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Marisol LeBrón

@marisollebron.bsky.social
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Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus

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American Constitution Society @acslaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In the latest episode of Broken Law, Dr. Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social joins Valerie Nannery to dig into Puerto Rico’s colonial status, how it effects the everyday lives of Puerto Ricans, and how it enables the Trump Administration’s reinvigorated Monroe Doctrine.
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Episode 207: Puerto Rico: A Part of but Apart from the U.S. | ACS
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Drake dropping three incredibly mid albums instead of one decent one highlights the important role that good editors can play in our society.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
After two days on strike, nearly 1,000 faculty at NYU won huge concessions from the university. Everyone in the CFU-UAW union will now get a raise of at least $14,000. The deal also includes 3.5% raises each year of the contract, better job security, and more.
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Kyle Barry @kylecbarry.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
BREAKING: The PA Supreme Court holds that mandatory life without parole sentences for all "felony murder" convictions -- a sentence more than 1,000 people in PA are serving -- violates the state constitution's "cruel" punishment ban. This is GROUNDBREAKING: www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...
CHIEF JUSTICE TODD           OPINION No. 3 WAP 2024 Appeal from the Order of the Superior Court entered June 13, 2023, at No. 1008 WDA 2021, Affirming the Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County entered December 19, 2016, at No. CP-02-CR-0016878-2014. : : : : : : : : : : : ARGUED:  October 8, 2024 DECIDED:  MARCH 26, 2026 In this appeal by allowance, we granted allocatur to consider whether a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a felony murder conviction violates the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution or Article I, Section 13 of the Pennsylvania Constitution.1  For the reasons that follow, we determine that a mandatory life without parole sentence for all felony murder convictions, absent an assessment of culpability, is inconsistent with the protections bestowed upon our citizens under the “cruel punishments” clause of our Commonwealth’s organic charter.2  Thus, we reverse the order of the Superior Court, vacate Appellant’s judgment of sentence, and remand for resentencing.  However, as we have done under similar circumstances, we stay our order for 120 days to provide a reasonable amount of time for the General Assembly to consider remedial measures.
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
As ICE apprehends more children every day, it raises a simple question that’s also one of grave moral concern: What does detention do to a child’s health? "I see a regression of developmental milestones. They don’t want to eat. They have problems sleeping. They wake up screaming,” one doctor said.
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What ICE Detention Does to a Child
Stunted growth. Nightmares. Bed-wetting. These are just a few of the symptoms of children held in immigration custody.
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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Feminist Studies is hiring a managing editor! Please spread the word! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69890/f...
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Feminist Studies - Managing Editor - Feminist Studies Journal | H-Net
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
When you think you're a liberator of your people and you're also sexually abusing women and girls from among those people you're demonstrating that you have trouble recognizing them as people. (And that is way too common.)
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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...
Civil Rights Icon, Dolores Huerta, Concealed Two
Children After Cesar Chavez Raped Her
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The news about Cesar Chavez is devastating but also shows us the pitfalls of single issue organizing. He was a powerful labor organizer but as we have now learned he was also a sexual abuser, Zionist, anti-communist, and virulently anti-immigrant.
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So happy to share this interview I did with Danielle Beaujon about her amazing book Criminalizing the Casbahs for the Abusable Past. Check out the interview and be sure to pick up her book! abusablepast.org/criminalizin...
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Criminalizing the Casbahs: An Interview with Danielle Beaujon – The Abusable Past
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Tomorrow Bay Area folks! When: Wednesday, March 4th 4:00 - 5:30 pm Where: The Latinx Research Center 2547 Channing Way UC Berkeley
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The Abusable Past published a microsyllabus on Radical Iranian Theory and Praxis last year that seems more relevant than ever. Please check it out and share widely: abusablepast.org/radical-iran...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Essential reading. "We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."
truthout.org
As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine
We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/02/2026
People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Submitted. Dropping January 2027. In the meantime, 🚫🧊
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/02/2026
it sure is a choice to look at a political landscape in which the government is actively attempting to erase trans people from existence and publish a Singal victory lap in furtherance of that goal
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I’m sorry but not censoring a white man repeatedly shouting the n-word at two Black actors presenting an award because he has Tourette’s but censoring someone accepting an award saying “Free Palestine” is peak white liberal brainrot.
