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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸

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Siya|she|her | Sociologist @Fordham AAST | Research: US immigration,🇵🇭s &🇵🇭 🇺🇸s, legal status | IG: drdanielapila | danielapila.com | Founder of Pamana pamanallc.com

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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 4h
This is the video if you're curious: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqRH...
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Dying From Debt: Why NYC Taxi Drivers Went On Hunger Strike
YouTube video by AJ+
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 4h
Showed a video where Mayor Mamdani joined a hunger strike in support of South Asian taxi drivers. One of my students asked to show Mamdani's rap song, so we watched it in class #asianamericanstudies at its finest :)
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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People following the Cornell case keep asking the same questions about Jane Doe. Why did she text one of the men afterward? Why didn't she call it rape right away? Why didn't she see herself as a victim from the start? My last three articles take these questions on. 🧵
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do I know anyone who is involved in immigration advocacy in Australia? Thinking about planning a visit there in the winter to add that case of border violence to my book project...
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy Filipino American History Month!!!
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Filipinos Pinoy Pride
ALT: Filipinos Pinoy Pride
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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 30/09/2026
End domestic violence and sexual assault! #Pinks 💖✨
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Submitted my article to a journal (again) and finally working on my book manuscript!
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
All I can think of this: www.youtube.com/shorts/lbdd_...
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Young Kid remembers the 9/11 a catastrophic event || Recess Therapy
YouTube video by Tower of David
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Teaching Asian American Studies is so much fun! Talked about Angel Island (especially the Angel Island Poems), Wong Kim Ark, and many more instances of Asian Am fights for equal rights. It's only Week 3 and I already know I'm gonna miss teaching this :(
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That = sexual harassment, NOT the training lol
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Me every time I do a mandatory sexual harassment training:
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Don't Do That
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem showed generations of us what a more equal world could look like. She built the road there, brick by brick, march by march, for over sixty years. My deepest condolences to everyone who loved her, and my deepest gratitude for everything she gave the rest of us.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Shame on these reps who have IMMIGRANT last names and voted "No."
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The reason the crackdowns of the trump era ICE feels so much like a war on pastors and children et al instead of “deporting the violent criminals” is because a) the latter was never the point and b) there aren’t enough violent criminals,citizen or not, in the country period… bsky.app/profile/john...
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This interview is so funny and great insights in how much local government can improve people's lives.
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Zohran Mamdani: New York's New Mayor Pops In
YouTube video by Trevor Noah
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is so shameful.
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I have always figured it out. Despite all odds, I figured out college as a first gen low-income immigrant with no permanent residency. I am now a naturalized citizen with a great support system. I'll be OK.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
By chance, I bumped into a former student. They told me they changed their major because of my class. I am enough. I'm not sure what my future holds. I'll be at Fordham for the year as an adjunct in the Asian American studies program. But after that, who knows?
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I won the academic lottery. Four years ago, I got a tenure-track job in a region I wanted to live in. I thought I was set. Yesterday, I turned in my work badge and faculty parking pass. I looked at my empty office one last time. I'm the 7th tenure-track faculty in 11 years to walk away.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The countless lives that have been derailed and ruined by ICE. Deplorable.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"Asylum entries are down 99.9%. Student visas, family visas, and H‑1B applications have all cratered." Ryan Bourne interviews @davidjbier.bsky.social about the immigration crackdown you're not hearing about.
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The Immigration Crackdown You’re Not Hearing About
Featuring Ryan Bourne and David J. Bier
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
End-of-semester grading can be mid, but I love watching my students' final presentations on their chosen topics. Their genuine enthusiasm for their topics of choice shines amidst all of the higher ed AI-💩 work.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 31/03/2026
Judge rules Trump order eliminating NPR, PBS funding unconstitutional 
Trump’s order violated the First Amendment rights of the public media giants, a federal judge in Washington found.
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Judge rules Trump order eliminating NPR, PBS funding is unconstitutional
A federal judge struck down part of Trump’s order cutting NPR and PBS funding, calling it viewpoint discrimination and a First Amendment violation.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
If you're a sociologist in Florida, do you just teach ___ science now??
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
*After spring break* Four-year old: I don't want to go to school. Me: Same, girlie. Same.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
4.5 year old: You are a professor, Mommy, just like Professor Inkling in Octonauts. Professor Inkling:
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I am literally on hour 4 of dealing with *just* emails 😭😭
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
**Speaking with non-Americans living outside of the US** Them: Are you guys OK??? Me:
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a cartoon character with glasses and a yellow sweater is standing in front of a fire
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Nonstop consuming all of the analyses of these VF photos. AI could never!! #resist
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Trump’s approval is sliding fast, and it’s completely self-inflicted. Tariffs, deportations, and the One Big Ugly Bill are already backfiring. Tomorrow, Jay Kuo breaks down why recovery before the midterms looks unlikely. And yesterday, Todd Beeton examined the psychology driving MAGA’s politics.
