David Cook Martín
@dcm19.bsky.social
Political sociologist. International migration. Temporary labor migration. Race and ethnicity. Citizenship. Futbol
Saddened to learn of Richard Alba’s passing. He touched many hearts and minds including mine. His voice lives on in print and in the many discussions of which he will still be a part. You will be missed Richard.
June 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Saddened to learn of Richard Alba’s passing. He touched many hearts and minds including mine. His voice lives on in print and in the many discussions of which he will still be a part. You will be missed Richard.
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Dozens of people were reportedly taken into custody at immigration courts around the country. Many of them were for people who were hoping to file asylum applications.
ICE's admitted goal for this? Place these people through "expedited removal" - no judge, order them deported on the spot.
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ICE's admitted goal for this? Place these people through "expedited removal" - no judge, order them deported on the spot.
3/4
May 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Dozens of people were reportedly taken into custody at immigration courts around the country. Many of them were for people who were hoping to file asylum applications.
ICE's admitted goal for this? Place these people through "expedited removal" - no judge, order them deported on the spot.
3/4
ICE's admitted goal for this? Place these people through "expedited removal" - no judge, order them deported on the spot.
3/4
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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You guys, a conclave of old cardinals can decide on a POPE faster than an academic search committee can decide on the four people we're bringing to campus for an assistant professor search.
May 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You guys, a conclave of old cardinals can decide on a POPE faster than an academic search committee can decide on the four people we're bringing to campus for an assistant professor search.
Timely piece by @jodyav.bsky.social at a time when "progressives" and "dems" are happy to throw immigrants under the bus, forgetting their own family stories and how they daily benefit from immigrant labor.
Contributor: Californians must refuse to abandon the immigrants among us
What's happening to immigrants is testing how far our government can go in punishing, surveilling and silencing everyone.
www.latimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Timely piece by @jodyav.bsky.social at a time when "progressives" and "dems" are happy to throw immigrants under the bus, forgetting their own family stories and how they daily benefit from immigrant labor.
And Chris Rufo on @pbsnews.org So disappointing that they’re stooping so low
Sad to see @pbsnews.org descending into both-siderism by including Chad Wolf's extremist views on cancelled student visas. He insinuated that if we knew more about these students, we'd see the justification for this extreme measure and lack of due process. Nick Shifrin: really?!
Foreign policy experts offer views on Trump administration's student activist crackdown
According to attorneys, over 1,000 student visas have been revoked in the Trump administration’s crackdown. Part of that effort has been a State Department argument that some students’ actions threate...
www.pbs.org
May 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
And Chris Rufo on @pbsnews.org So disappointing that they’re stooping so low
Cruel incompetence is probably one of the most apt descriptions of the current regime’s policies in most domains:
apple.news/AKvl4u-XSQrW...
apple.news/AKvl4u-XSQrW...
'It is time for you to leave': DHS mistakenly sends notices to U.S. citizens — Los Angeles Times
Homeland Security sent an email to a Los Angeles attorney, warning: 'Do not attempt to remain in the United States — the federal government will find you.'
apple.news
April 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Cruel incompetence is probably one of the most apt descriptions of the current regime’s policies in most domains:
apple.news/AKvl4u-XSQrW...
apple.news/AKvl4u-XSQrW...
Sad to see @pbsnews.org descending into both-siderism by including Chad Wolf's extremist views on cancelled student visas. He insinuated that if we knew more about these students, we'd see the justification for this extreme measure and lack of due process. Nick Shifrin: really?!
Foreign policy experts offer views on Trump administration's student activist crackdown
According to attorneys, over 1,000 student visas have been revoked in the Trump administration’s crackdown. Part of that effort has been a State Department argument that some students’ actions threate...
www.pbs.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Sad to see @pbsnews.org descending into both-siderism by including Chad Wolf's extremist views on cancelled student visas. He insinuated that if we knew more about these students, we'd see the justification for this extreme measure and lack of due process. Nick Shifrin: really?!
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You could fund "science" lots of other way, but our university system has its own benefits. One of the benefits of that system is, of course, protest and dissent. Try that in a world where Tesla, Google, Pfizer, and NASA and the NSA do all research.
