Javier Albán

🇵🇪 | Profesor universitario | Investigo sobre constituciones y elecciones | Demócrata liberal | Hincha del @ClubSCristal | @ManUtd fan.

[Canal N @canalN_]

El Jurado Electoral Especial admitió que su personal no realizó una adecuada fiscalización en el caso de dos postulantes de Renovación Popular para las Elecciones Municipales y Regionales 2026
https://t.co/lHFYUMl85f

[Mathieu Rojas @KhamaRamaq]

En la segunda vuelta del 2021 hubieron 214 actas anuladas y 6 mesas que no fueron instaladas.

Gran parte de la razón por la que esta vez no se anuló ningún acta es porque se guardaron las cédulas lo que permitió el recuento en mesas con actas con observaciones insubsanables.

[Luis Rivera @chubakueno]

JNE confirma que ninguna acta fue anulada, y que las únicas mesas que no fueron instaladas fueron, precisamente, estas 37 mesas en el extranjero.

https://t.co/2qzmhCxJ2f

[Javier Albán @JavierAlban]

Sectores de Renovación Popular y de JP insisten en un supuesto fraude en las elecciones peruanas de 2026. La desconfianza es entendible, pero igual que en 2021, lo cierto es que no solo no hay evidencia de fraude, sino ni siquiera una teoría coherente de cómo se habría ejecutado.

[Felipe Galli @FEscrutinio]

Los lamebotas acríticos de Trump en LatAm (y sobre todo sus agentes políticos locales) realmente subestiman cuán odiado es el chavismo en los círculos de derecha regional. A mediano plazo blindarla a Delcy Rodríguez les va a pegar mal.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This whole thing where players celebrate, crowds go mad with joy, and then VAR reverses everything is super painful. And frustrating.

[Nahuel Lanzón @nahuelzn]

- Perisic, jugá de delantero hoy
- Ok
- Para el próximo partido vas de lateral izquierdo
- Dale
- Si le pasa algo al arquero estás para atajar?
- No hay problema
- Ah, y me llamó el DT de la beach volley, falta uno.
- Estoy

(La foto es real, jugó beach volley para Croacia)

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Beyond the staggering moral dimensions, the wholesale destruction of USAID in the blink of an eye last year will live as one of the worst foreign policy and national security blunders in American history.
@SamanthaJPower lists just some of the tragic, immediate costs and consequences below.
Longterm, it will mean a world less stable and free--with more violence and conflict; disease, pandemics and mass migrations. Neither oceans nor the military can shield the U.S. from the impacts.
AND this shameful and foolish abandonment will result in less respect for, and allegiance to, the United States of America.

[Javier Albán @JavierAlban]

El doble estándar en esto es alucinante.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Imagine if Obama was directly connected to Epstein, made $2 billion off crypto scams, grifted a $400 million plane form Arab Royals, and started and lost a war with Iran.

[Javier Albán @JavierAlban]

@DGalvez26 La percepción del mundo sobre EEUU ha empeorado mucho durante este segundo mandato de Trump. No solo por lo de USAID, claro; pero dudo que haya ayudado. Habría que revisar más datos de percepción. Igual, si se quería cerrar o reformar USAID, había mucho mejores formas de hacerlo.

[Javier Albán @JavierAlban]

El costo de cerrar USAID como se hizo:

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Vance brags that the right no longer believes in free markets because nobody cares when Trump takes portions of companies.

This is what I was saying the other day. The right is hysterical over Mamdani and socialism. All you need is to call it American First and they love it.

[Anthony Garcia M. @anthgarciam]

🚨 #INDIGNANTE | Lo expuesto por Jorge Mori en Exitosa confirma lo peor: la Beca Bicentenario fue excluida por pura mezquindad política y desprecio hacia el talento de este Gobierno, solo por ser de una gestión pasada.
Dinero hay de sobra. Como muestra la gráfica, cada año el MINEDU devuelve más de 1,000 millones de soles al Estado. Financiar las becas requería apenas una fracción de lo que dejan perder por ineficiencia.

Es lamentable el daño irreparable que le están causando al futuro del país. 🇵🇪📉

#BecaBicentenario2026 #Meritocracia

[Javier Albán @JavierAlban]

@ojoenlagente Feliz cumple bizcocho!! 🥳

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

See the replies. The problem with Trump supporters is it's absolutely impossible to caricature them. These are people who were screeching about corruption and who voted for Trump to drain the swamp and who then... celebrate him making $2 billion in 18 months from the WH

[David Frum @davidfrum]

There are precedents, they just aren't American. EG, Trump has gained in a little over 1 year about as much as Nigerian president Sani Abacha gained in 6. Trump still lags behind Mobutu of the Congo, Indonesia's Suharto, and Russia's Putin among history's top kleptocrats.

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[Anthony Garcia M. @anthgarciam]

🚨 #ÚLTIMAOPORTUNIDAD | Efectivamente, la Comisión Permanente del Congreso aún tiene las facultades legales para incluir el presupuesto de la Beca Bicentenario y salvar el futuro de decenas de profesionales.
Hacemos un llamado multipartidario a sus miembros: esto no es un tema de camisetas políticas, es una inversión en la educación de élite que transformará el Perú.

📧 Estaremos enviando correos y oficios formales a cada despacho. ¡Exigimos que nos escuchen! 🇵🇪🎓

#BecaBicentenario2026 #Meritocracia

[Financial Times @FT]

Donald Trump declared making more than 22,000 stock transactions in 2025, according to the FT analysis. His immediate predecessor, Joe Biden, made 13 transactions over four years. In his first term, Trump made 517. https://t.co/mWDvtvAllj