Liz Oglesby

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.

That's exactly right.

It doesn’t say that universities that don‘t sign would lose those specific benefits. It’s a vague threat, not a specific one. More likely is that universities that do sign would get points toward federal grants. It’s an insane risk for the universities, which stand to lose much more than they gain.

I wrote this in 2018. It's even more true now. We need a truth commission to investigate the Border Patrol and ICE. thehill.com/opinion/immi...

If they are Central American, $2,500 is about one-third of what their families paid. Kids' passage is less than adults, but a sum like that means their families went into debt for it. Often, that debt, plus usurious interest, means they're forced to try again in a debt-fueled migration.

He should be asking why Tucson's other congressional representative hasn't been sworn in yet.

1/ Trump officials reportedly told Congress the U.S. is in a “non-international armed conflict” with “designated terrorist organizations.” Here’s why that’s wrong: the U.S. is not at war. 🧵

I voted for her in our primary, even though she had already dropped out by that point.

Shocker. The judge knows he'll be fired if he rules in favor of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The system is rigged.

China expands Argentina soybean buying to 20 cargoes, traders say Chinese importers kept up a hectic pace of Argentine soybean purchases after the South American supplier's move to abolish export taxes temporarily made its prices competitive, traders said on Wednesday.

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

I wish. All I know is that they were from the coastal part of Dunbeg. Anyway, they were probably sharecroppers to the English lord.

Dunbeg is where my great-grandmother was born and raised. The Trump resort sits on the land of my ancestors.

Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Good message about supporting local restaurants.

They are the reason to keep going.

I stayed up all night preparing a stellar week of materials for my online class. And then I gave a dynamic lecture w/discussion to my other class. I was so proud of what I do when I walked into the faculty meeting, where I heard my job is in jeopardy because of university-wide cutbacks.

"Seeing everyone in Washington do crime reminded me of the time I did crime with you"

Yes, that was my experience in Arizona.

Exactly. Biden, too, with his 2024 shutdown of asylum at the border. Got zip votes for Harris, and caused a lot of people to suffer.

Gum

Two arrows exiting Venezuela are much fainter than arrows exiting Colombia and Ecuador.

Detail from UNODC map titled “main cocaine trafficking routes within the Americas, by water, 2023-2024” and noting that arrows’ “color intensity indicates flow density.”

Venezuela’s Caribbean looks like a significant, but not a top-tier, trafficking route.

www.unodc.org/documents/da...

What country? At least in Guatemala there is an infrastructure of state institutions and advocacy groups to receive them, as dangerous as it may be for some to return. No other Central American country has that, except perhaps Costa Rica.

i just gave a lecture on early twentieth-century US intervention in the Caribbean in my Modern Latin America class. Seems we’re rolling everything back to pre-1945.

Lethal U.S. military strike on alleged drug traffickers sets a dangerous precedent in the “war on drugs”  - WOLA Yesterday, the President of the United States shared a video that appears to show a U.S. military strike on a boat off the coast of Venezuela. President Trump’s social media post stated that 11 of tho...

From WOLA: "Proportionality in the use of force is a fundamental principle of international law. Mere suspicion of carrying drugs, or merely being pursued by naval vessels or other military assets in international waters, are not offenses that carry a death sentence, much less summary execution."

Can it be both crime of aggression and extra-judicial execution?

A communique from migrant advocacy organizations in Guatemala.

A communique from migrant advocacy organizations in Guatemala on the possible deportation of the unaccompanied children.

I don't get this even on its own terms. Wasn't the new doctrine supposed to be "defense" of the homeland, or something something?

THREE PEOPLE WERE KIDNAPED HERE SUNDAY AUG 24 BY MASKED | < FEDERAL AGENTS

Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.

Yes, for sure. But the new boosters aren’t available yet, I don’t think. This might be the map in a week or so.