aprodrig77.bsky.social
@aprodrig77.bsky.social
Salvi Professor of US Latinx/e & Central American Literatures, specializing in Central American diasporas & translocations. Views my own.
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Palantir: Peter Thiel's Data-Mining Firm Helps DOGE Build Master Database to Surveil, Track Immigrants
Palantir: Peter Thiel’s Data-Mining Firm Helps DOGE Build Master Database to Surveil, Track Immigrants
The Trump administration has tapped Palantir — the notorious data-mining firm co-founded by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel — to compile information on people in the United States for a “master...
www.democracynow.org
June 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it's all being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who has dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built his "political project". 1/
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
May 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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💥 NEW: Companies that kept DEI commitments saw higher reputation scores in 2025

Patagonia
Microsoft
Costco
Apple
JPMorgan Chase
Coca-Cola
Procter & Gamble
Kroger
Netflix
Delta Air Lines

@axios.com reports: www.axios.com/2025/05/29/d...
Companies that kept DEI commitments saw higher reputation scores in 2025
nclear corporate values or a lack of conviction, most recently seen through mass DEI walk-backs, can hinder reputation.
www.axios.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Yes, they are innocent
El gobierno de Trump sabía que la mayoría de los venezolanos enviados a El Salvador no tenía condena por crímenes en EEUU

Registros del DHS revelan que más de la mitad de los 238 deportados, solo son infractores migratorios. No tenían prontuario criminal en EEUU

www.cazadores.info/gobierno-tru...
El gobierno de Trump sabía que la mayoría de los venezolanos enviados a El Salvador no tenía condena por crímenes en EE. UU.
Registros del DHS revelan que más de la mitad de los 238 deportados no tenía antecedentes penales en EE.UU., solo violaciones migratorias.
www.cazadores.info
May 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The Opposition To Trump Gains Momentum and More Great News

Robert Kennedy fails again, Lindsey Graham gets a challenger, protest against Lauren Boebert, and more here:
The Opposition To Trump Gains Momentum and More Great News
Robert Kennedy fails again, Lindsey Graham gets a challenger, protest against Lauren Boebert, and more
www.dworkinsubstack.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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ICE is now detaining high school students with no criminal records, who are here legally to seek asylum.

But this isn’t just impacting immigrants.

These officials show up hiding their identities, showing no IDs, offering no transparency, stealing ppl away.

This is a safety issue for all of us.
May 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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"Why attack universities? Why attack journalism? Because ignorance works for power ... With that done, power can rewrite history with grotesque, false narratives. They can make criminals heroes and heroes criminals."
trib.al/oyBvPkF
May 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Yikes 😳
BREAKING: The Labor Department has withdrawn guidance that discourages bosses from offering crypto in workers’ 401k plans.

The Trump family, and much of the administration, is heavily invested in crypto.

The crypto industry also spent about $238 million on the 2024 elections.
May 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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To understand what the GOP is forcing through at midnight:
•Gutting $880 billion from Medicaid
•Gutting $500 billion from Medicare
•Gutting funding for SNAP (food assistance)
•Gutting clean energy protections, which will also cost 400,000 jobs

1/2
May 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow:

George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.
May 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country!

It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
May 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Ay 😟
US President Donald Trump has ordered officials to re-open and expand the infamous Alcatraz prison. The federal jail held notorious US criminals on a rocky island in California’s San Francisco Bay, before it was closed in 1963.
May 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I’m just about sick of correcting terminology, especially “trauma bonding”.
April 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The number of ways that this administration is actively working to cause death is simply staggering
April 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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NEW— Nearly 200 US college presidents affirm their schools as places where "faculty, students, and staff are free to exchange ideas and opinions…without fear of retribution, censorship, or deportation."

Signers include Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, UPenn, Brown, Tufts

Notably absent: Columbia
April 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I believe this is what's referred to as the "Big Lie".
April 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Although I am not Catholic, I believe this was a good man. Rest In Peace 🙏 You will be missed
April 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Will never forget nor forgive what that indecorous person said about Pope Francis in 2016

youtu.be/gBV6FSygvCQ
Trump calls pope's comments 'disgraceful'
YouTube video by Catholic News Service
youtu.be
April 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Chair Comer denied our request for an official trip to El Salvador to advocate for due process and the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Pretty shameful.

Good thing I don’t need Comer’s permission to get on a plane.
April 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Pope Francis, the Argentinian pontiff who brought the plight of the world’s most marginalised back to the centre of the Roman Catholic Church’s attention, has died at the age of 88 aje.io/htngex
April 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Pope Francis made his final public appearance on Easter Sunday, a day before his death.

Too weak to give his full traditional Easter message, the 88-year-old briefly appeared on St Peter’s Basilica balcony to greet the crowd.
April 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Hmmm
April 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM