Sanho Tree
@sanho.bsky.social
Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, Ukraine, & such. Fighting culture wars since Pat Buchanan declared it in 1992. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool. Personal account.
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Sanho Tree
@sanho.bsky.social
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Uncharted Waters: U.S. Military Action in the Caribbean, WOLA & Amnesty International
YouTube video by WOLA: Washington Office on Latin America
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I had the honor of speaking on a recent panel about the boat strikes with Laura Dib (WOLA), Brian Finucane (Crisis Group), Katherine Yon Ebright (Brennan Center for Justice), and Amanda Klasing (Amnesty Int.). This is the most comprehensive discussion I have yet seen on the topic. Please share.
Dementia signs.
The Oval Office sign has been made permanent. There’s also another outside the entrance to the West Wing.
December 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Dementia signs.
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Steven has made something urgent and vital here. I hope you'll watch.
🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts.
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Steven has made something urgent and vital here. I hope you'll watch.
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On Thursday, four days after the Honduran election, representatives of two major parties denounced irregularities in the preliminary vote tally, which as of Friday morning gave the lead to Trump’s candidate Tito Asfura over Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party.
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Podcast: Anatomy of (Yet Another) Disputed Election in Honduras
On Thursday, representatives of two Honduran parties denounced irregularities in the preliminary results favoring Trump’s candidate, Tito Asfura. Behind the scenes, seven political and diplomatic…
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December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
On Thursday, four days after the Honduran election, representatives of two major parties denounced irregularities in the preliminary vote tally, which as of Friday morning gave the lead to Trump’s candidate Tito Asfura over Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party.
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This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
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Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
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I usually hate nicknames, but this? I can get behind this one.
Needy Amin strikes again.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I usually hate nicknames, but this? I can get behind this one.
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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…worth emphasizing:
1) per our sources, he’s uniquely sensitive to even implicitly being compared to “sleepy” Biden, and there’s an ongoing media deluge of coverage of this president’s decline
2) he and his people have essentially directed the government and its allies to widely and loudly…
1) per our sources, he’s uniquely sensitive to even implicitly being compared to “sleepy” Biden, and there’s an ongoing media deluge of coverage of this president’s decline
2) he and his people have essentially directed the government and its allies to widely and loudly…
December 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
…worth emphasizing:
1) per our sources, he’s uniquely sensitive to even implicitly being compared to “sleepy” Biden, and there’s an ongoing media deluge of coverage of this president’s decline
2) he and his people have essentially directed the government and its allies to widely and loudly…
1) per our sources, he’s uniquely sensitive to even implicitly being compared to “sleepy” Biden, and there’s an ongoing media deluge of coverage of this president’s decline
2) he and his people have essentially directed the government and its allies to widely and loudly…
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The president is yelling at his TV again
If he’s so mad about Fox & Friends Weekend he should give them back the host he poached to run the Pentagon.
December 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The president is yelling at his TV again
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I don’t like nicknames for Trump. I don’t call him names. This one, though …
Needy Amin strikes again.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I don’t like nicknames for Trump. I don’t call him names. This one, though …
Needy Amin strikes again.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Needy Amin strikes again.
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Fascinating bit here at the 20 minute mark about how Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign may have saved a million lives, but combined with a collapse in oil prices, it collapsed the national budget and helped bring down the USSR.
What Nobody Tells You About Russia’s Love for Vodka
YouTube video by Elvira Bary
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December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Fascinating bit here at the 20 minute mark about how Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign may have saved a million lives, but combined with a collapse in oil prices, it collapsed the national budget and helped bring down the USSR.
Russia is mostly losing younger able bodied men — precisely the cohorts they cannot afford to lose given their declining birth rates. This is a big long-term demographic problem.
☠️ The Economist: Russia lost 1% of its pre-war male population in Ukraine.
In total, Russian losses in dead and wounded amounted to between 1 million and 1.35 million soldiers.
Over the past three years, Russia has been able to occupy an additional 1.45% of Ukrainian territory.
In total, Russian losses in dead and wounded amounted to between 1 million and 1.35 million soldiers.
Over the past three years, Russia has been able to occupy an additional 1.45% of Ukrainian territory.
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Russia is mostly losing younger able bodied men — precisely the cohorts they cannot afford to lose given their declining birth rates. This is a big long-term demographic problem.
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"The strategy says the U.S. 'does not support any unilateral change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.' That's a softening in State Dept language on Taiwan in February that said, 'We *oppose* any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side.'" 🧐 www.politico.com/newsletters/...
‘Trump Corollary’ reboots US foreign policy
The U.S. National Security Strategy that just dropped puts the Western Hemisphere at its center, trashes Europe, reassures Taiwan and sends mixed signals on China and India.
www.politico.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"The strategy says the U.S. 'does not support any unilateral change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.' That's a softening in State Dept language on Taiwan in February that said, 'We *oppose* any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side.'" 🧐 www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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The people don’t fucking want ICE there. They want their immigrant neighbors there.
In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The people don’t fucking want ICE there. They want their immigrant neighbors there.
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If your appointment is invalid, you never had the job in the first place.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If your appointment is invalid, you never had the job in the first place.
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This is why I say our current nightmare is impossible without Murdoch. Decades of brainwashing the base and insulating the party.
December 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This is why I say our current nightmare is impossible without Murdoch. Decades of brainwashing the base and insulating the party.
Frank had a busy day.
December 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Frank had a busy day.
Another Kavanaugh “inconvenience.”
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Another Kavanaugh “inconvenience.”
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Crikey!
Not sure I've ever heard anything quite so intensely Australian as the commentary on this clip, I am CRYING
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Crikey!
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political science
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
political science
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I wrote a long intro to a short interview with
@sanho.bsky.social, because his answer to my last question put Thursday's news in a light so clear that I was inspired to write a long intro.
@sanho.bsky.social, because his answer to my last question put Thursday's news in a light so clear that I was inspired to write a long intro.
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I wrote a long intro to a short interview with
@sanho.bsky.social, because his answer to my last question put Thursday's news in a light so clear that I was inspired to write a long intro.
@sanho.bsky.social, because his answer to my last question put Thursday's news in a light so clear that I was inspired to write a long intro.
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Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
This shit is exactly why people are drawing heavy parallels between the Trump administration and the Nazi's. Because they're borrowing the same fucking methods.
And in this case, idiots will lap it up, because "statistics is haaaard".
This shit is exactly why people are drawing heavy parallels between the Trump administration and the Nazi's. Because they're borrowing the same fucking methods.
And in this case, idiots will lap it up, because "statistics is haaaard".
The Trump Administration is once again stealing directly from the Nazi playbook. Just substitute Jews for migrants. Trump (along with Bannon & Miller) has been pushing this “migrant crime” hysteria since his 5th day in office. See this story from March 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
December 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
This shit is exactly why people are drawing heavy parallels between the Trump administration and the Nazi's. Because they're borrowing the same fucking methods.
And in this case, idiots will lap it up, because "statistics is haaaard".
This shit is exactly why people are drawing heavy parallels between the Trump administration and the Nazi's. Because they're borrowing the same fucking methods.
And in this case, idiots will lap it up, because "statistics is haaaard".
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I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate