Max Vargas
@maxvargas.bsky.social
racial justice leader, philanthropist, policy wonk, attorney, public servant, 🇵🇪 immigrant, proud father of four
https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-vargas-96270052
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The Greenlining Institute's new analysis breaks down mortgage data on persistent gaps Black & Latino borrowers face and the rise of unregulated, non-conventional, higher cost mortgages. It also outlines why we need statewide action and a CA Community Reinvestment Act. greenlining.org/2025/2024-hm...
2024 HMDA Data Underscores Need for Statewide Policy Change
Homeownership is a key pathway to building wealth and stability, yet it remains inaccessible for most families of color in California.
greenlining.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The Greenlining Institute's new analysis breaks down mortgage data on persistent gaps Black & Latino borrowers face and the rise of unregulated, non-conventional, higher cost mortgages. It also outlines why we need statewide action and a CA Community Reinvestment Act. greenlining.org/2025/2024-hm...
Joined the Greenlining Academy Alumni Association reunion and witnessed the camaraderie & power of its network. While the issues our communities face may be daunting, these 1,000+ professionals dedicated to solving today's biggest challenges give me so much hope. greenlining.org/work/leaders...
October 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Joined the Greenlining Academy Alumni Association reunion and witnessed the camaraderie & power of its network. While the issues our communities face may be daunting, these 1,000+ professionals dedicated to solving today's biggest challenges give me so much hope. greenlining.org/work/leaders...
Trump's efforts to undermine our institutions continues with the ongoing persecution of Dr. Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Fed Reserve Board. They'd help the economy more by addressing racial inequities in mortgage access than continue this targeting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Removal of Fed Governor
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Trump's efforts to undermine our institutions continues with the ongoing persecution of Dr. Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Fed Reserve Board. They'd help the economy more by addressing racial inequities in mortgage access than continue this targeting www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
I'm joining Greenlining as its new Pres & CEO! Greenlining's vision of a future where communities of color thrive is more important than ever. As I embark, I'm called to action by the power of our communities and the promise of America we must still fulfill. Adelante! greenlining.org/2025/greenli...
Greenlining Welcomes Max Vargas as President and CEO
The Greenlining Institute’s Board of Directors is proud to announce the appointment of Max Vargas as President and CEO, effective September 15, 2025.
greenlining.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I'm joining Greenlining as its new Pres & CEO! Greenlining's vision of a future where communities of color thrive is more important than ever. As I embark, I'm called to action by the power of our communities and the promise of America we must still fulfill. Adelante! greenlining.org/2025/greenli...
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"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in."
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
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‘It’s like when you see the tsunami coming in’: Agricultural economists are sounding the alarm about produce prices doubling
Consumers “don’t have a clue what’s going on,” said Raymond Robertson, a labor economist.
fortune.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in."
fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
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A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya.
July 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya.
Last week, I had the honor of joining MIEL and UpValley Family Centers to celebrate this trailblazing Promotora-owned worker #cooperative in the Napa region: www.mielcoop.com
These #Promotoras / #CHWs that have been pillars of the community now have the infrastructure for greater economic mobility.
These #Promotoras / #CHWs that have been pillars of the community now have the infrastructure for greater economic mobility.
July 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Last week, I had the honor of joining MIEL and UpValley Family Centers to celebrate this trailblazing Promotora-owned worker #cooperative in the Napa region: www.mielcoop.com
These #Promotoras / #CHWs that have been pillars of the community now have the infrastructure for greater economic mobility.
These #Promotoras / #CHWs that have been pillars of the community now have the infrastructure for greater economic mobility.
As @calmatters.org highlights, cruel, reckless raids aren't just affecting immigrants and hurting their families and jobs, they're hurting all Californians and by extension the nation. Our social and economic interdependence calls for continued and deepened solidarity. calmatters.org/economy/2025...
Thousands of Californians lost work after LA immigration raids. Citizens did, too.
A new report from UC Merced shows Latino and white people especially lost work after the Trump administration escalated immigration enforcement in L.A.
calmatters.org
July 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
As @calmatters.org highlights, cruel, reckless raids aren't just affecting immigrants and hurting their families and jobs, they're hurting all Californians and by extension the nation. Our social and economic interdependence calls for continued and deepened solidarity. calmatters.org/economy/2025...
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Opinion: As AI transforms the workplace, philanthropy must act before employees are locked out of the conversation, argue Michael Kubzansky and Don Howard. phlnthrp.com/44NnIpv
Kubzansky is the CEO of Omidyar Network and Howard is the president and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation.
Kubzansky is the CEO of Omidyar Network and Howard is the president and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation.
July 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Opinion: As AI transforms the workplace, philanthropy must act before employees are locked out of the conversation, argue Michael Kubzansky and Don Howard. phlnthrp.com/44NnIpv
Kubzansky is the CEO of Omidyar Network and Howard is the president and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation.
Kubzansky is the CEO of Omidyar Network and Howard is the president and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation.
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Every immigrant worker in California has felt the impact of unconstitutional raids based on racial profiling.
This legal victory will help protect workers from being stopped, harassed, or detained simply for looking brown and working hard.
This legal victory will help protect workers from being stopped, harassed, or detained simply for looking brown and working hard.
July 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Every immigrant worker in California has felt the impact of unconstitutional raids based on racial profiling.
This legal victory will help protect workers from being stopped, harassed, or detained simply for looking brown and working hard.
This legal victory will help protect workers from being stopped, harassed, or detained simply for looking brown and working hard.
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Being disappeared to a foreign gulag is the equivalent of being buried alive. We cannot forget them.
Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
July 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Being disappeared to a foreign gulag is the equivalent of being buried alive. We cannot forget them.
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This is a concentration camp. Alligator Auschwitz will haunt us and our descendants.
Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.
July 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This is a concentration camp. Alligator Auschwitz will haunt us and our descendants.
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NEW @fwd.us REPORT Finds Announced Immigration Policies Will Spike Costs for American Families www.fwd.us/news/new-fwd...
June 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
NEW @fwd.us REPORT Finds Announced Immigration Policies Will Spike Costs for American Families www.fwd.us/news/new-fwd...
Horrifying levels of state sanctioned neglect, abuse, arguably torture. How the public, the media, and our civic institutions respond, will determine whether this inhumanity continues and whether our nation can regain its moral compass.
NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:
Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:
'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
www.wired.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Horrifying levels of state sanctioned neglect, abuse, arguably torture. How the public, the media, and our civic institutions respond, will determine whether this inhumanity continues and whether our nation can regain its moral compass.
Reproductive rights and abortion access are about agency, bodily autonomy, and basic human rights, but they're also about economic freedom and mobility. Research like this new report by IWPR continues to affirm that restricting people's rights, in particular women's rights, is bad for the economy.
The end of Roe v. Wade has cost the US more than $133 billion annually.
From @juliannemcshane.bsky.social:
From @juliannemcshane.bsky.social:
The costs of restricting abortion? More than $130 billion per year.
A new report quantifies the costs of rising abortion restrictions three years after Dobbs.
www.motherjones.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reproductive rights and abortion access are about agency, bodily autonomy, and basic human rights, but they're also about economic freedom and mobility. Research like this new report by IWPR continues to affirm that restricting people's rights, in particular women's rights, is bad for the economy.
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🚨 BREAKING: Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo concedes the NYC mayoral race to state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, clearing path for an earthquake victory
Andrew Cuomo concedes to Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral primary
The general election is on Nov. 4.
trib.al
June 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
🚨 BREAKING: Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo concedes the NYC mayoral race to state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, clearing path for an earthquake victory
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Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs
They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.
www.motherjones.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
Breaking: our due process.
If this is the jurisprudence #SCOTUS is setting today, I shudder to think where we'll be in a few years let alone a decade of sliding down this slope without Congress stepping up.
If this is the jurisprudence #SCOTUS is setting today, I shudder to think where we'll be in a few years let alone a decade of sliding down this slope without Congress stepping up.
#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Breaking: our due process.
If this is the jurisprudence #SCOTUS is setting today, I shudder to think where we'll be in a few years let alone a decade of sliding down this slope without Congress stepping up.
