"The policies of this administration reinstate an era in which the rights conferred to all people in the United States by the Constitution are subject to a sliding scale of extralegal violability depending on one’s race, ethnicity or assumed immigration status." Call this fascism Juan Crow.

Fearlessness is the point. My latest for @thenation.com: An Urgent Message From the Streets of Los Angeles: “Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo” (They fear us because we do not fear them). bit.ly/4jY2j2K

BREAKING:Nayib Bukele's Atty General’s may b preparing to arrest members of @_elfaro_,El Salvador's leading news org, for exposing Bukele's negotiations w gangs. Editor-in-chief Óscar Martínez: “Any capture or raid on our homes will be for having done journalism,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQSp...

Local student (@UNLV English, perhaps?) using using their poetic powers to deliver one of the more original placards at the massive, loud, animadidisimo #MayDay2025 protest in downtown as Vegas.

Yours truly dispelling Trump"s myths about MS13 & Kilmar Abrego Garcia's alleged gang tattoos in today's @washingtonpost

This marks an major escalation of the fascist turn: FBI arresting immigration judge.

Historically-proven antidote to fascism and other authoritarian monstrosities: the general strike: newrepublic.com/article/1933...

I am one of the experts interviewed by @CBSNews for this story dispelling President Trump's unfounded claims as it Kilmar Abrego Garcia's tattoos👇 www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...

Reason to resist.

Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man

Read Atty Gen Bondi's release of information & ask yourself, "What proof is there of Kilmar's "gang affiliation?" I've been an expert witness in over 70 gang immigration & murder cases,& have never seen even the most desperate & sloppy lawyers offer such shoddy evidence.

Online fascist farm 4Chan may soon see its death by a few strategically-placed hacks. And some of its users may be exposed

It's not just Trump learning from Bukele. Salvadorans and their history of struggle should reveal to US leftists the outlines of the broad antifascist front that will always be the best antidote to the reactionary right, writes @robvato.bsky.social.

Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man

I just wrote this piece for @thenation.com about today's White House spectacle and what Trump and the U.S. are learning from Bukele and what we can learn from the long history of anti-fascist struggle in El Salvador. bit.ly/4cxgR73

In addition to lauding Mario Vargas Llosa's literary accomplishments, a just history of the late writer would at least mention his career as reactionary, virulent Indian- hating racist.

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I just wrote this piece in @thenation about a cache of documents confirming CIA surveillance, infiltration & disruption in Latinx communities. @RussContreras broke the story last week. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Jimmy Carter's "human rights legacy" including his support of the civil war era Salvadoran military responsible for murdering approx 80,000 men, women, children (entire towns of them), nuns & priests like Saint Oscar Romero who asked Carter to stop lethal aid. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...