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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 18/09/2026

For background on Garifuna resistance in Cayos Cochinos, read Carlos Martinez's long-form feature from 2022, in my translation @elfaro.net: elfaro.net/en/202207/ce...

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 18/09/2026

Honduran riot cops are evicting an afro-indigenous Garifuna community so that a foreign billionaire can use their ancestral islands to film the reality TV show "Survivor."

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 15/09/2026

Endangered species stop border wall construction in the San Rafael Valley, near Lochiel, Ariz.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 13/09/2026

Hal Draper (1967): www.marxists.org/archive/drap...

Under the pressure of bureaucratic-statified capitalism, liberalism and conservatism converge. That does not mean they are identical, or are becoming identical. They merely increasingly tend to act in the same way in essential respects, where fundamental needs of the system are concerned. And just as the conservatives are forced to conserve and expand the statified elements of the system, so the liberals are forced to make use of the repressive measures which the conservatives advocate: because the maintenance of the system demands it.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 09/09/2026

Building data centers to execute pre-crime surveillance against people opposed to data centers — the logic of AI dystopia has reached its apotheosis.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 05/09/2026

"Simply believing Israel should exist" (over the graves of Palestinians, on stolen land) is, in fact, tantamount to supporting fascist terror. Shameful that The Nation would publish this garbage. Reads like a Zionist op-ed in the NYT. Comparing Piker to Hitler? Are you serious?

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 02/09/2026

As the border wall blockade in Lochiel, Arizona enters its 36th day, 150 miles west, bulldozers approach A'al Vaipia, the sacred Quitobaquito Springs. Hia C-eḍ O'odham and supporters are gathering in response. Come join the fight! ❤️‍🔥

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 31/08/2026

A scar severing the land. A monument to death. A future ruin. Day 34, tree sit is up and construction is blocked, as resistance spreads along the wall’s path, from Big Bend to the O’odham homeland.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 30/08/2026

Buenos días a la migra. Que se vayan a la chingada ✌️

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 30/08/2026

Sunrise in Lochiel, Ariz. on day 33 of the border wall tree sit. Land defenders continue to block wall construction. Border Patrol continues threats and intimidation. More people needed on the ground. Come join us at camp! ❤️‍🔥

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 26/08/2026

Mexican police coordinating with DHS to enforce border wall construction on sovereign Tohono O'odham land.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 11/08/2026

Incredible project out today @theborderchronicle.bsky.social: Wall Watch, a community-powered mapping project to document wall construction and other infrastructure along the U.S.-Mexico border. wallwatch.theborderchronicle.com?ref=theborde...

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 11/08/2026

We're getting there! Please support if you can 🙏

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 08/08/2026

BREAKING - Tohono O’odham Nation warns DHS border wall contractors not to trespass onto sovereign tribal lands. “If the contractors enter our lands for this purpose…they would be illegally trespassing.”

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 07/08/2026

“What some observers describe as ‘democratic backsliding’ has, for Native peoples, been the structure of everyday life.”

This history matters because what is described today as an alarming new political turn in the United States is better understood as an
expansion of practices long imposed on Indigenous peoples, migrants, Black communities, and colonized peoples more broadly. Border surveillance expands inward.
Exceptional powers become normalized. Entire communities become framed as threats to order.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 03/08/2026

Another person killed by ICE detention: Edwin Jovanny López Cornejol. Edwin's family says he was detained on his way to work and denied medications by Delaney Hall concentration camp guards. Shortly before his death, ICE refused him visitation to see his 12-year-old daughter.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 02/08/2026

“I’m all about peace and love, trust me, but we are beyond that point now.” -Greta Thunberg ❤️‍🔥

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 01/08/2026

Day 3, tree sit is still up ❤️‍🔥

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 31/07/2026

Another death in ICE custody: Prisciliano Trejo Ricano. He said this before he died:

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 30/07/2026

Day two, tree sit is still up 🔥

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 30/07/2026

"Border security" is a death cult

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 24/07/2026

Correction: at least *33 people* killed by immigration enforcement so far in 2026. I have updated this list to include Dr. Linda Davis, who died in a car crash caused by ICE on February 16, 2026. Updated list here: maxgranger.substack.com/p/ice-killings…

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 24/07/2026

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 23/07/2026

At least 32 people have died at the hands of ICE and Border Patrol so far in 2026. These are their names.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 21/07/2026

Old habits (atrocity apologia) die hard, I guess. From The New Yorker Archives:

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 17/06/2026

Three extraordinary stories in my translation, for the latest issue of Beacon, a magazine from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social Give it a read!

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 29/05/2026

Official white house dot gov ICE kidnapping tracker page. We are ruled by the stupidest, most evil people alive.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 27/05/2026

"Fascism itself is constituted through the quotidian violence of the border." -Harsha Walia

"It is not just that anti-immigration sentiment and white nationalism are the current ideological fodder for fascist forces. Rather, fascism itself-which relies on the idea of a homogeneous, exclusionary body politic - is constituted through the quotidian violence of the border, the perfect breeding ground for fantasies of ethnonationalism, cultural supremacy, racial purity, and Darwinian lifeboat survivalism. Simply put, because borders provide the ideological basis for fascism, being an antifascist means being a border"

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 27/05/2026

It's not a "failure" if you're not even trying. This is state-sanctioned murder.

"An examination of the 10 suicide deaths found the men died across ICE's detention network, including at centers long run by private contractors and county jails who recently became ICE partners. The AP found that staff in the facilities ignored signs of distress, delayed mental health treatment and failed to monitor detainees who were already deemed at risk. They also permitted detainees to have access to materials that could be used for self-harm, according to AP's review of ICE inspection reports and death records.

In some cases, they jailed distressed detainees in isolation, which can exacerbate feelings of humiliation and helplessness, according to experts."

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 21/04/2026

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, hooded, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 20/04/2026

As @jwashing.bsky.social recently told @austinkocher.com: the term we typically use to describe this sort of thing—"medical neglect"—is a misnomer. This is not medical neglect; this is medical torture.

The cyst is now estimated to be the size of the tennis ball, and her case has caught the attention of international human rights groups, members of Congress and religious groups from her home state of Minnesota.
"She just told me that the pain extends all the way to her back now. And that when she has her period, which usually lasts three days, it's lasting 10 days. So that's part of the concern, is that she's going to start bleeding out from the cyst," said Ruby Powers, a Houston immigration attorney who is representing Pedro Francisco. Powers visited the woman on Friday at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center near El Paso
International Airport.
Powers said Pedro Francisco has received poor medical treatment in ICE custody - first at
Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss and now at the El Paso processing center.
"They're like, why are you telling people you're not getting treatment?" Powers said of health care providers at the processing center. "And they keep telling her she doesn't have a cyst. They do ultrasounds and say there's nothing there, and they give her constipation medication. She takes the medication and she still has the pain."
"For over a month, my office has gone back and forth with ICE officials about Andrea's condition. We've been ignored, put off, and lied to about the treatment she has received while in detention," Craig

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 03/04/2026

Mary Turfah in conversation with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, in @proteanmag.com: proteanmag.com/2026/04/02/h...

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 02/04/2026

In a video filmed in Chiapas, Perez’s father expresses disbelief at the official account of his son’s death and pleads for help bringing his body home. “My son could not have taken his own life like that because he’s not mentally unwell. There’s nothing wrong with him. He was fine.”

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 01/04/2026

Chief Banks firing these off from his autohotel room in Cartagena 👍

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 13/03/2026

Checking in on the evolving legal definition of “terrorism”:

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 12/03/2026

perhaps best defined by the goat NYT war propagandist herself:

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 11/02/2026

This is just the tip of the iceberg and should come as no surprise.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 09/02/2026

Also bears repeating that Tom Homan was first appointed to ICE leadership by Obama.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 09/02/2026

"Despite what they say, it’s not that fascists don’t want migrants; they rely on an anti-migrant politics in order to further racism and in order to further the exploitation, precarity and deportability of migrants."

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 09/02/2026

A for-profit concentration camp opened by Obama in 2014 and normalized by corporate media as necessary for containing the ‘flood,’ ‘surge’ etc of ‘illegal’ families ‘pouring’ over the border.

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