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Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man; DHS officials say he was armed A bystander video shows several agents wrestling with the man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian O’Hara issued a plea for calm as protesters gathered at the scene: “Ple...

The man federal officers shot and killed this morning has been identified as 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to the Star Tribune

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

I can't be here right now because my words are not safe for the public. Leaving this here, going to go donate and check on my friends.

www.standwithminnesota.com

To those blaming Walz for not mobilizing the Guard, he did that six days ago. I have to say it's disturbing to see people angry at Walz instead of the government agents that just executed a man. As though we should all be experts about what to do when a secret police force invades an American city.

I have watched the video of today’s murder several times and I am here to assure you that there were several agents restraining the victim when he was shot, and there is no way they were worried he was going to shoot one. Even if he had a gun, and I think that’s not true, he was not free to use it.

Dr. Lorgia García Peña (@laprofelgp.bsky.social) Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton. Author of Community as Rebellion. Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and sc...

Had an incredibly invigorating discussion of @laprofelgp.bsky.social’s book Translating Blackness with my graduate students. These are the moments that keep me going.

Happening now! Join us! 🇵🇷

🚨Job alert: Assistant Professor specializing in Afro Latin America.
I can’t tell you how excited I am about this search! Come be our colleague!

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Rapid Response Emergency Fund 🌟 Join us in solidarity and resistance! 🌟We are calling on all our allies to take part and make a contribution to our Rapid Response Emergency Fund today. Your support will directly assist detained fa...

Please donate to support the work of the brave volunteers helping our immigrant community in NJ. They need money for gas, food, vests, to print flyers and to cover basic needs of families facing abduction and deportation. Anything helps. Please donate.

No Kings, Anti-ICE protest in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

#NoKingsDay

'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes' "What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.

“What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” he said.

Not an antisemite.

www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Israel has already lost the Gaza war. It just doesn't know it yet As with Vietnam, two factors will end this slaughter: the determination of Palestinians to stay on their land, and mounting public outrage in the West

"The US dropped around 15 tonnes of explosives per square kilometre of Vietnam [making it the most bombed place on earth], while Israel has dropped 275 tonnes per square kilometre of Gaza - a figure that is higher by a factor of 18."

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…

“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire…promoted by…Obama in his annual list of recommended books, which…provides a literary sheen that obscures Obama’s …drone assassinations and deportation of… migrants.

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Death toll is now 98. There had never been a tragedy like this in my native city in my lifetime. Mourning so many artists and dear ones. This is beyond sad. 😢

I’m so sorry. This is beyond heartbreaking.

My previously published in memoriam piece for José Quiroga in @lasabluesky.bsky.social Forum, now in new format:

"José Quiroga (1959-2024): Leading Cuban Literary and Cultural Studies Scholar." forum.lasaweb.org/articles/55-...

This is terrible

Sweet and short piece in Vanity Fair on my book TO SAVE AND TO DESTROY: WRITING AS AN OTHER (released just about now). Not bad for a university press book of academic lectures on literature and otherness. 🔗 www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Felicidades Sharina! 🎉

“On Any Road of Vieques, There’s Beauty Around”: Glorimar Marrero Sánchez on <em>La Pecera</em> - Filmmaker Magazine Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.

You should see THE FISHBOWL (LA PECERA), a deeply moving and lyrical debut, set on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, that reflects the collective impact of political violence through an individual struggle.

I interviewed multi-disciplinary artist Glorimar Marrero Sánchez for Filmmaker Magazine.

Poster announcing Frank Wilderson III’s visit to Notre Dame

Looking forward to this! Thank you Pedro Aguilera-Mellado for organizing this visit!

Careless People Audiobook on Libro.fm “Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods." -Jennifer Szala...

THE FACEBOOK EXPOSÉ BOOK IS SO GOOD

EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT #BookSky

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Nos morimos esperando

I just learned Bookshop now sells ebooks. So we can shop our favorite indie bookstore for digital books : bookshop.org/ebooks