Deb Vargas
@debvargas.bsky.social
Associate Profe Yale | Latine/Chicane Feminism | Queer of Color Critique | US-Mex Borderlands | Puro Pinche Spurs 210por vida
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wendy brown, "after liberal democracy: reflections on authoritarian times"
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After Liberal Democracy - Critical Times
Reflections on Authoritarian Times Trump’s win surprised few political realists. What has taken nearly everyone by surprise is the rapid rollout of chaotic authoritarian governing facilitated by a de...
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May 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
wendy brown, "after liberal democracy: reflections on authoritarian times"
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“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.”
$1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company.
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$1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company.
www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...
Baraka Arrested for 'Trespassing' at Controversial Immigrant Detention Facility - Insider NJ
Authorities with Homeland Securities Investigations at the ICE detention facility Delaney Hall this afternoon arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka
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May 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.”
$1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company.
www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...
$1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company.
www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...
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Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5
May 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5
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"The AAUP is leading that fight, but it cannot do so alone. Every professor who joins strengthens our ability to push back against the dismantling of scientific teaching and research in higher education. All faculty, regardless of tenure-line and academic staff are eligible to join the AAUP."
We joined the AAUP to defend science — and you should too
Lauren Tompkins and Alyssa Burgart urge Stanford professors to join the American Association of University Professors, arguing that the University needs to defend its programs and research in the scie...
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April 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"The AAUP is leading that fight, but it cannot do so alone. Every professor who joins strengthens our ability to push back against the dismantling of scientific teaching and research in higher education. All faculty, regardless of tenure-line and academic staff are eligible to join the AAUP."
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You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
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Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.
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“How can we inculcate academic values like risk-taking, deep reading and honesty when it’s this cheap and easy to bypass them?”
This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“How can we inculcate academic values like risk-taking, deep reading and honesty when it’s this cheap and easy to bypass them?”
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The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom
“Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.”
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“Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.”
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The shame of Columbia University
In surrendering to Trump, it's opening all universities to Trump's tyranny
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March 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom
“Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.”
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
“Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.”
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech: My Statement on Yale Law School’s Embrace of AI-Generated Smears 1/3
March 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech: My Statement on Yale Law School’s Embrace of AI-Generated Smears 1/3
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A detention center will resume operations as a controversial immigrant family housing facility under a new agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, private prison company CoreCivic has announced www.axios.com/2025/03/06/c...
Controversial immigrant family detention center in Texas to reopen
The reopening of the Dilley facility in Texas reverses a Biden administration policy.
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March 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A detention center will resume operations as a controversial immigrant family housing facility under a new agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, private prison company CoreCivic has announced www.axios.com/2025/03/06/c...
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$12.3 million worth of classes, programs, and scholarships to terrorize our students and colleagues
UCLA spent $12.3 million to suppress pro-Palestine protests, resulting in over 200 arrests and withheld degrees. All this to silence students standing against genocide.
New report details police repression of Palestine activism at UCLA
According to a new report, a total of $12.3 million was spent on “managing” UCLA’s protests around the school’s Gaza solidarity encampment last year. Additionally, there were over 200 arrests, and…
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February 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
$12.3 million worth of classes, programs, and scholarships to terrorize our students and colleagues
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"Elon Musk is going to pay for his tax cut with your Social Security."
@lindsayowens.bsky.social breaks down the billionaire's unprecedented takeover of key government functions, including trillions in Treasury Department payments.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/3/elon_musk_gov
@lindsayowens.bsky.social breaks down the billionaire's unprecedented takeover of key government functions, including trillions in Treasury Department payments.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/3/elon_musk_gov
February 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Elon Musk is going to pay for his tax cut with your Social Security."
@lindsayowens.bsky.social breaks down the billionaire's unprecedented takeover of key government functions, including trillions in Treasury Department payments.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/3/elon_musk_gov
@lindsayowens.bsky.social breaks down the billionaire's unprecedented takeover of key government functions, including trillions in Treasury Department payments.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/3/elon_musk_gov
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If the NSF complies with President Trump's illegal executive orders on DEI and "gender ideology", I will refuse to review any grant proposals or participate in any panels, and I call on all my colleagues to join me in this.
January 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
If the NSF complies with President Trump's illegal executive orders on DEI and "gender ideology", I will refuse to review any grant proposals or participate in any panels, and I call on all my colleagues to join me in this.
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For folx interested in learning about the wonderful music coming out of urban Caribbean beyond Bad Bunny, allow me to recommend Issade, a queer anticolonial feminist Dominicans that’s really impressed me. Here is her son “colonizada” youtu.be/z1mNHsex4QM?...
ISSADE - Colonizada (Official Video)
YouTube video by ISSADE
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January 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
For folx interested in learning about the wonderful music coming out of urban Caribbean beyond Bad Bunny, allow me to recommend Issade, a queer anticolonial feminist Dominicans that’s really impressed me. Here is her son “colonizada” youtu.be/z1mNHsex4QM?...
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Documents obtained by the @aclum.bsky.social show that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (under Biden) is considering proposals to expand its immigration detention capacity in at least eight states
That may give Trump a head start on mass deportations
www.axios.com/2025/01/15/i...
That may give Trump a head start on mass deportations
www.axios.com/2025/01/15/i...
