@ajlamesa.bsky.social
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Not sure what Trump’s declaration that Venezuela’s airspace is “closed in its entirety” means if a major airline is still flying in and out of Caracas
Copa Airlines mantiene vuelos a Venezuela pero solo en horarios diurnos
Copa Airlines informó este sábado que sus "operaciones de vuelo sobre el espacio aéreo venezolano se mantienen abiertas"
www.elnacional.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Not sure what Trump’s declaration that Venezuela’s airspace is “closed in its entirety” means if a major airline is still flying in and out of Caracas
It’s crazy there’s not more outrage about all of the Covid relief fraud. Hundreds of billions of dollars.
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It’s crazy there’s not more outrage about all of the Covid relief fraud. Hundreds of billions of dollars.
"Digital borders won’t solve every problem. But this weekend’s "great unmasking" by X was a step in giving Americans something they have never truly had online: the ability to understand the context of who is speaking to them." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A ‘great unmasking’ on X is arming Americans with digital borders
The social media platform’s move to show users’ location is a great step toward online transparency.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"Digital borders won’t solve every problem. But this weekend’s "great unmasking" by X was a step in giving Americans something they have never truly had online: the ability to understand the context of who is speaking to them." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The food delivery apps have been socially and economically harmful for a variety of reasons.
November 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The food delivery apps have been socially and economically harmful for a variety of reasons.
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If we want ordinary people (not pointy-headed wonks) to trust autonomous vehicles, I think a good starting place would be strict liability for the enormous corporations in the case of a crash would be a good starting place.
November 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If we want ordinary people (not pointy-headed wonks) to trust autonomous vehicles, I think a good starting place would be strict liability for the enormous corporations in the case of a crash would be a good starting place.
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This analysis of crime indicators in Honduras by @tizbreda.bsky.social illustrates the fragility of gains from mano dura policing: moving violence from urban to rural areas, and hiding murders as disappearances pays off politically with city voters, but doesn’t solve fundamental problems.
Violence has gone down during Xiomara Castro’s term, but has security improved in Honduras?
Gangs have resorted less to public displays of violence during the state of exception, but their presence in urban areas has not been dented, while organized crime groups have expanded their activitie...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This analysis of crime indicators in Honduras by @tizbreda.bsky.social illustrates the fragility of gains from mano dura policing: moving violence from urban to rural areas, and hiding murders as disappearances pays off politically with city voters, but doesn’t solve fundamental problems.
“No one will support these programs if they continue to be riddled with fraud,” Joseph H. Thompson, the federal prosecutor who has overseen the fraud cases said in an interview. “We’re losing our way of life in Minnesota in a very real way.”
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“No one will support these programs if they continue to be riddled with fraud,” Joseph H. Thompson, the federal prosecutor who has overseen the fraud cases said in an interview. “We’re losing our way of life in Minnesota in a very real way.”
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Overpowered e-bikes, public marijuana use, and modified exhausts have made our city streets more chaotic, noisier, and less pleasant than they were a decade ago.
I suspect more assertive policing to address these new quality-of-life problems would lower the social temperature.
I suspect more assertive policing to address these new quality-of-life problems would lower the social temperature.
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Overpowered e-bikes, public marijuana use, and modified exhausts have made our city streets more chaotic, noisier, and less pleasant than they were a decade ago.
I suspect more assertive policing to address these new quality-of-life problems would lower the social temperature.
I suspect more assertive policing to address these new quality-of-life problems would lower the social temperature.
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"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Unmentioned in this article (and almost every other one about the BQE) is that the city’s options are seriously limited by our astronomical infrastructure construction costs. It takes any tunneled option off the table and forces us to accept impacts that other high-income megacities would not.
“A Highway Is Crumbling. New York Can’t Agree on How to Fix It.”
— www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
— www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New York’s BQE Is Falling Apart. The City Can’t Agree on How to Fix It.
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has exceeded its life span. Clashing visions have hindered a solution.
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Unmentioned in this article (and almost every other one about the BQE) is that the city’s options are seriously limited by our astronomical infrastructure construction costs. It takes any tunneled option off the table and forces us to accept impacts that other high-income megacities would not.
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The Busan Metro has a lot of pretty art, but this piece stopped us in our tracks.
It’s so simple but brilliant. Both artwork and functional public safety.
It’s so simple but brilliant. Both artwork and functional public safety.
November 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The Busan Metro has a lot of pretty art, but this piece stopped us in our tracks.
It’s so simple but brilliant. Both artwork and functional public safety.
It’s so simple but brilliant. Both artwork and functional public safety.
A Highway Is Crumbling. New York Can’t Agree on How to Fix It.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New York’s BQE Is Falling Apart. The City Can’t Agree on How to Fix It.
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has exceeded its life span. Clashing visions have hindered a solution.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A Highway Is Crumbling. New York Can’t Agree on How to Fix It.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"They shouldn’t be blamed for the violent act of one man. Collective punishment of all Afghans in the U.S. won’t make America safer and it might embitter more against the United States."
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Ambush on the National Guard
The alleged shooting by an Afghan ‘partner’ shouldn’t condemn all who assisted the U.S. and now live here.
www.wsj.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"They shouldn’t be blamed for the violent act of one man. Collective punishment of all Afghans in the U.S. won’t make America safer and it might embitter more against the United States."
