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Audie Klotz
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Expertise on International Relations especially norms and migration

I mute excessive self-promoters (including humble braggers) and mansplainers

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Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social · Nov 16
Reminder, here’s what happened with gender pay gap at Syracuse University (unlike Boulder ⬇️, no forward looking remedy):

www.syracuse.com/syracuse-uni...
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jaywillis.net
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020) (per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was “just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care- fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein- stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145. Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every- one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig- nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres- sional election is not well underway. 16 ABBOTT v. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS KAGAN, J., dissenting And even supposing it is now the ninth or tenth hour, whose choice was that? It was of course the Texas legisla- ture that decided to change its map six months before a March primary. The plaintiffs could not have moved any faster: They requested an injunction before the new law was even signed. And to try to speed the litigation, they de- clined discovery. (That decision, by the way, probably ac- counted for their failure to submit an alternative map, which to be probative must be based on the State’s particu- lar districting criteria. See supra, at 13 n.) The District Court moved expeditiously too, issuing its 160-page opinion (on November 18) just a month after post-hearing briefing concluded. No one dilly-dallied in this case. The District Court ruled as “late” as it did because the legislature en- acted a new map less than three months before. If Purcell prevents such a ruling, it gives every State the opportunity to hold an unlawful election. The District Court, once again aptly, made the point: Were judicial re- view so broadly foreclosed, then to implement even a “bla- tantly unconstitutional map,” the “Legislature would need only to pass” it on a schedule like this one. App. 154–155. That cannot be the law—except of course that today it is. According to the majority, Texas had a free pass to redis- trict in August 2025 for the 2026 House elections. See ante, at 2. All that the plaintiffs can hope for is better luck in 2028.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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theglobeandmail.com
Stellantis’s decision to shift production to Illinois breaches funding contract, Ottawa says
Automaker served with a notice of default related to jobs and funding agreement, Melanie Joly says
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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kelseyreichmann.bsky.social
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps

apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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chicago.suntimes.com
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is making one last effort to push a bill ensuring a legal pathway to citizenship for child immigrants through Congress before his upcoming retirement.
Durbin reintroduces DREAM Act in hopes of paving citizenship pathway for child immigrants
chicago.suntimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: The December 8-9 evidentiary hearing for vindictive and selective prosecution in the Abrego case has been CANCELLED. Previously, Abrego's attorney filed a motion to dismiss without the evidentiary hearing over the news about Costa Rica. A sealed order was filed yesterday.
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
audieklotz.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicia...
December 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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klonick.bsky.social
Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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laloalcaraz.bsky.social
Somali Americans are not the trash. Please share and also order your 2026 Lalo Alcaraz cartoon calendar at laloalcaraz.com ! They arrive from the printer tomorrow Viernes and I will be slanging them all weekend! And shipping them too! Thank you for your support! Also, TIME TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH!
December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
audieklotz.bsky.social
⬇️ coincidentally yesterday i re-read a piece from just before the Nov 2024 elections by @melissagiragrant.com that mapped out everything that has happened, but mass deportation has been even worse in reality ⬇️ (don’t let anyone say they didn’t realize the plan)
December 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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thebulwark.com
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
audieklotz.bsky.social
Deal Book: Another reason to drop subscriptions to @nytimes.com if there are any subscribers left
carolyneholmes.bsky.social Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 16h
I've never heard of the DealBook Summit until the last few days, and it seems like it's basically the Davos meeting, but for edgelords?

Why do we do these things?
quantian.bsky.social Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d
They’re calling him the world’s most sober man:
December 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
When asked on Wednesday why the panel would target the Hep B vaccine, Cassidy said of Kennedy’s HHS: “The best I can tell is that they have a prejudice against science. That’s the best I can tell.”

Umm...thanks, Bill. Any thoughts on why we are in this mess?

rollcall.com/2025/12/04/c...
Cassidy suggests HHS is anti-science ahead of hepatitis B meeting - Roll Call
Sen. Bill Cassidy said federal health officials might be biased agains science.
rollcall.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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johnedwinmason.bsky.social
Holy cow! NPR used the R-word to describe Trump's statements about Somali-Americans & Somali immigrants. Used it correctly & appropriately. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This is the first time I've seen a mainstream media outlet call one of Trump's racist deeds racist.
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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carolyneholmes.bsky.social
Here I am, again, talking about the Afrikaner refugees, but in the context of the last 100 years:

"South Africa has always been a shadow case for the US…It’s a way of talking about US politics without ever saying civil rights, without ever saying United States."

theconversation.com/the-american...
The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century
Political scientist Carolyn Holmes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of American interest in South Africa’s white Afrikaaner minority.
theconversation.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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laloalcaraz.bsky.social
My latest for CALÓ News!
Lalo on CALÓ: Snow Day
Students attending school in the winter, mostly in the Midwest or the East Coast, get a Snow Day if a heavy snowstorm blankets their town then school will be canceled
www.calonews.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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mariopro.bsky.social
@laloalcaraz.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Magistrate Judge Laura McNally in Chicago has entered her order re: attorney access to the Broadview, IL ICE facility.

Lawyers for the plaintiff class of detainees will be able to conduct interviews at the facility within a 2 hour visit window, but must give the facility 24 hours' advance notice.
Image text: NOTIFICATION OF DOCKET ENTRY This docket entry was made by the Clerk on Wednesday, December 3, 2025: MINUTE entry before the Honorable Laura K. McNally: Status conference held. The parties report that they have reached an agreement in principle that will result in the cancellation of the 12/17/25 preliminary injunction hearing. The parties will report further to Judge Gettleman regarding their plans for next steps. In the meantime, Plaintiffs' motion to compel [109] and Defendants' motion for protective order [115] are entered and continued, with the following exceptions: First, Plaintiffs' request for periodic production of the Broadview daily detainee logs is granted. Defendants shall produce the Broadview daily logs once per week on a rolling basis until further order of Court. By agreement, the productions will be made each Wednesday. Second, Plaintiffs' request for access to the Broadview facility to conduct in−person attorney−client meetings with class members is granted. Upon 24−hours' notice (minimum), class counsel may conduct confidential interviews of detainees at the Broadview facility. These interviews shall take place during a two−hour window and must not interfere with the functioning of the detention facility. No more than two counsel (or one counsel and one paralegal), along with one translator, may attend, absent agreement of the parties. Attendee names shall be provided to the Defendants in advance. At the beginning of each visit, Defendants shall provide to class counsel a list of all detainees currently at the facility. Class counsel shall be afforded the opportunity to briefly address the detainees as a group in order to explain their role and invite detainees to participate in interviews. No detainee may be required to participate in any interviews. Third, by agreement, the parties will work together to facilitate class counsel's ability to speak with class members at ICE detention facilities outside Illinois.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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yaelschacher.bsky.social
Please come to this! Our microsite project launches Friday!

www.refugeesinternational.org/events-and-t...
Launch Event: Banished by Bargain—Third Country Deportation Watch - Refugees International
Join us to discuss the human cost of the U.S. government’s forced third-country transfer agreements and the launch of our new tracker.
www.refugeesinternational.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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boycottcitizens.bsky.social
DHS is planning to spend another $20-50 million of taxpayers' money on luxury travel for Kristi Noem — this time on pilot, maintenance, and cabin attendant training for the two Gulfstream jets purchased as the administration plotted to cut millions of Americans' SNAP benefits.
Screenshot of the DHS Acquisition Planning Forecast System entry for Forecast Record Number F2026072576. It shows a Coast Guard contract forecast published December 3, 2025. Requirement is titled ‘Gulfstream G700 Pilot, Maintenance, and Cabin Attendant Training.’ Description explains that the Coast Guard will begin operating two Gulfstream G700 aircraft in FY26 and needs training for pilots, maintenance, and cabin crew to support DHS/USCG air missions. Estimated dollar range listed as $20 million to $50 million. Estimated solicitation release date is April 1, 2026, and anticipated award quarter is Q3 FY2026. Contract type is Firm Fixed Price; competition is listed as ‘No.’ Place of performance is Washington, DC.
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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atherton.bsky.social
AIDE: Secretary, you need to consult lawyers

HEGSETH: you know what I called those lawyers back when I was in the service?

AIDE: ...

HEGSETH: Say it

AIDE:you called them JAGo

HEGSETH: JAGoffs, that's right. Because they are. I don't need rules, war has no rules.

AIDE: [clicks "end recording"]
johncarlbaker.bsky.social John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d
This really is nuts
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
audieklotz.bsky.social
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eladn.bsky.social Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 3d
Nick Fuentes has been working overtime to sanitize his image and present himself as a uniter of the left and right. Very clearly using language often associated with the left.

This is part of a larger effort by the anti-Zionist antisemitic far right to recruit people on the left.
Nicholas J. Fuentes @NickJFuentes X.com I'm being called a National Socialist because I want an immigration moratorium and more efficient public services. I just want the populist Right and Left to work together to put America First instead of the center Right and Left working together for the oligarchy. 8:09 AM • 11/21/25 • 1.7M Views
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Three-byline alert: 🚨

“.. the culmination of months of discord between Hegseth and the officer .. and intensified months later when Holsey had initial concerns about the legality of lethal strikes on alleged drug boats ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
December 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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repilhan.bsky.social
My message to Trump: Your message of bigotry won’t work. Somali Americans are here to stay. 💅🏾
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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wsj.com
Exclusive: The four-star admiral in charge of Caribbean operations had concerns about the legality of the boat strikes. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked him to retire shortly after they started.
Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord
The relationship between the Pentagon chief and military leader had been rocky since Trump’s inauguration.
on.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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nikobowie.bsky.social
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM