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Elisabeth Vallet

@elisabethvallet.bsky.social
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Border scholar Prof. International studies/ Études internationales @CMR-SJ 🇨🇦 Dir. of #TeamGeopo 💡@ChaireRaoulDandurand @UQAM.ca @BIGlobalization @big-lab.bsky.social Chroni. @LeDevoir.com #borders & #borderwalls In english & en français (views are my own)

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop, who did it because a passing car had a plate from a different state, violated the driver's rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 30/09/2026
Airmen criticize Air Force’s use of AI in suicide prevention training as ‘uncomfortable and odd’ trib.al/KAYPs8X
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Airmen criticize Air Force's use of AI in suicide prevention training as 'uncomfortable and odd'
The Air Force says incorporating AI-generated imagery standardizes the training, but some airmen criticize it as being “cold and unnatural.”
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#surveillancestate
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI makes mistakes. Who knew. www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/when-al...
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Le 2e effet kiss cool (pour ceux qui ont la ref) des infrastructures frontalières. www.borderreport.com/border-repor...
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Border buoys dislodged and floating down Rio Grande toward Laredo, Texas
At least 120 giant border buoys weighing about one ton each on Friday were floating uncontrolled down the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, Texas, toward the South Texas border town of Laredo due to floo…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
When Trump opened up Bears Ears, the hobbyists swooped in [via @grist.org]
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When Trump opened up Bears Ears, the hobbyists swooped in
All the new claims appear to be small-scale local miners interested in uranium.
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Marie Plourde @marieplourde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Campagne électorale 2026: Laissons les enfants tranquille « Je ne savais pas que l’on allait aller jusqu’à instrumentaliser les enfants pour faire passer son message. » -Mani Soleymanlou, sur le plateau de Tout le monde en parle www.lapresse.ca/elections-qu...
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Immigration | Laissons les enfants tranquilles
Si l’immigration ne peut être tenue responsable de la surpopulation dans les écoles du Québec, les politiciens doivent être tenus responsables des messages dommageables qu’ils envoient lorsqu’ils se p...
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“A day off cannot repair generations of harm or inequities Indigenous peoples continue to experience. But remembering matters.” montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-e...
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Opinion: Why the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation should be a statutory holiday in Quebec
A day off cannot repair generations of harm or inequities Indigenous peoples continue to experience. But remembering matters.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson captures the plight of America’s farmers, who are getting hammered by Donald Trump’s economic policies — and passing on their spiking expenses to U.S. consumers.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Student journalism is also key to the vitality of democracy.
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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 30/09/2026
Le CCA célèbre en grand le centenaire de sa fondatrice philanthrope.
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2027, année du centenaire de Phyllis Lambert
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Speaker Mike Johnson is warning of a “nightmare scenario” if Republicans lose the House: Democrats could investigate Trump, his family, his Cabinet, GOP donors and powerful business figures.
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MAGA Speaker Johnson Calls Trump Family Investigations a ‘Nightmare’ Ahead of Midterms
With control of Congress at stake in November, Johnson warned that Democratic committees would investigate Trump, his family, cabinet officials and major donors—and claimed that accountability would t...
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pangram. n'est. pas. fiable. Et donne une probabilité. Une pro-ba-bi-li-té. Ça vaut la peine d'écouter Yves Gingras à @toutpeutarriver.bsky.social #TLMEP
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Le privé, l'IA et la santé... mauvais combo? www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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How AI could be driving your medical bill higher
Insurers are pointing the finger at hospitals for driving up costs, and hospitals are pointing the finger at insurers for using AI to reject patients' claims
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
oh. wow.
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 24/09/2026
“No single country, not even the United States, can see, maneuver, and sustain itself across the Arctic,” writes Iris Ferguson. “Effective sovereignty there relies on building networks of dependence.”
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The Price of Arctic Ambition
The Greenland deal proves self-reliance is not an option.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
About to board a flight from Chicago to New York, and TSA is at our gate checking IDs. I have never seen this before.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026
Hours after the decision came down, flight data shows an ICE charter jet landed in two known third-country removal “host” countries in Africa, while another appeared to be heading toward the continent, raising the possibility that other immigrants may have been or are about to be removed unlawfully.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
Trump’s FDA pick refuses to say IUDs don’t cause abortions.
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Trump’s FDA pick refuses to say IUDs don’t cause abortions
Dr. Heidi Overton also tells senators she's also open investigating abortion pill manufacturers.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
No president has ever gone into a midterm election as unpopular as Trump is today. Not even George W. Bush in 2006. Trump's net approval is twice as low as it was at this point in 2018. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/no-preside...
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Democrats hit midterm high as Trump approval reaches new low
No president has gone into a midterm election this unpopular. Not even George W. Bush in 2006.
