@donguyenmai
Teacher, poet, political scientist. Studying immigration enforcement, identity, and inequality. Research & Policy Manager at the Harbor Institute for Immigrant & Economic Justice they/chị/anh/chanh donguyenmai.com
Came on here for a minute to look for something and immediately got waylaid, LOL. Before I log off, I did want to share this excellent toolkit by @detentionwatchnetwork.org with all of you who want to take action re: Federal warehouses: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
“Anti-democracy measures do not simply arrive and takeover healthy democracies. They are workshopped first – most often on the most vulnerable communities.”
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
a page where the poem will display properly and also not have scum commenting at the bottom
Welcome to the Dynamic Democracy App This app lets you manipulate, explore, and download the Dynamic Democracy datasets with information on state policies and public opinion assembled by Devin Caughey and Chris Warshaw. Click on the triangle next to each category for more details. • State Policies: This dataset includes information on approximately 200 policies in place in at least one state between 1936 and 2024. • State Policy Ideology : Measures summarizing aggregate policy outputs in each state/year between 1936-2024. • Public Opinion: Measures summarizing state publics views on approximately 80 issues, covering 1936-2024. • Mass Ideology.: Measures of state publics' economic and cultural ideological preferences, 1936-2021. • Policy Proximity.: Measures of how closely state policies match public preferences.
🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education…
dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io
Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social
We're excited to release version 1.0 of the Dynamic Democracy website. It includes updated data on state policy, public opinion, mass ideology, and representation. The website enables you to see how these measures are changing overtime across states and within states.
www.dynamicdemocracy.us
least important part of today but happy 5 year anniversary of my first day (of a very short stint) at a digital fundraising firm at which I watched the boss demand everyone keep churning out more fundraising emails as we all witnessed the capitol attack in real time on our televisions etc
"My sources broke categories: they were monstrous. Studying them meant integrating methods from several disciplines — and being marginalized by the more conservative practitioners in all of them."
The final piece in our monsters series, from @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Anyone assign zines in their classes (as assignments)? Would love to see others’ assignments/plans for teaching the history, theory, practice etc
20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
In this episode, @akelalacy.bsky.social spoke to Benjamin Osorio, Kilmar Ábrego Garcia's attorney; @tylermcbrien.com, managing editor at @lawfaremedia.org; and Gauri Bahuguna, deputy director of research at @situ-research.bsky.social, about the Trump administration’s deportation agenda.
Anyone assign zines in their classes (as assignments)? Would love to see others’ assignments/plans for teaching the history, theory, practice etc
NEW Publication featuring a great lineup of citizenship scholars!! :)
“The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment”, Comparative Political Studies, lnkd.in/dQPG4Q7J
@maartenpvink.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social
@eui-ggp.bsky.social
Same here! And yes, I do exist in real life.
Always glad to meet others in the immigrant rights sphere, especially fellow Southeast Asians :) Will keep in touch!
Thanks @bailproject.org for the interview! Cash bail does not just fuel injustice and compromise public safety. It also enables widespread financial extraction that harms families and communities and intensifies inequality. #LegalPlunder cc/ @joesoss.bsky.social
Looking to advance interdisciplinary research in the social sciences? Palgrave has the book series for you!
📢 Call for Proposals: Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences
Find out more here: go.nature.com/43RYQgU
#SocialScience #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Palgrave
Banner for 'Perspectives on Politics' featuring a skyline of tarp-covered houses in an urban area with the hashtag 'OpenAccess' displayed at the bottom.
#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -
Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the Administration of Medicaid and Elections Shapes Mass Voter Turnout - https://cup.org/4iNmHV5
- Meredith Dost
#FirstView
I'm begging everyone making gufaw surface level comments about disability accommodations to read about universal design.
"it is essential [to] build solidarity with people engaged in direct confrontations with state carceral and economic power. To take creative collective action. From this place of solidarity, writing and scholarship may emerge that expands our capacity to understand, confront, and overcome fascism."
“I am / not ready to hatch. Teach me / to harden in the air”
— Dominique Ahkong (@domkeykong.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in Pirene’s Fountain Volume 18, Issue 26, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.
Sometimes I feel like I’ve been overreacting by telling people I’m not pursuing a full-time tenure-track academic job in part bc I need a job where people around me are mentally and physically prepared and willing to protect me, but then stuff like the OU debacle happens and… yeah
Because it's not about the rubric. People are splitting hairs over the finer details of rubric instructions when they are missing what this is really about, a blatant attempt to purge trans people out of public life.
bsky.app/profile/scgr...
This stunt had nothing to do with the Bible, it was entirely about pushing the envelope to see how easy it would be to get a public university to fire an instructor for not living according to Christian nationalist beliefs. Turns out it was really easy.
Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago?
Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.
You can access and read it for free, below.
www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
It’s hard to overstate how precarious things are for academic workers, especially trans people. This instructor had no option available to them that would have allowed her to keep her job, do it with integrity, and avoid the violence that comes with being fascism’s villain of the week.