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We’d like to give you some insight into how the Trump administration is targeting people for deportation and it’s really messed up. (Sorry for the length.)
July 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Under Florida law, Key West is not required to enter or maintain a 287(g) agreement with ICE.
EYES OF A NATION ON KEY WEST OVER ANTI-ICE POLICY
The Key West community spoke and its leaders listened, voting on June 30 to void the city’s agreement with the federal Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency that would have […]
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July 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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People aren’t “voting against their own interests.” They decide what their own interests are, not you. And they keep telling you which interests they value, you just won’t listen.
July 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Big congrats to the "no new wars" crowd.
You got what you spent years willfully ignoring. Good for you.
June 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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PUBLICATION DAY!

_I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom_ is now available from @yalepress.bsky.social

To celebrate, I am going to post some of the most extraordinary Dessalines quotations below!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
I Have Avenged America
A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule  ...
yalebooks.yale.edu
June 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.
June 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Home quality is an important topic for government and external data users, yet it is a notoriously difficult item to measure with surveys. Through the 1960 census, enumerators appraised homes during their visit, but self-enumeration in 1970 asked homeowners and renters to provide the information.
June 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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🚨 Day 60: 238 men remain forcibly disappeared in El Salvador’s CECOT prison. U.S. Reps toured the prison, heard their desperate cries,“Freedom! Help! Kidnapped!” & walked past w/o helping.

Visit freeandry.org to learn how you can still help.
#FreeAndry #BringThemBack

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Day 60 of Enforced Disappearance: 238 Venezuelans Still Held Without Due Process in El Salvador
YouTube video by Immigrant Defenders Law Center
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May 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
March 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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A provocative new theory of “the economy,” its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics.

Jonathan Levy's The Real Economy is out now. Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
March 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It can be difficult to think past political representation of issues, so here’s an essay that provides a clear summary of the challenges facing social security. open.substack.com/pub/stephani...
Elon Musk is the Reason Social Security is "Running Out of Money"
Before we dive in, let’s get one thing straight.
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM