Christine Wade

Authoritarians have greater access to spyware than ever, which means civil society is at a digital disadvantage.

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Everyday Cruelty Crackdown tactics emerging from El Salvador’s Casa Presidencial and the U.S. White House have something in common: the willingness to sow fear and enact cruelty onto a population deemed criminal or…

Crackdown tactics emerging from El Salvador’s Casa Presidencial and the U.S. White House have something in common: the willingness to sow fear and enact cruelty onto a population deemed criminal or expendable. beta.elfaro.net/en/letter-fr...

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

Climate change is not the main reason people leave Guatemala. But in villages grappling with poverty, low basic services, insecurity and lack of opportunities, it is the stress multiplier. It makes daily responsibilities harder until migration is the only escape. cgspace.cgiar.org/items/797200...

Trump brings the 'War on Terror' to America: it's a recipe for totalitarianism The 'Wars' on terror and drugs are being brought to bear on internal and external enemies alike

“In blending migration, drug, and ‘terrorism’ policies, Trump isn’t merely straining executive power in the US to its very limits — he is creating a host of enemies for his supporters, both internal and external.”

@murosinvisibles.bsky.social #PirateWireServices

Great 🧵; this is the main point. If the President can spend money on whatever he wants without congressionally mandated appropriations we don't have separation of powers, or even really a constitutional republic (at least under the terms of our constitution). We just don't.

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t. Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: ‘A process of finding echoes and associations’ This book contains Heaney’s unpublished poems plus all those from his single books of poetry published

Colm Tóibín on The Poems of Seamus Heaney: For those familiar with Heaney’s work, the new poems will keep them going well beyond Christmas. But soon, the core of the book will matter more – the 12 volumes Heaney published in his lifetime placed in sequence.

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BREAKING: Peru's Congress voted to remove President Dina Boluarte, among the world's most unpopular leaders, in a late-night session called hours after political parties from across the spectrum called for her removal reut.rs/3VUEm2J

Reminder this is all happening because Republicans refuse to let you have affordable health care.

The real news in this is the first sentence. “It is not exactly clear what UNC plans to use the faculty workload report for…”

I would argue that it is very clear. I have, in fact, argued that it is very clear.

Without institutionalizing mechanisms for succession or intraparty pluralism, Bolivia's MAS collapsed.

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“tHeY cAnT dO tHat!!!!!”

ok well they are babe, idk what to tell you

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

UN urges Nicaragua to account for over 120 people forcibly disappeared since 2018 United Nations experts on Friday urged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government to "clarify the fate and whereabouts" of more than 120 people who they said appeared to have been forcibly disappeared since authorities violently suppressed anti-government protests in 2018.

UN urges Nicaragua to account for over 120 people forcibly disappeared since 2018 reut.rs/3KzBNAD

ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering Payment for Deportation ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.

With deportation continuing apace amid the federal government shutdown, advocates speculated that the latest scheme to pay off immigrant children was deliberately timed by ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, to minimize public attention.

No Hands Are Clean It can be said about El Salvador like it can be said about Honduras: There is evidence that all three political machines of the last three decades secretly partnered with organized crime for their…

It can be said about El Salvador like it can be said about Honduras: There is evidence that all three political machines of the last three decades partnered with organized crime for their political benefit. beta.elfaro.net/en/letter-fr...

BREAKING🚨 Journalist Mario Guevara has officially been deported Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador. This is a shameful erosion of press freedom in the U.S. — the first time that CPJ has documented this type of retaliation related to reporting.
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Last year, when @propublica.org published 14 hours of Project 2025 training videos, Trump was still denying any connection to PJ2025.

But we pointed out that 29 of the 36 speakers in these clips had already worked for Trump in some capacity:

'Assault on oversight': Hegseth overhaul of military watchdogs spurs concern U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching a new effort to overhaul the military's watchdog agencies, sparking concerns among current and former U.S. officials that wrongdoing could go unreported or unexamined in the largest - and most expensive - branch of the U.S. government.

'Assault on oversight': Hegseth overhaul of military watchdogs spurs concern reut.rs/4o4d3z2

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary

Nothing about the Argentina bailout makes sense - not a top US trade partner, not a source of migrants or drugs, chronic defaulter on loans - so of course the explanation is some billionaire who’s connected to the right people.

The Golden Age of Transnational Repression | Journal of Democracy Authoritarian regimes are targeting exiles and diaspora communities in more places than ever before. Activists, journalists, and regular people living abroad must watch their backs…

New today: my essay in @jodemocracy.bsky.social on The Golden Age of Transnational Repression: www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the...

The Trump-Appointed Diplomat Accused of Shielding El Salvador’s President From Law Enforcement A previously undisclosed State Department report and interviews reveal accusations that U.S. Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson shielded Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforc...

NEW: A previously undisclosed State Department report and interviews reveal accusations that U.S. Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson shielded Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforcement.

Stunning

UN report: Nicaragua's human rights crisis deepens A new United Nations report reveals Nicaragua's deepening grip under co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.

A UN report details human rights violations in Nicaragua, under the repression of presidents Ortega and Murillo. It denounces the constitutional recognition of paramilitary forces, the institutionalized use of informant networks and the misapplication of criminal offenses. apnews.com/article/nica...

Black in the World: Art. Resistance. Belonging Join us for a day of celebrating Black art and resistanceWhat is the relationship between art and social movements? How does this relationship shape the everyday experiences of people who identify as ...

Limited space so please register! effroncenter.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Fentanyl Doesn’t Come Through the Caribbean The White House is using the opioid epidemic to justify lethal strikes and other policies.

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Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

The Comey Indictment Is an Embarrassment The Justice Department should never have brought such a shoddy case.

“The Justice Dept should never have brought such an astoundingly shoddy case. The decision to, under intense pressure from the president, is an indication of how thoroughly Trump has been able to corrupt the department… In any other political moment, this would be obviously impeachable conduct.”