Lisa Covert

the Cuban government is now referring to a "genocidal blockade" -- which is absolutely will be if it is allowed to persist. Cuba is not at war with anybody yet we are starving them...because why? Because Marco Rubio wants to? From the office of the Cuban presidency: This Friday, measures adopted by the country’s leadership were announced in response to the nation’s current situation, amid the intensification of the #GenocidalBlockade. ⚡| Energy Sector •Prioritize available fuel for essential services: public health, water supply, food production, defense, and hard-currency-generating activities. •Continue and accelerate the installation programs for solar photovoltaic parks and solar modules for households. •Speed up the delivery and installation of solar modules sold to Health and Education workers. •Install 5,000 solar modules in isolated homes and plan an additional 5,000 for social centers (nursing homes, children’s homes). •Expand incentives for the installation of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in companies and households. •Concentrate core administrative activities from Monday to

Thursday. •Adjust fuel sales to the public until the situation normalizes. •Continue developing domestic oil production. 🚚| Transport Sector •Ensure fuel for port and airport operations, imports/exports, and the transport of vital cargo (food, fuel, medical supplies). •Reduce the Nueva Gerona–Batabanó ferry frequency to two trips per week (Tuesdays and Saturdays). •Extend the frequency of national passenger trains to once every 8 days (starting February 8). Temporarily suspend other rail services. •Reduce national bus departures, maintaining a basic daily service from Havana. Suspend the waiting list service. •Offer full refunds within 30 days for tickets for canceled services (rail or maritime). •Maintain guaranteed Medibus services (for patients) and transportation for students and teaching staff. •Reorganize local public transportation according to fuel availability in each territory. •In Havana, establish a new transportation service specifically for Health personnel. •Strengthen the electric mobility strategy: install solar charging stations and distribute electric vehicles. 👩‍🏫| Education Sector (General Education) •Prioritize early childhood: maintain the operation of daycare

•Prioritize early childhood: maintain the operation of daycare centers (possibly with reduced hours). •Maintain in-person classes in Primary Education with flexible schedules, allowing early dismissal due to transportation needs. •For Lower Secondary, Pre-University, and Technical Education: •Implement blended-learning or condensed schedules (by days or subject blocks), decided locally. •Give special attention to grades marking the start and end of cycles (e.g., 7th and 9th grade, 12th grade). •Temporarily redistribute enrollment from some IPVCE schools to urban pre-university schools. •For students in the final years of technical/pedagogical programs, shift to a training model in schools near their homes, with periodic in-person sessions. •Resume and adapt the “essential content” experience used during COVID-19. •Accelerate the delivery of solar panels to teachers. 👨🏾‍🏫| Higher Education Sector •General transition to blended learning, adapted by degree program and university. •Transport students back to their provinces of origin. •Support teaching activities through institutions in the student’s territory (CUM, branch campuses, workplaces). •Strengthen faculty in municipalities by relocating professors from central campuses.

•Use telework as the main modality, with limited ICT support due to the energy situation. •Prioritize strategic research and development projects remotely. •Ensure completion of studies (final exams, thesis defenses) for students close to graduation. •Reorganize the admissions process for Higher Education. •Postpone the “University 2026” event. 👩🏿‍💻| Labor and Social Security Sector •Issue no new labor regulations, applying existing contingency rules. •Promote telework and remote work modalities. •Adjust work schedules according to the needs of each workforce. •Reassign workers to key economic activities or areas of social interest. •If necessary, apply temporary work interruption with guaranteed pay equivalent to the basic salary during the first month. 🚜| Food and Water Sector •Increase food production at the territorial level, prioritizing productive hubs with the greatest potential. •Promote alliances among all forms of productive management (state and non-state) to address commercialization and prices. •Use Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in food production. •Allocate fuel to guarantee essential water pumping. •Concentrate industry on producing and supplying chemical products for water treatment.

If you want a sense of how dire the situation is in Cuba now, here is a list of the measures the Cuban president says the nation has started taking to try to keep people in nursing homes and hospitals alive while Trump & Rubio choke the island of essentials, which the Cuban gov't is now referring...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

The post tenure review is really insidious. They’ve killed so much research funding. Research deemed “woke” is getting harder to do and publish. They are deliberately undermining research agendas, so they can claim that people are not productive and fire them.

“You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer” It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...

NEW: Local police did not open investigations into six of the 12 shootings by on-duty federal agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens and immigrants since September, a ProPublica analysis found.

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters

and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Bordering on Indifference How a largely Latino/a workforce of immigration agents reconciles the moral ambiguities of its work

If you’re surprised that a couple of longtime CBP employees have names of Hispanic origin, I recommend you keep that surprise to yourself and not turn it into a take.

It’s incredibly common and longstanding; it’s been written on insightfully (see press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...). Learn things!

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. California Politics
2. History of U.S. Foreign Relations
3. Latina/Latin American Literature
4. Music in Film
5. Bowling

Ooh, good reminder that I need Pablo's book

Just circuses, not even bread🫠

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

Menopause, Writer’s Block, and Being a Late Bloomer - Electric Literature I’m supposed to believe my womanhood is ending but instead, I have been handed a new beginning

I wrote an essay about menopause, writers block, and being a late bloomer. You can also find it in the newly released anthology, The Big M, edited by Lidia Yuknavitch: electricliterature.com/menopause-wr...

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

"[W]hat they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state." via @adamserwer.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This doesn’t prevent murders or kidnappings.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

I hope good news is coming soon💕

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

and which of course we all know is false, as the loved ones of Breonna Taylor will remind you

Your calls are working!!

They kill. They lie. They repeat.

"The federal government is killing people in the streets, so sports are canceled," is the point we have reached.

Choosing Each Other in a Time of Terror Rather than being disbanded or intimidated by Good’s murder, the people of Minneapolis have been galvanized, escalating their resistance and refusing to retreat from the work of protecting one another...

My latest: How Renee Good's murder and paramilitary assaults on US cities reflect longstanding right-wing race war fantasies and Stephen Miller's fixation with a novel about white genocide. I also talk about the stories we tell and live in opposition to these narratives and share a must-reads list.

ED Drops Appeal of Order Blocking Anti-DEI Guidance First Amendment advocates and higher ed leaders are declaring victory, and some say it’s the “final defeat” of Trump’s attempt to rid colleges of race-based student supports.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Yep, everything looks good to go🧐

If ICE is now training new officers that they can forcibly enter residences based on an administrative warrant, "more training" is not the solution to our ICE problems.

Exactly this👇

"From the start, ICE has been a racial project, with its armed operatives targeting Black and brown people. Its categorical mission and lack of oversight are reminiscent of slave patrols tasked with hunting down fugitives. "In the wake of Good’s killing, politicians have claimed that ICE needs better training. The problem, as they see it, is the ramp-up of ICE under Trump, with a $75bn increase in funding. But Jonathan Ross has been with ICE for a decade. Ross wasn’t one of the subpar new recruits who can’t run a mile and a half; according to testimony he gave in December, obtained by Wired, he was a firearms trainer, team leader, and elite member of its special response unit – a Swat team. "Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a “mistake” but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate. Take it from the border czar, Tom Homan, who said: “There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric.” In other words, Homan, who received an award for his service under Obama, after introducing the idea of family separation, is telling citizens that exercising their constitutional right to speech will prompt government agents to gun them down."

new by @hebagowayed.bsky.social and @victorerikray.bsky.social in @theguardian.com:
"Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Confirmed case of Measles at Clemson University
Over 500 cases of Measles in South Carolina

SCGOP finding out the hard way what happens when you let anti-science anti-intellectual conspiracy theorists determine your public health policy.