Tina Shull
@tinashull.bsky.social
Associate Professor and public historian at UNC Charotte | Author of DETENTION EMPIRE | Carceral Studies, Climate Migration, Abolition | Creator, Climate Refugee Stories digital history project
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Thank you to all of the #UHA2025LA attendees to stopped by to learn about my digital project this morning at the Urban History Association conference
I'll also be sharing " #OurLandOurStories Wild Rice and Lenape Lifeways in the New Jersey Meadowlands" from 1-2pm, if you'd like to stop by! #envhist
I'll also be sharing " #OurLandOurStories Wild Rice and Lenape Lifeways in the New Jersey Meadowlands" from 1-2pm, if you'd like to stop by! #envhist
October 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Thank you to all of the #UHA2025LA attendees to stopped by to learn about my digital project this morning at the Urban History Association conference
I'll also be sharing " #OurLandOurStories Wild Rice and Lenape Lifeways in the New Jersey Meadowlands" from 1-2pm, if you'd like to stop by! #envhist
I'll also be sharing " #OurLandOurStories Wild Rice and Lenape Lifeways in the New Jersey Meadowlands" from 1-2pm, if you'd like to stop by! #envhist
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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
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.”"
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Hi, Bluesky! My name is Ashley DeAzevedo & I'm the Director of American Families United.
This is my first post 🎉 and I’m excited to connect with everyone here.
I'm from New Jersey. I'm a mom, wife, proud Catholic, small business owner, and I haven't given up hope in the promise of America.
This is my first post 🎉 and I’m excited to connect with everyone here.
I'm from New Jersey. I'm a mom, wife, proud Catholic, small business owner, and I haven't given up hope in the promise of America.
September 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hi, Bluesky! My name is Ashley DeAzevedo & I'm the Director of American Families United.
This is my first post 🎉 and I’m excited to connect with everyone here.
I'm from New Jersey. I'm a mom, wife, proud Catholic, small business owner, and I haven't given up hope in the promise of America.
This is my first post 🎉 and I’m excited to connect with everyone here.
I'm from New Jersey. I'm a mom, wife, proud Catholic, small business owner, and I haven't given up hope in the promise of America.
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🗣️ New from MiSC scholar Jenna Loyd for @publicbooks.bsky.social.
The article challenges the idea that "the border" is just a line on a map. Instead, it's a technology—a tool that mixes law, territory, bureaucracy & policing to control human mobility.
🧵 ⤵️
www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tec...
The article challenges the idea that "the border" is just a line on a map. Instead, it's a technology—a tool that mixes law, territory, bureaucracy & policing to control human mobility.
🧵 ⤵️
www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tec...
With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere - Public Books
Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose borderin...
www.publicbooks.org
September 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🗣️ New from MiSC scholar Jenna Loyd for @publicbooks.bsky.social.
The article challenges the idea that "the border" is just a line on a map. Instead, it's a technology—a tool that mixes law, territory, bureaucracy & policing to control human mobility.
🧵 ⤵️
www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tec...
The article challenges the idea that "the border" is just a line on a map. Instead, it's a technology—a tool that mixes law, territory, bureaucracy & policing to control human mobility.
🧵 ⤵️
www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tec...
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what a win. read my story on the facility for @climateconnections.bsky.social
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August 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
what a win. read my story on the facility for @climateconnections.bsky.social
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/alli...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/alli...
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No one owns the Water.
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺
August 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
No one owns the Water.
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺
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Homeland Heritage.
July 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Homeland Heritage.
