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Luis Jiménez

@umbluis.bsky.social

Associate professor of political science at Umass Boston. Interested in immigration, Latin American politics, US-Latin American relations and democratic transitions.

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El corrido de Alex Pretti
YouTube video by Crónica Panamericana El corrido de Alex Pretti

el corrido de Alex Pretti. QEPD.

youtu.be/9adyTn55P9o

26.01.2026 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

15.01.2026 23:03 — 👍 10869    🔁 4883    💬 195    📌 240
Showing 3000 immigration officers to 2482 officers from the ten largest metro forces

Showing 3000 immigration officers to 2482 officers from the ten largest metro forces

The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.

15.01.2026 00:56 — 👍 1767    🔁 777    💬 46    📌 53

Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.

08.01.2026 13:37 — 👍 40130    🔁 4747    💬 1227    📌 348
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Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

07.01.2026 18:40 — 👍 38644    🔁 11591    💬 1252    📌 1140
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ICE officer fatally shoots woman during Minneapolis operation A shooting involving an ICE officer took place in a Minneapolis neighborhood amid increased enforcement operations, Mayor Jacob Frey said.

Breaking news: An ICE officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman during an operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, federal authorities said, an incident that came as the Trump administration has staged a massive enforcement effort in the city.

07.01.2026 18:45 — 👍 71    🔁 54    💬 43    📌 12

This is the alleged video of ICE murdering someone in MN today. It's not graphic, but it's egregious and it's clear that the DHS statement saying ICE did it in self-defense is completely bogus.

07.01.2026 18:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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White House floats military option for Greenland, rattling Denmark and NATO The rhetoric follows a dramatic U.S. raid in Venezuela and revives Trump’s long-standing focus on Greenland, transforming diplomatic discussions into fears of coercion. But U.S. military posture there...

Article V.

That’s the Tweet.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

07.01.2026 00:50 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

And placing one’s trust in Trump has never backfired so I think he can rest easy.

03.01.2026 21:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter

03.01.2026 20:40 — 👍 2906    🔁 593    💬 11    📌 13

Or it could be false and she's trying to bolster her position while retaining legitimacy among the Chavista factions.
Basically, we don't know anything. But clearly, the Chavista regime is still very much in power. The opposition has been undermined for now. Complete uncertainty going forward.

03.01.2026 21:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Delcy Rodríguez, meanwhile, is back in the country and directly contradicted Trump and Rubio. Says, there's no deal, and only Maduro is President.

This could be true and she is trying to keep unity in the face of further American attacks.

03.01.2026 21:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Conflicting reports on that.

03.01.2026 19:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That sounds a lot like Trump is leaving the Chavista regime in place so long as they open up the oil sector to American interests.

I can't think of a more unpopular scenario than that among Venezuelans at home or abroad.

03.01.2026 18:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump says that he has talked to Delcy Rodríguez, VP of 🇻🇪 and will work with her "to make 🇻🇪 great again." He says that M. C. Machado, the Peace nobel, "doesn't have the support or respect within the country" and not afraid of "putting of boots on the ground" to put the 🇺🇸 companies back in 🇻🇪.

03.01.2026 18:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

But that's of course assuming US interests were freedom and justice for Venezuela and not the stated revanchist aims of "taking back the oil" and "narco-terrorism".

03.01.2026 17:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Taking out any leader the US might not like is the easy part, building prosperity is not. Toppling people in the name of justice or freedom basically never leads to justice or freedom but to more violence and new victims (see Iraq).

03.01.2026 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The question of whether or not Maduro "deserved" to be taken out or not is the wrong question. The real question is whether or not this will lead to a better Venezuela in the future.

03.01.2026 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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What to Know About Colombia’s Role in the Global Drug Trade Amid Trump’s Feud With Petro President Gustavo Petro is locked in a war of words with President Trump over Colombia’s major role in the global drug trade. The issue is complicated.

President Gustavo Petro is locked in a war of words with President Trump over Colombia’s major role in the global drug trade. Here’s what you need to know.

28.12.2025 22:25 — 👍 48    🔁 11    💬 5    📌 2

perfect metaphors don’t exis—

27.12.2025 18:35 — 👍 2161    🔁 419    💬 28    📌 9
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Trump Jumps 118 Spots On The Forbes 400 List Thanks To Presidency Donald Trump lost money during his first term. Out of office, he found a formula for profiting off politics—now he’s piling up billions.

🚨 New: “Presidency Boosts Trump’s Net Worth By $3 Billion In A Year”

“Vaulted him 118 spots on The Forbes 400, where he lands at No. 201 this year.”

@danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com

09.09.2025 10:56 — 👍 363    🔁 198    💬 78    📌 56
Nick offerman as Chester Arthur: “I feel it is my duty to explain that you really ought to fire me”

Nick offerman as Chester Arthur: “I feel it is my duty to explain that you really ought to fire me”

Every Trump appointee if they were honest

28.12.2025 05:28 — 👍 506    🔁 38    💬 4    📌 1
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Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

24.12.2025 23:21 — 👍 882    🔁 313    💬 23    📌 48
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Budget Cuts Threaten Oregon Program for Helping People Get Jobs After Prison The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and support for people after release.

“It’ll put you in a position to be able to have a decent life, not one of struggle,” says a graduate of an Oregon workforce development program that supports incarcerated people preparing for their release from prison.

25.12.2025 15:29 — 👍 69    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0
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Merry Christmas Eve from Colonial Williamsburg.

24.12.2025 22:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."

It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.

16.12.2025 22:07 — 👍 1550    🔁 591    💬 38    📌 25

Even the use of capital letters for "Designated Terrorist Organization" in this celebration of illegality is enraging.

It makes the answer to the "how possible" question so obvious.

Who can end this? Not a rhetorical question.

16.12.2025 03:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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"Migrants who came to the UK on skilled work visas in 2022-23 will make a net contribution of £47bn to the public finances over their lifetime, according to new estimates from the government’s Migration Advisory Committee."

Not surprising, but some observations (1/n)

www.ft.com/content/10da...

11.12.2025 18:09 — 👍 469    🔁 258    💬 18    📌 15
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ICE arrests at San Diego green card interviews include military spouses These kinds of arrests began Nov. 12, multiple immigration attorneys say, many adding they had never seen anything like this before.

“I kind of feel betrayed, to be honest. We do everything that we can to protect and serve our country. And then they betray us by treating us like we’ve never done anything.”

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

01.12.2025 22:13 — 👍 1068    🔁 405    💬 28    📌 25
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who's ready to become the joker!!!

02.12.2025 14:22 — 👍 343    🔁 49    💬 5    📌 6

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