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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The Danger Imperative was selected as a Finalist for the Hamilton Book Awards at UT Austin! Humbled to be selected alongside other finalists and the grand prize winner that explored vital topics cutting across free speech, politics, academic freedom, climate change, and more. Onward 🚀

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Mykel Hawke @mykelhawke.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

When folks lie for fame & fortune- it hurts them & everyone who wants to believe in them &/or what they stand for. He was impressive & legit, but lied anyway- it's a character flaw, IMHO. I saw it over a decade ago when it mattered but he did not care to speak up www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

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Tim Kennedy vs. the Truth

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My latest in Texas Monthly: Tim Kennedy is a Green Beret, former UFC fighter, and manosphere influencer. He runs his own school in Cedar Park and, lately, has been spotted in the White House. But lawsuits and accusations of stolen valor threaten to bring it all crashing down. Gift link:

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Tim Kennedy vs. the Truth

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Excellent profile of Tim Kennedy by @michaelsierraa.bsky.social taking apart the various falsehoods he peddles. One of the mothers of his children on why he enlisted: “I do think it was a flare of patriotic nobility. But also, it was a very convenient stage left from two young mothers and babies.”

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Tim Kennedy vs. the Truth

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Liz Chiarello @lizchiarello.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I spent the day with @michaelsierraa.bsky.social’s powerful book on police culture. Can’t wait to discuss it at @lawandsociety.bsky.social!!

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Michelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

👉 happy to see another thematic book review out on the slate of new books on policing (inc The Minneapolis Reckoning), this time focused on the failures of police reform by Daniel Krasnicki in SRE. cc @tonykcheng.bsky.social, @michaelsierraa.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“The Justice Department has abruptly rescinded job offers made to dozens of recent law school graduates who were to be placed in entry-level positions in its antitrust, criminal, civil rights, immigration and national security divisions, and at the F.B.I.”

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Grant reviews frozen. Medical trial recruitment frozen. Meetings with patient groups frozen. Hiring frozen. Jobs rescinded. All comms and travel frozen. You don't have to abolish an institution or fire everyone to cripple it.

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

TASERs nor any other tech can end police brutality. Tech does not change the violent / coercive nature of policing. All tech can and will be misused and abused. I wrote about this a while back. Nothing has changed. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Mississippi Police Use Tasers Freely, and Injuries Follow

A lack of state standards leaves Mississippi police and sheriff’s departments on their own to decide when to use stun guns, and many give officers a free hand.

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Letta Page @lettapage.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Need a new grip of sociology on policing? I worked on these 2024 bangers: ↪️ @michellesphelps.bsky.social "The Minneapolis Reckoning" tinyurl.com/MSPMPLS ↪️ @tonykcheng.bsky.social "The Policing Machine" tinyurl.com/TCMachine ↪️ @michaelsierraa.bsky.social "The Danger Imperative" tinyurl.com/MSADanger

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

“Claremont—alongside other anti-immigration groups, such as FAIR, whose new ‘law enforcement advisor’ is Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, a Homan collaborator—has turned its focus to recruiting and training sheriffs to help execute its agenda.”

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

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𝙼𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚗 𝙺𝚊𝚗𝚐 @mkang.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Added more gun researchers to this starter pack who joined BlueSky. Please share and lmk if you’d like to be added! @daniel-semenza.bsky.social @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @sonalirajan.bsky.social @thetrace.org @giffords.org @everytown.bsky.social go.bsky.app/G9zEmHs

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is an incredible opporunity all. I did this in 2009 (ancient times) and met tons of my current colleagues. And friends. And launched my sociology theory career.

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The level of anxiety needed to make armed rideshare anything but a bad punchline is truly staggering. Armed ride-hailing app will soon be coming to these Texas cities. Here's what to know www.statesman.com/story/busine...

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Armed ride-hailing app will soon be coming to these Texas cities. Here's what to know

Holsters and hospitality, that's the business model for the latest ride share app, BlackWolf, coming to Texas in 2025.

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Any recs for the/a few key texts on the ascendance of the “influencer”? Maybe how “influencing” shapes more than pop culture / brands, but also HOW politics is done, how movements (R or L) form/function?

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It’s cold and windy in Philly today. Missing Austin and the homie Shiner AKA The Bubs AKA My lil Dirtbag.

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Oren Gur @orengur.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hello. I’m a criminologist working in a prosecutor’s office to increase the proportion of decisions that are informed by data and research, and evaluated. We support operations, policy/practice, transparency, research, and community. The #DATALab: information for decision-makers. Data.philadao.com

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Philadelphia DAO Data Dashboard

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

You don’t have to fire faculty to kill a department. As enrollments drop, it’s easier to justify mergers, downsizing, whatever admin speak you want to use. Don’t fool yourself into thinking this can’t happen on your campus, too. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

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Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like

Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

"In Texas, one university is prioritizing open debate to reset the marketplace of ideas." This is a real sentenced in the snippet below. It's a complete abdication of journalistic responsibility to present the piece in the exact way the subject would want it to be presented rather than critically.

