Rachel Navarre
@rnavarre.bsky.social
Displaced South Louisianan. Associate prof of PoliSci @Bridgewater StateU (MA), studies Populism, immigration policy and other depressing things. Newest book The Age of Discontent is out now.
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Rachel Navarre
@rnavarre.bsky.social
· Mar 23
Boycott any company that sponsors. Let make sure it’s just Balance of nature, my pillow and relief factor and whatever else Foxnews one
Hey @democrats.org yet another story for your ad campaign that I’m really sure you’re going to start any second now.
Police who live in their communities often park their cars outside their home. Some agencies put full government names on patrol cars. CBP/ICE get paid more and do a whole lot less.
Todd Lyons, Trump's ICE chief, is testifying this morning in a House hearing.
Lyons will say in his opening remarks that ICE is somehow the victim of ICE's reign of terror and violence in Minnesota, not the immigrants too traumatized to go outside or the American citizens ICE/CBP have killed.
Lyons will say in his opening remarks that ICE is somehow the victim of ICE's reign of terror and violence in Minnesota, not the immigrants too traumatized to go outside or the American citizens ICE/CBP have killed.
February 11, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Police who live in their communities often park their cars outside their home. Some agencies put full government names on patrol cars. CBP/ICE get paid more and do a whole lot less.
…And only the one non traditional student chuckles while everyone else stares at you.
February 11, 2026 at 1:25 AM
…And only the one non traditional student chuckles while everyone else stares at you.
I honestly don’t know what happened. Both me and my partner were able to break into our own houses by 10 but I don’t think the kiddo could. Some of it is we don’t live by cousins and that’s who we both roamed with, and we don’t live walkable distance from school, but, there’s a change.
February 11, 2026 at 1:23 AM
I honestly don’t know what happened. Both me and my partner were able to break into our own houses by 10 but I don’t think the kiddo could. Some of it is we don’t live by cousins and that’s who we both roamed with, and we don’t live walkable distance from school, but, there’s a change.
Also issues you mention related to research (and not just how it gets translated) are issues universal to all research: do we have the data, human biases conceptualization, model choice etc. framing them as unique to an area that is currently politically salient is not value neutral.
February 10, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Also issues you mention related to research (and not just how it gets translated) are issues universal to all research: do we have the data, human biases conceptualization, model choice etc. framing them as unique to an area that is currently politically salient is not value neutral.
Noble lies are bad & I have no problem w/results that complicate understandings; also data changes over time. But your framing mirrors right wing attacks (until recently favored by someone you quote extensively in that piece) so yeah, hackles are raised. Finally, Bluesky doesn’t have an algorithm.
February 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Noble lies are bad & I have no problem w/results that complicate understandings; also data changes over time. But your framing mirrors right wing attacks (until recently favored by someone you quote extensively in that piece) so yeah, hackles are raised. Finally, Bluesky doesn’t have an algorithm.
Rather, creating a way that punishes employers for underpaying employees, that doesn’t penalize immigrants could make the advantage of underpaying workers disappear, but that argument isn’t ever made. Why not? Also, IQ? Really? In 2025, we’re going to argue that IQ has some sort of actual meaning?
February 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Rather, creating a way that punishes employers for underpaying employees, that doesn’t penalize immigrants could make the advantage of underpaying workers disappear, but that argument isn’t ever made. Why not? Also, IQ? Really? In 2025, we’re going to argue that IQ has some sort of actual meaning?
So I’m not interested in being quote mined for your next article fyi, but I think you can have an explanation that basically says crime rate is higher in countries with less avenues to integration and citizenship; also while immigration can hurt individual wages, restriction has not fixed it
February 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
So I’m not interested in being quote mined for your next article fyi, but I think you can have an explanation that basically says crime rate is higher in countries with less avenues to integration and citizenship; also while immigration can hurt individual wages, restriction has not fixed it
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Last week, I published a report - the "Political Disconnect" -based on interviews with 144 low-income & working-class people, across racial groups, who don't usually vote. They are the experts on why, and today I want to share their words.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Last week, I published a report - the "Political Disconnect" -based on interviews with 144 low-income & working-class people, across racial groups, who don't usually vote. They are the experts on why, and today I want to share their words.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
You are def not alone. I can do advanced statistics, but I still feel like I’m bad at math at heart bc while I can do what I need, I’m still bad at exercise questions in the book. I wonder what might have been if I was taught the way they do now with a focus on understanding the concepts.
February 10, 2026 at 2:13 PM
You are def not alone. I can do advanced statistics, but I still feel like I’m bad at math at heart bc while I can do what I need, I’m still bad at exercise questions in the book. I wonder what might have been if I was taught the way they do now with a focus on understanding the concepts.
Same. I emphasize that I do need to be fair to other students and if they want to lie to me, that’s on them. I’m not responsible for their behavior and if this is how they choose to use their free will, I’ll be disappointed, but that’s on them. I’ll do what’s right on my end.
February 10, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Same. I emphasize that I do need to be fair to other students and if they want to lie to me, that’s on them. I’m not responsible for their behavior and if this is how they choose to use their free will, I’ll be disappointed, but that’s on them. I’ll do what’s right on my end.
