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Andy Pinedo
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Professor studying how young people reason about, feel about, and act on inequality | https://www.anpinedo.com/
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lataco.bsky.social
A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.

The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...

By Izzy Ramirez
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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mwkraus.bsky.social
We are doing a pilot survey about how prospective PhD students in PSYCHOLOGY make decisions about applying to grad programs. If you are thinking of applying to a program in the future, and have 2-5 minutes to spare, could you take this survey? 🫶

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November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
profandy.bsky.social
The University of Michigan is an increasingly anti-democratic institution. This story is wild: specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
From the Daily: The University's values on trial
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November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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nashvillescene.com
A former assistant dean at MTSU is suing the school's leaders after she was fired over social media remarks regarding the death of Charlie Kirk.
Former MTSU Assistant Dean Sues After Firing Over Charlie Kirk Comments
A former assistant dean at Middle Tennessee State University is suing the school's leaders after she was fired in September following social media remarks regarding the death of conservative activist ...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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cuny.edu
CUNY is waiving its application fee from Nov. 10-21 for New York State high school seniors on pace to graduate next year. You can apply to up to six of our colleges with one application! Go to cuny.edu/apply.
Promotional graphic for The City University of New York (CUNY) encouraging applications. The top section has a blue background with yellow text that reads: “November 10 to November 21 – Apply to CUNY for Free.” At the bottom left, the CUNY logo appears with the tagline “A Degree for Every Dream.” On the bottom right, a yellow button says “Apply Now” with the URL cuny.edu/apply.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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motorres.bsky.social
beautiful illustration of what Fields & Fields (2012) call race-racism evasion: is it racism (DOL explicitly promoting white nationalism) or is it race (how silly of DOL to not capture the rich diversity of the US workforce)?
bildoperationen.bsky.social Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d
As you may know, the US Department of Labor is posting White Christian Nationalist, fascist-style AI #slopaganda for months now. Or, as the Washington Post puts it: «The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the diversity of the country’s workforce …»
Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce
The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the country’s diversity and is sending messages that feel exclusionary.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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lataco.bsky.social
We are teaching a groundbreaking class at USC titled “Bridging the Media Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists” trying to create a new style of ethical hybrid reporting that will usher in this brave new era of journalism.

A letter from our editor: lataco.com/usc-class-la...
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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lyndab08.bsky.social
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One.

@theguardian.com #ICE
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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taliajane.bsky.social
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.”

www.transition2025.com/apply
A New Era for NYC
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is ready to work to make New York safe and affordable for all of its residents.
www.transition2025.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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neillewisjr.bsky.social
"The FAA will begin cutting the number of flights in the 'high traffic' parts of the country as the government shutdown grinds on...Airlines were told...Wednesday night that flight cuts would start at 4% Friday, 5% Saturday and ramp up to 10% next week"

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The FAA is set to start cutting flights to contend with delays and staffing shortages
"This is about where’s the pressure and how do we alleviate the pressure," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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tessahill.bsky.social
A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. 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 6:53 PM
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nashvillescene.com
With campus resentment growing over Trump’s university compact, Vanderbilt students and faculty rallied against Chancellor Daniel Diermeier underneath the brick clocktower of Kirkland Hall on Wednesday morning.
Vanderbilt Students, Faculty Bash Diermeier in Academic Freedom Rally
Campus resentment growing after university chancellor equivocates on Trump’s university compact
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November 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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techcrunch.com
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
techcrunch.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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chabeli.bsky.social
Getting new details on this now:

As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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lataco.bsky.social
At the Dodgers World Series parade yesterday, some fans had mixed feelings.

@marinamasako.bsky.social spoke with members of the crowd.
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Boyle Heights Beat has been doing great reporting on East L.A.'s reaction to the Dodgers throughout the season, too.

