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Raul Pacheco-Vega

@raulpachecovega.bsky.social

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Full Professor @ FLACSO Mexico. I study comparative public policy, water governance, waste management, public administration, environmental politics, homelessness, eldercare and care work, mixed/experimental methods.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 12h

Beyond how nice it is to see protesters in Portland do such a good job of portraying the truth, I need you all to understand that underneath those costumes there are motivated, strong, determined individuals who love their community and are showing up for it. Collective action at its best.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 23h

Honestly, why teach proper public policy and public administration theories if the politicians will violate every single law, and will do whatever benefits them and not society?

(I’m being slightly facetious)

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 23h

You matter and we are grateful that you exist, Daniel.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23h

Breaking news: The Trump administration began laying off federal workers while the government is shuttered, fulfilling threats from President Trump to take advantage of the closure to shave off more parts of the federal workforce he dislikes.

Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown

White House budget director Russell Vought said reductions-in-force were underway.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 1d

The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

It is patients who will be the victims of this, write @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @michaeldgreen.com
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 2d

Public Administration: Volume 100, Issue 2
Special Issue: Symposia: Corporatization of public services: new perspectives and enduring challenges

Several articles in this SI are open access:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679299...

Symposia: Corporatization of public services: new perspectives and enduring challenges: Public Administration: Vol 100, No 2

Public Administration journal publishes global research advancing the science and practice of public administration.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 2d

I suppose you could *also* take my undergraduate thesis in chemical engineering as sort-of discussing coordination problems, but the ones coordinating were bacteria that were biodegrading contaminants in wastewater. And I really didn’t talk to them.

Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who has spent his entire post-undergraduate life studying coordination problems I can certify that doing something in tandem with/alongside others is key to tackling wicked problems such as the emergence and consolidation of authoritarian regimes.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 3d

Great piece as always from @himself.bsky.social, on authoritarianism as a competitive instance of the coordination problem.

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 2d

Proud of you, friend!

Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 2d

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

hub.jhu.edu

Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so glad Dolly Parton is doing well and I would like to scold her sister for scaring the shit out of millions of her adoring fans including me but I assume she did it in good faith.

We barely dodged that one.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 2d

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

hub.jhu.edu

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 2d

Could not be more well-deserved! Congratulations Hahrie! 🎉 @hahrie.bsky.social

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

hub.jhu.edu

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 3d

I was a graduate student when Linda Solomon Wood launched The Vancouver Observer and now I see all her hard work has launched an entire national network of journalism with The National Observer. Good for her (disclosure: I consider Linda a good friend).

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 3d

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social · 3d

Today we launch Civic Searchlight, a tool for searching local government meeting transcripts across 550 municipalities in Canada.

Access is open for researchers and journalists:

civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com

CivicSearchlight - by Canada's National Observer

Search transcripts of municipal meetings across Canada. Find discussions about topics that matter to your community with Canada's National Observer's search tool.

civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 3d

Great piece as always from @himself.bsky.social, on authoritarianism as a competitive instance of the coordination problem.

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 3d

My website is back online. Still has some coding errors that I need to fix but the blog posts are readable and usable.

Please be patient until I can get it back 100% (you still can read the posts but you’ll see some weird errors at the top)

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 3d

If Dolly needs our prayers you pray I don’t care if you’re atheist or whichever religion or spiritual inclination you have.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 3d

Almost a decade ago I wrote about doing ethnography of vulnerable and marginalized communities and how painful it was at times. My dear friend @tressiemcphd.bsky.social told me then “I hope you never stop feeling. It’s the difference in the work.”

And it really is.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 3d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

therumpus.net

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 4d

One thing I think is undervalued in all these social networking sites is sharing half baked thoughts.

For me, these sites are sounding boards. Did I calculate my sample size right? Should I use Theory X? Which cases might be interesting?

There’s a lot of people willing to provide feedback.

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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful Mystery in Stockholm! Excited to be in conversation with the wonderful writer Fanny Ambjörnsson on autoethnography and care. Thanks to the Department of Social Anthropology for hosting us! @dukepress.bsky.social

www.su.se/department-o...

Autoethnographies of Care: A Conversation with Fanny Ambjörnsson och Danilyn Rutherford - Department of Social Anthropology

Autoethnographies of Care: A Conversation with Fanny Ambjörnsson och Danilyn Rutherford

www.su.se

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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 6 more Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio, Rosemary A. Joyce, Silvia Secchi, Adrian Daub, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Brooke Harrington, Hisham Zerriffi, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 4d

Our job as mentors is to identify our students' strengths and areas that can be developed. My PhD student (psych), Sydney Tran, has deep substantive interests, but also enviable methodological range. Her first, first-author publication is tagged below.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Five out of six measures of identity and solidarity with U.S. people of color are equivalent across English and Spanish interviews

As the US continues to racially diversify, researchers are increasingly investigating the prevalence of self-identification as – and feelings of solidarity with – people of color (PoC). Prior resea...

www.tandfonline.com

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 5d

Who all y’all do I know in Amsterdam?

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 5d

There is a class component to federal agents' crackdowns. They're abducting day laborers, street vendors, domestic workers, textile workers en masse. They're not going after big employers/people in Trump's corporate milieu.

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor

While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

prospect.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."

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