Natalia C. González (she/her/ella)
@nataliacgonzalez.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate @ UCI Sociology studying the experiences and life trajectories of former farmworker youth.
NSF Graduate Research Fellow. UCSB Alum. Dog Mom. Professional Hobby Collector.
NSF Graduate Research Fellow. UCSB Alum. Dog Mom. Professional Hobby Collector.
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Doing away with the PPFP would be devastating for the UC. Important 🧵 please read 👇
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
November 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Doing away with the PPFP would be devastating for the UC. Important 🧵 please read 👇
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The UC President axed a signature part of our Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP). UCOP cites the budget, but PPFP is a key program the Trump admin is threatening us over.
UCOP is capitulating to Trump's threats, piecemeal. Ominous, worrying.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UCOP is capitulating to Trump's threats, piecemeal. Ominous, worrying.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The UC President axed a signature part of our Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP). UCOP cites the budget, but PPFP is a key program the Trump admin is threatening us over.
UCOP is capitulating to Trump's threats, piecemeal. Ominous, worrying.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UCOP is capitulating to Trump's threats, piecemeal. Ominous, worrying.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Farm workers on CAs Central Coast appreciated this gloomy September morning after the recent heatwave. #WeFeedYou
Campeaiy de la Costa Central de California apreciaron esta sombría mañana de septiembre después de la reciente ola de calor. #SoyEsencial
Campeaiy de la Costa Central de California apreciaron esta sombría mañana de septiembre después de la reciente ola de calor. #SoyEsencial
September 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Farm workers on CAs Central Coast appreciated this gloomy September morning after the recent heatwave. #WeFeedYou
Campeaiy de la Costa Central de California apreciaron esta sombría mañana de septiembre después de la reciente ola de calor. #SoyEsencial
Campeaiy de la Costa Central de California apreciaron esta sombría mañana de septiembre después de la reciente ola de calor. #SoyEsencial
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Racial profiling.
To racists, it does not matter where people of color and working class were born, they do not belong. Even when guilty of nothing. This is what scapegoating looks like. When the state is being dismantled, corruption is at record highs & the economy is weakening due to bad policies.
To racists, it does not matter where people of color and working class were born, they do not belong. Even when guilty of nothing. This is what scapegoating looks like. When the state is being dismantled, corruption is at record highs & the economy is weakening due to bad policies.
"Half the population” of greater Los Angeles "now meet the government’s criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Supreme Court upholds 'roving patrols' for immigration arrests in Los Angeles
The Supreme Court says immigration agents may stop and question people they suspect are here illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.
www.latimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Racial profiling.
To racists, it does not matter where people of color and working class were born, they do not belong. Even when guilty of nothing. This is what scapegoating looks like. When the state is being dismantled, corruption is at record highs & the economy is weakening due to bad policies.
To racists, it does not matter where people of color and working class were born, they do not belong. Even when guilty of nothing. This is what scapegoating looks like. When the state is being dismantled, corruption is at record highs & the economy is weakening due to bad policies.
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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
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Live your life such that no one ever thinks to name an ICE detention center after you.
T Don Hutto Detention Center is located in Taylor, Texas.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently detains a person at this facility for an average of 52 days.
detentionreports.com/facility/T_D...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently detains a person at this facility for an average of 52 days.
detentionreports.com/facility/T_D...
September 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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“Every employer needs to take responsibility for protecting their worker’s rights. Put a gate there if you need to, have a door that locks, have a protocol in place. If they don’t have a warrant they can’t come on site and terrorize.” - Elizabeth Strater, UFW VP
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
'It's going to get ugly': L.A. immigrants fear the worst as Supreme Court allows raids to resume
Monday’s Supreme Court order gives the go-ahead on what critics called “indiscriminate” immigration stops that led to thousands of arrests and set off days of protests in the Los Angeles area.
www.latimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“Every employer needs to take responsibility for protecting their worker’s rights. Put a gate there if you need to, have a door that locks, have a protocol in place. If they don’t have a warrant they can’t come on site and terrorize.” - Elizabeth Strater, UFW VP
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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"Let's all just agree to let each other determine and do what's best for ourselves/own kids" is precisely how public goods die.
September 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Let's all just agree to let each other determine and do what's best for ourselves/own kids" is precisely how public goods die.
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Yesterday's Supreme Court decision endangers our communities and subjects people to immigration stops simply because of the color of their skin, occupation, or the language they speak.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
September 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Yesterday's Supreme Court decision endangers our communities and subjects people to immigration stops simply because of the color of their skin, occupation, or the language they speak.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
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It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
September 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
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The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity.
As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support.
apnews.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity.
As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
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There are no moral eugenics. If states or private entities get to decide which genes are “superior,” it inevitably fosters a society in which those with “lesser” genetics are shunned, discriminated against, and, eventually, primed for extermination.
Apparently, Silicon Valley thinks eugenics is the only way to save humanity from AI-fueled extinction. They insist their eugenics isn't bad eugenics, because theirs involves parents choosing to screen and selectively implant embryos based on genetically predicted IQ. But choice is a slippery slope.
