Nicole Rizzuto

UT Austin’s Elimination of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies is a Betrayal of Texas, by Alfonso Ayala III

"The contradiction is impossible to ignore. In the future The University of Texas at Austin is curating, Latinos are present as demographics—but absent as intellectual architects of the public good."

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Settle in for story time, Bill spins us a true tale of yesteryear

Y'all know Camden is in Camden County, right? And Camden County is literally the Philly suburbs? Sure South Jersey is heavy on the republican, but Camden County as a while leans heavily blue.

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.

HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025

🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year

😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition

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In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.

A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top. The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements: Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below. Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam. Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground. Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched. The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.

The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.

Follow along!

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

Opinion | Ring is using lost dogs to make the surveillance state adorable The same technology the Amazon-owned company uses to find lost dogs could easily be turned against their owners.

“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”

We definitely don’t have money for USAID, or to buy and stabilize American crop prices, but we certainly have money in the banana stand for a Gulag Archipelago.

Infographic with text: Caging Compassion: Recognizing & resisting carceral Humanist narratives in criminal justice reform This webinar will offer useful tips for advocates seeking to avoid superficial carceral humanist reforms in their quest to make genuine, lasting systemic change. Sarah Staudt Policy and Advocacy Director, Prison Policy Initiative Emmett Sanders Policy and Advocacy Associate, Prison Policy Initiative Mon Mohapatra Organizing Coordinator, Community Justice Exchange James Kilgore Building Power Fellow, Community Justice Exchange

🚨WEBINAR: As calls for criminal justice reform grow louder, advocates are increasingly up against "carceral humanism" – a harmful strategy that offers only the appearance of change.

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"True affordability and support are not found in a voucher. It is found in a fully funded public school in every neighborhood. Gov. Pritzker — don’t let Illinois be sold on a program that leaves the majority of our children behind."

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.

Tell them it will find your dog.

We’re a few legislative sessions from these schools being targeted for closure imo

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.

Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Dulé Hill is a fantastic suggestion. All three are, but I was not expecting him and I fully agree.

who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice

15 Historians File Amicus Brief in Trump v. US Debunking Immunity Claim Historians show that history doesn’t support presidential immunity from criminal prosecution.

The really appalling part is that the supposedly “originalist” justices on the Supreme court completely ignored both the text of the constitution and the history.
They stand exposed.

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when the polycule looks at you from across the bar

This playbook was one of the first things I was introduced to upon moving to Chicago.

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.

Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.

AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.

Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

Breaking: jury finds Chicago resident Juan Espinoza Martinez NOT GUILTY of placing a hit on Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino.

I did not know about these guys and I am obsessed. Thank you for sharing!

MN is the abbreviation for Minnesota. Mondale won one state in 1984 and it was his home state.

‘Barbecue Saved My Life’: Meet Waco’s Antifascist Transgender Pitmaster Kaleb Blain went from the fast-paced world of 911 dispatching to the “low and slow” of BBQ, where he’s built a following.

Kaleb Blain, a 35-year old trans man and pitmaster, was fired from the legendary BBQ restaurant Terry Black’s after he was doxxed over Charlie Kirk comments.

Now he’s running his own barbecue spot in Waco: “I feel better than I ever have.”

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The 1984 presidential election map showing 49 states red for Reagan and one state, Minnesota, blue for Mondale.

Minnesota was the first state to protect workers from being fired for gender identity/expression and the only state to vote against Reagan in 1984 (I do not care that Mondale was from MN). Minnesota has been on the forefront of fighting fascism for generations.

Delicious to me

"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.

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