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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 51m

Yeah you don’t say

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 52m

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3h

And that’s regarded as the optimistic view

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3h

That sounds about right

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Two more generations before Jews and Arabs can live in peace, says Vatican’s top man in Jerusalem

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa says ‘the wounds are too deep’ and the healing process needs time

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3h

What‘s amazing is that their article about this annoying suffix introduced only four never-printed-before-in-the-NYT neologisms

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 22h

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

Why failing to reach a big, beautiful tariff-reduction deal is in fact a shrewd strategic move and so much better than having one — just ask the Europeans

(I write from Frankfurt-am-Main)

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Opinion: Carney’s better off without a big Trump trade deal. Just ask the Europeans

There has been plenty of buyer’s remorse in countries that signed hasty agreements with Washington. Canada would be wise to wait

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 14h

This is one of those astonishing historical events I’m surprised I’ve never heard about and should be the subject of several Hollywood movies. Imagine being one of the guys who took the Middle Passage *back* and started again

The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 6d

“The presence of Black seamen was especially important for stowaways. Sailors were known to stack the heavy bales of cotton in a way that created spaces where slaves could fit and to provide them with food and water during the voyage.” —Eric Foner

The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 17h

The little countries of our hemisphere are doing what the big ones should have done long ago

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The Caribbean’s Migration Milestone

Four countries are defying global anti-migrant sentiment to offer free movement to their citizens.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 20h

There we have it.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 20h

Imagine, praising a country that's opposing the murderous dictatorship that's taken over your country for 26 years, and razzing its president online.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 20h

I think the meaning of that tweet went right over your head

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 20h

You love to see it.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 20h

No, she’s broadly a social democrat slash liberal. Under the Chavez regime, before Maduro, the unions were crushed and outlawed and oil industry put in the hands of corrupt public officials, so in that sense any Venezuelan favours some form of “privatization”

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, listen to how the jury explained the prize. Not simply talking about Venezuela

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Norway in this case. But yeah

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Maria Machado is a superb choice for the peace prize, having risked her life to resist one of the world’s most disruptive democratic crises, and created Venezuela’s legitimate elected party. And sends a clear message about who won’t be eligible for the prize

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Maria Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader recognized for promoting a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Well, there WAS an organization called Antifa, in the 1930s. Its sole goal was to kill and disempower social democrats and other people on the democratic left, and it's often credited with giving Hitler an opening by dividing the left. So I'm pretty sure they have no idea at all

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

Why failing to reach a big, beautiful tariff-reduction deal is in fact a shrewd strategic move and so much better than having one — just ask the Europeans

(I write from Frankfurt-am-Main)

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Carney’s better off without a big Trump trade deal. Just ask the Europeans

There has been plenty of buyer’s remorse in countries that signed hasty agreements with Washington. Canada would be wise to wait

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

Trump Ed Balls’d the Comey persecution

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

They arrested Rosa Luxemburg!

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 6d

The recent rise of “shadow federalism” — groups of states replacing federal agencies abdicated or destroyed by Trump — combined with the president’s military targeting of those states makes an American schism a medium-term possibility for which we should plan

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: United States may split into warring federal entities. Let’s side with the better one

Recent developments contain the seeds of a United States divided into two competing federalisms – and even a potential civil war

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3d

From 2017. Pretty much spot on

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when the Boston Globe ran this supposedly over-the-top front page to attack the idea of Trump ever being president, and now this is just the news every day? We've fallen so, so far because of this man

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3d

When Trump referred to a congressperson as "low IQ" today, I didn't need to look up her sex and skin colour.

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