Mincho Jacob
@minchojacob.bsky.social
Settler / Maya Q'eqchi' (he/him/él)
Radio Producer / chef / musician. Livin & workin in unceded Karankawa lands.
Indigenous Sovereignty, Black Liberation, and Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Radio Producer / chef / musician. Livin & workin in unceded Karankawa lands.
Indigenous Sovereignty, Black Liberation, and Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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ICE trying to get inside your home.
June 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
ICE trying to get inside your home.
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Police officers are killing more Americans than then they did five years ago when they killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Too many people have been deluded into believing the problem is the problem solvers, the perpetrators are the victims, and the treatment is the disease.
May 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Police officers are killing more Americans than then they did five years ago when they killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Too many people have been deluded into believing the problem is the problem solvers, the perpetrators are the victims, and the treatment is the disease.
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chiquita, formerly united fruit, is the company responsible for overthrowing jacobo arbenz and causing the chaos of the guatemalan civil war, ultimately creating the monster known as Rios Montt who genocided hundreds of thousands of indigenous Maya peoples
Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike.
The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
US banana giant Chiquita fires thousands over Panama strike
President Jose Raul Mulino, whose changes to social security laws prompted the protest, called the strike ‘illegal’.
www.aljazeera.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
chiquita, formerly united fruit, is the company responsible for overthrowing jacobo arbenz and causing the chaos of the guatemalan civil war, ultimately creating the monster known as Rios Montt who genocided hundreds of thousands of indigenous Maya peoples
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Maybe don't just credulously reprint government press releases without asking a single critical question?
May 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Maybe don't just credulously reprint government press releases without asking a single critical question?
Important reporting that is must read. Congratulations to the team.
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
May 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Important reporting that is must read. Congratulations to the team.
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“Many are now realizing what some of us have warned people about for years,” writes the journalist Nelson Rauda Zablah, from El Salvador: That even if Nayib Bukele, the nation’s president, “has ironically called himself the ‘coolest dictator in the world,’ he’s a dictator nonetheless.”
Opinion | The World Is Finally Seeing How Dangerous President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador Really Is
Even if El Salvador’s president has ironically called himself the “coolest dictator in the world,” he’s a dictator nonetheless.
www.nytimes.com
May 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
“Many are now realizing what some of us have warned people about for years,” writes the journalist Nelson Rauda Zablah, from El Salvador: That even if Nayib Bukele, the nation’s president, “has ironically called himself the ‘coolest dictator in the world,’ he’s a dictator nonetheless.”
How much money did the GEO group make off of Ange Blaise?
ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
Lawmakers demand answers after a Haitian woman dies at an ICE detention center
ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
www.npr.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
How much money did the GEO group make off of Ange Blaise?
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VIDEO of the immigrants at the Texas detention center reaching toward one another to spell out SOS with their bodies
Source:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBPbLNU/
Source:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBPbLNU/
May 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
VIDEO of the immigrants at the Texas detention center reaching toward one another to spell out SOS with their bodies
Source:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBPbLNU/
Source:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBPbLNU/
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PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
bookshop.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.
Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
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If you’re able and willing, they deserved better.
More than 40 journalists and staff at the Houston Landing, the nonprofit newsroom that launched two years ago, are facing layoffs within a month after the Landing's board voted to cease operations.
For those willing and able to help👇
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ho...
For those willing and able to help👇
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ho...
Donate to Support Houston Landing journalists and staff facing layoffs, organized by Mike Morris
This week, the Houston Landing’s CEO informed dozens of dedic… Mike Morris needs your support for Support Houston Landing journalists and staff facing layoffs
www.gofundme.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you’re able and willing, they deserved better.
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I’m seeing a lot of posts about how certain immigrants sent to El Salvador are not actually criminals and this is true but I would also like to remind you that people with criminal records shouldn’t be subjected to this, either.
April 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I’m seeing a lot of posts about how certain immigrants sent to El Salvador are not actually criminals and this is true but I would also like to remind you that people with criminal records shouldn’t be subjected to this, either.
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Instead of 401ks, how about just universal retirement? Or better yet, universal basic income? Why are we pretending like there’s scarcity in this country or this world — when there isn’t!?
