Partner at DGA Group, Adjunct Senior Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Former Human Rights Watch (HRW). Opinions my own.
Joined August 2016
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Me siento muy honrado de haber recibido la Orden de Isabel la Católica de España por mi defensa de los derechos humanos y el Estado de derecho.
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NEW: U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro reported 140 personal financial trades since April — and lots of them appear to have violated the STOCK Act's disclosure provisions.
From @byMarkAlfred of @washingtonsun:
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Breaking News: Alvin Hellerstein, a senior federal judge in Manhattan overseeing the prosecution of the captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, has died at 92. nyti.ms/4eDfyWx
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Sotomayor, dissenting from John Roberts’ immunity ruling:
“Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”
Roberts signed it anyway.
428 letters to 44,500:
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Exclusive: Pete Hegseth has fired another top general in the military—presaging more upheaval in the Pentagon’s upper echelons as Trump looks to break the stalemate of the war with Iran, @nancyayoussef reports: theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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Trump: They have a lion, a bear, a snake, and a camel. They say, which one is the snake? It's a very powerful test, very highly respected test. Very hard. I passed it all 3 times. I aced it
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Flavio Bolsonaro: right-wing heir falls from presidential hopeful to exile afp.com/en/flavio-bolsonaro-…
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U.S. military officials estimate that the Trump administration’s war with Iran has cost more than $47 billion through mid-October, a rise of more than $3 billion over the past several weeks, according to a document reviewed by The Post. wapo.st/4idRYlG
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Another warning to energy companies not to facilitate Russian diesel imports from @RepRaskin. He's right on the law -- imports remain banned by legislation we passed in 2022, and the statue of limitations is ten years.
No company should take this risk.
‼️NEW: RM @RepRaskin puts oil industry on notice: anyone helping Trump and Putin evade America’s ban on Russian oil could face criminal penalties.
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Providing no evidence that the election result had been manipulated, the losing candidate in Sunday’s run-off issued a statement that initially described himself as the ‘true president-elect’ just hours after he arrived in the US ft.trib.al/LYWq2ec
ALT Flavio Bolsonaro steps off a plane after arriving at an airport in Miami, Florida. Text on image reads: Flávio Bolsonaro claims fraud in Brazil’s presidential election (Credit: Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images)
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The brutal Cuban dictatorship deserves to be called out at the UN - but by American leaders who don't also praise Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, Sisi, and MBS!
If the Castro regime bought Trump's crypto or paid for his son's wedding, our UN ambassador wouldn't be doing this.
The Castro regime has profited at the expense of the Cuban people with luxury cars, expensive watches and a private island resort. As I shared this with the world, regime thugs rushed the stage to interrupt my speech.
They can intimidate their own people in Cuba but think again about trying that nonsense in the United States of America.
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Após fuga, Flávio se autodeclara ‘presidente eleito’ em carta golpista e agradece Trump e Milei estadao.com.br/politica/elei…
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party claims the election was “stolen” by Arab parties and is calling on police to investigate alleged voter fraud.
With 93% of the vote counted, Netanyahu’s bloc has 53 seats, well short of the 61 needed to form a government, down from the 68 seats his coalition held before the election. Arab parties have nearly doubled their representation, jumping from 10 seats to 19.
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Pitch perfect response from Obama to this manufactured Cheesecake Factory outrage
OBAMA: The president wasn't even mad. About The Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset about The Cheesecake Factory. He took great umbrage. He said I didn't understand the work of the artisans in the White House.
They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke.
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I’m going to suspend my low expectations and express hope that every traditional opponent of bigotry in America, including the @ADL, will unite to condemn this crude, explicit & out of control anti-Muslim rhetoric from senior GOP leaders, which threatens every minority faith.
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Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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Ossoff: "Georgia will bow to no king!"
He then welcomes Obama to the stage. Here's his entrance. The crowd goes nuts.
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Performing for one man and doesn't care about the level of contempt he earns from pretty much everyone else on the planet. @USAmbUN
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"Democrats’ main hope for next week’s elections is to win enough seats to put a check on Donald Trump. But in Texas, James Talarico is trying to create a Democratic template for another problem: How to deal with Elon Musk."
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On his way to Mar-a-Lago?
Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro landed in Miami on Wednesday, after Brazilian authorities canceled his passports amid a money-laundering investigation.
His whereabouts were a mystery for 24 hours before he finally made it to the U.S. The Trump administration plans to issue visas for him and his family.
