abbey steele
@abbeyst.bsky.social
I research & teach about displacement, civil wars, state-building and Colombia at the University of Amsterdam. AMS / CLE / BOG
abbeysteele.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1126-9235
abbeysteele.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1126-9235
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@brendannyhan.bsky.social is right: young people are reluctant to come to the defense of institutions that have excluded them, ignored them, and crushed their movements
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
@brendannyhan.bsky.social is right: young people are reluctant to come to the defense of institutions that have excluded them, ignored them, and crushed their movements
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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Wait till the president finds out that his administration _already cut_ something like 3/4 of US aid to "Columbia," along with most aid worldwide, earlier this year. Most of the aid that remains goes to Colombia's military and police—to support counter-drug operations.
October 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Wait till the president finds out that his administration _already cut_ something like 3/4 of US aid to "Columbia," along with most aid worldwide, earlier this year. Most of the aid that remains goes to Colombia's military and police—to support counter-drug operations.
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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, and to support emerging scholars, I'd like to buy and mail copies to ten graduate students.
If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Civilizing Contention by Rana B. Khoury | Paperback | Cornell University Press
In Civilizing Contention, Rana B. Khoury asserts that to understand civilian and refugee activism in war, we must regard the international actors and organizations that enter the scene to help. When.....
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October 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, and to support emerging scholars, I'd like to buy and mail copies to ten graduate students.
If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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The National Guard troopers confirming what everyone suspected; they don't want to be there.
July 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The National Guard troopers confirming what everyone suspected; they don't want to be there.
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Juan Masullo and I wrote a piece on the recent assassination attempt on Senator Uribe in Bogotá, its connections to the drug war, how it echoes the past, and why it is only the most visible form of how the drug war undermines democracy. 1/2
"On June 7...Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot multiple times," write Juan Masullo and Abbey Steele. "The attempted assassination...has rocked Colombia, a country where such political violence feels all too familiar."
www.journalofdemocra...
www.journalofdemocra...
How Drug Wars Destroy Democracy | Journal of Democracy
Colombia’s drug war has ravaged the country — leaving tens of thousands dead, disappeared, or displaced and entire communities broken. Democracy is among the casualties.
www.journalofdemocracy.org
July 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Juan Masullo and I wrote a piece on the recent assassination attempt on Senator Uribe in Bogotá, its connections to the drug war, how it echoes the past, and why it is only the most visible form of how the drug war undermines democracy. 1/2
Juan Masullo and I wrote a piece on the recent assassination attempt on Senator Uribe in Bogotá, its connections to the drug war, how it echoes the past, and why it is only the most visible form of how the drug war undermines democracy. 1/2
"On June 7...Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot multiple times," write Juan Masullo and Abbey Steele. "The attempted assassination...has rocked Colombia, a country where such political violence feels all too familiar."
www.journalofdemocra...
www.journalofdemocra...
How Drug Wars Destroy Democracy | Journal of Democracy
Colombia’s drug war has ravaged the country — leaving tens of thousands dead, disappeared, or displaced and entire communities broken. Democracy is among the casualties.
www.journalofdemocracy.org
July 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Juan Masullo and I wrote a piece on the recent assassination attempt on Senator Uribe in Bogotá, its connections to the drug war, how it echoes the past, and why it is only the most visible form of how the drug war undermines democracy. 1/2
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The proposed Dutch law criminalising assistance to migrants
A critical analysis, by Huub Verbaten - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-du...
A critical analysis, by Huub Verbaten - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-du...
A Dutch dangerous experiment in criminalizing compassion: How a parliamentary "slip-up" could create Europe's harshest migration law
Huub Verbaten , Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute Photo credit : Markus Bernet, via Wikimedia commons On the evening of Jul...
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July 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The proposed Dutch law criminalising assistance to migrants
A critical analysis, by Huub Verbaten - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-du...
A critical analysis, by Huub Verbaten - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-du...
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BCG helped set up a militarised aid scheme in Gaza, widely condemned by the humanitarian sector, and worked on cost models for relocating Palestinians out of the territory.
July 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
BCG helped set up a militarised aid scheme in Gaza, widely condemned by the humanitarian sector, and worked on cost models for relocating Palestinians out of the territory.
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Russia’s entire military budget is only $145 billion. Stephen Miller got even more than that to expel people who don’t pass his racial standards—including naturalized citizens. And when they’re done with that, they’ll come after critics. When they create a gulag economy that big, it doesn’t go away.
$171 billion: That’s the sum the Republican megabill pours into President Trump's immigration agenda. “This money is going to ingrain immigration enforcement in all aspects of local law enforcement,” says an analyst at the American Immigration Council. boltsmag.org/how-the...
How the GOP Megabill Would Turbocharge Local Immigration Enforcement
Congress is pouring tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, plus new ICE partnerships with local police and sheriffs.
boltsmag.org
July 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Russia’s entire military budget is only $145 billion. Stephen Miller got even more than that to expel people who don’t pass his racial standards—including naturalized citizens. And when they’re done with that, they’ll come after critics. When they create a gulag economy that big, it doesn’t go away.
It also makes ICE better funded than most national militaries -- by a wide margin. This is the expansion of a secret police force.
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
July 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It also makes ICE better funded than most national militaries -- by a wide margin. This is the expansion of a secret police force.
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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
"From what I can tell, ICE is a secret police when acting in a public space...The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening."
adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-19
adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-19
WEEK 19
WEEK 19
adamprzeworski.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"From what I can tell, ICE is a secret police when acting in a public space...The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening."
adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-19
adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-19
"...the only ideas offered by Democrats come from its left wing. The rest of the party is just catatonic. Its leadership is patiently waiting for Trump to fail, generously granting them electoral victory while attending weddings of billionaries."
July 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
"...the only ideas offered by Democrats come from its left wing. The rest of the party is just catatonic. Its leadership is patiently waiting for Trump to fail, generously granting them electoral victory while attending weddings of billionaries."
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Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.
June 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.
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@adamprz.bsky.social on ICE's authorities & operating procedures: "The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening."
WEEK 19
WEEK 19
adamprzeworski.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
@adamprz.bsky.social on ICE's authorities & operating procedures: "The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening."
an expert panel across Dutch universities has released a report that recommends cutting all institutional ties with Israeli universities - not on a case-by-case basis: academictiesisrael.nl
@antigonesdream.bsky.social
@antigonesdream.bsky.social
Academic Ties Israel
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June 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
an expert panel across Dutch universities has released a report that recommends cutting all institutional ties with Israeli universities - not on a case-by-case basis: academictiesisrael.nl
@antigonesdream.bsky.social
@antigonesdream.bsky.social
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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This is more notice than they are prepared to give people before deporting them
The Department of Homeland Security is asking members of Congress to provide 72 hours of notice before visiting detention centers, according to new guidance: cnn.it/4edTalh
DHS issues new guidance for lawmakers visiting ICE facilities after tense confrontations | CNN Politics
The agency’s new memo seeks to differentiate ICE field offices from detention facilities, noting that “ICE Field Offices are not detention facilities” and therefore do not fall under the appropriation...
cnn.it
June 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is more notice than they are prepared to give people before deporting them
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"Israeli soldiers have opened fire on the crowds and killed Palestinians who've been queuing for food"
Dan Johnson reports that this morning 23 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed at an aid distribution centre & at least 11 killed in an Israeli air strike #BBCBreakfast
Dan Johnson reports that this morning 23 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed at an aid distribution centre & at least 11 killed in an Israeli air strike #BBCBreakfast
June 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"Israeli soldiers have opened fire on the crowds and killed Palestinians who've been queuing for food"
Dan Johnson reports that this morning 23 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed at an aid distribution centre & at least 11 killed in an Israeli air strike #BBCBreakfast
Dan Johnson reports that this morning 23 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed at an aid distribution centre & at least 11 killed in an Israeli air strike #BBCBreakfast
The bylaws of VA hospitals removed 'national origin', 'politics', and 'marital status' from the list of patient traits that medical staff could not discriminate on the basis of.
shameful.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
shameful.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The bylaws of VA hospitals removed 'national origin', 'politics', and 'marital status' from the list of patient traits that medical staff could not discriminate on the basis of.
shameful.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
shameful.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
local journalism matters!
Stephen Miller and U.S. Homeland Security amplify an image from white Christian nationalist CJay Engel -- who has been the subject of my investigations since he and his allies began their move into Jackson County, TN. 1/x
June 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
local journalism matters!
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Stephen Miller and U.S. Homeland Security amplify an image from white Christian nationalist CJay Engel -- who has been the subject of my investigations since he and his allies began their move into Jackson County, TN. 1/x
June 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Stephen Miller and U.S. Homeland Security amplify an image from white Christian nationalist CJay Engel -- who has been the subject of my investigations since he and his allies began their move into Jackson County, TN. 1/x
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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
June 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