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Reposted by Nicaragua, Anna O. Law, Richard S.J. Tol , and 12 more

mclem.org
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.

Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Stephen M. Walt, Dorothy Bishop , and 9 more

sifill.bsky.social
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Anna O. Law, Rosemary A. Joyce

pattymo.com
Genuine lol at the NYT referring to “bribing a reporter” as “a bold departure from political norms.” A complete and total allergy to calling bad things bad (provided it’s not anyone that can be cast as progressive doing the things)
August 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Will Jennings, Jon Pierre , and 5 more

atrupar.com
Alina Habba says the federal judges should "just be doing their job -- respecting the president"
August 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law , and 16 more

matthewstiegler.bsky.social
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
August 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM

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anjalikdayal.bsky.social
El Salvador submitted human rights reports to a comparatively obscure UN committee claiming they were obeying human rights law, & that the US was to blame for any crimes committed against migrants sent to CECOT. For @cipolicy.bsky.social I argue this shows us we can still mobilize against impunity.
El Salvador’s actions show Human Rights law matters - CIP
By claiming compliance with human rights law, even as leaders vocally flout them, El Salvador’s shows those laws matter.
internationalpolicy.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Kori Schake, Kim L. Scheppele , and 2 more

marisakabas.bsky.social
BREAKING — Dept. of Defense civilian employees all received an email a short while ago offering them the opportunity to support ICE and CBP “as they fulfill the President's intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system.”

Full text of email and attached memo from Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth:
Subject: Department of Defense (DoD) Support to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - Southern Border/Internal Immigration Enforcement Activities FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES Per the attached, the Secretary of Defense has authorized DoD civilian employees to participate in details to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to contribute to its operations along the Southern Border and its internal immigration enforcement activities. Selected Department employees will have a chance to offer critical support to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as they fulfill the President's intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system. Applications for details will be accepted at https://www.usajobs.gov/job/842956200. The process is as follows: 1. Apply at https://www.usajobs.gov/job/842956200. 2. DHS will review your application and documentation 3. Once you have been vetted, DHS will coordinate with the appointed representative from your organization to obtain the necessary approval for your detail 4. Once approval has been obtained, DHS will coordinate a start date and contact you about next steps if you have been immediately selected. 5. If qualified and not immediately selected, you will be kept in the applicant pool to fill additional needs as they arise MEMORANDUM FOR SENIOR PENTAGON LEADERSHIP COMMANDERS OF THE COMBATANT COMMANDS DEFENSE AGENCY AND DOD FIELD ACTIVITY DIRECTORS SUBJECT: Detailing of Department of Defense Civilian Employees to Support the Department of Homeland Security In support of the President's priority of securing our borders, I am authorizing the detail of Department of Defense (DoD) civilian employees to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to support its operations at the United States southern border and with internal immigration enforcement. Detail assignments may be either reimbursable or non-reimbursable. Non-reimbursable details are authorized where the expected benefit of a detail would be comparable to training or development programs that otherwise would be conducted at a DoD Component's expense. When determining whether a detail may be non-reimbursable under the above standard, DoD leaders should consider factors such as whether the tasks to be carried out by employees during the detail are of a similar nature to the tasks those employees execute in the course of their normal duties; whether the detail would otherwise enhance the skills and further develop the employees professionally: the duration of the contemplated detail for each employee, including the fact that the training and professional development value might diminish over time as the employee gains experience; and the impacts to the Department from the employee's absence. DoD supervisors and civilian employees shall comply with DHS procedures for deployment detail assignments, as appropriate. The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in coordination with DHS, will provide further guidance. Thank you for your continued support of the President's National Security priorities.
August 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM

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nytimes.com
Several of Fox News’s most prominent on-air news personalities made clear their desire to help President Trump shortly before and after the 2020 presidential election, according to a tranche of court documents released in a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox Corporation.
Documents Add Detail to Fox Hosts’ Desire to Help Trump
The documents were released as part of a defamation case against Fox Corporation filed by Smartmatic, an election technology company.
nyti.ms
August 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM

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elfaroenglish.bsky.social
📰 Trump Knew First: How His Ambassador Sat on Evidence of Bukele’s Gang Pacts — Five Years Ago

Read Issue No. 4 of Central America Monthly: beta.elfaro.net/en/monthly/i...
August 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM

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reuters.com
Peru's Boluarte pardons security forces for abuses during decades-long internal conflict reut.rs/4mIbx4W
Peru's Boluarte pardons security forces for abuses during decades-long internal conflict
Peru President Dina Boluarte signed a law on Wednesday pardoning military and police officers accused of human rights abuses committed from 1980 to 2000 during a bitter fight with leftist rebels.
reut.rs
August 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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freddydeknatel.bsky.social
Another step in the Trump administration’s censorship drive at the Smithsonian. Only “patriotic” art will be acceptable. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision
Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.
www.wsj.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Juan Cole

freddydeknatel.bsky.social
Trump wants a private garrison of troops he can deploy to quell protests—in other words, his own Praetorian Guard.

