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Erin McElroy
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Associate Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
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📢Issue 11.3 out now!

2 Engagements, 2 ORAs + the Final Editorial of the 2020-25 ESTS Collective on the difference & promise of leading and running a diamond open access journal

#ClimateChange #TransnationalSTS #Retooling #Openness #HousingJustice

#OpenScience

👀https://bit.ly/3LoiLxT
January 28, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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Props to the developers behind ICE Map, cataloguing all known ICE incidents www.icemap.dev
ICE Map
ICE Map - Visualizing ICE activity
www.icemap.dev
January 28, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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New issue of ESTS out, including an interesting article by Luis Felipe R. Murillo and Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social on possibilities for creating “'political software' aligned with the goals of housing action research" estsjournal.org/index.php/es...
January 28, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Conflicting info about whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency"

ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isn't just one agency; its an entire infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism.
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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There is no "immigration problem"

There is no migrant problem

There is no problem with illegals

There is no border crisis

Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues.

Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.

And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.
zeteo.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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NEW: ICE Agents Fatally Shoot Observer in Minneapolis

unicornriot.ninja/2026/ice-age...
ICE Agents Fatally Shoot Observer in Minneapolis - UNICORN RIOT
ICE fatally shot a woman acting as an observer to their immigration actions in Minneapolis.
unicornriot.ninja
January 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Excited to have this out in the world

“Disciplining Through Landlord Technologies: Why the Carceral Logics of Tenant Surveillance Require Abolition”

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

@antipodeonline.bsky.social
Disciplining Through Landlord Technologies: Why the Carceral Logics of Tenant Surveillance Require Abolition
Facial recognition and other surveillance systems are increasingly being deployed in low-income housing across the United States, adding new scopic regimes into an already carceral propertied landsca...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Join us as we “reflect on what bringing abolitionist and ant- imperial geographies together in post-socialist contexts can do. Just as global capital connections mapped the Siliconizing moment, other connections scaffold the very possibilities of unbecoming Silicon Valley.”
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Advancing techno-fascism, the EO edition.
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Don’t give up. Don’t give in. Let’s be inspired together on December 7!
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
For those in San Diego tomorrow! Political Technology: Silicon Traps and Cartographic Contradictions

Wednesday, October 29 · 4 - 5pm PDT

www.eventbrite.com/e/political-...
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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BREAKING: Dozens of Northern California immigrants abruptly summoned to ICE office for weekend check-ins www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Dozens of Northern California immigrants abruptly summoned to ICE office for weekend check-ins
Several dozen people reported to the Stockton office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday afternoon after receiving summons, immigrant advocates said.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
For those in DC!
October 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Join the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies on Wed, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. for the launch of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Unseen—a feminist take on why our ties to tech often feel “creepy.”

go.umd.edu/technocreep
October 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This explains a lot. For a moment, I wondered why they'd do something as ridiculous as drop agents on the roof of the apartment building from helicopters, but of course, they did it for this footage. The same reason they were marching in formation downtown and snatched a family in Millennium Park.
DHS posted a sizzle reel about it.
October 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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September 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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And now this is the first statement from a named White House official, hours before the proclamation is set to go into effect.

Despite saying “to be clear,” her first tweet in this thread contained an FAQ posted yesterday which contains NONE of the information she lists below.
September 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas.

Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
September 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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What happens when your landlord turns your home into a surveillance zone? From facial recognition cameras to automated fines, tenants are finding their daily lives policed in new ways.
Hear Erin McElroy on Against the Grain unpack the rise of “landlord tech.”
Full interview → kpfa.org
#KPFA #BayArea
September 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM