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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

White House threatens to VETO the new Grassley/Cantwell bill to require Congress’s approval to impose tariffs. This affirms that it will effectively require two-thirds of the House and Senate to limit (or undo) President Trump’s moves on tariffs.

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Lisa Desjardins @lisad.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

BREAKING - U.S. team in quake zone told they are fired, per source. The 3-person disaster assessment team sent to Myanmar for the U.S. received termination notices while staying/sleeping outside — US AID workers were told on an all hands call today, per a source familiar.

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Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · 04/04/2025

The new tariffs do not mirror tariffs developing countries impose on the US, nor account for different economic conditions & fiscal realities shaping tariff regimes in poorer countries—& ignore basic realities of institutional capacity, resource endowment, & geography. By @cullenhendrix.bsky.social:

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Trump's April 2 tariff spree could cripple developing economies

President Donald Trump presented his new tariffs on April 2 as a pragmatic, "reciprocal" trade policy intended to balance trade between the US and its trading partners. But the tariffs on imports from...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Shameful. Harvard Suspends Research Partnership With Birzeit University in the West Bank www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

"There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on liberal law firms... What is shocking is the ease with which his attack has so far succeeded... This is a tale not so much of capitulation to an authoritarian leader as of collusion with him." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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Adam Shatz | Submission

There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Excellent point. Damn.

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Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

There's a tendency to conflate the "America First" and realist foreign policy outlooks, which are distinct — actually incompatible in key ways. This has led to a lot of confusion about what Trump and Vance are up to. Here's my attempt to pierce the ideological fog. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

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The ‘America First’ Masquerade

Though packaged as a kind of foreign policy realism, the doctrine guiding the Trump administration is riddled with contradictions

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Our latest work on Gaza was produced in collaboration with multiple organisations, including ARIJ, Forbidden Stories, ZDF, and Zeit. Here's a thread of their articles based on the investigation.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 27/03/2025

Together with our publishing partners, Bellingcat continues the work of drone journalists who had been killed while documenting the war in Gaza, visualising the unprecedented scale of destruction through detailed 3D aerial maps. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...

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Shot From Above: The Dangerous Work of Drone Journalists in Gaza - bellingcat

Examining the high price those documenting devastation in Gaza pay.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 27/03/2025

Watch our 24-minute documentary on the investigation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLbv...

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Shot From Above- The Dangerous Work of Drone Journalists in Gaza

YouTube video by Bellingcat

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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

For the first time in history we can no longer trust our eyes. Our eyes! Imagine the conspiracy theories you can now 'back up' with images. It is becoming increasingly hard to see how democracy and the Rechtsstaat can survive this, in the long term.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/03/2025

The 1952 law under which the Trump administration seeks to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident who helped organize protests at Columbia University, was ruled unconstitutional in 1996 — by Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, President Trump’s sister.

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Law in Mahmoud Khalil’s Case Was Once Struck Down — by Trump’s Sister

Judge Maryanne Trump Barry ruled that the law invoked against Mr. Khalil violated the Constitution by giving unfettered discretion to the secretary of state.

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Omair Ahmad @omairahmad.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Ten to one that the reason Bhutan is on the list is because he wants a Trump property there and the current tourism laws wouldn't allow his type of exploitation.

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@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My latest, in which I argue that foreign aid is overvalued as an instrument of soft power… how the Trump administration treats Americans will do more to undermine U.S. influence in the world than the gutting of USAID. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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The Real Threat to American Soft Power

Moral authority matters more than foreign aid.

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Max Rodenbeck @maxji.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Astonishing: the Fed says more uncertainty for US economic policymakers now than at any point in the last 40 years, thanks to Trump

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Max Rodenbeck @maxji.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Too bad we are experiencing 273036- cold-winter-days

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Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A summary of key points to bear in mind as we watch the rapid developments in Syria. The situation echoes many previous developments in Syria, except the circumstances today are different in a few new ways.

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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A shame Tulsi Gabbard not already in post as she would be able to tell us if Assad regime about to collapse.

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