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The bad news is that I was 20 min late to my flight. The good news is that the flight was delayed by 2 hours due to the government shutdown.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I benefited from the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which was only possible because of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That means that I, along with a lot of immigrants and children of immigrants, benefited from Black activists.

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

Perfect

Why were evacuation orders to west Altadena (historically Black, emerging Latino, all working class) so delayed as the Eaton Fire ravaged our community, and who was responsible? Well, LA County just spent $2M on a report that said nobody in LA County was responsible. I call bullshit.

Bad Bunny is a U.S. citizen. Where was this outrage when Coldplay and Phil Collins played the Super Bowl halftime show?

DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.

The launch of my first book feels like just yesterday. Gayle King gifted me a box of Vicks VapoRub before this interview (if you read the book, you know what that means to me).

Why would Elon Musk blame the Charlie Kirk killing on the “radical left?” Because he knows he and the other tech billionaires share some of the blame. They have connected engagement with enragement in all our algorithms and bought off the government to have zero regulation against their actions.

Once you learn that someone preaching the word of Christ is a white supremacist, you have to take a good look in the mirror, and decide what kind of Christian you want to be.

Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

Fox News is just forging ahead tonight as though a card-carrying Democrat gunned down Charlie Kirk. The narrative is impervious to facts.

Racism wins with this Supreme Court...again.

Latino men would rather join ICE than go to therapy.

Snoop Dog, being scared of a same sex couple in an animated movie, is not very gangster.

Cal Poly Pomona invited ICE on campus as a potential employer for their career fair, but the students, faculty, and community said hell nah. The college has postponed the event, realizing that terrorizing hardworking immigrant communities is not be a career.

Why are our tios and tias leaning right politically? A 2021 study found that 70% of misinformation in English on Facebook was flagged, versus only 30% of misinformation in Spanish being flagged. Today, nothing is being flagged.

If white supremacy and Christian nationalism survive in the future, it will be because of self-hating Latinos.

And this is why you should always support your local bookstores.

Latino films are underrepresented in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. Help uplift Latino stories and nominate your favorite Latino film. Visit castro.house.gov/film to submit your selection. NEW DEADLINE: August 11th!

Republicans are in a bind after Trump leaves because “MAGA minus the pedophilia” is not a great campaign slogan.

A superhero movie based on mid century modern aesthetic?? You couldn’t have talked dirtier to me.

Trump is going after Beyonce?? Oh that man is on the Epstein list multiple times.

We as a nation have to grapple with the fact that we love to see Pedro Pascal have to choose between saving his child or saving the world.

Wednesday is with us again, so grab your family and friends and drag them out to buy a book! - Michael

Superman is such an immigrant story that I wrote about it in my memoir about growing up undocumented in America. Never forget that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (the creators of Superman) were children of immigrants.

Catholic dioceses are now telling immigrants they can skip Sunday mass from fear of ICE raids. Does God still bless America if our churches are empty?

So Elon Musk is told his own AI (Grok) said right wing extremesism is more violent and dangerous than left wing extremism, he gets mad and says he’s going to fix it, and now they have to turn it off because his AI is referring to itself as Hitler.

As people freak out about James Gunn saying Superman is an immigrant story, please don’t forget Lilo & Stich is a refugee taken in by an Indeginous community story.

Ivana Trump was not a citizen when she had the three Trump children, so by their own definition, they’re all anchor babies.

Happy (Media) Independence Day. Corporate owners may bend the knee, but as one of my journalism heroes showed, there's so much more power in the truth. Support the journalism you want to see. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today is a good day to remind people that Nazis passed a law to restrict citizenship to those of "German or related blood.” This law stripped citizenship from many Germans, including naturalized German Jews.

120,000 of the 185,000 immigrants arrested by ICE since October have committed no serious crimes. ICE is not arresting violent criminals. They’re simply racial profiling to fill new private prisons.

I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.

Yikes.

“You can’t sit in a Hollywood office that was most likely engineered, built and maintained by immigrants and think this issue doesn’t affect you.” theankler.com/p/afraid-ice...

Will Barron Trump have “bone spurs”? Asking for a friend.

Rounding up runaway slaves was an ugly, brutal, and dehumanizing thing. I mention it because if undocumented workers are the new slave labor of America, then ICE is working for the slave owners.

Has Senator Alex Padilla emerged as the first national Latino leader? open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

The economy is on the brink of collapse, the world is on the brink of war, and politicians are being assasisnated in their homes. But thank God those trans athletes were put in their place.

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

It’s not undocumented immigrants that are protesting in Los Angeles. It’s their friends and families. It’s their neighbors. It’s the proud children of immigrants showing up because our parents are too scared. That’s who’s protesting.

“Free people read freely.” -Dr. Carla Hayden, unjustly fired Librarian of Congress

The state rights people are awfully quiet right now.

A portion of this country hates our immigrant communities but still demand their Taco Tuesdays.

That’s what someone on ketamine would say