That all of this is unfolding without mass street protests is evidence of how far and how fast the U.S. has fallen.
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That all of this is unfolding without mass street protests is evidence of how far and how fast the U.S. has fallen.
Belatedly, loved this one from @chris-arnold.bsky.social
Thank you, Jeremy!
Read this new, vital interview in Issue 131: zyzzyva.org
In the new @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, I talk to Venezuelan scholar, journalist, and poet Boris Muñoz about literature, authoritarianism, and the importance of cronistas.
“A goal is a magical concoction of aim and force and luck. Like a life.”
—from “Bola Cheia,” an essay by Chris Feliciano Arnold
www.thebeliever.net/bola-cheia/
“COPA is the most American way possible to train your kid to play soccer.”
—Chris Feliciano Arnold on an elite soccer training facility
www.thebeliever.net/bola-cheia/
Chris Feliciano Arnold (@chris-arnold.bsky.social) takes his son to a cutting edge, data-driven soccer academy in Walnut Creek:
www.thebeliever.net/bola-cheia/
I enrolled my son in a state of the art soccer training center for all the wrong reasons. You can read about it in the new Sports Issue of @thebeliever.net. www.thebeliever.net/bola-cheia/
On the public airwaves talking about citizenship with callers from the @wnyc.org audience. 📻 www.wnyc.org/story/the-fe...
To become Americans, naturalized citizens promise to defend the laws of the U.S. What if defending them now puts their status at risk?
Chris Feliciano Arnold, a naturalized citizen, evaluates the civics test to see if it still rings true to what America has become.
To become Americans, naturalized citizens promise to defend the laws of the U.S. What if defending them now puts their status at risk?
Chris Feliciano Arnold, a naturalized citizen, evaluates the civics test to see if it still rings true to what America has become.
Today in everything is a metaphor, geoscientists have discovered that the craton, the enormous stable rock that forms the core of North America, is eroding away www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04...
“These efforts are about reproducing a social hierarchy where some individuals are protected less than others in the eyes of the law based on their religion, national origins, or political beliefs.” www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
“The State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, which handled the removals Sunday, did not give detailed information about who was on the flight, their alleged crimes or under what legal authority they were removed...” apnews.com/article/el-s...
“These dedicated ambulance workers were responding to wounded people. They were humanitarians,” said the IFRC secretary general, Jagan Chapagain. “They wore emblems that should have protected them; their ambulances were clearly marked.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
“The push to identify masked protesters using facial recognition and turn them in is blurring the line between public law enforcement and private groups.” apnews.com/article/trum...
On Saturday the UN's humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher described the current situation in Gaza as dire: "If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act to uphold them." www.bbc.com/news/article...
It feels so surreal as an American to hear about Green Card holders asking relatives of mine to delete text exchanges on their phones for fear that they'll be searched by the authorities and those private conversations will become the pretext for illegally deporting them. But here we are.
“Just child after child, young patient after young patient,” Rokadiya said. “The vast, vast majority were women, children, the elderly.” apnews.com/article/gaza...
“Records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed that a person with Ms. Ozturk’s name was being held in a Louisiana detention center on Wednesday.” www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
“I was born in Chicago, Illinois and am a United States citizen,” Noriega said in his statement…Officers took away his wallet, which had his ID and social security card. “They then handcuffed me and pushed me into a white van where other people were handcuffed as well.” apple.news/Asc0mZpnVSmC...
There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
“It was her time on Earth,” the translator said the parents told her. “They believe she’s better off where she is now.” www.texastribune.org/2025/03/20/t...
“The strike killed at least 16 people, mostly women and children, according to the nearby European Hospital…Those killed included a father and his seven children, as well as the parents and brother of a month-old baby who survived along with her grandparents.” apnews.com/article/isra...
“This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
autocorrected: see you doom
