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The US recently introduced a policy that not only aims to force the UN's gender equality work to fit the US mold, but also unilaterally circumvents standards that have been agreed in the UNSC and GA. In this Q&A, I explain how these conditions could look in practice.

Trump job approval rating by news platform

🟢 Twitter/X: +9
🔴 Facebook: -7
🔴 Cable TV: -10
🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14
🔴 Local TV: -17
🔴 Instagram: -21
🔴 Broadcast TV: -28
🔴 TikTok: -28
🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33
🔴 Reddit: -40

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The $60 Billion Question: Is Venezuela Secretly a Bitcoin Superpower? Alex Saab may control $60 billion in Bitcoin for the Maduro regime.

Interesting Whale Hunting piece:

The $60 Billion Question: Is Venezuela Secretly a Bitcoin Superpower? Alex Saab may control $60B in Bitcoin for the Maduro regime. As Trump's naval blockade tightens, the real battle is being fought on the blockchain.
whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/the-60-billi...

Corporations Invested In Lawsuits Before Venezuela Invasion Trump’s removal of President Nicolas Maduro could tilt international court proceedings and provide a windfall to corporate plaintiffs.

BREAKING: Just weeks before the military operation in Venezuela to capture Maduro, energy giant Halliburton filed an unusual lawsuit in international court claiming the Venezuelan government owed them damages for U.S. sanctions against the country.

There’s more…

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El general Juan Miguel Huertas continúa ejerciendo como jefe del Comando de Personal del Ejército Nacional, pese a que la Procuraduría General de la Nación profirió un fallo disciplinario que ordena su suspensión provisional por presuntos vínculos con las disidencias lideradas por alias Calarcá.

Map showing potential targets in Venezuela

Map of potential US targets in Venezuela, via South American and Global Defense News.

Chile Is Making an Unprecedented Right Turn It’s Latin America’s traditional beacon of stability—and its next country to vote for the far right.

Chile is the latest country in the Western Hemisphere to face a stark choice between right and left.

SEC. 2. Termination of the use of United States forces for hostilities within or against Venezuela. (a) Termination.—Pursuant to section 1013 of the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 (50 U.S.C. 1546a), and in accordance with the provisions of section 601(b) of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976, Congress hereby directs the President to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces for hostilities within or against Venezuela, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or specific authorization for use of military force.

Like dozens of judges (including Trump appointees) who’ve had to spell out what their rulings mean, a resolution before the Senate today spells out, in the case of Venezuela, what “Congress’s power to declare war” means.

This should pass easily—if Congress still cares about being a coequal branch.

El juicio de la historia: ¿Qué revela el fallo que absolvió a Álvaro Uribe en segunda instancia? La Sala Penal del Tribunal Superior de Bogotá absolvió en segunda instancia a Álvaro Uribe de todos los cargos de soborno en actuación penal y fraude procesal, por los que había sido condenado en…

María Leonor Oviedo Pinto, magistrada del Tribunal Superior, se apartó parcialmente de la mayoría que dejó a #UribeAbsuelto. En Cuestión P. explicamos el significado de este salvamento de voto y lo que revela del debate interno en la Sala Penal. Lee👇 cuestionpublica.com/el-juicio-de...

Federal officials telling social media companies to take down posts was supposedly a free speech crisis. It’s not even really hypocrisy, since the right was lying about much of it.
And this isn’t misinformation, foreign influence ops, or public health, just 1A-protected speech the govt doesn’t like.

Donald Trump was recorded in the Oval Office happily bragging about how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his shady tariff scheme. (Insider trading amuses and delights this group.)

“He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to…

mad king

Yuval Abraham, director del oscarizado documental «No Other Land», denuncia que los colonos israelíes han agredido a Hamdan Ballal, otro de los directores de la película, y que después han asaltado la ambulancia que lo llevaba al hospital y lo han capturado. Se desconoce su paradero. Qué horror.

the DOJ just stood in front of a federal judge & said it, no implying was involved; they're arguing that if cops get you out of US territory before a judge issues an order demanding that you're accounted for--not freed, accounted for in a legal process--you never get to see a judge

astonishing

Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of

New dark chapter in American history just dropped:

Basically any Venezuelan citizen in the US, regardless of status, may be removed on pretext of belonging to Tren de Aragua, with no chance at defense.

It's the 4th-ever invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

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USAid employees told to destroy classified documents, email shows Officials have begun large-scale destruction of classified documents, including using shredders and ‘burn bags’ Officials at the US Agency for International Development (USAid) have begun a large-scale destruction of classified documents at their…

USAid employees told to destroy classified documents, email shows

Sent to USAID essential personnel this morning

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

Share of spending among ... Small businesses All contracts 23% Contracts on DOGE site 29% Minority-owned businesses All contracts 10% Contracts on DOGE site 19% Businesses owned by women All contracts 5% Contracts on DOGE site 11% Nonprofits All contracts 5% Contracts on DOGE site 11% Source: USA Spending, DOGE Based on obligated spending in the 2024 fiscal year for all federal contracts and those on DOGE's list.

Spending on the largest government contractors

These agencies have the largest share of federal spending on contracts ...

... and these agencies have the largest share of spending on contracts cut by DOGE

We took a deep dive into what contracts DOGE slashed — and what it left untouched. Most of the biggest contractors were unscathed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

USAID staff given 15 minutes to gather belongings from Washington, D.C., office As President Donald Trump's administration guts the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), former federal workers are being told to say goodbye to their desks -- and to do so quickly. USA...

USAID leadership sent an email to agency staffers on Tuesday instructing them that they will have 15 minutes to enter their former offices at the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, D.C., to retrieve their personal belongings. www.aol.com/usaid-staff-...

Ay, ay, si supieran lo que pitufi-encontramos... 🤭 Los tentáculos de la red de 'Papá Pitufo' llegaron hasta la hija del exfuncionario de la DIAN, Óscar Ambuila (sí, la del Lamborghini) y mucho más 🤯. Espéralo a las 5 p.m. por TODAS las redes de Cuestión P y en cuestionpublica.com 🔥

NEW: The Trump administration has just told a federal judge in a court filing that it will not comply with the court's order to resume funding for USAID and State Department foreign assistance.

USAID’s Inspector General fired with ‘no reason given’

Paul Martin received a termination email Tuesday night, a day after his office published a report on the impact of Trump’s foreign aid freeze.

ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.

ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.

Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda Perception is reality.

I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...

Before the takeover of USAID, how many americans knew about the agency? I wonder if they have not started by dismantling USAID precisely because it was little known and because it does not represent a significant expense for the federal government. I mean, this could be a rehearsal for them!

'A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations', Chapter 10: The Mandate of Heaven.

The government's recent actions seem to be taken from the pamphlet "A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations".

De Gutenberg a Elon Musk: historia, poder y tecnología ‘Calculating Empires’, la premiada obra de Kate Crawford y Vladan Joler, traza un apasionante mapa de la estrecha relación entre poder y tecnología a lo largo de los siglos como instrumento de dominac...

Tecnología y poder. Capital y control. Protesta y manifestantes. Y, por supuesto, sobre la obra 'Calculating Empires'. 👉 elpais.com/babelia/2025...

JUST IN: A US judge said he will enter a 'very limited' temporary order blocking the Trump administration from taking certain steps to dismantle the US Agency for International Development reut.rs/40PYNQh