Alex
@alxreyes.bsky.social
PhD Candidate and Poli Sci Prof. Studying Migration, Borders, Sovereignty, Citizenship and Democratic Theory. Imagining a world where many worlds fit.
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The Department of Homeland Security has spend over $800k worth of ads on Facebook and Instagram clearly targeted at people with Latin American / Mexican background telling them that "if you are here illegaly we will find you and we will deport you".
July 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Department of Homeland Security has spend over $800k worth of ads on Facebook and Instagram clearly targeted at people with Latin American / Mexican background telling them that "if you are here illegaly we will find you and we will deport you".
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"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
May 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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On CNBC today, Elizabeth Warren had to explain to anchor Sara Eisen that Congress can in fact take away Trump's tariffs authority, and also that America is not ruled by a king who can make laws by decree.
April 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
On CNBC today, Elizabeth Warren had to explain to anchor Sara Eisen that Congress can in fact take away Trump's tariffs authority, and also that America is not ruled by a king who can make laws by decree.
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This isn’t America First—it’s America alone.
People don’t realize the path Trump has us on.
While he waits by the phone for Xi Jinping to “negotiate,” Xi’s out making moves—touring Asia and cutting deals with European leaders to make China less dependent on the U.S.
People don’t realize the path Trump has us on.
While he waits by the phone for Xi Jinping to “negotiate,” Xi’s out making moves—touring Asia and cutting deals with European leaders to make China less dependent on the U.S.
April 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This isn’t America First—it’s America alone.
People don’t realize the path Trump has us on.
While he waits by the phone for Xi Jinping to “negotiate,” Xi’s out making moves—touring Asia and cutting deals with European leaders to make China less dependent on the U.S.
People don’t realize the path Trump has us on.
While he waits by the phone for Xi Jinping to “negotiate,” Xi’s out making moves—touring Asia and cutting deals with European leaders to make China less dependent on the U.S.
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The CFPB is one of those things where like, virtually every single person in the United States would support its existence if they were told the truth about what it is/does. Or used to do, I guess.
A victory for scammers.
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has been gutted by @makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has been gutted by @makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally-mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The CFPB is one of those things where like, virtually every single person in the United States would support its existence if they were told the truth about what it is/does. Or used to do, I guess.
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Why is no one surprised at this horror.
March 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Why is no one surprised at this horror.
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This is essentially a rounding error in savings to justify anti-intellectualism of the highest order: "The Department expects to see cost savings of more than $30 million in the first year through the discontinuation of 91 studies"
Pentagon Culls Social Science Research, Prioritizes Fiscal Responsibility and Technologies
The Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering is scrapping its social science research portfolio as part of a broader effort to ensure fiscal responsibility and prioritize
www.defense.gov
March 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This is essentially a rounding error in savings to justify anti-intellectualism of the highest order: "The Department expects to see cost savings of more than $30 million in the first year through the discontinuation of 91 studies"
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Good morning @democrats.org - have you decided to act like the crisis that is occurring (and that you campaigned on) is happening or still nah?
March 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Good morning @democrats.org - have you decided to act like the crisis that is occurring (and that you campaigned on) is happening or still nah?
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We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap
March 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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where we are as a country
February 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
where we are as a country
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It is the first legal hurdle thrown up to the Trump administration as it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention facility on the naval base near Cuba.
Three migrants win temporary block from potential transfer to Guantanamo
It is the first legal hurdle thrown up to the Trump administration as it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention facility on the naval base near Cuba.
www.npr.org
February 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It is the first legal hurdle thrown up to the Trump administration as it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention facility on the naval base near Cuba.
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A thing to understand here is that Wired + Teen Vogue is Condé Nast — this is the Newhouse family being basically the only good billionaire publishers. Other than them, it’s the indies of the new alt media and stalwarts like ProPublica and then basically crickets.
Is it just me or has WIRED been dogwalking the rest of the media on this story
NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately."
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www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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www.wired.com/story/treasu...
February 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A thing to understand here is that Wired + Teen Vogue is Condé Nast — this is the Newhouse family being basically the only good billionaire publishers. Other than them, it’s the indies of the new alt media and stalwarts like ProPublica and then basically crickets.
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NOW: a federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s DOGE employees from being granted access to sensitive financial information in the Treasury Department.
Any records they already obtained need to be destroyed.
Any records they already obtained need to be destroyed.
February 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
NOW: a federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s DOGE employees from being granted access to sensitive financial information in the Treasury Department.
Any records they already obtained need to be destroyed.
Any records they already obtained need to be destroyed.
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"Musk’s political project with DOGE is actually quite straightforward: The world’s richest man appears to be indiscriminately dismantling the government with an eye toward consolidating power and punishing his political enemies."
“This is a rapid unscheduled disassembly of government services.”
“This is a rapid unscheduled disassembly of government services.”
