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Divide & Rule: “Jefferson Davis Trump” (Harold Meyerson in The American Prospect, see below)
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"According to SESAN, 50% of packaged products in #Guatemala contain excessive amounts of sugar, sodium, saturated fats, and trans fats."

The new white nationalist State Department: undertaking "a dramatic project to replace the United States’ traditional alliances with European nations, including through efforts to support ideological allies on the continent’s far-right"

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain. Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social

Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms

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The NY Times continues to be the biggest sucker in the world for bad faith bullshit, just so the publisher can claim they're not too liberal and to pretend they'll somehow convince MAGA they're being fair to them.

South Shore residents returned to their ransacked apartments after an ICE raid. "It looks like hell." blockclubchi.co/4gV8ODq

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

There's plenty of complexity to the story of Ian Roberts, the Black Iowa superintendent arrested by ICE.

But the way the @nytimes.com chose to frame this article is racist and shameful.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

Opponents of aggressive ICE enforcement are using a Supreme Court-inspired term to describe cases of racial profiling. Today's Starting Point explains.

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Stalled This Summer Immigration arrests have declined and jail overcrowding is worse despite billions in new funds.

NEW: ICE got $$$ in the BBB, but its own data show Trump crackdown lost momentum over the summer despite social media videos from Chicago, DC etc.

Corey Lewandowski told me private detention companies tried to take advantage of DHS, ICE expansion back on track www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

The "America First" president is prolonging the 60-year US tradition of confronting overseas adversaries who are indistinguishable from—and mixed in with—civilian populations in their own territories…

And then, after many human rights violations and some humiliation, wondering why that didn't work.

"Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed" says the administration that sends people to foreign dungeons based on tattoos.

What police agency anywhere has use of force standards that involve pointing a weapon at someone who poses no imminent threat to life or injury? Just incredibly, unnecessarily escalatory and unprofessional.

Rights defenders at the US-Mexico border tried for years to warn about Border Patrol's abusive culture. We built a database of abuses (borderoversight.org/event) and several reports. Maybe 2 dozen national Democrats were responsive; the politics were tricky. We couldn't keep that work funded.

Now:

Elon Musk @elonmusk X.com Essential • Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1d We need to Bukele our court system. WATCH how quickly this country is fixed. Nayib Bukele v @nayibbukele If you don't impeach the corrupt judges, you CANNOT fix the country. They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms, protecting the systemic corruption that put them in their seats. 8:51 PM • 10/4/25 • 5.2M Views 2.5K 22 19K 114K 2K

Imagine being so deep into your weird online world that “let’s make the U.S. judicial system more like El Salvador’s” sounds like some kind of genius talking point

This is bad. We've seen at the border—while Biden was still president (and his administration did nothing)—what the Texas National Guard does to peaceful crowds and defenseless migrants.

This, and much more, is from us in September 2024: www.wola.org/analysis/sol...

Not a day goes by anymore without a fresh “appears to contradict the government’s allegation” story from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

There was a kid in my 6th grade who lied as often and as badly as DHS does; everyone left him alone, though, because he had a tough situation at home.

Those rates are significantly lower than the amounts DHS appears to be paying through its most recent contracts at state-run facilities. The commissioner of the Indiana Department of Corrections told state lawmakers last month that DHS will pay $291 a day at the “Speedway Slammer,” while guaranteeing that the facility has a minimum of 450 detainees. The average cost of a bed inside the tents at “Alligator Alcatraz” is $245 a day, records show.

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For less than what Florida and Indiana are charging US taxpayers to detain migrants in miserable conditions, you can book rooms tonight in decent hotels in central Washington DC.

From @nickmiroff.bsky.social at @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Chaplin's life "is detrimental to the moral fabric of America," Mr. Rankin asserted, urging that he be kept "off the American screen and his loath-some pictures be kept from the eyes of American youth."
- John E. Rankin, U.S. House of Representatives, 1921-1953.
(quoted in NYT, Dec.26, 1977, p.29.)

Very interesting on #nouvellethéologie
"Examining the archives left by these actors and situating them in their institutional and interpersonal context yields a quite different picture, revealing significant fault lines between the Dominican and Jesuit branches of the nouvelle théologie."

#Theology

Enlace - Reelección indefinida en El Salvador: ¿una reforma a la medida de Bukele? Esta edición de Enlace desde El Salvador analiza la reforma exprés a la Constitución por parte de la Asamblea Legislativa, controlada por el oficialismo. La controvertida reforma dio vía libre a la re...

Muy buen reportaje de Liliana Flamenco, corresponsal de @es.france24.com en San Salvador, sobre el poder perpetuo del #Bukele en #ElSalvador.
¿Sabías que se ha eliminado el financiamiento público a partidos políticos en en el país? No estoy seguro de lo que eso significa para el partido en el poder.

How the Visa Became America’s Favorite Censorship Tool Long after most political censorship was rolled back, the US preserved its power to bar outsiders for what they believe. A new court case could test that power.

What do Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso and Gabriel García Márquez have in common? The US once denied all of them visas because of their beliefs.

“When people are able to be snatched off our street with no probable cause, then thrown into a detention center with no due process and no timetable for release, that’s a threat to all of us”, says Amy Fisher, an organizer at the DC-based Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network.

La próxima semana presentaremos nuestro artículo sobre el desmantelamiento de la Policía Federal en el Centro de Estudios Estados Unidos-Mexico de @gpsucsd.bsky.social

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