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Daniel Morales

@lawprofmorales.bsky.social
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Professor @UHLaw, Immigration Theorist, Boricua, Dad. Op-eds @nytimes & @wapo (he/him/él)

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Many thanks to @theunpopulist.net for reposting my piece on Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration, which really needs more attention. This agency announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy: www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...
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Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants
A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees
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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It's out! Including my essay, "Struggles for Freedom in a World of Nation-States." Thanks to Nicholas De Genova and Daniel Morales! @lawprofmorales.bsky.social
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Toward Border Abolition: Migrant Struggles and the Law
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Jump into August with some great new releases, including "Toward Border Abolition" edited by @lawprofmorales.bsky.social and Nicholas De Genova, which radically questions the assumption that immigration control is necessary or legitimate. buff.ly/4hqz3v7
Cover of Toward Border Abolition by Nicholas De Genova, Daniel I. Morales. The cover shows three silhouetted figures climbing and reaching over a tall, wired fence at dusk. A blue gradient sky fills the background. The title is in a large yelllow, orange, and white letters, taking up the upper half of the cover. The author names appear below in a smaller, dark blue font, toward the lower right.
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CalmlyPanicking @calmlypanicking.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 16/01/2026
Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Someone just called in ICE knocking doors in Uptown and within 5 minutes maybe 100 people had arrived. Probably a false alarm but extremely hard to see how ICE operates with this kind of suffocating neighborhood response. Incredible work Minneapolis. ICE, just give up and get out already.
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"That's one hell of act you've got there. What do you call it?" "The Kakistocrats!"
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Where is Ezra Douthglesias & why is he not banging on constantly about how Republicans must do An Abundance of Popularism? 🧐🤷‍♂️
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
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Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
here we go
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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Congrats again to the well-credentialed & well-connected Northeast Corridor elites who told us that Scott Bessent was a well-qualified & credible Treasury Secretary because he also had the right credentials & elite connections: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
“He told agents they had the wrong guy, but they aggressively ordered him to get on the ground. They didn’t allow him to show ID to prove he’s a citizen and instead they grabbed him, put him face down on the pavement, handcuffed him and took out his wallet.” www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
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U.S. citizen mistakenly detained by ICE outside Michigan courthouse speaks out
Immigrant rights advocates are concerned what happened outside a Michigan courthouse may be part of a larger problem.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Marjorie Taylor Greene makes stock market play days before tariffs
US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene made hefty trades days before Donald Trump's tariffs announcement tanked the stock market.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is funny. And the serious problem with the NYT is it misinforms about reality. Not with inaccuracy so much as emphasis, perspective, and framing. That makes it a bad news source. Go to the Guardian, or Wired, or others/ independent sources. You don't need the NYT or LA Times, or WaPo.
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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Totally agree with Osita-ceding Donald Trump anti-institutional energy when enough people are in revolt is just to repeat the original "normcore" mistake of 2016.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is how it’s done.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If Trump is not planning to comply with the law and send appropriated money to blue states, I don't see any reason people in blue states should have to continue paying taxes to the federal government
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Andrew Wetzel @circlereader.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The patriarchy's "material basis had a cultural symbiote, and the symbiote endures.… It is a story we tell ourselves about women & men—about what they are for, who they are to each other, what makes a good woman & a good man—and that story has staying power…." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...
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The Crisis of Gender Relations
We need to put the final nail in the coffin of the Patriarchal Bargain and find new ideals we can live by.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
1. this rules 2. i spit out my drink when i read the order Judge Dale Ho FTW!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Dale Ho Brings in the Conservative Cavalry www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/21/d...
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Dale Ho Brings in the Conservative Cavalry - emptywheel
Dale Ho just asked right wing superstar lawyer Paul Clement to serve as amicus to assess DOJ's request to dismiss the Eric Adams prosecution.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
*reading as he heads to DCA to get on a flight*
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
One reason I found their argument so contemptible is that they treat birthright citizenship as an interesting puzzle to solve, and all of their methodological errors flow from there.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Judges are going to have to start finding people in contempt, issuing fines and probably throwing some in jail.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Staring wistfully into the distance reading this post
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
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Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz
Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/02/2025
this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 28/01/2025
Walz: Spending freeze amounts to "amateur-hour cruelty," imperils police, farmers, cancer patients and many more minnesotareformer.com/2025/01/28/t...
