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davidkhoudour.bsky.social
Senior #Development Economist & #HumanMobility Expert | #Migration & Forced #Displacement | PhD #Economics @sciencespo | Morse College Fellow @Yale.edu | #Fulbright Program alumnus @UCBerkeleyofficial.bsky.social | Ex @UNDP.org @OECD-OCDE.bsky.social
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I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

This statement is fabricated. Immigrants who are not lawfully present in the United States get zero dollars of Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. People entrusted with high office and great power have a duty to minimally inform themselves before blaring dangerous nonsense.

It’s entertaining me that 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, Animal Farm, Parable of the Sower, On Tyranny, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, and The Giver are all bestsellers on Barnes and Noble right now. Huh. It’s almost like we’re going through something. If only you’d read all those BEFORE the election…

More and more migrant destination and origin countries are partnering for mutual benefit. "The question is: what is the alternative?" I told Aaron Ross of @reuters.com. "Do you really think we're headed for a world where, if you don't make these agreements, migration is not going to happen?" —>

Those banning books are the same people who incessantly talk about free speech and criticize the so-called “cancel culture”.

Banning words is exactly how they develop #Newspeak in #1984 Controlling minds by narrowing language #GeorgeOrwell