The federal government does and should have the authority to deploy troops into our cities—even without local consent—*when the circumstances actually warrant it.*

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com, me on why the real issue in Portland, Chicago, and elsewhere is the missing / contrived factual predicate:

NEW in WashPost: As funding for CVT’s life-saving programs was abruptly halted, “Some clients were suicidal and found it ‘difficult to start to be hopeful & see the future’ after the violence of war,” said Solyana Gebru, who was assoc trainer in Ethiopia.
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Poet Kevin Young, director since 2021 of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, has been placed on leave.

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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

“Sending these men to face abuse is appalling and shameful. It is also against the law.” Sending Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador violates non-refoulement principle. New: @justsecurity.org by @scott-roehm.bsky.social & @becingber.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/109284/non-r...

“They don't know if they can feel safe here, and they came to the U.S. specifically to feel safe," said Sara Nelson, program mgr, in this news segment about the climate of fear that CVT's clients are experiencing. On @wcconews.bsky.social
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NEW on BBC: Medhanye Alem, who was clinical program director, CVT Ethiopia, until U.S. funding cuts, speaks about the enormous need for mental health services: "They know our main agenda is to bring healing, to restore their dignity. Nothing else.” www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

“This sudden disruption is having a huge impact on the healing of traumatized people,” said Yohannes Fisseha, who served as training manager in CVT Ethiopia. The article notes CVT had to halt counseling, physiotherapy & training for health workers.
apnews.com/article/ethi...

“Those who are impacted the most by these closures are people who have already suffered at the hands of some of the world’s worst human rights abusers.” @simonadams.bsky.social in the @startribune.com on impacts of funding cuts on survivors of torture.
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“You were the food for our soul, heart and body,” said a survivor of torture to counselors at CVT Ethiopia as they were forced to abruptly end healing care. Read more about CVT's emergency response:
www.cvt.org/articles/eme...

New in the @nytimes.com: “’We are in disbelief,’ said Medhanye Alem of the Center for Victims of Torture, which treats survivors of conflict-related trauma at nine centers in northern Ethiopia, all now closed.” By @declanwalsh.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/w...

CVT's clients: “Some were imprisoned & tortured, some have survived persecution & atrocities, some had loved ones taken from them & ‘disappeared.’ And some are children.” @simonadams.bsky.social writes about impacts of halting care programs for torture survivors.
www.cvt.org/articles/whe...

We’ve received stop-work orders from the U.S. requiring us to halt multiple international programs and furlough the majority of our staff. These closures impact safety, health and wellbeing of the people we serve. You can help: www.cvt.org

A word from on the Gaza ceasefire from @simonadams.bsky.social: “There can be no lasting peace without addressing both the symptoms and the underlying causes of the conflict.” Read the statement:
www.cvt.org/statements/t...

CVT has been working with Syrian refugees living in Amman for more than a decade. There is hope. Story by Brittney Ermon at @kstptv.bsky.social
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“There’s lots of states that use torture, but the Assad regime did it on an industrial scale.” @simonadams.bsky.social comments on Assad, “a world leader in institutional cruelty and widespread and systematic use of torture.”
www.startribune.com/syrians-emer...

“In failing to confront the truth of its post-9/11 actions, the United States perpetuates a culture of impunity,” writes CVT’s Yumna Rizvi at the 10th anniversary of the CIA torture report.
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