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Raquel Moreira

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Assistant Professor of Communication at UMD. Currently studying Latinidad's relationship to antiblackness. Rio/College Park

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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

23.12.2025 01:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35896    ๐Ÿ” 18258    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 563    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1735
Point/Counterpoint: No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

Point/Counterpoint: No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

The Onion, 23 years ago.

theonion.com/no-blood-for...

17.12.2025 22:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21864    ๐Ÿ” 5003    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 211    ๐Ÿ“Œ 117

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

03.12.2025 00:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3686    ๐Ÿ” 1520    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing iโ€™ve always said is that you shouldnโ€™t kill a million people

04.11.2025 12:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11693    ๐Ÿ” 1901    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 105    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30
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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 โ€” including a 2-year-old โ€” 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...

03.10.2025 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15767    ๐Ÿ” 5938    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 634    ๐Ÿ“Œ 296
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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. (๐ŸŽฅ: Elias Eliahu)

25.09.2025 18:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28052    ๐Ÿ” 14022    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5704    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4028
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Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

Amazing how we couldnโ€™t do what Brazil did: Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

11.09.2025 22:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17797    ๐Ÿ” 4609    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 904    ๐Ÿ“Œ 348
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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,โ€ฆ

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.

19.08.2025 11:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 942    ๐Ÿ” 377    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21
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Texas Governorโ€™s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too โ€œEmbarrassingโ€ to Release to the Public We asked Abbott for his and his staffโ€™s emails with Elon Musk and Muskโ€™s companies. The governorโ€™s office wonโ€™t turn them over, saying some contain โ€œintimate and embarrassingโ€ information that is โ€œnot of legitimate concern to the public.โ€

NEW: We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staffโ€™s emails with Elon Musk and Muskโ€™s companies.

The governorโ€™s office wonโ€™t turn them over, saying some contain โ€œintimate and embarrassingโ€ information that is โ€œnot of legitimate concern to the public.โ€

14.07.2025 11:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2969    ๐Ÿ” 1070    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 290    ๐Ÿ“Œ 387

itโ€™s pretty clear that the NYT leadership sees its primary mission as disciplining the left

08.07.2025 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6831    ๐Ÿ” 672    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 148    ๐Ÿ“Œ 40

Manoooo, tรด arrepiada. Que moral. Esse campeonato vai acabar e sรณ o Fogรฃo venceu o PSG ๐Ÿ˜

05.07.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The anti-Black logic of mestizaje: reckoning with Anzaldรบaโ€™s New Mestiza legacy Gloria Anzaldรบaโ€™s new mestiza has been deeply influential in the formation of a Latine communication studies subfield. Her new mestiza, loosely based on Josรฉ Vasconcelosโ€™s La Raza Cรณsmica, often ap...

My new essay, The anti-Black logic of mestizaje: reckoning with Anzaldรบaโ€™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...

11.06.2025 00:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing LOS ANGELESโ€”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

09.06.2025 20:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11473    ๐Ÿ” 3238    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 104    ๐Ÿ“Œ 165

Welcome, comrade ๐Ÿฅน

23.05.2025 23:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.
โ€œThey arrested someone,โ€ witness said. โ€œThey left the children inside the truck.โ€
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

10.05.2025 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13727    ๐Ÿ” 6930    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1089    ๐Ÿ“Œ 941

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*

08.05.2025 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20819    ๐Ÿ” 5188    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 212    ๐Ÿ“Œ 285

Agreed!

08.05.2025 14:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Right, these stories keep *forgetting* we're in our 40s ๐Ÿฅด

08.05.2025 13:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

22.04.2025 01:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23506    ๐Ÿ” 8338    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 237    ๐Ÿ“Œ 120

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

21.04.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4551    ๐Ÿ” 987    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 125    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24

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? ๐Ÿ™„

21.04.2025 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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 โ€œuniversityโ€ as a few humanities depts. Business schools arenโ€™t hiring Marxist economists for balance. ๐Ÿ˜‚

21.04.2025 13:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 789    ๐Ÿ” 125    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20
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Centering Latin America: gender politics, attacks on higher education, and lessons of resistance from Brazil This essay foregrounds examples of resistance to farโ€“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...

21.04.2025 13:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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-...

15.04.2025 23:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4360    ๐Ÿ” 1917    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33    ๐Ÿ“Œ 560

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome youโ€™d have gotten from complying but you donโ€™t have to fucking hate yourself too.

15.04.2025 01:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8265    ๐Ÿ” 1753    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 52    ๐Ÿ“Œ 60

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

14.04.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Imagine thinking languages don't change ๐Ÿฅฑ 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.

13.04.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 56    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was told these people were โ€œfree speech absolutistsโ€

11.04.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10514    ๐Ÿ” 2856    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 504    ๐Ÿ“Œ 109
April Ludgate from Parks and Rec saying โ€œI didnt think March 31st existedโ€

April Ludgate from Parks and Rec saying โ€œI didnt think March 31st existedโ€

31.03.2025 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5140    ๐Ÿ” 1500    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 63