e.g. boyleheightsbeat.com/boyle-height...
Boyle Heights art shows Valenzuela arrested by ICE in Dodgers cap
At Distrito Catorce in Boyle Heights, a new painting replaces a beloved Dodgers tribute, capturing the disappointment and activism of longtime fans in response to the team’s silence on immigration rai...
boyleheightsbeat.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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rollingstone.com
Breaking: Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral election, defeating Andrew Cuomo for the second time to usher in a new era for America’s largest city — and for the Democratic Party.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
To prep for the higher ed policy class on censorship next week, I'm rereading Schrecker's No Ivory Tower. Buddy this intro has it all! SCOTUS jumping on the bandwagon, disregard of first amendment rights, why congressional hearings played such a key role, how private companies aided the government.
Screenshot of page 3 that reads: McCarthyism: The Anatomy of an Inquisition By February 3, 1960, Joseph R. McCarthy had been dead for nearly three years, and the novement that had received his name was presumably over. But not for Chandler Davis. On that day, Davis, a former instructor of mathematics from the University of Michigan, ended a six-year struggle against McCarthyism, said goodbye to his family, and surrendered to a federal marshal in Grand Rapids to begin serving a six-month prison term. Davis's crime had occurred on May 10, 1954 when he refused to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) whether or not he had ever been a Communist. Davis challenged the committee, insisting that its questions about his politics infringed upon his freedom of speech and, as he put it, overstepped "the bounds placed on Congress by the First Amendment.'" He knew that he would probably lose his job and be convicted for contempt of Congress, but he hoped that the Supreme Court would eventually exonerate him. Instead, on June 8, 1959, the Court in effect ruled against him in the similar case Lloyd Barenblatt, another former college teacher who had also defied HUAC on First Amendment grounds. The 5 to 4 decision affirmed that the committee did not violate its witnesses' constitutional rights by asking them about their relationship with the Communist Party (CP). That ruling sent both Barenblatt and Davis, whose case was determined by Barenblatt's, to Danbury Federal Penitentiary. Screenshot of page 7 which reads: Most of this housecleaning took place at congressional hearings. Legislative investigations gave the conservatives a perfect arena for their campaign against the New Deal and its supposed sympathy for Communist subversion. To begin with, as congressmen constitutionally immune from lawsuits, they could make accusations without having to worry about being sued for libel. In addition, since legislative investigations were not judicial proceedings, these politicians could use witnesses whose testimony did not have to stand up in court. Best of all, committee hearings created headlines. American politics had never offered a more dramatic spectacle than the confrontation between the investigators and their witnesses, especially when those witnesses pulled microfilms out of pumpkins and talked of false names, clandestine meetings, secret passwords, and the arcane workings of a shadowy underworld peopled by Soviet agents and urbane upper-class spies. Once the rise of Richard Nixon showed how a smart politician could parlay his berth on an investigating committee into the Vice Presidency, congressmen clamored for such positions. In 1952, 185 of the 221 Republicans in Congress applied for seats on the House Un-American Activities Committee, an unpopular assignment only a few years before. Screenshot of page 9 which reads: McCarthyism was amazingly effective. It produced one of the most severe episodes of political repression the United States ever experienced. It was a peculiarly American style of repression--nonviolent and consensual. Only two people were killed; only a few hundred went to jail. Its mildness may well have contributed to its efficacy. So, too, did its struc- ture. Here, it helps to view McCarthyism as a process rather than a movement. It took place in two stages. First, the objectionable groups and individuals were identified-during a committee hearing, for example, or an FBI investigation; then, they were punished, usually by being fired. The bifurcated nature of this process diffused responsibility and made it easier for each participant to dissociate his or her action from the larger whole. Rarely did any single institution handle both stages of McCarthyism. In most cases, it was a government agency which identified the culprits and a private employer which fired them.
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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cvbell.bsky.social
Still. That’s a big gender gap.
jamescdownie.bsky.social James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 6d
A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative.

(Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)
Spanberger v. Earle-Sears exit poll Men 18-29: Spanberger 56%; Earle-Sears 42%
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Decision Desk has called the New Jersey governors race for Mikie Sherill. Yet another state where millions of dollars in anti trans ads didn't work.
Alt text: “New Jersey Governor General Election results with 18% reporting as of November 4, 2025, 8:17 PM. Mikie Sherrill (Democrat) leads with 387,573 votes, 63.6%. Jack Ciattarelli (Republican) has 218,438 votes, 35.9%. Vic Kaplan (Libertarian) has 1,689 votes, 0.3%, and Joanne Kuniansky (Other) has 1,341 votes, 0.2%. Total votes: 609,041.”
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...

The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
2016-2020-2024-panel-merged-study - ANES | American National Election Studies
electionstudies.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
We experience these events through our media bubbles. So please take a little time to look at the details.

For example: here is how DHS described one incident in Chicago. Now watch the video, which tells a different story.
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Dayanne Figueroa is a US citizen who was driving in Chicago near a site where federal agents were arresting landscapers. According to DHS she “crashed into an unmarked government vehicle and violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers.” The Assistant Secretary of DHS Tricia McLaughlin (remember that name) said Figueroa “used her vehicle to block in agents, honking her horn,” and that she “struck an unmarked government vehicle…In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers attempted to remove her from the vehicle. She violently resisted, kicking two agents and causing injuries. This agitator was arrested for assault on a federal agent.” Got it? Figueroa drove into a government vehicle, and the officers arrested her due to public safety concerns, during which she violently assaulted them, causing injury.
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com
iconic scene from Grey's Anatomy. Meredith Grey in scrub telling Derek "so pick me, choose me, love me"
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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dbgreenwald.bsky.social
I’ve been looking at this map for the last 20 minutes. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
A map of the US showing percentage of households who are SNAP recipients by county. Data is from the 2023 5-year American Community Survey. Source: U.S. Census Bureau Graphic: Joe Murphy / NBC News
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM