Escalation--the logic of authoritarianism

With skyrocketing oil prices, lifting of sanctions and the US president justifying his idol Putin helping Iran's military, this disastrous illegal war is giving the Kremlin a banner week.

US wants to 'divide Europe', EU's Kallas tells FT European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the U.S. wants to "divide ​Europe" and doesn't "like the European Union" in an interview ‌published by the Financial Times on Friday, after more than a year of turmoil in transatlantic relations.

US wants to 'divide Europe', EU's Kallas tells FT reut.rs/4uoXupq

Exiles from Russia and other authoritarian countries are on the front lines in the struggle for democracy back home. Here's a blueprint for supporting them:

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NEW: The Israeli military unlawfully used white phosphorus over homes on March 3, 2026, in the Lebanese town of Yohmor.

The use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4bdqxDt

Chief Justice Roberts’s Vendetta Against the Voting Rights Act He’s been railing against it since the early 1980s.

The Voting Rights Act was a historic achievement for racial equality. Jesse Wegman shows how Chief Justice Roberts has waged a long effort to dismantle the law: bit.ly/4uduYXR

After the war in Iran began, Russian propaganda sharply changed its narrative and began to openly criticize the US and President Trump.

Iran War Cost Tracker -- Live Estimate of U.S. Taxpayer Spending Track the cost of the Iran war in real time. Live estimate of U.S. taxpayer spending on Operation Epic Fury -- updated every second.

Trump started a war to coverup his past and you're paying for it. https://iran-cost-ticker.com/

And now disaster is fully inevitable

Trump’s War on Iran Is Illegal Neither a future threat nor regime change can be legal justification for war without congressional authorization.

Trump's war on Iran is illegal — full stop

No Congressional authorization, no imminent threat, no legal basis under the Constitution, the War Powers Resolution, or the UN Charter

A president does not get to start a war alone

- TN

Damn

Opinion | Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Convenes Its First Meeting

Best description I've seen of this travesty

Between a rock and a strong man - ICWA US foreign policy is causing deep anxiety in Norway, which relies on its strategic alliance with America, ICWA fellow Brett Simpson reports.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frekeriksen has said that a US attack on Greenland would effectively end NATO. But with Russia an ever-present threat, Norway's hands would be tied if its primary defender invaded its neighbor, @brettvsimpson.bsky.social reports from Norway: www.icwa.org/norway-us-na...

Racism is not an unknowable disease of the heart, it's a provable set of actions and responses. That's why the @nytimes.com can't handle. For them to admit that Trump is racist would mean they'd have to admit they been carrying the water for a racist all these years. They won't ever do that.

The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained Katie Britt is uniquely positioned to reason with the Trump administration — when she chooses to speak up.

Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas said in a post on social media that he had picked up Liam and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, from the Dilley detention center on Saturday night and escorted them to Minnesota on Sunday morning. He shared photos of the two on social media, including one showing Liam at the airport clutching what appeared to be a Pikachu toy and wearing a Pikachu backpack. Mr. Castro was part of a delegation of Democratic lawmakers who visited Liam and his father at the detention center last week, where he said Liam’s father had reported that the child was “very depressed” and hadn’t been eating well since they were detained earlier this month.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:

A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"

But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed The two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident.

Two men in ICE detention say they saw guards kill a fellow detainee. Now the Trump administration is trying to deport the witnesses.

This looks a lot like a cover-up. We need an independent investigation NOW. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This.

This has been the plan all along.
- Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN
- Implement the Insurrection Act
- Declare Martial Law
- Suspend elections

ICE Jails Oglala Sioux Members at Fort Snelling, Site of 19th-Century Concentration Camp Among nonimmigrants who’ve been swept up by ICE’s campaign of racial profiling are four members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, three of whom remain jailed at an ICE facility at Fort Snelling south of the ...

ICE Jails Oglala Sioux Members at Fort Snelling, Site of 19th-Century Concentration Camp

The institute is thrilled to announce the 2026-2028 Rydell-Frisa Disarmament Fellowship, which will examine the state of global nuclear disarmament education, with immersion in a country or region to be determined next year. We are very grateful to Randy Rydell and Beth Frisa for making it possible.

The two kinds of state solution After the Gaza war ceasefire, might there be a creative way to ensure peace?

Two kinds of state solution: After the Gaza ceasefire, is there a different path to peace, toward the coexistence of a sovereign Jewish state & two Palestinian statelets with limited sovereignty? Steven Maly looks at the precedent of Native American tribes in the US: compass.icwa.org/p/the-two-ki...

We’re delighted to announce the appointment of three outstanding new fellows who will begin their fellowships next year: Mahli Knutson, Diana Kruzman @dkruzman.bsky.social and Sabrina Ochoa www.icwa.org/icwa-2026-fe...

Congratulations to the new @icwa.org fellows!!

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EU strikes back at US and China on trade The European Commission’s new South American trade agreement comes more than two decades after negotiations began.

The EU strikes back at US and China with a South America free trade deal. It only took 25 years, Marco Zatterin writes for Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/eu-strikes...

For ICWA's centenary, ICWA alumni Joseph Battat, Bacete Bwogo, William Foote & Joel Millman will discuss tariffs & anti-migration policies dominating the international agenda. Open to the public. Register to join us on Nov 14 at @swedeninusa.bsky.social in DC: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-world-...

A tweet from Ron Filipkowski reads: “Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million. In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million. A massive percentage came from foreigners. It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics. But few even care.” Below the tweet is a Reuters image showing members of the Trump family and associates in suits cheering and raising their fists outside a building with a sign that reads Nasdaq. The caption reads: “Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine.”

I care. I think you do, too. The swamp is now a damn tar pit.