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Mai Nguyen Do • Đỗ Nguyên Mai
@donguyenmai.bsky.social
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Teacher, poet, political scientist. PhD candidate at UC Riverside. Studying immigration enforcement, identity, inequality. Research & Policy Manager at the Harbor Institute for Immigrant & Economic Justice

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At @priec.bsky.social this morning — @fulyafelicity.bsky.social presenting on the ways that authoritarian regimes engage their diasporas and how those emigrants respond (or don’t!)
October 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Really makes me feel super safe and relaxed when my morning walk to get coffee (in Santa Ana) is flanked by the National Guard

Also not at all anxious that they’re hanging out by the local Latino health center

/s
June 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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TIL Huntington Beach is a sanctuary city, per the DHS list of cities “defying federal immigration law”

HB declared itself “non-sanctuary” city earlier this year and its leaders are basically Trump’s fan club presidents

lol
May 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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The re-entry + legal problems aside, lol @ $1000 — it may go further in other countries, but if you have like 5 kids and you have to totally re-situate yourself in Country B from scratch, that’s hardly any help for all your expenses (esp. if said kids are still in the U.S.)
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s face superimposed onto Lucille Bluth in the “It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?” scene from Arrested Development, with additional words on top of the caption so that it reads “It’s violent displacement, Michael. What could it cost, $1000?”
May 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Does this count as #poliskycooks? Had to use the stove and will use it on the stove, so…

Stripped and re-seasoned a near-antique cast iron skillet I found at an estate sale. Took four days and lots of elbow grease. First two pics are before, second two are after restoration.
March 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Did not have Norris and Inglehart on my Board of Supervisors meeting bingo card

I guess some election conspiracy theorists are mad about a grand jury report re: elections and an example they used to discredit it was… the report’s citation of “biased” “leftist” “non-experts” Norris and Inglehart
March 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Gov. Newsom clearly doing his part to bring 2000s style (making it okay and respectable to hate gay marriage and gay people, generally) back
March 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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“He could describe his experience in the Adelanto facility only as demeaning — from the way he was addressed by guards, to the bureaucratic runaround of his immigration case, to watching those with a language barrier unable to represent themselves.“

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Excerpt from a 2020 LA Times article: “Nguyen said he could describe his experience in the Adelanto facility only as demeaning — from the way he was addressed by guards, to the bureaucratic runaround of his immigration case, to watching those with a language barrier unable to represent themselves. “Even when I was a criminal, a [police] officer or the correctional officer, they still in some way treated me as a human,” Nguyen said. “They had a little compassion. No matter what, I knew I had a right to speak up to them and voice my opinion. ICE culture is different.” Prison made sense to Nguyen. He committed a crime and was serving time. He also had a productive routine. Nguyen would wake up, pick up his dog from the Paws for Life program and take care of her before heading to work. After work, he’d go to school through Cal State L.A.’s Lancaster Prison Program. Then he’d pick up his dog again, take her for a walk and end the day by watching a movie. In Adelanto, they’d open up the cell doors at 6 in the morning and close them near 1 a.m. There were showers, phones, books and two TVs. “I came from an active life to just sitting around watching TV all day,” Nguyen said.”
March 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Civ VII marketing team really choosing some apt and pointed ad copy for this moment in American history
An ad for the new Civilization 7 game reads: “Build Something You Believe in.”
February 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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the 90s are so back (derogatory)
A POLITICO article titled “Work requirements gain favor with House Republicans: Speaker Mike Johnson called the safety-net strictures a "very popular measure." By Meredith Lee Hill 01/28/2025, 5:11PM ET A screenshot of a segment of the POLITICO article: “Vulnerable House Republicans are deeply wary of massive cuts to programs like Medicaid, food aid benefits and, to some extent, another program known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, which provides direct cash assistance to low-income families who qualify. But they are more open to enacting new work requirements for Medicaid and TANF and expanding current work requirements for SNAP beneficiaries - potentially to include parents of children over 7 years old for the first time.”
January 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Cannot stress how many emails I’ve gotten, posts I’ve seen, and materials I’ve received recently from trusted community members and leaders that are trying to get people to stop blasting unverified information about ICE sightings everywhere
January 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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*reopening the part of my working files with the section of my dissertation on executive clemency*
December 3, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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Beautiful sight in front of the Sacramento state Capitol building today — hundreds and hundreds of folks from all over CA coming together to tell Gov. Newsom and #CALeg to use their powers to act now to protect all Californians and ensure CA resources don’t go to mass deportations
December 2, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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Hi! I’m a political science PhD candidate and writer interested in immigration, identity, inequality. Dissertation explores SEA refugee racialization and identity + crimmigration

I also use research skills to support advocacy targeting local LEA collabs w/ ICE: harborinstituteoc.org/ocsdicetrans...
Stacked bar chart in warm hues displaying data that reflects the share of community members transferred by the Orange County Sheriffs Department to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sorted by country of birth. Mexican and Vietnamese individuals make up the largest shares of people transferred from OCSD custody to ICE.
December 1, 2024 at 3:46 AM