11/27/25

Homeland Security Deported A Trans Woman Against Court Orders

Officials admit ‘inadvertent removal’ after court ruled Britania Uriostegui Rios should not be sent to Mexico.

Officials acknowledged in a court filing that Britania Uriostegui Rios, a transgender woman, was deported to Mexico in violation of a March court order, which ruled that she was likely to face torture if she returned there.

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Britanna was offered readmission by Homeland Security if she could make it back to the border and if she agreed to be put back into immigration detention. Britania, who has a lengthy criminal record, has sued Noem to be allowed to remain in the United States and out of detention.

10/10/25

Maria Corina Machado Wins The Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader MarĂ­a Corina Machado speaks in Caracas. Photograph: Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images

Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize for "leading the struggle for democracy in the face of ever-expanding authoritarianism in Venezuela".

trump, a self discribed "white Nationalist" has commented that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

If Ms. Machado were a US citizen, she may have been classified as ANTIFA, originally meaning anti-fascist but co-opted by the Trump administration to encapsulate anyone who's opposing his attempted authoritarian takeover.

In 2023 she announced her candidacy for president in the 2024 presidential election. When she was blocked from running, she supported the opposition’s alternative candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. The opposition mobilised widely and collected systematic documentation that it was the true winner of the election. The regime declared victory and tightened its grip on power.

Ms Machado is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize first and foremost for her efforts to advance democracy in Venezuela. But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, to cast one’s vote and to be represented in elective government – is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.