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PLEASE SHARE! (I have attached the English and Spanish versions but MANY more languages are available at the attached link)

One way to support the undocumented community is by sharing resources, reminding individuals of their rights, and standing in solidarity with them. Here's one effective way to offer support: provide Know Your Rights cards to empower our communities.

You can print these cards for free! I am sharing a resource from the IRC, which can be downloaded and is available in multiple languages.

Let's work together to empower our communities!

Una forma de apoyar a la comunidad indocumentada es compartiendo recursos, recordándoles sus derechos y mostrándoles solidaridad. Aquí hay una manera efectiva de ofrecer apoyo: proporcionar tarjetas de "Conozca Sus Derechos" para empoderar a nuestras comunidades.

¡Estas tarjetas se pueden imprimir gratis! Estoy compartiendo un recurso de IRC, que se puede descargar y está disponible en varios idiomas.

¡Trabajemos juntos para empoderar a nuestras comunidades!

[newhistorybooks]

This fascinating book enriches US women's labor history, complicates histories of Syrian immigration, and foregrounds the ways Syrian American workers resisted US empire. Connecting diverse geographies and modes of production, Stacy Fahrenthold highlights the significance of gendered labor and Syrian American workers in the globalizing US textile and garment industry.

[afriblaq]

Given the results of this election, i wanted to resurface this idea about American identity 

[thashining]

Never the first time

[unopenablebox]

i admit that i find it a little bit frustrating how Wildly Astonished other antizionist jews act when i tell them my israeli jewish family have lived in the region since [some unknown length of time before 1800 when there start being records about it]

[the-most-humble-blog]

Donald Juan Trumpington (DJT): The Deportation Demigod 🔥

The man, the myth, the orange-tinted terror who strikes fear into the undocumented and dreams of building walls taller than their hopes.

🌪 BACKSTORY 🌪

When the universe begged for chill, DJT delivered chaos on a platinum platter, trimmed with gold-leaf tacos no one could afford. A man with the finesse of a wrecking ball and the subtlety of a nuclear warhead, Donald Juan Trumpington didn’t just rise to power—he boot-stomped his way there, fake tan glowing like the goddamn sun.

His reign became a nightmare for anyone who even looked like they might not have a birth certificate on hand. If you were undocumented? Guess what: DJT knew. If your tamales tasted too good? He KNEW. If your cousin Pablo couldn’t stop posting party selfies on Facebook? Oh, he fucking KNEW.

🛑 THE GREAT DEPORTATION 🛑

DJT's pièce de résistance was The Great Deportation, an event so catastrophic even abuelas holding rosaries couldn’t pray fast enough to stop it. Entire families disappeared overnight:

The tias who made mole that healed your soul? GONE.

The primo who turned his garage into a second living room? GONE.

The drunk uncle who didn’t even have a passport? STILL GONE.

Even the tamales didn’t survive—steamed, wrapped, and shipped back faster than anyone could scream, “¡NO MAMES, GÜEY!”

And the cries? Oh, the cries were MAGNIFICENT: “I Black, I Black, plz no deport!” suddenly echoed from people who’d spent YEARS saying, “I’m Dominican, not Black.”

But guess what? The I.C.E. stormtroopers, mostly Black themselves, weren’t buying that bullshit. Years of fake accents and “I’m just visiting” weren’t cutting it anymore. Their collective mood: “Deuces, cabrones.”

💥 POWERS 💥

💀 Boot-to-Ass Syndrome: This man doesn’t just deport people—he sends their souls packing. DJT specializes in blunt-force deportation trauma with the precision of a bureaucratic surgeon.

🎯 Accent Radar: Fake a southern drawl? Claim you’re Canadian? DJT KNOWS. His finely tuned Accent Sense will sniff out lies faster than you can say, “Ay caramba!”

🏗 Wall Builder Supreme: Forget architects—DJT can summon walls faster than you can Google “cheap ladders.” His walls come preloaded with spikes, cameras, anti-rope tech, and a middle finger emoji.

📢 Twitter Sonic Attacks: DJT’s tweets aren’t just rants—they’re verbal frag grenades.

“Covfefe”? A nation stopped breathing.

“BUILD THAT WALL!”? Entire psyches shattered.

His social media is weaponized chaos.

