David Dubberly 🇺🇸🇺🇾

Employment/labor/OSHA/international lawyer

[Selección Uruguaya @Uruguay]

La más linda del mundo 😉

[Subrayado @Subrayado]

#AHORA | Se realizó la presentación de los trajes de la selección uruguaya diseñados por Gabriela Hearst. Los mismos fueron confeccionados con lana merino. "Es la lana uruguaya, es el producto nacional de lujo (...) es un placer trabajar con este material que ya existía. La tela se había usado para el Mundial pasado", dijo la uruguaya.

[Desiree Fixler @desireefixler]

Whenever I hear “capitalism is bad,” here’s where I stand:

People don’t risk their lives jumping barbed wire to escape capitalism.

They risk their lives to reach it.

[David Dubberly 🇺🇸🇺🇾 @DavidDubberly]

@SeanTrende @EWErickson Congrats to Judson!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you pitched this as a screenplay, every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose.

Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit ranked 2,149th in his high school class. Zero FBS scholarship offers. Not one. He walked on at Cal, fought for a starting job, transferred to Indiana for his senior year, then led them to 16-0 and the first national title in school history. Heisman, Walter Camp, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien, Manning, Big Ten MVP. 41 TDs, 72% completion, 8-to-0 TD-to-INT ratio in the playoffs.

The Raiders took him #1 overall Thursday night. $54.56M fully guaranteed. Only the third player ever to win the Heisman, win a national championship, and go first overall the next spring. Burrow. Newton. Mendoza.

Then he skipped Pittsburgh.

The biggest stage in football, the moment every kid imagines from the second they pick up a ball, and Fernando watched the call from his living room in Florida because his mom Elsa is in a wheelchair and the travel is hard for her. She was diagnosed with MS when he was 4. She wrote a letter to her sons in The Players Tribune in 2015 promising the disease "won't affect us in the ways that matter."

The part nobody talks about: while every other top pick was on stage, Fernando announced the Mendoza Family Fund the same day. $500K personal donation to the National MS Society. Committed to raising $1M over three years. He hasn't taken an NFL snap and he's already given more to a cause than most players donate in a full career.

He and his brother Alberto have already raised $360K through the Mendoza Bros. Burger at BuffaLouie's in Bloomington. At Christmas, he handed four families dealing with MS $10,000 each for an Adidas shopping spree.

Both his parents are children of Cuban refugees who fled Castro. His dad rowed at Brown, won a Junior World Championship in 1987, and played high school football in Miami next to a teammate named Mario Cristobal. Fernando beat his dad's old teammate in the national championship game in January.

Every athlete talks about playing for their family. Fernando actually did it.

[David Dubberly 🇺🇸🇺🇾 @DavidDubberly]

The recent federal conviction of a former Google engineer for trade secret theft and economic espionage raises questions for employers about how well their confidential information is protected

https://t.co/ETWFi3DSOm

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Perhaps my favorite Supreme Court exchange in recent memory:

Solicitor general: “It’s a new world."

John Roberts: "It's a new world. It's the same Constitution."

Into my veins 😌

[David Dubberly 🇺🇸🇺🇾 @DavidDubberly]

@emiliadcph Me hace recordar el Hotel Playa Hermosa

[Selección Uruguaya @Uruguay]

Andá a explicar cómo de un país con tres millones de habitantes salieron los capitanes actuales del Real Madrid y Barcelona 🇺🇾

[Pipe Stein @steinpipe]

La sacaron del Ghetto de Varsovia en una valija siendo bebé, fue abrazada por cristianos polacos y llegó al Uruguay.
Una historia impactante que también habla de la sociedad que fuimos y de la que somos. https://t.co/CjZSs57MO9

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies.

[Brooks Buser @BuserBrooks]

70 years ago today these men departed the land of the dying for the land of the living. They gave what they could not keep to gain what they could not lose.

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Statement from the Premier of Greenland 🇬🇱
6:55pm local time:

“🇬🇱 We have been a close and loyal friend of the United States for generations. We have stood shoulder to shoulder in difficult times. We have taken responsibility for security in the North Atlantic — and not least for North America. That is what true friends do.

Precisely for that reason, the current and repeated rhetoric coming from the United States is entirely unacceptable.

When the President of the United States speaks of “needing Greenland” and links us to Venezuela and military intervention, it is not only wrong. It is disrespectful.

Our country is not an object in great-power rhetoric. We are a people. A country. A democracy. That must be respected — especially by close and loyal friends.

We are part of NATO, and we are fully aware of our country’s strategic location. We also understand that our security depends on good friends and strong alliances. In that context, a respectful and loyal relationship with the United States is very important. That has been the case for decades.

But alliances are built on trust. And trust requires respect.

Threats, pressure, and talk of annexation have no place between friends. That is not how one speaks to a people who have repeatedly demonstrated responsibility, stability, and loyalty.

Enough is enough.

No more pressure.
No more insinuations.
No more fantasies of annexation.

We are open to dialogue. We are open to conversations. But they must take place through the proper channels and in full respect of international law. And the proper channels are not random and disrespectful posts on social media.

Greenland is our home and our territory.
And it will remain so. 🇬🇱”

[Germania Rodriguez Poleo @iamGermania]

Iranians and Venezuelans have a hope of overthrowing their dictators for the first time in too long. But the usual human rights activists and international orgs don’t care because the fight for democracy in these countries doesn’t fit their anti-US narrative. Even worse, too many who think they’re righteous stand with the dictatorships that call themselves anti-imperialists while giving away their countries to Russia and China and starving, jailing and disappearing their people.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Picture of one rugged individualist standing against the warmth of collectivism on June 5, 1989.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

On New Year’s Day, I remember those in our university community who died defending Ukraine

Daria Lopatina 1/

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Five years ago today and my only regret is that I didn't speak out sooner. To every girl and woman who's paid a heavy price for fighting to retain their rights and boundaries, to every person striving to halt an appalling medical experiment on minors, I salute you. We will win.

[CCIUruguay @CCIUruguay]

Este es el comunicado del CCIU ante el cobarde atentado terrorista de Sidney. https://t.co/W8K5NyW2Qy @TelenocheUy @Subrayado @TelemundoUY @vtvnoticiasuy @5noticiasuy @MVDNoticias @portalmvd @elpaisuy @ObservadorUY @ladiaria @diariolaruy @BUSQUEDAonline

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

WSJ today. Multi-billion $$ business deals between Russian & American billionaires that forces Ukraine to give Russia more land, & make Ukraine a Russian vassal state. Greed trumps Ukrainian sovereignty. Churchill & Reagan are turning in their graves. https://t.co/i1n1GFcfKn

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

The US Administration is now fully falling into the Russian trap.

Here are the eight red lines by Vladimir Socor, may he rest in peace:

Number one: Post-armistice Ukraine.
Russia will try to insert political clauses into any military agreement. This was the trap of the Minsk accords. Clauses about so-called “Russian speakers” or Ukraine’s political system are Trojan horses. They must be rejected outright.

Number two: Peacekeeping forces. No United Nations peacekeepers in Ukraine. A UN mandate would hand Moscow a veto. Only European-led forces can guarantee security.

Number three: Moldova and Transnistria. Moldova must be resolved alongside Ukraine. The Russian presence in Transnistria is a threat of encirclement. And the so-called 5+2 format, where Russia was belligerent, mediator, and guarantor at once, must be buried.

Number four: NATO and Russia. NATO must never again negotiate constraints on its own forces with Russia. The 1997 Founding Act was a mistake. Never again.

Number five: the OSCE. The OSCE has been blackmailed, hollowed out, and is now dormant. Let it stay that way.

Number six: Normative charters. No more illusions of security on paper. The Helsinki Final Act, the Paris Charter, the Astana Declaration - they all lulled Europe into complacency. No more.

Number seven: the Black Sea. If Crimea is recognized as Russian and Ukraine barred from drone warfare, Moscow regains naval dominance. That threatens freedom of navigation and energy security. It cannot be allowed.

And number eight: Post-Putin Russia. Beware of a Geneva 1955 moment. After Stalin, the West rushed into euphoric diplomacy, only to face Soviet tanks in Budapest one year later. Putin’s death will not change the system. No illusions, no “Geneva spirit.”