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Looks like Alaska’s Joe Miller, an actual Republican candidate for the US Senate, has gone all-out in the racism department during his primary campaign. Here is what one Alaskan tweeted out earlier today: Wow. #Alaska politics are crazy on tap. #immigration #gunfail pic.twitter.com/gXw2MB5u6T — Shannyn Moore (@shannynmoore) August 13, 2014 We really thought it was […]

If you can get pass all the shameless plugs Kiss legend Gene Simmons makes below, just watch this following segment from Monday’s “Huff Post Live.” What we DIDN’T hear from Simmons? “I got mine, so tough shit.” The irony of it all? New immigrants, specifically from Latin America (yeah, Gene, we know what you were […]

Just when we thought we would stop bringing up the fact that The New York Times’ Upshot blog has a serious ‘Latino problem’ when it comes to presenting stories about U.S. Latinos, along comes this, which our founder @julito77 tweeted this afternoon: Actual photo used by @UpshotNYT in piece called "It's Not Too Late for […]

This weekend in front of the Massachusetts State House, Canadian-born radio talk show host Jeff Kuhher of Boston’s WRKO Radio had a message to Governor Duval Patrick, who is looking for ways to temporarily house Central American refugee children in one of the state’s federal centers. Looks like Kuhner, with his slight Montreal accent, thinks […]

This is what happens when people just read interpretations of a poll from third parties and don’t actually read the poll itself. This week, Breitbart ‘s John Nolte wanted to let the world know the following: “BORDER CRISIS POLL: 64% OF HISPANICS BACK DEPORTATIONS.” That headline is so definitive, so real, so confident—how could it […]

This one comes from Mi Blog Es Tu Blog. And to quote Gawker’s Adam Weinstein, “The video… is what Wes Anderson-produced political ads for grumpy Maricopa County rotarians might look and sound like.” Yeah, that wasn’t racist at all. Yeah, not racist at all.

Before I start, a word: there are outlets that present a fuller picture when it comes to the root causes of current immigration issues, and those outlets that hide behind “journalism” to feed into your fears. It is a digital media game all too common now, because in the end, like Natalie Merchant once sang, “Give […]

Yesterday, it is safe to conclude Adam Kwasman had one of the worst political days of his life. After a hilariously tragic video where the GOP congressional candidate and Arizona state rep mistakenly thought a bus with YMCA kids were actual migrant children ready to “invade” Oracle, Arizona went viral (yes, even TIME covered it […]

Leave it to the Canada Free Press (yes, that is the name of the site) to share a complete list of detailed locations online for a “National Protests Against Amnesty” on July 18 and 19. The site has chronicled as “master list of times, dates, and locations of our protests against illegal immigration!” CFP’s page […]

Can you see Vanity Fair doing a callout to its female readership, inviting them to write an essay on their body parts they liked the most? You really can’t see Graydon Carter putting pen to paper to ask for pictures of his readers best features—all this accompanied by an image of a “hot” Latina, can […]

I am starting to wonder if we are living in 2014 or whether it’s 1902 or 1857 because all of sudden the paranoia of unaccompanied minors invading the United States with plague, pestilence and illness is beginning to dominate the comments of people like this woman (yes, an actual photo from Monday’s shameful Murrieta protests): […]

UPDATE, June 25: Huppenthal said he won’t resign. We won’t gloat, no, we really won’t, but there is something incredibly vindicating about the news that John Huppenthal, Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction and the man who said that Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies program was a violation of state law, is also an […]

Yesterday a headline for Newsweek story about the current crisis on the US-Mexico border made us do a double-take and insert a WTF: “Honduras’ First Lady Says She Will Collect Her Country’s Child Border-Crashers.” We would expect such a headline from a Town Hall or a Breitbart, but this is Newsweek. Has the quality of one of […]

So about a month since Nate Cohn of The New York Times boldly proclaimed that more Latinos were becoming “white” after basing his “analysis” on a partial report chronicled by a Pew senior research reporter, the actual authors of the study Cohn had referenced finally offered a more specific clarification about their initial study. Here […]

File this one under “Colonialism is Still Colonialism.” A new social media page calling for Puerto Rico’s return to Spain has gotten media attention on the island, the U.S. and of course, Spain. And guess what? The organizers are serious about it. A Facebook page is calling (in Spanish) for the “Reunification of Puerto Rico […]

This has to be a joke. We just got this tweet from a follower: @latinorebels You see this BS?! Two-time GOP loser changes name to Cesar Chavez… http://t.co/G3PrKKcMuW http://t.co/OR2LlvHTgi — Malena (@12thLady) June 2, 2014 So we clicked on the story. Apparently… it’s true. Just look at the ballot. Here is what the Capitol Times story […]

We got the following tip via an email from a follower who said, “WTF.” Looks like the city of Coachella in California (home to Coachellafest) is going on a massive appropriation binge for Día de los Muertos, with the creation of Día de los Muertos USA. We guess organizers forgot about the whole Disney social […]

We got this from @hispanictips. Apparently, Korean pop star Hyorin of the group Sistar is getting all Latin in a new ad campaign for “Maté Tea of the Sun,” owned by Coca Cola. (Yes, we know that it is not “maté” in Spanish, it’s “mate.”) Here is some of the translated copy to English: Hyorin […]

And the cultural appropriation hits keep on coming. Today, we present the Zapatista Burrito Bar from the city of Newcastle in clueless old England. We guess the locals love it, since a second location is already being built. According to its Twitter profile, it likes to say “HOLA, GRINGOS” and encourages patrons to “GRAB A […]

It appears that Slate’s new obsession with maps is doing anything and everything to avoid talking about the obvious. Last week it was all about a viral language post which didn’t even stop to acknowledge how mainstream Spanish has become. This week Slate and Ben Bratt are trying to replicate viral love by focusing on […]

Yesterday our news feeds were burning up with a piece published by Slate about the many languages spoken in U.S. households. The article, written by Ben Blatt, went viral because it visually confirmed that yes, the U.S. is really a multilingual society. However, it is Blatt’s first map that really floored us, and even though […]