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Trump spending freeze imperils Minnesota police, farmers and cancer patients, governor says • Minnesota Reformer
A Trump administration spending freeze directly imperils $1.9 billion in monthly federal spending in Minnesota, nearly $23 billion annually, according to an estimate from Gov. Tim Walz’s office. “Dona...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
One weird thing about M*sk and the GOP is that they’re obsessed with fertility and yet somehow also obsessed with destroying Medicaid, which covers about half of all US births Seems like the only way to square that circle is with some freaky trad handmaids tale shit
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
If you're in politics (and therefore have a giant ego) but don't have ideological or group-based commitments, what's left is the commitment to your own ego. That's why politicians who position themselves as beyond partisanship tend to be the most cultish and self-absorbed, like Trump or Sinema
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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 12/12/2024
The promise of Trump and the modern GOP is seductive. It says, “you don’t have to care. Lay down the social burden of pretending to give a shit. In fact, if anyone asks you to give a shit about somebody else, we will punish them.” Rightward retreat as self care.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
"Tennessee created an online portal to report professors for teaching concepts like intersectionality... Wisconsin Republicans blocked salary raises until the state university system agreed to excise DEI programming." inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
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The New College Gambit
The right-wing takeover of Florida’s public honors college blurs the line between tragedy and farce, but attacks on universities are about to get worse.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
School vouchers are a re-segregation tax, in which everyone is forced to pay the most racist white people so they can avoid sending their kids to schools with minorities. The only plus side is that the schools suck and don't help their kids get into better colleges. 🙏
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/12/2024
delusional
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/12/2024
we're cooked
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This is a baffling article, seeing a contradiction where none exists. Immigrants appear to be complements, not substitutes for native-born workers. So deporting many of them drives up the wages of the remaining immigrants, but reduces real wages for the native-born 1/ www.ft.com/content/2bb6...
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Economists need to get their story straight on immigration
Focusing on the impact on the wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow
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Melody Hamby Goss @melodygoss111.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Our time on this earth is but a whisper, a nod to time. We must not squander these moments to the horrors of hate by anyone...or anything~ MCG
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A whiff of raw cannabis is enough for a police officer to search a vehicle, the Illinois Supreme Court decided in an opinion, even though marijuana is legal in the state.
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Smell of Raw Cannabis Enough for Police to Search a Vehicle, Illinois Supreme Court Rules. Smell of Burnt Cannabis is Not
The disparity — that the smell of unsmoked marijuana is justification for a warrantless search, while the smell of smoked pot is not — “defies logic,” Justice Mary K. O’Brien wrote in her dissent.
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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead
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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Nice article that explains the work of @isabellamweber.bsky.social on 'seller's inflation'. econfix.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/i.... Also links to our Cost of Living Special. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... #EconSky
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Isabella Weber and ‘Sellers Inflation’
Below is a very good video by Isabella Weber who argues that, in contrast to the traditional model of inflation caused by excessive consumer demand, the current inflation is driven by corporations …
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Greg Casar @gregcasar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"The Progressive Caucus should make sure that the Democratic Party holds the center of the country AND stands up against oppression and injustice." (via @sareport.bsky.social)
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To lead the resistance on Capitol Hill, progressives in D.C. are turning to a Texan
Greg Casar, who represents Austin and much of San Antonio, could chair the Congressional Progressive Caucus — the first to come from a red state.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
You're going to want to follow Greg. He's a strategic thinker and real nuts-and-bolts organizer. He's got the right values and he's serious about getting shit done - and now he's going to lead the Congressional Progressive Caucus. This is his first post here, so let's build him some following!
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 05/12/2024
thinking back to when I personally interviewed Barack Obama and asked him why he suddenly abandoned his past support for single-payer health care and he said he decided the insurance industry needed to be protected www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are: a) Telling the truth, b) In real danger of persecution, and yet c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities? That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
Article title and abstract
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
👏👏👏 @unlawfulentries.bsky.social
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