August 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There are no moral eugenics. If states or private entities get to decide which genes are “superior,” it inevitably fosters a society in which those with “lesser” genetics are shunned, discriminated against, and, eventually, primed for extermination.
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1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
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Farm workers are hard at work weeding this Central Coast lettuce field. They share: Our hands hurt from the repetitive motion of doing this work 8 hours a day. And our feet get tired from walking the long fields all day. But it's honest work and helps feed America. #WeFeedYou
August 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Farm workers are hard at work weeding this Central Coast lettuce field. They share: Our hands hurt from the repetitive motion of doing this work 8 hours a day. And our feet get tired from walking the long fields all day. But it's honest work and helps feed America. #WeFeedYou
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This is a concentration camp.
Immigrants detained at Florida's new Everglades detention center say toilets don't flush, temperatures went from freezing to sweltering and there are giant bugs and little or no access to showers, toothbrushes and confidential attorney calls
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Giant bugs, heat and a hospital visit: Inside Alligator Alcatraz’s first days
Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ambulance.
www.miamiherald.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is a concentration camp.
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Workers from Jamaica and Mexico are human beings...they need what has been proven to save lives: shade, water and paid rest breaks, to be safe, while performing strenuous work during dangerously high temperatures. Any suggestion otherwise is racist.
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Advocates Say Leaked Farm Bureau Memo Promotes Racist Science - Documented
In opposition to the Temp Act, farm industry memo claims that Caribbean and Latino immigrants would “Feel Very Comfortable Working in New York in the Summertime.”
documentedny.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Workers from Jamaica and Mexico are human beings...they need what has been proven to save lives: shade, water and paid rest breaks, to be safe, while performing strenuous work during dangerously high temperatures. Any suggestion otherwise is racist.
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...
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This week chaotic federal immigration sweeps occurred in fields across CA-including Ventura, Kern & Tulare counties. You may have seen videos of agents chasing farm workers thru the field. Workers are terrorized.
Your gift can help us fight back.
ufw.org/immigrationr... #WeFeedYou
Your gift can help us fight back.
ufw.org/immigrationr... #WeFeedYou
July 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Happy day. Remember to drink water, take vitamins, touch grass and stop to smell the pretty flowers. Living is resistance.
July 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Happy day. Remember to drink water, take vitamins, touch grass and stop to smell the pretty flowers. Living is resistance.
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Farm workers are harvesting strawberries on CAs Central Coast. They share harvesting this fruit is hard on their backs as they have to be bent over moving fast all day long. #WeFeedYou
July 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Farm workers are harvesting strawberries on CAs Central Coast. They share harvesting this fruit is hard on their backs as they have to be bent over moving fast all day long. #WeFeedYou
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"Congress has given ICE unprecedented resources... The Miller-Trumpites are not interested only in rounding up undocumented immigrants. They will step up using ICE and DOJ enforcements use to harass Democrats, citizen critics, and subvert future elections if they can." Theda Skocpol
July 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Congress has given ICE unprecedented resources... The Miller-Trumpites are not interested only in rounding up undocumented immigrants. They will step up using ICE and DOJ enforcements use to harass Democrats, citizen critics, and subvert future elections if they can." Theda Skocpol
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immigration is good, actually.
July 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
immigration is good, actually.
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Today, Los Angeles received its first honor of three Michelin Stars. The head chef of Somni, which received three, removed his jacket to reveal a t-shirt which read “immigrants feed America.”
July 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Today, Los Angeles received its first honor of three Michelin Stars. The head chef of Somni, which received three, removed his jacket to reveal a t-shirt which read “immigrants feed America.”
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ICE agents wearing masks add new levels of intimidation, confusion during L.A. raids
ICE agents wearing masks add new levels of intimidation, confusion during L.A. raids
As federal immigration agents have ratcheted up enforcement raids, critics warn that their tactic of masking spreads fear and panic across communities.
www.latimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
ICE agents wearing masks add new levels of intimidation, confusion during L.A. raids
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When she was 10, her and her parents were seemingly given expedited removal orders. They then flew to Mexico and entered through the southern border without even having their passports checked (way more common in the pre-9/11 days), and stayed every since. ICE now wants to execute that old order.
Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview.
Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.
Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.
July 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
When she was 10, her and her parents were seemingly given expedited removal orders. They then flew to Mexico and entered through the southern border without even having their passports checked (way more common in the pre-9/11 days), and stayed every since. ICE now wants to execute that old order.
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Rather than simply talking about horrible responses to the flooding in Texas, let's share some vetted and trusted avenues for support, and donate if we can. Hands Off Central TX is raising funds and resources for mutual aid including housing, food, transportation (gas), and medical needs.
Hands Off Central TX
www.handsoffcentraltx.org
July 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Rather than simply talking about horrible responses to the flooding in Texas, let's share some vetted and trusted avenues for support, and donate if we can. Hands Off Central TX is raising funds and resources for mutual aid including housing, food, transportation (gas), and medical needs.