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John Saveland
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Immigration and human rights advocate. Hopelessly optimistic. Digital director and writer. Exploring and loving Los Angeles.
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dsorennie.bsky.social
3 pillars of Trump peace-making are bluffing, might-makes-right deference to big powers, and putting profits before principle. Alas, from Versailles to Munich and Minsk, history is full of bad peace deals guided by those strategies. My column, The Telegram
economist.com/internationa...
The wrong sort of peace leads to the next war
Donald Trump’s approach to peacemaking ignores crucial lessons from history
economist.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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marychilds.bsky.social
After USAID got cut, I asked GiveWell if @planetmoney.bsky.social could ride along as they tried to figure out if and how to jump into the void. They said yes. They recorded weeks and weeks of deliberations. Here is the episode about it: www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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karl-schamotta.bsky.social
Full endorsement of this take from an FX guy. Stablecoins are best thought of as derivatives on the dollar with massive embedded counterparty risk. I don't understand why the US policy establishment thinks these things will play a big role outside cross-border payments in developing countries.
mcopelov.bsky.social Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d
So currencies. Much medium of exchange. Very store of value.

Stablecoins are no more a replacement for dollars than Mexican or Argentine pesos were a replacement for dollars in the 1980s or 1990s. They're the equivalent of a fixed exchange rate peg with ever-present credibility/reserves questions.
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Incredible @matinastevis.bsky.social story about an asylum-seeker kept apart from her son and family as she ping-ponged back and forth between U.S. and Canadian immigration officials has a telling detail about ICE Air.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Screenshot of story text: “You need to go because you are American,” Rahel told him. “I will stay here because I am Eritrean.” She smiled weakly, trying to put on a brave face for him. “Remember, mommy is a fighter and she’s going to fight,” she said. Rahel was moved from one place to the next until eventually she boarded a plane, its destination unclear. She realized that, if there were an emergency, she would not be able to reach the oxygen mask with her shackled hands. She complained to an ICE officer. “Nothing we can do,” she said he told her. “These are the rules.” She couldn’t stop imagining that the cabin would experience air loss and she would die trying to reach her mask. When the plane landed, Rahel saw that another detainee had begun menstruating and blood had seeped through her clothes and onto her seat. She would remain like this, blood drenching her clothes, as she moved from the plane to buses and walked in front of dozens of officers. “How can this be happening in America?” Rahel thought.
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Breaking News: Brazil’s top court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin a 27-year prison term for a failed plot to stay in power. nyti.ms/3LSSs2S
Bolsonaro To Start Serving 27-Year Prison Sentence Over Coup Plot
Brazil’s Supreme Court court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a prison term for conspiring to remain in power after losing the last election.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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gadyepstein.bsky.social
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
"I asked for their names. They didn't give me their full names," Hestmark recalled of the agents. "They didn't show me their badge numbers. They didn't remove their masks. They simply said, 'We have a warrant for his arrest, and they handed me a QR code, and they put my husband in handcuffs. And they took him and said I couldn't follow." "She was just stunned," Paul said. "She kept asking what was wrong, what did we do? We'd done everything right." "We kept asking them if there was something we could do, if there was any way we could keep her from being separated from the family," he continued. We’re just trying to figure out what's happening, and they're just telling us, I'm sorry. We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders."| • "I had to take my baby, our baby, from his crying mother's arms," Paul said. "We were completely shocked, and I feel like we were tricked," Hestmark said. "We went through every possible legal and appropriate channel. We followed the advice of our lawyer. We were told that our case was straight forward." "He just wanted to be part of this country and for us to start our future together. And he wanted to do it… "Tom isn't in the system. I can't find him," Hestmark said. "I can't call him. I can't put money into his account. The lawyer doesn't know how to proceed because he hasn't been charged with anything." Both said their spouses were able to call them Thursday night, and they believed they were still being held in the basement of the federal building as of Friday afternoon. "She said that she was scared. She was anxious, missed her baby. She just wants to come home," Paul said. "She said the agents themselves were in the detention down in the basement of the federal building, saying, What are we doing here? These aren't the sort of people were supposed to be arresting.” "They hadn't given him anything to eat or any information," Hestmark said. "They gave him a mat and a foil blanket to sleep on." As she was detailing his arrest Friday afternoon, Bilger called Hestmark again from detention. She said he told her they had moved him to the Otay Mesa Detention Center and back but he hadn't slept and still hadn't been processed. "My wife's alone and terrified," Paul said. "My baby doesn't have his mom to hold him. I can't work right…
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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lorak.bsky.social
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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ericklinenberg.bsky.social
Wendy Edelberg, former chief economist for the Congressional
budget Office, explains why keeping immigrants out of the US will not create a booming labor market for those already here. On the contrary, she writes, “making America less hospitable to immigrants will eventually make America poorer.”
Opinion | We’re Seeing What a No-Immigration Economy Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Utterly lawless
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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dougklain.bsky.social
Ukraine is fighting a war for its very survival. It’s unacceptable for their freedom to be jeopardized by bureaucratic infighting and incompetence in the US government.
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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katie0martin.ft.com
Wild stuff, this

How South Africa’s underworld infiltrated its government - on.ft.com/48aG3P5
How South Africa’s underworld infiltrated its government
[FREE TO READ] A televised inquiry probing the nexus of rogue police, officials and gangsters has electrified the country
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November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
The judicial decision was made in response to Flávio Bolsonaro calling for a vigil to form in front of his dad's home and to his dad's attempt to destroy his ankle monitor. Both things raised the possibility of flight risk.
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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vreij.bsky.social
Polish President Nawrocki on X: 'The emerging proposals to end Russia's war against Ukraine must take into account the fact that Russia is a country that does not honour agreements. The price of peace cannot in any way be the achievement of strategic goals by the aggressor: the Russian Federation.'
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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olgapatluyk.bsky.social
Every year on the last Saturday of November, Ukraine honors victims of the Holodomor.

The Holodomor refers to 3 artificial famines orchestrated by the Soviet regime in 1921–1923, 1932–1933, and 1946–1947.
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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daralind.bsky.social
I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.

This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
A man missing for weeks and the immigration system that lost him
Vicente Ventura Aguilar got picked up last month, but his family doesn’t know if he’s dead or alive. ICE says he’s not in their system, so they say they can’t help.
www.ms.now
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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janinedigi.bsky.social
Documenting War Crimes in Sudan starts NOW

foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/21/s...
Documenting War Crimes in Sudan Begins Now
Stopping ongoing violence in conflict zones is urgent, but with today’s technology, so is gathering evidence.
foreignpolicy.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
Latest piece out in @theatlantic.com . Trump's "peace" plan for Ukraine, which he at this very moment trying to force on the country with threats and intimidation, is grotesque. The US president is admitting what too many refused to admit, he wants Putin to win. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine
The White House is giving Putin permission to try again.
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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henryjfoy.ft.com
Read the full US-Russian peace plan for Ukraine here - with all 28 points brilliantly annotated, explained and skewered by @financialtimes.com's Ben Hall

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Annotated: the full text of Donald Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
[FREE TO READ] Draft agreement has shocked Europe and is unlikely to satisfy Kyiv or Moscow
on.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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christopherjm.ft.com
President Zelensky is currently holding a call with France’s Macron, Germany’s Merz and UK’s Starmer, the Ukrainian president’s office tells me. They are working to develop counter points to the Trump peace proposal that is very pro-Russian & filled with demands that are red lines for Kyiv & Europe.
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Are we winning yet?
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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simonkuper.bsky.social
Last year I interviewed the Turkish opposition leader Ekrem Imamoglu. Now he's in jail, and President Erdogan's state prosecutor has just demanded a jail sentence for him of over 2,000 years. Yet Imamoglu is a political star who terrifies Erdogan and could eventually replace him on.ft.com/3X45lcL
The man who weakened strongman Erdoğan
[FREE TO READ] Jailing Turkey’s opposition leader hasn’t stopped him looking like the country’s president in waiting
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM