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Elliott Young

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Borderlands and Transnational Migration historian at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. Expert witness for asylum. Tepoztlán Institute. Migration Scholar Collaborative. Stanford Migration & Asylum Lab. Author of Forever Prisoners, and Alien Nation.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: California National Guard Sent to Oregon, Newsom Says

Portlanders slways complained about Californians taking over, but this is not what we meant.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

05.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota

Trump wants to send 82nd airborne paratroopers to Portland! Not an Onion article.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

04.10.2025 20:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

Another caricature of Portland from the Times. If only Portland were half as socialist as this article claims we are.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

04.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Revoke Deportation Protections for Venezuelans

“This is perhaps the most extreme sign that the Supreme Court has abandoned law for politics,” he said in a statement. “There is no way under law to make sense of the vast new power the court has taken for itself.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

04.10.2025 01:03 — 👍 340    🔁 86    💬 11    📌 3

District Court in Northern California and 9th Circuit Appeals Court agreed that TPS for Venezuelans and Haitians should not be terminated, but SCOTUS gives the OK to inflict more harm while they ponder the case. Justice delayed is justice denied.

03.10.2025 20:59 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Stand up. Fight back!

01.10.2025 03:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech

“The 1st Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction, and it is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence. No one’s freedom of speech is unlimited, of course, but these limits are the same for both citizens and noncitizens alike.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

01.10.2025 03:15 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

ICE brutalizing reporters is now a thing. The spiralling of state violence is quick.

30.09.2025 23:15 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

The US has long considered itself immune from international law, and has historically assassinated people all over the world, mining a harbor in Nicaragua, and engaged in military coups in Latin America, so this is nothing new.

Wrong then. Wrong now.

29.09.2025 21:15 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Remember back when some academics were debating whether to call what was happening fascism and whether Trump controlled the Republican Party?

29.09.2025 04:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lots of helicopters circling Portland tonight. Is this going to be an air invasion or are they sending on ground troops?

29.09.2025 04:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Yeah, I’m just old skool.

28.09.2025 23:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Eric Adams Abandons Re-election Bid for Mayor of New York City

The only question is how many brown paper bags full of money Adams received in exchange for him to drop out of the race. They should make an opera about the rise and fall of Eric Adams.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

28.09.2025 20:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

US government is straight up lying to court in an effort to send children back to Guatemala and Honduras. Arizona judge stopped them, for now.

thehill.com/regulation/c...

27.09.2025 22:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Portland:
DON’T TAKE THE BAIT!

27.09.2025 20:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland and authorises 'full force' The president says the latest move to send troops to a major US city is "necessary" to protect immigration detention facilities.

Trump threatens Portland with full force of military. We will see you on the streets with our kombucha, tall bikes, and polycules.

bbc.com/news/article...

27.09.2025 17:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The chart shows that deportations are bipartisan. If you are incensed now, I hope you were similarly upset during Obama's and Biden's terms.

26.09.2025 15:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Nota de Prensa del Ministerio Relaciones Exteriores Nota de Prensa del Ministerio Relaciones Exteriores  El 25 de septiembre de 2025 falleció en La Habana, Cuba, la ciudadana estadounidense Joanne Deborah Byron, "Assata Shakur", como consecuencia de pa...

I got the chance to meet Assata Shakur in Havana in 2004. She was an inspiration and spoke to us about what liberation meant to her. Sad news that she died, but she left us a great legacy as a freedom fighter. Cuba refused efforts by US over many decades to arrest her.

cubaminrex.cu/es/nota-de-p...

26.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

July ICE memo gave OK to send asylum seekers to 3rd countries. 2 wks later DHS Sec. Kristi Noem signed agreements with Guatemala and Honduras to receive such deportees. Now, it seems like DHS is "pretermitting" cases and moving to expedite removals.

iptp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/docume...

25.09.2025 22:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How an Attempted ICE Arrest Near Chicago Turned Deadly The New York Times analyzed surveillance, police body-camera footage and bystander videos to understand what happened when an immigration agent shot and killed a motorist in a Chicago suburb.

Sorry to say that this kind of thing is inevitable given the no holds barred instructions given to ICE.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

23.09.2025 14:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Medical advice from the President of the United States of America: Drink bleach and don’t take Tylenol.

22.09.2025 22:28 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension Late-night host reinstated after brief suspension related to comments on Maga and Charlie Kirk that Disney called ‘insensitive’

Too little, too late. Still dumping Disney, Hulu, and ABC. Bowing to fascists shouldn't be rewarded.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

22.09.2025 21:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses When Hosts Criticize Him

Free speech. Killed by Trump September 18, 2025.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

19.09.2025 00:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dump Disney and Hulu.

18.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Disney, ABC, Washington Post, and other corporations bow to fascism and flush free speech down the toilet. Corporate America sells out democracy at the first sign of pressure from above. Pathetic.

18.09.2025 14:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Barnard President: Now Is the Time for Colleges to Host Difficult Speakers

Wait. Didn’t Barnard expel students for distributing flyers in a class?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

17.09.2025 14:51 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal Judge Declines to Intervene for Migrants Deported to Ghana

Outsourcing the dirty work of deporting immigrants into harm’s way has been going on more than a decade in Mexico, but using African countries is a new twist.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

16.09.2025 13:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Assassinations are bad whether they occur in Utah or in international waters. All such attacks undermine the rule of law and due process.

15.09.2025 20:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I guess it’s better than being an outlier.

11.09.2025 20:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s Own Tweet Backfires on Him as Judge Delivers Harsh Loss on Fed The evidence that led a federal judge to declare that Trump’s firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook broke the law? Some of it was provided by Trump himself.

Cook Blocked.

newrepublic.com/article/2002...

11.09.2025 16:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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