Yoshiko Herrera
@yoshikoherrera.bsky.social
Professor, Political Science Univ of Wisconsin-Madison. Comparative politics, social identities, nationalism, xenophobia, teaching on the Russian war on Ukraine
https://yoshikoherrera.com
https://yoshikoherrera.com
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"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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Over 136,000 sq. km of Ukrainian territory remain contaminated with mines and explosives, with Kharkiv Oblast suffering the most, said Emergency Service
Since the start of Russia’s war in 2022, 380 people, including 21 children, have been killed by explosive devices
📸 DSNS
Since the start of Russia’s war in 2022, 380 people, including 21 children, have been killed by explosive devices
📸 DSNS
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Over 136,000 sq. km of Ukrainian territory remain contaminated with mines and explosives, with Kharkiv Oblast suffering the most, said Emergency Service
Since the start of Russia’s war in 2022, 380 people, including 21 children, have been killed by explosive devices
📸 DSNS
Since the start of Russia’s war in 2022, 380 people, including 21 children, have been killed by explosive devices
📸 DSNS
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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After everything, Senate Democrats still haven’t figured out that surrendering to Trump Republicans will end badly? Unbelievable.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
After everything, Senate Democrats still haven’t figured out that surrendering to Trump Republicans will end badly? Unbelievable.
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The senate dems are about to embarrass themselves and us AGAIN! I hope these reports are not true.
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The senate dems are about to embarrass themselves and us AGAIN! I hope these reports are not true.
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Happy Berlin Wall fall day! Good riddance to the Wall and the regimes that had built it. Celebrate the freedom that followed and don't fall for revisionism. The hard next decade was the pain of extrication from a failed political and economic project. This is my high school class on that day.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Happy Berlin Wall fall day! Good riddance to the Wall and the regimes that had built it. Celebrate the freedom that followed and don't fall for revisionism. The hard next decade was the pain of extrication from a failed political and economic project. This is my high school class on that day.
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Incredibly destructive.
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Incredibly destructive.
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The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
@popovaprof.bsky.social on how to handle Russian propaganda & lying:
Maria Popova, McGill University: Russian manipulation of the facts endures because when #JeffreySachs and others tirelessly promote it, opponents politely disagree and the conversation is presented as a debate of equally valid viewpoints. www.policymagazine.ca/when-confron...
When Confronting Russian Propaganda, Truth is Not Optional - Policy Magazine
In late October, Italian Senator Carlo Calenda went viral for bluntly calling economist Jeffrey Sachs a liar. During a debate between the two on the Italian
www.policymagazine.ca
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
@popovaprof.bsky.social on how to handle Russian propaganda & lying:
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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
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Angelina Jolie visited #Kherson, a #Ukrainian city which is constantly shelled by Russian war criminals who hunt people from drones and engage in human safaris.
A great person.
A great person.
November 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Angelina Jolie visited #Kherson, a #Ukrainian city which is constantly shelled by Russian war criminals who hunt people from drones and engage in human safaris.
A great person.
A great person.
Mamdani last night: "if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves." Be brave!
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani Victory Speech
YouTube video by C-SPAN
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Mamdani last night: "if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves." Be brave!
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
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putin strives for friendship with all the nations of the world…
I want to remind the world what Ukrainian cities look like after Russia came to “make friends.”
They call it “friendship.”
I want to remind the world what Ukrainian cities look like after Russia came to “make friends.”
They call it “friendship.”
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
putin strives for friendship with all the nations of the world…
I want to remind the world what Ukrainian cities look like after Russia came to “make friends.”
They call it “friendship.”
I want to remind the world what Ukrainian cities look like after Russia came to “make friends.”
They call it “friendship.”
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In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Not to be corny but i am deeply moved watching a bunch of people from all over the world, who speak different languages and live different lives, do a thing together
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Not to be corny but i am deeply moved watching a bunch of people from all over the world, who speak different languages and live different lives, do a thing together
Wow: Beyond institutionalizing actual violence by ICE & the murders on the high seas, in terms of vibes we’ve gone beyond embracing the Nazi aesthetic & the hate speech and now we’ve moved onto school, kids celebrating Auschwitz itself!?!?! Had to look it up because I couldn’t believe it was true:
November 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Wow: Beyond institutionalizing actual violence by ICE & the murders on the high seas, in terms of vibes we’ve gone beyond embracing the Nazi aesthetic & the hate speech and now we’ve moved onto school, kids celebrating Auschwitz itself!?!?! Had to look it up because I couldn’t believe it was true: