Osha Smith-Gittelman

Lecturer @Princeton | PhD @GC_PoliSci | Urban violence, discourse, exclusion, Latin America | reticent tweeter

[Osha Smith-Gittelman @osha_sg]

@BeStone_PhD @AlysonCole18 @ProfFortner Congrats!!

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

John Bolton: “As someone who has helped plan coups de etat — not here but, you know, other places — it takes a lot of work”

[Osha Smith-Gittelman @osha_sg]

Over 43,000 people have been arrested since March in Bukele’s totalitarian crackdown—that’s more than El Salvador’s entire prison population prior to the current wave mass detentions. https://t.co/wV8gjACQOI

[Osha Smith-Gittelman @osha_sg]

Outgoing Colombian president @IvanDuque is using his final days in office to spend $51 billion pesos from the Peace Fund to buy military and police equipment after spending four years undermining the Peace Accord

[Paola Herrera @PaoHerreraC]

Importante: En #SigueLaW revelamos que con plata del fondo paz, la presidencia va a comprar vehículos blindados para el Ejército y la Policía, chalecos, cascos y van a contratar de manera exprés otras cosas que suman $51 mil millones https://t.co/sEvC72A12H

[Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn]

Earlier this week, NYPD arrested Jazz Ajilo, a beloved subway musician. New Yorkers were outraged.

In response, Mayor Adams said the subway is out of control and he was elected to fix it. It’s “not the place for disorder.”

So…here’s a thread of that…“disorder”.🧵

[Renata Segura @renaticas]

Yesterday #Colombia’s Truth Commission delivered its concluding report- while still reading through its 900 pages, it states over 450k died during the conflict (double previous formal estimations), only 2% of them in combat and most at the hands of right wing paramilitary.

[Steven Cohen @SD_Cohen]

"It’s not just that a terrorista and a domestic worker have ascended to executive office. It’s how and where they won, and who claimed the night when they did."

I wrote about the Colombian people making history, for the hemisphere and the world. https://t.co/Tk9rZXWC3J

[Maureen Meyer @meyermc]

Horrendous death of 50 migrants inside a cargo container comes as U.S. is recording record number of migrant deaths at the border - this tragedy will continue as long as the border remains closed to asylum seekers & policies focus on deterrence @adam_wola https://t.co/JepHZFuLxD

[Valentina Rozo A @ValentinaRozoA1]

Hilo con los hallazgos basados en datos de la @ComisionVerdadC (1/n)

La @ComisionVerdadC , la @JEP_Colombia y @hrdag se unieron en el proyecto, hasta la fecha, más grande análisis de derechos humanos en el mundo 🌎

[Osha Smith-Gittelman @osha_sg]

Uh… actually, this is what comes from criminalizing immigrants and militarizing the border

[Federation for American Immigration Reform @FAIRImmigration]

What comes of encouraging and rewarding illegal immigrants https://t.co/Vc0IW247l2

[Osha Smith-Gittelman @osha_sg]

“And yet”…?
More like “and therefore”

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The U.S. believed the Colombian military was behind a wave of assassinations of leftist activists and yet spent decades deepening its relationship with the Colombian armed forces, newly released documents show. https://t.co/ultAL4NoFj

[NACLA Report @NACLA]

In Ecuador, tens of thousands of activists continue to march in both Quito and the commercial center of Guayaquil to press President Lasso to agree to their list of economic and social demands. The government has rejected their conditions for dialogue.
https://t.co/SoU92Rvdjf

[derecka @dereckapurnell]

If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control

[Osha Smith-Gittelman @osha_sg]

For anyone who thought this decision was really about the weaknesses of Roe, Thomas said the quiet part out loud: “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.” https://t.co/eBWQLIw7n9

[Jared Olson @jolson321]

A trove of new legal documents reveals the flow of money from FMO Bank, a Dutch development bank, as it financed the dam Berta Cáceres was murdered resisting.

The money, it turns out, didn't go where it was supposed to.

My exclusive for @theintercept

https://t.co/6LBRs7dOoj

[Osha Smith-Gittelman @osha_sg]

Unprecedented voter turnout, especially from the poorest communities in Colombia’s coastal and southern peripheries, played a crucial role in the historic victory of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez. Excellent analysis from @yannbasset

[Adam Isacson @adam_wola]

*Take sip of coffee*
*Open up The Atlantic*
*Clean coffee spatter from desktop*

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Sometimes the bias of the New York Times is so outrageous that it surprises even me. Because what the NYT did yesterday in its election coverage is so dangerous, I try my best to analyze it carefully below.

[Osha Smith-Gittelman @osha_sg]

This is exactly the bizarre sort of logic that has always animated broken windows policing. (Along with equally bizarre notion that the more crime rates fall, the more police budgets should increase, bc, you know…mangos n’ shit)

Personally, I’m here for the subway barbecuing.

[Steve Burns @StvBurns]

.@NYCMayor on the mango vendor who was handcuffed at a subway station in Brooklyn: "Next day is propane tanks being on the subway system. Next day is barbecuing on the subway system. You just can't do that."