Jessica Francis Kane

@jfkane.bsky.social

Author of five works of fiction. The latest, FONSECA, out now.

I tried to bring the focus back where it needs to be: "Whatever the strategic (mis)calculations behind this crisis, what is indisputable is that on any given day, there are thousands of young people in Morocco who are willing to risk everything for a chance to live in Europe." tinyurl.com/mpeyzavu

The Makings of a Mass Crisis

Unless Morocco’s government provides better jobs, education, healthcare, and human rights to young people, the crisis we witnessed this last week will happen again.

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The @nytimes inexplicably continues to assert that "the Justice Department ... gave [Trump] the audit protection as part of a deal to end the lawsuit." Nope. It wasn't included in the "deal." It's a unilateral--and blatantly unlawful--decree by the Acting AG. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity

The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.

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