Daily Memo: They Met in ICE Detention. Despite a Language Barrier, These Women's Bond Helped Them Survive @eltragon.bsky.social

Daily Memo: ICE Detains U.S. Citizen With Infant As Kavanaugh Stops Continue @eltragon.bsky.social

El oscuro laberinto de Jeffrey Epstein por América Latina dozz.es/ltsum22

The key to getting mainstream media on board with an illegal war is making them feel like an important part of it.

Daily Memo: Kavanaugh Stops Continue and Terrified Mother Is Deported With Two Young Daughters Within Hours of Being Detained at Home

"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards...she kept hearing the same thing from them...'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that'”

DAILY MEMO: ICE Used 14 Vehicles to Take 6 People from Rancho Cucamonga Courthouse

So scared of knowledge. So scared of learning. So sad. Never forget. Knowledge is power. This….this.

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

In case you ever wondered how edtech companies, academic publishers, and big AI corporations, as well as HE institutions, make money out of your academic work, here's our new paper starting to unpack the assetization of academic content

DAILY MEMO: The Mask Ban Against Agents In California Is Paused by The Court, ICE Continues Separating Fathers at Gun Point, and More @eltragon.bsky.social

Wrote about Bad Bunny and how after more than a century under U.S. rule, after attempts to erase our national identity, after the man-made crises and natural disasters that have befallen our people, in the face of every challenge, seguimos aquí. We’re still here. www.thecut.com/article/bad-...

Keep seeing the misinformation that this was Liam on here--has been reported that it was not

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

My latest: Applauding community defense is not enough. We are organizing resistance to a concentration camp regime. The front lines are everywhere. (Plus resources and my must-reads list!)

There should be no American history book that makes it pass the censors either.

DAILY MEMO: A New CA State Bill is Introduced To Hold Private Detention Centers Accountable, Border Patrol Spends The Week in Meetings, and ICE Continued Targeted Arrests @eltragon.bsky.social

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

ICE Agent Scores Easy Win By Deporting Own Family https://theonion.com/ice-agent-scores-easy-win-by-deporting-own-family/

Incredible accounting of all the ways that Trump is trying to rewrite, abolish, bulldoze, destroy America's history and gaslight the public by @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Folks: This is important. SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history. More at the link below.

DAILY MEMO: 'They're Going To Kill Him,' Toddler Says, As Border Patrol Arrests Her Father @eltragon.bsky.social

“Ochoa is a Border Patrol agent who joined CBP in 2018. Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations. He is assigned to a special response team, which conducts high-risk operations like those of police SWAT units. Records show both men are from South Texas.”

To know more about the album of the year and its many layers, read this story about @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social. “Bad Bunny’s ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ is a love letter to Puerto Rico. This professor helped him tell the island’s history” www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:

Bad Bunny feeling the weight of his historic win. This is going to become a meme too. Sooo, I am going to say this is how I feel every time one of my students gets a job, gets into grad school, gets a fellowship, a prize or realizes any of their goals!

Bad Bunny with a powerful anti-ICE speech at the Grammys 🔥🔥🔥🔥 "Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ‘ICE out.’ We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."

This is a five-alarm fire not just for Texas A&M but for higher education and the country more generally. And it’s old news to say it, but this resides in a different universe of consequentiality than any of the perceived transgressions that triggered the Harper’s letter.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

GoFundMe for Alex Pretti's family: $1,739,317. GoFundMe for Renee Good's family: $1,499,557. GoFundMe for Keith Porters's family: $302,423. GoFundMe for Silverio Villegas's family: $57,642. Even in death, some lives are less valued.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol and ICE Raid Almost 20 L.A. Communities, Almost 30 Total in SoCal in Record Numbers @eltragon.bsky.social

Important. There has not been a deescalation.

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

Marcos Flores, bassist for Denver-based shoegaze band Summer of Peril, has been in ICE custody for over a month. Marcos must be released IMMEDIATELY and ICE must be abolished. Via Denver Westword

“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.” newrepublic.com/article/2057...

“I can’t stay silent, and neither should you,” Ringwald said. “It’s not becoming a fascist government; it is a fascist government.” parade.com/news/molly-r...

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Attack and Follow Community Watchers Home While We See A New Raid Approach Unfold @eltragon.bsky.social

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Seriously though: No one should come from overseas to go to the World Cup. We're living under a racist, fascist, lawless regime and it's not safe.

So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough. And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.

The problem with symbolic compliance isn’t just that they fall short of ending violence. It’s also that people duped by the symbols will switch sides to defend the oppressor, emboldening them to become more violent and violate more civil rights than before.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935