❄️ Stormtrooper Deployment: DJT’s I.C.E. squads aren’t just enforcers—they’re goddamn hunters. They can sniff out an undocumented soul faster than your tia can find gossip at a baby shower.

🛡 WEAKNESS 🛡

NONE. 💀 When it comes to deportation, DJT is an unstoppable force of orange carnage.

Think you can hide? HA.

Hide in a cousin’s trailer park? Knocking on the door in 3 minutes.

Blend into the suburbs with some organic tortillas from Whole Foods? LOL, he’ll sniff out your salsa faster than a Karla sniffs out drama.

Even the Avengreros (The Avengers Undocumented Member Division) had to wave the white flag.

No tacos.

No nanas.

No hope. Even their heroic churro stand got dismantled.

🏆 LEGACY 🏆

Donald Juan Trumpington didn’t just deport people—he deported their dreams, hopes, and childhood memories.

His impact was so seismic that entire cultures became DIY YouTube tutorials. (“How to Make Tamales From Memory While Crying.”)

He is a hurricane of orange hair, loud ties, and unrelenting destruction. If you’re undocumented? Pray to whatever god you’ve got, because DJT IS COMING.

And he’s not just coming— HE’S TWEETING ABOUT IT WHILE DRINKING DIET COKE.

REBLOG OR BE DEPORTED (jk, probably) 🚨

🔥 Don’t let this masterpiece of unhinged chaos go unread. REBLOG NOW, or DJT’s Accent Radar might catch YOU next!

Tag your primos, your tias, or that one friend who thinks they’re safe because they took one semester of Duolingo Spanish.

💥 REBLOG THIS. DON’T BE A CABRÓN. 💥

[saddayfordemocracy]

Guerrilla Girls, “President Trump Announces New Commemorative Months!” 2016,

Photo: Hrag Vartanian / Hyperallergic

[revoltedstates]

My debut Civil War novel, Year of Crows, is now available in paperback and ebook via Lulu, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and wherever fine books are sold. Or "name your price" via PayPal (brendanchamilton[at]gmail) and I'll email you an epub doc directly.

Cover design by Robert L. Kroening.

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Friendly reminder that it was circumstances not unlike this that ultimately led to the beginning of the American civil war. Half of the states realized that slave labor was to their benefit (in this case the millions of Latino immigrants that work for Pennies on the dollar for mega corporations and agricultural strongholds, effectively serving as legal slave laborers) and half of the states opposed the idea of slavery (in this case, for very different reasons, as the trump administration wishes not to free the slaves, but to eradicate them entirely.) this inevitably lead to extreme economic and ideological division amongst the states and their governors and workforces, and led to the outbreak of the civil war. The Trump administration KNOWS THIS. Demonic cretins like Donald trump and Tom Homan KNOW THIS and they KNOW that they can use it to further destabilize and undermine potential defectors by getting them to despise one another. This administration is going to go full scorched earth, I’ve been saying this since 2016, and now there are no more barriers in their way. Prepare to watch the most spectacular fall of a nation since perhaps Rome or Persia. Shits gonna get SO much worse 😭

[whenweallvote]

When farmers Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez sent their children to a local California school in 1945, school officials said they had to go to a separate facility reserved for Mexican American students. Angered by this discrimination, the Mendez family recruited other immigrant parents for a federal court case challenging the school segregation.

On this day 77 years ago, a Circuit Court made a final ruling in their favor — stating segregated education denied the Mexican American students their equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment.

The Mendez v. Westminster decision paved the way for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954, and is a clear example of Mexican Americans fighting for their rights — and winning. 🙌🏽

[sonics-atelier]

"Make America Great Again" sweetheart it was never Great in the first place. It was built up on the blood, sweat and tears and countless sacrifices of millions of indigenous people, natives and slaves who were forcibly taken away from their homes. Those were the people who made your shitass country what it is today and gave it a foundation. THEY made it great, not that orange ass fucker and his capitalist dickriders.

[newhistorybooks]

A crucial intervention in the history of immigrant detention and resistance. Nofil reveals how local jails came to form a sprawling, flexible, nationwide web of incarceration that continues to ensnare immigrants to this day.

[afriblaq]

Out of spite....

[oncamelliastreet]

being a queer person is extremely scary rn. ik it’s only a couple minutes until any queerness is essentially illegal. ik it’s only a couple of minutes until we’re being sent to el salvador because we’re “dangerous”. i’m fucking scared dude.

