Robert Werth

Question for academic soc/crim/anthro/etc folk...

I'm teaching an undergrad seminar: Crime, punishment & Society. Want/need a section on CECOT & ongoing "state of emergency" in El Salvardor. Any recs for academic or journalists writing?

Also, any recs on ICE & ICE detention facilities? Thanks

Opinion | Ehud Olmert on Israel’s Catastrophic War in Gaza

And, setting aside LA, people in Gaza are still being killed, starved, and (further) displaced. And violence in the West Bank too.

This interview (criticizing Netanyahu) with a former PM of Israel is definitely worth the read.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

...with a deep commitment to human rights, due process, and democracy.

For example, at rally for David Huerta (the union leader who was being detained), there were lots of people. What were we doing? Some chanting, some listening to speakers, and a fair amount of dancing and signing along to the live band. Had almost a party or festival atmosphere....

Been away from soc media, but feel need to return.
I live in LA & feel the need to say:

The protests have 99.9% been peaceful exercise of constitutional rights.

Much media coverage makes it look like a war-like, siege existence in LA. That is NOT THE CASE AT ALL!

El Salvador president refuses to order return of wrongly deported US man Trump officials claim they’re not legally bound to bring Kilmar Abrego García back despite supreme court ruling

Haven't been posting much, but gonna post this: Current president of US essentially refusing to honor due process, habeaus corpus and the rule of law. This is a big deal.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Attempting a Coup Brazil’s attorney general charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with trying to overturn the vote. He now faces potential arrest.

Oh, that whole rule of law thing. How very 2010's.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

"Kendrick Lamar’s transgressive joy might just be the antidote to political burnout and apathy."

Opinion | Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Was Political Art, if You Knew Where to Look With an audience of over 120 million people, the performance broke viewership records. But at times it seemed designed to speak directly to me.

Yes to this op-ed!!

"Not Like Us” is not just about Drake anymore. It’s a diss track to America, an audacious indictment delivered as a rallying anthem designed to unite us and revive our weary, burned-out reserves."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials President directs DoJ to pause prosecutions under Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and issues pardon to Rod Blagojevich

More worried about other things from the new regime (Gaza, USAID food aid, NIH indirect costs, executive power).

But this seems important. It's all 'flood the zone', but wonder if this change is a change they really want and are hoping 4 minimal attention.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Can’t believe I’m typing this but…

FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC.

If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.

Opinion | Trump’s Gaza Deal: War Crimes in Exchange for Beachfront Property The president’s proposal wasn’t serious, but it was dangerous.

"Parts of the Israeli right have long dreamed of expelling Palestinians from their land, a mad ambition that’s only grown more intense and widespread since Oct. 7. Now Trump has taken this once-taboo idea and rendered it [legitimate]."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

Opinion | There Is No Going Back The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

J. Bouie: "..trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government. They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth"

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

" “So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once,” said David Super, an administrative law professor at Georgetown Law School."

I'm not surprised, but still, holy hell:

"Trump claims Palestinians have 'no alternative' but to leave Gaza during his Oval Office meeting with Netanyahu" - from NBC news and also saw it on NY Times.

Hello all. I'm still on the other space (T-witter), but am starting to explore here. Nice to see some old friends from T-world, and see new ones here.