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The busiest port in North America is 45 minutes down I-35 from Texas’ infamous migrant prison. I try to demystify their relationship in the April issue of Field Notes
brooklynrail.org/2026/04/fie…
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Ahora que hemos vuelto a hablar de decenas de miles de inocentes presos en El Salvador, les dejo los testimonios de horror de algunos que sobrevivieron a esas cárceles. beta.elfaro.net/testimonios
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Thousands of Mexican workers use visitor visas twice a week to “donate” plasma to multinational corporations in the US, receiving a $50 gift card in return (a “gift” to avoid a labor designation).
For @longhaul_mag I went from Brownsville to El Paso to speak w/ those workers
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Reading Geoff Mann's LRB essay on prediction markets, learning about the Onion Futures Act, which is probably the most Brechtian article in all of Wikipedia
⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ THIS IS AN ACADEMIC NEGATIVELY POLARIZED BY INTRA-CLASS RESENTIMENT AGAINST THEIR COWORKERS, IGNORE, I REPEAT, IGNORE
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On the @VersoBooks blog: A.C. Corey on the U.S. left "between Mamdani and Prairieland."
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New on our site: "Beneath Class and Consciousness," an essay from X. Rivera Maya and Richard Hunsinger. The authors provide a critique of the theory of the party in Phil A. Neel's work and defend an alternative conception of the party.
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A control tower that produces 400 alerts before lunch has technically found everything except the problem.
Brown comp lit student leans into “being Latin American” and more on the evening news briefing
at one point Nicolas Jaar could have just been another very good millennial techno dude, but he leaned into being experimental, Latin American, political, and outspoken. Now he's just genius and hot 🥵. Inspirational, really. youtube.com/watch?v=GhxQ-Pck…
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NEW: In a Texas courtroom Monday, 25 migrant children lined the pews — a 9yo rested her head on the table, a 6yo pretended to fly an airplane, and a 3yo played with the mic. Many in attendance didn't have an attorney — and a 13yo was ordered removed. A look inside, thru sketches.
The question of whether ICE deports "criminals" or not is epiphenomenal to the slow accretion of both fixed and circulatory infrastructures of violent deterrence both at and beyond the border
From my recent field work in Laredo for @VersoBooks
versobooks.com/blogs/news/bl…
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NEW: Texas's biggest cities use an Israeli data firm to monitor residents online—Houston on HPD-ICE collaboration; Austin on residents' feelings about license plate readers like Flock; and Dallas on a range of issues, including reactions to police misconduct.
Full docs inside:
ALT substack headline: "These Texas Cities Use an Israeli Data Firm to Monitor Residents Online: Zencity touts its Listen module as an innovative way to help 'build community trust.' Do the local officials using the tool across Texas have the same aim?" From srussek.substack.com
Learn More: ow.ly/ouO350ZOXt4
The finalists for the 2026 Supply Chain Innovation Award are getting ready to take the stage @CSCMPEDGE We’re looking forward to hearing about the projects and results that earned them a place among this year’s finalists. #SupplyChainBrain
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In the Rio Grande Valley, Luis Ochoa’s mother has been deported. “Luis said he had been offered money to stay quiet about his ICE arrest, and that he was told his undocumented relatives would be detained if he kept talking publicly about the incident.” acrosstheamericas.com/alamo-…
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pretty amazing—
BATTLE OF CHILE, THE FIRST YEAR, CHILE: OBSTINATE MEMORY, THE PINOCHET CASE, SALVADOR ALLENDE, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT, THE PEARL BUTTON and CORDILLERA OF DREAMS are all free to view on @OVIDtv this week (no signup req'd) via @IcarusFilms ovid.tv/featured-filmmaker-p…
RIP to Patricio Guzmán, a genuine hero among filmmakers. Blessed to interview him in 2023 about THE FIRST YEAR, Allende's uneasy alliance with Castro, the long march of Chilean social democracy, his breakdown in exile, friendship w/Chris Marker, and more:
elementxcinema.substack.com/…
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On the @VersoBooks blog: @unityopposite on recent developments in the Mexico-US borderlands and the circulation of capital, technology, and personnel between US border institutions, Israel, and other zones of global apartheid.
