How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations

Dismantling of the judicial system for immigrants and asylum applicants. Judges are being fired and asylum applications turned down. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Trump State Dept. Accused of ‘Largest Fee Fraud in History’ of US Immigration System | Common Dreams An immigration researcher at the Cato Institute found that the Trump administration is "raking in billions of dollars in immigration fees and not providing the adjudications that applicants are entitl...

The State Dept. scams the money that people have scraped together to file for a visa, doesn't process their applications. www.commondreams.org/news/immigra...

A New U.S. Blockade Is Strangling Cuba

Finally recognizing that this is a blockade of Cuba, bringing mass hunger and illness. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/w...

Opinion | Detention Doesn’t Begin to Describe It

The spread of "detention centers" that hold people, including those who entered legally, in brutal condition. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...

Democrats Push for Transparency on Venezuelan Oil Money Controlled by U.S.

This is unprecedented; the money from the U.S. sale of the Venezuelan oil it seized is held in Qatar, without Congressional oversight or control. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Grandin brings out the layers of historical meaning in Bad Bunny's performance!

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

When Venezuelan Oil Comes to the U.S.

The Venezuelan oil being sent to a US refinery equipped to process it will have a terrible impact on the environment and people in the region. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...

Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.

Interview with Robin D.G. Kelly on the murder of Renée Good, police terror, and grassroots organizing. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

The end of pretenses Trump’s assault on Venezuela was an attempt to reverse the decline of U.S. dominance over Latin America.

What did Maduro offer in negotiations, how the regime's social base has been hollowed out, and what broader issues are at stake. tempestmag.org/2026/01/the-...

Mass Call: Venezuela, Resource Imperialism & Internationalist Climate Politics Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and naked oil grab prove what we already know: anti-imperialism and ecosocialism are a shared struggle. But what does Trump’s resource imperialism mean for Venezuela, L...

A virtual mass call tonight at 8 pm, Eastern Standard Time, on Venezuela, resource imperialism and internationalist climate politics, with a very good panel. Click on link to rsvp.
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Trump’s Claim That Venezuela ‘Stole’ U.S. Oil Fields Touches Nationalist Nerve

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U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, Escalating Pressure on Maduro

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Tlaib Introduces Resolution to Recognize Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, Prosecute Those Responsible The legislation is cosponsored by 20 House Democrats, including progressive caucus leader Rep. Greg Casar.

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Historian Greg Grandin on the drug wars and the Caribbean. tomdispatch.com/escalating-t...

“Rubio’s Ideological Project”: What’s Driving Trump’s Campaign Against Venezuela? The Trump administration has now killed at least 43 people in 10 strikes against so-called drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean. The threat of war against Venezuela and the surrounding region...

Alejandro Velasco on war mongering in the Caribbean and Rubio's fixation on overthrowing the Cuban and Venezuelan regimes. www.democracynow.org/2025/10/27/u...

2.4M views · 29K reactions | The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred... The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.....

Mamdani responds to the intensified Islamophobia he's facing, especially from the other candidates for Mayor. Powerful. www.facebook.com/reel/1870637...

The Pro-War Nobel Peace Prize Winner is A Friend Of Netanyahu – Profile Estimated reading time: 5 min

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan María Corina Machado is personally courageous, but supportive of U.S. military intervention and of Netanyahu and Likud. Contradictory? substack.com/home/post/p-...

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

The expulsion of the Indian population from Uganda and its relevance for Zohran Mamdani: by Prof. Anneeth Kaur Hundle. scroll.in/article/1084...

BREAKING: Trump makes his first appearance at the US Open. There were audible boos and a few light claps.

Important to stress the stadium is at most 10% full and the start time has been pushed to 2:30pm ET.

The price of genocide: How US Funding sustains an unraveling Israeli Economy ( Middle East Monitor ) - In an important step toward the economic isolation of Israel due to its genocide in Gaza, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global has decided to divest from yet more Israeli ...

Norway's sovereign fund divests from Israel, as the US props up its economy.
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“They Kidnapped Me”: L.A. Immigrant Rights Activist Recounts Violent Arrest by Masked Federal Agents Amanda Trebach, a member of the immigrant rights’ group Unión del Barrio and an ICU nurse, was monitoring ICE operations in the Los Angeles area when she was targeted and arrested herself. Video of...

"They Kidnapped Me": L.A. Immigrant Rights Activist Recounts Violent Arrest by Masked Federal Agents

Tribuna abierta / Comunicado. Centenares de académicos y activistas firman en defensa de los intelectuales atacados por el Gobierno de Maduro Publicamos a continuación el Comunicado firmado por más de 800 personas y organizaciones sociales a nivel nacional e internacional en solidaridad y reconocimiento a miembros de la comunidad universita...

The Maduro government in Venezuela has made threatening attacks on noted leftist intellectuals and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, accused of being allies of imperial interests and destablizers of the state. A statement of support by academics. www.laizquierdadiario.com.ve/Centenares-d...

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

Rashid Khalidi decided that Columbia's capitulation to a Zionist definition of anti-semitism makes it impossible for him to teach Middle Eastern history there. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The New York Times Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence Israel’s main justification for its starvation of Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.

The NYT repeated unsubstantiated Israeli claims that Hamas stole aid supplies. theintercept.com/2025/07/30/n...

The civil/military distinction is eroding before our eyes, although I am obligated to mention that the military has been doing logistical assistance for the Border Patrol under every president dating back to the Bush administration. But this is the interior, and more closely entwined with ICE.

Activist Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler Israeli violence in Masafer Yatta has intensified since the film won an Oscar.

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The CEO of Doctors Without Borders: the famine was "utterly predictable." But now NYT, Obama and others act worried. www.instagram.com/reel/DMl90I8...