technicolor the direct (and ugly) consequences of the two different ways it keeps messing up "equity."
www.stevevladeck.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Even though it mustered only 356 words to justify putting Trump's spiteful anti-trans passport policy back into effect, #SCOTUS managed to show us two of the flawed analytical moves it keeps making *only* in Trump cases to provide cover for granting emergency relief.
My latest, via "One First":
My latest, via "One First":
"Our neighbors are being kidnapped from their homes, on their way to picking up their children from child care... This is not immigration enforcement. This is racial terror. This is state-sanctioned violence. This is the face of fascism. Not in some far off land but in our backyard."
Latino community describes terror as ICE intensifies Oregon operations
And Washington County declared a state of emergency over the “fear and anxiety” residents feel amid the nationwide immigration crackdown.
www.oregonlive.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"Our neighbors are being kidnapped from their homes, on their way to picking up their children from child care... This is not immigration enforcement. This is racial terror. This is state-sanctioned violence. This is the face of fascism. Not in some far off land but in our backyard."
This is Manny from Hillsboro, Oregon, and he speaks for millions of children and families all across America right now. No child anywhere should have to live in fear. ICE must be stopped straight away, US immigration policy must change, and Congress should insist on nothing less.
Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is Manny from Hillsboro, Oregon, and he speaks for millions of children and families all across America right now. No child anywhere should have to live in fear. ICE must be stopped straight away, US immigration policy must change, and Congress should insist on nothing less.
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1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
"Schools are supposed to be places of safety, of security and not places where we have to talk to our children about why their teacher is being abducted and screaming and running away from agents with guns and masks while she is trying to enter the school."
- Parent at a Chicago preschool ICE raided
- Parent at a Chicago preschool ICE raided
Day care worker arrested by ICE in front of kids on North Side, witnesses say; large protest held
A day care worker was arrested by immigration agents in front of young children on the North Side Wednesday morning, witnesses said.
abc7chicago.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"Schools are supposed to be places of safety, of security and not places where we have to talk to our children about why their teacher is being abducted and screaming and running away from agents with guns and masks while she is trying to enter the school."
- Parent at a Chicago preschool ICE raided
- Parent at a Chicago preschool ICE raided
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Oh come ON!
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on Dec. 5 in Washington. https://to.pbs.org/47LyluB
FIFA to award new peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
www.pbs.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Oh come ON!
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Here we come. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Democrats didn’t just rebound. They dominated.
"This is a foreshadow of what we're going to see next year," said one strategist.
www.politico.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here we come. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Finland's Sanna Marin on advantages of multiparty systems and coalition govt:
"There is something beautiful about that way of thinking: that you don't go only with your own ideas, but you have to listen, you have to understand different values and then you can find compromises and a middle ground."
"There is something beautiful about that way of thinking: that you don't go only with your own ideas, but you have to listen, you have to understand different values and then you can find compromises and a middle ground."
“There’s always hope if there’s action.” Former Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin
I 🩵 Sanna Marin
I 🩵 Finland
I 🩵 Dance Scandal;)
A great conversation about life, politics, and hope.
Sanna Marin - Finland’s Former PM Shares Leadership Lessons in “Hope in Action”
The Daily Show 🆒
I 🩵 Sanna Marin
I 🩵 Finland
I 🩵 Dance Scandal;)
A great conversation about life, politics, and hope.
Sanna Marin - Finland’s Former PM Shares Leadership Lessons in “Hope in Action”
The Daily Show 🆒
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Finland's Sanna Marin on advantages of multiparty systems and coalition govt:
"There is something beautiful about that way of thinking: that you don't go only with your own ideas, but you have to listen, you have to understand different values and then you can find compromises and a middle ground."
"There is something beautiful about that way of thinking: that you don't go only with your own ideas, but you have to listen, you have to understand different values and then you can find compromises and a middle ground."
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Zohran Mamdani, the next mayor of NYC, has the potential to transform not just a city but the politics of a nation that desperately needs an antidote to Donald Trump’s oppressions, write Katrina vanden Heuvel and @nicholsuprising.bsky.social.
From Mission Impossible to Mister Mayor
If Zohran Mamdani governs as he campaigned, he will prove that the people have the power to shape their own future.
www.thenation.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Zohran Mamdani, the next mayor of NYC, has the potential to transform not just a city but the politics of a nation that desperately needs an antidote to Donald Trump’s oppressions, write Katrina vanden Heuvel and @nicholsuprising.bsky.social.