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Global Witness report found that 124 environmental defenders were killed in 2025, 85% in Latin America, with organized crime implicated in >33% of the deaths. Causes: expanding criminal activity in Indigenous territories and declining international assistance www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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People protecting nature and land set up self-defence units amid threat of murder
Defenders of forests and rivers killed at rate of one every three days in 2025, with 85% of deaths in Latin America
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meanwhile. Le désert d'Atacama est en fleurs. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Photos: Wildflowers Bloom in the Atacama Desert
Javier Torres, a photojournalist with AFP, recently visited the Atacama Desert in Chile, capturing images of a desert in bloom after a spell of unusually wet weather.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Deep dives like this really put into perspective what Chief Justice Rehnquist was doing in 2000 when he resurrected the Court’s precedents of the 1870s and 1880s, writing that their authors “had intimate knowledge and familiarity with the events surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
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DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New ACLU and Amnesty International report on repression on American campuses www.aclu.org/publications...
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"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus" | American Civil Liberties Union
"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus," an ACLU and Amnesty International USA research report, documents the heavy-handed responses by certain univers...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2 lectures, 1 réalité. 1) "This isn’t the first time the United States has threatened annexation" @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... 2) "Mark Carney’s Balancing Act" @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/w...
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Une des premières recherches approfondies que j'ai pu conduire, aux études, portait sur la gestion de l'eau à Grenoble. Un service public, l'accès à l'eau? La ville avait décidé d'être efficace. De privatiser la gestion de l'eau. Bilan: les prix ont explosé, les infrastructures se sont détériorées.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
Since SCOTUS destroyed the Voting Rights Act, Southern states can now redraw a dozen majority-Black districts in time for the 2028 elections, triggering the largest drop in Black congressional representation since the end of Reconstruction. And that’s just the beginning.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pas sûr que ce soit un exemple à citer en référence, désormais, le système de santé français... #oops #polqc #debat
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«On court à la catastrophe» : 73 % des Français ont dû renoncer à se soigner
L’accès au système de santé continue de se dégrader, alerte la Fédération hospitalière de France dans son baromètre annuel. Les délais d’attente, qui s’allongent, chez les généralistes et les spéciali...
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
mais non?
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We're waaaaay past Peter's principle here
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lots of good polling for Democrats right now. Keep in mind, however, that polling in the last few cycles has been significantly off (~4 points in big races), generally to the benefit of Republicans. My sense is that this is because voting for Trump drives shame. So respondents simply lie.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧊🛩️ AFRICA 🌍⛓️ 👉 As noted by @gillianbrockell.com in TAP, we can confirm this Talon Air G5 (tail: N50JE) departed Arizona on Wednesday afternoon, trafficking chained humans via Puerto Rico to multiple stops in Africa. First up: Ghana 🇬🇭 The Peruvian man in Gillian's article remains in Massachusetts.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These are the people behind the headlines. Thousands of sailors spent months away from their families, operating under combat conditions with few opportunities to get off the ships and recover. Whatever your politics, their mental health and wellbeing matter. 💚
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Eight sailors assigned to US carrier group that fought in Iran war attempted suicide, Navy secretary tells Congress | CNN Politics
Eight US Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a period that included when the ships undertook combat operations against Iran and the carrier...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All of this ends in one of those deadly nightclub fires, am I right?
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/09/2026
Yes. here you go. Trump’s approval is significantly below where it was in 2018
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Et ça aussi.
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They were interrogating him while there was still a bullet in his back.
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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The result is that people are placed outside the protection of the law. Some of the more infamous examples occurred during the Pinochet regime and Operation Condor, in which people were ALSO systematically tortured and extrajudicially killed.
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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 21/09/2026
France : les traversées de migrants vers l'Angleterre connaissent une forte augmentation depuis la Seine-Maritime #Refugees
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France : les traversées de migrants vers l'Angleterre connaissent une forte augmentation depuis la Seine-Maritime
Face à la militarisation du littoral nord de la France, de plus en plus de migrants quittent les côtes françaises pour le Royaume-Uni depuis la Seine-Maritime, à quelque 200 km de Calais. Le département a observé 56 tentatives de départ depuis le début de l’année 2026.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/09/2026
AI air traffic control — what could go wrong? Starts today.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is why you can't have healthcare. www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigratio…
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ICE plans to buy robot ‘dogs’ for some immigration enforcement operations
The doglike robots are equipped with cameras and sensors that can detect chemicals and would be used in situations that
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Also Trump acknowledges that the U.S. anti-ICC campaign is about protecting Bibi.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 21/09/2026
"I think it’s wrong," said military veteran Michael Roberts of the redistricting proposal. "If y’all don’t reconsider this, it’s going to be a big problem. It’s going to be a big problem because we’re not going to vote for this.” buff.ly/CjLPvBo
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‘Don’t Take Us Back to That Era’: Mississippians Decry Legislature’s Redistricting Efforts
Mississippians spoke about redrawing district maps to the Legislature’s joint redistricting committee during a Meridian hearing.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 20/09/2026
From @drdrbrockman.bsky.social : One out of every 17 Texans belongs to a religion other than Christianity, and over 25% don't identify with any religious tradition at all. The new curriculum, which goes into effect 2030, isn't inclusive of any of these residents.
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The State's Bible-Only Reading List Is a Disservice to Texas Kids
A new required list doesn't meet the need to learn about the major religious traditions that make up Texas today—and it could impair public schools' ability to serve diverse populations.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation.
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