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🗓️ 9 February 2025
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Featuring Chris Newman on Trump's far-right anti-migrant agenda and Democrats' cruel and stupid complicity.
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Read Dan's essay on Gaza and migration politics in n+1 nplusonemag.com/issue-48/politics/do-border
Trump's immigration executive orders propublica.org/article/donald-trump-immigration-executive-orders
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0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com |
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0:12.4 | One that you might like is, after accountability, a critical genealogy of a concept by the Pinko Collective. |
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0:28.9 | circulation of the complex abolitionist concept accountability, which has been taken up as a |
0:34.9 | core principle within leftist organizing and activity over the past quarter century. |
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1:07.0 | Music day. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, |
1:21.0 | and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Trump has stocked his administration |
1:26.9 | with reactionaries dead set on making the |
1:29.6 | nativist bluster of this first term into a fortress America reality. They promise mass |
1:35.5 | deportations and are developing a new and possibly more extensive Muslim and travel ban that could |
1:41.3 | include targeting people on ideological grounds. |
1:50.1 | Trump has already signed an executive order to deport legal non-citizens who participated in pro-Palestine anti-genocide protests. He's declared the end of birthright citizenship, |
1:56.2 | suspended refugee admissions, canceled legal status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, |
2:02.4 | leveraged tariff threats against Mexico, Canada, and Colombia to support his anti-migrant |
2:07.7 | agenda, moved to open a migrant camp at Guantanamo, explored outsourcing immigration detention |
2:14.9 | to Buckeles, El Salvador. And, unfortunately, so much more. |
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