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As usual, @keeanga.bsky.social brings facts, seriousness and depth to the fake debates. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

From Georgina Pease: At least 2,200 Mexicans were deported to Guatemala instead. Meanwhile, as part of the third-country deportation policy, about 19,000 people have been deported to Mexico. Many end up this small city on the border of the two nations.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) recommends three books every radical should read

State Department explicitly mentions "blacklists" and "McCarthy-era investigations" as effective tools at destroying the radical left. Full story: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-poli...

In photos: "The state is increasingly transphobic—but so is our country. Trans people represent a sense of possibility and self-determination that undermines the colonial project that is America."

And it has to be said, very loudly, that birthright citizenship was added explicitly to make formerly enslaved people and their descendants citizens so that the Dred Scott decision could never happen again. That it embraced immigrants was a benefit designed to prevent slavery from retrenchment.

I said as much in the Q&A, pointing out this pattern of mystification in his talk, asking why he didn't frame any of the phenomena he was describing in terms of a Marxist analysis of the ways in which tech companies are seizing the means of mental production to enrich a tiny power hungry minority +

Obviously the Trump Admin is being disingenuous but it's worth noting that some of the countries on the list are entirely propped up by slave labor. Some Gulf states come to mind as documented by @harshawalia.bsky.social in her book Border and Rule from @haymarketbooks.org

I couldn't tell you how many times I've read the essays in Culture and Truth. I was assigned to read it in intro to anthropology 20 years ago and I've gone on to read parts of it with many students since then. Everything he wrote made the field of anthropology better.

🧵A few times, I've been asked to share the best advice I have ever received. I always give the same answer: "If you go out on a limb, don't saw it off." I got from my father, Michael Klein, back when I was a student journalist. We lost him Wednesday. everloved.com/life-of/mich...

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Democrats all over the country regard their party’s leaders as feckless in the face of Trump’s blustering authoritarianism,” Michelle Goldberg writes. “A Democratic version of the Tea Party is emerging as voters seek to upend a system that they believe has failed them.”

i'm not exactly sure what "race communism" is but i'm intrigued and would like to give it a try

"The problem historically with Western Leftists, is they oppose oppression, but they don’t want you to win." Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah on enduring sovereignty and coloniality proteanmag.com/2026/04/02/h...

Esmeralda Lopez, quoted in the article, says "It makes you rethink in history all those heroes.. The movement — that’s the hero.” So many of us constantly caution against pedastaling. It harms us all - shielding from this kind of unspeakable violence to diminishing our collective responsibility.

“The unprovoked and illegal attack by the US and Israel on Iran... is, of course, a continuation of the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. It’s the same old genocidaires using the same old playbook. Murdering women and children. Bombing hospitals. Carpet bombing cities. And then playing the victim.“

Update: ICE is terminating its contract for Camp East Montana, a hastily constructed detention facility in El Paso, according to reports from The Washington Post. The Post originally reported that the contract termination signaled the facility would close, but corrected its reporting on Wednesday.

Here are the books I'm assigning for my Fall 2026 graduate readings course in US History since 1965. (I know I've posted this list before, but I just submitted my textbook orders for the fall, so I thought I would circulate it again.) 🗃️

The billions to DHS have built the for-profit panopticon surveillance state they were unable to fully push through after 9/11 because people fought back. It took 25 years but they have it now. This cannot be reformed. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

“The country with the Statue of Liberty deprived us of our liberty without any kind of evidence,” Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan who was held in CECOT for months, said two days after he was returned to his family. (Published July 2025)

more americans than ever say that ICE should be abolished www.gelliottmorris.com/p/support-fo...

I wrote about reporters’ refusal to use “act of war,” “invasion” or “coup” when covering Trump’s brazen attacks on Venezuela, instead echoing WH-approved euphemisms, and the broader trend of our press dutifully giving Trump’s lawlessness the vague whiff of international legitimacy when it has none.

‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the settler colonial state, the Africanists argued that “it is an historical fallacy to say South Africa belongs to everybody: both oppressor and oppressed, robber and robbed.” @panashechigumadzi.bsky.social:

I've been rereading some of his old Viewpoint pieces and I think this is my favorite, written after the airport protests in 2017

Priorities.

Featured story: Texas currently has nearly 30,000 open cases—ongoing efforts to recoup money. With so few assets remaining, the family home is often all that's left to target.

Latino Democrats in Houston are grappling with the consequences of a new congressional map that leaves the party with few opportunities. Strategists say the map potentially pits different parts of Democrats’ multiracial coalition against each other for a diminishing number of congressional seats.

This is what those funds starting to flow looks like. It is going to get worse. Stop acting like this is normal. Stop running ads recruiting for ICE and salivating over ICE contracts. Start aligning with those under attack. Start promising accountability and reform. bsky.app/profile/mica...

"The border is best understood as an elastic regime that extends and thickens across space and time." @harshawalia.bsky.social for @social.architectural-review.com: www.architectural-review.com/essays/keyno...

One of the biggest blunders (when well-intentioned) and betrayals (when not) in Democratic rhetoric over the years is their impenetrable insistence that what voters respond to is somebody who begins by finding common ground with their opponent, no matter who that opponent is or what that ground is.

The shift from pensions to 401ks played a big role in fueling Americans' hesitance to tax big wealth. Because now, even Americans who have only a tiny retirement account feel invested in the success of an institution that overwhelmingly benefits those much wealthier than them.

doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025

NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

COMPLICIT: Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, BlackRock, Booking, BP, Caterpillar, Chevron, Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, Company LLC, HP, IBM, Keller Williams Realty, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, MIT, Palantir, Pacific Investment Management, Vanguard #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

True story.

6 members of @jvp.bsky.social in Chicago have started an indefinite hunger strike, demanding food be let into Gaza & public officials use any power they can to make it happen. @inthesetimes.com columnist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social was asked to speak. She said ... inthesetimes.com/article/hung...

Black immigrants are disproportionately harmed by exclusionary immigration policies and are continuously erased from the broader immigration discourse.