Maybe instead of the “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force," he can call it the 4th Armored Division, like Assad's private army. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest
Documents reviewed by The Post detail a prospective National Guard mission that, if adopted, would require hundreds of troops to be ready around-the-clock.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM

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niskanencenter.bsky.social
The Trump administration has diverted 6,700+ federal employees away from:

—white-collar crime
— national security
— drug and firearms trafficking
— tax compliance

It has reassigned them to work on deportations and other immigration-related investigations.
August 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Anne Applebaum, Joanna Bryson , and 7 more

aljazeera.com
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
aje.io
August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Nancy Kanwisher, Brigitte Nerlich , and 14 more

premthakker.bsky.social
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Anna O. Law, Neil Pederson

propublica.org
Calling from a Texas detention center, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas told his wife to hit record:

“They detained me simply because of my tattoos. I am not a criminal.”

“Just in case something happens to me, so you can be aware.”

A month later, he was gone.
He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared.
Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.
www.propublica.org
August 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Kim L. Scheppele, Raúl Pacheco-Vega

leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Only six months in and almost half of Project 2025 has been implemented:

thehill.com/opinion/whit...
After only 6 months, Project 2025 is already 47 percent complete
Increasingly, regular Americans seem to be waking up to the urgent constitutional crisis but have no idea what to do about it.
thehill.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM

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palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social
"The first day we arrived, the room was full of people for their court hearing, but since then, the presence of immigrants has been declining"

ICE's immigration courthouse arrests are deterring migrants from appearing for their hearings in El Paso.

My story for the El Paso Times:
ICE courthouse arrests are leading migrants to avoid their hearings, observers say
Immigration courthouse observers have documented a decrease in migrants arriving for their court hearings as ICE courthouse arrests continue.
www.elpasotimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Steve Peers

wired.com
Documents obtained by WIRED show FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism so as to align with "current administration priorities." www.wired.com/story/extrem...
Combating Domestic Violent Extremism Is No Longer a FEMA Priority
Documents obtained by WIRED show FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism so as to align with "current administration priorities."
www.wired.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Steve Peers, Juan Cole , and 2 more

phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
August 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM

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newsguy.bsky.social
"Paramount is installing a censor at CBS News with a direct line to the president." - Former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather
Bias or Just BS?
Another blow to CBS News
open.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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us.theconversation.com
The World Court ruled countries CAN be held liable for #climatechange damage.

Small island nations led the charge, citing existential threats from rising seas and economic disruption. buff.ly/O4HrY4C
#climatesky
The World Court just ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage – what does that mean for the US?
The ruling stems from the harm island nations are suffering as sea level rises, and it opens a door for future claims for reparations. But getting to that point isn’t so simple.
buff.ly
August 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM

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dsmilde.bsky.social
I Was Banished by My Country’s Dictator. What Happened to Me Is a Warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
Opinion | I Was Banished by My Country’s Dictator. What Happened to Me Is a Warning.
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Kim L. Scheppele

propublica.org
📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.”

Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:
August 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Kim L. Scheppele, Ian Hall , and 5 more

franzferdinand2.bsky.social
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 3
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Stephen M. Walt, Anna O. Law , and 22 more

w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings , and 7 more

atrupar.com
REPORTER: Why did you fire the head of the bureau of labor statistics?

TRUMP: Because I thought her numbers were wrong
August 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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poscresearch.bsky.social
What kinds of protests actually bring down political leaders? #polisky Hear UCR professor @dadakim.bsky.social describe a recently published study comparing the effectiveness of violent and nonviolent protests for removing political leaders: youtube.com/shorts/UQ-aa...
What kinds of protests actually bring down political leaders? #politicalscience
YouTube video by Political Science Research
youtube.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM

Reposted by Nicaragua, Marc Lynch, Elizabeth Saunders , and 25 more

donmoyn.bsky.social
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM

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ps9714.bsky.social
The Department of Education is launching an #investigation into #Duke #University and Duke #Law #Journal, the department announced in a news release, citing reporting that alleges the university was violating the #Civil #Rights #Act.
Trump administration launches investigation into Duke University and Duke Law Journal | CNN Politics
The Education Department is launching an investigation into Duke University and Duke Law Journal, the department announced in a news release on Monday, citing reporting that alleges the university was...
cnn.it
July 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM