Iranian judiciary claims to be working to identify Iranians in the diaspora collaborating or sympathizing with the U.S. and Israel’s war on the country, after earlier pledging to seize their assets.
The difference between how European states respond to these attacks (and Venezuela) compared to Greenland are telling about the hypocrisy involved.
A willingness to tolerate - or enable - illegal war when it happens "out there."
Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/
Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.
Is exile a dead end – or a launching pad for opposition?
New research finds that exile prolongs and escalates revolutions.
Read the latest from @isadesisto.bsky.social & @ernugent.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/is-exil...
180-200 Russian asylum seekers deported by ICE back to Russia via Egypt.
🟧 NEW TNR WATCH: In a landmark ruling, a British court ordered the Saudi government to pay $4 million+ in damages to London-based activist Ghanem al-Masarir after it was found responsible for infecting his phone with Pegasus spyware and directing an assault on him freedomhouse.org/article/tnr-...
Some thoughts on what Trump has done in Venezuela and what it might mean for US national security. Caveat: not a Latin America scholar so this is focused on US policy. Clearly huge consequences for Venezuela that others can address.
First, despite the buildup, I didn't think Trump would do it.
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A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Which types of repression are more likely to elicit foreign sympathy and support for victims? @kgcunnin.bsky.social and I find that US respondents are more sympathetic and supportive of those facing religious and language rights violations, but that these effects are not felt uniformly by partisans.
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
Scorching and effective summary by @nateschenkkan.bsky.social of how the Trump Administration has undone policy progress made by the prior administration around transnational repression.
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
Denaturalization (in order to subsequently deport) has long been used as a tool of political repression to suppress dissent.
See Chapters 2, 3, 4, & 5 of "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️
Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say, and likely only set it back "months" (while also possibly empowering hardliners and radicalizing the regime and sparking a rally-around-the-flag effect and)
Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
The Supreme Court hastened to add that the decision does not apply to members of the Federal Reserve
www.npr.org/2025/06/23/g...
Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
"An Australian man who was detained upon arrival at Los Angeles airport and deported back to Melbourne says United States border officials told him it was due to his writing on pro-Palestine protests by university students"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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A judge has ordered that Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University student who was arrested two weeks ago by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents following his citizenship interview, be released from detention while his case proceeds.
abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-c...
From the Chinese Exclusion Act to pro-Palestinian activists: The evolution of politically motivated deportations
@us.theconversation.com
Rick Baldoz
theconversation.com/from-the-chi...
Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.
Even established authoritarian regimes consider arresting defiant judges an extreme tactic—a serious escalation usually reserved for after one-party rule is firmly entrenched. Seeing a judge arrested in the US today should alarm everyone who values democratic governance. This cannot be allowed. 🧵
BREAKING: In a sudden about-face, a DOJ attorney saiys ICE will be RESTORING the status of thousands of foreign students whose SEVIS records were terminated w/o notice earlier this month.
The move comes amid mounting losses in courts around the country.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
JUST IN: U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen has announced plans to travel to El Salvador this week if Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported, is not returned to the U.S. by then.
Websites tracking the student visa revocations and ICE abductions on college campuses
www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...
This is exactly right. We have a duty to our students to defend their right to live and work freely and safely in the United States, and we have a duty to our institutions and communities to advocate for our own best interests. These are completely aligned.
International students will stop coming to American universities if their visas are going to be at risk. This will make our intellectual community poorer and also make tuition more expensive for domestic students.
Indian skeptic Sanal Edamaruku, who lives in exile in Finland, has been arrested in Poland. The Rationalist International organisation, founded by Edamaruku, reported the matter in a statement on Saturday. The Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs confirmed to the news agency STT on Sunday that it is aware of the arrest. According to Rationalist International, Edamaruku was arrested on 28 March at Modlin Airport in Warsaw, where he was scheduled to speak at a human rights conference. The arrest was based on an Indian-issued Interpol notice for Edamaruku. India is seeking his extradition, according to Rationalist International. Edamaruku is accused of blasphemy in India and has been living in self-imposed exile in Finland since 2012. He told STT in 2020 that his life would be in danger if he returned to India. His organisation's statement also references the violence and killings faced by rationalists like Edamaruku.
If this reporting is accurate, it is extremely disturbing. Sanal Edamaruku, an Indian author living self-exiled in Finland since 2012, has reportedly been arrested in *Poland* as India is seeking his extradition on blasphemy charges. He was in Warsaw to speak at a conference. yle.fi/a/74-20154223