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A Reality Check For A Country On Edge
Minnesota is standing in that classic fault line right now, where the state line meets the federal boot, and a governor is quietly getting his Guard ready, not for a hurricane or a blizzard, but for Washington’s own agents on his streets. That alone tells you how far this immigration “crackdown” has gone off the rails, and how willing this administration is to turn blue states and brown bodies into props in a national show of force. In south Minneapolis, ICE didn’t just show

Janie Flores-Alvarez
Jan 84 min read


It's Not About the Oil (But You Already Knew That)
The news keep rolling in and everyone seems to think that America invaded Venezuela for oil. Oil. Always oil. Nothing but oil. Sure. And Putin annexed Crimea for the beaches. Venezuela sits on the largest proven oil reserves on Earth, 13% more than Saudi Arabia. But Venezuelan crude emerges thick as tar, heavy with sulfur, demanding specialized infrastructure that barely exists outside U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Saudi petroleum flows light and sweet. The difference matters b

Maria Salinas
Jan 53 min read
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