Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸

My non-white friends' conversations this weekend. Talking about how terrifying it is to be seen as a "fuuhreignnerrr" in 2025.

What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama? Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
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Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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4-year-old: Mommy, why is a house called 'a house'?
Me: That is a great question. I am not sure!

#toddlerquestions

Kicking off our @migrationpolicy.bsky.social conference State of Play panel, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum, emphasizes that "In the absence of immigration, the US would look a lot like Japan”

He also notes that our success will be dictated by our immigration policies

Randomly remembering how a grad school classmate would loudly eat their meal in class *and* put their feet up on their seat in class (while everyone was sitting in a circle). Another classmate had one earphone in their ear during class and watching a TV show on their laptop.

Grading my students' video posts. One of my students had a tuxedo cat just hanging out on his shoulder like a parrot. I jokingly told him that he'd get extra points because of the cat. At the end of the video, the student made a point and the cat gave him a dubious look 😂

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Went to the doctor yesterday and the physician used AI to record and transcribe my visit. AI definitely lessens the burnout of healthcare workers...but AI corporations having access to my audio AND medical information literally makes my skin crawl.

From the rupaulsdragrace community on Reddit: Nymphia meets Jane Goodall for Earth Day Explore this post and more from the rupaulsdragrace community

Jane Goodall also got a kick out of being impersonated on RuPaul's Drag Race snatch game! Did an Earth Day chat with Nymphia Wind who portrayed her

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ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

AAUP v. Rubio: Detailed Case Summary The AAUP is a plaintiff in a case challenging a Trump administration policy of targeting noncitizen students and faculty members for arrest and deportation based on their lawful political speech, part...

Summary and full opinion here

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Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Happy Filipino American History Month! 🇵🇭🇺🇸😍

I've basically seen the kid working in my Chinese takeaway store grow up haha.

The man arrested for Charlie Kirk’s murder is a White 22 year old named Tyler Robinson. This is how prominent MAGA pundit Dinesh D’Souza is reacting - blaming professors.

New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.

If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.

It's just a question of political will.

This is class solidarity.

In case you’re at all confused.

Getting so many freaking emails about external links on Blackboard not working on a left click. Found out the right clicks (and opening a new tab/window) work. UGHH. I despise classroom tech "upgrades" because they often have these random bugs 😡

Dying at the pink toe beans 😭

Two tuxedo cats snuggled up on a white comforter

Post cats, not takes

They watched ICE detain their dad. Now D.C. neighbors escort them to school. Immigrant neighborhoods across the District have organized “walking school buses” to shuttle kids to classes during President Donald Trump’s federalization of D.C. police.

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

I like both, but I have a sweet spot for Tarantella because they gave me a bottle of wine one year lol I also joke that my now-toddler is 1/2 Tarantella's since it was COVID and we couldn't eat out.

Charlie Kirk's assassination reminds me of Ninoy Aquino's assassination. Even if we fundamentally disagreed on our values and beliefs, political violence is never the answer.

Wow, that must have been a (horrible) sight to see. Another important question: are you Team Tarantella or Team Turiello's? :)

Migration to the United States took off in earnest when the islands were a U.S. colony%2C from 1898 to 1946%2C during which period Filipinos were treated as U.S. nationals for immigration and labor...

The US is far and away the top destination for Filipino migrants globally

A rich & complicated history explains the migration—and how it is changing

My forever writing buddy 😍

I never quite know what to say when students tell me that they're anxious about my class. My view of the classroom as a place of fun and learning gives me rose-tinted glasses 🙃

Remembered everything for the four-year-old's first day of school after a week of no daycare. Hubby texts me & says "she forgot her glasses**."

*Sigh

**I dropped off her glasses at school.