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This Week In The Big Picture
It’s not even been a year since Donald Trump took office for the second time, and already Americans are signaling, in poll after poll, that they’re just not that into him.
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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Not many left on the shelves this year
Label on a shelf in a Metro Supermarket (Philippines) offering "Christmas bag of threats" for 250 pesos
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."
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For the reasons stated in the foregoing Memorandum Opinion, it is this 11th day of
December, 2025, by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, ORDERED
that:
1. Petitioner Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s Petition for habeas corpus pursuant to 28
U.S.C. § 2241 at ECF No. 1 is hereby GRANTED;
2. Respondents SHALL release Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately;
3. Respondents SHALL notify Abrego Garcia’s counsel of the exact time and location of
his release no fewer than four hours prior to releasing him, and notify the Court of the
status of Abrego Garcia’s release by email to chambers no later than 5:00 p.m. today,
Thursday, December 11, 2025;
4. A representative of the United States Pretrial Services Office for this District SHALL
separately contact Abrego Garcia’s criminal counsel with further instruction for
installation on the release conditions previously imposed in his criminal case, United
States v. Abrego Garcia, No. 3:25-CR-00115-1 (M.D. Tenn.);
5. Respondents SHALL immediately transmit this Order and the accompanyingMemorandum Opinion to all relevant officers, agents, and employees under their
control and who are involved in this matter and the pending criminal case, United States
v. Abrego Garcia, No. 3:25-CR-00115-1 (M.D. Tenn.);
6. Within a week of the date of this Order, by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 18,
2025, the parties SHALL submit a joint status report as to the parties’ position
regarding resolution of Respondents’ pending motion to dissolve at ECF No. 72; and
7. The Clerk is DIRECTED to transmit a copy of this Order to all counsel of record.
December 11, 2025 /s/
Date Paula Xinis
 United States District Judge
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
And if you're wondering, yes. Yes they are.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It is 2025. Why are people doing video calls in public spaces without headphones??? I would be mortified. The entitlement, ugh.
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy. Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality. John Roberts > Roger Taney. Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Dystopian timeline we are in.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I spoke to a full professor about my job offer negotiations. They were shocked that I negotiated at all and wasn't just grateful for the opportunity.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🙋🏻‍♀️
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a man in a helmet is holding a woman in a crowd and says " i volunteer as tribute "
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
~Reunited and it feels so good 😍 @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app
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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · 26/11/2025
Immigration enforcement is usually thought of as a federal issue, but ICE's work is intertwined with state law in a number of ways. @aliciabannon.bsky.social examines recent state litigation WI, NY, and CA that will shape the relationship between ICE and the states & localities in which it operates.
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State Challenges to Immigration Enforcement Practices
Recent lawsuits in Wisconsin, New York, and California explore questions about the role of state law in federal immigration enforcement.
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Migration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Most people in the U.S. immigration court system lack legal representation Yet research shows that legal advice improves due process, fair outcomes and courtroom efficiency Our issue brief outlines ways for NGOs & others to expand access to representation 🔗 Read: bit.ly/immig-courts
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I understand the financial need to graduate in 4 years...but I see so many students who take 5-6 classes, work multiple jobs (to afford said classes), and have familial responsibilities. Of course its going to be difficult to manage the time and the work.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Congrats, Kuya Tony!!
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
this great article by @debtcollective.bsky.social lays out really clearly what's been on my mind all day: everybody better get real familiar with municipal finance real quick www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...
inthered.org
Zohran Won Main Street—Now He Must Face Wall Street
Mamdani will face a looming threat to his progressive agenda: debt
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/11/2025
Democrats Dominate First Major Elections of Trump’s Second Term
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Democrats Dominate First Major Elections of Trump's Second Term
Mamdani's victory comes as Democrats posted big wins across the country on Election Day. In California, voters approved a new congressional map that could help Democrats pick up five additional seats in Congress, in a move to counter Texas's redistricting effort to gain five House seats.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani has made history—New York City has elected its first Muslim, socialist mayor. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social reflects on what this moment means for working-class New Yorkers, for Muslims, and for the city itself.
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Zohran Mamdani Wins and It Is a Celebration of My New York
Mamdani will be New York City's first Muslim, socialist mayor. But his victory does—and should—mean much more.
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Amy Nemmity @amy.wrestlejoy.com · 30/10/2025
I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?" She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.
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Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away'
Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.
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Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Citing ChatGPT during a wedding speech makes my skin crawl. Yikes, don't waste your precious speech times with that BS.
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