Daniel
@stromthebomb.bsky.social
UIC M.A student Latin American and Latino Studies. Puerto Rican 🇵🇷. Democratic Socialist 🍞🌹. Here for hot takes, news and speaking into the void.
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“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis
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I went to my mom's neighborhood last week and I was telling her and my sister how it felt so quiet. Usually we can hear people and music from her porch, but I didn't hear much that day. Walking there, it felt eerily quiet. So much life and vibrancy in our nhoods that is endangered rn.
September 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I went to my mom's neighborhood last week and I was telling her and my sister how it felt so quiet. Usually we can hear people and music from her porch, but I didn't hear much that day. Walking there, it felt eerily quiet. So much life and vibrancy in our nhoods that is endangered rn.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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fucking wild that a partisan program of, say, deploying state security to purge the nation of immigrants or legislate trans people to premature death can be pretensed as a contribution to salutary democratic debate and not as something that might cause us to reflect on the term “political violence”
September 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
fucking wild that a partisan program of, say, deploying state security to purge the nation of immigrants or legislate trans people to premature death can be pretensed as a contribution to salutary democratic debate and not as something that might cause us to reflect on the term “political violence”
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going on out a limb here to say that all murder is political and that if your vision of politics structurally necessitates and even discursively celebrates murder while disavowing it as murder or political that is bad
September 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
going on out a limb here to say that all murder is political and that if your vision of politics structurally necessitates and even discursively celebrates murder while disavowing it as murder or political that is bad
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What’s more, in the latter case, the population in question is not officially considered a “race,” so ICE can use skin color and language to target Latine immigrants and claim it’s not racism. Higher order racecraft.
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
What’s more, in the latter case, the population in question is not officially considered a “race,” so ICE can use skin color and language to target Latine immigrants and claim it’s not racism. Higher order racecraft.
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'Petro thus spoke in Bogotá of the need both to condemn prevailing “barbarism” and to give real meaning to the principles now being betrayed—to keep alive, that is, “the possibility of another kind of humanity, one that can love and think collectively.”'
Some heartbreaking details about and cogent analysis of what is happening in Gaza.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...
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Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
www.bostonreview.net
August 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
'Petro thus spoke in Bogotá of the need both to condemn prevailing “barbarism” and to give real meaning to the principles now being betrayed—to keep alive, that is, “the possibility of another kind of humanity, one that can love and think collectively.”'
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There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this
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This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.
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The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.
Breaking News: The Pentagon is set to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s closely guarded plan for any potential war with China, officials said.
Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China
Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.
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I was actively not prepared for how truly evil some of this shit would be. Just the vilest kind of online rhetoric now being used as official positions. Incapable of shame or empathy or anything human, reveling in the sadism of it. These are the most disgusting times I've ever lived through.
Leavitt: "We are encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos."
March 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I was actively not prepared for how truly evil some of this shit would be. Just the vilest kind of online rhetoric now being used as official positions. Incapable of shame or empathy or anything human, reveling in the sadism of it. These are the most disgusting times I've ever lived through.
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"democrats plan to color coordinate to communicate opposition" is the biggest loser shit i've ever heard. School Spirit Week-ass action. "I do not give facebook my permission"-ass action. are they hitting themselves in the head with hammers at every DNC event
March 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"democrats plan to color coordinate to communicate opposition" is the biggest loser shit i've ever heard. School Spirit Week-ass action. "I do not give facebook my permission"-ass action. are they hitting themselves in the head with hammers at every DNC event
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remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education
During HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted city leadership for failing the city on safety and educational standards.
www.foxnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!
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FUCK ANDREW CUOMO INTO THE FUCKING SUN
March 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
FUCK ANDREW CUOMO INTO THE FUCKING SUN
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The antidote to totalitarianism, recorded by those who lived through it, is associational life. De-atomization, and the creation of loyalties to other people that can’t be, or simply aren’t, coordinated with a regime.
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The Fork in the Road | Mark Greif
There may well be normalcy again. But it lies on the other side—not in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads. The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of...
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February 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The antidote to totalitarianism, recorded by those who lived through it, is associational life. De-atomization, and the creation of loyalties to other people that can’t be, or simply aren’t, coordinated with a regime.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.
February 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.
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Undocumented immigrants are already ineligible for most federal programs.
Trump's Executive Order is another shameless effort to scapegoat immigrants & exacerbate already exclusionary policies that have harmed countless families and communities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
Trump's Executive Order is another shameless effort to scapegoat immigrants & exacerbate already exclusionary policies that have harmed countless families and communities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
Trump Orders End to Federal Benefits for Undocumented Migrants
President Trump’s executive order also directed federal departments and agencies to ensure that federal funds do not encourage people to come to the United States illegally.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Undocumented immigrants are already ineligible for most federal programs.
Trump's Executive Order is another shameless effort to scapegoat immigrants & exacerbate already exclusionary policies that have harmed countless families and communities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
Trump's Executive Order is another shameless effort to scapegoat immigrants & exacerbate already exclusionary policies that have harmed countless families and communities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
As someone who used to live right by this area and biked it all the time this is such great news!
To curb crashes on Granville, the city is adding one-way blocks and bike lanes to a Far North Side stretch.
To Curb Crashes On Granville, City Adding One-Way Blocks, Bike Lanes To Far North Side Stretch
The Chicago Department of Transportation will make portions of the busy residential road one-way to reduce traffic and crashes, officials said. Construction will start in the summer.
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February 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
As someone who used to live right by this area and biked it all the time this is such great news!
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To curb crashes on Granville, the city is adding one-way blocks and bike lanes to a Far North Side stretch.
To Curb Crashes On Granville, City Adding One-Way Blocks, Bike Lanes To Far North Side Stretch
The Chicago Department of Transportation will make portions of the busy residential road one-way to reduce traffic and crashes, officials said. Construction will start in the summer.
buff.ly
February 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
To curb crashes on Granville, the city is adding one-way blocks and bike lanes to a Far North Side stretch.
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Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...
New: Jeff Bezos emailed staff at the Washington Post this morning announcing that the Post opinion pages going forward were largely going to focus on defending personal liberties and free markets. Current opinion section editor David Shipley is out.
February 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...
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Critics often reach for European comparisons to understand what to expect from U.S. authoritarianism.
But as Naomi Braine writes, Latin America offers more telling parallels—and better lessons on how to fight back.
But as Naomi Braine writes, Latin America offers more telling parallels—and better lessons on how to fight back.
MAGA’s Latin American Models
Latin America offers more telling parallels for what to expect from U.S. authoritarianism—and better lessons on how to fight back.
inthesetimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Critics often reach for European comparisons to understand what to expect from U.S. authoritarianism.
But as Naomi Braine writes, Latin America offers more telling parallels—and better lessons on how to fight back.
But as Naomi Braine writes, Latin America offers more telling parallels—and better lessons on how to fight back.
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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
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In this edition of Ideas, Priya Nelson, Senior Editor, shares the extraordinary collaboration between Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, author of Puerto Rico: A National History.
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#BadBunny @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
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#BadBunny @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
In this edition of Ideas, Priya Nelson, Senior Editor, shares the extraordinary collaboration between Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, author of Puerto Rico: A National History.
press.princeton.edu/ideas/bad-bu...
#BadBunny @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/ideas/bad-bu...
#BadBunny @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social