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Dylan Rodriguez

@dylanrodriguez.bsky.social
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i'm a teacher, scholar, collaborator, organizer, and parent, among other things. i work at the collapsing University of California under the title of Distinguished Professor.

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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"... The community you endanger, and the public you serve, will hold you accountable for abandoning your oath and encouraging an environment of hostility, lawlessness, and destruction."
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(1/2) got a reminder in my campus mailbox (postal, not email) that this is, in fact, amerikkka. last paragraph says, "This is a formal warning: your words and conduct are on record. When violence follows from ideologies you promote, responsibility will point directly back at you....
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"On Violence" open seminar starts next week. Tuesdays 2-5 pm PST, featuring live conversations with authors during the last half of class sessions. Sign up by sending email with subject line "On Violence" to studymachine@proton.me
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Soon this
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
AND! Online tmw, May 28 at 5pm ET In dialogue with this incredible lineup @ UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society: Desireé Melonas, Keith Miyake, Emma Stapely, Jaye Austin Williams, & mod Dylan Rodríguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social ‼️ Register @ bit.ly/4tTD2fn
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State (UC Press): Unscripted Conversation with Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social May 28, 2026 at 2pm PST; FREE REGISTRATION bit.ly/4tTD2fn discussants Desireé Melonas, Keith Miyake, Emma Stapely, Jaye Austin Williams; facilitator @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social
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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Distinguished professor Dylan Rodriguez — @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social — speaks with former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa about “the horrifying truth” behind the prison industrial complex — and the politics that “dilute the power of radical movements trying to dismantle it”
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‘Mass incarceration’ is a liberal myth. The truth is far worse.
“The masses are not being policed, targeted, and incarcerated,” Distinguished Professor and author Dylan Rodríguez says; “it's a targeted war with asymmetrical casualties.”
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 02/03/2026
“The masses are not being policed, targeted, and incarcerated,” Distinguished Professor and author @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social says; “it’s a targeted war with asymmetrical casualties.”
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‘Mass incarceration’ is a liberal myth. The truth is far worse.
“The masses are not being policed, targeted, and incarcerated,” Distinguished Professor and author Dylan Rodríguez says; “it's a targeted war with asymmetrical casualties.”
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Rattling the Bars @rattlingthebars.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The 'War on Drugs' and 'War on Terror' are facets of an internal colonialism informing U.S. foreign policy. In this week's Rattling the Bars, @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social discusses the roots of state violence, white reconstruction, and the struggle for their abolition. Tune in: youtu.be/bopIHKHy7gY
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Manifest Destiny Never Ended: The Domestic War for White Supremacy
YouTube video by The Real News Network
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
3/3 (text from image) Google received and responded to a legal process issued by the FBI compelling the release of information related to your Google account. A court order previously prohibited Google from notifying you of the legal process. We are now permitted to disclose...
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
2/3 Rather, this is to urge collective awareness of the everyday methods of invasive state surveillance and to assure each other that this shit will not intimidate or demobilize, it will only further embolden and activate...
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
1/3 sharing this with the encouragement of my badass veteran movement attorney... received notice from Google LLC on January 22, 2026 that the FBI is demanding "release of information" from my (very publicly available) Google account. I am not seeking sympathy or help...
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
...also, pacifism is not "community defense"
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
pacifism is how radicals become liberal while still feeling radical
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
As Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez Frías stated, “in the face of any new difficulties, whatever their magnitude, the response of all patriots... is unity, struggle, battle, and victory”. Caracas, 03 January 2026
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Venezuela reserves the right to exercise legitimate defense to protect its people, its territory, and its independence. We call on the peoples and governments of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world to mobilize in active solidarity against this imperial aggression.
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
the Command for the Comprehensive Defense of the Nation and the Organs of Direction for Comprehensive Defense in all states and municipalities of the country. In strict accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations,
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
the rights of the population, the full functioning of republican institutions, and to immediately move to armed struggle. The entire country must mobilize to defeat this imperialist aggression. Similarly, he has ordered the immediate deployment of
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
the Organic Law on States of Exception, and the Organic Law on National Security. In this regard, President Nicolás Maduro has signed and ordered the implementation of the Decree declaring a state of external commotion throughout the national territory, in order to protect
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
President Nicolás Maduro has ordered all national defense plans to be implemented at the appropriate time and under the appropriate circumstances, in strict accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Simultaneously, Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace will file the corresponding complaints with the UN Security Council, the Secretary-General of that United Nations, CELAC, and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), demanding the condemnation and accountability of the U.S. government.
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack. The people of Venezuela and their Bolivarian National Armed Forces, in perfect popular-military-police fusion, are deployed to guarantee sovereignty and peace.
