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Annie Swingen
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@AFPC-DC VP for External Relations. WaPo push alerts are contributing to my nearly constant fever-dreams. Opinions are my own. DC - Chicago.
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We also witnessed ICE come into the crowd on the sidelines and arrest our client Steve Held—again, with no apparent provocation.
Border Patrol standing off with protesters, press and legal observers who are still here.

Presuming many people are injured at this time, unsure how many detained in last attack.

Hearing folks believe the earlier arrests were targeting some specific organizers, unclear on that at this time.
September 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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ICE arrested press tonight. They threw a tear gas canister into the press last week. This was not an accident.

Release Steve Held.
NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening.

A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...
Chicago journalist detained while covering protest outside Broadview immigration facility • The TRiiBE
Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents earlier this evening.
thetriibe.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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🇦🇲🤝🇺🇸 For our Armenian readers: want to know more about the future of US-Armenian relations?

Read the most recent interview with our Senior Fellow for Eurasia and Director of Programs at CACI Laura Linderman @ljlinderman.bsky.social here:
«Դա նույնը չէ, ինչ պաշտոնապես դաշնակից լինելը». ԱՄՆ-Հայաստան ռազմավարական գործընկերության ապագան. «Ամերիկայի ձայն»
Վաշինգտոնն ու Երևանը հունվարի 14-ին ստորագրեցին ռազմավարական գործըննկերության կանոնադրությունը, որն, ըստ վերլուծաբանների, բարձրացնում է երկրների միջև հարաբերությունների մակարդակը: Ի՞նչ է նշանակում…
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February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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On February 24, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic Edil Baisalov announced that the Tajik city of Khujand will host the first trilateral summit between the presidents of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. (1/4)
February 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🇺🇸🇺🇦 This week, the AFPC proudly co-sponsored the US-Ukraine Security Dialogue XVII: Taking Measure of Ukraine’s Defense Capabilities/Needs After a Third Year of War in partnership with the UCCA, @unisdirect.bsky.social, and CUSUR!

Check out the live stream here: buff.ly/45uL5UT
February 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Here are 4 great reviews of #ChinasRelationsWithAfrica

(1) In The Mid Eastern Journal @ilariacarrozza.bsky.social says the book “lays bare the profoundly hierarchical nature of a network that in the official Chinese rhetoric is supposed to be 'equal' and 'win-win.'"
muse.jhu.edu/pub/119/arti...
November 26, 2024 at 7:17 PM