Matt Vega
@mattvega.bsky.social
NBA fan. Part-time runner. Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. I also teach in their Africana Studies department.
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New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
www.404media.co
June 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...
www.cnn.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
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This animation shows how temperatures have changed over the last 100 years for each February-April period. On each map, red shading indicates warmer than average conditions, and blue shading shows the opposite. Note the trend.
Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).
Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).
May 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This animation shows how temperatures have changed over the last 100 years for each February-April period. On each map, red shading indicates warmer than average conditions, and blue shading shows the opposite. Note the trend.
Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).
Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).
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Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay 🐝
Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive.
Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.
Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive.
Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.
May 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay 🐝
Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive.
Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.
Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive.
Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.
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My statement on the charges filed against me:
May 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My statement on the charges filed against me:
I completed my first year of teaching on the tenure track. What a year.
May 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I completed my first year of teaching on the tenure track. What a year.
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This is my new favorite image because it perfectly encapsulates the concern trolling and crybullying from the right when you give them even a fraction of what they spew out on a consistent basis.
May 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is my new favorite image because it perfectly encapsulates the concern trolling and crybullying from the right when you give them even a fraction of what they spew out on a consistent basis.
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Self-identifying as a centrist is perhaps the most cynical and amoral political identity you can have because you're just openly admitting your beliefs aren't really beliefs they're just strategic positions that only exist relative to others in the room you happen to be in
May 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Self-identifying as a centrist is perhaps the most cynical and amoral political identity you can have because you're just openly admitting your beliefs aren't really beliefs they're just strategic positions that only exist relative to others in the room you happen to be in
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The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
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Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state
A state where there is no higher authority
A state where there is no higher authority
May 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state
A state where there is no higher authority
A state where there is no higher authority
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If they suspend Habeas Corpus, it won't just be for "migrants" or "illegals" or "criminals." If they suspend Habeas Corpus it will be for you and me and whomever this regime decides is unfit, undesirable, and a threat or a problem. This is how it works. This is how it's always worked.
May 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If they suspend Habeas Corpus, it won't just be for "migrants" or "illegals" or "criminals." If they suspend Habeas Corpus it will be for you and me and whomever this regime decides is unfit, undesirable, and a threat or a problem. This is how it works. This is how it's always worked.
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The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka.
They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.
They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.
May 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka.
They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.
They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.
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let's fucking go
May 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
let's fucking go
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Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.
May 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.
Sending gratitude for @micahh.bsky.social ‘s existence in this world, and for sharing some of their existence and vision to my “Liberation Theology” students. One of the best classes.
April 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Sending gratitude for @micahh.bsky.social ‘s existence in this world, and for sharing some of their existence and vision to my “Liberation Theology” students. One of the best classes.
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This whole clip is truly unbelievably great. I am genuinely astounded by how good this is.
Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.
April 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This whole clip is truly unbelievably great. I am genuinely astounded by how good this is.
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"When an authoritarian tells you he’s going to do something, believe him. Each outlandish statement is a trial balloon, one step closer to action. And when people don’t push back...the boundaries...permanently shift."
Vital piece:
Vital piece:
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.
www.theatlantic.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"When an authoritarian tells you he’s going to do something, believe him. Each outlandish statement is a trial balloon, one step closer to action. And when people don’t push back...the boundaries...permanently shift."
Vital piece:
Vital piece:
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Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."
April 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."
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The US Constitution guarantees due process.
Donald Trump is eroding it in real time – we must fight back to restore the balance of power.
Today, I’m announcing a series of measures against El Salvador for aiding his unconstitutional deportation scheme.
Donald Trump is eroding it in real time – we must fight back to restore the balance of power.
Today, I’m announcing a series of measures against El Salvador for aiding his unconstitutional deportation scheme.
Democratic Governor Moves To Boycott El Salvador For Aiding Trump
Illinois Gov. J.B. Prtizker is ordering the state's pension funds and procurement agencies to review any investments in the Latin American country.
www.huffpost.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The US Constitution guarantees due process.
Donald Trump is eroding it in real time – we must fight back to restore the balance of power.
Today, I’m announcing a series of measures against El Salvador for aiding his unconstitutional deportation scheme.
Donald Trump is eroding it in real time – we must fight back to restore the balance of power.
Today, I’m announcing a series of measures against El Salvador for aiding his unconstitutional deportation scheme.
Check out this spotlight from the University of San Diego on what I do, why I do it, and what keeps me curious and driven.
Faculty Spotlight: Q&A with Matthew Vega, PhD
The USD College of Arts and Sciences (the college) hired 14 new faculty members in three distinctive themes – Borders and Social Justice, Technology and the Human Experience and Climate Change and Env...
www.sandiego.edu
April 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Check out this spotlight from the University of San Diego on what I do, why I do it, and what keeps me curious and driven.
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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
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There we go.
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
There we go.
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The Trump admin is terminating a settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Black Alabama communities harmed by raw sewage, calling the agreement an “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy”
Trump admin terminates ‘illegal DEI’ settlement over raw sewage in poor, majority-Black Alabama communities
The agreement, reached under the Biden Administration, required the state’s Department of Public Health to improve sanitation efforts in Alabama’s Black Belt.
www.whatimreading.net
April 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Trump admin is terminating a settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Black Alabama communities harmed by raw sewage, calling the agreement an “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy”
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The first months of the Trump administration have been an assault on everything that those who work for justice hold dear. Yet, it is in times like these that our movements have brought down mighty systems, freed people, and changed history.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/cont...
#Palestine #Israel
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#Palestine #Israel
Continue to fight, even when you are weary
The first months of the Trump administration have been an assault on everything that those who work for justice hold dear. Yet, it is in times like these that our movements have brought down mighty systems,...
mondoweiss.net
April 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The first months of the Trump administration have been an assault on everything that those who work for justice hold dear. Yet, it is in times like these that our movements have brought down mighty systems, freed people, and changed history.
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/cont...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/04/cont...
#Palestine #Israel