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πŸ‡΅πŸ‡· Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change (Princeton University Press).

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And worse of all, we shouldn’t forgot or ignore, Bush is responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands to millions of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.

05.08.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Puerto Rican grown coffee bushes on the brink of extinction By The Star StaffPuerto Rican-grown coffee is on the brink of extinction, officials have warned. Secretary of Agriculture JosuΓ© Rivera Castro has disclosed the alarming condition of coffee production,...

Puerto Rican grown coffee bushes on the brink of extinction
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05.08.2025 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Picked up some prescription medicine expecting to get some money back from the pharmacist, thanks to Trump’s 1500% cuts. They told me math doesn’t work that way.

04.08.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A 10-day hunger
strike persists at
Florida's Alligator Alcatraz detention facility for undocumented immigrants, according to NBC. Stories of Multiple detainees are refusing food, following Governor Ron DeSantis' disclosure inhumane living
conditions

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Fealty is the the only criterium for Trump’s hires.

02.08.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s been so little coverage of this hunger strike.

02.08.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Foreshadowing

01.08.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Jim Crow, but make it national.

01.08.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 234    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Read this post over and over.

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Tell Brown: This Deal Was a Mistake – Stand Strong Brown

Brown U alumni and community:

Please sign an open letter from Stand Strong Brown to Brown University and President Paxon: This Deal Was a Mistake.

standstrongbrown.org/tell-brown-t...

31.07.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Respect.

31.07.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tough talk Booker ain’t gonna gamble with his AIPAC money.

31.07.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Advancing the Scientific Study of Structural Racism: Concepts, Measures, and Methods | Annual Reviews This review provides 10 actionable recommendations for advancing the scientific study of structural racism through theoretically grounded and empirically robust measures and methods. By offering conce...

I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.

31.07.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 416    πŸ” 158    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

Bernie’s refusal to say the word β€œgenocide” is the emblematic, shameful speech act of our era.

Years ago I heard Toni Morrison explain the violence embedded in leaving β€œunspeakable things unspoken.” I didn’t forget that.

31.07.2025 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Elites and institutions have not β€œcollapsed.” They have not β€œchanged their tunes.” They have not β€œfailed.” They are not β€œcowards.”

They were and are simply been focused only on their own self-preservation and profit.

Nothing has changed. They simply made a cost benefit analysis, and fascism wins.

30.07.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2004    πŸ” 545    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 71

Come join us at Berkeley Sociology! Multiple positions, various ranks...

30.07.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We failed each and everyone.

30.07.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.

The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced

29.07.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1116    πŸ” 685    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 76

🚨 UPDATE

In the past 11 days, Israeli forces killed at least 1,094 Palestinians and injured 5,784.

➀ Among them, 348 were killed while waiting for food.
➀ Over 2,398 were injured trying to reach aid.

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A tweet from NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) reads:
"We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below."

Below the tweet is an image with text on a dark blue background. The text states:
β€œChildren in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.”
β€” A spokesperson for The New York Times.

A tweet from NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) reads: "We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below." Below the tweet is an image with text on a dark blue background. The text states: β€œChildren in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.” β€” A spokesperson for The New York Times.

Genocide from starvation apparently doesn't count if there was a preexisting condition according to the New York Times.

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just went to immigration court in Lower Manhattan to see with my own eyes how masked and armed federal agents are apprehending people in the hallways as they walk out of their scheduled hearings.

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Israel has systematically assassinated Palestinian journalists in Gaza while preventing international journalists from entering for nearly two years, and it does not take much to understand why the IDF views the very concept of journalism as an existential threat

28.07.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 940    πŸ” 417    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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SOLIDARITY WITH CHRIS SMALLS

Chris was one of the 21 humanitarians abducted by the IOF from Handala, the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. When he was abducted, he was brutally assaulted by Israeli officials.

All for trying to break a siege starving over 2 million Palestinians.

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Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up To $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute

"resolve dispute" is a bizarre way to describe extortion.

28.07.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2915    πŸ” 826    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 191

There are no words. Just nonstop Israeli violence and murder against Palestinians.

28.07.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All these genocide enablers are trying to revise history in real time. We will ensure they fail. The receipts are as long as the lies and endorsements they have peddled for the past two years.

28.07.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

IDF is doing air strikes today, along with food drops that maimed people

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DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

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"They look very hungry" and a familiar American excuse Trump seemed to admit that children in Gaza are starving. He's just the latest politician to pretend he can't do something about it.

β€œThat’s real starvation stuff. You can’t fake that.”

Yes, it's significant that Trump broke with Netanyahu to acknowledge reality in Gaza. But the recognition is a variation on an American theme that pretends the US can't do anything to restrain Israel.

It applies to Democrats right now, too.

28.07.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 194    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 3

Love. Love. Love.

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