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🇵🇷 Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change (Princeton University Press).

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Press Freedom Group Urges Puerto Rico Governor to Reject Rollback of Transparency Act
periodismoinvestigativo.com/category/eng...

26.11.2025 09:09 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The US military’s plan to revive old bases in Latin America Bases in Panama, Puerto Rico, and potentially Ecuador are coming back to life as the U.S. military builds up forces in the region.

The US military’s plan to revive old bases in Latin America
Deactivated bases in Panama, Puerto Rico, and potentially Ecuador are coming back to life as the U.S. military builds up forces in the region.
taskandpurpose.com/news/us-base...

17.11.2025 09:35 — 👍 27    🔁 24    💬 14    📌 3

This practice was endorsed by a Supreme Court Justice.
#KavanaughStop

17.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 2047    🔁 868    💬 53    📌 24

RIP Alice Wong

15.11.2025 15:28 — 👍 33    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1
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Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ... 423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

15.11.2025 05:57 — 👍 3679    🔁 1433    💬 139    📌 278
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Trump sent men to torture in El Salvador, report confirms Human Rights Watch found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador by the United States were beaten almost every day.

“After the gringa left, the guards came in to beat us,” said one detainee of what occurred after a visit from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

16.11.2025 02:00 — 👍 548    🔁 335    💬 14    📌 9

The best comparison case for LLMs I can think of pre-coffee is pumpkin spice. LLMs are the pumpkin spice of the corporate world. Pumpkin spice can be lovely in very limited quantities and proper recipes. But not when it’s on absolutely every single friggin food group in the supermarket.

08.11.2025 16:04 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

05.11.2025 23:09 — 👍 31650    🔁 15139    💬 1066    📌 1005

Folks, saying ABOLISH ICE isn't hard. Quite easy. The water is warm here. Jump in. Mainstream it. People will follow.

05.11.2025 18:47 — 👍 7133    🔁 1522    💬 195    📌 95

Looking forward to all the postmortems asking why the GOP is so out of touch with young men, and why their fascist propaganda is so alienating.

05.11.2025 03:37 — 👍 155    🔁 35    💬 0    📌 1

Third way is really a dead end.

04.11.2025 19:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Dick Cheney and the big lie that should never be forgotten It led to 4,400 dead US troops and 200,000 or so dead Iraqi civilians.

Never forget: Dick Cheney's dishonesty led to 4,400 dead US troops and 200,000 or so dead Iraqi civilians.

04.11.2025 18:55 — 👍 477    🔁 199    💬 36    📌 20
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His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

04.11.2025 17:55 — 👍 7956    🔁 2393    💬 202    📌 286

Please support if you can!

03.11.2025 10:02 — 👍 30    🔁 30    💬 0    📌 0
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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

03.11.2025 12:50 — 👍 108    🔁 72    💬 4    📌 4
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How to use and support Berkeley food banks during shutdown SNAP delays Millions in California are preparing to go without food benefits in Nov. Here's a guide for using and supporting Berkeley food banks.

#Berkeley residents:
Need food? Here are places to get it.
Want to help? There's also a list of places to donate to and volunteer at.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/30/b...

31.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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Pentagon Admits to Striking Caribbean Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Purported Drug Links The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.

"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."

01.11.2025 04:14 — 👍 896    🔁 478    💬 32    📌 52
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Over 40 Organizations Denounce FBI, Puerto Rico Police Surveillance of Activist Groups SAN JUAN — Over 40 organizations signed an open letter published Monday by the pro-independence activist group Jornada Se Acabaron La Promesas (JSALP) denouncing law enforcement monitoring of the grou...

Over 40 Organizations Denounce FBI, Puerto Rico Police Surveillance of Activist Groups
thelatinonewsletter.org/p/over-40-or...

28.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 57    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 3
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May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

26.10.2025 21:52 — 👍 11628    🔁 4019    💬 1621    📌 1021

Thinking about Jamaica.

27.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hurricane Melissa live updates: Jamaica braces for its worst storm in history Hurricane Melissa, now a powerful Category 5 storm, is set to be Jamaica's worst storm in history.

everything I'm seeing about this is apocalyptic. is anyone on here fundraising around this already / know the best Jamaican orgs to support atm?

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

27.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 244    🔁 100    💬 11    📌 4
Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people?

Does anyone work anymore?"

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

27.10.2025 00:48 — 👍 20770    🔁 7595    💬 810    📌 459
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Hotels, restaurants, pools, parks, gas stations, restrooms, drinking fountains and roadside stops were not equally open to all Americans. The Green Book Project archives the data and memorializes this important history of segregation greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky

24.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 68    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 2

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

22.10.2025 00:33 — 👍 16952    🔁 7042    💬 431    📌 400

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:

18.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 517    🔁 323    💬 7    📌 16

Would be fired from every job.

15.10.2025 23:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We need more D’Angelo posts

15.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 36    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 1
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Republican justices appear poised to destroy what’s left of the Voting Rights Act The results will be "catastrophic."

SCOTUS decision killing what’s left of Voting Rights Act could cost Dems 19 House seats, eliminate every majority-minority district in South, eviscerate 14th/15th Amendments & fulfill John Roberts 40-year crusade against country’s most important civil rights law www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

15.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 271    🔁 178    💬 14    📌 16
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Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

“Cease” fire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

14.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 355    🔁 201    💬 9    📌 13
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The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...

14.10.2025 00:09 — 👍 158    🔁 50    💬 6    📌 5

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