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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 12h

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 · 14h

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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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

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 · 22h

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

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 15h

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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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 20h

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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Leonce Gaiter @leonceg.bsky.social · Oct 21

I sincerely believe that in the 60's, the powers-that-be saw the results of middle-class prosperity and education (i.e., the civil, womens rights revolutions, etc.) and decided that should never ever happen again. Gutting the middle class and destroying the road to prosperity became the goals.

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Chris, retired @chrisll.bsky.social · Oct 21

We also need to cap administrative salaries at the public universities. What little increases there have been in funding has gone disproportionately to high level administration salaries.

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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 1d

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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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@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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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 1d

Their field general literally told a reporter, on the record, they were basing their arrests on physical appearance.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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

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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 1d

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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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 1d

I got priced out of NYC & have to do a horrendous commute 1-2x/wk to my job in Queens. Mamdani's proposal for buses would still save me at least $300 a year. When our kids were little and we were still trying to make rent in Queens, his policies would have utterly transformed our lives.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

New Yorkers deserve change they can measure in their own lives.

Our new Affordability Calculator shows exactly how much our plans would save your family on childcare, rent, and bus fare.

Check your savings → zohranfornyc.com/calculator

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 1d

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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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 1d

Who all y’all do I know in Amsterdam?

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 2d

Short-term rentals can disrupt urban life & influence the ballot box - @tonirodon.bsky.social, Raya & Llaneza link high Airbnb density in Barcelona to increased support for parties targeting home-sharing regulation: buff.ly/gPwEQxf

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Notice how Miller reframes opposition to Trump policies as "designed to nullify the results of the 2024 election" as if winning means no one can oppose Trump or protest against him.

It's all so laughably hypocritical. Obviously he took exactly the opposite approach under Biden.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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

I have never been more sure about the advice/suggestions I provide on #RPVSky and on Twitter's #RPVTips than about reading.

I have spent the entire weekend reading and it just nurtures my soul (and my writing, quite obviously).

IF you are feeling stuck with your writing, READ.

a penguin wearing ear muffs is reading a book in bed

ALT: a penguin wearing ear muffs is reading a book in bed

media.tenor.com

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3d

"Duke University Press brings their catalog in the humanities and social sciences to [Direct to Open], offering 20 frontlist titles annually alongside the MIT Press’s 80 scholarly books each year. Goldsmiths Press... will contribute several works that cut across disciplinary boundaries..."

MIT Press expands Direct to Open (D2O) open access model in 2026 with publishing partners

Direct to Open, MIT Press’s diamond open access model for monographs, looks to grow even further in 2026 with publishing partners Duke University Press and Goldsmiths Press.

mitpress.mit.edu

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

Wouldn’t it be the easiest thing to do to just convince the orange man that Miller is in charge? He’d throw him out in a second!

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’

Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE.

A rogue fascist agency.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4d

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

www.nytimes.com

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 3d

This video was taken by a local resident who reportedly saw a man being beaten by ICE agents at 37th and Kedzie.

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