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Nonilex<p>Grenell told <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> he had persuaded <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Maduro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maduro</span></a> to resume suspended<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> flights to Caracas in return for release of the Americans. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept eventually resumed talks leading to the final deal.</p><p>For the returned <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Venezuelans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuelans</span></a>, the agreement ended 4 months of confinement in what both Salvadoran &amp; US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> groups have called one of the most brutal facilities in the hemisphere, deprived of access to lawyers or their families.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Venezuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuela</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Maduro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maduro</span></a> had demanded the return of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Venezuelans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuelans</span></a>, whom he charged had been “kidnapped,” as a point of national honor, after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bukele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bukele</span></a> offered in April to send them home if Maduro would free all <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> citizens he was holding + dozens of imprisoned domestic political opponents.
<br>But an exchange being negotiated by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept in May was scotched when it collided w/separate negotiations being secretly conducted by presidential envoy Richard Grenell…</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin has been considering <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sanctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sanctions</span></a> against Moraes for weeks, according to 4 people familiar w/the situation…. Two said they had seen a copy of a proposed sanctions order against Moraes within the last month, but said it had initially met with pushback from the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Treasury</span></a> Department, an account corroborated by a senior <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Department official.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/felon47" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>felon47</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bolsonaro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bolsonaro</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intimidation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intimidation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The deal will open up negotiations on what is known as a “123 agreement.” It will allow <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> &amp; American companies to invest in &amp; construct <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> projects in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bahrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bahrain</span></a>, an island nation off the coast of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SaudiArabia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaudiArabia</span></a> with a population of ~1.5M people.</p><p>Secy of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> &amp; Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani signed the memorandum of understanding on Wednesday, after Rubio signed a similar agreement w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Malaysia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Malaysia</span></a> last week.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In several <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/states" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>states</span></a>, it asked detailed questions about the process to remove <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/noncitizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>noncitizens</span></a> &amp; other *ineligible* <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voters</span></a> from the rolls.</p><p>Grantham, the Fremont County clerk, said Small asked him if he would allow a third party to review whether his voting machines complied with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>federal</span></a> law. Grantham declined the request, he said, citing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>state</span></a> laws that restrict access to voting machines.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionLaw</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The move by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> represents an expansion of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PresidentialPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentialPower</span></a>, allowing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> to functionally eliminate a government department created by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>, without legislators’ input.</p><p>It comes after a decision by the justices last week that cleared the way for the Trump admin to move forward with cutting thousands of jobs across a number of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a>, including <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HUD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HUD</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Treasury</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/politics/supreme-court-education-department.html?smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/supreme-court-education-department.html?smid=url-share</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> were most withering about the cuts to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VoiceOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceOfAmerica</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RadioFreeAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeAsia</span></a>, which for decades pierced <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> veils around the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a>. The report noted that in recent years some of that support came from then-Sen <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a>, Trump’s secy of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> adviser, who has not publicly dissented from the admin’s decision to lay off nearly all the staff at both outlets.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SoftPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpIsWeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsWeak</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The report opens with the cutbacks at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept, whose US based staff is being reduced by about 17%, &amp; on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InternationalAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalAid</span></a> programs focused on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a>. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>, it notes, has increased its diplomatic budget by 8.4%, committed $500M to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WHO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WHO</span></a> &amp; “continues to spend billions on international educational &amp; cultural exchange programs.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SoftPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpIsWeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpIsWeak</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> Secretary-General <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarkRutte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarkRutte</span></a> was due in Washington on Monday &amp; Tuesday. He planned to hold talks with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, Secretary of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Defense</span></a> Secretary <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PeteHegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeteHegseth</span></a>, as well as members of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>.</p><p>Talks during Kellogg’s visit to Kyiv will cover “defense, strengthening security, weapons, sanctions, protection of our people &amp; enhancing cooperation between Ukraine &amp; the United States,” said the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Andrii Yermak.</p>
Thomas Barrio<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@sz_duras" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sz_duras</span></a></span> </p><p>1/5 <br>The critique of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biopower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biopower</span></a> is not just about techniques of managing life—it forces us to denaturalize the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> itself. Foucault shows that biopower—normative, diffuse management of bodies and populations—arises with modernity, in synergy with state and market.</p>
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If the #State Dept “*believes* those assurances to be *credible*,” then #ICE may deport someone to that country “without the need for further procedures,” he wrote in the memo, obtained by WaPo.

The #US has rarely deported people to countries where they are not #citizens, & lawyers warned that thousands of longtime #immigrants w/ work permits & families in the US could now be uprooted & sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

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“President #Trump & Secretary of #State #Rubio are once again making America less safe & less secure,”Sen #TimKaine (D-VA) said in a statement.
“This is one of the most ridiculous decisions that could possibly be made at a time when #China is increasing its diplomatic footprint around the world & establishing an overseas network of #military & #transportation bases, #Russia is continuing its years-long brutal assault of a #sovereign country, & the #MiddleEast is careening from crisis to crisis.”

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The total reduction in the workforce [#RIF] will be ~3k, including the *voluntary* departures, acc/to the notice & a senior #State Dept ofcl, out of the 18k employees based in the #US.

The move is the first step of a restructuring that #Trump has sought to ensure US #ForeignPolicy is aligned with his "America First" agenda. Fmr diplomats & experts say the firing of #ForeignService officers risks America's ability to counter the growing assertiveness from adversaries such as #China & #Russia.

The #State Dept began firing >1,350 #US based employees Friday as the #Trump admin goes ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its #DiplomaticCorps, undermining US ability to defend & promote interests abroad.

The #layoffs, which affect 1,107 #CivilService & 246 #ForeignService officers in the US, come as the US faces multiple global #crises: #Russia's war in #Ukraine, the #Gaza conflict, & the #MiddleEast on edge due to tensions between #Israel & #Iran.

#SoftPower
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At the same time, negotiations were intensifying over a deal in which the #US would secure greater access to #Congo #minerals in return for help defending the country from #Rwanda backed #insurgents rampaging across its eastern provinces.

To get the ball rolling, Kahana met w/ #State Dept ofcls in DC in March. The ofcls thought it worth empowering a team led by Kahana to discuss US *diplomatic* goals & the release of the 3 Americans w/ #Tshisekedi, the businessman & the State Dept said.

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Reuters pieced together the course of events by speaking to the 3 Americans on the trip, a #State Dept ofcl involved in the initiative, & 2 people the trio met during their brief stay in #Congo's capital Kinshasa.

The story of the ill-fated venture, which has not previously been reported, provides a glimpse of how the #Trump admin…works through *unconventional* channels in pursuit of *deals* to bring Americans home….

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@Nonilex The “funny” thing about #State giving #ElSalvador the safest rating (“level 1”) is that the detailed description reads much more like it does for dangerous countries (probably level 2-3).

For reference, Canada is level 1, many “safe” countries in the EU and Central America are level 2, Nicaragua is level 3, and North Korea, Syria, and Sudan are level 4 “do not travel.”

travel.state.gov/content/trave (expand the “safety and security” section)

travel.state.govEl Salvador International Travel InformationEl Salvador international travel information and Travel Advisory
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In April, #Trump’s #State Dept upgraded #ElSalvador’s travel advisory to its highest rating, citing a “drop in violent crimes & murders.”

While #crime has improved, El Salvador jumped to the #UnitedStates’ safest level, ahead of countries like France or Spain, whose rates of violent crime are the same or lower.

The new rating reflects a dramatic turnaround for a country that once had a soaring homicide rate & “significant #HumanRights issues,” acc/to the State Dept in 2023.