Dan Beeton
@danbeeton.bsky.social
International Communications Director for ceprdc.bsky.social (CEPR). Member of NPEU and NPEU Members for a Democratic Union. Opinions mine. he/him
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"Obama, Trump and Biden all stood by their man in Honduras for the 8 vicious, destructive years he was in power. They ignored his drug connections, supported the military&police that kept him in power through state terror, and countenanced his illegal re-elections www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him | Dana Frank
Obama, Trump, and Biden stood by their man in Tegucigalpa for the eight vicious, destructive years he was in power
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Obama, Trump and Biden all stood by their man in Honduras for the 8 vicious, destructive years he was in power. They ignored his drug connections, supported the military&police that kept him in power through state terror, and countenanced his illegal re-elections www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Deezer is a decent alternative and has a Name That Tune game if you would like to abandon Spotify today.
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Deezer is a decent alternative and has a Name That Tune game if you would like to abandon Spotify today.
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@deanbaker13.bsky.social tells
@newsweek.com shrinking availability of blue-collar jobs: "Companies are reluctant to invest in a context where they have no idea what tariffs will be in place six months from now, much less three to five years from now." https://bit.ly/4anHOuW
@newsweek.com shrinking availability of blue-collar jobs: "Companies are reluctant to invest in a context where they have no idea what tariffs will be in place six months from now, much less three to five years from now." https://bit.ly/4anHOuW
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
@deanbaker13.bsky.social tells
@newsweek.com shrinking availability of blue-collar jobs: "Companies are reluctant to invest in a context where they have no idea what tariffs will be in place six months from now, much less three to five years from now." https://bit.ly/4anHOuW
@newsweek.com shrinking availability of blue-collar jobs: "Companies are reluctant to invest in a context where they have no idea what tariffs will be in place six months from now, much less three to five years from now." https://bit.ly/4anHOuW
JOH isn't the only Latin American leader Trump ally with apparent criminality -- not even the only one linked to drug trafficking. Some background on Ecuador's Daniel Noboa, and the possible next-president of Honduras Nasry Asfura, here cepr.net/publications...
US Escalation in the Caribbean and Latin America - Live Updates
As the Trump administration intervenes more directly in hemispheric affairs, CEPR will be closely following developments throughout Latin America and the Caribbean — and here in Washington.
cepr.net
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
JOH isn't the only Latin American leader Trump ally with apparent criminality -- not even the only one linked to drug trafficking. Some background on Ecuador's Daniel Noboa, and the possible next-president of Honduras Nasry Asfura, here cepr.net/publications...
"Noboa’s corruption has also been out in the open. He and his family have assets in tax havens, and ... Noboa is heir to a giant banana fortune—there has been documented evidence of his company’s banana shipments linked to drug trafficking."
#Ecuador
www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...
#Ecuador
www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...
Noboa’s Total War on Gangs, and Democracy
Ecuadorians just delivered a decisive public rebuke to president Daniel Noboa. His latest referenda, pitched as a cure-all for the country’s spiraling security and economic crises, failed.
www.realclearworld.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Noboa’s corruption has also been out in the open. He and his family have assets in tax havens, and ... Noboa is heir to a giant banana fortune—there has been documented evidence of his company’s banana shipments linked to drug trafficking."
#Ecuador
www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...
#Ecuador
www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...
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Sen. Tim Kaine on Trump’s Pardon of Fmr. Honduran President Who Brought Over 400 Tons of Cocaine Into US: “This is a disgusting and incomprehensible decision…” ("And Trump claims he's trying to fight narco-trafficking?" Riiiiight.) bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...
Sen. Tim Kaine on Trump’s Pardon of Fmr. Honduran President Who Brought Over 400 Tons of Cocaine Into US: “This is a disgusting and incomprehensible decision…”
From Sen. Tim Kaine on one of the latest outrages by the utterly corrupt Donald Trump - this time, pardoning "Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison s...
bluevirginia.us
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sen. Tim Kaine on Trump’s Pardon of Fmr. Honduran President Who Brought Over 400 Tons of Cocaine Into US: “This is a disgusting and incomprehensible decision…” ("And Trump claims he's trying to fight narco-trafficking?" Riiiiight.) bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...
