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On December 3, #USTired2.

Gentrification —the influx of residents, usually middle to upper class, into an urban area who in turn cause an uptick in property values and rent— is nearly as old as human history: historians note incidences of gentrification in Ancient Rome, when wealthy residents and commercial property owners bought out poorer areas to build large markets and […]

So this happened this week. A public Facebook post is calling attention to what Mucho Burrito, a Mexican fast food company based in Canada, decided to promote. This is what Tania Aguila-Way posted on November 25: Soooo… Mucho Burrito has done it again. Their latest promotional materials make use of one of the most hurtful […]

UPDATE: December 5, 2014: FRANCE 24 has now retracted this story. Yesterday, FRANCE 24 published a new report sending shock waves throughout Mexico. For more, visit here.

In case you missed any of the REBEL REPORT episodes this month and have 10 minutes (yeah, just 10 minutes!) to spare this holiday weekend, we posted the first four REBEL REPORT episodes, with host R.J Aguiar. Catch them here below or just go to Flama’s Facebook page (Ebola Freak Out, Mexico, Pointergate, CNN’s Anchor […]

Sorry I missed last week. I was sick with the flu. It was fairly horrible and knocked me out for about eight days. The only person I know who didn’t get sick was the person who had a flu shot. Time down like that always makes one reflect at least during the lucid awake moments. […]

Cue Al Pacino again. I really was trying my best to not revisit the false U.S. Latino narrative that continues to spin from David Leonhardt, editor of The New York Times‘ The Upshot blog, and Nate Cohn, Upshot’s appointed U.S. Latino political expert—both clear examples of  “Latinidad without Latinos”, to quote Blanca Vega. You think that […]

Unlike what some non-Latino reporters might tell you (seriously, you have to see who is criticizing this poll), the following poll conducted by Latino Decisions pretty much confirms yet again what anyone in the Latino media space has been telling you all along: immigration still matters to U.S. Latino voters. National Poll of U.S. Latinos […]

Thanks to Saturday Night Live, now everyone is up on New York City’s new marijuana policy. If you missed it, here’s the clip. And legally, it was correct: From now on, merely possessing less than 25 grams of weed in public won’t get you arrested. But it will get you a summons, and you’ll have […]

Happy Monday!

Editor’s Note: The following essay is a direct response to Justin Vélez-Hagan’s piece on Fox News Latino, entitled “Puerto Ricans will be hurt the most by President Obama’s executive action.” In a recent opinion piece, Justin Vélez-Hagan, founder of the National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce and economic policy researcher at the University of Maryland, […]

Here is what “Rebel Report” host R.J. Aguiar had to say about the whole “anchor baby” fiasco from last week, before President Obama weighed in on immigration and before the media sensationalized it all. Wait, the media always sensationalizes it all. Anyway, here’s what R.J. has to say about CNN’s gaffe. (When defining why “anchor […]

In case you missed it, this is what VICE News released on November 20.

The fallout from the Indy Start editorial cartoon has been intense, and rightly so. Yes, this is what a major U.S. newspaper thought was a good idea to have published and to also promote: Gary Varbel’s cartoon is no longer on IndyStar’s Facebook page, and yesterday the newspaper’s executive editor issued an “apology” that only […]

We are thinking that the Breitbarts of the world are now writing skits for Saturday Night Live, since it is obvious from this skit that even when it comes to satire, few are even realizing that in the end, President Obama’s executive action didn’t magically turn millions of people into instant citizens. Or that it […]

It has been a heady 48 hours from the lead-up to “what will President Obama say about immigration?” to what he actually said last night in a national address to the nation that mainstream networks ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX didn’t think was important enough to pre-empt its prime time programing. Nonetheless, the close to […]

In case you missed it. By the way, the #ImmigrationAction hashtag was the top U.S. trend on Twitter tonight.

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This past Monday, our group tweeted the news about #USTired2, a new grassroots movement created by organizers to promote a series of December 3 in 43 U.S. cities for the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students. That tweet made the rounds, with over 300RTs in just a few days: 43 US Cities for 43 #Ayotzinapa students. New […]

Ok, we don’t want to just sit here and judge what has been going on through Sammy Sosa’s cabeza in the last five years, but before we completely contradict ourselves and indeed judge, we will say this: in 1998, the year we thought baseball was more of an innocent sport than the drug-fueled fraud it […]