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This is an excellent, must-read, no-holds-barred obituary of Dick Cheney. (Written by two all-star Washington Post reporters who no longer work there.) Gift link: wapo.st/4oK1mhc
Dick Cheney, powerful vice president during war on terrorism, dies at 84
After 9/11, he used his role as President George W. Bush’s chief strategist to approve the use of torture and steer U.S. occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.
wapo.st
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is an excellent, must-read, no-holds-barred obituary of Dick Cheney. (Written by two all-star Washington Post reporters who no longer work there.) Gift link: wapo.st/4oK1mhc
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The Trump regime is doing what it promised it would do: ruling like despots, coercing and threatening people at home and abroad, and ultimately destroying the credibility of the US a great power.
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The Trump regime is doing what it promised it would do: ruling like despots, coercing and threatening people at home and abroad, and ultimately destroying the credibility of the US a great power.
Everyone in the United States should watch this horrifying video. The violence Dayanne Figueroa endured in a cruel, unlawful arrest - a kidnapping of a US citizen - could happen to any of us. And on top of all the trauma, now she has to get her car fixed. Abolish ICE and prosecute all using violence
As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Dayanne Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away.
Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Everyone in the United States should watch this horrifying video. The violence Dayanne Figueroa endured in a cruel, unlawful arrest - a kidnapping of a US citizen - could happen to any of us. And on top of all the trauma, now she has to get her car fixed. Abolish ICE and prosecute all using violence
The number of international college students in South Korea now tops 300,000 - a new record - and it's possible that universities in East Asia and around the world will attract even more of the world's best and brightest as long as Trump keeps attacking higher education in the United States.
Vietnam tops global list as South Korea sees record international student numbers - VnExpress International
South Korea attracted more than 305,000 international students as of August, surpassing its 2027 target, with Vietnamese students leading the influx.
e.vnexpress.net
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The number of international college students in South Korea now tops 300,000 - a new record - and it's possible that universities in East Asia and around the world will attract even more of the world's best and brightest as long as Trump keeps attacking higher education in the United States.
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yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.
It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.
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Incredible that it took this long for clarification
US not planning nuclear explosions at this time, energy secretary says reut.rs/3JHLqNs
US not planning nuclear explosions at this time, energy secretary says
The nuclear weapons testing ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump will not involve nuclear explosions at this time, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Sunday.
reut.rs
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Incredible that it took this long for clarification
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After gleefully and illegally plowing over every statute and regulation they don't like—such as by destroying USAID, refusing to enforce CFPB regs, and withholding SNAP funding—the Trump admin has decided 88 FR 8255 is ironclad law that must be ruthlessly enforced to ensure more people go hungry.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
After gleefully and illegally plowing over every statute and regulation they don't like—such as by destroying USAID, refusing to enforce CFPB regs, and withholding SNAP funding—the Trump admin has decided 88 FR 8255 is ironclad law that must be ruthlessly enforced to ensure more people go hungry.
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A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.
Fascinating read by @willripleycnn.bsky.social on why Kim Jong Un didn't bother meeting Donald Trump during his visit to Korea this time around (he'll keep his nuclear weapons, thank you) as well as how daily life in Pyongyang - or "Pyonghattan" - has improved a lot lately, at least for its elites.
Trump has departed Asia without meeting Kim Jong Un. North Koreans don’t seem to care | CNN
As President Donald Trump danced on the tarmac in Malaysia, met Japan’s Emperor in Tokyo, and accepted a gold crown in South Korea one key question kept following him – would he do a surprise meeting ...
edition.cnn.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Fascinating read by @willripleycnn.bsky.social on why Kim Jong Un didn't bother meeting Donald Trump during his visit to Korea this time around (he'll keep his nuclear weapons, thank you) as well as how daily life in Pyongyang - or "Pyonghattan" - has improved a lot lately, at least for its elites.
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The filibuster is a racist relic. If it goes away the door will be open to real change down the road. (Medicare For All, etc)
Not great that this would be why it finally falls — but sometimes the right thing can happen for the wrong reasons. www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
Not great that this would be why it finally falls — but sometimes the right thing can happen for the wrong reasons. www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The filibuster is a racist relic. If it goes away the door will be open to real change down the road. (Medicare For All, etc)
Not great that this would be why it finally falls — but sometimes the right thing can happen for the wrong reasons. www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...
Not great that this would be why it finally falls — but sometimes the right thing can happen for the wrong reasons. www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...