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Het thema van de maand van de filosofie, ‘Mij een zorg’, is goed gekozen, want er zijn zorgen genoeg in de huidige wereld. Hoe kunnen oude denkers nieuwe lezers helpen?

Wie nog vertrouwen had in de landelijke politiek, kan niet anders dan hoofdschuddend hebben gekeken naar het zoveelste moment waarop het niet ging over het woningtekort, het huisartsentekort, het stroomtekort of het cellentekort.

Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites (Slate)
In a court filing, the government acknowledged that it had deported at least one migrant to El Salvador due to an "administrative error"—but argued that the individual had no right to contest his imprisonment because he is in the custody of a "foreign sovereign." This argument confirms what's been clear for weeks: The government intends to treat the prison as a black site where migrants have no constitutional rights whatsoever and may be subject to any treatment whatsoever—including indefinite detention, forced labor, torture, or death.

Abrego Garcia's deportation was unambiguously illegal, and his lawyers swiftly filed suit demanding his return. On Monday, the DOJ responded with a bombshell admission: Abrego Garcia did have a right to remain in the U.S. and was shipped off to CECOT only because of an "administrative error." The DOJ then declared that there was nothing the plaintiff or the government could do to fix this confessed mistake. Abrego Garcia, it wrote, would need to file a writ of habeas corpus, the traditional procedure for challenging unlawful detention. Indeed, it argued, Abrego Garcia's claims "can proceed only in habeas"—he has no other way to fight his imprisonment. And yet, the department concluded, no federal court can hear his habeas claim, because he is "not in United States custody." He thus has no remedy whatsoever and must remain in CECOT indefinitely. ... These arguments, taken together, show how the Trump administration is transforming CECOT into a black site to which migrants can be disappeared forever. It is even worse than Guantánamo Bay, because that facility is at least under American control—a key reason why the high court ruled that its inmates have habeas rights. CECOT, by contrast, is run by El Salvador, so the U.S. government disclaims any authority over its operations. Once a migrant is locked up there, the government says it has no power to demand his return, let alone any say over his treatment behind bars.

Would it be legal for Trump to send U.S. citizens to El Salvador's jails? (NPR)

The U.S. is "just profoundly grateful," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, for El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's offer to incarcerate criminals being held in American prisons — including U.S. citizens and legal residents — in his country's jails. Rubio called the offer "an extraordinary gesture never before extended by any country." But the prospect that the U.S. might consider deporting its own citizens to serve prison time in another nation's jails quickly drew a backlash from people saying such a plan would be illegal. It's unclear how seriously the Trump administration might pursue such an idea, but President Trump said on Tuesday that he would welcome it — if it were legal. "I'm just saying if we had the legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat," President Trump said when asked about El Salvador's offer on Tuesday. "I don't know if we do or not, we're looking at that right now." Experts, however, are adamant it is unconstitutional.

Related:

• 'We were lied to': Two women the Trump administration tried to send to El Salvador prison speak out The women's accounts raise questions about the thoroughness of the administration's vetting of migrants it has sent to the notorious prison. (NBC News)
• Black Sites (Wikipedia)
• OFF THE GRID Nine CIA 'Black Sites' Where Detainees Were Tortured (Intercept)

The European Space Agency's short film Space Debris: Is it a Crisis? highlights the growing danger of orbital clutter, warning that "70% of the 20,000 satellites ever launched remain in space today, orbiting alongside hundreds of millions of fragments left behind by collisions, explosions and intentional destruction." Inkl reports: The approximately eight-minute-long film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" attempts to answer its conjecture with supportive statistics and orbital projections. [...] The film also mentions that the kind of Earth orbit matters when discussing whether we're in a space junk "crisis" -- though unfortunately, orbits at risk appear to be those with satellites that help with communication and navigation, as well as our fight against another primarily human-driven crisis: global warming. Still, the film emphasizes that solutions ought to be thought of carefully: "True sustainability is complex, and rushed solutions risk creating the problem of burden-shifting." You can watch the film on ESA's website.

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Op een evenement in Parijs heeft Tweakers de Nintendo Switch 2 voor het eerst kunnen uitproberen, met daarbij ook een aantal nieuwe games.

Versie 9.5.0 van AnyDesk voor Windows is uitgekomen. Met dit programma, dat door oud-medewerkers van TeamViewer wordt ontwikkeld, kan een andere computer worden overgenomen om deze op afstand te beheren. Het programma is beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, Android en iOS, al zit niet elk platform op hetzelfde versienummer. Het is gratis voor thuisgebruik; voor commercieel gebruik beginnen de prijzen bij 23 euro per maand. Het maakt dan verder niet uit hoeveel updates er tussentijds uitkomen. De changelog sinds versie 9.0.5 voor Windows ziet er als volgt uit:

PARIJS (ANP/BLOOMBERG/AFP) - De Franse president Emmanuel Macron roept Franse bedrijven op hun investeringen in de Verenigde Staten op te schorten naar aanleiding van de nieuwe Amerikaanse importheffingen. Dat heeft hij gezegd op een bijeenkomst met industriebedrijven die worden geraakt door de tarieven die president Donald Trump woensdag heeft aangekondigd.

Volgens Macron is het besluit van Trump "bruut en ongegrond".