Nothing says America First like pardoning the guy who witnesses say wanted to “shove cocaine up the noses” of the US
DOJ press release from 2024:
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
The former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, 55, also known as JOH, was sentenced today to 540 months in prison and 60 months of supervised release for cocaine importation and related weapons offenses. The former two-term president was in office until weeks before his extradition to the United States in April 2022. Hernández was convicted on March 8 following a
www.justice.gov
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Nothing says America First like pardoning the guy who witnesses say wanted to “shove cocaine up the noses” of the US
Marina Corina Machado is playing the role of Ahmad Chalabi, as a former US diplomat tells the @nytimes.com, saying whatever she thinks war hawks want to hear about #Venezuela and Maduro. She has no credibility.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
Venezuela’s Nobel Winner Pushes False Claims About Maduro, Critics Say
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Marina Corina Machado is playing the role of Ahmad Chalabi, as a former US diplomat tells the @nytimes.com, saying whatever she thinks war hawks want to hear about #Venezuela and Maduro. She has no credibility.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
"As Rodríguez points out, the data demonstrates unequivocally that it was only after the death of Chávez himself ... that the organized opposition began the multipronged campaigns of financial and industrial terrorism that pulled Venezuela into an economic black hole"
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela - The American Prospect
How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault
prospect.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"As Rodríguez points out, the data demonstrates unequivocally that it was only after the death of Chávez himself ... that the organized opposition began the multipronged campaigns of financial and industrial terrorism that pulled Venezuela into an economic black hole"
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
Live now:
The US has bombed boats and deployed warships near Venezuela, claiming to fight a fabricated drug cartel. CEPR's Guillaume Long will discuss the gap between facts on the ground and Washington's regime change justifications. Tune in to @texaspublicradio.bsky.social: bit.ly/48eAn6N
Rising U.S.–Venezuela tensions spark fears of war
U.S. warships are patrolling off the coast of Venezuela. The stated purpose is to target drug-trafficking vessels and so-called “narco-terrorists.” President Trump has authorized the CIA to conduct le...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Live now:
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Parting shot on Larry Summers? newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Is This Finally and Blessedly the End of the Larry Summers Era?
The guy has dispensed bad economic advice for 35 years and had more lives than a cat. Are the Epstein revelations finally the end of the line?
newrepublic.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Parting shot on Larry Summers? newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Check out @deanbaker13.bsky.social’s August interview with now-mayor elect of Seattle Katie Wilson here cepr.net/publications...
Mostly Economics - Episode 17
cepr.net
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Check out @deanbaker13.bsky.social’s August interview with now-mayor elect of Seattle Katie Wilson here cepr.net/publications...
"Recordings allegedly expose a coordinated plot by senior figures of the opposition National Party of #Honduras (PNH), a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE), & elements within the armed forces to manipulate the will of the people & distort the results of the elections"
NEW 🇭🇳 The Progressive International's Observatory expresses grave concern about the integrity of Honduras’s upcoming general elections on 30 November, following the release of disturbing audio recordings by Attorney General Joel Zelaya.
Statement from the Progressive International Observatory
Red Alert: Audio Recordings Reveal Alleged Conspiracy in Honduras Elections
buff.ly
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Recordings allegedly expose a coordinated plot by senior figures of the opposition National Party of #Honduras (PNH), a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE), & elements within the armed forces to manipulate the will of the people & distort the results of the elections"
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American aggression in #LatAm is reaching dangerous new levels. CEPR's regional experts—journalists, lawyers, economists—are monitoring every development. This could spread beyond the hemisphere. Stay informed via our live tracker.
US Escalation in the Caribbean and Latin America - Live Updates
As the Trump administration intervenes more directly in hemispheric affairs, CEPR will be closely following developments throughout Latin America and the Caribbean — and here in Washington.
cepr.net
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
American aggression in #LatAm is reaching dangerous new levels. CEPR's regional experts—journalists, lawyers, economists—are monitoring every development. This could spread beyond the hemisphere. Stay informed via our live tracker.
Important to note, which the article does not, that the CIA supported the quickly overturned 2002 coup against the democratically elected government in Venezuela, which we know from CIA documents web.archive.org/web/20111205...
October 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Important to note, which the article does not, that the CIA supported the quickly overturned 2002 coup against the democratically elected government in Venezuela, which we know from CIA documents web.archive.org/web/20111205...
