Elisabeth Vallet
@elisabethvallet.bsky.social
Border scholar Prof. International studies/ Études internationales @CMR-SJ 🇨🇦 Dir. of #TeamGeopo 💡@ChaireRaoulDandurand @UQAM.ca @BIGlobalization @big-lab.bsky.social Chroni. @LeDevoir.com #borders & #borderwalls In english & en français (views are my own)
Une des meilleures analyses sur les déterminants complexes et multiples des événements de Ceuta par le Professeur Mehdi Alioua (Sciences Po Rabat) legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/08/0...
Pourquoi le Maroc n’a pas pu orchestrer la crise de Ceuta ?
La ruée vers Ceuta s'explique d'abord par la crise sociale du Maroc, la singularité de l’exclave espagnole et non par une stratégie délibérée de Rabat.
legrandcontinent.eu
In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
We've been studying border barriers throughout the world for more than a decade now. And guess what? To quote The economist, this week: "Border walls are symbols of power—and monuments to delusion" => Read: "The Global Wallification of the World" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Spain Installs Floating Barrier in Ceuta After Influx of Migrants
Most of those who came to the territory, a Spanish exclave in Africa, have returned across the border to Morocco. At least 67 people died trying to enter, the authorities said.
nytimes.com
Cc @guglielminetti.bsky.social
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2w agoNew, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...
Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...
Already among US areas most threatened by climate injustice, a stretch of the "Great River Road" withdrawn from consideration as National Historic Landmark at the request of state officials, undermining efforts to preserve rich cultural legacies of Black communities. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
National Park Service withdraws Black community in Louisiana from historic landmark consideration
WALLACE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring Afro-Creole culture along the Mississippi River had been eligible for receiving rare federal protection f...
wbrz.com
Before you can rewrite history, you have to destroy it.
Les incendies en Amazonie brésilienne à leur niveau le plus bas : la preuve que les politiques de Lula ont payé ➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/Bso
Who broke britain? (...) In 2007, Britain was at its postimperial zenith. Median household income just surpassed that of Germany. (...) London was arguably displacing NY as the center of international banking. But since then, Britain has been left behind.(...) just above Mississippi
How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi
A case study in self-sabotage
theatlantic.com
Le journaliste sportif David Lemos dénonce en direct les dérives de la FIFA après la finale de la Coupe du Monde et ça fait du bien. En France, il n'aurait plus de boulot...
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w agoCongrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
After #Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people in January with immigration officials, ICE then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings.
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
npr.org
Trump also laid out a purported effort by the Chinese government to undermine him in 2019. But the documents posted by the White House, although heavily redacted, did not back up his claims. #LoserTrumpsElectionLies www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
Here’s the latest.
nytimes.com
Market manipulation for sale - Truth Social to sell trading firms 'fastest' access to Trump's posts www.reuters.com/technology/t...
reuters.com
Republicans are spending more money and running more ads on immigration than Democrats are ahead of the November midterm elections, according to an NPR analysis of advertisement data. n.pr/4f8osfp
Republican campaigns see immigration as a winning issue for midterms
Republicans are spending more money and running more ads on immigration than Democrats are ahead of the November midterm elections, according to an NPR analysis of advertisement data.
n.pr
The EU fears its banks can’t compete with U.S. rivals. So it's copying America's playbook of slashing rules.
EU takes inspiration from Trump with bonfire of banking rules
The biggest U.S. bank, JP Morgan, has a greater market capitalization than the 10 largest EU banks combined. Brussels wants to compete.
politico.eu
American-led restrictions have blocked China from accessing some of the world's most advanced technologies, spurring China's efforts to build its own know-how and intensifying the tech race between the world's two biggest economies. n.pr/4aUff83
China's Xi calls for step up of global effort in AI, as US curbs squeeze China's tech access
American-led restrictions have blocked China from accessing some of the world's most advanced technologies, spurring China's efforts to build its own know-how and intensifying the tech race between the world's two biggest economies.
n.pr
This. Cuts to the heart of the threat and the plan
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoRep. Himes: "The president was setting the basis for him to turn around on election night and say, 'I warned you that the Chinese were doing x, y, and z. It happened tonight. I'm deploying federal officers from DHS to 7 states. They will be seizing ballot boxes.'"
Reminder: Trump voted by mail in Florida.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump on what voting should look like: "'Can I have your photo please?' Photo voter ID. All voters must provide proof of citizenship. 'Are you a citizen of our country, please?' And hopefully there will be no corrupt mail in ballots."
People should be prepared for this to be technically true. States audit their own “voter rolls” (registrant database) and find a few hundred ineligible registrants The sleight of hand is that when they check how many ineligible voters cast ballots that were accepted, it’s single digit numbers
Politico@politico.com · 3w agoDHS says it found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states
Partout en Europe, ce discours résonne aussi. De manière quasi identique.
Masculinisme | Les filles, on n’est pas en train de gagner la bataille…
Comment réagir, comme femme, quand on est confrontée à un discours masculiniste ? Une simple discussion avec trois gars autour d’une bière a secoué l’étudiante en science politique Alix Gravel, qui n’...
lapresse.ca
Pete Hegseth’s proposed testosterone screenings aren’t medically necessary and seem unlikely to contribute to military readiness—they’re “an exercise in projecting a masculine image,” Tom Bartlett writes.
Pete Hegseth’s Questionable Testosterone Plan
The secretary of defense wants to monitor the hormone levels of every service member over 30.
bit.ly
Le secrétaire d'État américain Marco Rubio a annoncé vouloir démanteler la Cour Pénale Internationale, "brique par brique". Pourquoi ? Parce que la CPI - et le droit international - sont les derniers remparts face aux auteurs des crimes. Y compris les plus puissants.