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
the Homeland” Today, with the morale of Bolívar, Miranda and our liberators, the Venezuelan people rise again to defend their independence in the face of imperial aggression. People, to the streets. The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
the fascist oligarchy, will fail like all previous attempts. Since 1811, Venezuela has faced and defeated empires. When foreign powers bombed our coasts in 1902, President Cipriano Castro proclaimed: “The insolent foot of the foreigner has desecrated the sacred soil of
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
the people and their legitimate government remain steadfast in defending their sovereignty and their inalienable right to decide their own destiny. The attempt to impose a colonial war to destroy the republican form of government and force a “regime change”, in alliance with
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
serious risk. The objective of this attack is none other than to seize Venezuela’s strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, in an attempt to forcibly break the political independence of the nation. They will not succeed. After more than 200 years of independence,
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
which enshrine the respect for the sovereignty, the legal equality of States, and the prohibition of the use of force. Such an aggression threatens international peace and stability, specifically in Latin America and the Caribbean, and puts the lives of millions of people at
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Venezuelan territory and population in civilian and military locations in the city of Caracas, capital of the Republic, and the States of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira. This act constitutes a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations, especially Articles 1 and 2,
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
FWD: COMMUNIQUÉ BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects, repudiates, and denounces before the international community the extremely serious military aggression perpetrated by the current government of the United States of America against
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
gofund.me/4a8ad413b Stevie has been a stalwart organizer, teacher, writer, and intellectual contributor to a major stream of Black radicalism. I'm thrilled to know he's coming back to us soon.
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Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante
Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
www.leannesimpson.bandcamp.com out by @biidaasamose.bsky.social today!
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Live Like The Sky, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
11 track album
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makcapitalism.bsky.social @makcapitalism.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
'Prince of Darkness' featuring Dylan Rodríguez | The Imperial '80s Episode 15 ( @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social ) Friday at 12:30 PM ET / 9:30 AM PT www.youtube.com/live/rGRFkT1...
Text reads: THE IMPERIAL '80s: John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness with Dylan Rodriguez
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
www.youtube.com/live/rGRFkT1...
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'Prince of Darkness' featuring Dylan Rodríguez | The Imperial '80s Episode 15
YouTube video by Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Just another Sunday morning
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Don't get it twisted, these 160 names are not just highly paid academic celebrities, but also modestly paid staff, untenured faculty members, and vulnerable students. UC administration's craven collaboration with the feds is both *unsurprising* and *disgusting*. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
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UC Berkeley shares information on 160 staff, students with US government
Among those listed is feminist philosopher Judith Butler, who likened the move to a ‘practice from the McCarthy era’.
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Tomorrow August 26, 6pm EST registration required or livestream here: www.youtube.com/@MAKCapitalism
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Outlaw Podcast @outlawpod.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Want to know more about how we got from non-profits to collapse? Tune in to our latest episode to hear more wisdom on making sense of the fascist attack on non/profits from @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social & Veryl. 7/7
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
chuffed.org/project/1455...
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Black Trans Academic Targeted and Fined for Pro-Palestine Speech
Black trans academic suspended and fined for pro-Palestine/anti-z1onist speech.
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
gonna leave this here. S/O @blackagendareport.bsky.social for posting it: orinocotribune.com/aoc-is-a-gen...
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AOC Is a Genocidal Con Artist
By Caitlin Johnstone - Jul 20, 2025 She’s actively stopping American politics from moving any further left than the nightmare we see before us. The Democratic Party’s Instagram-friendly progressive da...
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makcapitalism.bsky.social @makcapitalism.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Our next episode with @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social this Friday!
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Listening to one of them now, i'm convinced that the term "public intellectual" is a euphemism for Official Liberal.
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
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DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism | USCIS
Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Trump and Biden Financed Duterte’s Crimes. They Too Should Pay for It. theintercept.com/2025/03/19/r...
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Trump and Biden Financed Duterte’s Crimes. They Too Should Pay for It.
Will the international community hold accountable those who financed and were complicit in Duterte’s bloody, state-sanctioned killing campaign?
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
University administrative leaders may be the most baldly craven species other than Democratic Party ops.
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We will not allow this to become normal. The Trump regime is trying to crush dissent beginning with those who speak out for Palestinian freedom. This is a threat to all who believe in justice. Tell Congress to protect students & demand Mahmoud’s release: bit.ly/freemahmoudnow
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Release Mahmoud Khalil & Protect All Student Activists
Write to Columbia University and the Department of Homeland Security! Over the past two days, we have seen a deliberate and dangerous escalation in the suppression of free speech targeting our moveme...
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Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Next Thursday, March 6th, Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social speaking at the University of New Mexico!!!! Hosted by the UNM Department of American Studies. Please join us and spread the word!!!
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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Counterinsurgency and the Nonprofit Industrial Complex" Joel Jones Memorial Lecture, Thursday, March 6, 5:30 pm (in-person at U of New Mexico) thank you for inviting me, Prof. David Correia and UNM Dept. of American Studies! University of New Mexico Bobo Room, Hodgin Hall
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