MEChA del Chuco
@mechadelchuco.bsky.social
MEChA is El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano(a)x de Aztlan in El Paso, Texas. Founded 1969.
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"A federal judge has ordered the release of hundreds of people who were arrested over the last few months in the Chicago area amid the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids across the city." https://bit.ly/48dAJf2
Judge orders release of hundreds arrested during Chicago immigration raids
Trump officials also cannot pressure detainees to agree to voluntary deportation while cases are pending, says judge
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November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"A federal judge has ordered the release of hundreds of people who were arrested over the last few months in the Chicago area amid the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids across the city." https://bit.ly/48dAJf2
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Everyone who even lightly affiliates with the GOP could look in a mirror and ask themselves whether they should keep debating the level of Nazi-loving that is acceptable.
But instead, they're recording podcasts.
But instead, they're recording podcasts.
The right can’t decide if it's okay to hate Jews
The fallout from Nick Fuentes's appearance on Tucker Carlson continues.
www.motherjones.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Everyone who even lightly affiliates with the GOP could look in a mirror and ask themselves whether they should keep debating the level of Nazi-loving that is acceptable.
But instead, they're recording podcasts.
But instead, they're recording podcasts.
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Yesterday: "The death penalty is extremely fiscally irresponsible. It costs more to sentence someone to death and execute them than to sentence them to life in prison without parole. It’s also an ineffective deterrent to violent crime."
Pro-Life, Anti-Death Penalty
Nan Tolson is the face of the conservative movement against capital punishment in Texas.
www.texasobserver.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Yesterday: "The death penalty is extremely fiscally irresponsible. It costs more to sentence someone to death and execute them than to sentence them to life in prison without parole. It’s also an ineffective deterrent to violent crime."
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The president clearly didn’t have access to a map.
Trump, 79, Skewered for Embarrassing Geographical Flub
The president clearly didn’t have access to a map.
trib.al
October 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The president clearly didn’t have access to a map.
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Citing an imagined left-wing conspiracy, the president is threatening any person or group holding any one of a broad array of disfavored views with investigation and prosecution. bit.ly/4330Su2
Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition
Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.
www.brennancenter.org
October 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Citing an imagined left-wing conspiracy, the president is threatening any person or group holding any one of a broad array of disfavored views with investigation and prosecution. bit.ly/4330Su2
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Troops are for national defense, not displays of presidential power. The courts and Congress must step up to stop this abuse of power. Learn more about this and other challenges to American democracy by subscribing to The Briefing, our free weekly newsletter: bit.ly/3Yrz5jM
October 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Troops are for national defense, not displays of presidential power. The courts and Congress must step up to stop this abuse of power. Learn more about this and other challenges to American democracy by subscribing to The Briefing, our free weekly newsletter: bit.ly/3Yrz5jM
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October 11 - The Mother Jones Monument is Dedicated
On this day in Labor History the year was 1936. 50,000 people gathered in the small town of Mount Olive, in southern Illinois. They had come to commemorate a new memorial to renowned labor leader Mother Jones and the honor mine workers who had l
On this day in Labor History the year was 1936. 50,000 people gathered in the small town of Mount Olive, in southern Illinois. They had come to commemorate a new memorial to renowned labor leader Mother Jones and the honor mine workers who had l
October 11 - The Mother Jones Monument is Dedicated
On this day in Labor History the year was 1936. 50,000 people gathered in the small town of Mount Olive, in southern Illinois. They had come to commemorate a new memorial to renowned labor leader Mother Jones and the honor mine workers who had lost their lives. Five special trains and twenty-five Greyhound buses helped bring the crowd to the Union Miners Cemetery.
laborhistoryin2.podbean.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
October 11 - The Mother Jones Monument is Dedicated
On this day in Labor History the year was 1936. 50,000 people gathered in the small town of Mount Olive, in southern Illinois. They had come to commemorate a new memorial to renowned labor leader Mother Jones and the honor mine workers who had l
On this day in Labor History the year was 1936. 50,000 people gathered in the small town of Mount Olive, in southern Illinois. They had come to commemorate a new memorial to renowned labor leader Mother Jones and the honor mine workers who had l
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More than 4,000 government employees were laid off on Friday in what has been dubbed a “massacre.”
CDC Scrambling to Restaff After Accidentally Firing Top Scientists
More than 4,000 government employees were laid off on Friday in what has been dubbed a “massacre.”
trib.al
October 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
More than 4,000 government employees were laid off on Friday in what has been dubbed a “massacre.”
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#OtD 11 Oct 1937 Polish Jewish revolutionary Aniela Wolberg died aged just 29. She had recently travelled to Spain to support the revolution, but had to return to Poland where she died from post-operative complications stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8348...
October 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#OtD 11 Oct 1937 Polish Jewish revolutionary Aniela Wolberg died aged just 29. She had recently travelled to Spain to support the revolution, but had to return to Poland where she died from post-operative complications stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8348...
