Christine Wade
@cjwade.bsky.social
Professor. 🖊of Captured Peace, Understanding Central America, Latin American Politics and Development, Nicaragua: Emerging From The Eagle’s Shadow. Shih Tzu mom. Saor Alba 🏴
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A new extraction frontier exists in southern Venezuela. In Bolívar and Amazonas armed groups extract critical minerals, a lucrative criminal enterprise: coltan, tin and rare earth elements, essential for electric vehicles, wind turbines and defence technologies. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping’: the lawless rush for rare earth minerals in Venezuela
Guerrilla groups have seized control of mining areas, exploiting Indigenous people and fuelling environmental ruin on the border with Colombia
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
A new extraction frontier exists in southern Venezuela. In Bolívar and Amazonas armed groups extract critical minerals, a lucrative criminal enterprise: coltan, tin and rare earth elements, essential for electric vehicles, wind turbines and defence technologies. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The Venezuelan nationals the United States government sent to El Salvador in March and April 2025 were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence.
NEW @hrw.org @cristosal.bsky.social report:
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
NEW @hrw.org @cristosal.bsky.social report:
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
US/El Salvador: Torture of Venezuelan Deportees
The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence.
www.hrw.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The Venezuelan nationals the United States government sent to El Salvador in March and April 2025 were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence.
NEW @hrw.org @cristosal.bsky.social report:
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
NEW @hrw.org @cristosal.bsky.social report:
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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El Salvador offers the US military landing zones in addition to prison cell space.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
U.S. Sends Attack Aircraft to El Salvador Amid Regional Troop Buildup
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
El Salvador offers the US military landing zones in addition to prison cell space.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
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The real sizes of continents. Most maps stretch places near the poles, making Greenland, Europe and the U.S. look way bigger than they really are. In reality. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland and around 80% bigger than Russia.
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The real sizes of continents. Most maps stretch places near the poles, making Greenland, Europe and the U.S. look way bigger than they really are. In reality. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland and around 80% bigger than Russia.
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I guess I'm not surprised but holy sh**.
Salvadoran police officer confesses to 97 murders and claims he was paid by mayor close to Bukele
Salvador Menéndez governs the municipality of La Paz Oeste and is a member of the party through which El Salvador’s president came to power in 2019
english.elpais.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I guess I'm not surprised but holy sh**.
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Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
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Under El Salvador’s regime of exception, thousands have suffered — even those who were once victims of the gangs. This is the security model that Bukele is selling to the world.
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From the Bowels of Bukele’s Prisons: Survivors Recount Death, Torture, and Starvation
The voices of these survivors of the prisons of the Salvadoran regime of exception depict barbarism sparing few horrors: murders by guards; elaborate torture involving hangings, placing bricks on…
beta.elfaro.net
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Under El Salvador’s regime of exception, thousands have suffered — even those who were once victims of the gangs. This is the security model that Bukele is selling to the world.
beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
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Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.
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Although an island of stability and democracy in a region often short of both, Costa Ricans’ faith in government is declining as the challenge of financing its costly welfare state grows. This democratic stalwart is no longer immune to the appeal of populism.
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muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Although an island of stability and democracy in a region often short of both, Costa Ricans’ faith in government is declining as the challenge of financing its costly welfare state grows. This democratic stalwart is no longer immune to the appeal of populism.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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#USA My cartoon today is about monsters. Come see the finished version here. And don't forget to share it so that together we can win the battle against the algorithm.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
#USA My cartoon today is about monsters. Come see the finished version here. And don't forget to share it so that together we can win the battle against the algorithm.
social.tinyview.com/lZpuGKJ2RXb
social.tinyview.com/lZpuGKJ2RXb
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@maxgranger.info interviews the Salvadoran journalist Julia Gavarette about the state of the country and Bukele's methods of control www.newglobalpolitics.org/el-salvador/
‘Little by little, we’re realizing the true scale of human loss in El Salvador’ - New Global Politics
A conversation with Salvadoran journalist Julia Gavarrete on fascism, militarism, and tech-bro gentrification under Nayib Bukele’s indefinite ‘state of exception.’
www.newglobalpolitics.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
@maxgranger.info interviews the Salvadoran journalist Julia Gavarette about the state of the country and Bukele's methods of control www.newglobalpolitics.org/el-salvador/
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One week into the state of exception and police holding cells were already overflowing. Outside one detention center, a world in miniature emerged. This is a story about the women who gathered at the gates of El Penalito.
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Greta and the Women of El Penalito
One week into the state of exception and the police holding cells in San Salvador —las bartolinas— were already overflowing with people arrested during the first days of the emergency decree. Soon,…
beta.elfaro.net
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One week into the state of exception and police holding cells were already overflowing. Outside one detention center, a world in miniature emerged. This is a story about the women who gathered at the gates of El Penalito.
beta.elfaro.net/en/from-the-...
beta.elfaro.net/en/from-the-...
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They must expect a lot of people all over the country to be really upset about something next year. I wonder what that could be?
October 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
They must expect a lot of people all over the country to be really upset about something next year. I wonder what that could be?
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A small but growing group of women have bought chinampas — island farms outside of Mexico City — to cultivate sustainably in an effort to preserve an ecosystem that is increasingly threatened by urban development, mass tourism and water pollution. apnews.com/article/mexi...
Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem
In Mexico, traditionally women did not inherit chinampas, island farms first built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago.
apnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A small but growing group of women have bought chinampas — island farms outside of Mexico City — to cultivate sustainably in an effort to preserve an ecosystem that is increasingly threatened by urban development, mass tourism and water pollution. apnews.com/article/mexi...
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“I have been covering these countries for a long time, and I have never been so worried about their futures.”
@sahel.crisisgroup.org Deputy Director, Ibrahim Yahaya, in @washingtonpost.com about security in the Sahel, amid JNIM's pressure campaign in #Mali.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
@sahel.crisisgroup.org Deputy Director, Ibrahim Yahaya, in @washingtonpost.com about security in the Sahel, amid JNIM's pressure campaign in #Mali.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Islamist extremists have taken this country to the brink
A fuel blockade imposed by al-Qaeda-aligned militants has paralyzed the capital of Mali and roiled its repressive military government.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“I have been covering these countries for a long time, and I have never been so worried about their futures.”
@sahel.crisisgroup.org Deputy Director, Ibrahim Yahaya, in @washingtonpost.com about security in the Sahel, amid JNIM's pressure campaign in #Mali.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
@sahel.crisisgroup.org Deputy Director, Ibrahim Yahaya, in @washingtonpost.com about security in the Sahel, amid JNIM's pressure campaign in #Mali.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Attacks on trans rights are often framed as efforts to "protect women."
But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.
But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.
Big tech firms are shutting down programs aimed at supporting women in STEM careers. Signaling once again that the spine of corporate America is as hollow as its pockets are deep.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...
‘Their history is just erased’: Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech | CNN Business
Google is offloading a key career resource program for supporting women in tech, another sign the search giant is unwinding its diversity programs following political pressure over diversity, equity a...
www.cnn.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Attacks on trans rights are often framed as efforts to "protect women."
But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.
But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.
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“.. In the first half of this year, the Trump Organization’s income soared 17-fold to $864 million ..
“.. more than 90% .. came from Trump crypto ventures, including sales of World Liberty tokens.”
@reuters.com $WLFI
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“.. more than 90% .. came from Trump crypto ventures, including sales of World Liberty tokens.”
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October 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“.. In the first half of this year, the Trump Organization’s income soared 17-fold to $864 million ..
“.. more than 90% .. came from Trump crypto ventures, including sales of World Liberty tokens.”
@reuters.com $WLFI
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“.. more than 90% .. came from Trump crypto ventures, including sales of World Liberty tokens.”
@reuters.com $WLFI
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans endorse the “heritage” rhetoric espoused by many MAGA leaders, instead viewing America as a nation where all people should have equal rights and freedoms.
(@melissadeckman.bsky.social @prri.org)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251026
(@melissadeckman.bsky.social @prri.org)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251026
October 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans endorse the “heritage” rhetoric espoused by many MAGA leaders, instead viewing America as a nation where all people should have equal rights and freedoms.
(@melissadeckman.bsky.social @prri.org)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251026
(@melissadeckman.bsky.social @prri.org)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251026
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ICE capades: The Resistance
This week we're doing something a little different. We take a look at the normal folks, day-in and day-out, defying the largest law-enforcement agency on the planet
Meet the resistance
LATEST by me for PWS www.piratewireservices.com/p/ice-capade...
This week we're doing something a little different. We take a look at the normal folks, day-in and day-out, defying the largest law-enforcement agency on the planet
Meet the resistance
LATEST by me for PWS www.piratewireservices.com/p/ice-capade...
ICE capades: The Resistance
This week we take a look at the normal folks, day-in and day-out, defying the largest law-enforcement agency on the planet
www.piratewireservices.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
ICE capades: The Resistance
This week we're doing something a little different. We take a look at the normal folks, day-in and day-out, defying the largest law-enforcement agency on the planet
Meet the resistance
LATEST by me for PWS www.piratewireservices.com/p/ice-capade...
This week we're doing something a little different. We take a look at the normal folks, day-in and day-out, defying the largest law-enforcement agency on the planet
Meet the resistance
LATEST by me for PWS www.piratewireservices.com/p/ice-capade...
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That anonymous donor could be foreign. That $130 million could be "military aid" from another nation.
In that scenario, we are Pinochet's Chile, and the unknown foreign donor is Henry Kissinger.
In that scenario, we are Pinochet's Chile, and the unknown foreign donor is Henry Kissinger.
October 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
That anonymous donor could be foreign. That $130 million could be "military aid" from another nation.
In that scenario, we are Pinochet's Chile, and the unknown foreign donor is Henry Kissinger.
In that scenario, we are Pinochet's Chile, and the unknown foreign donor is Henry Kissinger.
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On International Women's Day, "Milei changed the name of the Presidential Palace’s Room of Women, which ... featured portraits of prominent Argentine women, to that of the Founding Fathers’ Room, with only portraits of male historical figures adorning its walls."
Backstory on the Argentine bailout.
Backstory on the Argentine bailout.
October 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
On International Women's Day, "Milei changed the name of the Presidential Palace’s Room of Women, which ... featured portraits of prominent Argentine women, to that of the Founding Fathers’ Room, with only portraits of male historical figures adorning its walls."
Backstory on the Argentine bailout.
Backstory on the Argentine bailout.
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“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House