Amy Wilentz

Nouvelle vague d’attaques des gangs armés en Haïti

#Haiti: More murderous attacks by the criminal gang led by Jimmy (Barbecue) Chérizier. Friends in Port-au-Prince are again fleeing for their lives. Are the foreign journalists who signal-boosted him ashamed yet? @amywilentz.bsky.social @melindayiti.bsky.social www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?art...

Kim Stanley Robinson event (dialogue with Jonathan Alexander) beginning at UCI, hosted by the Illuminations Program & The Forum for the Academy and the Public, event introduced by Daphne Lei & the speaker introduced by @amywilentz.bsky.social (people still coming in)

👇 Many notable participants aren't on Bluesky (yet), eg keynoter Dean Baquet & some on the response to his keynote panel (these will be live streamed), but among those on Bluesky are @katiestallard.bsky.social @amywilentz.bsky.social @angshah.bsky.social @davidakaye.bsky.social @sheeraf.bsky.social

Will Trump End the Most Successful Foreign-Aid Program in US History? The President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief is in danger of shuttering. The decision could kill hundreds of thousands of people and kickstart an epidemic.

On January 27, the Trump administration issued death sentences to hundreds of thousands of people, most of them in Africa, who are surviving with HIV/AIDS thanks to the most successful foreign-aid program in US history. My article @thenation.com. #Pepfar www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Trump wants to distract you from the fact that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator last week.

Don’t let him.

So glad.

Important conference for these difficult confusing days.

Annual conference, this time about facts under fire. Feb. 7 & 8 at the UCIrvine campus.

LA always expects disaster, but no one imagined this - The Boston Globe To live in Los Angeles is to know the place is on borrowed time. And yet this month’s fires have been utterly shocking.

Some thoughts about my city’s recent tragedy:

Thanks!

Coming up Feb 7-8, another robustly interdisciplinary discussion driven public facing conference at @ucirvine.bsky.social put on by The Forum for Academy & the Public that @amywilentz.bsky.social & I co-direct, this year’s theme “Facts Under Fire” sites.uci.edu/factsunderfi...

Tiffany Trump married a guy named Michael Boulos in 2022, and now each daughter has a father-in-law who Trump appointed to a high position in his new administration – @amywilentz.bsky.social comments in a new episode of "The Children's Hour" – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41uZdgR

“The Children’s Hour,” stories about Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric, and little Tiffany. Boy, have those kids been busy – in this episode: “Lives of the In-Laws” – @amywilentz.bsky.social comments – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41uZdgR

Trump Family Doings: @amywilentz.bsky.social reports on “Lives of the In-Laws”—the rise of Ivanka’s and Tiffany’s fathers-in-law, Eric’s wife Lara, and the latest schemes of Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/41uZdgR

Haitians Don’t Need More “Dumbasses” From the US State Department Weighing In on the Crisis The solutions offered by current and former American officials rarely, if ever, consider what Haitians actually want.

My article @thenation.com documented U.S. complicity in #Haiti's crisis, the angle that the #WashPost editorial writers completely missed. Does the Post editorial page ever do any reporting to back up their useless opinions on #Haiti? @amywilentz.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Rescuing Haiti from Gang Rule To save Haiti, the United States needs to lead from the front.

Good piece, painful roundup: but can US really do something right for Haiti? There have been so many decent possibilities rejected by Biden and his people over the past few years, and the next US administration is of course unlikely to come up with innovative and humane solutions for Haiti.