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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great group of people to work with!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is sincerely my honor. 🙏🏿

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · 28/05/2026

Are you already following Ethnic and Racial Studies on ResearchGate? You'll find Editor's Picks, the latest published articles, and a direct way to connect with our authors. A great way to keep up with new research across migration, race, ethnicity and more.

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Ethnic and Racial Studies

Access 135+ million publications and connect with 20+ million researchers. Join for free and gain visibility by uploading your research.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/06/2026

Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14/04/2026

A Minnesota county is investigating the arrest of a Hmong American man by federal officers that was captured on video as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment, officials announced Monday. to.pbs.org/48wjhSK

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Minnesota investigating ICE's arrest of Hmong American man as possible kidnapping

A Minnesota county is investigating the arrest by federal officers of a Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment.

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Depths of depraved bureaucratic violence

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I just can’t stop thinking abt federal agents raiding the cells of incarcerated children to confiscate their drawings & letters. This is Nazi shit.

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Saddened to learn of Richard Alba’s passing. He touched many hearts and minds including mine. His voice lives on in print and in the many discussions of which he will still be a part. You will be missed Richard.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Dozens of people were reportedly taken into custody at immigration courts around the country. Many of them were for people who were hoping to file asylum applications. ICE's admitted goal for this? Place these people through "expedited removal" - no judge, order them deported on the spot. 3/4

An ICE spokesperson confirmed to the Herald on Wednesday that ICE and its law enforcement partners were arresting people who qualified for expedited removals. “An immigration judge has reviewed DHS’s motion to dismiss proceedings and agreed that dismissal is appropriate in these cases,” the spokesperson said. “All aliens in violation of U.S. immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention and, if removable by final order, removed from the United States. Those who were arrested are going into ICE custody pending removal from the United States.”

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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2025

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

You guys, a conclave of old cardinals can decide on a POPE faster than an academic search committee can decide on the four people we're bringing to campus for an assistant professor search.

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Timely piece by @jodyav.bsky.social at a time when "progressives" and "dems" are happy to throw immigrants under the bus, forgetting their own family stories and how they daily benefit from immigrant labor.

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Contributor: Californians must refuse to abandon the immigrants among us

What's happening to immigrants is testing how far our government can go in punishing, surveilling and silencing everyone.

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

And Chris Rufo on @pbsnews.org So disappointing that they’re stooping so low

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Sad to see @pbsnews.org descending into both-siderism by including Chad Wolf's extremist views on cancelled student visas. He insinuated that if we knew more about these students, we'd see the justification for this extreme measure and lack of due process. Nick Shifrin: really?!

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Foreign policy experts offer views on Trump administration's student activist crackdown

According to attorneys, over 1,000 student visas have been revoked in the Trump administration’s crackdown. Part of that effort has been a State Department argument that some students’ actions threate...

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19/04/2025

You could fund "science" lots of other way, but our university system has its own benefits. One of the benefits of that system is, of course, protest and dissent. Try that in a world where Tesla, Google, Pfizer, and NASA and the NSA do all research.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Federally funded R&D (not all of which is spent at universities) as a fraction of GDP is as low as it's been since we started tracking. Which is a different way of looking at it than "line go up." 4/x ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf2332...

Line graph of the ratio of US R&D spending from various sources to GDP, 1953-2021. The federal percent ranges from about 0.6% of GDP to 1.8%, with the peak in the 1960s, and the low point at the very beginning and over the last 20 years.

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The disclaimer is especially relevant to the nationalist libertarians of our day: “I have nothing to do with the crimes I’ve committed”

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Coffee and Fingernails @coffeenfingernails.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This framing of "dependence" is fucking propaganda. The whole point of the federal government is to build and maintain national institutions that promote public health, education, scientific advancement, etc. The implication here is that those functions are a matter of private not public concern.

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

@profgalloway.com has a snappy take on this massive inside trading scheme: bsky.app/profile/prof...

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Foxes in the hen house. That always ends well

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered. As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!

TIMELINE
ABREGO GARCIA GANG ALLEGATIONS - SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION.

2011-2019: Entry and Early Life: Kilmar Abrego Garcia flees El Salvador to the US at age 16, after M-18 gang members extort his family and threaten to kill him and rape his sisters if they didn’t keep paying. He moves in with his US citizen brother in Maryland and lives there without trouble for years.

March 28, 2019: PGPD Arrest. Kilmar is arrested for loitering outside Home Depot while looking for day labor. A Prince Georges County PD detective grills him about whether he’s a gang member. He denies any involvement. Four hours later, he is transferred to ICE custody, without PGPD charging him for any offense.

April 2019: ICE Allegations: At a bond hearing, ICE claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. They submit one piece of evidence: a “Gang Field Interview Sheet” (GFIS) filled out by the PGPD detective that claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. The GFIS says (1) he was wearing Chicago Bulls gear, and (2) a “confidential informant” allegedly claimed that Kilmar was a ranking member of the “Westerns” clique, which is in Long Island, a place he has never lived in.

