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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 16h

Italy should revoke its damaging migrant cooperation agreement with Libya. The Italy-Libya MOU on migration cooperation will renew automatically for three years on November 2 if neither party revokes it or makes any revisions by then www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Italy: End Border Control Pact with Libya

Italy should revoke its damaging migrant cooperation agreement with Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. The Italy-Libya Memorandum of Understanding on migration cooperation will renew automatically ...

www.hrw.org

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Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan @kalemli-ozcan.bsky.social · 17h

Super news for @brownuresearch.bsky.social and all. Let us all appreciate growth-openness link. Aghion at the news conference said he is worried about the protectionist wave and warned against obstacles for growth such as deglobalization and tariffs! He said openness is a driver of economic growth!

Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 21h

The not-a-Nobel-but-we're-gonna-treat-it-like-a-Nobel in economics goes to

Joel Mokyr "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress"

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction"

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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 17h

This is the way👇

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 18h

🇪🇺🇺🇦 The EU is increasingly convinced that tapping frozen Russian central bank assets is the only viable way to put funding for Ukraine on a sustainable footing, - Bloomberg

The EU aims to reach a political agreement in Brussels next week, and then start work on a legal proposal for a mechanism.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 2d

Rev. David Black who was shot multiple times by ICE with rubber bullets speaks.

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John Saveland @johnsaveland.com · 1d

One crazy detail (of many) that jumped out at me: even the site of the xmas fireworks display is a reminder of Venezuela’s oppressive autocracy. El Helicoide is “a laboratory for beatings, electric shock, rape and other torture” for dissidents who protested Maduro’s falsified election win

Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 1d

THE MOST MARAVILLOSO TIME OF THE YEAR For Maduro, it's become an annual tradition:

The economy’s in free-fall? Declare Christmas. Lost the vote but claiming reelection anyway? Declare Christmas. The U.S. is blowing up boats and threatening stronger action? Declare Christmas

wapo.st/4mXgp5X

Bracing for war, Venezuela’s Maduro starts Christmas early — again

It’s an annual tradition: Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, feeling pressure from opponents or enemies, plays Santa. Venezuelans aren’t buying it.

wapo.st

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

A unit in the Madagascar military broke from the government on Saturday and joined protesters who have been calling for the president’s resignation, raising fears of a coup attempt on the island nation off the coast of southern Africa.

Fears of a Coup Rise in Madagascar as Army Unit Joins Protesters

The unit appealed to security forces in this southern African nation to disobey their superiors and to refuse to shoot at demonstrators, who have rallied in the streets for more than two weeks.

nyti.ms

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María Ramírez @mariaramirez.bsky.social · 2d

“The UN has described the Sudan war as one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Militia strikes kill at least 60 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group

Drone and artillery strikes by RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter in western city, says resistance committee

www.theguardian.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s immigration crackdown is risking higher food prices for Americans, according to the Trump admin itself.  DOL warned in an obscure document last week that “near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

www.washingtonpost.com

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 3d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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John Saveland @johnsaveland.com · 3d

If you don't know about the ethnic cleansing in Western Tigray, that's intentional – the Ethiopian govt is blocking journalists & aid from getting in & preventing Tigrayans from getting out.

Refugees who escaped report violence, rape, & "conditions bordering on serfdom." The ppl there are prisoners

The forgotten horror of Western Tigray

Three years after the end of Ethiopia’s civil war, abuses in the region continue

www.economist.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

In 1885, a mob of violent white men murdered dozens of ethnically Chinese citizens of Rock Springs, Wyoming. Wyoming authorities covered up the entire incident. The story of the mass murders is still being unearthed 140 years later.

When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.

www.newyorker.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 4d

My statement on Middle East peace

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

How to negotiate with Putin: First, make sure he knows he can't win
From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | I’m the Foreign Minister of Poland. This Is How to Negotiate With Putin.

www.nytimes.com

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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 5d

New from me in @foreignpolicy.com: how the US has gone from leading a global push against transnational repression, to proactively supporting it:

foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/08/t...

Trump Is Supporting Transnational Repression

Instead of sheltering pro-democracy dissidents, America is now returning them for arrest.

foreignpolicy.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Katy Glenn Bass @katygb.bsky.social · 5d

"The greatest weapon that the forces of regime change possess is the fear of inevitability. If everyone believes that Mr. Trump will succeed in reshaping America, he will." @himself.bsky.social on how civil society can win by sticking together (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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The Economist @economist.com · 5d

Zero Migration America will make its residents—native- and foreign-born alike—poorer by pulling down productivity growth and thus GDP per person. Problems will start to emerge quickly

Welcome to Zero Migration America

Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative

econ.st

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent analysis by @laurathornton.bsky.social of the heartbreaking slide of Georgia back into Russia’s orbit, defying its citizens’ wishes for democracy and freedom www.justsecurity.org/122040/georg...

After Another Sham Election in Georgia, the Country’s Citizens Persist

Georgians will fight for their democracy. The ruling party is now one more paranoid, insecure dictatorship that knows its days are numbered.

www.justsecurity.org

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John Saveland @johnsaveland.com · 6d

Cameroon is “a case study in global neglect.” The international community must condemn its blatantly undemocratic elections, mediate a peace process, and fully prosecute the war crimes committed by the government and the separatists.

“The world needs to realise that Cameroon is in crisis.”

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6d

Don’t allow Cameroon’s forever president to trample democracy again on.ft.com/3KEPluC | opinion

Don’t allow Cameroon’s forever president to trample democracy again

A festering civil war and a rigged election could spark chaos that would affect the entire continent’s security

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Bill Frelick @billfrelick.bsky.social · 6d

"Education should never be used as a political pawn & parents should not have to worry from one year to the next if their children will be able to go to school." @michellerandhawa.bsky.social @hrw.org in "How Syrian children are being shut out of Lebanon's classrooms" www.newarab.com/analysis/how...

How Syrian children are being shut out of Lebanon’s classrooms

Government restrictions have effectively barred tens of thousands of Syrian children from school in Lebanon, as NGOs step in to teach those left behind

www.newarab.com

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