If this is the jurisprudence #SCOTUS is setting today, I shudder to think where we'll be in a few years let alone a decade of sliding down this slope without Congress stepping up.
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Barely a third of Americans had a favorable view of President Trump's decision to bomb Iran, and even fewer support continued airstrikes, a @reuters.com poll found.
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June 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Barely a third of Americans had a favorable view of President Trump's decision to bomb Iran, and even fewer support continued airstrikes, a @reuters.com poll found.
www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...
www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...
Love to see it! Folks are choosing action over apathy, democracy over tyranny. #RunForSomething
50,000 people have signed up with @runforsomething.net to run for office just since November. 50,000!
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Progressive Group: 50,000 New People Have Signed Up To Run For Office Since Nov.
www.huffpost.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Love to see it! Folks are choosing action over apathy, democracy over tyranny. #RunForSomething
Some good points about self awareness and controlling our environment but my fav line from the write up by far lol:
"Only a quarter of the subjects were able to resist eating the marshmallow for 15 minutes. This implies that a large majority of us lack the self-control required to succeed in life."
"Only a quarter of the subjects were able to resist eating the marshmallow for 15 minutes. This implies that a large majority of us lack the self-control required to succeed in life."
Studies suggest that, because the brain forms habits unconsciously, relying on will power to change our behavior is hopeless. Instead, we must find strategies that don’t require us to be strong.
Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits?
Studies suggest that relying on will power is hopeless. Instead, we must find strategies that don’t require us to be strong.
www.newyorker.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Some good points about self awareness and controlling our environment but my fav line from the write up by far lol:
"Only a quarter of the subjects were able to resist eating the marshmallow for 15 minutes. This implies that a large majority of us lack the self-control required to succeed in life."
"Only a quarter of the subjects were able to resist eating the marshmallow for 15 minutes. This implies that a large majority of us lack the self-control required to succeed in life."
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June 21-22 poll of 2,408 U.S. adults (+/-2.4%)
More Americans disapprove than approve of the U.S. bombing of nuclear sites in Iran
% who approve | disapprove
U.S. adults 35% | 46%
Democrats 16% | 70%
Independents 27% | 51%
Republicans 68% | 13%
today.yougov.com/topics/inter...
More Americans disapprove than approve of the U.S. bombing of nuclear sites in Iran
% who approve | disapprove
U.S. adults 35% | 46%
Democrats 16% | 70%
Independents 27% | 51%
Republicans 68% | 13%
today.yougov.com/topics/inter...
June 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
June 21-22 poll of 2,408 U.S. adults (+/-2.4%)
More Americans disapprove than approve of the U.S. bombing of nuclear sites in Iran
% who approve | disapprove
U.S. adults 35% | 46%
Democrats 16% | 70%
Independents 27% | 51%
Republicans 68% | 13%
today.yougov.com/topics/inter...
More Americans disapprove than approve of the U.S. bombing of nuclear sites in Iran
% who approve | disapprove
U.S. adults 35% | 46%
Democrats 16% | 70%
Independents 27% | 51%
Republicans 68% | 13%
today.yougov.com/topics/inter...
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Between January and May of this year, 5.3% to 5.5% of American workers were holding multiple jobs — the highest level since the Great Recession, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
June 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Between January and May of this year, 5.3% to 5.5% of American workers were holding multiple jobs — the highest level since the Great Recession, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Everyone deserves a safe place to call home.
#WorldRefugeeDay is a reminder that behind every displaced person is a story of resilience, hope, and survival.
We stand in solidarity with refugees and recommit to building a world that welcomes them with compassion and justice.
#WorldRefugeeDay is a reminder that behind every displaced person is a story of resilience, hope, and survival.
We stand in solidarity with refugees and recommit to building a world that welcomes them with compassion and justice.
June 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Everyone deserves a safe place to call home.
#WorldRefugeeDay is a reminder that behind every displaced person is a story of resilience, hope, and survival.
We stand in solidarity with refugees and recommit to building a world that welcomes them with compassion and justice.
#WorldRefugeeDay is a reminder that behind every displaced person is a story of resilience, hope, and survival.
We stand in solidarity with refugees and recommit to building a world that welcomes them with compassion and justice.