Europe should have been on notice when Trump told UNGA that renewable energy, as much as immigrants, was destroying their countries.

he’s gonna end up hanging this whole project of externalization on its own petard

The solace I take: Trump admin’s over the top nativism and deportation agreements will unveil England’s and Europe’s only slightly less clownish version. Debunk the whole project! This is nouveau riche but not essentially different from all of the EU’s deals with its southern neighbors.

This is truth stranger than fiction. Like a movie— but maybe even too over the top for an actual movie that’s about actual diplomacy because it’s so mind boggling

I mean: wow

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Payments for this made to Obiang, found guilty in France of laundering and embezzling millions of euros back in 2017 and by the U.S. in 2014.

$7.5 million payment stood out because it would would “far exceed the amount of U.S. foreign assistance provided over the last 8 years combined” to the country.

Details:

The payment, made from a fund for migration and refugee assistance, would be the first government-to-government transfer from that account, which was set up by Congress to respond to humanitarian crises.

I’ve become disillusioned with writing opeds anymore as the editorial pages and columnists of the biggest papers have become so off putting

I don’t know if this is true, but real expertise does matter much less.

“if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage.”

Show was so funny. It was Netflix taping so it’ll be out soon — laughed straight for most of an hour.

These migrants have been misused by 3 states at this point— the U.S., El Salvador, VZ— and it’s important to show all of that. Especially because at this point so many countries are forgoing any consideration of human rights, it’s all just state interests and transactions — using migrants as barter

But probably what’s most offensive to me is the idea that the feminization of institutions and workplaces have made them less focused on truth seeking and problem solving.

Women are extraordinary muckrakers, light shiners, and problem solvers. We don’t announce war plans to journalists on Signal.

Also, men and women are dependent and independent. We all need from others at some times, less at others. The idea that men aren’t dependent. NOBODY THINKS THIS. NOT BELIEVABLE.

Who reads this and think, yeah that’s true. Nobody!

Andrews: “Inability to deal with conflict directly…An aversion to directness, which, naturally, in a workplace, is a big problem because you need to be able to give direct feedback”

INSANE to describe that as “feminine”

I became a feminist in parochial school when it was clear to me— as a TEENAGER— that separate but equal was not real.
Then I was pregnant as a graduate student. Guess what: academia was not woke about it, especially as it was after the 2008 crash.
And loyalty oaths set clear standards— what!?