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MichaelRMuñiz

@michaelrmuniz.bsky.social
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🇵🇷 Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change (Princeton University Press).

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A must read essay! spectrejournal.com/feminist-str...
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Feminist Struggles for Life – Spectre Journal
Two comrades look to Iran's Women, Life, Freedom movement as an alternative to the statecentric matrix of oppression posed by imperialism and domestic repression.
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Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We fought hard to keep our majors, even in the face of our departments closing, b/c we know what it took to create them in the first place. Decades of work by elders to ensure this knowledge would have a place at the "best" public university in TX. www.kut.org/education/20...
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UT Austin plans to cut Mexican American, African, women's and gender studies majors
The decision comes after university officials consolidated seven ethnic studies departments into two earlier this year. Faculty within the College of Liberal Arts were told most majors could be consol...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/09/2026
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
First substantive week of my grad seminar on the sociology of race. On deck is Frazier, Magubane, Go, Jung, and a working paper I cowrote on race and cultural sociology. A perk of this gig is dropping one’s own work alongside heavy hitters.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/09/2026
You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules
A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Caitlin Patler @caitlinpatler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Chloe East (CU Boulder Econ) & I are hiring a postdoc to work on causal research on impacts of imm policy on immigrant children & families + rapid response descriptive work. Please share & encourage qualified candidates to apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05505
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PostDoctoral Scholar Employee - Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
For MSNOW, I wrote about the Trump administration threatening to strip colleges of their tax-exempt status as part of its larger segregationist agenda.
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Opinion | Trump’s next high education target: schools that help Black students
Victor Ray: American universities must stand up to Trump's plan to re-segregate higher ed
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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
please consider helping my godfather! nkr.org/UCD226
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William Rayfield II Needs a Kidney | Can You Help?
William Rayfield II is seeking a living kidney donor. Paired exchange may allow you to help even if you�re not a direct match. Confidential screening takes only a few minutes.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/09/2026
On September 2, 2025, the Trump administration first drone-bombed a small boat in the Caribbean Sea. A year later, the US military has launched 68 “boat strikes” that have killed at least 227 people.
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Pete Hegseth's year of blowing up boats
The Pentagon has now killed at least 227 people in the Caribbean.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/09/2026
The family of Sama Safi, a 20-year-old Palestinian American student held by Israel without formal charges since June, is urging the U.S. to secure her release. Her aunt says the arrest is part of an effort to suppress a new generation of Palestinian leaders.
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Family of American Student Demand US Secure Her Release from Israeli Detention
Sami Safi’s arrest is part of a “concerted effort to crush the new generation of Palestinian leaders,” her aunt said.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/08/2026
The film follows Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa as they treat patients in the half-destroyed Nasser Hospital—and their Palestinian colleagues, many working even as their relatives are killed.
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A new documentary follows doctors into Gaza
Director Poh Si Teng on her harrowing film "American Doctor."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
no amnesty
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I started gathering up policies on AI use in different schools/programs including a few that have gotten a lot of press (e.g. U Chicago Law & their Social Science Core) plus a couple here at Cornell. If you know of any others that you found useful, let me know and I'll add them!
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ai in the classroom: what is to be done?
Cornell’s semester started yesterday and one topic we are all confronting is how to deal with generative AI (Chat GPT, Claude, and all that) in the classroom. It seems like this year there&#8…
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🧊🚸⛓️ ”ICE just arrested a 5-year-old boy on his way to a soccer game in my home city of Austin, Texas. His name, just like the name of the little boy from Minnesota, is Liam. And Liam should be starting kindergarten this week, but instead he’s sitting in a trailer prison right now in Dilley, Texas.”
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Texas Lawmakers Call on ICE to Close Detention Camp Where 100+ Children Are Held
In Texas, calls are mounting to shut down the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, where it’s estimated more than 100 children are being detained by ICE. This comes after a 5-year-old boy,...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
They mean a return to open eugenics, white supremacy, sexism and pro-imperialist propaganda. Look at what they are banning for a clue about what they would replace it with.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A man died in ICE custody due to neglect of his leukemia. Gary Indiana has no power & water sources are contaminated — people with electric stoves have no way to boil it. These are told as separate stories but they’re the same fact of death by neglect written in different fonts.
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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Israeli occupation just bombed people sheltering in a tent near Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza. The IOF killed two brothers and wounded several more people. The US-backed genocide has not ended.
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
An open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously denied involvement in the January 2024 killing, saying months later that a preliminary investigation found its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within firing range” of the vehicle." www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/m...
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Israeli military admits for first time to firing on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab, opens criminal probe | CNN
The Israeli military acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it opened fire on the vehicle carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza and said it had opened a criminal investigation into the 202...
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Excellent read!
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026
Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?
“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Here at the @soc4pal.bsky.social alternative conference we’re listening to @darializaforny.bsky.social, a sociology PhD student —> congresswoman and her political director sociologist @nickocchiuto.bsky.social discuss this political moment. Here is where sociology is relevant.
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Anna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
ND sociology is HIRING! We have three (yes, 3!!!) lines! (1) Open-Rank, Open Field careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311611/... (2) Assistant Professor, Quantitative Sociology careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311610/... (3) Assistant Professor, Sociology of Education careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311609/...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/08/2026
The Trump administration is weaponizing administrative subpoenas to demand that tech companies hand over the personal information of users who criticize the government online. Know your rights if your information is subpoenaed.
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When the Government Demands Info About Your Online Accounts
The First Amendment protects the right to document and criticize government actions, including when doing so anonymously online. But the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ramped up efforts to surveil and silence critics using a tool called an "administrative subpoena" or "administrative summons".
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 We're hiring a junior professor in Policy Analysis/Public Administration/Public Management here at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy 🚨🚨🚨 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05497
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Assistant Professor - General Public Policy and Administration: Policy Analysis, Public Administration and Management - Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Spectre editor Zachary Levenson ( @grundrza.bsky.social ) on a panel this Friday (8/14, 12:30–2pm EDT) talking about Areej Sabbagh-Khoury's Colonizing Palestine ( @stanfordpress.bsky.social ) with Julian Go ( @juliango.bsky.social ) and Fatma Müge Göçek. uic.zoom.us/j/8450775543...
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Pasquines @pasquines.us · 13/08/2026
Union leaders in Puerto Rico demand the Department of Education adjust school hours due to extreme heat and staffing reductions affecting student safety. 1.pasqu.in/OzEJlx
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Sindicatos piden al Departamento de Educación ajustar horarios en escuelas bajo racionamiento
También criticaron los recortes en el Departamento de Educación en puestos de conserjes y personal de seguridad
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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So many stories of academics - mostly men and women of color - being forced out of academia because of rampant racism and sexism. Or because they described a genocide accurately. There’s just nothing interesting at all about that guy leaving to take a job at The Atlantic.
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Clown shit takes
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Gotta make you smile.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 03/08/2026
On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
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Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer
The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
AI produced this shit and state department morons put it on a slide.
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
State sanctioned and lauded murder. Horrible.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I mostly just find this odd as a rhetorical strategy because it seems fairly obvious to me that, however bad I am persuaded that "hypocritically ignore genocides B and C" is as a politics, "consistently ignore genocides A B and C" is straightforwardly more dogshit
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 28/07/2026
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
sorry but i’m gonna be that bitch @markjacob.bsky.social that keeps pointing out: the person you are dunking on, tom homan, was an *obama* appointee. awarded highest honor by *barack obama*. ice is funded by bipartisan congress. this is not a matter of the trump regime.
obama giving a medal to homan
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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is disingenuous drivel. Methodologically, it’s no different than Rufo: rinse and repeat until enough people co-sign to give the impression of truth. Avoid specificity, because it would undermine the entire project
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A must read!
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Editorial cartoon: Schrodinger's McConnell. With thanks to @neolithicsheep.bsky.social for alerting me to this phrase :)
cartoon: Schrodinger and a cat look at a closed coffin.
Cat: The box choice doesn't inspire confidence.
Caption: Schrodinger's McConnell
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Puerto Rico has been a U.S. colony since July 25, 1898. Free Puerto Rico!
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Job opening: University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy is hiring a senior scholar in democracy policy, 'an area of research that treats democracy as a policy domain with identifiable problems, measurable outcomes, and actionable interventions.' Open to all social sciences, deadline 9/13.
careers.umich.edu
Professor of Public Policy, Democracy Policy | U-M Careers
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
CABO VERDE CABO VERDE CABO VERDE
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Best thing that Spain has ever done for Latin America.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/07/2026
“This case will expose the scheme that sought to criminalize the Palestine solidarity movement in the US,” said Khalil. “It is about a coordinated, ongoing plot to punish, silence, and intimidate everyone who dares to dissent and speak out for Palestinian liberation. We will hold them accountable.”
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New Lawsuit Challenges “Public-Private Conspiracy” Against Palestine Solidarity
Mahmoud Khalil says the suit against US officials and pro-Israel groups is “about far more than what was done to” him.
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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
56 years ago today, the Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital, demanding better care for their Black and Latino neighbors. It's important to read this alongside patients rights movements and wages for housework because there were *many* such takeovers of clinics and hospitals in this period.
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