This is a great essay, well worth reading, on the (very recent) origins of our world divided by borders as "wage cages".

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Monday said one of her closest allies, Juan Pablo Guanipa, was kidnapped just hours after being released from prison

Now that we're on the same page about ICE, lets have a chat about the deeper, fundamental issue: Borders

People waking up to what DHS is gives me hope. When we published this almost a year ago, I got a lot of pushback, including people who described the (factual) thesis as "extremist" Nowadays the observation is mainstream, almost even milquetoast

People waking up to what DHS is gives me hope. When we published this almost a year ago, I got a lot of pushback, including people who described the (factual) thesis as "extremist" Nowadays the observation is mainstream, almost even milquetoast

Vijay Prashad is such a little shit. Man goes to Noem Chomsky, in the nursing home, who is literally so senile he cant speak, and gets him to put his name on an absolute garbage book Pradhad wrote, hyping himself w a child molester, and now wants to condemn Chomsky Dirty, dirty

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Somebody finally punched Stancil. And I gotta day, as a supporter of civil rights for all, this makes me feel Jealous 😅

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FBI just detained Alex Saab. This simultaneously absolutely crazy and also makes total sense Venezuela publicly defended the Colombian millionaire for years against charges of money laundering and smuggling, but he was also a Maduro loyalist That means he became a double liability for DelCIA

Enemigos reconcile over chocolate and dresses Petro described a “confusing,” but “positive” meeting with Trump after years-long tensions LATEST by me for PWS!

Enemigos reconcile over chocolate and dresses Petro described a “confusing,” but “positive” meeting with Trump after years-long tensions LATEST by me for PWS!

MCMs strategy of putting all her chips behind Trump seems to have backfired spectacularly. Not only did he dump her by the side of the road, she alienated countless potential allies repeating his xenophobic and false claims about Venezuelan migrants and staying mum on CECOT

Today be like

Petro got a much warmer welcome than MCM it looks like (Photos from Colombian Presidential website just now)

Petro is bringing a gift pack of Colombian chocolate and a dress for Melania according to local media jajajaa

Petro meets Trump today in the White House They have a lot they both want to work towards: 1) Colombian armed groups in the borderlands and in VZ 2) Venezuelan oil (Colombia like "yes please" 4) Drug financing (been a big goal for Petro for years and counternarcotics BUT

I can tell which of you are using AI to write your substacks 🤭 I read a "summary" of a PWS piece I wrote in a "what to read this week" LATAM bulletin and it was pretty apparent Chat GPT completely misunderstood what the article was about 😭

Starting the 'ol annual PWS subscription drive next week. Be prepared. And once we get rolling help us with reposts, etc, if you can. Urbody gotta eat, even cynical chain-smoking street journos 😅 Piratewireservices.com

Oppression and resistance: the DHS Diaries PWS weekly on ICE, Border Patrol, and the brave communities , organizations, and individuals resisting their fascist policies LATEST by me for PWS

Oppression and resistance: the DHS Diaries PWS weekly on ICE, Border Patrol, and the brave communities , organizations, and individuals resisting their fascist policies LATEST by me for PWS

The US says it wants Venezuela to crack down on non state armed actors in the country. Petro, in Colombia has been advocating for cooperation on this issue for years What would that look like? We break it WAY down on our latest Pirate Wire Radio podcast www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-border...

The US says it wants Venezuela to crack down on non state armed actors in the country. Petro, in Colombia has been advocating for cooperation on this issue for years What would that look like? We break it WAY down on our latest Pirate Wire Radio podcast www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-border...

US declares "national emergency" over "extraordinary threat" posed by Cuba Trump tightens blockade, threatening sanctions against any country doing business with Havana LATEST by me for PWS www.piratewireservices.com/p/us-declare...

US declares "national emergency" over "extraordinary threat" posed by Cuba Trump tightens blockade, threatening sanctions against any country doing business with Havana LATEST by me for PWS www.piratewireservices.com/p/us-declare...

Good morning! At the desk. Big cup of coffee. Dissident bluegrass blasting, and writing about LATAM I still can't believe its my job to do this while i chainsmoke cigarettes Allah is good

Will Stancil in like a week 😅

The borderland cocaine wars With US involvement likely, Everything you ever wanted to know about smuggling from Colombia into Venezuela, and a few things you didn't A NEW podcast for Pirate Wire Radio

The borderland cocaine wars With US involvement likely, Everything you ever wanted to know about smuggling from Colombia into Venezuela, and a few things you didn't A NEW podcast for Pirate Wire Radio

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. buff.ly/ZH1qaAO

video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight

An ICE agent tried to enter the Ecuadorian consulate today- almost certainly because he is a dipshit that doesnt understand a jurisdiction issue that the whole world knows: one which often serves as a plot device in B action movies

Lmao They fired his midget Nazi ass lmfaooooo

Gregory Bovino is expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow, per CNN. 'His public appearances did not go over well internally this weekend, including when he claimed Pretti intended to “massacre” law enforcement.'

WH Press conference today suggests Greg Bovino is being sidelined in Minneapolis: "If Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey implement these commonsense cooperative measures, CBP will no longer be needed to support ICE on the ground in Minnesota"

Bro *invented* child seperation policy during the Obama admin, and got a medal for it lmao

The Big Stories to watch this week in LATAM Venezuela and Mexico release prisoners under US pressure. Delcy says she has "had enough." Naboa starts a trade war and lightning zaps Bolsonaro supporters LATEST by me for PWS www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-big-st...

The Big Stories to watch this week in LATAM Venezuela and Mexico release prisoners under US pressure. Delcy says she has "had enough." Naboa starts a trade war and lightning zaps Bolsonaro supporters LATEST by me for PWS www.piratewireservices.com/p/the-big-st...

Greg Bovino out there fucking up so bad last few days that Trump is about a week away from putting a CIA agent in an "antifa super soldier" T shirt, giving him a blue wig, and having Bovino blasted in a false flag shooting that kills two birds w one stone 😅

Please stop saying they are untrained! This is the training. You just didn’t care bc it was always on the border aimed at undocumented people. Now you care bc it is affecting white Americans. My work on Substack documents all of this. This. Is. The. Training.

“Our modern border system kills.”

You’ve been lied to about borders your whole life Justifications for nativism and xenophobia simply don’t hold up to scrutiny, as Minneapolis is showing the world LATEST by me for PWS

You’ve been lied to about borders your whole life Justifications for nativism and xenophobia simply don’t hold up to scrutiny, as Minneapolis is showing the world LATEST by me for PWS

US Liberals: "This is crazy. This is unamerican. The US does not run death squads All of Latin America:

To protect DHS and the Whipple building.... For the love of God I am begging people on this site to actually listen to these clips "Protecting the community" this is not. Exactly the opposite

Now is really not the time to be trying to be a protest cop on social media guys. You just come across as posturing insensitive ghouls

Newsom about to drop an absolutely fire cringe-ass meme in about 5 mins That oughta do it