I am proud to be born a Muslim. I am proud to be born in Somalia. I am proud to have become an American. None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet. Drink some water and touch grass.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This explains why the German Chancellor almost called Trump a full-blooded German www.dw.com/en/germany-u...

👀 Brown skin? 🗣️ Speaking Spanish? 🧹🛠️ Working in manual labor or low-wage jobs? 📞 Call ICE. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Chema Tojeira, a vital figure in El Salvador’s history, has passed. In 1989, he bore the heavy task of identifying the UCA martyrs, killed by a military squad.As a student at UCA, I got to know his wisdom and humility through a small reading group. His quiet strength made me want to be a Jesuit.

Great piece by @lrb.co.uk Torture chambers like Bukele's CECOT aren't unique—nor is their use by global powers. What’s unique is that he keeps his in plain sight, even turning it into a tourist attraction. Bukele himself has posted on social media the very evidence of his decay. www.lrb.co.uk

This explain a lot. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Professional liers. I lived in DC and did all that.

Weird that two of the cities with the highest homicide rates in the US are in Red states, but don't get presidential threats

It's interesting to see how heavily elite universities rely on federal funding for their research. While I support this investment, perhaps a larger share should go to state schools, which educate the vast majority of Americans. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

We are the luckiest species because we have dogs as friends. We don't deserve them. They are angels.

Good!

Mi opinion en El Faro: "Hoy, la principal exportación de Bukele es un modelo de represión brutal, empaquetado como éxito gubernamental. El problema es que esa propaganda, eficaz en redes sociales, también lo expone a procesos internacionales por crímenes de Estado". beta.elfaro.net/opinion/buke...

La frontera, el borde,

Apparently, the new way to travel as a brown person is carrying a passport—even within California.

Apparently, Sheinbaum’s pragmatic approach to Trump has proven far more effective than the one led by emotionally driven Canadian men www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Andry—a man with no criminal convictions in either the U.S. or El Salvador—was imprisoned under Bukele’s regime, where he reports enduring human rights violations, including sexual assault. It’s time to end U.S. support for a third-world fascist dictator. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySs...

"Because it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.."Baudrillard

As I mentioned at the @uniondemcomm.bsky.social conference, Bukele was disturbingly sadistic and relentless in promoting his gulag—live-streaming human rights abuses for the world to see. Fascist!

They said the same with crypto

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

NEW: Now That They’re Free: Venezuelan Men Sent to CECOT on What They Endured and Reuniting With Their Families, by @propublica.org and partners

The need for food in #Gaza is desperate. Aid is the only lifeline. WFP stand ready to assist the entire population - we have the food, the capacity and the systems. We need access: more trucks allowed in daily, all entry points open, and safe routes to reach every community.

Netanyahu is morally and legally responsible for this catastrophe, the massacre and starvation of Gaza’s civilians. He & his forces have destroyed most homes, schools, hospitals, shops - everything! They are withholding food. Even today, the amount of food that was admitted is insufficient

Venezuelan detainee in Bukele’s CECOT—an asylum seeker with no criminal record—claims he was a victim of sexual abuse in concentration camps in El Salvador. t.co/38Ok9aslL0

I've watched this unfold in phases: No illegal immigrants, only legal ones. Only U.S. citizens deserve rights. Real Americans are American-born. "American" really means white European The mask slips, layer by layer.

Even the brutal Spanish Empire debated Indigenous rights—Las Casas wrote about it. Yet 300 yrs later, the U.S. greenlit the Trail of Tears, a cruelty that might’ve shocked 16th-c. colonizers. You can hear echoes in today’s ICE raids. bit.ly/3Q8iOEt

Germany did terrible things in the past, and now they should be paying their due by allowing more immigrants www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Dumb opionio www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

What about every wrongfully detained American in El Salvador? Will the State Department ever demand a full accounting of them? www.americasquarterly.org/article/u-s-...

Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, & Nayib Bukele have single handedly legitimized Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro in their pursuit of “MASS DEPORTATION” CALLING IT — Maduro’s government will let all these men talk publicly about their mistreatment and abuse at the hands of ICE (U.S.A) and CECOT (El Salvador)

Salvadoran deportees are vanishing in El Salvador's prisons. The U.S. sends them back. Families lose all contact. Karla Sigarán hasn’t heard from her son Brandon since he was deported from Texas 4 months ago. #ElSalvador #Deportation . Story below www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZo7...

A February 2024 survey found that a majority of Americans weren’t confident in the safety and reliability of cryptocurrency www.pewresearch.org/...

Trump handed Bukele a ticking time bomb that has now exploded, shattering the Salvadoran dictator's international image. The global media and social platforms are set to be flooded with horror stories about Bukele’s torture chambers. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

After Salvadoran gulags are popular www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Back in the early 2000s, foreign governments used to conceal US black sites to disappear people without due process. Bukele made it part of El Salvador’s rebranding. www.404media.co/flight-manif...

It's remarkable that the presidential ambitions of a 71-year-old Jewish outsider sparked so many unforeseen changes a decade ago. www.cnn.com/2015/04/29/p...

My new @subpop.bsky.social pride that I bought on my trip to Seattle

I grew up in Southern California. Each year people came from Mexico to help farmers gather crops, then after the season they returned to their families in Mexico. They provided an invaluable service to farmers & to us all- no one doubted that or considered imprisoning them- a ghastly Trump decision

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Imagine if Trump voters knew that the person behind many of their favorite Epstein conspiracy theories was one of Epstein's best friends

This could be a powerful archetype for political consultants seeking to persuade men. Superman can help promote a vision of progressive manhood that is lacking in the American left's imagination.

A new document from El Salvador to the United Nations completely contradicts claims the Trump admin used to justify disappearing people from the United States. Our team will continue fighting for justice in court.

Hey America, many of the European cities you love to post on Instagram have socialist mayors—and guess what? They didn’t implode.

Perhaps the post–World War II expansion of the middle class was a one-time anomaly, driven by fears of global revolution— and now we’re reverting to unrestrained labor exploitation, the consolidation of kleptocratic power, and the rise of authoritarianism. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

The same two teams always win

"I'm just here for the brown ones…"

🚨NEW: A police intelligence source asserts that Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro ordered two senior police commissioners in El Salvador to plant false evidence of drug trafficking against members of El Faro. beta.elfaro.net/en/el-salvad...

As a foreign-born American, I see the U.S. as an open experiment. Not perfect—often cruel to workers and immigrants—but still capable of becoming a nation grounded in justice, solidarity, and shared meaning. America is a just a signifier. We get to shape it.

One thing I learned from the Jesuits: some atheists live like Christians in their actions but identify as atheists in words, and there are Christians who speak like believers but live as atheists through their actions. In immigration and cutting Medicaid and SNAP, you can see who is who.