It was an honor to give a keynote speech welcoming new US citizens at a naturalization ceremony on the 4th of July in #Charlotte last week. My message? Immigrants (not the Dec of Independence or “nation” or the Statue of Liberty or so-called golden door) are a beacon and what make America great
I attended a naturalization ceremony today for the first time. It was very moving. My friend & immigration historian @tinashull.bsky.social spoke, too. I hope these new citizens felt the support of everyone who witnessed their commitment to become U.S. citizens. #charlotte
July 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It was an honor to give a keynote speech welcoming new US citizens at a naturalization ceremony on the 4th of July in #Charlotte last week. My message? Immigrants (not the Dec of Independence or “nation” or the Statue of Liberty or so-called golden door) are a beacon and what make America great
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1/12 🧵 As migration scholars, we're honored to highlight @naomipaik.bsky.social's timely "Sanctuary for All," published by @oxunipress.bsky.social for @icahdq.bsky.social. She argues: with Project 2025 threats, expansive sanctuary is crucial for all. ⤵️
academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...
academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...
July 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
1/12 🧵 As migration scholars, we're honored to highlight @naomipaik.bsky.social's timely "Sanctuary for All," published by @oxunipress.bsky.social for @icahdq.bsky.social. She argues: with Project 2025 threats, expansive sanctuary is crucial for all. ⤵️
academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...
academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...
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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
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![MEMORANDUM OPINION
One morning, Kafka's Josef K. awakens to encounter two strange men outside his room.
As he gets his bearings, he realizes that he is under arrest. When he asks the strangers why, he
receives no answer. "We weren't sent to tell you that," one says. "Proceedings are under way
and you'll learn everything in due course." Franz Kafka, The Trial 5 (Breon Mitchell trans.,
Schocken Books Inc. 1998). Bewildered by these men and distressed by their message, K. tries
to comfort himself that he lives in "a state governed by law," one where "all statutes [are] in
force." Id. at 6. He therefore demands again, "How can I be under arrest? And in this manner?"
"Now there you go again," the guard replies. "We don't answer such questions." Undeterred, K.
offers his "papers" and demands their arrest warrant. "Good heavens!" the man scolds. "There's
been no mistake." "[O]ur department," he assures K., is only "attracted by guilt"; it "doesn't
seek [it] out…. That's the Law." Id. at 8-9. "I don't know that law," K. responds. "You'll feel
it eventually," the guard says. Id. at 9.
Such was the situation into which Frengel Reyes Mota, Andry Jose Hernandez Romero,
and scores of other Venezuelan noncitizens say they were plunged on March 15, 2025. In the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t5hgkoxrsxpe3wfisqfeymg5/bafkreidkcjprusx5ivxpcb7vqvqlqbncxvbdi5tmoupxjsovbpodc4dare@jpeg)
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🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY.
None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened.
Read the story below.
None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened.
Read the story below.
June 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY.
None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened.
Read the story below.
None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened.
Read the story below.
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Invisible Histories is doing extraordinary work to protect and preserve the queer histories of the U.S. south. They need help filling the gap produced by federal funding cuts.
invisiblehistory.org/support/
invisiblehistory.org/support/
Support
Support
invisiblehistory.org
June 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Invisible Histories is doing extraordinary work to protect and preserve the queer histories of the U.S. south. They need help filling the gap produced by federal funding cuts.
invisiblehistory.org/support/
invisiblehistory.org/support/
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ICE turned back in Somerville
So many Somerville community members came out that ICE simply retreated. Nonviolent resistance works when communities come together to protect kids and families.
So many Somerville community members came out that ICE simply retreated. Nonviolent resistance works when communities come together to protect kids and families.
May 30, 2025 at 3:49 AM
ICE turned back in Somerville
So many Somerville community members came out that ICE simply retreated. Nonviolent resistance works when communities come together to protect kids and families.
So many Somerville community members came out that ICE simply retreated. Nonviolent resistance works when communities come together to protect kids and families.
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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed.
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas
At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.
www.mysanantonio.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed.
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
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Happy International Workers' Day, especially to migrant workers.
May 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Happy International Workers' Day, especially to migrant workers.
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More executive orders on immigration. (Sorry!)
Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens
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 and
www.whitehouse.gov
April 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
More executive orders on immigration. (Sorry!)
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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.
![SpellWild110 • 2 points 17 hours ago
I just got this email too and I am a US citizen? Born and raised in the US. So confused.
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+ [-Potential_Travel_294 • 2 points 17 hours ago
Yeah, so confusing
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+ [H] ramoros1865 • 2 points 13 hours ago
I go this email last night as well and I have a green card](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihzoewvqjpslxfzhgd2va4qwmpxhbeyh7f3yur55pdomuhmtd46da@jpeg)
![[-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
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Got this today at 6ame9the thing is I was born here this is the email that sent it: [automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov]
(mailto:automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov)
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+ [-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
Has anyone clicked the link?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifbnpl6vrxsj35d2na7bq22mw3cve6ptfxmlnw26totsic2nzotoy@jpeg)
![+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I just got this same email right now
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+ [-JOk-Comfortable948 • 1 point 20 hours ago
Me too. I am an LPR since an year now and def concerns me seeing this. I got the email from cbpnoreply@cbp.dhs.gov and email looked legit due to its domain though, hope its a scam email. Crazy idiots not sure what they keep doing. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I have daca and i am wondering if i got it because I did advance parole in 2023
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+ |-] Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got the same email twice to my two different email adresses, I think its's a scam.
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+ [-]Ok-Comfortable948 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got it twice to my same email.
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+ [-]Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
Yeah, me too, I got twice too to a kind of personal email address, it's even not my work email address. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ [-]thawk1986 • 1 point 11 hours ago
It's legit:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mi
grants-cbp-one-app-legal-status-stripped-dhs/
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April 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.
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If you ever have the opportunity to fly Avelo Airlines—don’t.
Budget airline Avelo to fly deportation flights for ICE from Arizona
Budget carrier Avelo Airlines says it has signed an agreement to fly deportation flights from Arizona starting in May
abcnews.go.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
If you ever have the opportunity to fly Avelo Airlines—don’t.
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Yesterday, Palestinians located the bodies of 15 aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza. One week after two ambulances were directly shot at by the Israeli military, the bodies of these Red Crescent workers were finally found handcuffed and crushed under their ambulances, concealed in a mass grave.
March 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Yesterday, Palestinians located the bodies of 15 aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza. One week after two ambulances were directly shot at by the Israeli military, the bodies of these Red Crescent workers were finally found handcuffed and crushed under their ambulances, concealed in a mass grave.
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I just wrote an Action Network letter in solidarity with Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi by Right to Reject Zionism #R2RZ!
End the Repression of Academic Freedom: Reinstate Dr. Doutaghi NOW, @yale.edu & Yale Law School! Write a letter here to #StandWithHelyeh: actionnetwork.org/letters/end-...
End the Repression of Academic Freedom: Reinstate Dr. Doutaghi NOW, @yale.edu & Yale Law School! Write a letter here to #StandWithHelyeh: actionnetwork.org/letters/end-...
End the Repression of Academic Freedom: Reinstate Dr. Doutaghi Now!
Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi is an internationally recognized and published scholar of international law, political economy, and armed conflict. In 2023, the Law and Political Economy Project (LPE) at Yale U...
actionnetwork.org
March 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I just wrote an Action Network letter in solidarity with Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi by Right to Reject Zionism #R2RZ!
End the Repression of Academic Freedom: Reinstate Dr. Doutaghi NOW, @yale.edu & Yale Law School! Write a letter here to #StandWithHelyeh: actionnetwork.org/letters/end-...
End the Repression of Academic Freedom: Reinstate Dr. Doutaghi NOW, @yale.edu & Yale Law School! Write a letter here to #StandWithHelyeh: actionnetwork.org/letters/end-...
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Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we don’t oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...
Statement on Palestine, Genocide, and Repression
The Department of American Indian Studies issues a statement in support of Palestine.
web.archive.org
March 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we don’t oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...