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by Raúl Pacheco-Vega

raulpachecovega.bsky.social
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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by Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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If Dolly needs our prayers you pray I don’t care if you’re atheist or whichever religion or spiritual inclination you have.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h
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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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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by Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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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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Reposted by: Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Rebecca Tushnet, Ann Bartow , and 1 more

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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.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"
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by Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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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
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: Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio , and 6 more

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@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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by Efrén O. Pérez — Reposted by: Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Mirya R. Holman, Efrén O. Pérez

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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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by Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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Who all y’all do I know in Amsterdam?
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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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Reposted by: Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Sanford F. Schram, Robert C. Richards , and 4 more

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DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."
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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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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Raúl Pacheco-Vega, David Rothschild, David R. Miller , and 1 more

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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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Reposted by: Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Anna O. Law, Tom Clark , and 7 more

brandonfriedman.bsky.social
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 Judge's house on fire
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by Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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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
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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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by Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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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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Reposted by: Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Brendan Nyhan, Jacob T. Levy , and 1 more

whstancil.bsky.social
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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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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"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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Reposted by: Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Anna O. Law, Tom Clark , and 13 more

kyledcheney.bsky.social
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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It appears Oregon just got a court victory …

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Judge temporarily blocks use of National Guard in Portland
The ruling is a setback for the Trump administration as it seeks to use military troops in some Democratic-run cities.
www.nbcnews.com
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by Raúl Pacheco-Vega

raulpachecovega.bsky.social
Have you noticed that there is medical anthropology and medical sociology and medical geography but there is no medical political science nor medical public policy? There is history of medicine, though!
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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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by Raúl Pacheco-Vega

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"Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty"

#Free2DownloadAndRead

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Ethnographies of Waiting | Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty | Manpreet K. J
We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom,
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by Raúl Pacheco-Vega

Reposted by: Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Kori Schake, Anna O. Law , and 22 more

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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
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