David Amdur
@dhamdur.bsky.social
A human who can hypnotize frogs. Assoc. Director, UConn-AAUP. Posts are my own. He/Him
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Salvador Menéndez, accused of financing a death squad, became mayor in 2012 in El Salvador. He was re-elected in 2024, surviving Bukele’s four-fifths reduction of the number of municipalities.
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Death Squad Agent Accuses Salvadoran Mayor of Paying for Three-Dozen Murders
A cooperating witness from Halcón 32, a death squad within the Salvadoran Police, confessed to 97 murders, including a priest, businessmen, and alleged gang members. He told prosecutors that Salvador…
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December 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Salvador Menéndez, accused of financing a death squad, became mayor in 2012 in El Salvador. He was re-elected in 2024, surviving Bukele’s four-fifths reduction of the number of municipalities.
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Reading between the lines, it sounds like the captains of Boston University's cross country team want the ICE snitch off their team, and they're upset that the Dept of Athletics won't make it happen
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OP-ED: An open letter to the Boston University community from the captains of the BU Cross Country team
Op-Eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. Tucker Bowerfind (CAS ‘26), Adrienne Buettner-Cable (CAS ‘27), Caroline Collins (COM ‘28...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Reading between the lines, it sounds like the captains of Boston University's cross country team want the ICE snitch off their team, and they're upset that the Dept of Athletics won't make it happen
dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...
dailyfreepress.com/11/21/08/216...
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FBI Director Kash Patel announced that for the first time ever, the Bureau had indicted 'Antifa-aligned' individuals.
@ericcolumbus.bsky.social digs into the charges to understand the administration's efforts to target its ideological adversaries.
@ericcolumbus.bsky.social digs into the charges to understand the administration's efforts to target its ideological adversaries.
What’s Up With the Terror Indictment Against Alleged Antifa Members?
The Justice Department’s tacked-on charges are just for show. The larger plan is not.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
FBI Director Kash Patel announced that for the first time ever, the Bureau had indicted 'Antifa-aligned' individuals.
@ericcolumbus.bsky.social digs into the charges to understand the administration's efforts to target its ideological adversaries.
@ericcolumbus.bsky.social digs into the charges to understand the administration's efforts to target its ideological adversaries.
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
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“These centers bear some resemblance to the ‘para-educational’ institutes that began springing up… starting about 10 years ago…to provide extracurricular courses and events about conservative, classical or Christian ideas…Unlike those programs, these new centers are formally part of universities.” 👇
Move over, gender studies: the conservative tide coming for US universities
Deeming universities too leftwing, outside donors and state governments are sponsoring curricula that center the classics, Christianity and the ‘great books’ of western civilization
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November 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“These centers bear some resemblance to the ‘para-educational’ institutes that began springing up… starting about 10 years ago…to provide extracurricular courses and events about conservative, classical or Christian ideas…Unlike those programs, these new centers are formally part of universities.” 👇
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“There’s a concerted effort to disassemble the CDC. The current regime is blocking science, & their political will is in destroying public health rather than building it.”
After massive cuts at the CDC, what’s left of COVID-19 mitigation? @lauralew105.bsky.social speaks to public health experts.
After massive cuts at the CDC, what’s left of COVID-19 mitigation? @lauralew105.bsky.social speaks to public health experts.
After massive CDC cuts, what's left of COVID-19 mitigation efforts?
Massive cuts at CDC and growing hostility toward vaccination under Kennedy leave the public more vulnerable to COVID-19, experts say
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October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“There’s a concerted effort to disassemble the CDC. The current regime is blocking science, & their political will is in destroying public health rather than building it.”
After massive cuts at the CDC, what’s left of COVID-19 mitigation? @lauralew105.bsky.social speaks to public health experts.
After massive cuts at the CDC, what’s left of COVID-19 mitigation? @lauralew105.bsky.social speaks to public health experts.
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Víctor Manuel’s family received a note saying he died of pulmonary edema —the same cause listed in dozens of suspicious autopsies from El Salvador’s prisons— but their family still doesn’t know why he was arrested.
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“I endured the civil war, but my husband’s death in prison was worse”
In October 2024, it was the funeral home employees, not the state, who arrived at a tortilla shop in rural Santa Ana, El Salvador, to announce the death of Víctor Manuel Orellana, a 57-year-old…
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October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Víctor Manuel’s family received a note saying he died of pulmonary edema —the same cause listed in dozens of suspicious autopsies from El Salvador’s prisons— but their family still doesn’t know why he was arrested.
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El Faro gathered 27 testimonies of survivors of Bukele’s prisons. None of them belonged to a gang; they were teachers, campesinos, fishermen, saleswomen, and workers. beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
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…
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October 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
El Faro gathered 27 testimonies of survivors of Bukele’s prisons. None of them belonged to a gang; they were teachers, campesinos, fishermen, saleswomen, and workers. beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
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A Compact for Control:
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
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No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
@yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social @uchicagolaw.bsky.social
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A Compact for Control (opinion)
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
www.insidehighered.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A Compact for Control:
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
@yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social @uchicagolaw.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
@yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social @uchicagolaw.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...