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EricAVázquez

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Mexican't, Mexiwon't, Mexiwill-never. Opinions expressed here are my own, and do not represent my employer. ericvazquezphd.com

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EricAVázquez @fritamoreno.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s not hypothetical: the dangers of AI are already here | Granate Kim and Mohamed Hussein
Israel and the US have used AI to kill in Gaza and Iran, while law enforcement uses it in surveillance and arrests. The future is here
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...
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Warren Sounds Alarm Over Trump Becoming First US President Ever to 'Own and Oversee His Own Bank' | Common Dreams
US Sen. Elizabeth Warren is taking a stand against President Trump's corrupt crypto bank, urging the Senate to pass the Ending Presidential Corruption in Banking Act. Will Congress choose to fight cor...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/democra...
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Will 7 Senate Democrats Join GOP to Advance Trump's Crypto Grift Legislation? | Common Dreams
Crypto industry darling Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is trying to bring Democrats on board despite warnings that a new version of the bill "still fails to address President Trump’s unprecedented profiteeri...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
“…the case around Isaacs proceeded solely based on evidence gathered from an automatic license plate reader (ALPR) provided by the extremely controversial company Flock Safety.”
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Police Use Flock to Jail Completely Innocent Woman for Weeks
A woman was jailed for nearly two weeks after police used seconds of footage from a Flock ALPR to guide their entire investigation.
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EricAVázquez @fritamoreno.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Scheduling an East Coast book tour this coming November:
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Anti-Foreigner Reform UK’s “Shocking Foreign-Funding Scandal Is a Wake-Up Call” ‘We just don’t have British-resident donors,’ a top Nigel Farage ally told an undercover US reporter on camera. Isn’t now a good time to get big money out of UK politics? From Zeteo UK:
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Anti-Foreigner Reform UK’s Shocking Foreign-Funding Scandal Is a Wake-Up Call
‘We just don’t have British-resident donors,’ a top Nigel Farage ally told an undercover US reporter on camera. Isn’t now a good time to get big money out of UK politics?
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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 07/09/2026
For decades, people have been writing books arguing that fiat money is a "sham" and predicting that a massive crisis is just around the corner. But no, I'm sure Hunter's onto something.
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This coming Wednesday 9/9, I will be in conversation in NYC with Andrew Ross and Jeanne Theoharis about BLUE POWER at @ipk.bsky.social (5:30pm). RSVP for in-person or virtual option: ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
Cover of Blue Power with cops walking away from viewer
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026
“True, the annals of fashion are littered with ill-advised accessories: leg warmers, trucker hats, Livestrong bracelets. But the very act of putting on a wearable—of willingly adorning oneself with a tiny computerized narc—is an act of surrender.”
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Pull the Plug: Making a Case Against Wearable Tech
No more beeping, booping, or buzzing. One writer on why she’s opting out.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Make no mistake about this: this has always been part of RFK Jr's eugenicist agenda. It is entirely apace with his anti-vaccination beliefs (let children/the vulnerable fall sick, its good for the "population"). The goal is eugenics.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Black people are less intelligent has been discredited so many fucking times. Why is such a hack with discredited ideas being given airtime and “free speech” articles. He’s an open “race realist”. Also fuck you
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/08/2026
Here it is: California Forever—the proposed billionaire tech dystopian city—is pushing last-minute legislation to bypass environmental review. Will Gavin Newsom’s lobbyist pals get it over the finish line? www.solanotogether.org/post/trailer...
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California Forever Billionaire Power Grab Is Here. Take Action Now!
Take action to demand that Governor Newsom and our legislators reject a last-minute bill favoring California Forever and bypassing environmental laws for industrial shipbuilding plans in Solano. Read ...
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"My daughter went to school and came home with a penis." said no parent, ever.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/08/2026
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II.
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
Goop 🤝 slop
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Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly set to throw dinner in honor of Sam Altman | TechCrunch
The actress' firm Kinship Ventures is an investor in the company.
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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The war on terror’s always had a domestic front. ICE was designed to be a militarized police force. It has limitless resources, which is why it can afford this tech. Pair that w/ unchecked license to racially profile & the US is further solidified as a police state. Literal shock and awe warfare.
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Aug. 13, 1926: Fidel Castro, the revolutionary turned dictator who turned Cuba into the first Communist state in the Americas, is born to a prosperous sugarcane farm family in the island’s southeast. His reign from 1959-2008 made him a villain to the U.S. and an icon of Third World leftism.
Castro at about 10In the 1960sIn 2016, shortly before his death
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: Vanderbilt's board just launched a horrifying assault on academic freedom that threatens the legitimacy of their university. 1/x #AAUP #academicsky #edusky
insidehighered.com
Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom
A new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university.
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Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com · 05/08/2026
Our good friends from @eff.org are going to join us at #DEFCON34 to talk about ALPRs. We will go into excruciating details about how all the governance and policies around ALPRs are designed to fail. bsky.app/profile/evac...
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 05/08/2026
"For every AI ethicist or prompt engineer role created in San Francisco, dozens of livelihoods vanish in Manila, Johannesburg or Mumbai." Read an excerpt from “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI" by Jibu Elias: restofworld.org/2026/ai-jobs-econom…
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Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution
In an excerpt from his book “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI,” writer Jibu Elias examines the technology’s impact on jobs.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 04/08/2026
A federal judge ordered the Adelanto ICE facility to fix its water. But only weeks later, a detainee filmed worm-like creatures swimming in his drinking water. How is DHS claiming it meets FDA standards?
