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matthewblanton.bsky.social
Sociologist and demographer. Migration and religion. English and Spanish. @utaustinsoc & @UTPopCenter
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

submitted 1 day ago • 834 comments

Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

America is now a place that sends masked secret police to abduct people off the street and uses prisoners to create government propaganda. And this all happened in 8 weeks. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-th...

submitted 7 days ago • 102 comments

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

submitted 16 days ago • 201 comments