Summer 2019: Investigation: Kilmar’s lawyers reach out to PGPD to investigate these claims. They find out that (1) the police did not even file an incident report about his arrest, and (2) the detective that filled out the GFIS has been suspended for an unknown reason.

August 2019: IJ Decision: At his final bond hearing, ICE declines to offer any evidence of gang membership other than what’s in the GFIS. The IJ denies bond, finding that the GFIS is sufficient proof of membership at this time, despite noting its obvious flaws. Kilmar appeals this decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

October 2019: Withholding Win: The immigration judge rules that Kilmar is ineligible for asylum because he filed the application too late. But the judge does grant “withholding of removal,” finding that it was “more likely than not” that he would be subject to persecution if deported to El Salvador. A removal order is issued, but with a restriction that the one country he cannot be deported to is El Salvador.

December 2019: BIA Decision: Kilmar appeals the bond decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The appeals board declines to find “clear error” in the immigration judge’s decision to rely on the GFIS document. However, he is released anyway because he had won withholding of removal.

2019-2025: Normal Life: Kilmar lives a normal life in Maryland with his U.S. citizen wife, their biological son, and his two stepchildren. With his work permit, he gets a job as a sheet metal worker, joins a union, and raises his family in a DC suburb. He doesn’t get into any trouble with the law.

March 2025: Sent to CECOT: On March 12, 2025, ICE comes to Kilmar’s home and arrests him in front of his children. Three days later he’s transferred to Texas, where, thanks to an “administrative error,” he is put on a plane to El Salvador and sent to CECOT

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Maria Sacchetti - reporter - The Washington Post @mariasacchetti.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

NEW Judge says in a written decision Sunday there's "no evidence" man mistakenly deported to El Salvador is a gang member, contrary to Trump administration claims. And the judge finds that the US can bring the man back. Waiting for a decision on appeal. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Judge slams U.S. contentions in case of wrongly deported Salvadoran man

In a decision released Sunday, a federal judge takes the Trump administration to task, saying it has “no evidence” the wrongly deported man from Maryland is a gang member.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 05/04/2025

Today, across the country and around the world, tens of thousands of people turned out for what organizers say has been the single biggest day of protests against President Trump and his second-term policies and actions.

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

From the ancient archives of last week:

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Now this is a good, accurate headline

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My tombstone will say "we think he's gone, but the docusign is still in his queue"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

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Dr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Our cartoonists are doing the job our journalists are afraid to.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/03/2025

A few of the statements & letters to university administrations from our colleagues during this historical moment of assault on higher ed. Solidarity to all those working hard to defend our institutions. #academicsky academeblog.org/2025/03/17/r...

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Rising to the Occasion: Important Statements and Open Letters

BY JENNIFER RUTH AAUP and other campus unions are mobilizing to defend their institutions against the Trump administration’s outright assault on higher education and insist that their univers…

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

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Trump Demands Major Changes in Columbia Discipline and Admissions Rules

A letter outlining “immediate next steps” arrived less than a week after the administration said it was canceling $400 million in grants and contracts.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

None of these Democrats should enjoy a moment's peace. Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gillibrand (NY) Hassan (NH) Peters (MI) Schatz (HI) Schumer (NY) Shaheen (NH) They've effectively just voted for Donald Trump's agenda without putting up a fight. Never let them hear the end of it.

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Now this guy’s got some backbone

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

In case we've forgotten, the New Yorker did an investigation about war crimes committed by American soldiers some of whom Trump pardoned at Hegseth's behest www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-t...

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The War Crimes That the Military Buried

The largest known database of possible American war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan shows that the military-justice system rarely punishes perpetrators.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Whether you like or dislike what’s said at universities, free speech is at the core of our democracy, and protecting it should be one of the core missions of universities. Which is why America needs a new Free Speech Movement, similar to the one that broke out on college campuses 61 years ago.

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Why we need a new free speech movement

And why universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This likely confirms that the decision to arrest him was made at the highest levels of government, a terrifying return to the policies of ideological exclusion last seen used during the heights of the Cold War. A very, very worrying precedent at the start of this government.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The issue of transfers for contract minimums became a bigger issue in 2020 because they kept doing it DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC and were thus directly spreading COVID around the country. Here's a letter Rep. Crow wrote at the time calling for them to stop. crow.house.gov/media/press-...

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Crow Calls on ICE to Halt the Transfer of Detainees to Meet Contract Minimums During COVID-19 Outbreak

Congressman Jason Crow today sent a letter to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement calling for the immediate halt of transferring of detainees between ICE operated and contract facilities to m...

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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

NYC Monday 3/10/25 - Release Mahmoud Khalil - US Permanent Resident detained by DHS for exercising free speech

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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It really is time for democrats to find a spine. Especially the 10 who voted to censure Rep Green. We are here because our representatives sacrifice principle to politeness. The list of 10 follows

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The time for a spine

Democrats who censured Rep. Al Green are as clueless as they are feckless.

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