[eugenedebs1920]

MAGA: Make America Great Again. America first. America for Americans. These are all renditions of a movement that occurred in the early 20th century. A movement coattailed on the temperance movement. An incognito chance to practice discrimination and racism, masked in the guise of nationalism.

Nationalism, or nativism, has long been steeped into American history, its roots going back to the founding colonies. Ironically, and with astounding hypocrisy, this ideology excluded the actual native inhabitants of North America, proclaiming that only those of Anglo Saxon European descent were truly entitled to this land.

The slogan was popularized generally in Woodrow Wilson’s attempts to justify the stance of neutrality during the First World War but was quickly adopted by the second iteration of Klu Klux Klan at the start of the 1920’s. The Klan used prohibition as a vehicle for anti-immigrant, xenophobic and antisemitism activity, targeting taverns which acted as places of refuge, serving the meals of, speaking the languages, and evoking nostalgia for the ethnic community it served.

Although not a campaign tool of the Nazi party in the late 1920’s and 30’s, references of “make Germany great again” are littered throughout speeches made by Adolf Hitler. The phrase, “everything for Germany”, once etched into the knives of SS officers, are echoed in the rising neofascist right wing AfD party in their current “Germany first” campaign that mega billionaire Elon Musk endorsed a few weeks ago.

The isolationist of the America first party believed in a culture of white supremacy, with a hardline stance on immigration and a tendency toward antisemitism. This group was the legitimate face of the KKK. In 1924 U.S. representative, and America first enthusiast, Albert Johnson would introduce the Immigration Act of 1924, a highly exclusionary and xenophobic policy restricting immigration from nearly all Asian countries, and basing naturalization primarily upon ethnicity in the context of “racial homogeny” due to concerns of rapidly changing demographics. This was supported by the KKK and would be the primary immigration law until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.

The embodiment of the maga perspective is held by Donald Trump. A man who’s documentation of bias and discrimination can be first seen on the public docket in 1973, and again in 1978, when he was found in violation of the Civil Rights Act on fair housing in a set of stings, offering better costs and incentives to white lease seekers than those of color seeking housing in his New York City properties.

The election of Americas First President of African descent brought forward certain aspects of American culture perceived to have been relinquished in the decades prior. Due to the strange and foreign sounding name, in tandem with the pigmentation of Barack Obama’s skin, a request was petitioned that no other president had been questioned about prior. The existence and legitimacy of his birth certificate, and in turn his citizenship all together. It would be known as birtherism.

As a white American, in 2008 it wasn’t a good look to directly express your disdain that a black man was the leader of the nation purely for the bigoted views one possessed, much like the America First movement was in the 1920’s, the TEA Party was spawned as the public face of white supremacy.

The pitch of the TEA party dog whistle wasn’t as incognito as they imagined it was. Racism was vehement in the signage, slogans and language expressed in their dislike, some read, ‘‘A Village in Kenya Is Missing Its Idiot: Deport Obama!’’ and, ‘‘Congress = Slave Owner; Taxpayer = N**gar,’’ also, ‘‘Imam Obama Wants to Ban Pork: Don’t Let Him Steal Your Meat,’’ this accompanied by endless accusations regarding whether or not he was Muslim despite his Christian upbringing and continued participation in the faith.

A big contributor to the race bating was a man who’s poor management skills and rampant corruption would cause six companies he owned to fail and file bankruptcy, staring in a role made for TV, cosplay successful businessman and known slumlord Donald Trump. It was on Good Morning America, in 2011, via telephone that Donald Trump would first question the origins and legitimacy of Obama’s citizenship, an inquiry he had not posed to any previous holder of the presidency in his lifetime.

Fast forward a bit, and that same reality tv personality would come down the guilded stairs in a building that bore his name yet he held no capital in, Trump would announce his bid for president.

Much like his future campaigns, the 2016 run was riddled with gaffs and buffoonery. The once revered GOP was shocked when he would win the primaries and lead the ticket. Tethered to Trump and the immature and unpresidential antics he routinely displayed, Republicans were at odds.

After a bizarre, divisive, controversial and particularly hostile campaign Trump would go on to defeat Hillary Clinton, although losing the popular vote by over 3 million votes.

