Christine Wade

Combating Domestic Violent Extremism Is No Longer a FEMA Priority Documents obtained by WIRED show FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism so as to align with "current administration priorities."

Documents obtained by WIRED show FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism so as to align with "current administration priorities." www.wired.com/story/extrem...

ICE courthouse arrests are leading migrants to avoid their hearings, observers say Immigration courthouse observers have documented a decrease in migrants arriving for their court hearings as ICE courthouse arrests continue.

"The first day we arrived, the room was full of people for their court hearing, but since then, the presence of immigrants has been declining"

ICE's immigration courthouse arrests are deterring migrants from appearing for their hearings in El Paso.

My story for the El Paso Times:

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Bias or Just BS? Another blow to CBS News

"Paramount is installing a censor at CBS News with a direct line to the president." - Former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather

📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.”

Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:

Opinion | I Was Banished by My Country’s Dictator. What Happened to Me Is a Warning.

I Was Banished by My Country’s Dictator. What Happened to Me Is a Warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

The World Court just ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage – what does that mean for the US? The ruling stems from the harm island nations are suffering as sea level rises, and it opens a door for future claims for reparations. But getting to that point isn’t so simple.

The World Court ruled countries CAN be held liable for #climatechange damage.

Small island nations led the charge, citing existential threats from rising seas and economic disruption. buff.ly/O4HrY4C
#climatesky

YouTube video by Political Science Research What kinds of protests actually bring down political leaders? #politicalscience

What kinds of protests actually bring down political leaders? #polisky Hear UCR professor @dadakim.bsky.social describe a recently published study comparing the effectiveness of violent and nonviolent protests for removing political leaders: youtube.com/shorts/UQ-aa...

REPORTER: Why did you fire the head of the bureau of labor statistics?

TRUMP: Because I thought her numbers were wrong

Trump administration launches investigation into Duke University and Duke Law Journal | CNN Politics The Education Department is launching an investigation into Duke University and Duke Law Journal, the department announced in a news release on Monday, citing reporting that alleges the university was...

The Department of Education is launching an #investigation into #Duke #University and Duke #Law #Journal, the department announced in a news release, citing reporting that alleges the university was violating the #Civil #Rights #Act.

The attack on faculty senates is part of the project of forcing universities to operate on a corporate/authoritarian logic where everyone toes the line and nobody ever dissents. That does happen to be incompatible with free inquiry however

Uribe found guilty in historic ruling Colombian courts say the former president intimidated and bribed witnesses as part of investigations into his links to narcos and paramilitaries

BREAKING:

Uribe found guilty in historic ruling

Colombian courts say the former president intimidated and bribed witnesses as part of investigations into his links to narcos and paramilitaries
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My latest, from the Israel-Gaza border, where I listened in as tour groups came to view the ruins of Gaza: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Afro-descendant lands in South America contribute to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation - Communications Earth & Environment Despite covering less than 1 percent of the total land area, Afro-descendant lands in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Suriname have high biodiversity and carbon content, as well as low deforestation ra...

In Latin America, Afro-descendants have become crucial environmental stewards, as the territories they inhabit not only boast greater biodiversity and carbon sequestration, but also have deforestation rates that are up to 55% lower, according to a study just published. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Setting aside the ethical and environmental concerns of AI, I'm really offended by a bunch of elite dudes telling us our minds aren't good enough when they've had to steal everything human minds have created to create their pretend mind and it doesn't even work right!

Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.

Johns Hopkins Press will license its books to train AI models Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”

Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal We saw famine in Biafra and Ethiopia. In the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s ‘aid distribution system’ we see an attempt to destroy a whole society, says academic and writer Alex de Waal

Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza - by @Alex de Waal

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Fired Speechwriter From First Trump Term Appointed to Lead the Institute of Peace

Trump fired US Institute of Peace director Richard Moose, a well-regarded veteran diplomat (who is Black), replacing him with a far right conspiracy theorist with ties to Russia and white supremacists. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/a...

How 36 Mayan Women in Guatemala Came Together to Prosecute Their Attackers Systematically assaulted during Guatemala’s civil war, 36 Mayan women made a final bid for justice.

How 36 Mayan Women in Guatemala Came Together to Prosecute Their Attackers - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

Podcast: Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador: The Trifecta of Exile For the first time in decades, a growing number of political exiles are fleeing El Salvador. In Guatemala, the justice system is the spearhead of attacks against those pursuing corruption. Following t...

@elfaroenglish.bsky.social
"Since 2023, the Ortega-Murillo regime has stripped at least 452 Nicaraguans of citizenship, political rights and confiscating properties as well as the passports of loved ones remaining in the country."
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BREAKING: 7 directors from Chiquita Brands convicted in Colombian courts over financing paramilitary groups

Initial sentence: 11 years and 3 months in prison

U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’ Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.

Sharing this GIFT LINK so people can’t say they didn’t know what’s been happening in our name.

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🚨Now that the men imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador are free, their stories are coming out; and they are horrific.

One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.

There is a massive effort underway - the industry working hand in glove with the Trump White House - to stop AI from being regulated.

MAGA will pay a huge political price for this once the AI-driven job loss goes nuclear. And it will. Sooner than people think.