He/They/oni Yemaya/daddy/Negritx/Afro-🇩🇴 🇵🇷 Del Bronx. abolition! Cultural worker/ Oral Historian/anthropology PhD student/ audio @radiolab @latinoUSA
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Andrew Viñales retweeted
To everyone celebrating Lula’s reelection victory, I just want us to all acknowledge Erika Hilton right here. She’s a Black trans woman who became the most voted congresswoman in Brazilian history this cycle and has been campaigning nonstop for Lula in the second round
Andrew Viñales retweeted
Every level of this story relies and reinforces white supremacist imperialist tropes that firmly establish a crumbling global order.
Severely ill ICE detainees in Florida face imminent deportation to unknown African states
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Andrew Viñales retweeted
Se llamaba Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa y había sido fiscal y abogado contra la corrupción en Guatemala. Ha sido asesinado a tiros por sicarios. Dos días antes publicó este vídeo señalando una operación de mercenarios vinculados con la CIA de Estados Unidos.
Andrew Viñales retweeted
This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Link here: panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
Andrew Viñales retweeted
And when one of the workers (who witnessed the negligence first hand) was willing to testify about it— ICE jumped in and deported the worker before he could go on the record.
Abolish ICE.
Andrew Viñales retweeted
Hey so ICE shooting a car with a 5 year old child in it is exactly what the IDF does to Palestinian families
Andrew Viñales retweeted
I’m old enough to remember the uproar when President Ronald Reagan visited the Nazi war cemetery in Bitburg, Germany in 1985. Jewish groups didn’t think there should be “room to mourn” Nazi SS genocide perpetrators. But in 2026 it’s normal to tell Palestinians to “mourn” for those occupying, ethnically cleansing and exterminating them.
Zohran Mamdani: “I believe there must be room to mourn every single life. There must be room to mourn the lives of the more than 1,100 Israelis that Hamas killed three years ago. There must be room to mourn the 74K Palestinians the Israeli government had killed since. What I so appreciated about being at the vigil yesterday evening, as I had been the year before, is that it was a vigil that brought together New Yorkers to read testimonies of their own family members, of others who’ve been killed either on the day or in the genocide since and ends with a shared vision for peace and for an end to the genocide”
Andrew Viñales retweeted
For those who believe we don’t have organized and coordinated censorship of the press in the United States: a billionaire family that has publicly declared Israel to be its single political issue, and is the single largest donor to Friends of the IDF, is buying up the entirety of the American media so any journalist critical of Israel doesn’t get a job, and any story critical of Israel doesn’t get broadcast.
BREAKING: Paramount closes its $81 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, forming a new Hollywood giant called Skydance. apnews.com/article/warner-br…
Andrew Viñales retweeted
I was banned from teaching and declared persona non-grata by Cornell police. Prohibited from being on campus and was told that if I want to see a doctor, I must seek permission first. My crime? Being anti-genocide. Yet if you do this, you write a letter and you’re free to roam.
🚨 Cornell frat bros allegedly gang-r*ped drugged student, messaged "free p***y."
What we know: tmz.com/2026/09/18/cornell-f…
Andrew Viñales retweeted
ICE is a transcontinental terrorist organization that engages in kidnappings, human trafficking, forced disappearances, and murder
ICE is erasing immigrants with final deportation orders from a searchable online database, leaving families and attorneys in the dark.
“It is truly a forced disappearance,” said Atenas Burrola Estrada of the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights. wapo.st/4yVu6sx
Andrew Viñales retweeted
Honduran police evicted an afro-indigenous Garifuna community from their territory in Cayos Chinos to make way for the production of the reality TV show "Survivor."
🚨#ALERTA | Denunciamos orden de desalojo ilegal contra la comunidad Garífuna en Cayos Cochinos promovida por el extranjero Ricardo Salinas Pliego. El Estado de Honduras viola la sentencia de la @CorteIDH de 2026. Hacemos responsables al Poder Judicial de Honduras y al @CONADEH por la integridad de nuestra gente. ¡Alto a la criminalización! 📢 @OFRANEH @CIDH
Andrew Viñales retweeted
NEW: Just days after Ecuador's president met with Kristi Noem, ICE arrested his political foe in Miami. Even though an immigration judge found it likely José Serrano would be tortured, the U.S. deported him in a hasty process that took a single day.
nytimes.com/2026/09/16/us/po…
Andrew Viñales retweeted
Only in a country where the left’s politics are completely consumed by celebrity culture can a government official who voted to fund the Iron Dome, Israel’s most important technology in its ability to wage genocide with impunity, moral grandstand and pretend she’s less complicit in said genocide and the crackdown on free speech than some D-list singer.
Let’s be very clear: the reason we’re even in a wave of brutal McCarthyism—where artists are canceled for saying Free Palestine and Palestinians are snatched up by ICE—to begin with is because an administration that *she* served as the sheepdog and told us to keep voting for wanted to commit genocide without Columbia students yelling at them for it.
🗣️ Rep. AOC tells @hicharliecotton she is boycotting Ed Sheeran because she says he's complicit in Robert Kraft and other stadium owners' efforts to silence Macklemore.
Andrew Viñales retweeted
Congratulations to Maya J. Berry, whose book "Defending Rumba in Havana" has been named the winner of the 2026 de la Torre Bueno First Book Prize, given by the Dance Studies Association. buff.ly/d5KMCFb
ALT Cover of Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons by Maya J. Berry. The top third of the cover is black and the title, subtitle, and author name appear there in blue, teal, orange, pink, and white. Beneath that is a photograph of a Black woman dancing with her arms outstretched. She is wearing an orange garment and a tall, ornate hat.
Dear Joey Cartagena
Black-Puerto Rican/Dominican from the BX here 👋🏾
Afro-Puerto Ricans like me and my family walk through the world different from you and that’s not a slight, it’s facts . Many Puerto Ricans are Black and many are not.
I see how you think being raised in the projects fits this narrative you wish to use to authenticate your blackness, but some of my my Blackness comes from people who learned to hunt local crabs on the Bronx waterways,