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They arrived at the #US border from around the world, hoping to seek #asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled & flown by US #military to a faraway country, #Panama.

They were stripped of their passports & most of their cellphones,…& then locked in a hotel, barred from seeing lawyers & told they would soon be sent to a makeshift camp near the Panamanian jungle.

#HumanRights #immigration #law #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/a

Migrants deported from the United States are being held at the Decapolis Hotel in Panama City. They come from Afghanistan, Iran, China and other nations.
The New York Times · Under Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Some Migrants Are Being Sent to PanamaBy Julie Turkewitz

So there may very well be US restrictions on security if the EU keeps inforcing digital regulations.

Actually, that was a very interesting answer, that Vance was quietly MORE extreme at #aiactionsummit than #MSC2025 /fin

The below is congruent with the above, and way more interesting than its headline. What Europe has to do, and still might get from US.

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wapo.st/4gNh32P

The Washington Post · Europeans explore troops for Ukraine ceasefire — and want U.S. supportBy Ellen Francis
Replied to Reed Mideke

uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread

Seems like the documents WaPo details here will be relevant to lawsuits related to DOGE. While it's been obvious to anyone paying attention that it's an ideological purge rather than some evidence based effort to improve efficiency, they appear to have gone and actually written that down. Of course, they'll argue that DEI is inherently wasteful so they're just executing DOGE's mandate

wapo.st/4jVWqEd

#beavers #ecology #infrastructure #GiftArticle

'For years, officials in the Czech Republic had pushed a dam project to protect a river south of Prague, and the critically endangered species living in it. But the project, hamstrung by land negotiations, stalled.

In the meantime, a group of chisel-toothed mammals ... decided to take on the task. Czech beavers simply built dams themselves.'

nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/e

A beaver in a protected wetland south of Prague this month.
The New York Times · Czech Dam Project Was Stalled by Bureaucracy. Beavers Built Their Own.By Livia Albeck-Ripka

“The Erasing of American Science

How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?”

“For decades, the government’s relatively harmonious partnership with science has been a boon for the United States: American research brought the world a polio vaccine, the first crewed lunar landing, the internet. Since the Manhattan Project, science in America has also been explicitly recruited to the project of national security. The threat of America’s current research infrastructure buckling, though, has revealed how tenuous science’s place in the U.S. really is. “There’s no replacement at scale” for federal funding, Wrigley-Field told me.”

theatlantic.com/health/archive

The Atlantic · The Erasing of American ScienceBy Katherine J. Wu

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A dangerous, damaging civil war at the #Justice Department

- #RuthMarcus

“What’s going on is nothing short of a civil war inside the Justice Department, a battle over whether its lawyers are going to serve as the obedient shock troops for President Donald #Trump or as custodians of the rule of #law, with simultaneous duties to defer to policy determinations of the incumbent administration & to respect professional standards.”

#law #DOJ #ethics #Judiciary
wapo.st/4hZcbbW

The Washington Post · A dangerous, damaging civil war at the Justice DepartmentBy Ruth Marcus
Replied to Nonilex

Like I said . . .

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[In REALLY extended remarks] #ElonMusk asserts without proof that he’s *fixing* a bureaucracy rife with fraud

The #billionaire, chosen by #Trump to lead a *federal* overhaul, insisted he was working *transparently*, but his team’s secretive actions have delivered shocks across the #USGovernment.

#law #TrumpCoup #ElonCoup #USpol #idiocracy
nytimes.com/live/2025/02/11/us