CEPR hosted a Hill briefing last Friday titled: "Cuba in Crisis: What Congress Needs to Know"
Here, former Obama aide @rhodesben.bsky.social discusses how sanctions hamstring Cuba's economic reform and why @democrats.org should be more outspoken on the use of sanctions as collective punishment.
It's been 10 years since #BertaCaceres was assassinated in a conspiracy led by DESA corporation high-ups and others determined to implement a dam project that threatened traditional Indigenous Lenca territory. Some still need to be brought to justice.
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"From D.C. Across the Americas"
This week, Francesca Emanuele on the oil siege of #Cuba
"The claim that Cuba constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. security is an absurd premise that does not withstand serious scrutiny."
Next week, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie will force a vote to stop Trump’s march to an illegal, disastrous war with Iran.
Call 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to connect with your Reps to urge them to vote YES on the Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution.
Jesse Jackson opened doors that many said couldn't be opened.
CEPR Co-Founder Dean Baker shares a moving tribute to Jackson's legacy—his rainbow coalition, his economic populism, and the America he helped build. Rest in power. cepr.net/publications...
ICE is in fact the worst of the worst
22.01.2026 10:31 — 👍 458 🔁 107 💬 5 📌 11“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. “I was right there, and they — all of them — made the decision to deny me access to give him the best possible chance of survival.”
13.02.2026 19:14 — 👍 1862 🔁 872 💬 6 📌 12The Trump administration is deporting a Christian minister back to the country that tortured him, which seems like the kind of thing the Religious Right would care about if a dirty Democrat were doing it.
10.02.2026 16:55 — 👍 795 🔁 298 💬 21 📌 12More than 1M Trump references in Epstein files.
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"A group of progressive Democrats on Tuesday introduced a resolution to 'leave the Monroe Doctrine to the dustbin of history,' in the words of @NydiaVelazquez and replace it with a foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere based on mutual cooperation and respect."
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National Press Club President Mark Schoeff, Jr. today issued the following statement: “The National Press Club is deeply alarmed by the arrest of journalist Don Lemon by federal agents Thursday night in Los Angeles while he was covering the Grammy Awards. Jailing a journalist for doing their job is dangerous — not only for press freedom, but for the public’s right to know. When reporters risk arrest for documenting events of public interest, the result is fewer witnesses, less accountability, and a more uninformed public. Mr. Lemon’s arrest is linked to his reporting during a Dec. 18 protest at a Minnesota church that included speaking to the pastor, members of the church and protestors. Mr. Lemon was simply practicing the core elements of constitutionally protected journalism: documenting the protest and providing context for the actions unfolding before him. He has stated he was not part of the demonstration. A magistrate judge previously declined to sign a criminal complaint related to that reporting, yet Mr. Lemon has remained subject to federal enforcement. The National Press Club is also concerned by reports that other independent journalists may have been detained in connection with this coverage. If confirmed, such actions would signal a troubling pattern of targeting journalists for newsgathering. Journalism is not a crime. Arresting or detaining journalists for covering protests, public events, or government actions represents a grave threat to press freedom and risks chilling reporting nationwide. The world is watching closely, and the implications of this case extend far beyond any one reporter.
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."
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If you keep calling us names, we will kill more of you.
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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
28.01.2026 17:07 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0I 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.
28.01.2026 17:12 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0After 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.
27.01.2026 20:17 — 👍 8099 🔁 3980 💬 229 📌 137MUST WATCH:
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“I think the people of Minnesota have shown us…the direction we may need to go,” the Maryland Democrat said.
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"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.
27.01.2026 16:58 — 👍 232 🔁 94 💬 4 📌 18This five year old is still in jail
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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
27.01.2026 14:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0People 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
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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
23.01.2026 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Far 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.
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“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
14.01.2026 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Tormenting preschool kids now.
14.01.2026 19:15 — 👍 88 🔁 48 💬 7 📌 2President 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.
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