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Trump's "border security teather"

4 Feb 2025 1 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic

  TL;DR In her article "Trump's 'Invasion' Theatrics: Act 1", published in The Border Chronicle, Melissa del Bosque examines Donald Trump's use of executive orders and military operations to create the illusion of an immigration crisis at the U.S.-M...

Trump is no friend of freedom of speech

1 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TL;DR In her article "Donald Trump Is No Warrior for Free Speech," published in The Bulwark, Cathy Young critiques Trump's 2025 executive order, "Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship," arguing that it is more about political reta...

"Trumpisation" of Meta / Facebook

1 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TL;DR Stefania Di Stefano, writing for OpenGlobalRights, critiques Meta's 2025 policy shift under Mark Zuckerberg, arguing that the company's move to "prioritize speech" over content moderation undermines its human rights commitments. Meta has weake...

Immigrants and humans as invaders - the horrible and inhumane communication of Trump and MAGA extremists

1 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TL;DR Alex Nowrasteh and Krit Chanwong's article, "Diseased Illegal Immigrants Aren't 'Invading' the United States," published on Immigration Insights, challenges the claim that illegal immigration poses a significant disease risk in the U.S. Analyz...

Migration to Japan and South Korea is not as selective and exclusionary as many think

31 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR In "Immigration Systems in Labor-Needy Japan and South Korea Have Evolved—but Remain Restrictive," published by the Migration Policy Institute, authors Erin Aeran Chung and Yunchen Tian analyze the restrictive and selective immigration policies...

Silk Road, an attempted response to drug prohibition

30 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments BitcoinBerg

https://x.com/RealRossU/photo Ross Ulbricht was sentenced in 2015 to double life in prison for his role in founding Silk Road, an online marketplace that facilitated the sale of drugs. On January 20, 2025, he was released on a presidential pardon...

Apps, social media and shopping - general differences between USA and China

28 Jan 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR In "How Chinese Apps Like TikTok Hook U.S. Users With Shopping and Entertainment Algorithms," Tiffany Ap and Kinling Lo, writing for Rest of World, explore how Chinese social media platforms such as TikTok, Xiaohongshu, and Lemon8 dominate user...

By pardoning rioters, militants and far-right extremists Trump is undermining justice and rule of law

27 Jan 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR In "Trump's Obscene January 6 Pardons Will Live in Infamy," published in The UnPopulist on January 24, 2025, Walter Olson critiques Donald Trump's mass pardons of individuals involved in the January 6 Capitol riots. Olson argues that these pardo...

Trump politics are mainly against legal than irregular immigration

20 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR In "Trump Will Cut Legal Entries More Than Illegal Entries," published by David J. Bier on the Cato Institute, the author argues that Donald Trump's immigration policies in a potential second term would disproportionately target legal immigratio...

Biden, Border, Brutality

17 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR In "Biden Didn't Cause the Border Crisis," published by American Purpose, David J. Bier dismantles the narrative that President Joe Biden is responsible for the U.S.-Mexico border crisis. Bier argues that the surge in migration stems from global...