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*‘Biased.’ ‘Corrupt.’ ‘Deranged.’ Trump’s Taunts Test Limits of Release.*
Some lawyers have said that if the former president were an ordinary citizen issuing these attacks, he would be in jail by now. The question is whether he will face similar consequences.
Just days ago, the judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s prosecution on charges of seeking to subvert the 2020 election admonished him against violating the conditions of his release put in place at his arraignment — including by making “inflammatory statements” that could be construed as possibly intimidating witnesses or other people involved in the case.
But Mr. Trump immediately tested that warning by posting a string of messages on his social media website, Truth Social, that largely amplified others criticizing the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan.
In one post, written by an ally of Mr. Trump’s, the lawyer Mike Davis, a large photo of Judge Chutkan accompanied text that falsely claimed she had “openly admitted she’s running election interference against Trump.” In two other posts, Mr. Trump wrote, “She obviously wants me behind bars. VERY BIASED & UNFAIR.”
After eight years of pushing back at a number of institutions in the United States, Mr. Trump is now probing the limits of what the criminal justice system will tolerate and the lines that Judge Chutkan sought to lay out about what he can — and cannot — say about the election interference case she is overseeing. He has waged a similarly defiant campaign against others involved in criminal cases against him, denouncing Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two federal indictments against him, as “deranged”; casting Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., as “corrupt”; and even singling out witnesses.
Some lawyers have said that if Mr. Trump were an ordinary citizen issuing these attacks, he would be in jail by now. The question is whether Mr. Trump will face consequences for this kind of behavior ahead of a trial.
“He is absolutely in my view testing the judge and testing the limits, almost daring and taunting her,” said Karen Agnifilo, who has a three-decade legal career, including as the chief assistant in the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Ms. Agnifilo added that Mr. Trump is so far benefiting from his status as a candidate for office, facing fewer repercussions from the judges in the cases than other vocal defendants might.
So far, Judge Chutkan has merely warned Mr. Trump against making “inflammatory statements” about the case or people involved with it, saying she would do what she needed to keep him from intimidating witnesses or tainting potential jurors.
She has also told Mr. Trump’s lawyers that she may be forced to agree with the government’s proposal to go to trial sooner than they like as a way to protect the jury pool.
*As Russia Threatens Ships in the Black Sea, a Romanian Route Provides a Lifeline*
A 40-mile channel, best known outside shipping circles as a magnet for bird watchers, is now a crucial route allowing Ukrainian grain to reach the sea, protected by a NATO umbrella.
After more than two weeks stuck in a Black Sea traffic jam of cargo ships waiting their turn to enter the Danube River delta to pick up Ukrainian grain, the Egyptian seamen finally reached solid ground last weekend and replenished their diminishing stock of fresh water and food.
Delight at having enough to eat and drink, however, mingled with alarm that, after their brief stop to pick up supplies in the Romanian Black Sea port of Sulina, they would be heading up the Sulina Channel, a branch of the Danube inside NATO territory, and then into a stretch of the river where Russia has in recent weeks attacked at least two Ukrainian river ports.
“It is too dangerous up there now. Boom, boom,” said an Egyptian crew member from Alexandria, who gave only his first name, Ismail.
When Russia pulled out of a deal last month offering safe passage to vessels picking up grain in Odesa and other Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea, the Danube delta seemed to offer a relatively danger-free — if highly congested — alternative. But Russia has since sought to torpedo that idea by bombing Ukrainian grain-loading facilities there, too.
It further stoked fear among seamen on Sunday when a Russian patrol ship fired warning shots at a cargo ship sailing through the Black Sea and Russian forces temporarily boarded it, making good on Moscow’s earlier threat to treat any vessels attempting to reach Ukraine as hostile.
The cargo ship was on its way to Sulina, and then into the delta to Izmail, one of two Ukrainian ports on the Danube attacked by Russia earlier this summer. Ukraine has also amplified the anxiety of threats to shipping by attacking Russian vessels in the Black Sea.
