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Theresa Rocha Beardall 🍓
@trochabeardall.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington
J.D. @UIllinoisLaw and Ph.D. @CornellSoc
Mexican/Native Mamá 💜
Scholar of race, law, inequality, indigeneity, policing, and family policing.

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DOGE is not a govt efficiency project. Firing 1 in 4 fed employees would cut govt spending by 1%. DOGE is a political control project. Firing and terrorizing public employees is a means to weakening state regulation & strengthening a personalist presidency donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...
DOGE Mismanagement Principles
Musk et al. don't know or care about the damage they are doing
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).
December 20, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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It’s that time of year again — the call for papers for the Junior Theorists Symposium is live! Submit your précis here: bit.ly/jts2025
December 11, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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This is literally true.

School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.

From my book WHITE FLIGHT:
December 10, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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Looking for a community of Latinx/a/o scholars broadly throughout academia? With help from @larrylafountain.bsky.social I started this starter pack, now w/ 111/150 scholars. If you wanted to be added please reply to post.

Dr. @jorgenleal.bsky.social also has a starter pack!!

go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr
November 24, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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NYPD has been spending a lot of money on advanced surveillance systems for decades, and none of those seemed to help much here. I fear the post-mortem conclusion will be "see, we need to spend more on *even more* advanced tech."

www.wired.com/story/nypd-s...
December 10, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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Annabel Ipsen and I co-wrote this paper on how structural precarity was central to the meatpacking business model. COVID-19 made clear the role that necropolitics played in this model.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Ekow Yankah has a relevant paper forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review: "Deputization and Privileged White Violence" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 9, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Here's a 🧵 of starter packs of social scientists that study race and ethnicity.

go.bsky.app/GbS4DAs
December 8, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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I know Bluesky is really here because my favorite cousin has finally joined 🤩 welcome @trochabeardall.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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You must read this truly brilliant piece by @kmtani.bsky.social in the current Harvard Law Review. Her reflection on the Supreme Court, curation, narration, and history is one of the best pieces of scholarship that I have *ever* read. This will become a classic. I am in awe.
Curation, Narration, Erasure: Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme
Introduction “Dead, dead, dead.”Transcript of Oral Argument at 19, Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, 144 S. Ct. 18 (2023) (No. 22-429) (statement of Kagan, J.), htt
harvardlawreview.org
November 13, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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Hard not to understand this as a structure of whiteness. (Which is not the same as saying that all the perpetrators are themselves white.)

‘if you don’t like the way we violate, we will structurally abandon you instead…’
It says a ton the police reaction to “stop targeting Black people” is “okay so we can’t do anything at all”
This is really damning. NJ State Troopers, unhappy with a report on racial bias incidents, just stopped doing traffic enforcement, and seemingly weren’t on the roads (as evidenced by a vehicle from a fatal hit and run being abandoned for hours before anyone noticed).
December 8, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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This is really damning. NJ State Troopers, unhappy with a report on racial bias incidents, just stopped doing traffic enforcement, and seemingly weren’t on the roads (as evidenced by a vehicle from a fatal hit and run being abandoned for hours before anyone noticed).
For eight months, traffic enforcement citations on New Jersey’s highways plummeted by 81% compared with the year before. The unrivaled reduction is now the subject of a criminal investigation.
For 8 Months, Traffic Enforcement on New Jersey’s Highways Plummeted
After a report found racial bias in traffic enforcement, state troopers were warned by a union leader that “every stop” would be scrutinized. They started making fewer.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 5:04 PM