Marikit 🇵🇭💜
@mataraykween.bsky.social
Ph.D. Comparative Literature. Diasporic literature, Filipino literature in English, postmodernism, postcolonialism, gender studies 🌈 Ally. Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines. Married with kids ❤️
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· Nov 14
Just sharing slides from my PhD dissertation proposal, “Tropical Fantasy-Productions of Filipino Diasporic Novel in the USA from 2010 to 2024” (revised it). Hi to all comparative literature, borderland, transnational, immigrant and migrant scholars out there! Just finished writing the thing! Whew!
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🧵This is what our tax dollars are going towards.
Not education, health care, or public transport.
Cages for people.
DHS just paid $70 million in cash for a warehouse in Surprise, AZ.
The week before, $102 million for one in Maryland.
A third in El Paso.
Not education, health care, or public transport.
Cages for people.
DHS just paid $70 million in cash for a warehouse in Surprise, AZ.
The week before, $102 million for one in Maryland.
A third in El Paso.
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:06 AM
🧵This is what our tax dollars are going towards.
Not education, health care, or public transport.
Cages for people.
DHS just paid $70 million in cash for a warehouse in Surprise, AZ.
The week before, $102 million for one in Maryland.
A third in El Paso.
Not education, health care, or public transport.
Cages for people.
DHS just paid $70 million in cash for a warehouse in Surprise, AZ.
The week before, $102 million for one in Maryland.
A third in El Paso.
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One of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, and a top ally of Pope Leo, is sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, calling ICE a “lawless organization." https://to.pbs.org/3LRVzZd
U.S. cardinal urges defunding of ICE: 'We need to see what's happening in front of us'
One of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, and a top ally of Pope Leo, is sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, calling ICE a “lawless organization." Card...
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January 29, 2026 at 3:00 AM
One of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, and a top ally of Pope Leo, is sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, calling ICE a “lawless organization." https://to.pbs.org/3LRVzZd
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Miller and Trump are telling us immigrants are attacking the country, in-order for the people to be brought to do the bidding of the leaders.
They accuse Democrats of lack of patriotism and Biden for exposing the country to danger.
As Goering stated at Nuremberg.
They accuse Democrats of lack of patriotism and Biden for exposing the country to danger.
As Goering stated at Nuremberg.
January 28, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Miller and Trump are telling us immigrants are attacking the country, in-order for the people to be brought to do the bidding of the leaders.
They accuse Democrats of lack of patriotism and Biden for exposing the country to danger.
As Goering stated at Nuremberg.
They accuse Democrats of lack of patriotism and Biden for exposing the country to danger.
As Goering stated at Nuremberg.
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Veteran: "My nation is under attack."
January 27, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Veteran: "My nation is under attack."
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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María del Rosario Díaz García, the last time she heard from her son, he was traveling to Minneapolis to work at a restaurant. Now, she urgently needs assistance in retrieving his body from Nicaragua after his death in ICE detention.
January 24, 2026 at 5:22 AM
María del Rosario Díaz García, the last time she heard from her son, he was traveling to Minneapolis to work at a restaurant. Now, she urgently needs assistance in retrieving his body from Nicaragua after his death in ICE detention.
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Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived
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This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.
January 21, 2026 at 2:10 PM
This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.
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Breaking...What's left of your presidents sanity.
January 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Breaking...What's left of your presidents sanity.
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there are plenty of reasons Air Force One would suddenly turn around. for example, they may have forgotten Kevin
January 21, 2026 at 5:37 AM
there are plenty of reasons Air Force One would suddenly turn around. for example, they may have forgotten Kevin
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This is what every fucking elected Democrat should be doing out in the streets!!
Every fucking day!!!
This is what every fucking elected Democrat should be doing out in the streets!!
Every fucking day!!!
Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
January 21, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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This is what every fucking elected Democrat should be doing out in the streets!!
Every fucking day!!!
This is what every fucking elected Democrat should be doing out in the streets!!
Every fucking day!!!
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Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI
January 17, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI
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I thought he did away with DEI because he wanted a “merit based society”?
He didn’t want anyone getting something they hadn’t earned?
Yet here he is getting a Nobel Peace Prize after bribing Maria Corina Machado with the Venezuelan presidency.
He didn’t want anyone getting something they hadn’t earned?
Yet here he is getting a Nobel Peace Prize after bribing Maria Corina Machado with the Venezuelan presidency.
January 16, 2026 at 3:08 AM
I thought he did away with DEI because he wanted a “merit based society”?
He didn’t want anyone getting something they hadn’t earned?
Yet here he is getting a Nobel Peace Prize after bribing Maria Corina Machado with the Venezuelan presidency.
He didn’t want anyone getting something they hadn’t earned?
Yet here he is getting a Nobel Peace Prize after bribing Maria Corina Machado with the Venezuelan presidency.
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🚨BREAKING: We're LIVE in Minneapolis as shots were reportedly fired by an ICE or Border Patrol agent at a man's leg. "They're coming in our neighborhood door to door and they're shooting and killing us...ICE should not be in our neighborhood!" resident tells us. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 2:56 AM
🚨BREAKING: We're LIVE in Minneapolis as shots were reportedly fired by an ICE or Border Patrol agent at a man's leg. "They're coming in our neighborhood door to door and they're shooting and killing us...ICE should not be in our neighborhood!" resident tells us. LIVE NOW ⬇️
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This has been a crazy week. A family near me decided to leave the US to ensure they are together and are safe. They are legal residents but know too many who were taken anyway and they have kids. Can you imagine? Leaving the US for fear of staying.
January 15, 2026 at 5:54 AM
This has been a crazy week. A family near me decided to leave the US to ensure they are together and are safe. They are legal residents but know too many who were taken anyway and they have kids. Can you imagine? Leaving the US for fear of staying.
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How I'm dealing with my stress: I bought a 3d printer and am producing 100 whistles at a time. 1000 heading to Minneapolis tomorrow.
January 15, 2026 at 3:16 AM
How I'm dealing with my stress: I bought a 3d printer and am producing 100 whistles at a time. 1000 heading to Minneapolis tomorrow.
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"I don't do politics" is just a cheat-code for supporting fascism without having to say that you support fascism.
January 14, 2026 at 6:05 PM
"I don't do politics" is just a cheat-code for supporting fascism without having to say that you support fascism.
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NEW: Germany is joining Sweden and Norway deploying troops to Denmark. (Reuters)
January 14, 2026 at 7:53 PM
NEW: Germany is joining Sweden and Norway deploying troops to Denmark. (Reuters)
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