Maya
@mayitapepita.bsky.social
writer, black diaspora studies, out here
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I think it's important to say every time that Americans have been frightened of Black Haitians since the Haitian Revolution succeeded because the Haitian fight for freedom inspired enslaved people across the Americas and showed colonizer slaveholders that sometimes we win. They're still scared.
DHS has announced the end of temporary immigration protections for Haitians.
The decision, effective Feb. 3, 2026, affects up to more than a half million Haitians. They now face returning to a country plagued by criminal gangs that control all major roads into the capital Port-au-Prince.
The decision, effective Feb. 3, 2026, affects up to more than a half million Haitians. They now face returning to a country plagued by criminal gangs that control all major roads into the capital Port-au-Prince.
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I think it's important to say every time that Americans have been frightened of Black Haitians since the Haitian Revolution succeeded because the Haitian fight for freedom inspired enslaved people across the Americas and showed colonizer slaveholders that sometimes we win. They're still scared.
this is disgusting phrasing designed for cruelty and delegitimization.
1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
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This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
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BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
this is disgusting phrasing designed for cruelty and delegitimization.
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the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
“well I’ve met people all over Latin Am” is not an arg for whether or not Latin Americans use terms you haven’t encountered. Latin Am scholars, folks in my fam, & leftist communities in Latin Am challenge the use & normalization of “American” as singular reference to ppl from the U.S. on the regular
“The US is not part of the Americas” lmao what is wrong with these galaxy brained weirdos
No.
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“well I’ve met people all over Latin Am” is not an arg for whether or not Latin Americans use terms you haven’t encountered. Latin Am scholars, folks in my fam, & leftist communities in Latin Am challenge the use & normalization of “American” as singular reference to ppl from the U.S. on the regular
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
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The NYPD confirmed its involvement in a counterterrorism investigation that spied on a private Signal chat of volunteer observers monitoring ICE activity inside NYC’s immigration courthouses.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...
NYPD Confirms Involvement in FBI Probe Targeting Volunteer Observers in Immigration Court
An FBI document referred to activists at immigration courts as “anarchist violent extremist actors” and cited a "sensitive source with excellent access” to an encrypted chat.
www.thecity.nyc
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The NYPD confirmed its involvement in a counterterrorism investigation that spied on a private Signal chat of volunteer observers monitoring ICE activity inside NYC’s immigration courthouses.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...
Yes and we knew this when he took out several full page newspaper ads to call for the execution of the Central Park Five. This should always be part of the arc we tell re: his belligerent support for political violence
When Trump was asked about the release of the Epstein files, he called one reporter "piggy" and said another was "being insubordinate."
When Trump saw a video calling on the military to follow the constitution, he called for the death of the Democrats who made the video.
He's a tyrant.
When Trump saw a video calling on the military to follow the constitution, he called for the death of the Democrats who made the video.
He's a tyrant.
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Yes and we knew this when he took out several full page newspaper ads to call for the execution of the Central Park Five. This should always be part of the arc we tell re: his belligerent support for political violence
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ICE activity has increased in Sunset Park, Bushwick, and Corona (non-exhaustive list) and it seems to be because people aren’t attending their court dates — either due to not receiving notice or intentionally skipping because they know people are getting disappeared at 26 Federal Plaza.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
ICE activity has increased in Sunset Park, Bushwick, and Corona (non-exhaustive list) and it seems to be because people aren’t attending their court dates — either due to not receiving notice or intentionally skipping because they know people are getting disappeared at 26 Federal Plaza.
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NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:
North Carolina immigration raids expected to escalate
As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities
prismreports.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:
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Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
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There’s only one solution to demonstrate the pure insanity gripping a political party moving to the right - a political party moving to the right
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There’s only one solution to demonstrate the pure insanity gripping a political party moving to the right - a political party moving to the right
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Like every time you want to yell at someone who has a mild strategic disagreement with you, send an email to an elected official who really deserves to be yelled at
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Like every time you want to yell at someone who has a mild strategic disagreement with you, send an email to an elected official who really deserves to be yelled at
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
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in the last 5 days these laid-off VIBE staffers have only made it to 31% of their GoFundMe goal after being laid off. please show them the same support you showed Teen Vogue!!
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
in the last 5 days these laid-off VIBE staffers have only made it to 31% of their GoFundMe goal after being laid off. please show them the same support you showed Teen Vogue!!
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By Ignoring Race, Alumni Interviews Erase Reality | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson buff.ly/ebHHbU3
By Ignoring Race, Alumni Interviews Erase Reality | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
This policy may satisfy Trump, but it betrays Harvard’s own principles. The College cannot claim to value diversity while systematically erasing the identities that make its community diverse in the…
buff.ly
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
By Ignoring Race, Alumni Interviews Erase Reality | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson buff.ly/ebHHbU3
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Bingo
Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Bingo
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
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Classroom censorship. What self-respecting scholar would choose a school like this? www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/edu...
Texas A&M system approves new policy that could limit ‘race or gender ideology’ courses – Houston Public Media
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Classroom censorship. What self-respecting scholar would choose a school like this? www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/edu...
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BREAKING: Oklahoma has granted Tremane Wood clemency.
This is good news. Tremane will not face execution for a crime he didn't commit.
This is good news. Tremane will not face execution for a crime he didn't commit.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
BREAKING: Oklahoma has granted Tremane Wood clemency.
This is good news. Tremane will not face execution for a crime he didn't commit.
This is good news. Tremane will not face execution for a crime he didn't commit.
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My gosh — After Israeli forces tear-gassed this kid, making him collapse, other soldiers then "detained the ambulance carrying Aysam from the Beita Emergency Center to Nablus for several minutes, interrogating the driver about Aysam’s injury, location, and cause before it was allowed to continue."
New — Israeli forces just killed this Palestinian boy.
Last month, he and his family were harvesting olives. Soldiers bombarded them with tear gas, making him collapse.
He was in critical condition until today.
He is the 47th kid killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank this year.
Last month, he and his family were harvesting olives. Soldiers bombarded them with tear gas, making him collapse.
He was in critical condition until today.
He is the 47th kid killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank this year.
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My gosh — After Israeli forces tear-gassed this kid, making him collapse, other soldiers then "detained the ambulance carrying Aysam from the Beita Emergency Center to Nablus for several minutes, interrogating the driver about Aysam’s injury, location, and cause before it was allowed to continue."
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The status quo delivered us to this moment of fascist acceleration. As Democratic elites in Washington keep proving, they have nothing to offer but behavior that abets and fosters more of the same. Their trajectory is as fixed as the right's.
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The status quo delivered us to this moment of fascist acceleration. As Democratic elites in Washington keep proving, they have nothing to offer but behavior that abets and fosters more of the same. Their trajectory is as fixed as the right's.
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COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.