Jody Agius Vallejo

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DUI to Deportation: What H.R. 875 Could Mean for Immigrant Communities  - USC Equity Research Institute (ERI) Data and Analysis to Power Social Change

Great new piece by three grad students who are part of @uscsociology.bsky.social and @eri-usc.bsky.social dornsife.usc.edu/eri/2025/09/...

Sociologists are concerned about L.A. citizens during a year of unrest. Citizens in L.A have witnessed a summer of unrest including wildfire recovery, ICE raids and protests. Elisha, a video intern fo... TikTok video by The Los Angeles Times

@jodyav.bsky.social and @profmpastor.bsky.social spoke with the @latimes.com to express their concerns about how recent events are affecting L.A. citizens.
www.tiktok.com/@latimes/vid...

detained during routine ICE check-ins to workplace raids that sparked citywide protests and the deployment of the National Guard. The piece features a quote from our associate director @jodyav.bsky.social, who underscores just how deeply immigration shapes life in California.

Contributor: Californians must refuse to abandon the immigrants among us What's happening to immigrants is testing how far our government can go in punishing, surveilling and silencing everyone.

Did you know?

Over 70% of undocumented immigrants in LA County have lived in the U.S. for more than a decade. Many are raising U.S. citizen children and contributing daily to our communities—yet they face detention, deportation, and intimidation. 1/2

#immigration #immigrantinclusion

In their latest LA Times op-ed, ERI’s @jodyav.bsky.social & @profmpastor.bsky.social break down what’s happening on the ground and why protecting immigrant communities is protecting our democracy.

Californians are stepping up, and our public institutions must do the same. 2/2

Thank you for sharing!

Thank you so much for sharing!

Contributor: Californians must refuse to abandon the immigrants among us What's happening to immigrants is testing how far our government can go in punishing, surveilling and silencing everyone.

Timely piece by @jodyav.bsky.social at a time when "progressives" and "dems" are happy to throw immigrants under the bus, forgetting their own family stories and how they daily benefit from immigrant labor.

In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet.

Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED) The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re...

The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out.

Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

YES this is my congressman @congresstran.bsky.social !!!! Thank you for your courage and for listening to your constituents! Hope to see you on @maddow.msnbc.com tonight!!

Antiracism: A Critique Antiracism: A Critique, While there has been a wealth of research and conversation about the role of racism in shaping our social, political and economic structures, antiracism – its highly publicized...

If antiracism is to survive the attacks on it – and build foundations that will last beyond feel-good vibes – it needs to be more than ANTI something. What is the future that it is FOR?

Join the conversation with John Solomos ↓
tinyurl.com/mr2e4emf @baggieyiannis.bsky.social

TOTE ASTRICT COLOR DOCTORS FOR AMERICA, Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB) OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al., Defendants. ORDER Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8] Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that 1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1]; 2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall, by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Civil Lawfare ABSTRACT. To offset rising mass incarceration expenses, states adopted strategies to increase revenue, including charging incarcerated individuals pay-to-s

Our new article (w/ April Fernandes & Gabriela Kirk-Werner) introduces the theoretical concept “Civil Lawfare” connecting the war on drugs, crime, and poverty to the weaponization of the civil legal system against disenfranchised communities.

academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab. Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.

"In hindsight, the first year may have been the entire ballgame — even if no one quite knew it at the time..."

Really good explainer by Zack Beauchamp here. Worth reading:

www.vox.com/politics/398...

US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration

US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations

Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation. The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

My latest.

As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.

I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.

Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Hi Pablo!!!!