There (really) is no place like home.
Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press)
Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press)
Sociologist of mobilities, nationalism, racism, and state power
#NoBorders
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Federal "officers used racial slurs and sorted everyone in the crowd into groups “based on perceived immigration status,” the lawsuit says. Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy director of policing at the ACLU, said people were treated “less than human.”
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The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
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Then, they used her participation in a pro-Palestine Columbia protest to justify it.
Now, they say she supports Hamas because she sent money to family in Palestine.
She has been detained for nearly a year:
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My bipartisan bill would expand this right, enshrined in our Sixth Amendment, to include email.
It. Was. Wonderful.
Fear of everything except the fascists who will absolutely terrorize and abuse you.
Con job extraordinaire.
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It. Was. Wonderful.
4 beautiful, captivating, and haunting books:
My Brilliant Friend (2011)
The Story of a New Name (2013),
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2014)
The Story of the Lost Child (2015),
This is not the time to think the guardrails will hold. They are already mostly down.
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That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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Difficult to accept "golden rice" as a "solution" when GMO crops lead to more vitamin deficiency. The loss of vitamin A-rich food is due to Big Ag taking so much land and planting monocrops. Sad, indeed.
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Capitalism allows for a grotesquely unequal society in which the wealthy create and rely on impoverishing huge swaths of humanity in their quest for profits.
Those who are rendered disposable by capitalists are considered disposable by the rest of us. That's sick.
Or another one: Better safe than sorry (in our smugness about the impossibility of Trump destroying the election system)
Then, we need to talk about the inherent violence required to steal people’s freedom of movement and how that warps society
Until we recognize we live in a shared planet, we are doomed to endless cycles of nationalist terror
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