Early on Wednesday, Russian forces attacked an unspecified Ukrainian port on the Danube with drones, Ukrainian officials said, adding that granaries and warehouses used to export grain had been damaged. The claim had not been independently verified.
*Welcome to Europe, Where Mass Death Has Become Normal*
In the Tunisian port city of Sfax this month, I sat with a group of men in a sandy, windswept park. As the sun went down, one placed the cap of his bottle on the ground, pouring in a precious portion of water for a stray cat who slinked toward him. The men, who were Darfuris, explained that they had escaped what they called a new genocide in Sudan. They saw militants burning homes, sometimes entire villages, and ran for their lives.
There are dozens — maybe hundreds — of Sudanese currently staying in that park in Sfax, and thousands across the city. They sleep on cardboard, or mattresses if they’re lucky. They contemplate their fates, chatting quietly about their experiences and wondering where they can get food. Mostly, they wait: for money from relatives or friends, or for work that might enable them to raise 2,000 Tunisian dinars, or $647, to buy a spot on a boat and a chance at escape. Everyone I met in Sfax — which is about 80 miles from the Italian island of Lampedusa — wanted to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. They all knew they might die in the attempt.
Even so, people leave every day. Some send jubilant messages from Italy; others wash up dead along the coast. The weekend I sat in the park, as many as three ships sank, leaving more than 80 people dead or missing. Ten bodies were found on beaches nearby. Last week, 41 people were reported to have died after a shipwreck off the Italian coast.
Mass death has long been normalized on Europe’s borders. More than 27,800 people have died or disappeared in the Mediterranean Sea since 2014 — and that is most likely a large underestimate. This year is shaping up to be especially deadly. Over 2,000 people have lost their lives trying to get to Europe, including more than 600 who died when a ship capsized off the coast of Greece in June. This is what a crisis of human rights, ethics and, above all, global inequality looks like.
*Blinken’s Toughest Challenge Might Not Be Coups but Passport Delays*
The secretary of state has been bombarded with complaints about a huge backlog of passport applications, largely related to pandemic disruptions.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has a crisis on his hands. But unlike the foreign coups, hostage-takings and military threats that the nation’s top diplomat routinely faces, this one comes from within the vast bureaucracy he commands — and may be even more difficult to solve.
The problem is a huge backlog of passport applications that is creating summer travel nightmares for Americans who find that getting a new passport or renewing an expired one can take months, forcing them into panicked races against their planned travel date through an often bewildering bureaucratic maze.
Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, has called the situation a “crisis.” Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, has said it is “an unacceptable failure.” And Utah’s entire congressional delegation told Mr. Blinken in a letter this spring that their offices were “struggling to handle all incoming emergency requests due to the sheer volume” of pleas from their constituents.
“While running a competent passport application process may not make a panel at Davos, this is an important function of the federal government that directly affects the lives and plans of millions of Americans,” Senator Eric Schmitt, Republican of Missouri, said in a letter to Mr. Blinken, referring to the elite economic forum held annually in the Swiss Alps.
The State Department, which issues and renews passports for American citizens, has said it is still recovering from disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, even as it faces record numbers of applications, driven by surging demand from Americans who let their passports lapse over the past few years.
*Las quimeras de los Libros de Texto*
vespertinas que cuando participó en la elaboración de los contenidos Libros de Texto Gratuito (LTG), no tenía idea de cómo desarrollar el proyecto.
Celebro que haya maestros con interés en aportar a la educación, pero más me gustaría que lo hicieran desde la experiencia práctica que tienen en el aula y que nadie más puede brindar. Esa sí que sería una valiosa aportación y daría oportunidad a que la SEP, los padres y todos los interesados conocieran las muy diversas experiencias de los docentes en los distintos entornos en los que viven nuestros niños.
Más allá de si la ilustración del sistema solar tiene errores, tengo para mí que primero debiéramos ponernos de acuerdo en qué entendemos por dialógico y por Constitución.
En los “Libros sin recetas para la maestra y el maestro” se aboga por el aprendizaje dialógico, el cual se basa en un diálogo igualitario, donde el poder de los argumentos debe prevalecer sobre la relevancia jerárquica de quienes los expresan. Nadie podría estar en contra de que profesores y alumnos dialoguen y que a través de tal ejercicio, los niños aprendan a expresar sus ideas, a escuchar las de otros y encontrar soluciones.
Sin embargo, aquí es donde empiezan los escollos, pues siguiendo la narrativa de los LTG, el diálogo es válido si, y solo si, se da dentro de los cauces de pensamiento de la Nueva Escuela Escuela Mexicana (NEM). Más aún, la SEP no dialogó con el otro elemento fundamental en la educación: los padres.
Encuentro otra disonancia en los LTG. Resulta que “el aprendizaje dialógico también se asocia a la solidaridad. (…) Existe un trabajo colaborativo en el cual se valoran tanto las diferencias, como las coincidencias, tomándose ambas como compatibles.” A lo largo de los LTG, se encomia la solidaridad con los iguales, pero se estigmatiza a los demás, a todo aquel que tenga una forma distinta de ver el mundo. ¿Qué piensa hacer la Nueva Escuela Mexicana con la mitad del país que no comulga con las ideas “transformadoras” de la 4T? Y aún si apenas fuera una minoría, también tendría derecho a ser escuchada e incluida.
En los LTG es reiterada la idea de que la educación transforma la sociedad y sin duda que así es. La pregunta es cuál es el resultado esperado de la transformación. Y aquí es donde entra la Constitución.
La NEM promueve que los niños conozcan mejor su entorno y se les ponen ejercicios de análisis para la resolución de los problemas comunes. Ahora bien, la siguiente pregunta sería cómo canalizar la “práctica social” de la que hablan los LTG, para que cuando los niños sean mayores actúen sobre su entorno.
Un camino sería fomentar la organización social para hacer demandas a las autoridades y/o al resto de la sociedad para lograr el cambio deseado. Otro camino es el que marcan los LTG, al enaltecer el secuestro de gente acaudalada o la organización guerrillera para llamar la atención de las autoridades. Si la NEM quiere el segundo camino, pues que empiece por cambiar el Código Penal.
Los LTG abogan por un “sur global” y hasta donde se ha visto, en estas iniciativas endogámicas -tipo la Alianza Bolivariana- el comercio entre naciones supuestamente no tiene como fin las ganancias y obedece más a lógicas políticas. Tales alianzas no han logrado mayor éxito en mejorar las condiciones sociales y económicas de los latinoamericanos.
Ahora bien, nuestra Constitución establece que México ha optado por el libre mercado y la competitividad, claro, bajo la rectoría del Estado para fomentar el crecimiento económico. Así las cosas, lo que Marx et al debieron plantearse es cómo lograr algo que ningún gobierno ha logrado: una forma eficiente de distribuir la riqueza. Y luego, preguntarse si eso compete resolverlo a la SEP o a las Secretarías de Hacienda y de Economía.
Un último tema. La NEM está en contra de “los enfoques eurocéntricos”. Del Renacimiento para acá, Europa se convirtió en el centro cultural del mundo. La otra cara de la moneda fueron el colonialismo y la explotación, mismos que han sido universalmente condenados desde el siglo XIX.
Tengo para mí que la pregunta que Marx et al debieron de hacerse es qué hizo grandes y mantiene grandes a las naciones de Europa y encontrar algunas pistas que pudiéramos aplicar en la educación.
Como ve, doña Leticia, Marx Arriga, usted y el florero que funge como subsecretaria de Educación Básica tienen mucho por hacer en los nuevos Libros de Texto, independientemente de lo que decidan los jueces.
Para empezar, hagan un ejercicio de congruencia.
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