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Tejana in Houston. Professional interests: immigration/asylum law, national security, and international law. Personal interests: pop culture, technology, and cats.
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Looks like the ‪@pennpress.bsky.social‬ off summer sale applies to imminent releases! You can get *Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo-Caribbean* for 40% off!! Use code ENN-SUMMER25 at checkout! www.pennpress.org/978151282786.... It'll be here in August!

The @mpsa.bsky.social was pleased to support this @apsa.bsky.social statement in defense of the rule of law, academic freedom, and the research enterprise.

A Yorkshire Pudding the size of a burrito tortilla would be great. This looks yummy, but I would want to eat it like a normal Sunday roast.

In Dignity in America, Erin Daly explores how we can resolve the social conflicts that divide us as a nation by transforming them under the lens of human dignity. #ReadUP www.sup.org/books/law/di...

Christ Emmanuel by Jody Cole - jcoleicons.com Matthew 25:45 He will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.'

NEWS: #NASAWebb has directly imaged a cold exoplanet in an extremely misaligned orbit for the first time. The observations have surprised researchers in more than one way: webbtelescope.pub/3ZSctun #AAS246 🔭 🧪

Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause." Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.

Doctors using MediView’s XR90 don’t just look at scans—they see inside the body during live procedures. 👩‍⚕️ Our report on #ARVR in health care highlights how tech like this can improve care, cut costs, & why policymakers should act now. Read more ⬇️ vist.ly/3n6ixbb

This could be a cool continuation of the girls’ games movement.

DuBois, Trujillo, & McCarthy released ed. vol on sex/gender entanglement across fields including developmental biology, neuroscience, health equity, transgender health, cancer research, & more. Looks to be some rigorous interdisciplinary work on sex/gender to date. Fully downloadable.

Cornwall based, UK ceramics artist Linda Styles #womensart

NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

Department of Political Economy at King’s College London is hiring 2 permanent lecturers (teaching-focused) in political science: - Research methods: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-... - Comparative politics: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-... Application deadline: June 29, 2025

I hope with all my heart that a lasting African American - Hispanic American relationship will come from this. 🩷 Many Black politicians and activists have worked to create such an alliance. And I hope it manifests soon.

"I want y’all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us." Read what Doechii said during her #BETAwards2025 speech: rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Every single school shooting is heartbreaking. 💔

The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.

VIDEO: Images shared by Ukrainian and Russian authorities show freed prisoners of war returning home during the first stage of a major prisoner swap. The exchange was agreed at talks in Istanbul in early June, the only concrete agreement reached in the discussions

In 1960, students from SC State & Claflin College organized to desegregate a lunch counter. 400 students were attacked by police with firehoses & herded into a stockade. White power-structure declared that the protests were the work of outside-agitators. City prohibited picketing. Sound familiar?

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

"a second infection appeared to double the risk of being diagnosed with [Long COVID] and was linked to higher risks of heart-related problems" #CovidHarmsYourHeart "This study provides strong evidence that reinfections can increase the risk of Long COVID in children" #ProtectChildrenFromCovid

The Executive Board of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) condemns the U.S. federal government’s current assault on immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, international students, and international scholars. iehs.org/iehs-stateme...

Israeli military did not “intercept a ship.” The Israeli military did commit a violent act of piracy against a UK flagged vessel in Int’l waters as it fulfilled a legal right to reach Gaza & alleviate suffering, then abducted its crew & transported them by force to Israel under threat of execution.