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A Vance Boelter w/ similar educational timeline as the Minnesota assassin wrote online that he'd attended Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas. I've been there. Here's a quote from founder on wall in lobby.

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“Half of the farmworkers interviewed for the National Agricultural Workers Survey, released in 2022 by the Labor Department, had spent 11 to 30 years on farms, and nearly one in five had done so for more than three decades. They were earning an average of $20,000 a year.”

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“More than 40 percent of the nation’s crop workers have no legal immigration status, the Agriculture Department has estimated.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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“More than 40 percent of the nation’s crop workers have no legal immigration status, the Agriculture Department has estimated.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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About 1.5% of the U.S. population protested today. (Closer to 1.9% if you only count the adult population.)

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Arts and crafts is my passion

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“Protests are an act of storytelling, at their most powerful when they draw on mythology in our culture, and what happens on the ground matters in shifting politics.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...

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Now available Open Access: 📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion? 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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From 2020 but evergreen

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Do extreme protest tactics help climate movement? New study surveyed 8,001 French citizens for “effects of exposure to four protest actions with different degrees of extremity.” Found “relative to controls, extreme protest actions reduced support for the activist group…” osf.io/preprints/so...

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"Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.... [I]mmigration—and aggressive law enforcement responses to immigration-related protests—were key mobilizing issues in April and May."

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“So, the fact that police are arresting scholars and journalists at a peaceful protest is obviously really disturbing.” Recommend @smotus.bsky.social interview about LA protests: smotus.substack.com/p/arrested-i...

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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

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"Sometimes the reflection off the razor wire is actually quite beautiful. I smell wildflowers ... in the grass of the common areas of the prison. These days, my family and friends find me more enjoyable to talk to. After nearly 20 years in prison, I still have people who tell me they love me."

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“The only weapons we have are our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn.” — Bayard Rustin

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Crazy how these left wing rags like, checks notes, People and NYPost are hyping violence against journalists.

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Tomorrow’s free newsletter will recap all the new polling we got this week about immigration, deportations, the LA protests, and Trump’s response. Add yourself to our email list: gelliottmorris.com/subscribe/ It’s free!

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ProPublica’s evidence of collaboration between Salvadoran President Bukele and MS-13 is both remarkable and a textbook example of Charles Tilly’s argument that state-making is often indistinguishable from organized crime with legitimacy.

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🎙️ON AIR: We're speaking w/ @ucberkeley.bsky.social's @owasow.bsky.social and @wired.com's @couts.bsky.social to look back at times when protests have been successful instigators of change, and times when protests may have hurt a movement. ❓How do protests persuade audiences? 📻 Listen:

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🪧 THURS at 9AM: We're speaking w/ @ucberkeley.bsky.social's @owasow.bsky.social and @wired.com's @couts.bsky.social to look back at times when protests have been successful instigators of change, and times when protests may have hurt a movement. ❓How do protests persuade audiences? buff.ly/tSIgQ8s

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All of these films are excellent and worth viewing. @owasow.bsky.social has given a really important film fest to help understand this moment in a historical context, with deep, valuable lessons in how we meet and inform the present moment and resist this autocratic takeover 🧵

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Nuclear is green: “Casting nuclear power as an essential replacement for fossil fuels, more than 20 countries—including the US, Canada, France and Ghana—signed a pledge to triple nuclear power by 2050 at the United Nations’ flagship climate conference two years ago.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/c...

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This film is excellent 10/10. I would die for all of the Gallaudet students

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A Vance Boelter w/ similar educational timeline as the Minnesota assassin wrote online that he'd attended Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas. I've been there. Here's a quote from founder on wall in lobby.

“Half of the farmworkers interviewed for the National Agricultural Workers Survey, released in 2022 by the Labor Department, had spent 11 to 30 years on farms, and nearly one in five had done so for more than three decades. They were earning an average of $20,000 a year.”

“More than 40 percent of the nation’s crop workers have no legal immigration status, the Agriculture Department has estimated.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

“More than 40 percent of the nation’s crop workers have no legal immigration status, the Agriculture Department has estimated.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

About 1.5% of the U.S. population protested today. (Closer to 1.9% if you only count the adult population.)

Arts and crafts is my passion

“Protests are an act of storytelling, at their most powerful when they draw on mythology in our culture, and what happens on the ground matters in shifting politics.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...

Now available Open Access: 📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion? 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From 2020 but evergreen

"Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.... [I]mmigration—and aggressive law enforcement responses to immigration-related protests—were key mobilizing issues in April and May."

“So, the fact that police are arresting scholars and journalists at a peaceful protest is obviously really disturbing.” Recommend @smotus.bsky.social interview about LA protests: smotus.substack.com/p/arrested-i...

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

"Sometimes the reflection off the razor wire is actually quite beautiful. I smell wildflowers ... in the grass of the common areas of the prison. These days, my family and friends find me more enjoyable to talk to. After nearly 20 years in prison, I still have people who tell me they love me."

“The only weapons we have are our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn.” — Bayard Rustin

Crazy how these left wing rags like, checks notes, People and NYPost are hyping violence against journalists.

Tomorrow’s free newsletter will recap all the new polling we got this week about immigration, deportations, the LA protests, and Trump’s response. Add yourself to our email list: gelliottmorris.com/subscribe/ It’s free!

ProPublica’s evidence of collaboration between Salvadoran President Bukele and MS-13 is both remarkable and a textbook example of Charles Tilly’s argument that state-making is often indistinguishable from organized crime with legitimacy.

🎙️ON AIR: We're speaking w/ @ucberkeley.bsky.social's @owasow.bsky.social and @wired.com's @couts.bsky.social to look back at times when protests have been successful instigators of change, and times when protests may have hurt a movement. ❓How do protests persuade audiences? 📻 Listen:

❤️

All of these films are excellent and worth viewing. @owasow.bsky.social has given a really important film fest to help understand this moment in a historical context, with deep, valuable lessons in how we meet and inform the present moment and resist this autocratic takeover 🧵

This film is excellent 10/10. I would die for all of the Gallaudet students

This one is really good. I've shown it in class and in the future want to make an assignment around it (to increase attention)

This is a great documentary, I highly recommend it.

This film changed the way I see the world.