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Dr. Dre

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Associate Prof Political Science at UCR. Immigration, REP, and Latino Politics; RPCV EC 72, chronic lethologica

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kate @thekatriarch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it's time to look outside the mainstream sugar economy which has failed us
Homer Simpson with his baseball bat in front of his pile of sugar.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That's a full 0.5" of direct democracy
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Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is what they do when you give them endless money. $20.5M in fees and costs for buying 7 warehouses they're now going to sell. $10M for unused Guantánamo tents, and unneded food. ICE bought 11 warehouses for $1.07B without any plan. Taxpayer money, burned. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-spe...
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ICE wasted millions of taxpayer dollars in rapid push to expand detention capacity, government watchdog finds
With an unprecedented budget, ICE spent billions in a rush to expand its detention network, wasting millions in the process, the Government Accountability Office found.
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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
abcnews.com/Politics/fed...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The SNAP stuff was the part that they allowed to take effect before the midterms. That gives you a sense of just how awful the Medicaid stuff they are holding until after the midterms will be.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is disgraceful...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If I had three wishes, my first wish would be to erase mosquitoes from California and the other two wishes would be to mitigate the consequences.
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Japanese omirice in Riverside? Asking too much??
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
gas is $6 and the federal minimum wage is $7.50. mitch mcconnell got 3 months paid leave and workers get none..
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ah, no...que pena... My auto-reply is up until the day before school starts... I'm a 👻 until sept 23...
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The University of Texas at Austin is planning to eliminate four majors: African and African diaspora studies, Mexican American and Latina/o studies, women's and gender studies, and the race, indigeneity and migration major.
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UT Austin plans to cut Mexican American, African, women's and gender studies majors
The decision comes after university officials consolidated seven ethnic studies departments into two earlier this year. Faculty within the College of Liberal Arts were told most majors could be consol...
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Are you following us on Substack? If you hangout there, make sure to subscribe to our channel to get all of our articles and insights. Link 👇 substack.com/@goodauthori...
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Good Authority’s mission is to bring insights from political science to a broader audience.
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Rebecca Rauber @defeatthefascists.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The US is being run by worse-than-Nazi hyenas. “Amnesty International found in a report published in December, based on interviews with detainees and a tour of the facility, that the cages were used to punish detainees and amounted to torture, sparking a congressional probe.”
Graphic detailing the structure and size of the cage (7’ 9”x 4’ x 3’) with a 6’ tall shackled and handcuffed prisoner shown outside the cage. (Source: NBC News reporting and the DHS Office of Inspector General / Graphic: Javier Zarracina, NBC News
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Nazita Lajevardi @nazita.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So many Islamophobic and racist stories today, but the most recent one I've heard of is just mind bogging is LSAC blocking Iranians from taking the LSAT. www.law.com/2026/09/10/i...
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Iranian Students Prohibited From Taking LSAT Following US-Imposed Sanctions | Law.com
The U.S. Treasury Department announced the suspension of several general licenses in its Iran Sanctions program, including goods and services offered by the Law School Admission Council.
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For those folks still scratching their heads about the immigration politics of some PoC, stop doing that and read this important paper instead… 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽💯💯💯
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a lie. Job growth and labor force participation rates are declining. The declining SNAP coverage is not a sign of economic health, but that the administrative burdens embedded in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are leading to massive coverage loss. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-the-o...
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When the One Big Beautiful Bill comes due
Real people are losing SNAP. Medicaid will be next
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Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The difference only makes sense because of mobility restrictions. In the past, refugees fleeing a country were also sought after by others. So a refugee could flee a country and choose another. UN should read my article about past policies to attract more foreigners link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Client Challenge
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Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
gifted... www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Missouri’s push to overturn gerrymandered map ruling
The move marks the end of a lengthy redistricting fight in Missouri and blocks a Republican attempt to oust Kansas City’s longtime congressman.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
BREAKING: DC Circuit upholds district court order blocking IRS from sharing tax return information with ICE. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Before: MILLETT, PILLARD and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge PILLARD.
PILLARD, Circuit Judge:
After the Watergate scandal exposed executive branch abuses of U.S. taxpayers' information to harass the Administration's enemies, Congress enacted a prohibition against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sharing tax return information with any other federal agency unless the requesting agency meets stringent conditions. In response to requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in the summer of 2025, the IRS developed a specialized procedure for disclosing return information. The procedure failed to ensure that ICE's requests complied with statutory requirements. The IRS nonetheless began using the procedure to disclose tens of thousands of records.
Several groups sued. The IRS had turned over more than 47,000 records by the time the district court stayed the IRS from using the new procedure and preliminarily enjoined further disclosures without notice to the court. We affirm.
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Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gifted.. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
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Judge Once Again Blocks Trump Administration’s Plans to Restrict Mail-In Ballots (Gift Article)
The ruling arrived before the Supreme Court could decide whether to intervene but appeared certain to set off yet another round of appeals.
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My book is ready for preorder! Chuffed to see the cover on the banner at #APSA26. for 30% off: NYUAU30 @nyupress.bsky.social
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
PST to EST is a violence
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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
“Authoritarians systematically target higher education as part of a broader attack on the independence of institutions that might question their power. That is what Orban did in Hungary. In Turkey, Erdogan did not just purge military academies; he abolished them. …”👇🏽
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
EXCITED To be at @wcps.bsky.social TODAY!!! Backroom ball, Sheraton!
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Notes to New Mothers comes out today! It’s a book that offers community and validation to moms:) www.amazon.com/dp/132411705...
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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.reuters.com/reuters-ipso...
A new 
@Reuters
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@Ipsos
 poll shows just 13% of Americans "strongly approve" of Trump. That's the lowest I've seen in a quality poll.