ICE records show Biden administration planned detention expansion months ago
Proposals going back to September show the Biden administration was prepping its own expanded detention.
www.axios.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Documents obtained by the @aclum.bsky.social show that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (under Biden) is considering proposals to expand its immigration detention capacity in at least eight states
That may give Trump a head start on mass deportations
www.axios.com/2025/01/15/i...
That may give Trump a head start on mass deportations
www.axios.com/2025/01/15/i...
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for marx & hall nerds, an excellent discussion of hall’s marxism that includes recordings of hall’s extrapolations, denvir & denning's interpretations, & nuances hall's methodology, stakes, & what he meant by 'complex unity structured in dominance'
Big @thedigradio.bsky.social ep: intro to Stuart Hall's Marxism w/out guarantees w/ Michael Denning. Marxism as method to analyze historically specific complex contradictory capitalist social formations and what it means for making working-class socialist politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...
Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory...
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January 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
for marx & hall nerds, an excellent discussion of hall’s marxism that includes recordings of hall’s extrapolations, denvir & denning's interpretations, & nuances hall's methodology, stakes, & what he meant by 'complex unity structured in dominance'
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SCOOP: The CIA monitored Mexican American and Puerto Rican civil rights activists fighting for equal education and to honor the late Martin Luther King, Jr., — and against police brutality and the Vietnam War.
CIA releases docs on Latino civil rights-era surveillance
The documents confirm Latino civil rights pioneers' long-held suspicions about surveillance.
www.axios.com
January 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
SCOOP: The CIA monitored Mexican American and Puerto Rican civil rights activists fighting for equal education and to honor the late Martin Luther King, Jr., — and against police brutality and the Vietnam War.
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"Rape Club" Prison in California: U.S. Gov't to Pay Record $116M to 103 Women Who Sued over Abuse
“Rape Club” Prison in California: U.S. Gov’t to Pay $116M to 103 Women
“When you’re in prison, the retaliation starts. … I don’t think my judge sentenced me to go through this.” The U.S. government has agreed to pay a record-breaking amount of nearly $116 million...
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December 19, 2024 at 4:27 PM
"Rape Club" Prison in California: U.S. Gov't to Pay Record $116M to 103 Women Who Sued over Abuse
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Journalist and religious scholar Stephanie Saldaña's book about refugees from the Middle East celebrates remembering — something she says her Mexican American family lost during their migration story to Texas www.axios.com/2023/08/24/t...
A Mexican American writer explores refugees' plight in the Middle East
Stephanie Saldaña is a U.S.-born Latina writer based in the Middle East who has earned acclaim for empathic reporting.
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December 18, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Journalist and religious scholar Stephanie Saldaña's book about refugees from the Middle East celebrates remembering — something she says her Mexican American family lost during their migration story to Texas www.axios.com/2023/08/24/t...
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Older people "are the fastest-growing demographic of student debtors," says @astra.bsky.social of @DebtCollective.bsky.social, who notes that 9 million people over 50 owe $400 billion. "People are aging into their student loans, not aging out." https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/17/debt_relief
December 17, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Older people "are the fastest-growing demographic of student debtors," says @astra.bsky.social of @DebtCollective.bsky.social, who notes that 9 million people over 50 owe $400 billion. "People are aging into their student loans, not aging out." https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/17/debt_relief
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President-elect Trump said he is willing to enlist the military to deport migrants and is open to new detention camps to facilitate those deportations. A Colorado community prepares for it, @NewsHour Stephanie Sy reports youtu.be/P7Ge97_4RLw?...
Colorado community braces for possible mass deportations under Trump
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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December 13, 2024 at 6:49 AM
President-elect Trump said he is willing to enlist the military to deport migrants and is open to new detention camps to facilitate those deportations. A Colorado community prepares for it, @NewsHour Stephanie Sy reports youtu.be/P7Ge97_4RLw?...
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A project honoring Silvia Hector Webber, known as the "Harriet Tubman of the Underground Railroad to Mexico" in Texas, is using a $150,000 grant to create an interactive mapping project and infrastructure improvements at a cemetery in Texas www.axios.com/2024/12/10/u...
Underground Railroad to Mexico project is using major grant to archive history
The Underground Railroad to Mexico was a loosely organized path allowing enslaved Black people in some states escape bondage.
www.axios.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:05 AM
A project honoring Silvia Hector Webber, known as the "Harriet Tubman of the Underground Railroad to Mexico" in Texas, is using a $150,000 grant to create an interactive mapping project and infrastructure improvements at a cemetery in Texas www.axios.com/2024/12/10/u...
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“It is deeply concerning that Ice would expand private detention facilities now – just months before the inauguration of a president-elect who has promised to terrorize immigrant communities by detaining and deporting millions of people,” the senator Cory Booker said in a statement to the Guardian.
Revealed: Biden lays groundwork to expand immigration jails as Trump readies for office
In the past year, the Biden administration has extended contracts for private sector jails before Trump’s plan for mass deportations
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:26 PM
“It is deeply concerning that Ice would expand private detention facilities now – just months before the inauguration of a president-elect who has promised to terrorize immigrant communities by detaining and deporting millions of people,” the senator Cory Booker said in a statement to the Guardian.