Julia Faisst

This image is so incredibly powerful. World Press Photo 2026 material.

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

read that again

This is the kind of plan you would develop if you wanted to intentionally kill thousands through neglect and disease. Which, if you know history, was how large proportions of people in concentration camps died
The malnutrition and disease killed millions.

These buildings do not have the infrastructure to hold this many people. They are not built for this. From plumbing to HVAC to electrical. This is going to be a humanitarian disaster. One must assume it's intentional. They have no plans for sewage, showers, clean water, or even basic food.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

“Since the day my mom and I get detained in Manhattan NY, my life was instanly paused,” Ariana wrote in her letter from detention after our meeting. “All kids are being damage mentally, they witness how the’ve been treated.”

www.propublica.org/article/life...

Read the letters referenced by Rep. James Walkinshaw here:

Einfach mal über min. 190 Jahre strategische Ungleichbehandlung von Frauen und nicht-weißen Menschen (to put it mildly) hinweg geonkelt.

NICHT DIE SCHUHE!

thrust on left-wing democrats (AOC happens to be Puerto-Rican as well). How ironic-and a good example of MAGA ignorance-that Bad Bunny is of course an American citizen. White supremacy needs to stifle Spanish & all the culture & politics it entails. 2/2

🧵 Decrying the Super Bowl by supposedly “not understanding a word” amounted to an attack on Latinx superstars more specifically & Hispanic immigrants more generally, Spanish as anti-ICE language & activism, a commentary on the political dependence of places like Puerto Rico, maybe even a 1/2

“Connect the dots: the history of sugar is the history of capitalism is the history of race is the history of electrical infrastructure is the history of ICE in our streets.”

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

- the shared histories of the Americas through the study of the cultural production emerging out of historical periods without which the U.S. cannot be understood such as the Mexican-American war (a.k.a. la intervención estadounidense de México) and the cold war, among so many others 3/

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

A medium-wide shot shows a man smiling while playing an acoustic guitar in the middle of a tall sugarcane field. He wears a wide-brimmed straw hat and a light-colored long-sleeve shirt. The tall, green stalks of sugarcane rise well above his head, creating a dense, natural backdrop under a clear blue sky. The lighting is warm and bright, suggesting a sunny day.

The show opens with a Jibaro (countryside person in Puerto Rico) playing a guitar in a sugarcane field while wearing a pava (traditional hat worn by Puerto Rican farmers).

Sugarcane was a major cash crop that the US exploited as a colonial power (Domino Sugar)

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History The Place of Sugar in Modern History

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

bookshop.org/p/books/swee...

That’s why people like Americanists teach visual literacy 😗

The radio called today to talk about this in their evening news show, but once I finally got out of all the meetings, ‘twas too late. Dang, sometimes journalist & academic time don’t align!

The man turned the stadium into a Caribbean sugar plantation. I am DONE. 🔥🗃️ #BadBunny #Superbowl

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

If media could stop calling Bad Bunny’s halftime show “controversial,” that would be great. Because there were 135 million people who watched it and danced, and then there were four million white people who believe that singing in Spanish in *Santa Clara* is an affront to their supposed supremacy.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.

Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d

just building this awful camp system is a crime against humanity imo

“Her family was not aware of her whereabouts and they had no idea where she was at the time. Yelling her name to organizers allowed her to be connected with her family.”