It's just 35% of Republicans, too.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 24/08/2026
The U.S. Postal Service has said it won’t implement the rule for the midterms unless the Supreme Court allows it.
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Will New USPS Rule Impact Your Ballot In November? What To Know
The U.S. Postal Service has said it won’t implement the rule for the midterms unless the Supreme Court allows it.
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Arday reminds me that, no matter how high you might rise, POC are readily expendable in academia
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🚨 Yet ANOTHER study finds "NO evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime." There has NEVER been evidence to support this racist BS❗ Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com
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Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Texas comptroller just (after delay) released the numbers. 70% of voucher users this year were never in public schools. Almost precisely what I predicted to the Texas legislature when I testified 18 months ago.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Well then it's a good thing that presidential executive orders do not have authority to change the vaccine schedule and probably the newspapers should report it that way.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“The idea wasn’t just to retroactively protect ‘the babies of slaves’; it was to prospectively forestall future efforts to deny citizenship based on whatever other non-sovereignty-based criteria might be politically popular in any given moment.” Me on why Trump’s new EO is *still* unconstitutional:
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243. Birthright Citizenship, Redux
President Trump's new attempt to cabin birthright citizenship is a lot narrower than the one the Supreme Court struck down in June. Its key provisions are still unconstitutional.
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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If you are a teacher and want your class to play along with thousands of other students across the country this fall, please fill out this short form here to get more information. forms.gle/6hwmgSP98Yzg...
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
As many as 33,000 Wisconsinites have lost SNAP benefits in the last year. For reference, the margin in the 2024 presidential election was 29,397 votes. www.wpr.org/news/thousan...
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Thousands of Wisconsinites have lost food aid in largest cut in US history
The One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year by President Donald Trump and Republicans is the largest cut to healthcare and food aid in the nation’s history, advocates say. Food pantries are seeing a n...
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Dr. Dre @asilvaphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
i ❤️ SOFSA!! www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Nonprofit groups sue US Agriculture Department over rules on grants
Five nonprofit organizations sued the U.S. Agriculture Department on Thursday over grant conditions they say restrict speech ​in support of diversity initiatives and immigration rights.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Also 5-7 million people have lost health care…. USAID getting dodged killed kids… our bombs are dropping on kids in Gaza and Iran and Lebanon… and on and on… the worst kind of gaslighting
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
BREAKING: The 9th Circuit has rejected ICE's unprecedented mass detention policy — the 5th striaght appellate loss for the Trump administration and perhaps the most significant, covering California, Arizona, Nevada and Washington, among others. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
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Hannah Walker @hlw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Excited to share this new book by @asilvaphd.bsky.social "Direct Democracy Rules" (best title) examines how propositions, initiatives, and referendums shape state immigration policy and changed the role of citizens in immigration policymaking. Here's a discount code! GO! NOW!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/07/2026
Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
$50 billion snapped into existence for GEO detention real estate proves homelessness and hunger were always solvable. Corrupt Trump and his Republican puppets chose cages over compassion, and that’s a choice we won’t forget. #RepublicanCostOfCorruption
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