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Anthony Alvarez
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Economic Sociologists @ CSUF

Basketball. Desserts. Tennis. Professor. Nerd. Interested in Consumer Finance, Wealth, Debt, Taxation, Inflation. And monster movies. Former Terp. Former Bruin. Current Titan.
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Just got the cover art from the press! Dropping in March 2026!
October 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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SCOTUS: We stopped Affirmative Action to ban targeting based on race, but we allow legacy admissions, white Afrikaaner "refugees," targeting of Latinos, over-policing Black communities, & bans on Afghan refugees and South Korean workers—because its okay to target based on race to help white people.
September 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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As Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, recently put it, “The United States is beginning to monetize its hegemony.” www.wired.com/story/enshit...
The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 22nd! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
July 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
July 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson.

Tilson sits at a whopping .8%.

Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.
June 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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"Democratic leaders have a consistent message for vulnerable constituents: Trump is trying to bait us into helping you, and we won’t be taking the bait. This “distraction” trope had steered Schumer into describing a setback to equality as unworthy of attention." www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...
Democrats' "Distraction" Trope Reaches The End Of The Line
If a president will green light evil to indulge himself and distract others, then he must be removed.
www.offmessage.net
June 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."
June 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Al Jazeera reports Israel has just murdered at least 27 more Palestinian aid-seekers near Rafah, bringing the total number of people massacred in cold blood while seeking aid to 102 in just eight days.

Unspeakable crimes against humanity.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
June 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.
May 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Beware of fighting the last war. Times will change, and conventional wisdom about the last war can be wrong. After 2004, many said the Dems needed a candidate who appealed to evangelicals. After 2012, people said Republicans needed a moderate on immigration. I doubt podcasting is the key to '28.
May 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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My ongoing request:

If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here.

NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h...

NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
NSF appears to be terminating hundreds of its grants to Harvard, per internal sources at NSF and at Harvard. At least one division has had all its grants cut.
May 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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There's one month until Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is published. Thanks to Eduardo Bonilla-Silva for his blurb, which highlights the book's contributions to the study of racial domination. You can learn more about the book here: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...
May 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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FACULTY - if you want your campus leaders to defend higher education, you can organize a letter on your campus to urge them to do so. We are coordinating (and have templates and tools) at bit.ly/CampusLetters2025. We'll release all the letters as part of the @aaup.bsky.social day of action April 17.
Campus Letters 2025
bit.ly
April 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Sanders: If Musk can do this to federal employees, some of whom are in unions, some of whom have worked for years, what do you think he's going to be doing when artificial intelligence and robotics comes for your job?
April 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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NEW: Having Gutted the IRS, DOGE is Now Preparing to Shutter the Tax Division at the Department of Justice. For the Super-Rich Paying Taxes Will Probably Be All But Voluntary Going Forward. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division
I didn’t know this until this morning. And I’m surprised it hasn’t...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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We’ve entered a golden age of cowardice, full of people and institutions with historically anomalous levels of money and power who are terrified of stating simple truths. It is pitiful and embarrassing.
A huge swath of Silicon Valley is horrified by what Elon Musk is doing — but they’re increasingly afraid to say so.
👉 politi.co/4jkwGR2
April 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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This is an absolute travesty, Russ Vought today vacated the case against (and *returned money to*) Townstone Financial, which ran an openly racist radio program to get leads for its mortgage business. Vought calls it DEI-based persecution.
www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/new...
CFPB Seeks to Vacate Abusive, Unjust Case Against Townstone | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
CFPB Seeks to Vacate Abusive, Unjust Case Against Townstone
www.consumerfinance.gov
March 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM