iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's difficult to convey to people who haven't been paying attention that every single thing they are reading about the immigrant concentration camps has been happening in U.S. jails and prisons since their origin. People were being waterboarded at Auburn prison in the 1850s.

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Prison Culture » Torture & Corporal Punishment in Early 20th Century American Penitentiaries…

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 01/07/2026

Opinion | The proximity of these plastics-chemical plants to densely populated areas shows the significant health risks of our dependence on plastics. It’s putting us all at risk. cal.news/4v8tq0m 📝 Veronica Herrera 📸 Ethan Swope, AP

Water is sprayed on a damaged tank at GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove, on May 24, 2026, after the tank containing a chemical used to make plastic parts overheated Thursday. Photo by Ethan Swope, AP Photo

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Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I went to undergrad with Melat Kiros and I remember at one point attending a political workshop or symposium of some kind with Melat, looking over at her in the school van we were in on our way back to campus, and having a hunch that she'd probably be successful in politics one day. Glad I was right

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

So many questions about the ICE custody death of Philly immigrant Tuan Van Bui, child of the Vietnam War, welcomed here in 1990, violently arrested in 2025 The biggest: Why do other detainees tell such a different story from ICE about how he died? My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan...

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The U.S. welcomed this child of the Vietnam War. Why did he die in ICE custody? | Will Bunch

In 1990, the U.S. welcomed Tuan Van Bui, other young Amerasians. In 2025, ICE violently arrested him. Why did he die in custody?

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Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

New in Criminology! Punishment as a racialized package of confinement, cash, and surveillance. By @ryanplarson.bsky.social , @robertstewart.io , @veronicalhorowitz.bsky.social, and some old guy. This detailed thread by Ryan show ‘n tells the story.

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Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Had a blast representing @harborinstituteoc.bsky.social at the @caimmigrant.bsky.social Immigrant Day of Action Conference earlier this week speaking alongside @eri-usc.bsky.social, @buenvecino.bsky.social, @facoalition.bsky.social about accessing and communicating data to advance immigrant justice!

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

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The Yale Law Journal @yalelawjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In her Article, @lindsaycnash.bsky.social draws on archival research to recover the lost immigration history of pretrial detention and release during deportation’s founding and formative years. Her findings undermine the historical argument for mandatory immigration detention today.

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Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Can someone #CALeg pls put forward a bill to make it mandatory to provide “spouses” as a default articulated option (beyond “husband and wife” — and some don’t even have “wife and wife” or “husband and husband”) on property vesting / deed paperwork? Thx

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Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

House hunting — struck by how my family’s geographic mobility even within SoCal is constrained by the extent to which local govts seem welcoming. We (queer parents) don’t want to raise kids in a school district where we can’t trust that leaders will support our family, which rly reduces our options

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 27/01/2026

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 24/01/2026

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

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Rachel Rosenbloom @rosenbloom.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

“Anti-democracy measures do not simply arrive and takeover healthy democracies. They are workshopped first – most often on the most vulnerable communities.”

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te kootahekore ranapiri @ired0mi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

poets.org/2020-on-lear... a page where the poem will display properly and also not have scum commenting at the bottom

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2020 Academy of American Poets Prize

On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education… dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social

Welcome to the Dynamic Democracy App
This app lets you manipulate, explore, and download the Dynamic Democracy datasets with information on state policies and public opinion assembled by Devin Caughey and Chris Warshaw. Click on the triangle next to each category for more details.
• State Policies: This dataset includes information on approximately 200 policies in place in at least one state between 1936 and 2024.
• State Policy Ideology : Measures summarizing aggregate policy outputs in each state/year between 1936-2024.
• Public Opinion: Measures summarizing state publics views on approximately 80 issues, covering 1936-2024.
• Mass Ideology.: Measures of state publics' economic and cultural ideological preferences, 1936-2021.
• Policy Proximity.: Measures of how closely state policies match public preferences.

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Chris Warshaw @chriswarshaw.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

We're excited to release version 1.0 of the Dynamic Democracy website. It includes updated data on state policy, public opinion, mass ideology, and representation. The website enables you to see how these measures are changing overtime across states and within states. www.dynamicdemocracy.us

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Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

least important part of today but happy 5 year anniversary of my first day (of a very short stint) at a digital fundraising firm at which I watched the boss demand everyone keep churning out more fundraising emails as we all witnessed the capitol attack in real time on our televisions etc

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

"My sources broke categories: they were monstrous. Studying them meant integrating methods from several disciplines — and being marginalized by the more conservative practitioners in all of them." The final piece in our monsters series, from @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social

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Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian?

