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Professor Tom

@pinerosshields.bsky.social
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Political sociologist and action researcher. Empty nester, friend of dogs, most small animals and a few people, poetry and jazz lover and recovering world traveller. I also teach college classes sometimes.

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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In 1993 Yugoslavia defined ethnic cleansing (S/25274) as "… rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area." Let’s be clear and name Trump’s immigration policy as ethnic cleansing. www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/p...
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Court confirms that temporary deportation protections for Haitians are no longer in place | CNN Politics
A federal judge on Wednesday officially allowed the Trump administration to end temporary deportation protection for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, marking the final step, for now, in a months-lon...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is what fighting fascism looks like.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The intent is to sow doubt for enough people to reject the upcoming results, not to prove credibility to the NYT or NPR listeners. Trump understands the Thomas Theorem - that which people define as real becomes real in their consequences.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Meanwhile FOX news is running Trump lies as a credible risk to elections. This is an attack on the confidence in elections and directly out of the authoritarian handbook to remove the last guardrail for a representative constitutional democracy.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is what dictators do. Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...
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Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Great research and great to see it covered today! I do wish that the NYT would have recognized you as a “sociologist” instead of as a “professor who studies civic engagement.”Our field is struggling and has never been more needed in public discourse.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
So the NYT has given us an infographic on the start of World War 3. War’s Gravity www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Gravity of the War in Iran
Many countries want nothing to do with the fighting in Iran. They’re being pulled in anyway.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I took action with National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Will you join me? Use this link to sign up: www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...
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Adopt a Day Labor Corner Interest Form · National Day Laborer Organizing Network
We are calling on all people of conscience to stand with immigrants in their community — literally. To go to the places immigrants gather to work or look for work— Home Depots, car washes, delis, day...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Folks have been noting the creepiness of this NRA statement on the Minneapolis murder that DOESN'T affirm Alex Pretti's right to have a gun at a protest, instead blaming "radical progressive politicians lie Tim Walz" who have "incited violence against law enforcement officers" for his death....
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Governor Kathy Hochul @governor.ny.gov · 25/01/2026
Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign. Gregory Bovino must also be fired. No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Calling these thugs “federal law enforcement agents” is journalistic malpractice.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
If we could just use Peter’s equal area Projection Map, we might watch our size obsessed president stop paying attention to Greenland because it is not actually as big as he thought.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2026
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"The veteran said he saw volunteering as an ICE observer as another way of serving his country. 'It’s the most American thing to do: not to be scared of people trying to scare you... This is a pivotal moment we’ll be asked about by our kids, "Where were you?" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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They say they’re monitoring ICE arrests. Feds say they’re breaking the law.
The fatal shooting of Renée Good last week, as ICE officers and residents faced off on a Minneapolis street here, has brought new attention to ICE monitoring.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The DOJ is more than three weeks late in delivering the Epstein Files. In those three weeks: - Trump declared himself acting President of Venezuela - ICE murdered a woman in Minnesota - Trump is preparing an invasion of a NATO ally - Trump initiated a criminal investigation of Fed Chair Powell
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I think I know where Trump is getting his foreign policy. It’s 2 extra armies for South America and 5 for North America with only 3 places where you need to defend.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Stephen Miller is acknowledging that this administration does not believe in the rule of law. Welcome to the Hobbesian state of nature.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” - Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
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Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
That is the optimistic interpretation of what is happening. It may also be that they believe that they have one year to suspend or manipulate elections to remain in power in perpetuity in a white supremacist autocracy.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Meeting the Moment: Why We Can’t Afford to Let Sociology Classrooms Become Places Where Hope Comes to Die | American Sociological Association
In Howard Zinn’s memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press 1994), he tells us that, “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
As an alternative to Wall’s pretzel bending self contradictory argument about adding sociology programs because we need sociology may I elevate the case made by my colleague and friend Ashley Rondini on why we need sociology to meet the current moment: www.asanet.org/footnotes-ar...
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Meeting the Moment: Why We Can’t Afford to Let Sociology Classrooms Become Places Where Hope Comes to Die | American Sociological Association
In Howard Zinn’s memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press 1994), he tells us that, “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
They may need to do more than “taking him to court.”
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
When the government controls businesses isn’t that socialism? What happens to a free market when governments owns some companies? Trump Says Intel Has Agreed to Give U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/t...
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Trump Says Intel Has Agreed to Give U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Please add ICE to this list of agencies to dismantle.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
From the president who brought us alternative facts.., After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
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Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
AI can spread misinformation more quickly than humans.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Just a reminder that the DREAM Act in 2010 had more votes to advance than the Senate had for this monster today. We shouldn’t radically changes laws by a 51 to 49 vote. Senate Takes Up Trump’s Policy Bill, as G.O.P. Scrounges for Votes to Pass It www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...
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Senate Takes Up Trump’s Policy Bill, as G.O.P. Scrounges for Votes to Pass It
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Trump's DHS is out of control! The violent treatment of Senator Alex Padilla is a stark reminder of the administration's authoritarian agenda. Trump's America is a dystopian nightmare.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Noem said the federal gov was in California to LIBERATE the city from its own elected representatives?! WTAF. No wonder Padilla had a fucking question to ask.
Noem says they're in CA to "liberate" the city from its own elected official.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Strike one? Is Chuck the blind umpire or is he watching a different game? They arrested children, citizens, mayors, and now a senator!
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Kristi Noem: “Nobody knew who he was” Literally, the first second of the video 👇
A screenshot of the video of Alex Padilla being arrested and assaulted for trying to ask a questions. The screenshot shows the video at the first second and the subtitles read “I’m Senator Alex Padilla”
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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"Please continue peacefully protesting": Sen. Padilla after forced removal from DHS presser
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
In a statement, Frost notes an important detail to Alex Padilla, a sitting U.S. senator, being assaulted by federal agents today: “They did it in broad daylight. Imagine what they're doing behind closed doors to migrant men, women, and children. “This isn’t America. This is fascism.”
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
What happened to Senator Padilla is horrifying. When will this administration stop with its authoritarian overreach?
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 12/06/2025
Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”. This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
First a Mayor. Then a Congresswoman. Now a US Senator. Trump’s administration is trying to silence their opposition. Through threats & physical intimidation . It’s not American. We stand with Sen Padilla slate.com/news-and-pol...
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We Are Entering Uncharted Territory Here, Folks
A U.S. senator was thrown down and handcuffed as the DHS secretary announced the "liberation" of California.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Don’t let them call alternative facts on this reality 👇
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A spot on piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for NYTs about where we are, how we got here, and what is likely to come next. The question is how the public will respond and the degree to which the Right-Wing echo chamber can manipulate perspectives on reality. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
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Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Who is responsible for this country when the president is taking personal time?
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight. THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY. "Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The new US policy’s racism towards refugees could not be more clear. Trump supports white supremacy. Full stop. We welcome white Afrikaners, but repeal safe haven status to people from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuban and Nicaragua who are already in US LEGALLY adapting to new lives. Shame on Trump & on us.
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
As the Musk/Trump abomination seeks to revoke SSNs from legal migrants to force self deportation, the US will lose up to $5b that undocumented pay into the system. This will have the side effect of bankrupting Social Security sooner (already expected to run out of money in 2032).
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Meanwhile as stock markets collapse its still business as usual for CEO greed in health care. CEO pay rises as health care nonprofits falter edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...
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CEO pay rises as health care nonprofits falter - The Boston Globe
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Professor Tom @pinerosshields.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Wow. Are you still on X too?
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