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Reggaeton Con La Gata @reggaetonconlagata.com · 11/02/2026
via TheGrio We love @marisollebron.bsky.social over here! S/o to @wayneandwax.bsky.social & Raquel Rivera and Dr. Rideau & Diaz of #badbunnysyllabus youtube.com/shorts/KTMQF...
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Reggaeton's Afro-Latin Roots: A Conversation with Gata
YouTube video by theGrio
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The uber leftist critiques of Bad Bunny noting that it’s not liberation are so annoying. Like, no one said all that, bro. People saying that there were political elements that are important to acknowledge is not the same as saying Bad Bunny will free us. Don’t be foolish.
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July (they/them) @misovortex.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If anyone is interested in reading about Hurricane Maria's human impact on Puerto Rico, I recommend Aftershocks of Disaster by @yarimarita.bsky.social @marisollebron.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org. A deeply heartbreaking yet galvanizing anthology of essays, poems, and other personal literary works.
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Aftershocks of Disaster
An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis that conditioned this historic disaster.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/01/2026
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
No wishy washy passive voice here. TMZ literally more accurate than the majority of mainstream news outlets.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 25/01/2026
We all just saw about six different angles of ICE murdering a guy who himself was filming them, but sure, you think body cameras will make all the difference. How stupid do they think we are?
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Law enforcement out of unions. They are not workers. They are the tools of the elites against the working class.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 25/01/2026
Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
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Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia
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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
There have been over a dozen ICE shootings. We have to fight not just for Alex Pretti and Nicole Good, but also for Silverio Villegas González and Keith Porter, many other victims in the streets, dozens in detention centers and the millions who have been brutalized in detentions and deportations
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
NYT says ICE shot him in the back: An “agent aims his own firearm at Mr. Pretti’s back and appears to fire one shot at close range… A third agent unholsters a weapon. Both agents appear to fire additional shots into Mr. Pretti as he lies motionless… At least 10 shots appear to have been fired…” 🎁🔗
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Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A nurse. A 37-year-old man who devoted his time to healing the sick and the injured, who came outside in the cold to protect his neighbors, gunned down in the street by bloodthirsty blackshirts
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/01/2026
An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
this guy just wanted to help defend his community and they murdered him for it and the highest officials in the nation are lying about what multiple camera angles are showing the nation this cannot stand
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Lying his ass off while doing Nazi cosplay.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
No more business as usual. #AbolishICE
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If there is unrest in Twin Cities it is because of ICE not the protesters. All riots are police riots.
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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
BREAKING: We spoke to a witness of the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, who confirmed that the victim was an ICE-watch observer and not a target of immigration enforcement. W/ @jsweetli.bsky.social via @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/01/24/m...
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Man Feds Killed in Minneapolis Was an Observer, Eyewitness Says
The killing marked the second fatal shooting by federal agents in the city in less than a month.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20/01/2026
Patty O'Keefe, who was violently arrested while monitoring ICE activity, says one agent told her, "You guys got to stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead," referring to Renee Good.
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This was such an excellent report. Everyone should give it a listen.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“We’ll Have Our Home” again is a song that’s extremely popular with white nationalists. It’s all over Telegram. I think the first time I heard it was from a video of a secretive group called the Mannerbünd.
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dhsgov e and icegov
& Pine Tree Riots • We'll Have Our Home Again
WE'LL HAVE OUR HOME AGAIN
JOIN.ICE.GOV
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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Oh, look. From 2014: “Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers [in] 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths.” You can’t reform that culture. Ross was in Border Patrol in this period (2007-2015). www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...
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Border Patrol's use of deadly force criticized in report
An independent review of U.S. Border Patrol shootings criticizes the agency for 'lack of diligence' in its investigations and suggests that agents' tactics sometimes create a pretext to open fire.
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