Terri E. Givens
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Terri E. Givens
@profterrig.bsky.social

Bad ass in poli-sci UBC, Vancouver and Menlo Park, CA. Immigration, race, far right politics. Author of Radical Empathy and Reckoning. FrenchšŸ‡«šŸ‡·, GermanšŸ‡©šŸ‡Ŗ, Catsky 🐈 https://linktr.ee/terrigivens

Terri E. Givens is an author and political scientist. Givens is a professor at the University of British Columbia.

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Political science 72%
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My latest newsletter is out! Check out my latest book, and remember that #Empathy is a great gift for the holidays. My next event is with Bryan Alexander's Future Trends Forum on December 11th! lnkd.in/e79HD26Z

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Empathy is the perfect holiday gift
You may have heard that empathy is under attack. Apparently some folks think that understanding the feelings of others is bad for us.
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Lol…I always ask folks to guess who was born in Oakland and who was born in Spokane šŸ˜‚

And still polling well…last I heard in second place šŸ˜ž

I heard the AFD will be there, to JD’s delight. Funny how nobody wanted to talk about the far right when I used to be a regular at the Brussels Forum.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were ā€œsortedā€ at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were ā€œsortedā€ at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
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So gross…the whole thing makes me feel sick. There were many stories that passed through the UT Provost’s Office after I got there in 2006, so hard to get rid of folks like this but I didn’t hesitate when I became a provost.

Montreal folks! I'll be there Friday, February 20th!

To attend the noon event IN-PERSON, please reserve your space by SIGNING-UP HERE. forms.office.com/pages/respon...
L’OrĆ©al Canada / 1500 Robert-Bourassa 6th Floor, MontrĆ©al

To attend VIRTUALLY, please dm me for the link.

Lol…sigh.
a man with a fist in the air and the word someday behind him
ALT: a man with a fist in the air and the word someday behind him
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Thanks for posting…and reminding me to work on that!

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Since @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social doesn't get into Birthright Citizenship, here's a draft I have for the updated edition of mine and @profterrig.bsky.social immigration text. Thought I had already posted it but whoops, nope. rachelnavarre.com/2026/02/07/a...
A Brief Overview of Birthright Citizenship
This is a draft copy of a new section to the updated edition of Terri Given’s and my book. …. While the Constitution gave Congress the power to decide naturalization policy, most immigration …
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

I just did that in class today.

#BlackHistoryMonth - about the first Black doll I ever owned. I loved Barbie, but Mattel didn't produce a Black Barbie until 1980. Diahann Carroll played a nurse in the show Julia, another first. The doll that was made from that show was an important representation for so many young girls like me.

My generation grew up with a show that helped us see a beautiful image of our country…that’s why our hearts are breaking now. šŸ’”

They are an important part of our country’s history and I’m very proud to be part of their legacy. I have learned so much from their lives and appreciate the work of advocates like @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social who work to educate us all about health disparities.ļæ¼

Rocelious and Leora lived through difficult times, growing up during the depression and the uncertainties of WW II, often having manage their way through the Jim Crow South and the intolerant North. My father died in 2001 and my mother in 2010, both as a result of cardiovascular disease.

Over 20 years of service, she raised seven children and moved too many times to count. Leora was part of the Great Migration from Louisiana to Los Angeles in the early 1950s where she went to work as a seamstress and met a handsome young soldier who swept her off her feet.

For #BlackHistoryMonth I will be focusing on people who have had an impact on my life, both those who have passed and those who are still very much with us.

To start, I want to honor my parents. Although my dad was the one who enlisted in the Air Force, my mom served, too.
Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.

Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

This is who runs this account
The guy on the right is New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, photographed at the Kennedy Center premiere of ā€œMelania.ā€ #GoSeahawks!

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I'm skimming through mentions of Trump in the Trump-Epstein Files, and there's one thing that I'm thinking over and over:

All we had to do was believe the women.

There are dozens of stories in here that make me ill. Do you really believe these are all lies?
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Definitely looking forward to this!

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When we talk about people murdered by ICE, we shouldn't forget Keith Porter, a black man who was shot by ICE on new years eve
Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com.

ā€˜Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
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Minnesota is the best of us.

My interview with @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social on Trump’s speech

The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn: Trump gives speech at World Economic Forum in Davos www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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