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Rutgers professor Mark Bray is author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements. He recently fled the U.S. after receiving death threats over his scholarship.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/mark_bray
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/mark_bray
October 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Rutgers professor Mark Bray is author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements. He recently fled the U.S. after receiving death threats over his scholarship.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/mark_bray
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/mark_bray
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This is terrifying!
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
October 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is terrifying!
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
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After two horrific years, it’s welcome news that we may finally see a reprieve from the violence & genocide in Gaza.
This could be the start of healing. But only if there is accountability to ensure real steps are taken toward just and lasting peace.
Here's what you need to know 🧵⬇️
This could be the start of healing. But only if there is accountability to ensure real steps are taken toward just and lasting peace.
Here's what you need to know 🧵⬇️
President Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the "first phase" of a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal to end the two-year war in Gaza.
October 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
After two horrific years, it’s welcome news that we may finally see a reprieve from the violence & genocide in Gaza.
This could be the start of healing. But only if there is accountability to ensure real steps are taken toward just and lasting peace.
Here's what you need to know 🧵⬇️
This could be the start of healing. But only if there is accountability to ensure real steps are taken toward just and lasting peace.
Here's what you need to know 🧵⬇️
"Noboa is exploiting #Ecuador’s security crisis to extend his authority beyond constitutional limits," @ceprdc.bsky.social's Pedro Labayen told FairPlanet.
Noboa is criminalizing opposition to destructive projects & stifling CSOs like Trump admin wants to do in US
www.fairplanet.org/story/ecuado...
Noboa is criminalizing opposition to destructive projects & stifling CSOs like Trump admin wants to do in US
www.fairplanet.org/story/ecuado...
Noboa Tightens Grip with Ecuador’s Transparency Law | FairPlanet
Ecuador’s crackdown on Indigenous leaders and civil society under President Daniel Noboa is exposing concerning surveillance and repression.
www.fairplanet.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Noboa is exploiting #Ecuador’s security crisis to extend his authority beyond constitutional limits," @ceprdc.bsky.social's Pedro Labayen told FairPlanet.
Noboa is criminalizing opposition to destructive projects & stifling CSOs like Trump admin wants to do in US
www.fairplanet.org/story/ecuado...
Noboa is criminalizing opposition to destructive projects & stifling CSOs like Trump admin wants to do in US
www.fairplanet.org/story/ecuado...
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This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
“It’s ironic, but not unexpected, that the supposed ‘anti-war president’ and his administration have become unabashedly bellicose in Latin America.”
The attack on a ship off the Venezuelan coast is the first time the US has carried out a deadly military operation on its own in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama. By @undertheshadow.bsky.social -- www.thenation.com/article/worl...
With the Strike on a “Drug-Carrying Boat,” Trump Returns to a Dangerous US Policy for Latin America
The attack on a ship off the Venezuelan coast is the first time the US has carried out a deadly military operation on its own in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama.
www.thenation.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“It’s ironic, but not unexpected, that the supposed ‘anti-war president’ and his administration have become unabashedly bellicose in Latin America.”
Join us Sept 25 at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social in DC for what is sure to be a great discussion between Greg Grandin and @ryangrim.bsky.social about Greg's book, "America, América"!
cepr.net/events/greg-...
cepr.net/events/greg-...
Greg Grandin’s America, América: A New History of the New World – Book Discussion
cepr.net
September 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Join us Sept 25 at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social in DC for what is sure to be a great discussion between Greg Grandin and @ryangrim.bsky.social about Greg's book, "America, América"!
cepr.net/events/greg-...
cepr.net/events/greg-...
September 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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You've got to remember that even though RFK Jr looks like an idiot and sounds like an idiot, he is, in fact, an idiot.
SEN. CASSIDY (R) : “Do you agree Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Operation Warp speed?”
RFK JR.: “Absolutely.”
SEN. CASSIDY: “But you just told Senator Bennet the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.”
RFK JR.: “….”😬 🤷🏻♂️
RFK JR.: “Absolutely.”
SEN. CASSIDY: “But you just told Senator Bennet the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.”
RFK JR.: “….”😬 🤷🏻♂️
September 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
You've got to remember that even though RFK Jr looks like an idiot and sounds like an idiot, he is, in fact, an idiot.