Trumps quasi overt racist and sexist rhetoric would lead to a nearly 20% increase in hate crimes from the start of his term in 2016, according to a report from November 2020 by the FBI. The report goes on to show that racially motivated homicide reached it highest levels in three decades by the end of 2019.

The amount of hate murders committed by white supremacists ticked ever larger throughout the duration of Trumps term from just 3 in 2016, to 12 in 2017, then 17 in 2018, followed by a staggering 51 in 2019.

To protest the removal of statues dedicated to confederate military figures who fought against their own countrymen as to keep Africans stolen from their country of origin and forced to work as slaves for wealthy plantation owners in the south, Charlottesville Virginia would host the “Unite the Right” gathering on August 11-12 of 2017.

This march would showcase hundreds of white supremest , neo-Nazis, neo-confederates, far right militias, klansmen and the alt-right, walking through the streets of Charlottesville brandishing swastica flags, valknut, and confederate flags, carrying torches and chanting “You will not replace us. Jews will not replace us. You will not replace us.”.

The next day a counter protest of significant proportion halted this display of jubilant hatred. The Virginia governor would declare a state of emergency as the protesters and counter protestors clashed. At roughly 1:45 pm on Aug 12th, self proclaimed white supremest Alex Fields Jr. would intentionally ram his vehicle into a crowd of counter protestors injuring 35 and killing a young woman named Heather Heyer.

When pressed for comment Trump would respond by condemning the "display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides". When the death of Heather Heyer again was asked about and what Trump thought of the murder Trump would respond “There were very fine people on both sides”. (As MTG would screech, say her name!)

In the 2020 presidential debates this event would come up. As Chris Wallace attempted to coax a condemnation out of Trump the best he could get was trump saying to the proud boys (a white supremest group) “proud boys, stand back and stand by”. Never condemning the ideology or violence perpetrated that day or generally.

Trump lost the 2020 election. After the loss his rampant malignant narcissism prevented the acceptance of this loss. For months he lied to the American people, claiming that the election had been rigged or stolen. Scheming and creating slates of fake electors to cheat and in turn subvert the American democratic process. When this didn’t work he gathered his supporters to Washington DC.

January 6th, 2021 was a dark day for America. A mob, incited by the lies and propaganda Trump had been spewing, attacked the capital. It would lead to hundreds of injured police officers, with 2 police casualties and one civilian.

Of the groups that defiled our capital that day were none other than the proud boys, and the oath keepers.

Over 1,500 people would be charged for their actions that day. Of those people the man who instigated the entire thing, Donald Trump, would not be one of them.

Four years later, with the help of a compromised Supreme Court, Trump installed judges, a traditionalist attorney general, an influx of money from billionaires and corporations thanks to the Citizens United decision, Joe Biden, and the willful ignorance of the American people, this disgraced, twice impeached, adjudicated rapist, felon, convicted fraudster, seditionist, and insurrectionist, with no shame for his transgressions, would weasel his way back in office.

In his first day as president the second time around he would pardon ALL the criminals that had been charged for their role in the Jan 6th attack. Sending a clear message.

This message is, and will be heard loud and clear by these hate groups. That Trump’s America condones racism. That the white race is the superior race. That if you commit crimes in favor of Donald Trump you will be let off for your actions.

All this occurred after his primary campaign donor, who spent $240 million getting him elected, would end a speech by giving not one, but two separate Nazi solutes, then joke about it on the platform he repurchased, X, on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Donald Trump , on day one of term two would end all federal DEI programs. He would nullify LBJ’s Equal Opportunity Act. He would make a dictatorial decree that trans people are not seen by the government. He would begin an operation of terror for all migrants looking for a better life in America and initiate a campaign of mass deportations.

More and more neo-Nazis and white supremest groups become ever emboldened by the stance their great leader takes. More and more they peer their ugliness from the shadows and into the public sphere.

This is America. This is the country I love. Every day I am ashamed. I didn’t, never have and never would, support that failure of a human. Yet every day I am represented through his deeds. It pains me to the core. I hope it gets better but the first week hasn’t even lapsed yet.

For the sake of Americas future, for our children and their children, in the name of decency and democracy, Never obey in advance. Never surrender your sense of honor or your stance on equality. And resist!

I’m going to end this with some words from scholar, historian and author Timothy Snyder:

Don’t obey in advance. Anticipatory obedience is one of the greatest constraints on the degrees of freedoms.

Much of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. – Timothy Snyder