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#OtD 11 Oct 1884 one of the longest-burning fires in the world began when striking miners set fire to the New Straitsville mine in Ohio. Miners walked out in Jun and were replaced by scabs, so strikers set mines on fire. It is still burning today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1107...
October 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#OtD 11 Oct 1884 one of the longest-burning fires in the world began when striking miners set fire to the New Straitsville mine in Ohio. Miners walked out in Jun and were replaced by scabs, so strikers set mines on fire. It is still burning today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1107...
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11-10-1873 USA: The Miners’ National Association is formed in Youngstown, Ohio, with the goal of uniting all miners, regardless of skill or ethnic background.
October 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
11-10-1873 USA: The Miners’ National Association is formed in Youngstown, Ohio, with the goal of uniting all miners, regardless of skill or ethnic background.
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Donald Trump’s (so-far) successful plan to end the conflict in Gaza was orchestrated by Jared Kushner in a bid to make himself richer, according to Trump biographer Michael Wolff.
How Jared Played Trump to Grease Own Pocket: Wolff
Kushner’s business connections and Trump manipulation may have cleared the way for a Gaza peace deal, according to Trump biographer Michael Wolff.
trib.al
October 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Donald Trump’s (so-far) successful plan to end the conflict in Gaza was orchestrated by Jared Kushner in a bid to make himself richer, according to Trump biographer Michael Wolff.
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The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.
Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.
Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.
Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire
A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
www.motherjones.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.
Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.
Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.
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With 750,000 federal workers furloughed and dozens of CDC employees laid off overnight, Trump, 79, traveled to his Virginia golf club and arrived just after 10:00 AM, according to reporters at the scene.
Trump, 79, Spends Second Shutdown Weekend Golfing
The president, evidently with a few hours to kill, congratulated himself for a big week with a round of golf.
trib.al
October 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
With 750,000 federal workers furloughed and dozens of CDC employees laid off overnight, Trump, 79, traveled to his Virginia golf club and arrived just after 10:00 AM, according to reporters at the scene.
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For over a decade, “Dreamers” have lived and worked in the U.S. without fear of detention. More than a dozen have been swept up in this year’s immigration crackdowns.
They Thought DACA Kept Them Safe From Arrest. They Were Wrong.
For over a decade, “Dreamers” have lived and worked in the U.S. without fear of detention. More than a dozen have been swept up in this year’s immigration crackdowns.
www.texasmonthly.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
For over a decade, “Dreamers” have lived and worked in the U.S. without fear of detention. More than a dozen have been swept up in this year’s immigration crackdowns.
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Trump’s presidency has been defined by the decay of public information sources and dismantling of public health institutions.
So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.
So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.
Donald Trump's war on public health enters a new phase
Another bad day at the CDC
www.motherjones.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump’s presidency has been defined by the decay of public information sources and dismantling of public health institutions.
So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.
So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.
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Donald Trump’s new prosecutorial bulldog is showing mounting signs of impatience as she moves at breakneck speed against the president’s political enemies.
Why Trump's Beauty Queen Prosecutor Went Behind Bondi's Back
Lindsey Halligan has shown precisely zero appetite for delay as she charges ahead with what critics have slammed as a campaign of retribution against the president’s political foes.
trib.al
October 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Donald Trump’s new prosecutorial bulldog is showing mounting signs of impatience as she moves at breakneck speed against the president’s political enemies.
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The photograph Hollyhand posted of the speaking event hardly looks like the youthful jubilee he described. Instead, the crowd looks largely comprised of senior citizens.
MAGA's ‘Next Charlie Kirk’ Hypes Gen Z Turnout in Room of Boomers
Brilyn Hollyhand claimed Gen Z is “stronger than ever” in a room full of grandparents.
trib.al
October 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The photograph Hollyhand posted of the speaking event hardly looks like the youthful jubilee he described. Instead, the crowd looks largely comprised of senior citizens.
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"We will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again." Read Ali Skaik, a 19-year-old from Gaza, on the ceasefire that will hopefully bring an end to genocide.
We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.
We in Gaza will remember the martyrs--those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.
www.thenation.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"We will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again." Read Ali Skaik, a 19-year-old from Gaza, on the ceasefire that will hopefully bring an end to genocide.
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Earlier: “SB 8 seeks to establish a precedent that treats marginalized communities in the Lone Star State as less than equal. In reality, trans folks are parts of Texas families, workplaces, schools, and communities, and we are here to stay.”
How the Bathroom Bill Weaponizes Transphobia Against Public Institutions
A legal expert called the new anti-trans Texas bathroom law “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in recent history.”
www.texasobserver.org
October 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Earlier: “SB 8 seeks to establish a precedent that treats marginalized communities in the Lone Star State as less than equal. In reality, trans folks are parts of Texas families, workplaces, schools, and communities, and we are here to stay.”