https://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.social/post/3lxujz7nmjs25Latest on substack, from last month's border visit: "What’s no longer here doesn’t mean anything is over, or fixed. It means the border tension has simply moved to become part of the interior...DHS has only moved the battle lines around.” https://open.substack.com/pub/mindybelz/p/late-migrations?r=817r9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false02 Sep 2025 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:ozuj77jawqjtmcodazmcovte/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxujz7nmjs25https://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.social/post/3lvvlmaknfc2lAlexei Navalny would know something about a day of reckoning with Vladimir Putin ... if he were here. https://open.substack.com/pub/mindybelz/p/a-party-of-crooks-and-thieves?r=817r9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false08 Aug 2025 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:ozuj77jawqjtmcodazmcovte/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvvlmaknfc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.social/post/3ltp5yl2rec2sWe used to argue in America over how to care for the vulnerable. Now we’re being asked not to care. Latest news from GlobeTrot. https://open.substack.com/pub/mindybelz/p/the-uncaring-of-america?r=817r9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false11 Jul 2025 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:ozuj77jawqjtmcodazmcovte/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltp5yl2rec2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.social/post/3lsmbdedvzk2tYou can unleash a war, but you cannot guarantee where it will go. (and other news) https://open.substack.com/pub/mindybelz/p/a-new-specter-of-war?r=817r9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false27 Jun 2025 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:ozuj77jawqjtmcodazmcovte/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsmbdedvzk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.social/post/3ls27ujibps2zToday is World Refugee Day, and more than ever it calls those of us with homes to return to to give and advocate for them. As a World Relief board member, I champion their work in the U.S. and overseas. Join me. https://worldrelief.org/world-refugee-day/20 Jun 2025 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:ozuj77jawqjtmcodazmcovte/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls27ujibps2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.social/post/3lrvxtoz5f22bJust learning that the great writer William Langewiesche has died. I'm overcome realizing all I learned (and still learn) from his reporting and writing. Starting with this: “You have this precious, incredibly privileged thing, which is the reader's attention for a little while."18 Jun 2025 21:38 +0000at://did:plc:ozuj77jawqjtmcodazmcovte/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrvxtoz5f22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.social/post/3lrjazxq5us2cThe L.A. show of force helps the administration build a case for a budget bill before Congress that includes $155 billion in new immigration enforcement funding—more than five times the amount of current funding. Plus #Israel #Iran #refugees https://open.substack.com/pub/mindybelz/p/militant-nation?r=817r9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false13 Jun 2025 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:ozuj77jawqjtmcodazmcovte/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrjazxq5us2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.social/post/3loqlx5kplk2kThe United States is taking aggressive interest in brokering a peace deal that will give US access to mining interests in DR Congo, but Congolese women are the exploited and needed piece of this conversation. @denismukwege.bsky.social #DRC https://open.substack.com/pub/mindybelz/p/the-women-of-congo?r=817r9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false09 May 2025 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:ozuj77jawqjtmcodazmcovte/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqlx5kplk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.social/post/3lmhgenket22yThis is truly amazing, things are far from perfect, but no one imagined an interim government drawing from nearly all sectors of society stood up by former listed terrorists. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Apr 2025 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:ozuj77jawqjtmcodazmcovte/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmhgenket22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.social/post/3lm3fuaxjk22xSponsored Ukrainians received a notice from DHS Thurs that they had a week to leave the country, then later the notice was retracted—which is to say, it's an action item on someone's list: https://www.wfae.org/race-equity/2025-04-04/dhs-email-causes-panic-among-ukrainians-it-is-time-for-you-to-leave-the-united-states05 Apr 2025 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:ozuj77jawqjtmcodazmcovte/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm3fuaxjk22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mcbelz.bsky.social/post/3llymo3mlqk2kMyanmar's wartime response hurt quake rescue efforts, and some other news that's actually nice https://open.substack.com/pub/mindybelz/p/myanmars-war-torn-disaster?r=817r9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web04 Apr 2025 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:ozuj77jawqjtmcodazmcovte/app.bsky.feed.post/3llymo3mlqk2k