April 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
You could fund "science" lots of other way, but our university system has its own benefits. One of the benefits of that system is, of course, protest and dissent. Try that in a world where Tesla, Google, Pfizer, and NASA and the NSA do all research.
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Federally funded R&D (not all of which is spent at universities) as a fraction of GDP is as low as it's been since we started tracking.
Which is a different way of looking at it than "line go up." 4/x ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf2332...
Which is a different way of looking at it than "line go up." 4/x ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf2332...
April 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Federally funded R&D (not all of which is spent at universities) as a fraction of GDP is as low as it's been since we started tracking.
Which is a different way of looking at it than "line go up." 4/x ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf2332...
Which is a different way of looking at it than "line go up." 4/x ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf2332...
The disclaimer is especially relevant to the nationalist libertarians of our day: “I have nothing to do with the crimes I’ve committed”
April 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The disclaimer is especially relevant to the nationalist libertarians of our day: “I have nothing to do with the crimes I’ve committed”
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This framing of "dependence" is fucking propaganda. The whole point of the federal government is to build and maintain national institutions that promote public health, education, scientific advancement, etc. The implication here is that those functions are a matter of private not public concern.
Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.
April 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This framing of "dependence" is fucking propaganda. The whole point of the federal government is to build and maintain national institutions that promote public health, education, scientific advancement, etc. The implication here is that those functions are a matter of private not public concern.
@profgalloway.com has a snappy take on this massive inside trading scheme: bsky.app/profile/prof...
According to a public disclosure, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought between $21,000 and $315,000 in stocks last week just hours before President Trump announced the partial pause.
AOC: “I got one question for [Greene]: How much did you make? How much did you make off that panic?”
AOC: “I got one question for [Greene]: How much did you make? How much did you make off that panic?”
AOC Asks MTG One Damning Question on Tariffs
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has one question for Marjorie Taylor Greene on what she did during the tariffs whiplash.
newrepublic.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
@profgalloway.com has a snappy take on this massive inside trading scheme: bsky.app/profile/prof...
Foxes in the hen house. That always ends well
JUST IN: The National Labor Relations Board told employees Wednesday that DOGE staffers would be assigned to the agency, one day after a whistleblower alleged DOGE may have removed sensitive NLRB data.
DOGE assigns staffers to work at agency where it allegedly removed sensitive data
The National Labor Relations Board told employees Wednesday that DOGE staffers would be assigned to the agency, one day after a whistleblower alleged DOGE may have removed sensitive NLRB data.
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Foxes in the hen house. That always ends well
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Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered.
As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!
As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!
April 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered.
As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!
As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!
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NEW Judge says in a written decision Sunday there's "no evidence" man mistakenly deported to El Salvador is a gang member, contrary to Trump administration claims.
And the judge finds that the US can bring the man back.
Waiting for a decision on appeal.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
And the judge finds that the US can bring the man back.
Waiting for a decision on appeal.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Judge slams U.S. contentions in case of wrongly deported Salvadoran man
In a decision released Sunday, a federal judge takes the Trump administration to task, saying it has “no evidence” the wrongly deported man from Maryland is a gang member.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
NEW Judge says in a written decision Sunday there's "no evidence" man mistakenly deported to El Salvador is a gang member, contrary to Trump administration claims.
And the judge finds that the US can bring the man back.
Waiting for a decision on appeal.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
And the judge finds that the US can bring the man back.
Waiting for a decision on appeal.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Today, across the country and around the world, tens of thousands of people turned out for what organizers say has been the single biggest day of protests against President Trump and his second-term policies and actions.
April 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Today, across the country and around the world, tens of thousands of people turned out for what organizers say has been the single biggest day of protests against President Trump and his second-term policies and actions.
From the ancient archives of last week:
April 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
From the ancient archives of last week:
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Now this is a good, accurate headline
March 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Now this is a good, accurate headline
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
My tombstone will say "we think he's gone, but the docusign is still in his queue"
March 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My tombstone will say "we think he's gone, but the docusign is still in his queue"