Distinguished Professor of Sociology & @ERI_USC Director. Most important: Proud pop. bsky.app/profile/profmpastor…
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It is indeed a minoritarian project.
May 13
None of that matters. This stuff has been has been 40 years in the making. They’re just taking advantage of the moment in time to cement their power forever regardless of their decreasing % of the population.
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How can RFK Jr figure out new ways to be horrible and torture people? Please go back to cutting the penises off raccoons. Maybe that will bring you enuf joy to leave the rest of us alone. Less measles, please.
nytimes.com/2026/05/04/scien… via @NYTimes
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This could probably help with the whole selective prosecution motion . . .
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Hey @Uber your LAX lanes are jammed while cabs and Lyft are moving fine. Wassup? 10 pm 4/30
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Hey @SouthwestAir . Now that you assign seats and stuff and are closer in style to other airlines (tempted to say more like a "real" airline), how about upgrading your wifi so the connection speeds are (when not intermittent) a step above glacial? Seriously, it would help . . .
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Thanks—it was great to be there!
“Central CA is the next frontier for the state of California” — @Prof_MPastor at the @SHFCalifornia CEMI & Assembly Select Committee hearing.
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New opinion piece: War abroad, injustices at home and a theme running through it all latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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This is just to create pain. The Trump administration has no bottom.
Feb 22
NEW: Both TSA PreCheck and Global Entry programs will be shut down by the federal government as of 6am ET Sunday, per the @washingtonpost.
DHS says it’s prioritizing the “general traveling population” after funding for agency lapsed in shutdown showdown.
washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Welcome — or, should I say, Bienvenidos?
Feb 11
Been listening to nothing but Bad Bunny since the Super Bowl. Congrats to all the lunatics who have inadvertently turned me into the biggest Bad Bunny stan on the planet now.
(My favorite song is Titi Me Pregunto & NuevaYol)
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News I’m here for,
Huge congratulations to Villa's Tacos for their Super Bowl halftime moment! Victor Villa started selling tacos from his grandmother's front yard in Highland Park eight years ago.
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When you’re explaining . . .
My halftime performance was pre recorded but performed live. No lipsycing like the haters and fake news are trying to report. When they synced the cameras to my performance on Bawitdaba, it did not line up as I explain in this video.
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Defining delusion . .
The crowd at the Olympics was not booing JD Vance. If you’ve ever been at a sporting event where they yell Coop or Lou it sounds very similar. They were yelling JD.
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After the war, what do we do with the collaborators? Been watching a lot about the Nuremberg trials and how far does responsibility go . . .
Jan 28
NEW: @tim_cook responds to ICE killing in Minneapolis in internal memo to employees, saying it’s “time for deescalation” and that he had a “good conversation” with Trump about the situation this week where he shared his views. Story on @TheTerminal.
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Which makes this seem like an even better idea.
Jan 26
BREAKING: ICE officials are reportedly worried that, if Congress requires ICE agents to unmask and wear identification, 75% of the agents will quit rather than be ostracised for the rest of their lives by family, friends, employers, and society.
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To @SashaReneePerez : saw you on Saturday night at the vigil at the Federal building. So heartening to see a political figure with courage to speak frankly and who is remembering to stay close to the people. I’m a big fan . . .
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I used to think it was good to have Scott Jennings on @CNN — not my perspective but good to have many views. But he has devolved to an apologist and collaborator — and his dishonor will be remembered and any legacy tarnished. There are moral lines — and standards of truth.
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Yup . . . I wonder why you're thinking that right now
sounds like a perfect thesis statement for a social movements qualifying exam response
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Although the work was clearly political, it felt strange to describe those involved in the rudimentary activities of the resistance as activists; most of their activities would, in other circumstances, been uncontroversial civic participation
nytimes.com/2026/01/25/magaz… via @NYTimes
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