Sam Carliner
@saminthecan.bsky.social
Journalist - I mostly write about U.S. foreign policy, immigration policy, and internationalism - Newsletter below:
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Here's what I'd say are my favorite albums of the year, before Spotify suggests otherwise. Actively seeking recommendations for great albums I may have missed!
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Here's what I'd say are my favorite albums of the year, before Spotify suggests otherwise. Actively seeking recommendations for great albums I may have missed!
Professor Wadie Said has been writing about the hollowness of a "narco-terrorism" threat since 2018. I spoke with him about the limits of the term and how it enables limitless government power.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Professor Wadie Said has been writing about the hollowness of a "narco-terrorism" threat since 2018. I spoke with him about the limits of the term and how it enables limitless government power.
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It was inspiring to join hundreds marching through downtown NYC demanding "ICE OUT OF NEW YORK!"
September 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It was inspiring to join hundreds marching through downtown NYC demanding "ICE OUT OF NEW YORK!"
What we're seeing is a full-scale attempt to re-establish the Monroe Doctrine because the United States increasingly sees Latin America as *the* region of priority to prepare for confrontation with China.
September 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
What we're seeing is a full-scale attempt to re-establish the Monroe Doctrine because the United States increasingly sees Latin America as *the* region of priority to prepare for confrontation with China.
Trump is sending the military everywhere he can to crack down on opposition and the Dem governor of NJ is bragging about his new initiative to build up that very institution of repression.
September 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Trump is sending the military everywhere he can to crack down on opposition and the Dem governor of NJ is bragging about his new initiative to build up that very institution of repression.
This steady increase in the use of the military for domestic policing has been happening since day one of this administration. For a while before they were deputizing the military in DC they were deputizing soldiers in Texas. The militarization of DC was built incrementally over months.
August 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This steady increase in the use of the military for domestic policing has been happening since day one of this administration. For a while before they were deputizing the military in DC they were deputizing soldiers in Texas. The militarization of DC was built incrementally over months.
Happening now in Newark, activists have convened in Military Park to launch a Break The Bonds campaign. They're demanding the state of NJ stop investing in bonds to Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, Israeli apartheid, and war on Iran.
July 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Happening now in Newark, activists have convened in Military Park to launch a Break The Bonds campaign. They're demanding the state of NJ stop investing in bonds to Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, Israeli apartheid, and war on Iran.
I wrote some thoughts on Trump's $170 billion budget to wage war on immigrants, and what it means for immigrant rights organizing.
saminthecan.substack.com/p/trumps-big...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I wrote some thoughts on Trump's $170 billion budget to wage war on immigrants, and what it means for immigrant rights organizing.
saminthecan.substack.com/p/trumps-big...
saminthecan.substack.com/p/trumps-big...
This was shared to Instagram by someone with a husband inside Delaney Hall.
June 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This was shared to Instagram by someone with a husband inside Delaney Hall.
Community organization Spirit of Liberation - Jersey City posted a video of the police presence. Along with these police outside the facility, they show at least 10 cop cars in the road leading up to the facility with their lights flashing, and a drone overheard.
June 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Community organization Spirit of Liberation - Jersey City posted a video of the police presence. Along with these police outside the facility, they show at least 10 cop cars in the road leading up to the facility with their lights flashing, and a drone overheard.
There will be a protest outside the French consulate in NYC on June 17 demanding the charges against Anasse Kazib be dropped an denouncing all attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement:
June 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There will be a protest outside the French consulate in NYC on June 17 demanding the charges against Anasse Kazib be dropped an denouncing all attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement:
I feel like there’s not enough appreciation for the fact that we’ve seen multiple examples of ordinary people facing off in the streets against militarized feds to protect immigrants. There’s examples of this in San Diego, Minneapolis, NYC, and likely others. A very important political phenomenon.
June 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I feel like there’s not enough appreciation for the fact that we’ve seen multiple examples of ordinary people facing off in the streets against militarized feds to protect immigrants. There’s examples of this in San Diego, Minneapolis, NYC, and likely others. A very important political phenomenon.
Right now outside NJ Transit's $500 million headquarters NJ Transit engineers are beginning to show up to demand that they be paid what they deserve!
May 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Right now outside NJ Transit's $500 million headquarters NJ Transit engineers are beginning to show up to demand that they be paid what they deserve!
I’ve never wanted a strike to happen more in my entire life
May 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I’ve never wanted a strike to happen more in my entire life
Activists participating in these protests include socialists, liberals, student activists, immigrants, workers, people coming from the movement for Palestine, and more. These pictures were provided to me by activists from local pro-Palestine orgs SOMA Collective for Palestine and Ceasefire Now NJ.
May 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Activists participating in these protests include socialists, liberals, student activists, immigrants, workers, people coming from the movement for Palestine, and more. These pictures were provided to me by activists from local pro-Palestine orgs SOMA Collective for Palestine and Ceasefire Now NJ.
The movement against ICE in New Jersey is drawing a wide range of sectors from communities across NJ that are typically divided by histories of redlining and racial and economic injustice.
May 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The movement against ICE in New Jersey is drawing a wide range of sectors from communities across NJ that are typically divided by histories of redlining and racial and economic injustice.
For the second week in a row, activists are mobilizing outside of Delaney Hall every day to oppose the Newark-based detention center’s reopening and the larger war on immigrants.
May 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
For the second week in a row, activists are mobilizing outside of Delaney Hall every day to oppose the Newark-based detention center’s reopening and the larger war on immigrants.
Happening now, Newark police are blocking the march from continuing.
May 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Happening now, Newark police are blocking the march from continuing.
NOW in Newark, NJ, 100+ immigrant rights activists, workers, students, and community members are mobilizing against the expected reopening of the Delaney Hall ICE detention center. #ICEoutofNJ
May 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
NOW in Newark, NJ, 100+ immigrant rights activists, workers, students, and community members are mobilizing against the expected reopening of the Delaney Hall ICE detention center. #ICEoutofNJ
ICYMI: I reviewed Trump’s foreign policy in his first 100 days. Everything from his renewed Monroe Doctrine to his trade war, how it all ties together, and what it says about the place of the US in the world.
April 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
ICYMI: I reviewed Trump’s foreign policy in his first 100 days. Everything from his renewed Monroe Doctrine to his trade war, how it all ties together, and what it says about the place of the US in the world.
They're incrementally normalizing the use of the military for law enforcement.
The military arresting migrants should be enough to alarm people, but backpackers, reporters, scientists, and anyone who crosses into these DoD zones could also be arrested by soldiers.
The military arresting migrants should be enough to alarm people, but backpackers, reporters, scientists, and anyone who crosses into these DoD zones could also be arrested by soldiers.
April 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
They're incrementally normalizing the use of the military for law enforcement.
The military arresting migrants should be enough to alarm people, but backpackers, reporters, scientists, and anyone who crosses into these DoD zones could also be arrested by soldiers.
The military arresting migrants should be enough to alarm people, but backpackers, reporters, scientists, and anyone who crosses into these DoD zones could also be arrested by soldiers.
Ale Vilca, Indigenous deputy in Argentina's Congress, was teargassed because he joined retirees protesting in the streets. He joins them every Wednesday. We in the US should have higher expectations of what it means to have socialists act as representatives of the working class.
April 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Ale Vilca, Indigenous deputy in Argentina's Congress, was teargassed because he joined retirees protesting in the streets. He joins them every Wednesday. We in the US should have higher expectations of what it means to have socialists act as representatives of the working class.
ICYMI this week I wrote about how immigrant rights activists and Palestine activists are organizing together against attacks from ICE.
I regularly cover foreign policy, immigration policy, and social movements.
saminthecan.substack.com/p/every-arre...
I regularly cover foreign policy, immigration policy, and social movements.
saminthecan.substack.com/p/every-arre...
April 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
ICYMI this week I wrote about how immigrant rights activists and Palestine activists are organizing together against attacks from ICE.
I regularly cover foreign policy, immigration policy, and social movements.
saminthecan.substack.com/p/every-arre...
I regularly cover foreign policy, immigration policy, and social movements.
saminthecan.substack.com/p/every-arre...
Today in a powerful display of cross-movement solidarity, immigrant rights activists and Palestine activists mobilized together in Newark to demand freedom for Mahmoud Khalil and ICE out of our communities!
March 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today in a powerful display of cross-movement solidarity, immigrant rights activists and Palestine activists mobilized together in Newark to demand freedom for Mahmoud Khalil and ICE out of our communities!
I'm sure every anti-Zionist Jewish protester knew this is how the Far Right would respond, and still they took Trump's lobby.
Zionists throw tantrums over images of watermelons.
No wonder so many Jews are increasingly choosing the first option as the path to liberation.
Zionists throw tantrums over images of watermelons.
No wonder so many Jews are increasingly choosing the first option as the path to liberation.
March 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I'm sure every anti-Zionist Jewish protester knew this is how the Far Right would respond, and still they took Trump's lobby.
Zionists throw tantrums over images of watermelons.
No wonder so many Jews are increasingly choosing the first option as the path to liberation.
Zionists throw tantrums over images of watermelons.
No wonder so many Jews are increasingly choosing the first option as the path to liberation.