Wow. Colombia temporarily blocked ICE deportation flights, citing inhumane conditions of the people deported, including the use of hand and foot shackles for mothers. Colombia's migration office calls the treatment "degrading."

Western ultra-conservative Christian movements pump money into promoting their anti-gender, anti-LGBTI agenda in Africa. The consequences of sliding back on equality and human rights will have major impact not just on individuals but societies, economies. mg.co.za/africa/2023-05…

¡Una alegría para todo el país! Aparecieron con vida los 4 niños que estaban perdidos hace 40 días en la selva colombiana.

The moral bankruptcy of Ivy League America via Financial Times on.ft.com/3rep4JV

Warum die SPD gerade auf einen zweiten Hartz-IV-Moment zusteuert zeit.de/politik/deutsc…

Fascinating piece by Alyssa Bowen, PhD on Moms for America, a dark money-funded group that helped orchestrate the Capitol insurrection, and now they are coming for school boards and public education truthout.org/articles/a-jan…

Probably the most underestimated danger of climate change — over the immediate short term — is the way it destabilizes democratic nations. Here’s how: hartmannreport.com/p/how-climate-…

Irgendwie geht in den Headlines ein bisschen unter dass die Rechtspopulisten in Spanien fast die Hälfte ihrer Sitze verloren haben.

IMO it's important for media outlets to keep disproportionately hiring Ivy League grads because the elite college —> journalism pipeline is one of America's main sources of downward economic mobility.

Brilliant writing from Graeme Wood: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Powerful image by Federico Rios and an important story from 🌰. A growing # of Chinese have entered the US through the Darién Gap, exceeded only by Venezuelans, Ecuadoreans and Haitians. The story of Gao Zhibin, who we met this year in the jungle. nytimes.com/2023/12/03/bus…

After a severe drought, it is impressive to see how Amazonian fires have been severely neglected during #COP28 by Brazil, despite the enormous CO2 amounts they release in the atmosphere. More on the subject here (use cc captions for English): youtu.be/jy3X8jwB6U4?si…

The extensive evidence of crimes against humanity committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7 should not be contaminated by unverified stories disseminated by Israeli search and rescue groups, army officers, and even Sara Netanyahu haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

This, by Yuval Noah Harari, is masterful. It gives me no satisfaction - only grief - to add that I’ve been saying all this since 10/10, but he says it much better. Enough. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

AIPAC is the single biggest source of Republican donations into Democratic primaries ow.ly/sYn7105w9Ja

Mexico's tactic to cut immigration to the US: wear out migrants. -- “I would rather cross the Darien Gap 10,000 times than cross Mexico" apnews.com/article/mexico…

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery cnn.com/2024/10/13/wor…

“Despite its recent rise to prominence, the idea of a global South is not new,” writes Zachariah Mampilly. The persistence of “global South,” “Third World,” and other terms “owes much to the original desire to divide the world into digestible blocks.” foreignaffairs.com/world/what-glo…

The United States is on track to “become a rogue superpower, neither internationalist nor isolationist but aggressive, powerful, and increasingly out for itself,” argues Michael Beckley. What explains this shift—and what comes next? foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…