The national Press Club released the following statement on the arrest of Don Lemon: "The world is watching closely, and the implications of this case extend far beyond any one reporter."

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

If you keep calling us names, we will kill more of you.

The ACLU is raising alarm over a facial recognition app loaded onto the smartphones of immigration agents to identify and arrest people. "It's being used on the street in ways that are dangerous, that are totally unprecedented in this country, and that are, frankly, blatantly illegal."

This could be this afternoon's call! 🤙 NO ICE AGENTS AT POLLING LOCATIONS

I texted this link to five friends who are the "I don't think of myself as political" type and who've never called any of their reps' offices ever before. Two of them told me that, for this, they made the call.

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

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“I think the people of Minnesota have shown us…the direction we may need to go,” the Maryland Democrat said.

"The Trump administration granted licenses to two trading houses—Vitol & Trafigura—to handle those initial sales...In recent years, both...have been implicated by the Justice Department in Latin American bribery scandals." Cybele Mayes-Osterman on the companies handling Venezuelan oil sales

Today, in a massive show of support, 1,025 organizations, including immigrant justice, human rights, civil rights, faith, and labor organizations, sent a letter to members of Congress to express horror, outrage & deep grief about the recent shooting deaths by federal agents in Minneapolis.

This five year old is still in jail

President Lula of Brazil spoke yesterday with President Trump and agreed to meet soon in Washington to discuss the situation in Venezuela, Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” for Gaza, and the fight against organized crime. These updates and more here ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/bd6ymtn6

People should not have to be perfect victims to not be murdered by the state or by a racist game show host and his lawless den of jackals and elite pedophile cover up conspiracists, but still HOLY SHIT MAN

By fast-tracking a bilateral investment treaty with the UAE and bypassing Ecuador's judiciary and legislature, President Noboa is ignoring the Constitution and the will of his people in favor of corporate colonialism, CEPR experts Mario Osorio and Pedro Labayen Herrera write. https://bit.ly/4sVwqgT

Far from a clean, in-and-out operation, the Trump administration's military intervention in Venezuela on January 3 was about as profound a violation of another country's national sovereignty as you can encounter, CEPR's international policy director Alex Main told @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social.

“To create the stability that Venezuela needs to recover, we have to take the military & economic violence out of this campaign. There are members of Congress moving toward that goal, and they need all the help they can get," Mark Weisbrot says of today's WPR vote @latimes.com 

Tormenting preschool kids now.

President Trump delivered a primetime address Wednesday to tout his economic policies, despite widespread concern about affordability. "He is not in touch with reality," says economist @deanbaker13.bsky.social.

"As the right reasserts its grip on power inside #Honduras, life is poised to get decidedly worse for many Hondurans, especially the most vulnerable. It will take concerted action to avoid a disastrous new cycle of desperate exodus and brutal backlash." -Lauren Carasik

"Obama, Trump and Biden all stood by their man in Honduras for the 8 vicious, destructive years he was in power. They ignored his drug connections, supported the military&police that kept him in power through state terror, and countenanced his illegal re-elections www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Deezer is a decent alternative and has a Name That Tune game if you would like to abandon Spotify today.

@deanbaker13.bsky.social  tells  @newsweek.com  shrinking availability of blue-collar jobs: "Companies are reluctant to invest in a context where they have no idea what tariffs will be in place six months from now, much less three to five years from now." https://bit.ly/4anHOuW

JOH isn't the only Latin American leader Trump ally with apparent criminality -- not even the only one linked to drug trafficking. Some background on Ecuador's Daniel Noboa, and the possible next-president of Honduras Nasry Asfura, here cepr.net/publications...

"Noboa’s corruption has also been out in the open. He and his family have assets in tax havens, and ... Noboa is heir to a giant banana fortune—there has been documented evidence of his company’s banana shipments linked to drug trafficking." #Ecuador www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...

Sen. Tim Kaine on Trump’s Pardon of Fmr. Honduran President Who Brought Over 400 Tons of Cocaine Into US: “This is a disgusting and incomprehensible decision…” ("And Trump claims he's trying to fight narco-trafficking?" Riiiiight.) bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...

Nothing says America First like pardoning the guy who witnesses say wanted to “shove cocaine up the noses” of the US

Marina Corina Machado is playing the role of Ahmad Chalabi, as a former US diplomat tells the @nytimes.com, saying whatever she thinks war hawks want to hear about #Venezuela and Maduro. She has no credibility. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...

"As Rodríguez points out, the data demonstrates unequivocally that it was only after the death of Chávez himself ... that the organized opposition began the multipronged campaigns of financial and industrial terrorism that pulled Venezuela into an economic black hole" prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...

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Parting shot on Larry Summers? newrepublic.com/article/2034...

Check out @deanbaker13.bsky.social’s August interview with now-mayor elect of Seattle Katie Wilson here cepr.net/publications...

"Recordings allegedly expose a coordinated plot by senior figures of the opposition National Party of #Honduras (PNH), a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE), & elements within the armed forces to manipulate the will of the people & distort the results of the elections"

American aggression in #LatAm is reaching dangerous new levels. CEPR's regional experts—journalists, lawyers, economists—are monitoring every development. This could spread beyond the hemisphere. Stay informed via our live tracker.

Important to note, which the article does not, that the CIA supported the quickly overturned 2002 coup against the democratically elected government in Venezuela, which we know from CIA documents web.archive.org/web/20111205...

Rutgers professor Mark Bray is author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements. He recently fled the U.S. after receiving death threats over his scholarship. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/mark_bray

This is terrifying! ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents) This is Trump’s America.

After two horrific years, it’s welcome news that we may finally see a reprieve from the violence & genocide in Gaza. This could be the start of healing. But only if there is accountability to ensure real steps are taken toward just and lasting peace. Here's what you need to know 🧵⬇️

"Noboa is exploiting #Ecuador’s security crisis to extend his authority beyond constitutional limits," @ceprdc.bsky.social's Pedro Labayen told FairPlanet. Noboa is criminalizing opposition to destructive projects & stifling CSOs like Trump admin wants to do in US www.fairplanet.org/story/ecuado...

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

“It’s ironic, but not unexpected, that the supposed ‘anti-war president’ and his administration have become unabashedly bellicose in Latin America.”

Join us Sept 25 at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social in DC for what is sure to be a great discussion between Greg Grandin and @ryangrim.bsky.social about Greg's book, "America, América"! cepr.net/events/greg-...

See this @ceprdc.bsky.social study on how lethal #sanctions are here: cepr.net/publications...

You've got to remember that even though RFK Jr looks like an idiot and sounds like an idiot, he is, in fact, an idiot.

"Those critical of U.S. engagement with #Venezuela have been quick to point out Chevron’s funding of the nonprofit world, but conveniently avoid mentioning funding from one of its biggest competitors, Exxon."

Terminating the union contracts of 400,000 workers at the VA, many of whom are veterans themselves, is union-busting, plain and simple. VA Secretary Doug Collins: taking away your workers’ union contracts isn’t putting veterans first—it’s putting them at risk.

Economic #Sanctions like the US is imposing on Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, & Venezuela kill as many people as armed conflict does, a new study shows. Most of these are small kids & the elderly, study coauthor SilvioRendon explains to the Latino Media Collective latinomediacollective.com/2025/08/04/a...

Sometimes we forget that sanctions are, to many effects, an act of war. Blockades aren't new, just the way we do them. Now, Francisco Rodríguez, Silvio Rendón, and Mark Weisbrot are arguing they cause as many deaths as conventional war. cepr.net/publications...