A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...

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Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Anyone assign zines in their classes (as assignments)? Would love to see others’ assignments/plans for teaching the history, theory, practice etc

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 19/12/2025

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

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Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 19/12/2025

In this episode, @akelalacy.bsky.social spoke to Benjamin Osorio, Kilmar Ábrego Garcia's attorney; @tylermcbrien.com, managing editor at @lawfaremedia.org; and Gauri Bahuguna, deputy director of research at @situ-research.bsky.social, about the Trump administration’s deportation agenda.

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Deportation, Inc.

Kilmar Ábrego Garcia's attorney shares updates on his case, and Lawfare and SITU Research share their investigative video series examining the deportation economy.

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Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Anyone assign zines in their classes (as assignments)? Would love to see others’ assignments/plans for teaching the history, theory, practice etc

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

NEW Publication featuring a great lineup of citizenship scholars!! :) “The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment”, Comparative Political Studies, lnkd.in/dQPG4Q7J @maartenpvink.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social

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Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Same here! And yes, I do exist in real life. Always glad to meet others in the immigrant rights sphere, especially fellow Southeast Asians :) Will keep in touch!

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Josh Page @joshpage.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Thanks @bailproject.org for the interview! Cash bail does not just fuel injustice and compromise public safety. It also enables widespread financial extraction that harms families and communities and intensifies inequality. #LegalPlunder cc/ @joesoss.bsky.social

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Cash Bail Fuels "Legal Plunder"

Sociologist Joshua Page discusses how cash bail traps families in debt while feeding government and corporate profit.

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Rachael Ballard @rachaelballard.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Looking to advance interdisciplinary research in the social sciences? Palgrave has the book series for you! 📢 Call for Proposals: Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences Find out more here: go.nature.com/43RYQgU #SocialScience #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Palgrave

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Call for Proposals: Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences

Submit your book idea to contribute to Palgrave Macmillan's new book series and advance interdisciplinary research.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 09/12/2025

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the Administration of Medicaid and Elections Shapes Mass Voter Turnout - cup.org/4iNmHV5 - Meredith Dost #FirstView

Banner for 'Perspectives on Politics' featuring a skyline of tarp-covered houses in an urban area with the hashtag 'OpenAccess' displayed at the bottom.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025

I'm begging everyone making gufaw surface level comments about disability accommodations to read about universal design.

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Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

"it is essential [to] build solidarity with people engaged in direct confrontations with state carceral and economic power. To take creative collective action. From this place of solidarity, writing and scholarship may emerge that expands our capacity to understand, confront, and overcome fascism."

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

“I am / not ready to hatch. Teach me / to harden in the air” — Dominique Ahkong (@domkeykong.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in Pirene’s Fountain Volume 18, Issue 26, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been overreacting by telling people I’m not pursuing a full-time tenure-track academic job in part bc I need a job where people around me are mentally and physically prepared and willing to protect me, but then stuff like the OU debacle happens and… yeah

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/12/2025

Because it's not about the rubric. People are splitting hairs over the finer details of rubric instructions when they are missing what this is really about, a blatant attempt to purge trans people out of public life. bsky.app/profile/scgr...

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This stunt had nothing to do with the Bible, it was entirely about pushing the envelope to see how easy it would be to get a public university to fire an instructor for not living according to Christian nationalist beliefs. Turns out it was really easy.

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago? Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city. You can access and read it for free, below. www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...

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Politicized Refuge: Chicago and the Transformation of the Sanctuary Movement

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

It’s hard to overstate how precarious things are for academic workers, especially trans people. This instructor had no option available to them that would have allowed her to keep her job, do it with integrity, and avoid the violence that comes with being fascism’s villain of the week.

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Alex Eleazar 🇬🇹 @alex-eleazar.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

My article is out in the world now! I explore what happens when families pass down stories about national belonging and how nostalgia constructs imagined belonging for LGBTQ+ immigrants :) journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FM4VV...

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Fractured nostalgia and imagined belonging: Family lessons and transnational ties in LGBTQ+ lives - Alexandra Eleazar, 2025

How do self-identified LGBTQ+ individuals with migration histories imagine their transnational belonging when living within the United States? And how do they n...

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esmeralda quick @le-transexual.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

another queer and trans literary landmark. get yourself a copy of this killer print anthology, @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social is kind of a big deal

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

If you're wondering why there are so few trans professors, it's because their institutions are throwing the precious few of us that make it into higher ed under the bus.

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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...

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Call for Chapters: Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory - Oral History Association

Co-editors George Severs and Amy Tooth Murphy are inviting expressions of interest to contributechapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory

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