Dr. Ricardo J. Valencia

Apparently, the new way to travel as a brown person is carrying a passport—even within California.

Canada is trying to salvage its relationship with Mexico after falling out with Trump Prime Minister Mark Carney is scrambling to save his country's relationship with Mexico after it disintegrated late last year when Canadian officials suggested they'd be better off negotiating a trade deal with the Trump administration alone.

Apparently, Sheinbaum’s pragmatic approach to Trump has proven far more effective than the one led by emotionally driven Canadian men

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YouTube video by The Bulwark EXCLUSIVE: Andry Hernández Romero Tells His Story

Andry—a man with no criminal convictions in either the U.S. or El Salvador—was imprisoned under Bukele’s regime, where he reports enduring human rights violations, including sexual assault. It’s time to end U.S. support for a third-world fascist dictator.
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"Because it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.."Baudrillard

As I mentioned at the @uniondemcomm.bsky.social conference, Bukele was disturbingly sadistic and relentless in promoting his gulag—live-streaming human rights abuses for the world to see. Fascist!

They said the same with crypto

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...

NEW: Now That They’re Free: Venezuelan Men Sent to CECOT on What They Endured and Reuniting With Their Families, by @propublica.org and partners

The need for food in #Gaza is desperate. Aid is the only lifeline.

WFP stand ready to assist the entire population - we have the food, the capacity and the systems.

We need access: more trucks allowed in daily, all entry points open, and safe routes to reach every community.

Netanyahu is morally and legally responsible for this catastrophe, the massacre and starvation of Gaza’s civilians. He & his forces have destroyed most homes, schools, hospitals, shops - everything! They are withholding food. Even today, the amount of food that was admitted is insufficient

Venezuelan detainee in Bukele’s CECOT—an asylum seeker with no criminal record—claims he was a victim of sexual abuse in concentration camps in El Salvador.

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I've watched this unfold in phases:

No illegal immigrants, only legal ones.

Only U.S. citizens deserve rights.

Real Americans are American-born.

"American" really means white European

The mask slips, layer by layer.

Even the brutal Spanish Empire debated Indigenous rights—Las Casas wrote about it. Yet 300 yrs later, the U.S. greenlit the Trail of Tears, a cruelty that might’ve shocked 16th-c. colonizers. You can hear echoes in today’s ICE raids.
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Friedrich Merz: Germany ‘cannot cope’ with asylum seekers The chancellor is jettisoning his predecessor Angela Merkel’s liberal policies and is stepping back from his country’s ‘welcome culture’ towards migrants

Germany did terrible things in the past, and now they should be paying their due by allowing more immigrants
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Opinion | How higher education failed America’s poor For decades, policymakers claimed to expand college access. In reality, they rerouted poor students into the least valuable degrees.

Dumb opionio

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What about every wrongfully detained American in El Salvador? Will the State Department ever demand a full accounting of them? www.americasquarterly.org/article/u-s-...

Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, & Nayib Bukele have single handedly legitimized Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro in their pursuit of “MASS DEPORTATION”

CALLING IT — Maduro’s government will let all these men talk publicly about their mistreatment and abuse at the hands of ICE (U.S.A) and CECOT (El Salvador)

YouTube video by Noticias Telemundo Madre desesperada busca a su hijo deportado a El Salvador | Noticias Telemundo

Salvadoran deportees are vanishing in El Salvador's prisons. The U.S. sends them back. Families lose all contact. Karla Sigarán hasn’t heard from her son Brandon since he was deported from Texas 4 months ago. #ElSalvador #Deportation . Story below

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Majority of Americans aren’t confident in the safety and reliability of cryptocurrency Concern among U.S. adults about cryptocurrency is broad, but some groups are more concerned than others. Only 18% are somewhat confident in crypto.

A February 2024 survey found that a majority of Americans weren’t confident in the safety and reliability of cryptocurrency www.pewresearch.org/...

El Salvador to send detained Venezuelans to Caracas in prison swap for Americans, sources say El Salvador's government will send detained Venezuelans to Caracas in exchange for Americans held in Venezuela, two U.S. government officials told Reuters on Friday.

Trump handed Bukele a ticking time bomb that has now exploded, shattering the Salvadoran dictator's international image. The global media and social platforms are set to be flooded with horror stories about Bukele’s torture chambers.

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El Salvador to send detained Venezuelans to Caracas in prison swap for Americans, sources say El Salvador's government will send detained Venezuelans to Caracas in exchange for Americans held in Venezuela, two U.S. government officials told Reuters on Friday.

After Salvadoran gulags are popular

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Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even the...

Back in the early 2000s, foreign governments used to conceal US black sites to disappear people without due process. Bukele made it part of El Salvador’s rebranding.

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Bernie Sanders is running for president | CNN Politics Bernie Sanders is in.

It's remarkable that the presidential ambitions of a 71-year-old Jewish outsider sparked so many unforeseen changes a decade ago.

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My new @subpop.bsky.social pride that I bought on my trip to Seattle

I grew up in Southern California. Each year people came from Mexico to help farmers gather crops, then after the season they returned to their families in Mexico. They provided an invaluable service to farmers & to us all- no one doubted that or considered imprisoning them- a ghastly Trump decision

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Imagine if Trump voters knew that the person behind many of their favorite Epstein conspiracy theories was one of Epstein's best friends

This could be a powerful archetype for political consultants seeking to persuade men. Superman can help promote a vision of progressive manhood that is lacking in the American left's imagination.

Document Casts Doubt on White House’s Claims About Deported Venezuelans

A new document from El Salvador to the United Nations completely contradicts claims the Trump admin used to justify disappearing people from the United States.

Our team will continue fighting for justice in court.

Hey America, many of the European cities you love to post on Instagram have socialist mayors—and guess what? They didn’t implode.