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...
How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations
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Julie Skurski
@jskur.bsky.social
Historical anthropologist (U. Chicago), CUNY Graduate Center. Cuba, Venezuela, the greater Caribbean, the coloniality of power, racialization, African diaspora, African derived religious practices, the making of history, imperialism, and more.
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...
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...
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Finally recognizing that this is a blockade of Cuba, bringing mass hunger and illness. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/w...
A New U.S. Blockade Is Strangling Cuba
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The spread of "detention centers" that hold people, including those who entered legally, in brutal condition. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...
Opinion | Detention Doesn’t Begin to Describe It
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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...
Democrats Push for Transparency on Venezuelan Oil Money Controlled by U.S.
nytimes.com
Grandin brings out the layers of historical meaning in Bad Bunny's performance!
The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 8mo agoAn estimated 135 million viewers in the United States watched Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show. What they saw was a stunning redefinition of what it means to be an American, writes Greg Grandin. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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.
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...
When Venezuelan Oil Comes to the U.S.
nytimes.com
Interview with Robin D.G. Kelly on the murder of Renée Good, police terror, and grassroots organizing. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
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.
bostonreview.net
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-...
The end of pretenses
Trump’s assault on Venezuela was an attempt to reverse the decline of U.S. dominance over Latin America.
tempestmag.org
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. actionnetwork.org/events/mass-...
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...
actionnetwork.org
Historian Greg Grandin on the drug wars and the Caribbean. tomdispatch.com/escalating-t...
tomdispatch.com
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...
“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...
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Mamdani responds to the intensified Islamophobia he's facing, especially from the other candidates for Mayor. Powerful. www.facebook.com/reel/1870637...
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.....
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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-...
The Pro-War Nobel Peace Prize Winner is A Friend Of Netanyahu – Profile
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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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...
Uganda, India and beyond: What Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals about the insecurities of expulsion
The New York mayoral candidate has been shaped by his Ugandan and Indian heritage and histories of anti-imperialist, racial and class struggle in Africa.
scroll.in
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.
Norway's sovereign fund divests from Israel, as the US props up its economy. www.juancole.com/2025/08/geno...
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 ...
juancole.com
"They Kidnapped Me": L.A. Immigrant Rights Activist Recounts Violent Arrest by Masked Federal Agents
“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...
democracynow.org
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...
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...
laizquierdadiario.com.ve
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...
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
theguardian.com
The NYT repeated unsubstantiated Israeli claims that Hamas stole aid supplies. theintercept.com/2025/07/30/n...
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.
theintercept.com
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.
AILA@aila.org · last yr."The Trump administration authorized the deployment of National Guard units at immigration facilities, escalating its use of the military as part of President Trump’s immigration crackdown."
The CEO of Doctors Without Borders: the famine was "utterly predictable." But now NYT, Obama and others act worried. www.instagram.com/reel/DMl90I8...