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Replying to @ralphjanik.com
I agree. European naivety vs US Realpolitik. We're a partner that doesn't want a leave an abusive relationship. bsky.app/profile/phil...
Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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The Rubio speech was not a detente. It was the JD Vance message delivered with velvet rather than boxing gloves (h/t @fbermingham.bsky.social) He signalled 0 actionable compromises to the EU other than implicitly asking Europe to close its borders / round up migrants (and then the US offers what?)
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I can see Europeans being excited about the polite-ish tone but diplomacy is also about substance and I didn’t see any. What am I missing?
The Rubio speech was not a detente. It was the JD Vance message delivered with velvet rather than boxing gloves (h/t @fbermingham.bsky.social) He signalled 0 actionable compromises to the EU other than implicitly asking Europe to close its borders / round up migrants (and then the US offers what?)
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For every promise about lowering mortgage rates or targeting private-equity homeowners, there’s a construction tariff — on wood, on steel, on copper, on rebar, roofing, window frames, stoves, sinks, kitchen cabinets and vanities. 🤡
“.. the White House’s trade war extends beyond construction materials — to the objects that make a house a home .. ‘Make housing unaffordable forever’? It’s not likely to play well with voters in November ..” @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.pacificresearch.org/tariffs-the-...
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Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg during the incident. Another Venezuelan man was also accused of attacking an immigration officer. n.pr/4rKGbNj
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It’s Day 443 of #GeorgiaProtests and Aza Chilachava, an elderly IDP from Abkhazia, still protests almost every day, even despite being targeted by the regime.
Aza Chilachava comes to protest almost every day over one year. She's an IDP from Abkhazia, who lives in a tiny room in an IDP settlement. She was fined for wearing a facemask at the protest when she was sick and was sentenced to one day in jail for protesting.
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We asked www.PAXIS.app: A masked protester is exercising a constitutional right. The First Amendment protects anonymous speech and assembly. A masked government agent is exercising state power. The Fourth Amendment demands accountability. Private speech can be anonymous. Government force cannot.
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It’s been that kind of week. @wsj.com @financialtimes.com @bloomberg.com @nbcnews.com
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Replying to @mikehixenbaugh.com
For more on how conditions at Dilley are affecting children, read my latest for @nbcnews.com
I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas. As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday. She replied: “To get out of here.”
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After the fall of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan regime promise amnesty and reconciliation — but for hundreds still jailed and thousands facing charges, justice remains uncertain. n.pr/4c0zHFL
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I know this sounds simplistic, but it is a very good thing that the Trump administration is now squarely on the defensive - about ICE, but also about most things - and it’s great that Dems are sustaining the pressure. Credit where it’s due.
SLOTKIN: So the fact we have ICE agents saying out loud to people they're trying to arrest that 'we're gonna put you in a database,' they are making that up? LYONS: We do not do that
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Ukrainians are uniting in solidarity with Olympic skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for wearing a helmet with images of Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion. n.pr/4rqEdSs
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"In his egoism, Trump exhibits an overarching desire to squeeze the nation dry, including by converting as much of America’s wealth to himself regardless of the consequences. What Trump can’t take with him, he would just as soon ruin."
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"There are plenty of reasons why Trump’s job performance is polling on par with the less glamorous STDs. One reason is thatthe Trump administration is committed to its increasingly unpopular programs of ethnic cleansing and murder. Also: it’s the economy, you stupid fascist." First Draft today:
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Phil @philehr.bsky.social is a good friend of mine, a candidate for FL-28, and a fellow veteran. His support means the world - glad to have you on Team Vindman!
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BREAKING: Platform Ventures, the development company that owns a south Kansas City warehouse that federal agents toured last month to consider for an immigrant detention center, announced today that it is not moving forward with the sale.
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