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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 15h

Had a fantastic conversation with @juliekohler.bsky.social host of White Picket Fence about the history of pronatalism, white demographic decline, nativism, and eugenics. Check it out here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 1d

Manufacturing a crisis so they can label "protests as terrorism" is as Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social explains it "directly out of an authoritarian playbook." In solidarity with my historian colleague and comrade, Mark Bray.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 12d

@iowapublicradio.org @iowastartingline.com @iowacityoflit.bsky.social @iowacity.bsky.social

🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 12d

Xenophobia is not new. We've fought it before, and we'll fight it again. I'll be in conversation with Adam Goodman, historian and author of The Deportation Machine. We'll be in Iowa City on Friday, October 3. Check out the flyer for more details.

Imagine of Adam Goodman and Lina Murillo with information from the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council. Conversation Friday, October 3 from 6-7pm at the Iowa City Public Library.

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 12d

Xenophobia is not new. We've fought it before, and we'll fight it again. I'll be in conversation with Adam Goodman, historian and author of The Deportation Machine. We'll be in Iowa City on Friday, October 3. Check out the flyer for more details.

🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 18d

He keeps trying to sell us out. It's not abundance he's preaching but scarcity of logical thought.

🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 27d

Tell me again how Turning Points USA was simply engaging in honest debates and NOT fomenting violence.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...

FSU Shooter Phoenix Ikner Linked To Pro-Trump Turning Point

An FSU shooting survivor told NBC that Phoenix Ikner was a member of the pro-Trump Turning Point USA and held "White Supremacist" views.

www.mediaite.com

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 27d

"Author of highly disposable matter." This is definitely a post that should be trashed.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28d

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

www.thenation.com

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 28d

I'm glad they're all of prison for this. 🫠

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you @marisakabas.bsky.social for sending the email I could not muster because of rage. Klein wrote the most tone deaf and potentially dangerous white washing OpEd exalting CK's career as more than being a just a right-wing troll.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28d

i hope that, knowing what he know now, he feels like a fucking fool.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29d

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 28d

If you're in or near Durham next week, join me and the marvelous western women's historian Sarah Deutsch for a conversation about my book! Details are in the link below!
@uncpress.bsky.social

Book Conversation with Lina‑María Murillo: "Reproductive Justice, Health, and Activism in the Borderlands"

Join us for a conversation between historians Lina-María Murillo and Sarah Deutsch. Drawing from her new book "Fighting for Control" (UNC Press, 2025), Murillo will explore the long arc of reproductiv...

history.duke.edu

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Aug 28

What a thrill to be a part of this new cohort of @prri.org Public Fellows! 🥳

PRRI @prri.org · Aug 28

We’re excited to introduce the 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellows cohort! 🎉 Meet 12 public scholars conducting innovative research that explores religion’s intersection with immigration, racial justice, reproductive health and rights, and LGBTQ rights.

Learn more here: prri.org/press-releas...

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Aug 24

Can I audit your class this fall, Louise?

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you're still wondering how to help #Palestinians in #Gaza, there are trusted mutual aid folks doing great work. A dear friend is helping with this family...
www.gofundme.com/f/feed-marwa...

Donate to Feed Marwa’s Children in Gaza (see update), organized by Kelly McKay

My name is Kelly McKay, I'm a social worker and humanitarian living in New York… Kelly McKay needs your support for Feed Marwa’s Children in Gaza (see update)

www.gofundme.com

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Zachary Oren Smith @zacharyos.bsky.social · Aug 21

Frmr UI prof @drlmmurillo.bsky.social writes Iowa anti-DEI crusade isn’t preventing division, but rather preventing thinking that might expose uncomfortable truths.

“They don’t have any real solutions, which is why they don’t want you asking questions in the first place.”

www.linammurillo.com

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hi friends! I wrote a long-ish piece about DEI, history, and higher education in Iowa. Read & share. Thank you!

www.linammurillo.com/_files/ugd/0...

www.linammurillo.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Aug 2

Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Aug 2

At the intersections of immigration and religion, this fantastic essay by Carlos Ruiz Martinez, doctoral candidate in religious studies at UI.
arcmag.org/mass-deporta...

Mass Deportation | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera

On July 8, 2025, Alberto Rojas, the Bishop of San Bernardino, offered a dispensation to faithful in his diocese from the holy Catholic obligation of attending Mass. This dispensation extends to those ...

arcmag.org

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Jul 8

most expensive meeting in history. plus, these people receiving my taxpayer funded healthcare. MAKE. IT. STOP.

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Jul 3

IOWA!!! CALL HER OFFICE!202-225-6576
She needs to know that this bill will HARM thousands of Iowans and millions of Americans across the country. Pro-life? Not if you're taking away people's healthcare & food assistance!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 3

Mariannette Miller-Meeks: "If you choose not work, then that is your choice. You need to take some responsibility for yourself instead of asking your 55-year-old neighbor to keep working so you can get free stuff."

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Jul 3

Oh YESSSSSS! Looking forward to connecting as soon as I land! ✊🏼

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Jul 3

It's bittersweet, Silvia! Solidarity from another super duper red state! ✊🏼

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Jul 3

It's an honor and a huge responsibility, and I'm so excited to get to work! My colleagues at UT are incredibly generous and warm and have been fighting the good fight to protect academic freedom and the pursuit of justice for their students for a long time. I can't wait to join them! 💪🏼👏🏼💕

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is a special position dedicated to expanding and protecting Reproductive Justice as a scholarly and community-centered field of study in the state of Texas.

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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · Jul 3

I'm elated to have accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin beginning this fall!!!

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