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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

I have a lot of respect for Zolan Kanno-Youngs and @haleaziz.bsky.social and have talked to both many times in the past. That the Times lets them be so blunt about what is happening with the U.S. refugee admissions program is a good sign of how much the Trump admin is not even trying to deny it.

Zolan Kanno-YoungsHamed Aleaziz
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz
Reporting from Washington

Oct. 15, 2025
Updated 3:44 p.m. ET

The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

The proposals, some of which already have gone into effect, would transform a decades-old program aimed at helping the world’s most desperate people into one that conforms to Mr. Trump’s vision of immigration — which is to help mostly white people who say they are being persecuted while keeping the vast majority of other people out.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: Supreme Court likely to further diminish — but not end — Voting Rights Act cases.

A majority of the justices didn't appear willing to hold that all "race-based redistricting" is unconstitutional, as Louisiana wanted. But how they'll get there was unclear.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Supreme Court likely to further diminish — but not end — Voting Rights Act cases

A majority of the justices didn't appear willing to hold that all "race-based redistricting" is unconstitutional, as Louisiana wanted. But how they'll get there was unclear.

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linds @llynsey453.bsky.social · Feb 17

this part*
Parallel systems must be ready. If democratic institutions get hijacked, alternative governance must step up. This means cities, states, and underground networks taking the reins.

Wait, what?! @whyisthat.bsky.social · Feb 17

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Can be used here.

So, You’ve Been Invaded: A French Resistance Survival Guide for the U.S.

How the French Resisted Occupation—And What We Can Learn If Democracy Falls Into the Wrong Hands

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

SCOTUS killing VRA would really be the culmination of a Second Redemption

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 3h

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 1d

We don’t know who these people were, and even if they had tons of drugs—you board the motorboat, you don’t murder people on the open ocean.

This is like watching a serial killer count his victims.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 9h

Keeping a running resource at adamisacson.com/boat-strikes.

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 27 people
Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL
September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View
September 15, 2025 3 “in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View
October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 8h

This photo, from Anthony Vazquez in yesterday's @chicago.suntimes.com. Caption: "A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood."

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Camouflage-clad agent points a non-lethal projectile weapon at a protester with his hands up, from perhaps 3 or 4 feet away.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 5h

That's a government bailout equal to $873 for every person living in Argentina, a country governed by a Murray Rothbard-worshipping small-government libertarian and with a history of running up its credit cards.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Bessent, speaking with reporters at the Treasury building, said the effort, which they have been exploring for weeks, would be “adjacent” to the $20 billion in financing that the Trump administration has announced it is providing through a currency swap line.

“So that would be a total of $40 billion for Argentina,” he said, adding that banks and sovereign wealth funds have expressed interest.

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 3h

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 3h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE Sends More Migrants to Guantánamo Bay, Resuming Operations

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 3h

Tom Homan’s understanding of the “rule of law”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YxMj...

The Border Czar and a Bag of $50,000

YouTube video by New York Times Podcasts

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 3h

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 3h

Trump admin intensifies war against free speech, successfully targeting Facebook group focused on monitoring & mobilizing resistance to ICE incursions plus Apple & Google apps tracking recurrent abuses against human rights of immigrant communities & their defenders

www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

Meta removes ICE-tracking Facebook page in Chicago at the request of the Justice Department

Meta said in a statement that the group “was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm.”

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 4h

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Donald Trump's Venezuela military strikes hit a Colombian ship: Report

At least one Colombian ship has reportedly been struck by the U.S. military amid escalations in the Caribbean.

www.newsweek.com

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 4h

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Trump, Hegseth post video of another lethal strike on alleged drug boat

YouTube video by ABC News

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 4h

MAGA resurrects it’s own lawless version of “manifest destiny” & “gunboat diplomacy”, conflating hegemonic logics of the Cold War w/that of the so-called wars against “terror” & “drugs”, w/Venezuela as primary initial target and Colombia as “collateral” damage
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 12h

"USC already stands for academic excellence... without ideological loyalty oaths. We hope our leaders will see this deal for the folly that it is and will have the courage to call it out as MIT did. That’s the way to stand up for academic freedom, fiscal responsibility & just plain common sense."

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 10h

"This behavior by people who have sworn to serve our communities and country is a painful parallel to the days of the #KuKluxKlan patrolling the streets with their faces covered, #terrorizing people of color."

#DefendHumanDignity #DefendDemocracy

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 13h

Trump’s thugs are turning Chicago into a war zone.

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 10h

"People came to see the salmon and take pictures with it...Almada was interviewed on local radio. Newspapers across the province featured the story; it even made the national news" writes @eseman.bsky.social in an essay for @nybooks.com
#DARKLAX

Ernesto Semán @eseman.bsky.social · 15h

"A new life cycle amid the ecological breakdown.” Two years of work. Biologists, fishermen, anthropologists, translators, journalists to reconstruct the massive social and environmental changes a salmon lived in her journey across the Americas, from Oregon to Paraná.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

When a Salmon Strays | Ernesto Semán

On November 15, 2022, Emiliano Almada woke up as usual at 4:30 AM in his home in Fighiera, a modest town twenty-five miles south of Rosario on the banks

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 1d

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 1d

What's it like Teaching Law in a Red State? Find out here in my latest in @abovethelaw.com

abovethelaw.com/2025/10/teac...

Teaching Law In A Red State - Above the Law

With your help, we can ensure the campus has vibrant and open discourse about subjects that do not matter to anyone.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The Reconstruction Amendments were adopted to end slavery and provide Black people with equal rights, including the right to vote.

To use those same amendments as weapons of white supremacy today is not just legally incorrect—it is a tragedy.

Voting rights are on the Supreme Court’s chopping block

Tuesday's case pits fanciful claims of racial harmony against the reality of ongoing discrimination.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

President Cyril Ramaphosa says progress and healing hinge on the case against Israel being heard.

South Africa says ICJ genocide case will continue despite Gaza ceasefire

President Cyril Ramaphosa says progress and healing hinge on the case against Israel being heard.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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