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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The easiest thing the Labour government could've done on immigration: Just take credit for numbers that are falling anyway! You don't need to change anything!
Instead, the way they've talked about migration has allowed the public to think immigration is going *up*.
Utter political incompetence.
Instead, the way they've talked about migration has allowed the public to think immigration is going *up*.
Utter political incompetence.
Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The easiest thing the Labour government could've done on immigration: Just take credit for numbers that are falling anyway! You don't need to change anything!
Instead, the way they've talked about migration has allowed the public to think immigration is going *up*.
Utter political incompetence.
Instead, the way they've talked about migration has allowed the public to think immigration is going *up*.
Utter political incompetence.
This story about foreign spouses (who’ve done nothing wrong) being detained for deportation during green card interviews is insane. One of the worst things I’ve read yet. DHS and ICE are totally out of control. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This story about foreign spouses (who’ve done nothing wrong) being detained for deportation during green card interviews is insane. One of the worst things I’ve read yet. DHS and ICE are totally out of control. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Regarding Bukele’s security “miracle”: it is true that crime has dropped sharply in El Salvador over the past decade. It is not true that all, or even most of this, can be attributed to Bukele as president or to his State of Exception (thread)...
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Regarding Bukele’s security “miracle”: it is true that crime has dropped sharply in El Salvador over the past decade. It is not true that all, or even most of this, can be attributed to Bukele as president or to his State of Exception (thread)...
A few thoughts after reading the WSJ story on Atlanta’s public grocery store:
1) My experiences with Savi Provisions — the private sector partner — have not been good and they don’t seem like an ideal partner if the goal is cheap staples.
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
1) My experiences with Savi Provisions — the private sector partner — have not been good and they don’t seem like an ideal partner if the goal is cheap staples.
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A few thoughts after reading the WSJ story on Atlanta’s public grocery store:
1) My experiences with Savi Provisions — the private sector partner — have not been good and they don’t seem like an ideal partner if the goal is cheap staples.
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
1) My experiences with Savi Provisions — the private sector partner — have not been good and they don’t seem like an ideal partner if the goal is cheap staples.
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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UVA’s board of visitors doing the utmost to ensure Spanberger cans all of them www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
Despite calls for a pause, presidential search committee says it will continue
The presidential search committee and the University’s external search firm announced Friday that the search would continue, despite a Faculty Senate resolution passed Nov. 14 which called for a pause...
www.cavalierdaily.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
UVA’s board of visitors doing the utmost to ensure Spanberger cans all of them www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
"Bruna’s absence has been especially painful for her 11-year-old son, Michael Leavitt Junior, who needs his mother and hopes every single day that she’ll be home in time for the holidays." www.gofundme.com/f/support-br...
Woman with family connection to White House press secretary arrested by ICE in Revere, Mass.
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
Woman with family connection to White House press secretary arrested by ICE in Revere
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere.
www.wcvb.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Bruna’s absence has been especially painful for her 11-year-old son, Michael Leavitt Junior, who needs his mother and hopes every single day that she’ll be home in time for the holidays." www.gofundme.com/f/support-br...
Woman with family connection to White House press secretary arrested by ICE in Revere, Mass.
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
Woman with family connection to White House press secretary arrested by ICE in Revere
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere.
www.wcvb.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Woman with family connection to White House press secretary arrested by ICE in Revere, Mass.
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
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Giorgia Meloni as managed to consolidate the conservative block, but she hasn't expanded it beyond the 45-50% of voters it mobilized in the past under various formats. What she has been good at is keeping a more institutional tone while still flirting with the usual themes of right wing politics.
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Giorgia Meloni as managed to consolidate the conservative block, but she hasn't expanded it beyond the 45-50% of voters it mobilized in the past under various formats. What she has been good at is keeping a more institutional tone while still flirting with the usual themes of right wing politics.
A heartbreaking story with a happy ending.
And an important reminder that many parents without legal status here have American spouses and children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
And an important reminder that many parents without legal status here have American spouses and children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
She Tried to Leave America. She Entered an Immigration Hall of Mirrors.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A heartbreaking story with a happy ending.
And an important reminder that many parents without legal status here have American spouses and children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
And an important reminder that many parents without legal status here have American spouses and children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
"Nonresidents will pay a new $100/person fee (in addition to the usual entry fee) at 11 of the most visited Parks."
A foreign tourist in a rental car will have to pay $135 to visit Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon.
Pure abuse. Appalling.
www.doi.gov/pressrelease...
A foreign tourist in a rental car will have to pay $135 to visit Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon.
Pure abuse. Appalling.
www.doi.gov/pressrelease...
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"Nonresidents will pay a new $100/person fee (in addition to the usual entry fee) at 11 of the most visited Parks."
A foreign tourist in a rental car will have to pay $135 to visit Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon.
Pure abuse. Appalling.
www.doi.gov/pressrelease...
A foreign tourist in a rental car will have to pay $135 to visit Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon.
Pure abuse. Appalling.
www.doi.gov/pressrelease...
FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
The decision to halt disaster assessment work came amid the immigration crackdown in Chicago. Officials worried FEMA’s efforts could put residents and surveyors at risk.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...