@huntertcarter.bsky.social
NY-based international business lawyer focused on LatAm arbitration, litigation, investigations, human rights, and foreign policy. Cesar’s husband, Duke’s dad. This account is personal, I’m not speaking on behalf of anyone.
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Arms sales to Latin America rarely rise above the threshold requiring congressional notification. But here's an April 1 notification of a $64 million sale of M4A1 rifles and related items to #Ecuador:
www.dsca.mil
April 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Arms sales to Latin America rarely rise above the threshold requiring congressional notification. But here's an April 1 notification of a $64 million sale of M4A1 rifles and related items to #Ecuador:
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Democratic candidates' percentage-point margins were +24 and +16 better in Florida's 2 special House elections today than they were for Harris in November.
If I'm a Republican who won their seat by 10 points or less, I'm feeling vulnerable—and less attached to the Trump agenda—this evening.
If I'm a Republican who won their seat by 10 points or less, I'm feeling vulnerable—and less attached to the Trump agenda—this evening.
April 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Democratic candidates' percentage-point margins were +24 and +16 better in Florida's 2 special House elections today than they were for Harris in November.
If I'm a Republican who won their seat by 10 points or less, I'm feeling vulnerable—and less attached to the Trump agenda—this evening.
If I'm a Republican who won their seat by 10 points or less, I'm feeling vulnerable—and less attached to the Trump agenda—this evening.
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Today in the House Intelligence Committee, agency chiefs presented their "Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment."
But here's something weird: Their 31-page doc forgot to mention the "predatory incursion" from Venezuela that, the White House says, forced it to invoke its 1798 Wartime Renditions Act.
But here's something weird: Their 31-page doc forgot to mention the "predatory incursion" from Venezuela that, the White House says, forced it to invoke its 1798 Wartime Renditions Act.
2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community
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www.odni.gov
March 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Today in the House Intelligence Committee, agency chiefs presented their "Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment."
But here's something weird: Their 31-page doc forgot to mention the "predatory incursion" from Venezuela that, the White House says, forced it to invoke its 1798 Wartime Renditions Act.
But here's something weird: Their 31-page doc forgot to mention the "predatory incursion" from Venezuela that, the White House says, forced it to invoke its 1798 Wartime Renditions Act.
This is a startling and concerning story about national security that seems more like the plot of a spy thriller.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is a startling and concerning story about national security that seems more like the plot of a spy thriller.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The reality here is very simple: Trump thinks there is no limit on his power, that he can spend money how he likes, jail who he likes, rule by fiat, criminalize criticism of himself. He is breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution. And we can either acknowledge that or keep pretending he isn’t.
March 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The reality here is very simple: Trump thinks there is no limit on his power, that he can spend money how he likes, jail who he likes, rule by fiat, criminalize criticism of himself. He is breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution. And we can either acknowledge that or keep pretending he isn’t.
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So we’re clear: this is what Pinochet did to justify the persecution of opposition parties - declared Chile “at war” to target those he did not like
March 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
So we’re clear: this is what Pinochet did to justify the persecution of opposition parties - declared Chile “at war” to target those he did not like
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"You want to think it's not happening, because otherwise you might have to do something about it." @shengwuli.bsky.social youtu.be/X_D-yW8v0Jo
The First Signs of Tyranny, From People Who Missed Them | NYT Opinion
YouTube video by The New York Times
youtu.be
March 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"You want to think it's not happening, because otherwise you might have to do something about it." @shengwuli.bsky.social youtu.be/X_D-yW8v0Jo
It’s a new time in America and it’s time to refresh, energize, and focus Democraticparty leadership newrepublic.com/article/1909...
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It’s a new time in America and it’s time to refresh, energize, and focus Democraticparty leadership newrepublic.com/article/1909...
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WAIT! Those images say "CST", which I read as US Central Time, 1 hour behind US Eastern Time.
But no: look up actual CST, it's 2 hours behind Washington, where the court convened.
So that first plane didn't land until 8:02pm, and the other two were 12:05 and 1:03am.
WAY after the judge's ruling.
But no: look up actual CST, it's 2 hours behind Washington, where the court convened.
So that first plane didn't land until 8:02pm, and the other two were 12:05 and 1:03am.
WAY after the judge's ruling.
OK, just to sum up what seems apparent from the flight data. Saturday evening:
* ~6:47: Judge Boasberg issues temporary restraining order.
* 7:02: 1 flight lands in San Salvador, plane doors likely open later than that.
* 11:05pm and 12:03am: 2 flights land in San Salvador after stop in Honduras.
* ~6:47: Judge Boasberg issues temporary restraining order.
* 7:02: 1 flight lands in San Salvador, plane doors likely open later than that.
* 11:05pm and 12:03am: 2 flights land in San Salvador after stop in Honduras.
March 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
WAIT! Those images say "CST", which I read as US Central Time, 1 hour behind US Eastern Time.
But no: look up actual CST, it's 2 hours behind Washington, where the court convened.
So that first plane didn't land until 8:02pm, and the other two were 12:05 and 1:03am.
WAY after the judge's ruling.
But no: look up actual CST, it's 2 hours behind Washington, where the court convened.
So that first plane didn't land until 8:02pm, and the other two were 12:05 and 1:03am.
WAY after the judge's ruling.
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‘It would be to Vargas Llosa’s credit if the sources of his disenchantment with the left were the crushing of the Prague Spring and the worsening intellectual climate in Cuba. Why, then, did he make the Moscow trip seem more decisive than it was?’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tony Wood · Why did he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa in Moscow
People love to talk about writers who once had radical sympathies but drifted rightwards with age. But the political...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
‘It would be to Vargas Llosa’s credit if the sources of his disenchantment with the left were the crushing of the Prague Spring and the worsening intellectual climate in Cuba. Why, then, did he make the Moscow trip seem more decisive than it was?’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“The White House has traded a message of ‘prosperity now’ for a message of ‘prosperity soon,’” @annielowrey.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/gErzC8LE
March 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“The White House has traded a message of ‘prosperity now’ for a message of ‘prosperity soon,’” @annielowrey.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/gErzC8LE
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Europeans are coming to terms with the necessity to rearm, and this will have wide-reaching consequences, columnist Howard W. French writes.
What the World Will Look Like Without a ‘West’
The global order has faced challenges before, but Trump 2.0 is different.
foreignpolicy.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Europeans are coming to terms with the necessity to rearm, and this will have wide-reaching consequences, columnist Howard W. French writes.
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If the Aliens Enemies Act is newly on your mind today, I recommend this Brennan Center explainer: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
The Alien Enemies Act, Explained
This detention and deportation power poses an alarming risk of abuse and rights violations in both wartime and peacetime.
www.brennancenter.org
March 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the Aliens Enemies Act is newly on your mind today, I recommend this Brennan Center explainer: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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‘Any effective response to the anti-gender movement will entail a critique of the new forms of authoritarianism and the passions they exploit.’
NEW: Judith Butler on Trump and ‘gender ideology’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
NEW: Judith Butler on Trump and ‘gender ideology’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Judith Butler · This Is Wrong
Any effective response to the anti-gender movement will entail a critique of the new forms of authoritarianism and the...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
‘Any effective response to the anti-gender movement will entail a critique of the new forms of authoritarianism and the passions they exploit.’
NEW: Judith Butler on Trump and ‘gender ideology’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
NEW: Judith Butler on Trump and ‘gender ideology’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“In the long run, a more normal kind of American administration will return. With it will also return productive and predictable relationships,” writes @eliotacohen.bsky.social.
“But after the past two months, there cannot, and should not ever be, trust.” theatln.tc/gZ7STJIs
“But after the past two months, there cannot, and should not ever be, trust.” theatln.tc/gZ7STJIs
March 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“In the long run, a more normal kind of American administration will return. With it will also return productive and predictable relationships,” writes @eliotacohen.bsky.social.
“But after the past two months, there cannot, and should not ever be, trust.” theatln.tc/gZ7STJIs
“But after the past two months, there cannot, and should not ever be, trust.” theatln.tc/gZ7STJIs
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The Trump administration’s 25% steel tariffs are in full force—and so are the price hikes. Instead of protecting domestic producers, protectionism is making steel even more expensive. Consumers pay more, businesses struggle, and domestic steelmakers cash in.
Steel Prices Continue to Rise Even Before New Tariffs Take Effect
If President Trump is truly interested in boosting American manufacturing, fueling the long-running price disparity between US and global steel prices through misguided and demonstrably ineffective…
www.cato.org
March 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Trump administration’s 25% steel tariffs are in full force—and so are the price hikes. Instead of protecting domestic producers, protectionism is making steel even more expensive. Consumers pay more, businesses struggle, and domestic steelmakers cash in.
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reminder of where trump’s tariffs stand as of now
March 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
reminder of where trump’s tariffs stand as of now
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Today's reality check.
Thanks to tariffs: Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs both lowered their US economic growth forecasts t.co/7B9PHsnJQs
Thanks to tariffs: Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs both lowered their US economic growth forecasts t.co/7B9PHsnJQs
https://www.forexlive.com/news/icymi-morgan-stanley-and-goldman-sachs-both-lowered-their-us-economic-growth-forecasts-20250310/
t.co
March 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Today's reality check.
Thanks to tariffs: Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs both lowered their US economic growth forecasts t.co/7B9PHsnJQs
Thanks to tariffs: Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs both lowered their US economic growth forecasts t.co/7B9PHsnJQs
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It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
March 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
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Arms Transfers and Arms Trafficking in the Americas: Some Links from the Past Month
Links to 14 articles about recent weapons deals, legal or illicit, to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Links to 14 articles about recent weapons deals, legal or illicit, to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
» Arms Transfers and Arms Trafficking in the Americas: Some Links from the Past Month
adamisacson.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Arms Transfers and Arms Trafficking in the Americas: Some Links from the Past Month
Links to 14 articles about recent weapons deals, legal or illicit, to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Links to 14 articles about recent weapons deals, legal or illicit, to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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NBC: The Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine who might be leaking information to the media about immigration operations, according to four sources familiar with the practice.
First reported by Bloomberg.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
First reported by Bloomberg.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan have blamed lower-than-expected ICE arrest numbers on recent leaks about planned operations.
www.nbcnews.com
March 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
NBC: The Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine who might be leaking information to the media about immigration operations, according to four sources familiar with the practice.
First reported by Bloomberg.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
First reported by Bloomberg.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Time for a new NAFTA? A North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Canada, the UK and the EU? In extreme times, extreme thinking (and measures).
March 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Time for a new NAFTA? A North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Canada, the UK and the EU? In extreme times, extreme thinking (and measures).
Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says
March 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says
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We’ll be able to trace it all to this disgraceful moment, this day of historic shame for the United States. We’ve changed teams.
Trump Brings a Day of Historic Shame for the United States
Over the course of a single contentious meeting, the president departs the world stage and cedes the century to Russia and China.
newrepublic.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We’ll be able to trace it all to this disgraceful moment, this day of historic shame for the United States. We’ve changed teams.
