
@PittTweet Assistant Prof | @migapprogram co-director | Research: social movements, intersectional solidarity, disasters, environmental & racial justice 🇵🇷
Pittsburgh, PA
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🚨Check out our new article in the @apsrjournal @BrownPhDGirl & @ProfJanelleWong
Amid the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter uprising, higher ed institutions, departments, & scientific societies issued statements in response to the brutal murder of George Floyd.
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Can we sustain pathways into research for first-generation and minority students in an era of funding cuts and political attacks?
Our new publication argues that strategic endurance can help these programs survive without abandoning their core mission.
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Roberto Clemente used to do this. Great to see others showing love for youth
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New: Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican. After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges. propub.li/4dp615e
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How do we understand the global rise of authoritarianism thru centering racial politics? 🌍🗳️
Join the JHU Dept. of Political Science for our Racial Politics Summer Institute! Learn from leading scholars, and help remake the discipline.
🗓️ June 1–5 📍 shorturl.at/R3RMc 🎓
Coached up by a hall of famer shortly before walking it off 🔥
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IT'S GONE!
PUERTO RICO WINS!
DARELL HERNAIZ, WALK-OFF HOME RUN!
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DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
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“Junta habló de austeridad, pero no fue para la mayoría de las agencias ni se aplicó proporcional. Quitaron $417 millones a la principal universidad de PR mientras gastaron $446 millones más entre otras dependencias sin resultados concretos”Caraballo Cueto metro.pr/noticias/2025/11/05…
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La @FOMBPR aprobó gastar $ del pueblo para:
-sus asesores y comunicadores en asuntos ajenos a la quiebra
-subir sueldos a jueces que ganaban mucho más que el promedio de abogados
Pero no quiere autorizar el pago del PAN en lo que reabre el gobierno federal. Austeridad ideológica
Apologistas de @FOMBPR dicen que estos gastos no importan porque ahorramos más en la quita de la deuda. Pero: 1. Litigio de la AEE se dilató demasiado, inflando gastos 2. Hay $308 millones que gastaron fuera del caso de quiebra.
Austeridad, ¿para quién?
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Wow. Hay que tener una convicción en el desconocimiento del impacto sobre las protestas para decir tal cosa.
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Funny how MAGA can watch a game full of mostly Black athletes, but halftime is where they suddenly demand cultural segregation.
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US employers have already cut nearly 1 million jobs this year, the largest number of layoffs since 2020.
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Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers.
In Virginia, it’s 37%.
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Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers.
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Yesmin Valdivieso se despidió de la Contraloría acusando a secretarios de Justicia, de proteger alcaldes PNP. Convendría investigar esa gravísima, alegación, pero no pasará. Gracias por leer y compartir mi columna de hoy ‘El secreto de la contralora’ - elnuevodia.com/opinion/las-c…
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"El Departamento de Justicia está operando como un apéndice de la Casa Blanca": Fernando Tormos-Aponte (@fernandotormos), analista y catedrático auxiliar de la Universidad de Pittsburgh.
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the same ai that he himself repeatedly & openly admits to manually “correcting” every time it disagrees with him
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Union approval holds near 60-year high: Gallup.
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