I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)
Elon Musk’s Bureaucratic Coup
Welcome to the “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of the United States government.
www.theatlantic.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"Musk’s political project with DOGE is actually quite straightforward: The world’s richest man appears to be indiscriminately dismantling the government with an eye toward consolidating power and punishing his political enemies."
“This is a rapid unscheduled disassembly of government services.”
“This is a rapid unscheduled disassembly of government services.”
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Rubio, the most reasonable and accomplished of Trumps Cabinet picks, choosing a white nationalist for State and an insurrectionist to run an agency that Elon Musk is illegally dismantling. If this isn't a constitutional crisis, nothing is.
The guy overseeing USAID was identified two years ago as a Jan. 6 participant who entered the Capitol through a broken window.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Marco Rubio empowers State Department official Pete Marocco to run USAID
Marocco held several national security positions during the first Trump administration, including at USAID, where he tried to consolidate power and slash funding.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Rubio, the most reasonable and accomplished of Trumps Cabinet picks, choosing a white nationalist for State and an insurrectionist to run an agency that Elon Musk is illegally dismantling. If this isn't a constitutional crisis, nothing is.
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BREAKING
Mexican authorities did not allow a US military plane, filled with deportees, to land in Mexico today.
Mexican authorities did not allow a US military plane, filled with deportees, to land in Mexico today.
bit.ly
January 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
BREAKING
Mexican authorities did not allow a US military plane, filled with deportees, to land in Mexico today.
Mexican authorities did not allow a US military plane, filled with deportees, to land in Mexico today.
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Painfully obvious point (since I wrote a book on Hurricane Katrina, where the initial lack of federal response was devastating): FEMA exists because states and localities are easily overwhelmed by disasters – which are only growing in scale and intensity. Are we just going to rerun 2005 now?
Trump: "I'll be signing an EO to begin process of fundamentally reforming & overhauling or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think, frankly, FEMA is not good. When you have a problem like this, you want to use your state to fix it & not waste time calling FEMA..I think we're gonna recommend FEMA go away"
January 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Painfully obvious point (since I wrote a book on Hurricane Katrina, where the initial lack of federal response was devastating): FEMA exists because states and localities are easily overwhelmed by disasters – which are only growing in scale and intensity. Are we just going to rerun 2005 now?
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This will cause great devastation to many people around the world, and to U.S. interests.
State Department memo: "For existing foreign assistance awards, contracting officers and grant officers shall immediately issue stop-work orders."
via @alterigoe.bsky.social
www.devex.com/news/exclusi...
State Department memo: "For existing foreign assistance awards, contracting officers and grant officers shall immediately issue stop-work orders."
via @alterigoe.bsky.social
www.devex.com/news/exclusi...
Exclusive: State Department issues stop-work order on US aid
The memo puts a pause on new foreign aid spending, as well as a stop-work order for existing grants and contracts.
www.devex.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This will cause great devastation to many people around the world, and to U.S. interests.
State Department memo: "For existing foreign assistance awards, contracting officers and grant officers shall immediately issue stop-work orders."
via @alterigoe.bsky.social
www.devex.com/news/exclusi...
State Department memo: "For existing foreign assistance awards, contracting officers and grant officers shall immediately issue stop-work orders."
via @alterigoe.bsky.social
www.devex.com/news/exclusi...
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When I clerked on the Ninth Circuit, I worked on some notable cases over which Judge Coughenour presided. He was very solidly conservative. This just isn't a close question by any mainstream constitutional analysis.
“Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, told the Trump DOJ attorney. “It just boggles my mind.”
Federal judge blocks Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship nationwide, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.”
“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is.”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is.”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
January 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
When I clerked on the Ninth Circuit, I worked on some notable cases over which Judge Coughenour presided. He was very solidly conservative. This just isn't a close question by any mainstream constitutional analysis.
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State and local prosecutors have the tools at their disposal to send many newly freed Jan. 6 defendants back to prison—including the most violent and unrepentant offenders. And Trump can't do anything about it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
How State Prosecutors Can Send Jan. 6 Offenders Back to Prison
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, is the first prosecutor to openly explore charges against Jan. 6 offenders under state law.
slate.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
State and local prosecutors have the tools at their disposal to send many newly freed Jan. 6 defendants back to prison—including the most violent and unrepentant offenders. And Trump can't do anything about it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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NEW: Here is Judge Coughenour's temporary restraining order against Trump's birthright citizenship EO. It appears to apply nationwide. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
NEW: Here is Judge Coughenour's temporary restraining order against Trump's birthright citizenship EO. It appears to apply nationwide. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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A Reagan-appointed judge blocked Trump's birthright citizenship order and more or less said "I award you no points, may God have mercy on your soul"
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
January 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A Reagan-appointed judge blocked Trump's birthright citizenship order and more or less said "I award you no points, may God have mercy on your soul"
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
I need to start using this more. For as much as I hate Twitter not enough of the political and academic communities I follow have made the jump to allow for easy dissemination of information and analysis.
January 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I need to start using this more. For as much as I hate Twitter not enough of the political and academic communities I follow have made the jump to allow for easy dissemination of information and analysis.