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Latest addition to my “Fan Mail” scrapbook 📁 After some Googling, I think my man Domingo is an 80 y.o retiree outside Dallas. Friend reminded me: consider how full my life is and how empty theirs must be to spend time/energy like this. - Michael “Cara de Perro” Sierra-Arévalo, Ph.D.

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

How to request 'G-file' records — the once-secret Austin Police Department personnel files www.statesman.com/story/news/l...

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Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

By August 2024, 40,000 self-proclaimed vigilante vote-fraud hunters had already challenged the rights of 852,381 voters — with a target of 2 million before the election. Did the voters decide the 2024 election, or voter suppression? Watch our movie and decide for yourself. youtu.be/P_XdtAQXnGE

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Vigilantes Inc. — Full Movie

YouTube video by Greg Palast

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

$ to change culture is a bad bet. There are inexpensive, non-police intervention that can enhance community and officer safety simultaneously by reducing crime and violence. www.c-span.org/video/?c5142...

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Author Michael Sierra-Arévalo on public perception and challenges facing law enforcement

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This is Shiner (full name: Shiner Bark) the schmedium schnauzer. He’s the sleepiest, beardiest, best research assistant of all time. Sound on 🔉for the 💤

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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This skeet is for the Sociology folks! Sociology has officially arrived. In an effort to re-live the early days of academic twixxer we now have a 3 volume starter pack(s) posted below. Feel free to add any areas of interest starter packs to this feed too and reqs to be added! Here We Go!

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

UK RCT shows video response by police to non-emergency calls reduced response times, increased prob. of arrests/charges, and enhanced perceptions of police. No adverse effects of not having officers physically present for non-emergency calls. Makes you think 🤔

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Wonderful to share the stage with you, Ieva! Exit Wounds does such justice to Texas—my home—and the people on both sides of the border whose lives are torn apart by US guns and a drug trade fueled by US demand. It’s a triumph.

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Ieva Jusionyte @ievajusionyte.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Our session at 2024 Texas Book Festival was broadcast on C-SPAN. @michaelsierraa.bsky.social book "The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing" is a must-read to understand police culture in the US and beyond. Watch him speak about it here: www.c-span.org/video/?53989...

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2024 Texas Book Festival - Michael Sierra-Arévalo and Ieva Jusionyte

Michael Sierra-Arévalo ([The Danger Imperative]) and Ieva Jusionyte ([Exit Wounds]) discussed gun violence and policing in America. This event was part of the 2024 Texas Book Festival in Austin.

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Matthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Today marks 4 years since the publication of PRIVILEGE & PUNISHMENT, which shows how attorney-client relationships reproduce inequality—and how to transform public defense, courts, and broader society. Check out this comic summarizing the book … press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Privilege and Punishment

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court—and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of color

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hello again, new followers! Wonderful to see you here. I write about policing, culture, and violence (📚 dangerimperative.com) If you’re in Austin, join me at the TX Book Festival w/ @ievajusionyte.bsky.social to talk about police and the long reach of gun violence. Would love to hang 🤗

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Ieva Jusionyte @ievajusionyte.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Join me and @michaelsierraa.bsky.social this weekend at Texas Book Festival in Austin texasbookfestival.org/schedule/tri...

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christhomas.bsky.social @christhomas.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I started an academic criminologists/criminal justice scholars starter pack. This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful. go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z #ASC2024 #criminology

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Conference ✅ Friends ✅ Books ✅ As always, thanks to the ever-growing list of people who lift me up and walk alongside me. On to Austin for the TX Book Festival this weekend!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

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The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy

The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

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Michelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Catch us today at 2pm ASC folks!

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Big year for policing books at ASC! Lots of panels, including a quadruple-header book salon w/ @michellesphelps.bsky.social @tonykcheng.bsky.social Samantha Simon, and me. 📚 If you come say hi, I’ve got a very groovy sticker for you 💀🚔

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

👋 Hello, new followers! My name’s Michael and it’s good to see you here 🔵☁️ I’m a sociologist who studies police, culture, and violence. My new book: The Danger Imperative (dangerimperative.com) I’ll be at ASC W and Th, and doing a rad book event in Oakland 11/14. Come through! 📚

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Square your shoulders. Fight the fight. Rage against the dying of the light.

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Incredibly generous and insightful review of 3 new policing books by @tonykcheng.bsky.social @michellesphelps.bsky.social and me, out now in Law and Social Inquiry. Special thanks to Daanika Gordon for taking such care with her read and write-up of our work. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Boundaries of Twenty-first-Century Policing | Law & Social Inquiry | Cambridge Core

The Boundaries of Twenty-first-Century Policing

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Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Been a minute 🔵☁️! Honored to receive the Distinguished Book Award from @SocLawSection at ASA for The Danger Imperative! Thanks, as always, to the long, long list of people who supported me and the work 🙏🏽 @columbiaup.bsky.social

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