#news current state of #Trump deportation of Kilmar Armando #Abrego García, who is not from #Venezuela, to #El-Salvador #CECOT #deportations #human-rights
list of some languages by DLI difficulty level. Malay is Category II, like German, Indonesian, and Swahili, where they give you 35 weeks at the DLI rather than the 26 weeks for Category I, which includes Spanish and French. Category IV (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Korean) is 64 weeks.
#news: #El-Salvador blocks #USA senator Chris van Hollen from visiting Kilmar Armando #Abrego García after #Trump #deportations to #CECOT #human-rights
#news on #Trump’s IRS considering revoking #Harvard’s tax-exempt status. Also #Abrego #deportations. #USA #politics #human-rights
#news on #China offering #USA and EU citizens 240-hour visa-free shopping tours to buy luxury brands from OEM factory outlets at factory prices, blitzing TikTok with information about how those brands are really produced in China, in response to #Trump #tariffs. #USA #politics
#news by #France24 public broadcasting saying the #China viral TikTok videos claiming they’re the OEMs of #Hermes, Louis Vuitton, and probably other luxury brands are not correct and are perhaps an effort by counterfeit manufacturers in China to take advantage of the chaos.
#news on #Trump #deportations in defiance of Boasberg’s court order. #human-rights
#news saying the #USA Federal Reserve is planning a bailout of the stock and bond market (perhaps via reverse repurchase agreements: treasury securities sold by the Federal Reserve in temporary open market operations, as was done massively in 02022 and 02023, a number that has dropped from US$400 billion two weeks ago to under US$100 billion now), because #Trump’s pause on #tariffs hasn’t stopped the bond market from getting tighter and tighter as hedge funds deleveraged. #politics
#news #interview with Larry Summers on #Harvard: “For the President of the United States to be calling for changing the tax status of his adversaries, this is new, and, I believe, authoritarian, and a real question about our democracy.” #human-rights
#news #interview with Kilmar #Abrego’s wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura. #deportations #human-rights
#news #interview by the #Economist where they debate what reserve currency could displace the dollar: Euro, Nordic countries, Japan, Switzerland, gold, or “maybe, maybe, cryptocurrency” !!!
#news by #Al-Jazeera summarizing #Trump
#news that #Trump wants to bomb #Iran and is attempting to impose untenable “designed to fail” conditions on an anti-nuclear deal so he can go to war with them
#news on #Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan threatening to arrest Democratic state governors in the #USA #politics