It’s just not worth it and we get extensions all the time. I am not above using heavy Catholic guilt to encourage them not to misuse the policy however.
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
It’s just not worth it and we get extensions all the time. I am not above using heavy Catholic guilt to encourage them not to misuse the policy however.
Read the thread if you don’t know who this person is, but once again, I’m more than willing to take a 99% tax rate in exchange for a billion dollars.
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Read the thread if you don’t know who this person is, but once again, I’m more than willing to take a 99% tax rate in exchange for a billion dollars.
I was more mad that a) I thought he was in the hospital at first (b) he thought I wouldn’t give him an extension (I’ve had him before) and (c) at whoever hurt him before! I’m only strict when there’s a college deadline, it’s something that impacts others (peer review), or it’s constant.
February 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I was more mad that a) I thought he was in the hospital at first (b) he thought I wouldn’t give him an extension (I’ve had him before) and (c) at whoever hurt him before! I’m only strict when there’s a college deadline, it’s something that impacts others (peer review), or it’s constant.
I once got an email from a mom that was very clear student didn’t know she was emailing me, but he wouldn’t ask for an extension even though they were putting down their childhood pet unexpectedly. I did only email the student back to tell them good lord take a day, but some of us need to chill.
February 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I once got an email from a mom that was very clear student didn’t know she was emailing me, but he wouldn’t ask for an extension even though they were putting down their childhood pet unexpectedly. I did only email the student back to tell them good lord take a day, but some of us need to chill.
Exurb definitely then. Cedar park has grown towards it, but not quite enough, and it does have a train stop to Austin.
February 9, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Exurb definitely then. Cedar park has grown towards it, but not quite enough, and it does have a train stop to Austin.
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1/ This type of government spending is well within my area of expertise, so let me offer my two cents. Long story short, there's a very important and somewhat dangerous way in which this pattern of spending isn't normal, and a one interesting way in which it is very normal. 🧵
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 PM
1/ This type of government spending is well within my area of expertise, so let me offer my two cents. Long story short, there's a very important and somewhat dangerous way in which this pattern of spending isn't normal, and a one interesting way in which it is very normal. 🧵
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Riffing on this idea…
We need security force defections. We do not win until rank and file ICE agents quit and join us.
So how do we accomplish that? How do we create a message that will “encourage” this result?
And I may have stumbled on an idea…
We need security force defections. We do not win until rank and file ICE agents quit and join us.
So how do we accomplish that? How do we create a message that will “encourage” this result?
And I may have stumbled on an idea…
Why protest at an ICE detention center if you’re gonna face the speakers toward the street and talk about the horrors of ICE?
They know more about conditions in those buildings than we do. We should be pounding on them that THEY are the monsters but THEY can change that.
They know more about conditions in those buildings than we do. We should be pounding on them that THEY are the monsters but THEY can change that.
February 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Riffing on this idea…
We need security force defections. We do not win until rank and file ICE agents quit and join us.
So how do we accomplish that? How do we create a message that will “encourage” this result?
And I may have stumbled on an idea…
We need security force defections. We do not win until rank and file ICE agents quit and join us.
So how do we accomplish that? How do we create a message that will “encourage” this result?
And I may have stumbled on an idea…
My husband is getting very tired of me being like “oh my god, X just happened in the book. EVERYTHING HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. TIME IS A CIRCLE.”
February 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM
My husband is getting very tired of me being like “oh my god, X just happened in the book. EVERYTHING HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. TIME IS A CIRCLE.”
If you want more antebellum and Civil War Era knowledge that seems eerily familiar with today, I strongly suggest this book. My most recent heavy sigh and staring at the wall was caused by “but even condemning a physical attack became partisan….”
bookshop.org/p/books/char...
bookshop.org/p/books/char...
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 PM
If you want more antebellum and Civil War Era knowledge that seems eerily familiar with today, I strongly suggest this book. My most recent heavy sigh and staring at the wall was caused by “but even condemning a physical attack became partisan….”
bookshop.org/p/books/char...
bookshop.org/p/books/char...
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Reposted by Rachel Navarre
A confidential agreement provides yet more evidence of the administration’s campaign to interfere with upcoming elections. bit.ly/46tX4nd
“Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data
At least 10 states have handed over their full voter files to the Justice Department.
www.brennancenter.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
A confidential agreement provides yet more evidence of the administration’s campaign to interfere with upcoming elections. bit.ly/46tX4nd
At least he kept it on those Big Chief notepads
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
At least he kept it on those Big Chief notepads
Wait the land before time … in theaters?? NOW?!? At this moment in time?
Also I have to go sob in the shower for no reason whatsoever.
Also I have to go sob in the shower for no reason whatsoever.
a man taking a shower with the words sobbing uncontrollably written below him
Alt: a man taking a shower with the words sobbing uncontrollably written below him
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February 9, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Wait the land before time … in theaters?? NOW?!? At this moment in time?
Also I have to go sob in the shower for no reason whatsoever.
Also I have to go sob in the shower for no reason whatsoever.
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From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 3:54 AM
From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵
Adding this to the slides. Also as a South Louisianan, ewwwww.
"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Adding this to the slides. Also as a South Louisianan, ewwwww.