Raquel Moreira

Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

Amazing how we couldn’t do what Brazil did: Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men,…

NEW: Over the past four months, I documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions.

This is how CECOT left a mark on my countrymen, their loved ones and Venezuela.

Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

NEW: We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.

The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

it’s pretty clear that the NYT leadership sees its primary mission as disciplining the left

Manoooo, tô arrepiada. Que moral. Esse campeonato vai acabar e só o Fogão venceu o PSG 😏

The anti-Black logic of mestizaje: reckoning with Anzaldúa’s New Mestiza legacy Gloria Anzaldúa’s new mestiza has been deeply influential in the formation of a Latine communication studies subfield. Her new mestiza, loosely based on José Vasconcelos’s La Raza Cósmica, often ap...

My new essay, The anti-Black logic of mestizaje: reckoning with Anzaldúa’s New Mestiza legacy, is out! For folks interested in critiques of racial mixing/mestizaje/brownness as necessarily progressive, this piece is for you.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XEPKN...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

Welcome, comrade 🥹

ICE raids have 'overwhelmed' coastal California communities Communities in three California counties "overwhelmed" as ICE raids ramp up in the region.

A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind.
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

new pope!

*crowd goes wild*

American pope!

*crowd boos*

woke for an American!

*crowd goes wild*

bad on protecting abusive priests!

*crowd boos*

hates JD Vance!

*crowd goes wild*

Agreed!

Right, these stories keep *forgetting* we're in our 40s 🥴

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

It's been 51 days since ANY humanitarian aid has entered Gaza. Israeli Minister of Defense Katz has said: "Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza."
 
This is a war crime.
 
We must end our complicity. NO more military aid for Netanyahu's war machine.

I always say this to my students. Why are my classes targeted as "ideological", but business classes that teach them how to maintain the status quo don't? 🙄

STEM fields, economics, law, polisci etc. are full of conservatives. Universities have incredible diversity of thought. The criticism is failure of imagination, boils down to the writer defining “university” as a few humanities depts. Business schools aren’t hiring Marxist economists for balance. 😂

Centering Latin America: gender politics, attacks on higher education, and lessons of resistance from Brazil This essay foregrounds examples of resistance to far–right politics in Brazilian higher education, particularly through the work and legacy of fallen Black feminist politician Marielle Franco. We m...

I'm happy to share this forum piece about how US educators can understand the transnational contours of the current political moment via Brazil. We used the legacy of Marielle Franco as an example of organizing and resistance that will hopefully inspire others. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QZUXQ...

This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case.

Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

In Brazilian Portuguese, we have todes (instead or todos or todas) and menine (instead of menino or menina), for instance.

Imagine thinking languages don't change 🥱 also, Spanish and Portuguese speakers in Latin America have been using gender neutral language since at least the 2000s (amigue, for instance). We may not use Latinx, but we use many other versions.

I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”

April Ludgate from Parks and Rec saying “I didnt think March 31st existed”

Problema relacionado: tudo precisa ser relatable. 🫠

Signal group chat in which Michael Waltz & JD Vance cheer bombing of a civilian apartment building

This jibes with contemporary reporting that the raids hit several residential buildings, in each case killing about 15 people and wounding more. Maybe a little more of the conversation should be about how cavalier we apparently are about bombing civilian homes? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Black Pitt-Lab mix puppy carrying a tree branch

Just like my Gatolinos over a decade ago 🥹