Chris DeLorenzo

Historian of contemporary Latin America | Bolivia, coca, and the War on Drugs | ATA-certified translator

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@MillionaireDoor @IlhanMN Have you heard the president lately?

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@jimgeeting @anactualwalnut If Jesus had mentioned what the priest and the Levite said in the parable of the good Samaritan, I think "shit happens, move along" would have been it.

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@Eve_Barlow “She’s coordinating a smear campaign,” says the most pathetic smear campaign coordinator of our age.

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Trump: Let’s kill “drug traffickers”

Also Trump: I’m going to pardon an actual, convicted drug trafficker

(Thank you for your attention to this matter)

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@marasmith7 @JennMGreenberg A DUI is punishable by execution without trial? What state do you live in?

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"One religious worker who engages in weekly court watching recounted a judge saying, 'Your case is closed. That is my response to you as a judge. But I cannot speak to what will happen outside these doors.'"
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“It’s a lie that [ICE is] giving them the choice to bring kids back with them. Every day, women arrive crying, but what can we do? I don’t know how to help.”
- Honduran social worker
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"These corridor arrests function as a 'second courtroom,' in which there is no trial and migrants always lose."
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If this machine is cocksure enough to make up book titles and present them as fact, I’d hate to know what its inventors are like.

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On a whim, I asked ChatGPT to find untranslated collections of primary sources on the Tupac Katari/Bartolina Sisa rebellion.

It gave me the titles of two books that do not exist.

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@MRibnek @DrJillStein If all of Stein’s votes had gone to Harris instead, Harris would not have won a single additional state and would still have lost the national popular vote.

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Moreover, where was this call for mercy when Biden restricted asylum rights and pushed Mexico to repel migrants trying to reach the US?

Why is it only bad when Trump does it?

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Immigrants are valuable because they are human, not because many of them do our dirty work and lack criminal records.

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I think Bishop Budde meant well.

But the good immigrant/bad immigrant dichotomy is antithetical to the gospel of Christ.

It’s also a trap.

The more we try to argue that immigrants are not criminals, the more the state will criminalize them.