If it’s about to all fall apart, then let’s remake it in OUR image. NOT theirs.
If it’s about to all fall apart, then let’s remake it in OUR image. NOT theirs.
April 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Instead of 401ks, how about just universal retirement? Or better yet, universal basic income? Why are we pretending like there’s scarcity in this country or this world — when there isn’t!?
If it’s about to all fall apart, then let’s remake it in OUR image. NOT theirs.
If it’s about to all fall apart, then let’s remake it in OUR image. NOT theirs.
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The idea of not having access to a private toilet when you have your period is a literal, actual nightmare.
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The idea of not having access to a private toilet when you have your period is a literal, actual nightmare.
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One of the disturbing reactions to the Mahmoud Khalil arrest is people making things up that he did to justify it that even the Trump admin doesn't claim he did. People just see him as the *type* of person who did the things they're mad about, so punishing him for it is acceptable. Lynching logic.
March 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
One of the disturbing reactions to the Mahmoud Khalil arrest is people making things up that he did to justify it that even the Trump admin doesn't claim he did. People just see him as the *type* of person who did the things they're mad about, so punishing him for it is acceptable. Lynching logic.
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No matter your background and irrespective of whether you agree with his political beliefs or not, if you're not terrified that a US permanent resident could be subject to deportation and greencard revocation without due process, then you are in deep need of a history lesson.
March 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
No matter your background and irrespective of whether you agree with his political beliefs or not, if you're not terrified that a US permanent resident could be subject to deportation and greencard revocation without due process, then you are in deep need of a history lesson.
Seconding!
March 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Seconding!
NO CHARGES
February 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is exactly what's missing from the discourse - especially when so many act like it's all a joke. It's no joke for colonized peoples. #indigenoussovereignty
Trump wants Greenland. But what does Greenland want?
“There is no such thing as a better colonizer."
grist.org/global-indig...
#Greenland #indigenous #Denmark #Trump #Climate
“There is no such thing as a better colonizer."
grist.org/global-indig...
#Greenland #indigenous #Denmark #Trump #Climate
Trump wants Greenland. But what does Greenland want?
“There is no such thing as a better colonizer."
grist.org
January 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is exactly what's missing from the discourse - especially when so many act like it's all a joke. It's no joke for colonized peoples. #indigenoussovereignty
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This is a great piece.
"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."
"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."
How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
www.teenvogue.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is a great piece.
"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."
"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."
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Seeing video’s of families & elders who lost their homes in historic Altadena is heartbreaking. Here is a compiled list of gofundme’s for the displaced Black families of Altadena.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
January 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Seeing video’s of families & elders who lost their homes in historic Altadena is heartbreaking. Here is a compiled list of gofundme’s for the displaced Black families of Altadena.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
further evidence that the police do not protect and serve the majority of the people. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
Texas Supreme Court sides with Austin, Houston officers sued over police chase crashes | Houston Public Media
The state's high court ruled the cities of Austin and Houston are protected by governmental immunity after their officers were sued over two separate police chase crashes.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
January 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
further evidence that the police do not protect and serve the majority of the people. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
There has been a dramatic increase in both maternal and infant mortality in Texas - and most of these deaths are entirely preventable. The reality is that we have leaders who simply don't care as long as they can get more power while hypocritically claiming to care about life.
Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs.
Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this?
#PHEthx
Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this?
#PHEthx
Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision
The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...
www.ajmc.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:01 PM
There has been a dramatic increase in both maternal and infant mortality in Texas - and most of these deaths are entirely preventable. The reality is that we have leaders who simply don't care as long as they can get more power while hypocritically claiming to care about life.
Rest in power Nikki Giovanni
This is an incalculable loss but Nikki Giovanni lived a grand and interesting life; that will always be a gift. May she rest in power.
Nikki Giovanni will forever be a legend. This headline doesn't do her the justice she deserves. www.wdbj7.com/2024/12/10/w...
December 10, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Rest in power Nikki Giovanni
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This is such a disaster. (It always was, but now it is playing out before our eyes.)
ProPublica reports that a third woman died because of Texas’s abortion ban www.propublica.org/article/pors...
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2024 at 2:30 PM
This is such a disaster. (It always was, but now it is playing out before our eyes.)