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'Disturbing' video shows 'worm-like creatures' swimming in ICE detainees' drinking water
A video shared by attorneys shows a California ICE detainee holding up a water bottle crawling with "worm-like creatures" just weeks after a judge ordered the facility to fix its water problems.The fo...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026
It’s super unserious to live to witness our pre-apocalyptic hellworld that went from being a boundless source of infinite sustenance to having a crumbling ecosystem only since the 3rd Industrial Revolution & fix your mouth to say that it is the socialists that are going to kill us all.
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Tragic.
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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We're doing this for what exactly. What fucking benefit are we getting from this.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Israel is progressively forcing Palestinians into smaller and smaller concentration camps
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 27/07/2026
After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
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Elon Musk’s tired schtick
Why does the media keep debasing itself for a man who despises them?
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Deb Ryan @missdebcollege.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Great reporting from @insidehighered.com "The story of Steven Thrasher shows how this network of government extortion and repression has had a powerful impact pressuring campuses to fire dissenting faculty and silence free speech." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Extortion and Appeasement at Northwestern
There is so much government repression happening that I cannot begin to summarize it.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The largest privately held company in the United States is refusing to concede to workers’ demands for more dignified workplace conditions, including protected bathroom breaks.
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Over 1,700 Cargill Meatpacking Workers Locked Out After Demanding Bathroom Breaks
The largest privately held company in the United States is refusing to concede to workers’ demands for more dignified workplace conditions, including protected bathroom breaks.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Many many people in this country cannot recognize Islamophobia because they are swimming so deeply in it on a daily basis and have so internalized it that it isn't actually legible to them as racism. It's why it's so casually deployed in a way that other forms of racism in the country are not.
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/07/2026
We speak with Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian community leader in Wisconsin, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and a legal permanent resident of the United States for over 30 years. He faces possible deportation after being arrested in March and detained in an ICE jail for 80 days.
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Jeff Browndyke @jeffbrowndyke.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Good news Friday. 🧪
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Trump administration cannot cancel grants for disfavored causes, US judge rules
A federal judge on Friday ​ruled that U.S. President ‌Donald Trump's administration cannot rely on a ​White House budget ​office regulation to terminate billions ⁠of dollars in ​grants because they ar...
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Zacharydideas @zacharygg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Judge has to order our own government to provide clean drinking water to human beings.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This AP investigation into David Brouillette, the ICE agent who shot Durán Guerrero in Maine is genuinely horrifying. Long history of extreme mental illness, chronic violence agst spouses and kids, PTSD and heightened violence from mil service. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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EricAVázquez @fritamoreno.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds
Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/aid-dri...
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'It Was a Field Execution': IDF Shoots Driver Delivering Relief Supplies to Gaza in the Head | Common Dreams
​"The soldier who shot Ahmad talked to the three surviving drivers afterward and threatened them, saying they would meet the same fate as Ahmad," said a leader of a Gaza trucker's association. "This c...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 12/05/2026
When people call 911, they expect to get real help — not be tased, beaten, and sent to immigration detention by police officers acting as ICE agents. Local police partnerships with ICE endanger all of us.
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They Called 911 for Help. Police Sent Them to ICE Detention Instead.
As more local police collaborate with ICE, even some crime victims and people who call 911 are facing arrest.
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Kuragari @kuragari.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The Republican party is un-American and fascist.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
israelpalestinenews.org/far-left-dem...
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Far-Left Dem Says 9/11 Was Blowback. So Did Pat Buchanan
Neocon breaking out the 9/11 playbook find its success lacking on the new generations. Democratic Socialists are now winning with the rhetoric as a headline.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Half of Arizonans on food stamps have lost benefits since Republicans enacted the biggest cut in the program's history last year. Janae Wall is one of them. Her five children ask her, “Why don’t we have a bunch of food in the house like we used to?” she said.
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The Trump Administration Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Get Food Stamps
New work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
next Jubilee School studies a tricky subject: who rules universities? (hint: not faculty! not career educators! not phd-holders!) mapping power on your campus starts with knowing your governing board, what companies they own, what companies their husbands own debtcollective.org/event/colleg...
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College for All Jubilee School: University Governing Boards - Autocrats or Puppets?
Join us as we discuss university governing boards with Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, Professor Emeritus at Whitman College and author of the book The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule within America’s…
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EricAVázquez @fritamoreno.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Loved this phrasing, "But if it is childish, if any of this—the outrage, the horror, the belief that something must be done—is childish, it is only because a child could see it. It is only adults who find comfort in the reassuring sobriety of pessimism."
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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“In his Instagram post, Encina thanked Gomez, the Getty photographer, whose presence on the train he said was ‘quietly reassuring.’ In the interview, he said seeing a photographer there gave him some comfort because someone was documenting what was happening.”
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
things that could be different if we had free public college, # 45756
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Betting is so unregulated & growing so fast in the US that it's creating a growing population of problem gamblers—Researchers at the New York Fed looked at millions of credit reports to show that debt delinquency jumps in states that legalized sports betting (and their neighbors)
a graph of delinquency rates rising after the legalization of sports betting
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As someone who is tall and had all kinds of people trying to gender correct me growing up, these oopsies are not because of "normalizing trans." These people were always gender policing and now they are doing it with doxxing, law, and invasive surveillance. Trans rights free all of us.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
“These Meta glasses are anti-social from the jump. If all we have is this ad to judge the product, they’re not about capturing memories with your friends at the bar or a party. They’re about packaging one’s life and then viewing it as an out-of-body experience, like you’re already dead.” 🔥🔥🔥
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EricAVázquez @fritamoreno.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Musk’s global legacy:
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
his excuse is they wouldn’t put the starving children on the phone with him.
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