📣New Book Alert: Dr. Joseph Winters (Religious Studies) - Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred @dukepress.bsky.social - Save 30% with coupon code SAVE30 www.dukeupress.edu/the-disturbi...

So many questions...what year did they sign the contract? Did someone else sign because they were under age? Are they fighting for the copyright to the songs *and* the sound recordings? Who arranged the music? Who owns that copyright? Don't know but hope they smash that (metaphoric) entail.

Artist Profile: Bad Bunny "Helping Puerto Rico overcome the lasting devastation caused by Lin Manuel Miranda" 😂

Amid book bans, attacks on DEI: How did this young activist learn to think critically & find the confidence to act: In a current events class at an inclusive, secular, inexpensive, and culturally affirming homeschooling cooperative that meets every Wednesday in San Antonio.

Or anywhere else.

He still faces deportation and not everyone supported his release. There have been taunts on social media, people saying he deserved to be detained and thrown out of the country. Milford police escort him to destinations to and from his home for safety. #AbolishICE #FreePalestine

new coloring book page just dropped. chinga la migra, ICE out of LA!

Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. #ICEProtests Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions.

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The Timely Example of Dr. John Carlos As the 1968 Olympian turns 80, his life provides a lesson for our times: Don’t sell out. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Australian reporter shot with rubber bullet while covering anti-Ice protests in Los Angeles

Hundreds of Edgewater neighbors came out in a sea of rainbow yesterday to support Drag Story Time. blockclubchi.co/3Hy8flr

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and police abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

"Would the situation somehow be less violent were ICE left to snatch and disappear people without impediment?" interc.pt/4kT2vku

@haymarketbooks.org *F R E E E-B O O K S* #AbolishICE #AbolishPolice www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-fr...

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Puerto Rico to Palestine, LA to Laos—Solidarity!

There’s always money in the fascist banana stand, Michael.

Today I screened Massacre River: The Woman Without a Country about Trujillo's 1937 #genocide of Haitians & the denationalization ethnic Haitian Dominicans in my class Borders, Diasporas, & Transnational Belonging. Streaming live? Anti-Haitian march in Santo Domingo by La Antigua Liga Dominicana.

"Resisting the New McCarthyism and Complicity from UMass to Palestine" with Rabab Abdulahdi @UMass Boston "Zionism will come to an end"

Andres Torres Research Award @ Gastón Institute @ UMass Boston: $5000 research grant for recent PhD (since 2014) to finish a scholarly piece of writing. Deadline: APRIL 25

Excerpts from the dissenting opinions by #SCOTUS justices #Sotomayor (first two images) and #Jackson. See the full ruling at static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

#NoAEsencia #PuertoRicoNoSeVende

ASU has recommended that all international students carry a copy of their passport, their visas, and proof of their immigration status on them at all times.

This is gross as fck

Shadow Dragon pulls publicly available data from a wide array of sites, social networks, apps, & services across the web at once...and makes available to its government clients, allowing them to map out a person’s activity, movements, & relationships.

Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚 www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...

EL DÍA DE MI CUMPLEAÑOS el jueves, 10 de abril la profesora Jossianna Arroyo hablará sobre LOS VIAJES DE BETANCES: COLONIALISMO Y DIÁSPORA EN EL CARIBE FINISECULAR en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, como parte de las Conferencias Caribeñas del Instituto de Estudios del Caribe.

This is how you should respond to unsporting conduct! Take out the trash before it sinks the whole place up.

Last week to apply! Submit your application by Friday April 11 www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/airopencall

CHARLA: PATERÍA Y PERFORMANCE CONTEMPORÁNEA PUERTORRIQUEÑA Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Universidad de Michigan jueves, 24 de abril de 2025 2:00 - 3:20 p. m. Presencial Sala de Conferencias, Biblioteca Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey Auspicia: Instituto de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias

“You don’t get paid enough to meet your basic needs. Your autonomy at work is consistently under threat. People who think that they know better how to do your job are trying to get the power to push you out of your position.”

And to be clear, the government's argument in the Abrego Garcia case would apply even if it sent someone, including a U.S. citizen, to a foreign prison intentionally and with full knowledge that it was violating the law in doing so.

Except for the part on "would be..." the rest.

New Book — “Confronting Femicide: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from Puerto Rico.” A collection of essays that explore the problem of femicide through interdisciplinary perspectives, using Puerto Rico as a case study. Edited by Nalini Natarajan. repeatingislands.com/2025/04/07/n...

JUST IN: US Supreme Court decides man deported in error can remain in El Salvador pending further court action reut.rs/4iRwxEG

A few smart takes on Trump's tariffs and the BS that the left wanted this: @jayatighosh.bsky.social points out that poor, highly indebted countries will be punished most. She also see a potential "silver lining" - a possible rejection of export-led development. www.democracynow.org/2025/4/7/jay...

Picking up on this point, Justice Sotomayor writes in dissent: "To the extent the Government removes even one individual without affording him notice and a meaningful opportunity to file and pursue habeas relief, it does so in direct contravention of an edict by the United States Supreme Court. "

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Tomorrow!

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

"The implication...is that not only noncitizens but also U.S. citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes..."

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

This is equal to or greater than the budget of five different cabinet departments (Justice, Treasury, Energy, Interior and Commerce). They are building a concentration camp network that dwarfs entire federal agencies.

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Because...why not?

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Most [university administrations] have worked overtime...to limit or crush our freedoms with such consistency...that it is baffling that anyone would expect anything different as we race towards authoritarianism.